Learning on ScreenKeep It Simple: Plastic Bridges
Series
- Series Name
- Living Tomorrow
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 4
- Summary
- COI synopsis: The most efficient way to deal with a problem is not always the most expensive or complicated. Good business sense is at work in today’s programme, with simple but excellent solutions to very different problems. Bridges, by the very nature of their purpose, are usually made of the strongest and heaviest of materials. But would you believe a 70lb plastic bridge, easily carried by one man? It sounds impossible, but a British firm have designed such a bridge. Fibreglass tubes, with metal fitments at each end, bonded with aeroplane glue; produces a light, simple structure - that’s strong enough to take the weight of a 3 tonne truck.
- Keywords
- Buildings and structures; Science and technology; Engineering; Design
- Written sources
- COI Microfilm Roll 55 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 1458/266
- Credits:
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- Cutter
- Allen Bowry
- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Cutter
- Mike Murray
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Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
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London W1T 1LN - Notes
- The BFI National Archive also preserves the original nitrate film copies of British Movietone News, British Paramount News, Empire News Bulletin, Gaumont British News, Gaumont Graphic, Gaumont Sound News and Universal News (the World War II years are covered by the Imperial War Museum).
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