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Design Centre

Series

Series Name
This Week In Britain

Issue

Issue No.
962
Date Released
1977
Length of issue (in feet)
186
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Design Centre

Story

Story No. within this Issue
1 / 1
Summary
COI synopsis: Maggie Palmer visited the Design Centre just off Piccadilly Circus, to discover anything new and outstanding in industrial design in Britain. The choice was very wide, from advanced engineering to children’s toys. Of the various prize winners Maggie chose two. So this week she investigates firstly a breakthrough in airport safety and secondly a new method for the mass production of sailing boats, a method that can now be adopted to many other manufactures. But there is so much in the field of industrial design still to be covered, that she experts to go back later for more.
Researcher Comments
Designs featured are aircraft landing lights using tungsten halligen lamps and the Topper dinghy designed by Ian Proctor, manufactured by John Dunhill. NB: Information drawn from the Australian version. ‘London Line, No. 546’ ran the same story
Keywords
Arts and crafts; Industry and manufacture; Design
Written sources
COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]
COI Microfilm Roll 23 [BFI National Archive]   Used for synopsis
COI Reference
MI 936/962
Credits:
Sponsor
Central Office of Information (COI)
Sponsor
Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Presenter
Maggie Palmer
Cutter
Mike Willcox

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Film Archive

Name
British Film Institute (BFI)
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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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