ON THE DUMPS

Series

Series Name
Mining Review 7th Year

Issue

Issue No.
4
Date Released
Dec 1953
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1A SEAT ON A5
  2. 2NYSTAGMUS: 2. The Conquest of a Disease
  3. 3ON THE DUMPS
  4. 4A MERRY ChristMAS

Story

Story No. within this Issue
3 / 4
Summary
BFI synopsis: testing heavy-duty dump trucks at Arkwright Colliery near Chesterfield.
NCB Commentary - More big dump trucks like these are wanted to move heavy loads at the nation’s collieries. At Arkwright Colliery, near Chesterfield, the Coal Board recently ran trials to see what the latest heavy-duty trucks can do. These big jobs each take about 10 cubic yards of dirt, and they’ll be used in making colliery tips less unsightly in future.
It was a tough course that had been laid out for the big trucks. But they took in their stride mud and rough ground, and even a stiff section of railway sleepers embedded at an angle in the soil.
The hill climb was in the best sporting trials tradition, and here some of the entrants found themselves making heavy weather of it. But it was all in a good cause; the cause of gathering the know-how to use these trucks efficiently and economically in our coalfields, whatever the conditions.
Researcher Comments
Commentary recorded 9 Novemerb 1953.
Keywords
Transport; Mining; Motor vehicles
Locations
Derbyshire; England; Chesham
Written sources
British Film Institute Databases   Used for Synopsis
Film User   Vol.8 No.89 March 1954, p138.
The National Archives COAL 32   /3 Scripts for Mining Review, 1949-1956
Credits:
Production Co.
Documentary Technicians Alliance
Camera
John Reid
Sponsor
National Coal Board

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