BYPRODUCTIVITY

Series

Series Name

Mining Review 11th Year

Issue

Issue No.

9

Date Released

May 1958

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1PROGRESS REPORT: PITHEAD BATHS
2. 2RINK ‘N ROLL
3. 3BYPRODUCTIVITY
4. 4THE OLD PHEASANT

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 4

Summary

BFI synopsis: the new Manvers Main coal preparation and coking plant
NCB Commentary - At Manvers Main today some of the output from the huge coal preparation plant, the biggest in Europe, is serving a new giant coke and by-product installation.
137 coke ovens at the new Manvers plant are pushing through three thousand tons of small coal a day.
After 18 hours carbonising, the rams move in to push out white hot coke.
Each day almost 2000 tons come tumbling out of the batteries of ovens. And nearly 20 million cubic feet of gas is sent into the East Midlands Grid.
Before it can move on, the hot coke has to be drenched in water to cool it.
Up top, with the huge sprawl of Manvers Main beneath, the characteristic plume of steam rises to the sky.
The power-house and the gas handling plant squat side by side. The benzol rectification equipment is handling over six million gallons a year. Already it is outstripping its scheduled output.
From these stills and washers, benzol is being produced for the chemical industry.
From the pits that serve the highly efficient Manvers coal preparation and coking plant, coal is streaming out to serve industry with the whole range of by-products springing from the scientific treatment of coal.

Researcher Comments

Commentary recorded 8th April 1958.

Keywords

Industry and manufacture; Mining; Fuels

Locations

Yorkshire; England

Written sources

British Film Institute Databases   Used for synopsis
Film User   Vol.13 No.147 January 1959, p27.
The National Archives COAL 32   /12 Scripts for Mining Review, 1956-1960

Credits:

Production Co.

Documentary Technicians Alliance

Sponsor

National Coal Board