SUPPLY VEHICLE

Series

Series Name

Mining Review 17th Year

Issue

Issue No.

4

Date Released

Dec 1963

Length of issue (in feet)

968

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1SING IT ABROAD
2. 2TROUT AGAIN
3. 3SUPPLY VEHICLE
4. 4TIME IN THE SUN

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 4

Summary

BFI synopsis: A new heavy diesel underground supplies vehicle which can carry 4 tons of supplies and equipment.
NCB Commentary - There is a great deal of equipment needed to work a coal face and the roadways leading to it. It’s very heavy but somehow it has to be got to where it is needed.
Now the Coal Board’s Central Engineering Establishment, working with a manufacturer, has designed on Underground Supplies Vehicle which can operate in roadways only 4-feet 8-inches high - the height of a mini-car.
A 20-hp. diesel engine gives the motive power. To negotiate the roadways the vehicle can turn sharply. It can traverse a 10-foot roadway with the ease of a London taxicab. And it can go either forward of backward.
The low centre of gravity makes for easy loading - and the trailer which has articulated wheels can be speedily coupled and uncoupled.
The vehicle itself can carry a ton of equipment; the trailer 3-tons, and is designed to negotiate rough roadways.
The Underground Supplies Vehicle Mark II is a welcome contribution to the ever-present problem of improving underground haulage and lifting some of the burden from the backs of the men on the job.

Keywords

Vehicles; Mining; Fuels

Written sources

British Film Institute Databases   Used for synopsis
The British National Film Catalogue   Vol.2 1964, p.55
The National Archives COAL 32   /13 Scripts for Mining Review, 1960-1963

Credits:

Sponsor

National Coal Board

Production Co.

National Coal Board Film Unit