Tank Manufacture

Series

Series Name

Ingot Pictorial

Issue

Issue No.

10

Date Released

1951

Length of issue (in feet)

2197

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Lighting-Up Time
2. 2Making a Pantomime
3. 3Irthlingborough Mines in 1918
4. 4Tank Manufacture
5. 5A Choir is Born

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 5

Summary

NFA synopsis: Blackwall Specialists at Work November 1951. Scenes of the processes involved with producing water tanks. A man works with a sheet of steel at a machine press, punching in rivet-holes. The sheets are lined up and the rivets inserted. More rivetting machines are shown at work rivetting the tanks, followed by the welding, soldering and galvanising of the tanks, with the finished products piling up.

Keywords

Industry and manufacture; Motor vehicles

Written sources

British Film Institute Databases
National Film Archive Catalogue   Used for Synopsis

Credits:

Commentator

A. V. Rowe

Sponsor

Richard Thomas and Baldwins Group

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Film Archive

Name

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