Group Research Station - more detectives in industry

Series

Series Name

Ingot Pictorial

Issue

Issue No.

21

Date Released

Nov 1954

Length of issue (in feet)

2098

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Mumbles Cavalcade - 1804-1954
2. 2Velindre up to date
3. 3Champions All - or nearly all
4. 4Group Research Station - more detectives in industry
5. 5Plain Water - Satisfying Redbourn’s new demands
6. 6Red Sails in the Sunshine

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 6

Summary

NFA synopsis: Two men in a pub discuss metal fatigue in motor racing cars. Stirling Moss is brought into the conversation and goes around the R.T.S.C.W. testing labs, which had been an experimental weapons station in World War II run by Lord Charwell. There is a tour of the laboratories, looking at an electron microscope, X-Ray camera etc. Back to cars on the race track - one possibly driven by Stirling Moss.

Keywords

Motor racing; Science and technology; Industry and manufacture; Motor vehicles

Written sources

National Film Archive Catalogue   Used for synopsis
Film User   Vol.9 No.100 February 1955, p106.

Credits:

Director

Frank Worth

Producer

Geoff Busby

Support services

Peter Greenwell

Commentator

R. A. Hacking

Sponsor

Richard Thomas and Baldwins Group

Production Co.

Verity Films Ltd.

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Film Archive

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British Film Institute (BFI)

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