A MAtter of Scale

Series

Series Name

Home and Away

Issue

Issue No.

7

Date Released

1956

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1At home Renfrew - Away Dumbarton
2. 2A MAtter of Scale
3. 3From Pine to Paper

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 3

Summary

Babcock and Wilcox synopsis: Model-making can be much more than a hobby, models both simply and complex being widely used in industry for planning, for training and for demonstration. We pay a visit to the Northampton works of Bassett Lowke Ltd., the well-known model makers, and see under construction models of marine tankers, of the Castle Donington power station and of the Renfrew Works of Babcock & Wilcox. This impressive model, showing within a space 16 ft. by 9 ft., the layout of a vast works occupying, in fact, a site of 165 acres, is later seen in use at Renfrew, against the background of the actual works which it represents in such surprising detail.

Keywords

Industry and manufacture; Toys and models

Written sources

British Film Institute Databases
Synopses of the Babcock Film Magazines booklet   p9. Used for synopsis

Credits:

Sponsor

Babcock and Wilcox, Ltd.

Production Co.

Technical & Scientific Films Ltd.

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Name

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