A Matter of Scale

Series

Series Name

Babcock Review

Issue

Issue No.

1

Date Released

1954

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1A Matter of Scale
2. 2Slurry for Steam
3. 3Steam goes Supersonic

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 3

Summary

Babcock and Wilcox synopsis: Model-making can be much more than a hobby, models both simple 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 on 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.

Researcher Comments

This story was originally made for Home and Away issue 7.

Keywords

Engineering; Toys and models

Written sources

Synopses of the Babcock Film Magazines booklet   p14. Used for synopsis

Credits:

Sponsor

Babcock and Wilcox, Ltd.

Production Co.

Technical & Scientific Films Ltd.