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  1. Cutter loader

    Date released
    Sep 1947
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    1
    NoS ID
    334706
    Story no
    1 / 3

    BFI Summary - the Meco Moore cutter-loader is demonstrated and explained. COI Commentary - You may know the Meco-Moore. I dare say there’s one in your pit. Or perhaps there will be soon if you’ve got...

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  2. Five day week?

    Date released
    Sep 1947
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    1
    NoS ID
    334707
    Story no
    2 / 3

    BFI synopsis: Miners discuss the possibilities of a five day week for miners in a pub. COI Commentary - 1st man: A Five Day week. Can we afford it? 2nd man: Well, I am all in favour of a five-day week. We...

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  3. The miners’ song

    Date released
    Sep 1947
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    1
    NoS ID
    334708
    Story no
    3 / 3

    BFI synopsis: Carroll Levis presents a miners song. COI Commentary - Today we salute the miners who have the tremendous task of bringing coal to us in this day of need. I have written the Miners Song, as a...

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  4. Welsh Debate

    Date released
    Oct 1947
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    2
    NoS ID
    334728
    Story no
    4 / 4

    NoS synopsis: This staged debate shows members of the Lodge Committee of the Cwmgrach Empire Colliery discussing issues concerning mining machinery - the main question being whether they’re being...

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  5. Bestwood Training Centre

    Date released
    Oct 1947
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    2
    NoS ID
    334725
    Story no
    1 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Bestwood Training Centre in Nottinghamshire COI Commentary - These lades are going to be miners, but how are they going to learn the job? Should they be sent straight down the pit, where...

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  6. Open Cast Mining

    Date released
    Oct 1947
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    2
    NoS ID
    334726
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: opencast mining for coal COI Commentary - It’s Easter in Workington, on the Cumberland Coast, and everyone is waiting for the start of the historic annual football match between the Uppies...

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  7. Workington Football

    Date released
    Oct 1947
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    2
    NoS ID
    334727
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: A football match at Workington COI Commentary - COMMENTARY: Today, every available method is being used to back up the miners in their drive for more coal. In the South Wales coalfield,...

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  8. The problem of smoke elimination

    Date released
    Jan 1948
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    5
    NoS ID
    334736
    Story no
    1 / 2

    NoS Summary - The work of the Fuel Research Station in trying to eliminate smoke from ships’ furnaces is profiled. A machine has been made that can do it. This principle is now being applied on land in...

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  9. Living in

    Date released
    Mar 1948
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    334741
    Story no
    1 / 4

    NoS synopsis: A portrait of the residential training centre at Easington in County Durham, examining the wider environment, stressing the advantages of living in ("the boys are able to get a hundred hours...

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  10. New Look for Tanks

    Date released
    Mar 1948
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    334742
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Old Sherman tanks converted for opencast mining. Tanks seen in action; Sherman tanks (eighty of them) in a Staffordshire field. One is driven to factory where they are converted into machines...

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