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  1. Admiralty Concrete floating docks

    Date released
    1945
    Series name
    Britain Can Make It
    Issue no
    1
    NoS ID
    323858
    Story no
    1 / 3

    NoS synopsis: Two men roll out a strip of Crown paper on a flat surface and soak it well all over. Steel bars are laid over this, criss-cross fashion, and secured with wires. The whole is surrounded with...

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  2. Motion study

    Date released
    1945
    Series name
    Britain Can Make It
    Issue no
    1
    NoS ID
    352003
    Story no
    2 / 3

    COI synopsis: Here’s a simple problem - what’s the best way of putting these steel pegs into the holes in this board? Anybody can do it, but most of us would do it this way - pick up a handful of pegs,...

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  3. War Artists’ Exhibition, London

    Date released
    1945
    Series name
    Britain Can Make It
    Issue no
    1
    NoS ID
    352004
    Story no
    3 / 3

    BFI Summary - The Royal Academy of Arts. Inside the gallery, people view the paintings. Various close-ups of individual works e.g. Paul Nash’s Battle of Britain, John Armstrong’s September 1940 and John...

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  4. Aluminium Houses

    Date released
    1946
    Series name
    Britain Can Make It
    Issue no
    3
    NoS ID
    323860
    Story no
    1 / 3

    COI synopsis: At three depots in Britain junked war planes are collected, sorted out and then broken up. This scrap, however, is not waste, for out of the twisted metal will come material urgently needed to...

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  5. Scope from scrap

    Date released
    1946
    Series name
    Britain Can Make It
    Issue no
    5
    NoS ID
    323862
    Story no
    1 / 3

    COI synopsis: All over Great Britain are dumps containing shelters and other material which used to serve as protection against bombs and V weapons. This material is on sale without permit and costs about...

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  6. bricks...and...maps

    Date released
    1946
    Series name
    Britain Can Make It
    Issue no
    11
    NoS ID
    323868
    Story no
    1 / 3

    COI synopsis: Making a new ordnance survey map

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  7. Design in industry

    Date released
    1946
    Series name
    Britain Can Make It
    Issue no
    3
    NoS ID
    352045
    Story no
    2 / 3

    COI synopsis: During the war, the only new radios available in Britain were of a standard design, but the end of the war found the engineers busy with plans for post-war sets. One factory is already...

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  8. Canadian round-up

    Date released
    1946
    Series name
    Britain Can Make It
    Issue no
    3
    NoS ID
    352046
    Story no
    3 / 3

    COI synopsis: In order to help feed the millions of starving people in Europe and Asia, Canada is shipping as much meat as she can spare, and to do this the Canadian people have voluntarily rationed...

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  9. Something new under the sun

    Date released
    1946
    Series name
    Britain Can Make It
    Issue no
    5
    NoS ID
    352049
    Story no
    2 / 3

    COI synopsis: Every now and then the sun behaves in a very strange way - and this behaviour is due to things called sunspots. Sunspots are actually whirlpool craters of flame, which appear on the sun’s...

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  10. a boy in toy town

    Date released
    1946
    Series name
    Britain Can Make It
    Issue no
    5
    NoS ID
    352050
    Story no
    3 / 3

    COI synopsis: Mrs. Williams and her small son, Tony, visit a toy factory somewhere on the outskirts of London, which until recently were engaged on high pressure production for war. A lot of these toys are...

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