News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Babcock Review

Issue

Issue No.

1

Date Released

1954

Stories in this Issue:

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

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 3

Summary

Babcock and Wilcox synopsis: This item takes us to the works of the Bristol Aeroplane Co., where we see Britannia air liners under construction and test, and glimpse the development of jet aero engines by this famous organisation. Babcock & Wilcox have contributed to this work by manufacture, at Renfrew, of a huge fusion-welded pressure chamber used by Bristol Aero-engines Ltd., in testing turbo-jet and ram-jet engines under the conditions of high air-speed and low atmospheric pressures that are associated with high-altitude and supersonic flight. The film shows the delivery and installation of this giant pressure-vessel and the layout of the completed plant, in which steam is used to produce certain test conditions. The film ends with an exciting record from a camera mounted on a ram-jet engine travelling at supersonic speed.

Researcher Comments

This story was originally made as a part of Home and Away issue 8.

Keywords

Aircraft; Industry and manufacture

Written sources

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

Credits:

Sponsor

Babcock and Wilcox, Ltd.

Producer

Cyril Randell

Editor

Ken Collins

Director

Peter Dixon

Production Co.

Technical & Scientific Films Ltd.