Results: Stories
17 results found for '"Duncan Ross"' in Credits.
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...