Results: Stories
41 results found for '"Humphrey Swingler"' in Credits.
Main Line Diesel Engine
- Date released
- 1950
- Series name
- Oil Review
- Issue no
- 1
- NoS ID
- 349284
- Story no
- 2 / 3
Subtitle - ‘A new page in railway history’. Film User Summary - the L.M. Region’s main line diesel locomotive BP Summary - The building and trial run of the new diesel - electric locomotives which are...
Tractor Transitions
- Date released
- 1950
- Series name
- Oil Review
- Issue no
- 1
- NoS ID
- 349285
- Story no
- 3 / 3
Subtitle - ‘New designs revolutionize agricultural methods’. BP Summary - The advantages gained by the change in tractor design whereby the farm implement is now an integral part of the tractor instead...
(Untitled record)
- Date released
- 1950
- Series name
- Oil Review
- Issue no
- 1
- NoS ID
- 349283
- Story no
- 1 / 3
BP Summary - A brief introduction to the series with emphasis on the increasing world demand for oil and the importance of the Middle East in supplying this demand Abadan is shown with the refinery set in...
War Against Winter
- Date released
- 1951
- Series name
- Oil Review
- Issue no
- 10
- NoS ID
- 349302
- Story no
- 1 / 3
BFI Summary - the use of modern oil-driven machines in clearing snow-cleared country in North Sweden. NoS synopsis: Winter scenes in Lapland - clearing the land, ploughing, dams and reservoirs being...
Comet across the sky
- Date released
- 1951
- Series name
- Oil Review
- Issue no
- 2
- NoS ID
- 349545
- Story no
- 3 / 3
Film User Summary - the developent of the world’s first jet airliner, the D. H. "Comet" BP synopsis: How the first all-jet air lines got off to a 500 m.p.h. start. September 1946 the design and...
Work on wax
- Date released
- 1951
- Series name
- Oil Review
- Issue no
- 10
- NoS ID
- 349303
- Story no
- 2 / 3
NFA Summary - how translucent white slabs of wax are made from dark oil and its numerous applications BP synopsis: Wax manufacture at Sunbury and its uses. The film goes into the splitting of oil, and the...
London’s Time
- Date released
- 1951
- Series name
- Oil Review
- Issue no
- 10
- NoS ID
- 349304
- Story no
- 3 / 3
BFI Summary - a visit to behind the clock face of Big Ben NFA synopsis: Shots of pigeons in Trafalgar Square. Big Ben. The River Thames. CU of Big Ben. Aerial shots of London from Big Ben. Shots of...
Scottish Pipeline
- Date released
- 1951
- Series name
- Oil Review
- Issue no
- 11
- NoS ID
- 349305
- Story no
- 1 / 2
NoS synopsis: concerns the laying of a 57 miles long pipeline from Finnart, Loch Long to the expanding oil refinery at Grangemouth, on the Firth of Forth.
Frost is Predicted
- Date released
- 1951
- Series name
- Oil Review
- Issue no
- 11
- NoS ID
- 349306
- Story no
- 2 / 2
NoS synopsis: discusses the prevention of frost damage in fruit orchards through methods of controlling temperatures, including new oil-burning heaters.
London Cabman
- Date released
- 1951
- Series name
- Oil Review
- Issue no
- 12
- NoS ID
- 349307
- Story no
- 1 / 3
NFA Summary - the training and work of London taxi drivers BP synopsis: The journey of a man embarking on becoming a Minicab driver. He attends classes to learn about London’s routes and begins work. Shows...