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Forgings, pinions and work rolls are hoisted through the machine shops at Beardmore’s Parkhead Forge. (clip) [74958653]
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Title: STEEL AND ENGINEERING
Reference number: 0154
Date: 1960c
Production company: Wm. Beardmore and Co. Ltd. / SFC Industrial Panel
Sound: sound
Colour: col
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 9.59 mins
Description:
Shots of the "Empress of Britain" leaving Greenock for Canada and of the interior of the Parkhead steel works.
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Credits:
Produced by the William Beardmore & Co. Ltd. with the assistance of the Industrial Panel of the Scottish Film Council
Property of Firth Brown Limited
Shotlist: Credits (0.12) shots of the "Empress of Britain" leaving Greenock carrying emigrants to Canada, Braehead Power Station, Renfrew, the foundry at Ayr, and steel strip mills in South Wales (1.30) Parkhead works. Shots of forge, steel-making, open hearth furnace and moulds, stern frame of the "Empress of Britain" (3.24) Melting shop with components manufactured for Doxford crankshaft and turbine engine (4.45) machine shop floor (7.57) oil tanks in construction (8.17) Beardmore manufactured components in various places around the country (9.59)
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