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Title: VIEWS FROM INSIDE A TIMKEN FACTORY, STEAM LOCOMOTIVE CONSTRUCTION, GLASGOW

Reference number: 10333

Date: 1954c

Sound: silent

Original format: std. 8mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 13.15 mins

Description: The construction of Class 25 steam locomotives for South Africa by the North British Locomotive Company in Glasgow.

'Timken' refers to the brand of bearings used in railway engineering.
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See also refs 10329 10330 10331 and 10332

Shotlist: [no title] - int shots in locomotive works - gvs locomotive body being lowered slowly on to wheels - c/u shots worker checking alignment as body is lowered (1.09) boiler shell being slowly tilted into vertical position by crane - c/u shots pipes inside smokebox - undercarriage of locomotive - gvs piston rods on trestles, interior of boiler section, machinery - apprentices polish connecting rods (5.05) body of tender is winched across workshop - c/u pile of turbine blades, pistons, moving turbine (6.12) end section of cab into position - c/u shots cylinder and pistons - Timken engineer working on machinery, axle - workers fitting wheels to axle - finished axle being winched across workshop - locomotive body under construction - turbine blade being lowered into place on tender - gvs construction, cylinder mount - c/u shots pipes under boiler, cylinder (10.45) fitting of cab section and work on body - cylinder being fitted in mount - gvs sections of bodywork (11.44) gvs completed Class 25 loco being driven out into yard - c/u cylinder - welders working on body - roof of tender being lowered into place (13.15)