WARWORK NEWS NO. 19, The Other Man's Job
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Title: WARWORK NEWS NO. 19, The Other Man's Job
Reference number: 1274
Date: 1943
Sponsor: Ministry of Supply
Production company: Paramount
Sound: sound
Original format: 16mm
Colour: bw
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 3 mins
Description: How locomotives for "the second front" were constructed at the North British Locomotive Company, Springburn, Glasgow.
Shotlist: Credits. Locomotives for the Second Front (.12); Shots of the works [at North British Locomotive Company, Springburn, Glasgow]. Various locomotives under construction (.22); Shots of interior of design shop as men work on designs for Utility locomotives (.33); General views of the foundry as components are manufactured. Women riveters and retired male machine operators at work. A Chinese worker (1.13); Shots of engine boiler under construction. Women riveters and welders (1.44); Testing first completed locomotive, boilers stoked, wheels turn (2.14); First locomotive runs out of the shed. Sir Andrew Duncan, Minister of Supply, on the footplate. Shots of engine no. 7000 on the rails (2.34); Shots of locomotive pulling coal trucks on line to the north of Glasgow (2.43)