WELDING IN BOILER MANUFACTURE
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Title: WELDING IN BOILER MANUFACTURE
Reference number: 1530
Date: 1955*
Director: d. George H. Sewell
Sponsor: Babcock and Wilcox Ltd
Production company: Technical and Scientific Films Ltd. in assoc. with Film Producers Guild
Sound: sound
Original format: 16mm
Colour: bw
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 18.02 mins
Description:
A demonstration in Babcock and Wilcox's welding school of different methods of fusion welding by hand and by machine.
Film was shot in the Renfrew works at a time when they had both iron and steel foundries. Used as a training film and for promotional purposes. See additional information file held at National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive.
Credits:
p. Denis Ward
ph. Phil Dennis
ass. d. Peter Ward
ass. cameraman Brian Rhodes
comm. s. Alvar Lidell
Shotlist: Credits (.28); Shots of blacksmith hammer welding (1.08); Demonstration in works' welding school of different methods of fusion welding by hand and by machine (11.06); Examination of weld by x-ray (12.47); Demonstration of pressure and flash welding (17.05); Montage (17.54); The End (18.02)