automatic panel sizing

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Title: automatic panel sizing

Reference number: 4072

Date: 1959c

Sponsor: Thomas White & Sons, Ltd. Leighpark, Paisley

Production company: Park Film Studios Ltd

Sound: sound

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 4.22 mins

Description: Technically detailed account of an automatic panel sizing and sawing machine in operation at the Thomas White works, Paisley.

See also refs. 3222 and 3223

See also extract offering a little context and history about about Thomas White & Sons from the book 'Scottish Industry' by C.A. Oakley (1953) pp. 120. http://main-cat.nls.uk/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=1737201 [last accessed 12/02/2021] Drawings and other archive material with Paisley Museum: for details see NRA (Scot)/0721.

Shotlist: credits (0.06) ints factory floor, man piling panels of wood on table (0.36) gvs aerial shots of automatic panel sizing and sawing machine in action (1.31) c/u cutting saw heads (1.47) automatic positioning and clamping (2.43) m/s man showing pneumatic controls and trip switches to avoid saws cutting into one another, electrical starters, simple control board, and gvs sawing machine in operation (4.13) ecs (4.22)