Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Pattern for progress, R.T.B. Ebbw Vale (cine film)

Content summary :- Ebbw Vale Steelworks in the late 1940s. Complete visual record of process of steel making at Ebbw Vale steelworks, South Wales including importation and screening of raw materials, production of coke, charging and tapping of blast furnaces, production of steel using Bessemer and Open hearth processes. Depiction of hot mill and cold mill finishing processes, production of tinplate, packing and despatch of finished steel and tinplate.

16mm, and black and white and sound. 43 minutes 40 seconds long.

Collection Area

Industry

Item Number

69.239

Historical Associations

Associated Person/Body: Richard Thomas & Baldwins Ltd
Association Type: Metal company
Date: 1940s (late)
Place: Ebbw Vale iron & steelworks

Creation/Production

Role: Producer
Place: Ebbw Vale iron & steelworks
Period: 1948

Acquisition

donation, 17/9/1969
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