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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.