British Pathe Old Plant Films

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British Pathe Old Plant Films

Post #1 by XS650 » Fri Sep 04, 2009 9:17 am

BRITISH PATHE NEWSREELS

They've improved access to this site, some great old plant stuff , the stills button at bottom of each page is good too , you can look at the whole film in stills in seconds and find the plant bits very quickly.
films reviewed so far :ugeek:
http://www.britishpathe.com/

some great colour British plant footage;-

DEMOLISHING HOUSES 1971- Fiat track shovel pulling houses
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http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=68845
CONSTRUCTION SCHOOL --- 1968- Drotts Hymacs 22RB 'S
http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=2439
TRACTOR BULLDOZER SCHOOL--- 1956- Allis Chalmers dozers and shovels
http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=1383
CHANGING FACE OF LONDON ---1962- Drott BTD6 demolition
http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=1023
Short machine sequences-
THE LAST PREFAB --1972- Drott
EXTRA! STKATHERINES DOCK--- 1969 - Drott
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Flood Prevention ---1954- Cat dozers
Motorway Progress ---1958- all sorts
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Post #2 by badwolf340 » Mon Sep 21, 2009 9:28 pm

well done ,brill find's. :claphands: :claphands:
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Post #3 by MasterofSparks » Tue Sep 22, 2009 1:33 am

Fantastic. Great find :insomnia:

Road repairs
http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=74015

At the end Hymac and ?? machine breaking up the road. Remember watching one of those when I was young breaking up concrete prefab house bases. Not what you would want to drive for 8 or 10 hours a day!
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Re: British Pathe Old Plant Films

Post #4 by Jack » Tue Sep 22, 2009 5:16 pm

Great Videos,
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Post #5 by DaveS » Tue Sep 22, 2009 7:49 pm

MasterofSparks wrote:At the end Hymac and ?? machine breaking up the road. Remember watching one of those when I was young breaking up concrete prefab house bases. Not what you would want to drive for 8 or 10 hours a day!


That is an Arrow Breaker. They were reasonably popular, especially for breaking concrete bridge decks.

There has recently been similar machines breaking the surface of the M74, but they each have four of these drop hammers in a row and steel wheels. Imagine working that for a shift! No idea what make they were.

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Sand Plant Rowhedge Colchester

Post #6 by essexpete » Sun Oct 11, 2009 3:41 pm

Plant at Rowhedge nr Colchester
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Post #7 by Renaultman » Sun Oct 11, 2009 4:39 pm

Amazing find that bulldozer school was amazing. That teacher going around the oil drums. Time for another look.
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Post #8 by essexpete » Sun Oct 11, 2009 6:58 pm

Very good, missed them earlier.
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Re: British Pathe Old Plant Films

Post #9 by XS650 » Thu Jan 21, 2010 2:52 pm

Another little gem , Euclids , Fowlers, Vickers dozer , Onions scraper , nice girls with generators ! and spot the Weatherills :D
' Overseas buyers know that British Made means quality second to none '

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=30954
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Re: British Pathe Old Plant Films

Post #10 by IBH » Thu Jan 21, 2010 4:32 pm

The Benford power barrow made my day :claphands: :lol:
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