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Mining Review 20/10: Track Rod (1967)
 

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Mining Review 20th Year No. 10: Ayrshire - Track Rod
35mm, black and white, 2 mins
 
Production CompanyNational Coal Board Film Unit
SponsorNational Coal Board

A portrait of mining engineer Walter Brown and his love of stock car racing.

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Another of Mining Review's seemingly endless series of items about miners and their hobbies, this one looks at Walter Brown, a mining engineer from Pennyvenie in Ayrshire, Scotland. He's a stock car racing fanatic, with the trophies to prove it, and his engineering skills are put to invaluable use outside his day job.

The second half of the film shows him taking advantage of winding colliery roads to practice high-speed manoeuvres and time tests with another racer. The shooting of these sequences is impressively dynamic, with the camera sometimes mounted on the vehicle itself to get as close as possible to the action.

Michael Brooke

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SEE ALSO
Mining Review 20/10: Conversion (1967)
Mining Review 20/10: Nova Scotia (1967)
Mining Review 20/10: Out of the Past (1967)
Miners Above Ground
Mining Review: 20th Year (1966-67)