World’s First Unmanned Power Station (1959)

Bristol. Documentation on file. GV. Engineers at control board. Mayor and arriving. MS. Mayor making speech. Various shots of C.R. King CBE Chairman of the electricity council starting gas turbine in Princetown by means of supervisory control. Various shots of supervisory control panel. CU. Stoner (responsible for development of supervisory control) beside model of engine as at Princetown points to whereabouts of control mechanism (not on model). Various shots of disembodied engine (megawatt turbo-generator) at Bristol Siddeley Engines Filton. (Orig. Neg.) FILM ID:2906.1 A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-19