High Speed Ironing, High Speed Folding

Summary

Promotional film for Manlove Alliott and Thomas Broadbent laundry ironing and folding machines which are demonstrated at Daybrook Laundry in Nottingham.

Year:

1962

Duration:

0:10:06

Film type:

Colour / Sound

Genre:

Industrial

Company:

Warners Industrial Film Services

Master format:

16mm

Description

The film opens with an establishing shot of Nottingham Castle followed by a Daybrook laundry van driving past the Trip to Jerusalem pub and collecting laundry whilst parked outside the Flying Horse Hotel in the city centre. The van then arrives at Daybrook Laundry and inside we see a demonstration of an automatic ironing machine for sheets that is manufactured by Manlove Alliott and Co Ltd which is used in conjunction with an automatic folding machine made by Thomas Broadbent. The commentary talks about the speed of the machines' operation which are demonstrated by two women. After ironing and folding the sheets are loaded back into the Daybrook van.


Credits

No credits specified


Notes

The Manlove Alliott factory in Nottingham was called the Bloomsgrove Works and was on Ilkeston Road. It was closed around 1969. Thomas Broadbent were based in Huddesfield.