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Ingot Pictorial No. 4

RTB has lots to celebrate and Howard Marshall, director of personnel/public relations and the main Ingot Pictorial commentator, downs a pint in one on opening Ebbw Vale House.

1949 18 mins

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Overview

A series of firsts for Richard Thomas & Baldwins are detailed in this edition of the steel company’s quarterly screen review. Major W E Fraser, director of RTB in Australia, delivers greetings to all β€œin this great family of RTB”. New developments are on-going at Nevill’s Foundry, Llanelli, and the Cookley Works, Dudley, and a club and institute for workers is opened at Ebbw Vale House. The review includes, for the first time, both rugby footage and a rendition of β€˜Myfanwy’.