A sponsored film produced by Turners Film Productions for ball-bearing manufacturer Ransome Hoffman Pollard (RHP) presented by British character actor John Carson. The film begins by highlighting the many industries that rely on ball-bearings followed by a look at how the many different types of ball-bearing and made by RHP. In the second part of the film a look at the company international distribution network focusing on the work of the office in Tehran in pre-revolutionary Iran. A...

A sponsored film produced by Turners Film Productions for ball-bearing manufacturer Ransome Hoffman Pollard (RHP) presented by British character actor John Carson. The film begins by highlighting the many industries that rely on ball-bearings followed by a look at how the many different types of ball-bearing and made by RHP. In the second part of the film a look at the company international distribution network focusing on the work of the office in Tehran in pre-revolutionary Iran. A windmill with its sails turning, in the foreground the first ball-bearing ring ever made from cast iron for use in a windmill. The control tower of an international airport and airplanes taxiing along the runway. Inside the terminal building passengers using escalators some of which are undercover. On the wall an information board giving departure destinations and times, a piece of luggage is diverted off a conveyor. An airport luggage vehicle travelling towards an aircraft, while an aircraft tug pulls an aircraft across the tarmac. Inside the terminal passengers have their tickets checked as they make their way to their departure gate. Outside a lift rising towards an aircraft cargo hold. A montage of images featuring some of the industries featured in this film that rely upon ball-bearings. Title: RHP Title: Bearings Round the World Various 6202 ball-bearings, the most popular ball-bearing in the world, are turned as the move past the camera. In a factory the same ball-bearings under production on an automated machine. John Carson appears beside a machine and explain the production process. Inside another factory different types of ball-bearing under production, their completed elements coming along a conveyor. In another factory an engineer installs a wheel onto an armoured vehicle, a specific type of ball-bearing is used in the construction process. At a British Army training facilities various tanks and other armoured vehicles are put through their paces with the tanks firing guns. Back at the factory a precision ball-bearing is being measured in minute detail. Two boxes of ‘Super Precision’ ball-bearings are wrapped in cellophane and travel along a conveyor. In another factory an engineer works to construct a machine tool that incorporates the said precision ball-bearings, boxes of them sit in the background. A precise measuring devise measures an aerospace baring, in the factory another bearing being grinded and turned to the correct specifications of an aircraft. A British Airways passengers jet flies through the sky. A pair of tweezers are used to build a small or miniature bearings for instrumentation. In another part of the factory an engineer watches over a large bearing of more than one metre changing to the telescope at Siding Springs Observatory in Australia where two RHP roller bearings are used in its the declination axis. At another factory mounted bearings move along a conveyor, changes to a man driving a combined-harvester to harvest a field of wheat or the cereal crop. At a chip-mill in the town of Bellingham in Washington State, USA logs move along a conveyor which uses RHS bearings. Back in the factory, an automotive machine produces sharp double-rolled ball-bearings for the automotive industry. Another machine produced farm and water pump spindles; an engineer installed said item onto a pump moving slowly along a production line inside a factory producing car engines. Ball-bearings come along a conveyor where they are wrapped for distribution. Back in the car factory workers are installed engines into a line of vehicles. The finish car, a Chrysler Europe Rootes Arrow or Hillman Hunter, comes of the production line. John Carson stands beside tubes of bearing steel, nearby a worker places one of the tubes into a machine that will turn it into rings. The process of producing the ring is shown with narration by John Carson. Lights on a modern factory machine tools turn on and off, John picks up a finished inner ring as it comes along a conveyor. John walks along past a number of precision finishing machines through which the rings are fed. He picks up another ring following the process explaining the precision measurements that have gone into this process. An engineer watches a monitor showing the balls or rolling-elements for the ball-bearing being washed and coming along a conveyor. Machines work to finishes the balls to precise dimensions and requirements. Inside an Assembly Hall John Carson explains that this is where the components for a ball-bearing are put-together to make the finished item. Behind him a woman watches over a machine. At the end of the process, they are wrapped in cellophane and boxed. In an office salespeople speak with clients over the phone while other administration staff type up invoices and other related paperwork. A woman using a computer to input data changes to two RHP shipping containers being loaded onto a cargo ship. A building in the desert and a man leads donkeys along a road. The exterior of the decorative Imamzadeh Saleh mosque at Tajrish Square in Tehran changes to Azadi Tower, formerly known as the Shahyad Tower, on Azadi Square. Traffic moves along a street beside a stream and two women in modern dress hail a taxi and get in. Four women in Hijab’s walking along a busy road with cars, bikes and heavily loaded lorries travelling past. A man carrying boxes of RHP bearing on his back walks along a busy street delivering them to an RHP stockist in Tehran. In the office a man speaking on the phone, around him two women type up invoices. Ray Wright, the Resident RHP Manager in Tehran, drives around Azadi Square past Azadi Tower. A phantom car through the city turning onto Keshavarz Boulevard. A tanker drives past an oil refinery on the outskirts of Tehran, flames leap into the air from a safety relief valve. Back in the RHP office a man takes a telephone call and speak with Ray Wright sitting at his desk nearby. They chat as Ray takes a sip of his tea after which he flicks through a draw of index cards. At an Iranian quarry limestone is loaded into a lorry by a wheel-loader and transported to a factory where it is used in the production of cement. A man walks along a walkway past an industrial turning mill inside the cement work. Two workers chat near to two roller thrust wheels that use RHP roller-bearings. Other parts of the machine are shown where bearings are used. A conveyor moves the clinker to the bore mill changes to men unloading bags of finished cement from a conveyor. A man leads a herd of sheep along a road, beside a busy road another man along with a small boy load stone into bags attached to a donkey. Around them heavy equipment and workers building a new highway through the Iranian desert. Many of the wheel-loaders and other pieces of equipment work on ball-bearings. The Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy changes back to Iran were a lorry unloads a block of raw marble. Inside a factory, multi-head stone saws, the raw marble is cut and grinded, controlled by a fly-wheel that uses ball-bearings to function. A worker watches over the marble as it is polished before being cut with a rotary saw. The Imamzadeh Saleh mosque again changes to women and girls working to weave traditional Persian carpets by hand. In another modern factory a man watches over a spinning machine producing the cotton that will be used to make Persian carpets. A young boy collected the finished spindles from the machine with the film returning to the women weaving their carpet by hand, the finished sections rolling onto the floor beneath the bench they are all working from. A young boy opens a decorative swing door out onto a veranda showing the Imamzadeh Saleh mosque in the near distance. He sits at a table and begins to work on his RHP correspondence course. Cars travel across a modern suspension road bridge changes to an airport with an aircraft taxiing along a runway over a road. A British Airways Concorde takes off followed by a British Rail Class 252 Prototype high-speed Inter City diesel train coming around a track. In a North American field a red Versatile 800 tractor pulls a mechanical rake sending dust clouds up into the air. At the Radar North open cast coal mine in Northumberland the dragline excavator ‘Big Geordie’ works to extract coal which is them dumping into Derek Crouch lorries. An aerial of forests in the Pacific Northwest of America change to forestry equipment at work stripping trees of their branches. The tree trunks come along a conveyor and are cut into section by rotating saw with the film fading to ball-bearings coming along a conveyor. Back in the RHP factory a woman watches over several machines producing bearings while John Carson walking past along past a line of machines. In an office a map of the wall of the world and a woman taking an enquiry from a teleprinter machine. Finished bearings come along a conveyor and the film ends in the Assembly Room where a woman watches over the machines constructing bearings from the components. Title: A production for RHP End Credits: By Turners Film Productions, Newcastle upon Tyne, England Executive Producer Bryan Copplestone Directed and Photographed by Peter Brown Narration by John Carson Film Editor David Middleton Additional Photography Peter Brock Camera Assistant Hilton Davis Lighting Assistant Bill Guy Written and Produced by John Grant and Richard Bing RHP