A promotional film produced for Ovoline Lubricants of Gateshead by Turners Visual Communications highlighting the companies many industrial lubricants and showcasing their application in practical situations. Title: Ovoline Lubricants: “Excellence in a Fluid Form” Traffic moves along the Central Motorway in Newcastle and crosses the Tyne Bridge. A phantom car ride also crossing the Tyne Bridge from Gateshead into Newcastle. More cars, lorries, and buses travel across the Tyne Bridge and...

A promotional film produced for Ovoline Lubricants of Gateshead by Turners Visual Communications highlighting the companies many industrial lubricants and showcasing their application in practical situations. Title: Ovoline Lubricants: “Excellence in a Fluid Form” Traffic moves along the Central Motorway in Newcastle and crosses the Tyne Bridge. A phantom car ride also crossing the Tyne Bridge from Gateshead into Newcastle. More cars, lorries, and buses travel across the Tyne Bridge and along the Central Motorway. An articulated lorry travels along a road followed by a Caterpillar articulated dump truck driving along a track. Three large excavators at a rubbish dumb load garbage into the back of an articulated truck. Two more articulated lorries pass each other along a road. Inside a factory various computerised assembly lines in operation, in the final part a lubricant is used as part of the production process. Inside a laboratory at Ovoline Lubricants three men in white lab coats go about their business, outside in the near distance the High-Level Bridge crossing the River Tyne. The men use precision scientific equipment to carry out their tests. Title: “Excellence in A Fluid Form” The King Edward VII Railway and Redheugh bridges crossing the River Tyne at Newcastle. On the Gateshead side of the river the Ovoline Lubricants facility. A map of Great Britain showing the location of Ovoline factories both to the north and south of Gateshead as well as smaller distribution centres. In an office a training session is taking place for Ovoline sales personnel with the group flicking through brochures and looking at lubricant samples in small plastic bottles. In another part of the facility a man in a lab coat uses a spectrometer and an ICP Analyser to test samples of lubricant for a vehicle, the results printing out on a graph. A BS5750 accreditation certificate. At the production facility base oils are heated in large pans and mixed with high quality additives. Another analysis of the lubricant is made now inside large metal and plastic Ovoline. A forklift moves a pallet of drums onto a shelf for storage. An Ovoline tanker leaves the Gateshead facility followed by a lorry. The tanker travels at speed along a dual carriageway. On a wall an award certificate followed by wheeled bulldozer working in a quarry, an articulated lorry transporting a large coil of metal rope and an Ovoline tanker arriving at a commercial vehicle distribution facility. An articulated lorry travels at speed along a dual carriageway. Title: Multifleet: “Officially approved to Mercedes Benz P227.1” A large crane hoists a barge in the air beside a canal. Title: Turbomaster: “Officially approved to Mercedes Benz P228.1” A Vaux delivery lorry travels at speed along a dual carriageway. Title: LDX: “Officially approved to Mercedes Benz P228.5” Inside a factory a large piece of heavy cutting equipment, the machines oxyfuel cutting tool. Pieces of cut metal and plastics stored at another part of the factory space. Inside a food processing facility potato crisps move along a conveyor. A photograph shows drums and containers containing various agricultural lubricants and in a field a number of tractors ploughs the earth. Another tractor is used as part of the harvesting of potatoes. Title: Fieldmaster: 10/30 API CE/SF Two more tractors pull potato harvesting machines. Title: Super Universal: 15W/30 API CE/SF In another field a folk attached to the front of a tractor lifts bales of silage onto the back of a flatbed lorry while other tractors collect up cut grasses turning them into bales. A montage of various wheel tractor-scraper machines used in road construction. A vat containing specially produced petroleum jellies and greases changes to show a machine twisting wire into metal ropes. A man checks out a large coil of metal rope is followed by an image of a modern bridge which is built using these wire ropes as well as the crane seen previously hoisting a canal barge into the air. Back in Newcastle traffic travels along the Central Motorway and across the Tyne Bridge followed by racing cars speeding around a circuit during a race. On a dual carriageway an Ovoline tanker overtakes changes to the three men in lab coats seen previously working in a laboratory. The film ends on the Ovoline Lubricants facility on the Gateshead side of the River Tyne. End credit: Produced for Ovoline Lubricants. © Ovoline Lubricants 1994 End credit: by Turner Visual Communications Newcastle upon Tyne End credit: Acknowledgments. E.J. Meeks Ltd, Kirkby in Ashfield, Notts. W&M Thompson Ltd, Prudhoe. Port Farms (Northern Food Group) Nottingham. Bridon International Doncaster. North East Truck & Van Ltd, Billingham. Quinto Cranes & Plany Ltd. Norwich. Turners of Soham Ltd, Fordham nr Ely, Cambridgeshire. Vaux Breweries Ltd, Sunderland. Thomas Sherriff & Co. Ltd, Coldstream, Berwickshire. VHE Construction Ltd, Barnsley, West Yorkshire. Fox Plant, Owmby nt Lincoln. Heanor Haulage Ltd, Heanor, Derbyshire. Team Verdan, Tadcaster. SAPA Ltd, Tibshelf, Derbyshire End title: Ovoline Lubricants “Excellence in A Fluid Form” End Credit: Producer John Grant. Camera Peter Brook. Recordist & Editor Hilton Davis. Narrator Simon Barnes.