Latest Shipping Technology, 1960s - Film 18488

The latest automated machinery on board the transport ship 'Manchester Challenge' moored at Manchester docks.
Low angle shot of the ship at anchor in the port. Work on the dock side. Loading heavy crates with machinery. Inside the bridge of the ship the male presenter takes us on a tour of the contemporary machinery that helps make work easier for the crew. The latest navigation equipment, A radar plotter. Weather forecaster. Explanation of charts.
Inside the 'automatic engine control room' with a computer so big it needs a room of its own to function. Monitoring devices . Men working in the engine room. Back in the control room. Log being typed out by the machine.
Procedure when the alarm sounds to warn something has gone wrong with the engine control computer. An engineer enters the room and presses a button which switches the alarm off, he then looks into the fault. Description of the system built into the engine computer that sends out a warning before any significant fault occurs and uses lights to communicate.
Ship leaves thirty hours late. Views of the illuminated ship at night.