Another starring TV role for Fulton Boilers

Edited by the Processingtalk editorial team Feb 21, 2005

Fulton Boiler Works made another TV appearance on Five in February, when their Bristol-based factory was again used for filming, this time investigating how animals and plants can help solve crime

Following the screening of a wildlife documentary called 'Rats' in October last year, Fulton Boiler Works made its second television appearance on Five in late February when the company's Bristol-based factory was again used to film a programme investigating how animals and plants can help solve crime.

The one-hour 'Animal Detectives' documentary follows producer and presenter Nigel Marven as he meets the world's foremost crime-busting scientists and, in the process, learns how the natural world is being used to convict notorious criminals.

The film features a fictional murder committed by Nigel, in which he thinks he has carried out the perfect crime, only to be caught by evidence from animals and plants.

In the first programme Nigel was shown being lowered by crane into the shell of a Fulton Series J steam boiler that is full of rats.

For the new documentary, the factory was used to depict a secret terrorist bomb making facility.

In one scene, flies were released and were filmed landing on explosives.

The flies were then caught and analysed by law enforcement officers and the particles of explosives found on them, providing the evidence required to apprehend and charge the terrorists.

Commenting for Bristol-based production company Image Impact, Matthew Wright says: "We are grateful to Fulton for giving us the time and resources to film this documentary".

He goes on to say that the sequence is a reconstruction of new technology that has not yet been used in real cases, although the FBI has field-tested the technique with real flies and proved that it works.

Commenting for Fulton, sales and marketing director Gordon Bareham says: "We were delighted to again help the production company with the filming, proving that when it comes to supporting local businesses, there are no flies on Fulton!" The 'Animal Detectives' documentary is one of a four-part series being screened on Five during February.