Assembling Collection

Upholsterers at work, C V Smith factory, London
Upholsterers at work at Mr C V Smiths factory in Osnaburgh Street, Camden, London. Teams of men are assembling and stuffing long leather couches

WW2 - R. A. F. Engine Assembly
A photograph of some British WW2 Royal Air Force trainees assembling engines. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 - R. A. F. Trainee Assembling Engine
A portrait photograph of a young British WW2 Royal Air Force trainee assembling an aeroplane engine. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 - R. A. F. Armourers Assembling Guns
A photograph showing a line of British WW2 Royal Air Force armourers assembling aerial guns. Date: circa 1940s

How to Make it Hard for the Invader!
British Home Front are using a makeshift contraption to pinch a screwdriver making it impossible for the Germans to assemble an air-borne tank. Date: 1940

Workman assembling a gas meter as part of the manufacturing process. Date: 1864

16th century Bookbinders
Stages in the binding of a books : stitching the gatherings, flattening the sheets for insertion. Date: 16th century

Egyptian court in Crystal Palace
Construction of the new Crystal Palace at Sydenham: workmen assembling the Egyptian Court

Two men constructing an Anderson shelter in a back garden at the start of the Second World War. Date: circa 1939

Cartoon, body parts after the battle, WW1
First World War cartoon entitled After the Battle, showing German soldiers trying to match up body parts before loading them onto a train. Date: 1914-1918

Aylesbury Borstal Institution - girls assembling radio power units Date: circa 1945

Battle of Flanders. Men assembling to go on leave
Photograph: Battle of Flanders. Men assembling to go on leave. From an album of 76 official photographs, 1916-1917. Associated with World War One, Western Front (1914-1918). Date: 1916

WW2 - With the W. A. A. F. - Barrage Balloon Fabric Workers
WW2 - With the W.A.A.F. - Barrage Balloon Fabric Workers Date: circa 1942

Underwater house equipment under construction, Malta
Young man assembling electronic equipment connected with an underwater, inflatable house under construction on a beach in Malta

Lebuinus Chalice. 8th-9th centuries. Carolingian
Carolingian art. The misnamed Lebuinus Chalice. Aachen, Germany, 790-810. Bowl made A?a?A?a?in ivory, mounted on a silver frame, made A?a?A?a?in the workshops of Carlolingian Empire

Loyal Masons 1561
Assembling at York, the Masons are suspected of plotting against Q. Elizabeth : Grand Master Thomas Sackville invites her officers to test their loyalty for themselves Date: 27 December 1561

Lloyd C II Austro-Hungarian biplane, being reassembled after transportation to the southern end of the Eastern Front. Soon after this photograph was taken

Hawker Hart R. A. F bomber construction 1934
The design and construction of the British Hawker Hind, two seater light bomber, during the inter-war years produced by Hawker Aircraft. 1934

Assembling fuses 1916
Munition workers in World War One, packing fuse heads. 1916

St. Pauls Minnesota, USA - Ford Plant and Power House, situated oat Mississippi River Boulevard and the Ford Road. Date: circa 1920s

An engine jig for assembling engine and controls in the Handley page works at Cricklewood where assembly and equipment of the latest type of heavy bomber aeroplanes built for the Royal Air Force

Firefighters doing productive work in lull period, WW2
During the longer lulls in firefighting activities, NFS firefighters took part in industrial production for the countrys war needs

Sea Scouts assembling on a quay

Troops at an encampment, Palestine, WW1
Troops (probably Turkish) at an encampment in the Palestine desert during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Maxwell-Briscoe motor factory
Maxwell & Briscoe. Workers assembling automobiles at the Maxwell-Briscoe Automobile Factory in Phillips Point (near Tarrytown, NY), Hudson River

Furniture workshop, Barnstaple, Devon
Men at work assembling wooden sections in the furniture workshop of Messrs Shapland and Petter, Barnstaple, Devon

Boys assemble for drill, NIPRCC East Harling, Norfolk
Boys assembling for drill at the East Harling, Norfolk, branch of the National Institutions for Persons Requiring Care and Control

Matchbox making at home, East End of London
A woman with her three children engaged in making matchboxes at their home in the East End of London. The work, which involved pasting and assembling the boxes, was notoriously badly paid

Turning a Cam shaft
An engineer turns a cam shaft on a large piece of complex mechanical and elctronic machinery. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Lowering a large railway shaft
A large central rotational shaft is lowered into position by a team of railway engineers. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Assembling a Sign
A female factory worker assembles a sign as part of a production line for COTY Beauty House. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Female Production Line Worker
A young woman on a factory production line assembles an electronic device. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Assembling the wiring for a complex machine
An engineer inserts a thin wire into a section of the assemblage for a Kimball machine. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

The factory floor of an electronics manufacturer
Men at work on the busy factory floor of an electronics company, assembling complicated-looking devices. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

British Paratroops on exercise in England; Second World War
Photograph showing a group of British paratroops readying themselves after landing, during an exercise taking place in England in 1944

Church Parade on board a Battleship, Gibraltar, 1906
Photograph of a Sunday Church Parade on board a British Battleship, of the Atlantic Fleet, at Gibraltar. The ships company can be seen assembling here on the deck for prayers

Making Toy Drums 1890
Le montage des tambours - assembling drums

Rail Construction German
Rail construction : assembling a Maffei-type locomotive

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