Factories Collection (page 8)

Textile workers early 1900s

General view of Penco, Bio Bio, Chile, South America
General view of the town and city of Penco, in the Bio Bio region of Chile, South America. Showing the ceramics factory, Fabrica Nacional de Loza, in the centre. Date: circa 1915

English toys during WW1 - English made war dolls
An female worker posed with war dolls representing the King, Lord Kitchener, Sir John French, Sir John Jellicoe and General Joffre. A selection of British-made toys during the First World War

Firestone Tyre Factory
An exterior view of the Firestone Factory on the Great West Road (A4). Date: circa 1930

William N. Froy & Sons - exterior factory
Exterior of William Nathaniel Froy & Sons, in Hammersmith, London West. Builders merchant, manufacturing and selling fittings, including taps, baths, stoves and glass. Date: 19th century

Group of female factory workers, c. 1910
A group of women factory workers from the Edwardian era wearing clogs. Date: c.1910

Propellers for Britains Warplanes: Machining the Blades - The Edge-milling process, in which upper and lower fixed rotary cutters mill the leading

WWI Poster, Appeal to cotton operatives
Appeal to Cotton Operatives. WWI Recruitment poster aimed at the men of the cotton industry to join up or make munitions, and for women to take their place in the mills. Date: circa 1916

KRUPP, Friedrich Alfred (1854 - 1902). German steel manufacturer of the company Krupp. 1900. Engraving

The Morse Cotton Baling Press. Cotton Hydraulic Press, New Morse system. Installed in New York. 1881. Xylography

Die Herren der Welt (The Masters of the World. When the kings of industry are mad, the common people suffer), cover of Simplicissimus magazine, 1922. Critique of the power of big industries

Port Sunlight - aerial map
Superb aerial view of Port Sunlight, the factory and home of Sunlight and Lifebuoy soaps, together with the model village built on the Wirral by William Lever for the benefit of his workers

Industrial view of Resicza (Resita), Romania
Industrial view of Resicza (Resita), Banat Region, Western Romania. Date: late 19th century

WW1 cartoon on postcard - munition worker
Expecting a rise shortly. Humorous, First World War postcard depicting a female munition worker jauntily sitting on a barrel of dynamite with a cigarette. A health and safety nightmare. Date: c.1916

Munition workers guard of honour at Percy wedding, WW1
Munition workers forming a guard of honour at the wedding of Miss Stella Drummond to Lord Eustace Percy (third son of the late Duke of Northumberland) at St. Margaret s, Westminster

Women welding bomb cases, WW1
Women workers wear goggles to fix the tops of bomb cases in position by welding during the First World War. Date: 1916

Creche for the children of munitions workers, WW1
Dinner time at a creche for the children of women munition workers at Birmingham. According to the caption in The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News

Whale hunting vessel and factory by G. H. Davis
Floating whale factories: ships which reduce their prey to oil and by-products on the spot. A whale-hunting factory and its catcher vessels at work in the Antarctic

Air view of Margam steel works, Port Talbot, South Wales

Fig packing - Djanik Elmassian Fig Factory, Izmir, Turkey
Fig packing at the Djanik Elmassian Fig Factory and depot at Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey. A very traditional scene in the main fig-producing region in Turkey. Date: circa 1910s

Brookroyd Mills, Holywell Green, Yorkshire, 1907 Date: 1907

Oil refineries and factories at Baku, Azerbaijan. Date: circa 1910s

Parachute factory WWII
Women in a parachute factory sewing silk to make parachutes during World War II

Beautiful Sheffield! A sarcastic interpretation on the skyline of dark satanic mills which characterised Sheffield from the Industrial Revolution through to the 1950s

Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret
Princess Elizabeth (right) and Princess Margaret Rose at the last of the Duke of Yorks Camps, at Balmoral in August 1939. In 1919, the Princesses father, then Duke of York

First Mill textile factory, Leigh, Lancashire
Exterior view of the Firs Mill textile factory, Leigh, Lancashire

Women munition-makers 1916
Women needed by the hundred thousands to work in munitions factories, while the men were at War fighting. Showing women been trained at Battersea Polytechnic, London. Date: 1916

Albert I - King of Belgium - Liege - Legion d Honneur
Albert I - King of Belgium, a panorama of Liege and the French Legion d Honneur. The German invasion of August 5th, 1914 soon reached Liege, which was defended by 30

The Victoria Pier, Hull, Humberside
Promotional postcard for the regional agent (M. A. Duquesne) for the Nestor Leonard Ironworks and Steelworks of the Societe Anonyme Feignies (Nord) at Lille, France (pictured). Date: circa 1910

Testing for flaws in the sound, Creusot works, France 1915
Every shell was tested for flaws by the sound, being hammered, in the background a man seen weighing each shell, in order to ensure its nanswering to the exact regulation weight

Pazundaung Creek, Myanmar - showing traditional Burmese river boats and a backdrop of heavy mechanised industrial factories/buildings. Date: circa 1920s

WW2 poster, Yield Not An Inch! Waste Not A Minute! Stand Fast! Work Fast! Date: circa 1941

Tokuyama (Shunan, Japan - Factories and Heavy Industry
Factories and Heavy Industry at Tokuyama, a city located in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. On April 21, 2003, Tokuyama, along with the city of Shinnan yo, the town of Kumage, and the town of Kano

WW2 poster, War Work Pictorial -- United We Stand! Poster sheet with news articles designed to encourage those doing essential work on the Home Front. Date: circa 1941

Krupps Factory / 1915
Manufacturing armour plate at Krupps factory. Date: 1915

Haslam Spinning Co
John Haslam Cotton Spinning Co. Manchester - view at night with the windows illuminated. Date: 1920

Saarbrucken Welding / 1876
The welding shop in Saarbrucken Ironworks. Date: 1876

Krupp: Smelting Plant
Krupps factory, Essen: casting in the smelting plant Date: 1911

Krupp: Martinwerk III
Krupps factory, Essen: casting process in Martinwerk III Date: 1911

Krupps Puddling Shop
Krupps puddling shop in the southern works Date: 1911

Krupp: Steel Rolling
Steel manufacture at Krupps factory: continuous rolling work Date: 1911

Industrial Landscape / C19
An industrial landscape in Etruria, showing farm life at the forefront and the steady advance of heavy industry in the background. Date: 1840

Factory Interior
A builders yard at Southwark, London Date: circa 1815

Grand Junction Railway train factory
Grand Junction Railway engine- works at Crewe : the erecting shop Date: 1849

Olive Oil containers being cleaned for new use. Date: 1896

Glass industry
Rolling plate glass in a glass factory in the 18th century Date: circa 1760

Verona, Italy - the main scene shows the Castel Vecchio Bridge (Scaliger Bridge) and the inset shows the unique floating boat mills of Verona, the last one of which stopped working in 1929

Big-Room, Enfield Rifle Factory. 1861

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