Factories Collection (page 9)

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

Cartoon, Their munitions factories, WW1
Cartoon, Their munitions factories. An Italian soldier carries a large bowl of shells, made to look like large macaroni. Date: 1916

Worker at Warrington Wire factory watching presentation
A worker at a Warrington Wire factory watches a retirement presentation taking place on the shop floor. Date: circa 1981

Women at birthday party in factory, Warrington
Women enjoying a birthday party in a Warrington factory. One young woman picks her teeth. Date: circa 1980

Schoolboys help in shell making
Boys of the Acton and Chiswick Polytechnic School spending a holiday making shell caps at an engineering works at Willesden during the First World War. Date: 1915

Messrs Kynochs War Munition Factory
A page from the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News with pictures reporting on the work being done at Kynochs war munitions factory at Witton, Birmingham. Date: 1915

WW2 Christmas card, guard duty
WW2 Christmas card, soldier on guard duty with factories in the distance. Date: 1939

Sugar mill machinery
Diagrams showing part of the elevation and plan of an improved sugar refinery by Edward Woollery Esq of Jamaica. Date: 18th century

View from the Huta Laury in 1840. Engraving. FRANCE. Ό E-DE-FRANCE. Paris. National Library

Brewing. Published in The Arts and Industry of all Nations around 1860 by Charles Knight. Engraving

Brewers Vat. Illustration from London (Volume IV) published by Charles Knight in London in 1841. Engraving

Hopefuls off to the Californian gold fields with their belongings and equipment loaded on their horses and carrying pistols and rifle. From L Illustration Paris 18 June 1853. Engraving

MET DE BLES, Henri (1480-1550). Landscape with coppper mines. Detail of the foundry. 16th century. Renaissance art. Oil on wood. CZECH Rep.. Prague. National Gallery in Prague

Printing. Printmaker of etching. 1641. Engraving

Metal box for storing Styli. It bears the emblem of the Englisch record label and music brand HMV His Masters Voice (La voz de su amo). Beginning of 20th c

Civitatis Orbis Terrarum. Frankfurt an der Oder
BRAUN, George (1541-1622). Civitatis Orbis Terrarum (Theatrum orbis terrarum). 1572-1617. Frankfurt an der Oder (1572). Upper right detail. Volume I. Etching. SPAIN. CASTILE AND LEON. Salamanca

Queen Mary Ocean Liner, supplying her 1000 needs
The Queen Mary, then known as Hull Number 534, had been halted between 1931 and 1934 due to the Great Depression of the 1930s

Iron-ore mining and smelting industrial complex. Magnitogorsk town - Chelyabinsk region - South-East of Ural Mountain Range - steppe landscape around - July

Pears Soap Advertisement, WW1 - munitions worker
Advertisement for the famous Pears soap, the first in their Womanhood in War-Time series. No. 1 is My Lady of Munitions and features a munitions worker or munitionette in uniform at a wash bowl. 1917

Munitions Girl by Helen McKie
Look at the girls who REALLY work To strafe the German and the Turk - The girls who slave at making shells And scorn the screeds of H. G

Smoking pipes of metallurgical complex in Norilsk, Russian Arctic.. Summer, August. Severely polluted town sits in the same landscape depression in arctic tundra

Women workers manufacturing synthetic phenol, WW1
Women munition workers testing the temperature of phenol as it runs into drums during the production of explosives. Date: 1918

Munitions workers waiting for the tea hooter, WW1
Women munitions workers outside the National Control Canteen, run by female volunteers, waiting for the tea hooter to sound

Tea Time in Dining Hall of National Control Canteen, WW1
Female munitions workers in the dining hall of the National Control Canteen, run by voluntary lady workers to provide cheap, nutritious meals for employees. Date: 1916

Cutting sixty khaki uniforms at once, WW1
Scene at a garment manufacturer in New Jersey, USA, which was able to turn out 50, 000 khaki uniforms a day for Allied troops by a cutting process which allowed sixty pieces of fabric to be cut at

Royal visit to Port Sunlight, April 1914
Double page spread from the Illustrated London News covering the visit of King George V and Queen Mary to Port Sunlight, the famous model village

Port Sunlight - where work and pleasure go hand in hand
Double page spread from The Illustrated London News showing scenes at Port Sunlight, the model village built by William Lever (Lord Leverhulme) to house workers at his soap factory

Royal Vinolia Cream advertisement, munition worker, WW1
Advertisement for Royal Vinolia Cream from 1917 featuring a female munition worker - the ideal candidate for as dirty and rough work may be in your service for the nation...but Royal Vinolia cream is

Signing on for Munition Work, WW1
Women signing up for work in munitions factories during the First World War. Date: 1914-18

A Munitionette, Munition worker, WW1
A woman operating an automatic cartridge machine in a munition factory during the First World War. Date: 1917

Royal Vinolia Cream advertisement, 1918
Advertisement for Royal Vinolia Cream from the First World War period, the ideal toilet cream for munition workers. Date: 1918

WW1 advertisement, Rover Company making munitions
A simple and direct advertisement placed in The Tatler magazine in 1915 by the Rover Company of Coventry advising readers that the 12 hp Rover car was unavailable due to the company turning its

Factory filled with equipment to smelt metal
A factory filled with equipment to smelt metal. From: Commercium philosophico-technicum; or, the philosophical commerce of arts: designed as an attempt to improve arts, trades, and manufactures

War Women in the guise of men, WW1
A page of various photographs showing women taking on traditionally male roles during the First World War. As well as working as recruiters and munitions workers, there is also a lady barber

Society munition-workers, lady volunteers making shells, WW1
A double page spread from The Sketch magazine showing several pictures to report on the involvement of high-born and titled women in the national drive for increasing munitions manufacture during

Swan pens advertisement, WW1
Advertisement for Swan Pens, with photographs showing part of the factory in Weston Street, Bermondsey, South East London and a portion of the turning shop with men at work. Date: 1914

French shells used on Land and Sea WWI
In Toulon arsenal: Finished projectiles after " passing the doctor" ; the necessary wash. Upper photograph: showing big-gun shells

Shells in thousands in a recently converted factory 1939
A factory converted into an ammunition production for bomb shells, during the rearmament programme, in a secret location somewhere in the Black Country. 1939

Making Dummy Guns at Birmingham
For bayonet practice and other aspects of training, recruits to the new army during the First World War were supplied with dummy guns

Training men in munition work, WW1
Men of the later Derby groups being trained in munition work. The Derby groups were men who had attested before the end of 1915, putting themselves forward for joining up if required

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

A Theatre for War Workers, WW1
Interior view of a picture and variety theatre built by the firm Messrs. Vickers, Ltd, of Walney Island, Barrow-in-Furness in order to provide recreation for their workers during the First World War

Birmingham working in war time
A page of sketches by Helen McKie showing Birmingham as a hive of industry during the First World War, showing female munitions workers in a national shell factory

By-products developed from coal by G. H. Davis
The enormous importance of coal as the basic element in vital war manufactures. A diagrammatic drawing showing a great variety of by-products developed from coal. Date: 1944

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