Factory Collection (#50)

Cover design, German heavy industry
Cover design for Das Plakat, an illustrated survey of German poster art, depicting an example of heavy industry. Date: September 1915

Yunnan cotton workers
Some of the 600 young Chinese women employed in the Yunnan Cotton Spinning and Weaving Company, pictured during their hour long break in an eight hour working day

Buick and Western-Mott Motor Car Factories, USA
Noon-hour at the Buick and Western-Mott Factories, Industrial Avenue, Flint, Michigan, USA. Date: circa 1910

Bagley Avenue - The birthplace of the Ford Car, Greenfield Village, Dearborn, Michigan, USA.In this brick shed at the rear of 58 Bagley Avenue

Factory workers at the Ford Motor Plant, Detroit, Michigan, USA. Date: circa 1912

Ford Motor Company Assembly Line Date: circa 1920

Troops protecting Britains gunpowder factories 1914
The War crisis at home: precautionary measures at our military stores. Police protection at the gunpowder factories at Waltham Abbey and Woolwich London. 1914

Hampden bombers in aircraft factory, WWII
Hampden bombers well advanced on the production line in a British aircraft factory in November 1939. Date: 1939

Handley Page bombers in production, WWII
Big Handley Page bombers in various stages of construction. In the foreground may be seen rear wing sections being added to the main spar of the wing spread

Queen Elizabeth meets a bride-to-be, WWII
While touring a busy army clothing factory, Queen Elizabeth meets Miss Edith Nichols, a bride-to-be who talked to the Queen while wearing her wedding dress with orange blossom in her hair. Date: 1939

Winter greatcoats being made in army clothing factory, WWII
A great effort being made to get a big supply of greatcoats finished quickly so that no men may be caught by winters grip without them

King George VI visits a Royal Ordnance factory, WWII
King George VI being given a tour of inspection of a Royal Ordnance factory and seeing at first-hand the immense effort being put in to produce arms, in this case anti-aircraft and anti-tank guns

Print Users Yearbook -- factory by night
Print Users Yearbook -- a factory scene by night. Date: circa 1930s

Man in textile industry operating machine, Scotland
A man in the textile industry in Scotland, operating a machine with many rollers

Advert for The General Electric Company 1943
A battalion of kettles won t stop a tank. That is a job for gun, shells, mines and bombs. So that industry can concentrate its energies on the weapons and supplies of War

Workman in a factory operating machinery - lead works
Workman in a factory operating machinery. The factory produced lead shrapnel for the use in high explosive artillery shells during WW1. Date: circa 1915

Women workers in a factory - WW1 era
A group of manual workers, mostly women, inside a factory - WW1 era. Date: circa 1915

Two women in a factory operating machinery. A barrel of green paint is part of the process. The Factoru produced (among other things) lead shrapnel for use in explosive artillery shells (WW1)

WW1 - Group of manual workers in a factory - Shrapnel
WW1 - A large group of female manual workers in a factory producing lead shrapnel for use in high explosive artillery shells. Date: circa 1915

Factory with coiled wire - WW1
A factory with newly manufactured wire standing in coils on the floor. Possibly the basis for barbed wire detined for the Western Front - WW1 Date: circa 1915

Men and boys in a workshop, most of them looking towards the camera

Workman in a factory - lead works - ww1
A workman in a factory, having a break from his work. The factory produced lead shrapnel for us in artillery shells - WW1 era Date: circa 1915

WW1 - Manufacture of artillery shell shrapnel
A group of female manual workers in a factory, standing close to vats containing molten lead, using in the manufacturing of shrapnel for WW1 artillery shells. Date: circa 1915

Manufacturing equipment - Lead Shrapnel - WW1 Date: circa 1915

Man driving a tram engine
A man driving a tram engine to transport barrels

Women painting RAF symbols
British women working during the Second World War to paint identification marks on aircraft wings for the RAF. Date: 1941

Support Labour - Masonic Card
Masonic Patriotic card in support of Labour (USA). Date: circa 1910s

The woman behind the gun 1916
Ministering angels to the ministry of munitions. Making spiral scrolls with a vertical milling machine. Date: 1916

French woman in a munitions factory, making parts for arti
French lady as she sits at her bench, in a French factory, machining brass striker-pins for artillery shells. 1916

Potential army recruit looks at the proclamation
Two soldiers look on as a civilian reads the notice which shows how volunteers can enlist. These soldiers were known as Kitcheners Men and were often from the same factory or town

High explosive shells ready for the final process at Creusot
After having passed through all the series of foundry operations at Creusot, from the initial stage, when as a rough ingot of steel, the metal is received at the factory

High explosives being manufactured at Creusot Works, France
Photograph showing shells being manufactured at the Creusot Works, the Krupp, France. Date: 1915

Cement Works Chimney
Study of a cement works chimney. Date: 1960s

John Grubb Richardson
JOHN GRUBB RICHARDSON Irish linen manufacturer and philanthropist who loathed factory towns and pioneered the model village concept in their place. Date: circa 1845

Essex Cement Factory
Industrial England - the towers of a cement factory in Grays, Essex. Date: 1950s

Milk Industry 1950S
The British milk industry - a lorry from the factory collects milk churns from the farm on a daily basis. Date: 1950s

Measuring a Glass Vase
A man in a British glass factory, measuring the width of a freshly made glass vase. Date: 1933

Making a Glass Bottle
A young man in a British glass factory, finishing off a freshly blown glass bottle. Date: 1933

Drawing out a Glass Rod
Glass making in a factory : Two men drawing out a glass rod. Date: 1933

Glassmaking Furnace
A glass furnace in a British factory. Date: 1930s

Glassmaking - Moulding
Men moulding glass in a factory in Great Britain. Date: 1930s

Making Xmas Stockings
Two factory girls making a huge pile of Christmas stockings! Date: early 1930s

Lyons Easter Egg Girls
Girls from the Lyons factory show off an impressive display of Easter eggs, including a giant one! Date: early 1930s

THE STOKER
A stoker uses a long stick to stoke up the fire in a factory. Date: early 1930s

Royal Mint Machinery
Bars of gold being fed into the stamping machines at the Royal Mint. Date: 1930s

German Woman in Gas Mask
A young German woman wearing a gas mask and holding a hose, at the Air Protection Society. Date: 1933

Hammering Gold
Extracting gold in a factory in London, England. Date: early 1930s

Livingstone Factory
The factory at Blantyre, Scotland, where DAVID LIVINGSTONE toiled before becoming a missionary. Date: 1813 - 1873

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