Factory Collection (#60)

Lawson Aircraft Co. Part of Airplane. Factory space with wooden airplane structure under construction

Welding equipment
Atlantic Blaugas Co. Painting of three tanks in a cabinet, with meters and tubes; center tank has Atlantic Blaugas Co. logo with a main office address in Manhattan, and a factory a

Vacuum Factory
American Vacuum Cleaning Co. Newark, New Jersey, America. Vacuum cleaner factory with workers and supervisors visible

Shaping the end of a Christmas cracker, 1905
A female worker at the famous Tom Smith Christmas cracker factory, shapes the end of a cracker over a brass cylinder by tightly drawing string round the loose end

Filling Santa Claus stockings at the Tom Smith factory
Female workers sit at tables filling net stockings with trinkets and toys at the Tom Smith Christmas cracker factory. Machines would cut out and sew the stockings and with this help

French Cream room at a sweet factory, London
Women handle large wooden trays in the French Cream room at the sweet manufacturers Clarke, Nickolls and Coombs, at Hackney Wick, London. The firm made Clarincos chocolates

Matchmakers filling frames with wax strands
Women working at a matchmaking factory fill frames with wax strands

Hand-operated loom for Axminster carpets, Glasgow
A team of five men operate the large hand loom for Axminster carpets at the factory of Messrs Templeton, Glasgow, Scotland

Liquorice room at a sweet factory, London
Women at work in the Liquorice room at the sweet manufacturers Clarke, Nickolls and Coombs, at Hackney Wick, London. The firm also made Clarincos chocolates

Industrial lacemaking machine, Nottingham
An industrial lacemaking machine at Messrs Pratt, Hurst & Co Ltd, Nottingham, with two men at work

Female wool weaving operators, Yorkshire
Female wool weaving operators tend their machines at a Yorkshire factory

Ole. Tonnesen, blacksmith and wagon shop, Iowa

Edison Plant, West Orange, New Jersey

Explosion at Faversham
The remains of a gun cotton or gun powder mill at Favershams Marsh Works, Kent, which was destroyed in a violent explosion in 1847. The blast was so strong that it was heard 17 miles away

Coal carbonisation, Mining
A coal carbonisation plant, Derbyshire with smoke emitting factory chimneys and a long line of railway goods wagons full of coal

The perfume industry in Bulgaria
Distillation of roses in a factory in Kazanik, Bulgaria, followed by the maceration of the petals in olive oil

Women sewing in a factory
Women sit at work at a long bank of sewing machines in what appears to be a clothing factory or workshop

Richard Oastler, factory reformer
Richard Oastler (1789-1861) was a labour reformer and abolitionist, born in Leeds, Yorkshire. He fought for the rights of working children in the Factory Act of 1847

Butterick Building, New York where Butterick Patterns are folded

The War Workers
Whats all this cackle about votes and a new register? " Don t know-or care. We re all too busy just now."

Filling Oil Cans - Hackney Wick
A female employee fills BP Oil Cans at a plant in Hackney Wick, London

Air and Petrol test - Hackey Wick
Female employees at the BP works at Hackney Wick, London perform an air and petrol test

Sealing Cans - Hackney Wick

Salvation Army knitting factory
Girls at work in a Salvation Army knitting factory. They are all wearing regulation long white aprons

Salvation Army elevator dormitory
A dormitory in a Salvation Army Elevator. Elevators, which aimed to help the unskilled or unemployed, combined a factory space together with hostel accommodation for those working there

Island of Thassos, Greece - Olive Oil Factory
The Khedives (Governor s) Olive Oil Factory in Osmanie on the Island of Thassos - now in Greece, at this stage still under the control of the Ottoman Empire

Bringing Fresh milk to the Cadburys Factory
Canal narrow boats/barges bringing fresh milk for Cadburys Milk Chocolate through the canal system running close by the Cadburys Factory at Bournville, Birmingham

Dublin Easter Rising - May, 1916
Dublin Easter Rising - view behind the barricade - British troops under fire on Talbot Street, holding a barricade against a rebel charge - May 1916

Pula - Tobacco Factory
Pula (Pola) - the largest city in Istria County, Croatia - the Tobacco Factory

Azerbaijan - Baku - scenes of the oil fields (with gushing well), factories/refineries and the waterfront (with tram)

Sorting Wool - Australia
Sheep Farming in Australia - sorting the wool in a warehouse in Sydney

Diamond Rubber Company - Tyre Department
Main Division of the Automobile Tire Building Department of the Diamond Rubber Company. 540 men are shown in this group

German hospital
German hygiene measures at a field hospital in a factory during World War I on the Western Front

German wartime employment WWI
German women employed in a German munitions factory during World War I

Moravany - Czech Republic

Smichov - Czech Republic. The Ringhoffer factory (visible in the top right-hand corner of this card), founded in 1852 by railway magnate Baron Franz Ringhoffer (1817-1873)

Engineers - Brno, Czech Republic
Employees of an automotive engineering works - Brno, Czech Republic

Machine for testing wagon springs
The Worlds First Railway Laboratory was set up at Crewe in 1864. One hundred years later, the Duke of Edinburgh opened new engineering research laboratories at Derby

Daily Mirror Advertising space advertisement - Hatter
An advertisement from the Daily Mirror looking for companies to advertise in the newspaper, using the argument that more skilled workers than ever are readers of the paper. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Binding Machines in Operation
Binding machines in operation at the Lund Humphries Printing Works. Automatic Feeders in the Binder supply sections to the endless chain of a wire-stitching machine. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Rolling Woollen thread - Patons & Baldwins
A male factory worker operates wool rolling machine at Patons & Baldwins Factory at Darlington. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Reels of woollen thread - Patons & Baldwins
A complex multi-level machine for rolling yarn onto circular spools, after the wool has been industrially spun at Patons & Baldwins factory in Darlington

Wool processing - Patons & Baldwins
Wool Processing at Patons & Baldwins Factory, Darlington. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Winding thread - Patons & Baldwins
Machines for Winding thread at Patons & Baldwins Factory in Darlington; one of the UKs leading manufacturers of knitting yarn. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Yarn rolling machine
A lady working at a complex multi-level machine for rolling yarn onto circular spools, after the wool has been industrially spun, at Patons & Baldwins factory in Darlington

Muller Automatic Cone-winding machine
A factory worker operates a Muller automatic cone-winding machine, (used for clearing and winding single-spun yarns) at Patons & Baldwins factory in Darlington

Wool spinning - Patons & Baldwins
A view looking down a machine rolling yarn onto circular spools, after the wool has been industrially spun at Patons & Baldwins factory in Darlington

Wool Winding Machine - Patons & Baldwins
A woman worker in dark blue overalls operating and checking a huge wool-winding machine at Patons & Baldwins factory at Darlington

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