Manufacture Collection (#13)

The Royal Mint - The Chancellor Balance
The Royal Mint, Tower Hill, London - The Chancellor Balance. Date: circa 1908

The Royal Mint - Gold Melting House. Date: circa 1908

The Royal Mint - Exterior
The Royal Mint, Tower Hill, London - Exterior. Date: circa 1908

The Royal Mint - Silver Melting House. Date: circa 1908

The Royal Mint - Gold Rolling (fine) Date: circa 1908

The Royal Mint - Gold Rolling. Date: circa 1908

The Royal Mint - Annealing Furnaces. Date: circa 1908

The Royal Mint - Weighing Room Date: circa 1908

Street mobile French Grape Press at Gien, Loiret, France
Street mobile French Grape Press at Gien a commune in the Loiret department in north-central France. Date: 1910s

Crosfields soap works, Warrington 1886
Crosfields Soap Works, Warrington, Cheshire, England. Date: 1886

St Michaels Fireworks Factory, Lija, Malta -- close-up of a workman. Lija is well known for its firework displays, especially during the early August festival period. Date: 1966

Ring Spinning. Manufacturing process of cotton yarn. 19th ce
Textile Industry. 19th century. Ring Spinning. Manufacturing process of cotton yarn. Women working in the roving. Colored engraving

Carreras Cigarette Factory - Arcadia Works, Camden, London
Exterior of the fine art deco styling of the Carreras Cigarette Factory - Arcadia Works, Camden, London. Illustration taken from an advertisement for Craven " A" cigarettes

Old meat works, illustration by William Heath Robinson
Curious plant in an old meat works, for converting old mutton into spring lamb to meet the seasons demands, illustration by William Heath Robinson. Credit must appear as: Courtesy of Mrs J. C

Pre-Columbian America. Zapotec culture
RIVERA, Diego (1886-1957). Zapotec Civilization. 1947. Mural Pre-Hispanic Mexico and Colony in the corridor of the north wall. Detail

V Marich & Co, Tobacconists, Valletta, Malta
Business card for V Marich & Co, Tobacconists, By Royal Appointment, 44 Palace Square, Valletta, Malta, established 1838. Date: 19th century

Women working in munitions factory, WW1
Women working in a munitions factory during the First World War. 1915

Employees - Ford Motor Company, Detroit, Michigan, USA
The 25, 000 Employees of the Ford Motor Company, Detroit, Michigan, USA pose for a group photograph in front of the factory buildings

John Cadbury and his family
John Cadbury (1801-1889), founder of the Cadbury business, seen here with his family. Standing at the back are sons John and Richard

Advert for Chilprufe wool underwear for children 1941
The children must have Chilprufe. Our difficulty is to make the small ration of wool we are allowed go round. We have, therefore decided as a wartime policy to suspend production of womens

Foundry workers, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
The moulders at Robert Warners Foundry, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, in a group photo outside the moulding shop. The large gear wheels were used in the manufacture of water pumps for which the foundry

A lathe operator at work
A metalworker checks the settings on a large industrial lathe. A lathe is a machine tool which spins a block of material to perform various operations such as cutting, sanding, knurling, drilling

Grand Junction Railway
The Grand Junction Railway locomotive manufactory at Crewe : the heavy machine shop (second view) containing large machining tools to take the rough castings of train parts

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