Manufacture Collection (page 6)

Swayne's apparatus for rearing silk worms, and a silk loom Date: 19th century

Pottery Making scenes Date: 1874

Rounding Pencils - Pencil Making at Keswick Date: 1854

Polishing Pencils - Pencil Making at Keswick Date: 1854

Paper making from rags Date: 1874

Machine for cutting the ends of pencils - Pencil Making at Keswick Date: 1854

Lettering Pencils - Pencil Making at Keswick Date: 1854

Gilding Pencils - Pencil Making at Keswick Date: 1854

Cutting and grooving pencils - Pencil Making at Keswick Date: 1854

The Cooperage
This etching shows a cooperage, the premises of a man, seen in the shadows, who specialises in the manufacture of wooden casks, barrels, buckets and other similar containers. Date: circa 1918

Egyptian Cigarette Factory, Ms Lehem & Co, Aden Date: 1920s

Jaguar factory, motor car assembly line, Coventry, West Midlands Date: 1950s

Advert cover, Wheeler & Wilson's Sewing Machines
Advert cover, Wheeler & Wilson's gold medal lock stitch Sewing Machines, Queen Victoria Street, London, and Bold Street, Liverpool

Advert, Wheeler & Wilson's No. 6 Sewing Machine
Advert, Wheeler & Wilson's new rotary-hook lock-stitch No. 6 Sewing Machine, price £9. Date: 1875

State Carriage, Garratt's Coach Manufactory, Cheltenham. Date: 1826

Advert, Cadbury's Cocoa Essence, Bournville Factory and Manufacture. Date: 1880

Advert, Burroughes & Watts Billiard Table Manufacturers
Advert, Burroughes & Watts Ltd, Billiard Table Manufacturers, Soho Square, London. Date: 1902

Advert, Bryant & May's Patent Safety Matches. Date: 1868

Apsley Pellatt Glass Manufacture, London. Date: 1852

Apsley Pellatt Cut Glass Chandelier Manufacture, London. Date: 1852

Rubber Tree to Finished Motor Tyres 1907
Showing the plantation where the rubber is produced for the Dunlop Tyres factory where it is pressed, stretched and moulded into shape ready to be used on motorcars. Date: 1907

Compagnie Dunlop - Manufacturing Dunlop Tyres 1896
In the 1890s, when Dunlop tyre was first introduced the bicycle was popular in France that they were unable to keep up with extraordinary demand for pneumatic tyres

Porcelain factory, Doubi, Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia
A young woman, Wanda Janakova, working in a porcelain factory in Doubi, Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia. This factory specialised in coffee and tea sets, many of which are exported to western Europe

Manufacture of Ostrich Feathers - Women Curlers 1907
The last treatment was having its locks curled. Using a blunt knife the women workers curl the plumes some reaching the length of about ten feet

Manufacture of Ostrich Feathers - Joining feathers 1907
Edwardian women sitting along a table, using a sharp knife they cut and trim the quill thin and flat, so the colourful feathers can be glued together. Date: 1907

Manufacture of Ostrich Feathers - Changing Hue 1907
The feathers were taken out of bleaching and dyed to show their new appearance. The white ones are bewildering in their snowy whiteness and the coloured have quite forgotten their former dinginess

Manufacture of Ostrich Feathers - Plumping 1907
After the ostrich feathers complete there journey from Cape Town, South Africa, bales of cruelly plucked feathers arrive by boat to London, the Worlds feather market

Manufacture of Ostrich Feathers - Washing 1907
After the ostrich feathers complete there journey from Cape Town, South Africa, bales of cruelly plucked feathers arrive by boat to London, the Worlds feather market

Lord Beaverbrook's appeal for aluminium 1940
Lord Beaverbrook the Minister for Aircraft Production appealed for objects wholly or partly made of aluminium for the manufacture of aeroplanes

Lord Beaverbrook the Minister for Aircraft Production appealed for objects wholly or partly made of aluminium for the manufacture of aeroplanes

Jo Richardson, Labour politician, with group at Dagenham
Josephine (Jo) Richardson (second from left) (1923-1994), Labour politician, MP for Barking and feminist, with a group of workers at Dagenham, in her own constituency. Date: 1979

The slitting room for steel pens, at Messrs Hinks, Wells and Co. in Birmingham. Date: 1851

Rolling the steel for pens, at Messrs Hinks, Wells and Co. in Birmingham. Date: 1851

Bronzing steel pens, at Messrs Hinks, Wells and Co. in Birmingham. Date: 1851

Thomas Samuel & Sons British needle Mills in Redditch, Worcestershire. Men making spring steel needles and fish hooks. Date: 1862

Pears Soap Works 1882
Exterior of Pears Soap Works at at Lanadron, Isleworth. Date: 1882

Manufacture of Steel Pens, Birmingham 1874
Royal visit by Prince and Princess of Wales (later King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) to Mr. Joseph Gillott, steel pens manufacture in West Midlands, Birmingham. Date: 1874

Elkington & Co. Manufacture, Royal Visit 1874
Royal visit by Prince and Princess of Wales (later King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) to Elkington factory in Birmingham, where electro and silver plating where made. Date: 1874

Royal visit by Prince and Princess of Wales (later King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) to Elkington factory in Birmingham, where electro and silver plating where made. Date: 1874

Crosfield's soap works, Warrington 1886
Various scenes of the packing and distribution of Crosfield's Soap, Bank, Quarry, Warrington, Cheshire. Date: 1886

Various stages of manufacture. Date: 1878

Milliners at work. Date: 1915

Artillery manufacture at Woolwich Arsenal (the Royal Gun Company). Date: 1901

Appointment of H. M. King George V, biscuits and cakes manufacture by Huntley & Palmers, Reading England. Date: 1914
Appointment of H.M. King George V, biscuits and cakes manufacture by Huntley & Palmers, Reading England. Date: 1914

Manufacture of Opium in India
Raising revenue of opium saw large profits in the drug to China. Photograph showing an intermediate stage in the process of preparation

The Royal Mint, Tower Hill, London Date: circa 1900

Wing under construction for Empire Flying Boat Aircraft
Short Brothers Factory, wing under construction for an Empire Flying Boat Aircraft Date: 1930s

WW1 poster, A Call to Action! to all employees
WW1 poster, A Call to Action! from Woodrow Wilson to all industrial employees working on government contracts, issued by the Navy Department. Date: circa 1917

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