Munitions Collection (page 7)

Making a shell, 1939
A munitions worker performing of the many operations that go to the making of a shell. The projectiles he is working on are still noseless - without the pointed cap which will be fitted later

The Supply Council, Second World War, 1939
The first meeting of the Supply Council, set up on 21 September 1939. When the ministry was set up under the Ministry of Supply Act 1939 it became responsible for the administration of the Royal

Finished shells in a munitions factory, 1939
Men arranging finished shells in a great stack ready for dispatch to the ammunition convoys. These shells are designed for use by the 3.7 inch guns. Date: 1939

Resounding message of Allied female solidarity
" Vanities of Valdes: The Munitioneers" This resounding message of Allied female solidarity shows " Mary" of Britain and " Marianne" of France, who

Woman working in a Munitions Factory - WWII. Women took the place of 100, 000 men working in heavy industry during the war, many in highly skilled engineering roles. Date: circa 1944

Cartoon on Laziness
" Whats that! You ve got the sack at the Munition Works! - What for?" " I Dunno - I never done nothing!" Date: circa 1915

American troops at St Mihiel, France, WW1
First US Army troops with a munitions convoy at St Mihiel, north eastern France, during the First World War. Date: circa 1918

Italian Munitions Factory - Naples
Finishing Shop for an Italian Munitions Factory - Naples, Italy. Date: circa 1915

American soldiers at Citroen Munitions, France, WW1
American soldiers lunching at Citroen Munitions in France during the First World War. Date: August 1918

War damage, Haidar Pacha, Constantinople, WW1
Factories and a munitions train burnt out at Haidar Pacha, the western terminus of the Anatolian Railway, Constantinople, Turkey, during the First World War. Date: 1917

Workers Reply to General Sir Douglas Haig, WW1
Workers Reply to General Sir Douglas Haig -- the wording of a Resolution passed at the Trade Union Conference at Caxton Hall on 18 July 1916

George V visiting munitions factory in Hull
King George V in army uniform, visiting a munitions factory in Hull during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Charles Humbert with munitions for Verdun, France
Charles Humbert (1866-1927), French army captain, tax collector, senator and newspaper proprietor. Seen here with piles of munitions destined for Verdun, France, during the First World War

Lord Kitchener in France during shell crisis, WW1
Lord Herbert Kitchener (1850-1916) and others leaving a conference in France during the shell shortage crisis, First World War. Date: circa 1915

Albert Thomas, French Minister for Munitions
Albert Thomas (1878-1932), French socialist politician, Under Secretary for War, and Minister for Munitions during the First World War. Date: circa 1915

YMCA Fund to commemorate Womens War Work
Postcard detailing the YMCA Fund to commemorate Womens War Work in Munitions factories during World War One and to raise money for rest rooms and factory canteens Date: circa 1917

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."

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

Munitions Factory WWII
An enormous Naval gun being lowered into a heated tube for tempering at a munitions factory during World War II

War Effort WWII
A bomb making factory showing the production of bombs in the machine room during World War II

Royal visit to ammunition factory
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth visit an ammunition factory in Birmingham doing their bit for the war effort during World War II

Gun inspection 1915
6th Siege Battery, 6 inch BL 30 cwt howitzer gun being examined by Inspector of Munitions, Major Browne, after No. 3 gun had burst on the Western Front in France during World War I on 17th March 1915

Refugees making Munitions Cases, Earls Court, London
First World War refugees making munitions cases at the camp set up by the Metropolitan Asylums Board at Earls Court, West London

Women war workers, USA
Women working on armaments in America

Shell Factory, World War I
An English Shell Factory during World War I

Munitions
A maid informs the mistress of the house that she is off to work in the munitions factory during World War One. The lady of the house retorts that she hopes she doesn t drop things there as

World War I bomb factory
Women workers welding and making bombs in a bomb factory during World War I

War workers in the Womens Procession in London
A photograph showing a procession by the Womens Social and Political Union. The group that can be seen wearing face masks are a party of female munition workers

George V visiting a munitions factory
King George V (1865-1936) visiting a munitions factory during World War One

Crimea War Supplies
Commisariat difficulties : scene on the road from Balaklava to Sebastopol - supplies of food and munitions hampered by wet weather

Now that Women are doing Mens Jobs
Festive illustration by George Ernest Studdy (1878-1948) showing a woman dressed up as Father Christmas. The illustration is a festive metaphor for the increase in women taking over mens roles during

Canadian Gunner with German Munitions, France; Second World
Photograph showing a Canadian gunner inspecting some captured German 14-inch shells, Boulogne, 1944. The shells shown in the picture would have been used to fire at Dover

Procession of cheering women war-workers
Female workers from a munitions factory are shown taking part in a procession celebrating the role of women during the First World War. They are seen waving polished shell-cases

Germans & Turks at a new munitions factory
Turkish and German soldiers at the entrance of a Krupps munitions factory near Constantinople. Turkey entered the war as an ally of Germany in October 1914

The Lost Cunarder
Photograph of the Lusitania, a floating palace, torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat on May 7th 1915 with the loss of 1200 lives

Wolseley Motors now a shell factory
The chassis test-shop of Wolseley Motors Ltd. At Adderley Park near Birmingham transformed into a shell factory. As World War I progressed

Scottish girls making shells
Female munitions workers in Scotland depicted in an illustration by A. C. Michael. As it became clear there would be no decisive swift victory for either side in World War I

Women at work in a munitions factory
Women working at a munitions factory during the First World War. During the war women workers were employed extensively throughout British industry and agriculture

Arsenal Delegate
Citizen Assi, Delegue aux Munitions de la Guerre, whose job it is to keep the fighting men supplied with ammunition

Woman / Munitions
A woman working in an ammunitions factory

Woman / Factory
A woman working in a munitions factory

Working out of Doors
Munitions worker in outdoor factory

Vickers Tank Factory
Interior of Vickers-Armstrong tank factory

Wwi / Flanders Explosion
Seen from 2000m up, the explosion caused when German artillery hits a munitions dump in Flanders

Munitions Concealed / 1936
Ethiopians conceal men and munitions under a Red Cross flag

Lloyd George & Workers
DAVID LLOYD GEORGE accompanied by Flora Drummond and Phyllis Ayrton, greets women munitions workers towards the end of World War One

Crowd of Ww1 Workers
A large crowd of World War One women munitions workers gather in Manchester; several wave Union Jack flags

Ww1 Workers / Lloyd George
In Manchester, Flora Drummond and Phyllis Ayrton greet Prime Minister David Lloyd George and introduce him to a group of enthusiastic women munitions workers

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