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Advertisement for Brake LiningsAn advertisement for Don and Capasco brake linings, Manchester, depicting siz cars on their invisible transporter, stressing the quality of their brakes
Surface Plate being developedA surface plate being developed in the Replika Department of the Lund Humphries Printing Works. Photograph by Heinz Zinram
Binding Machines in OperationBinding 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
Retoucher working on a colour separation positiveA Retoucher working on a colour separation positive at the Lund Humphries Printing Works. Photograph by Heinz Zinram
Operating a Vertical ProjectorThe Head of the offset-deep process Department at the Lund Humphries Printing works, operating a vertical projector. Photograph by Heinz Zinram
Operating the Velox Plate-Graining Machine at the Lund Humphries Printing Works. Photograph by Heinz Zinram
Lady in a stylish 60s Lounge
A small Letterpress Machine in operation at the Lund Humphries Printing Works. Photograph by Heinz Zinram
Lifting a proof off a large forme at the Lund Humphries Printing Works. Photograph by Heinz Zinram
Composing and Retouching at printing worksComposing and Retouching Studio at the Lund Humphries Printing works in Bradford. Photograph by Heinz Zinram
The Monotype Caster Room at a Printing WorksThe Monotype Caster Room at the Lund Humphries Printing Works. The Gentleman holding the clipboard is recording the results of a production time study. Photograph by Heinz Zinram Date: late 1950s
Large Offset-Litho printing machineThe large Offset-Litho two-colour printing machine (a Roland-Ultra) preparing to run at the Lund Humpries Printing Works. Photograph by Heinz Zinram
Minder of a two-colour Letterpress MachineThe Minder of a quad medium two-colour Letterpress Machine checks his sheet into the grippers at the Lund Humphries Printing Works. Photograph by Heinz Zinram
Hand Compositor receiving spacing materialsReserve supplies of spacing material are brought to the hand compositor so that his time is not wasted in journeys to the store at the Lund Humphries Printing Works. Photograph by Heinz Zinram
Compositor and ranks of Chinese TypesThe Head Compositor and ranks of Chinese Types at the Lund Humphries Printing Works. Photograph by Heinz Zinram
Lighting in John Lennons studyRemarkable tall and thin coloured lighting in John Lennons study. Photograph by Heinz Zinram
Rolling Woollen thread - Patons & BaldwinsA male factory worker operates wool rolling machine at Patons & Baldwins Factory at Darlington. Photograph by Heinz Zinram
Laying railway trackGangs of railway labourers work on the laying of a new section of track running beneath a bridge. The lamps held by the navvies cast spectral traces of light across the gloomy atmospheric scene
Reels of woollen thread - Patons & BaldwinsA complex multi-level machine for rolling yarn onto circular spools, after the wool has been industrially spun at Patons & Baldwins factory in Darlington
Ferry transporting railway wagonsA wonderful nightime photograph of the Suffolk Ferry departing Harwich with a load of railway wagons. Photograph by Heinz Zinram
Wool processing - Patons & BaldwinsWool Processing at Patons & Baldwins Factory, Darlington. Photograph by Heinz Zinram
Winding thread - Patons & BaldwinsMachines for Winding thread at Patons & Baldwins Factory in Darlington; one of the UKs leading manufacturers of knitting yarn. Photograph by Heinz Zinram
Computer operatorsA female operator checks the terminal of a large IBM computer. Photograph by Heinz Zinram
Birds-eye view of Oxford Street, LondonA birds-eye view looking down a busy Oxford Street, London, the heart of the retail centre of the capital. Photograph by Heinz Zinram
Yarn rolling machineA 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 machineA 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 & BaldwinsA 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 & BaldwinsA woman worker in dark blue overalls operating and checking a huge wool-winding machine at Patons & Baldwins factory at Darlington
Patons & Baldwins - wool processingA woman factory worker in blue uniform feeds light blue thread into a large piece of (possibly weaving?) machinery at Patons & Baldwins factory in Darlington
Checking blue woollen threadsA factory worker checks a machine rolling dark blue yarn onto circular spools, after the wool has been industrially spun at Patons & Baldwins factory in Darlington
Track laying - using a bulldozerA Caterpillar bulldozer being operated during track laying by the Wimpey construction company. Nightime engineering works. Photograph by Heinz Zinram
Tempering a long metal bar in an industrial furnace. The bar was heated prior to hammering and shaping to make railway rails. Photograph by Heinz Zinram
Balling up knitting yarnThe machine used to ball up knitting yarn ready for sale. Picture taken in the massive Darlington factory of Patons & Baldwins. Photograph by Heinz Zinram
Operating a wool-winding machineA woman operating and checking a huge wool winding machine at Patons & Baldwins factory at Darlington. Patons & Baldwins was one of the largest manufacturers of knitting yarn in the UK between
Laying railway tracks at nightA very atmospheric shot of a steam engine and cranes aiding the laying of a new set of railway tracks. Photograph by Heinz Zinram
Butt Welding railway railsA fantastic colour photograph showing the sparks flying up during the butt welding of railway rails. Photograph by Heinz Zinram
Folding raw wool into large binsFolding rools of semi-processed wool into large tubs ready for transport to the next stage of processing at Patons & Baldwins Factory at Darlington. Photograph by Heinz Zinram
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Filling Sandbags - WW2 Home Front (2 / 4)World War Two - British Home Front - London. Men and young boys fill sandbags in the street. The sandbags were piled against buildings
A Spooner Travelling ovenA immense Spooner Travelling Oven - with the dough for loaves of white bread entering the immense baking oven section of the machine
New Worker - Fisher & Ludlows, TiptonA photograph taken for an advertisement for the Daily Mirror of the type of New Worker the paper was trying to attract into its readership
Filling Sandbags - WW2 Home Front (4 / 4)World War Two - British Home Front - London. Young men, boys and women of all ages fill sandbags in the street. The sandbags were piled against buildings
Filling Sandbags - WW2 Home Front (1 / 4)World War Two - British Home Front - London. Men and young boys fill sandbags in the street. The sandbags were piled against buildings
Filling Sandbags - WW2 Home Front (3 / 4)World War Two - British Home Front - London. Men and young boys fill sandbags in the street. The sandbags were piled against buildings
A machine collects coloured yarn onto rollsAn employee checks a machine which is collecting different coloured wool yarns onto large rolls at Patons & Baldwins factory in Darlington
Adjusting a valve in a submarineA sailor adjusts a valve in the engine room of a British submarine. Photograph by Heinz Zinram Date: 1950s
Industrial Yarn SpinningA factory worker attends to an enormous yarn spinning machine at Patons & Baldwins factory in Darlington. Patons & Baldwins was a leading British manufacturer of knitting yarn