Factory Collection (#10)

Cuff are sewn and trimmed automatically, at Dewhirst Shirt Factory, Dormanstown. 14th February 1978

A pocket-sewing machine in action was a highlight of the industry tent at the British Week held in Middlesbrough. Here Janet Stubbings, of Dormanstown

A staff member uses a 20 foot long band kinfe to cut accurately round a pattern at the Dewhirst factory. 14th February 1978

Arthur Woodfield maintenance painter at Round Oak Steelworks, Brierley Hill, West Midlands, is giving up his big paint brush to take up a smaller model

Diane Davies, supervisor in the duplicating room at the Round Oak Steelworks, Brierley Hill, West Midlands, 7th August 1974

Round Oak Steelworks, Brierley Hill, West Midlands, 17th November 1982

The Scotswood works of Messers Sir W. G Armstrong, Whitworth and Co (Engineers) Ltd
The Scotswood works of Messers Sir W.G Armstrong, Whitworth and Co (Engineers) Ltd. The picture shows the 12 o clock buzzer, a signal for a rush of workers for dinner

Women packing biscuits at Huntley & Palmers, Reading. 18th November 1935

The enormous scale of the blast and pressure effect from the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki can be seen in the remains of the Mitsubishi steel works factory

The enormous scale of the blast effect from the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki can be seen in the remains of this factory, which was half a mile from the detonation point

Turkey farm and meat packing factory of John Lintern. General scene in and around the factory during the build up to the Christmas rush. 1960 A726-017

Vivyan Barton of Harborne, prepares samples of tea from plantations throughout India and Ceylon for tea taster Mr Pedvin at the Ty-phoo Tea factory Bordesley Street, Digbeth, Birmingham

A production line worker at the Ty-phoo Tea factory, Bordesley Street, Digbeth, Birmingham takes a tea break and catches up with the latest show business gossip in the newspaper. 4th February 1960

Brenda Boyle of Corbett Road, Hollywood seen here weighing out tea for sampling at theTy-phoo Tea factory Bordesley Street, Digbeth, Birmingham. 4th February 1960

Assistants in the tea tasting department at the Ty-phoo Tea factory Bordesley Street, Digbeth, Birmingham prepare samples for testing. 4th February 1960

Boxes of Ty-Phoo tea packed and ready to go travel along the conveyor belt to the dispatch area at Ty-phoo Tea factory Bordesley Street, Digbeth, Birmingham. 4th February 1960

One of the production team at Ty-phoo Tea factory, Bordesley Street, Digbeth, Birmingham takes a well earned tea break from the production line. 4th February 1960

Some of the hundreds of chest of tea from all of the world being unloaded at the Ty-phoo Tea factory Bordesley Street, Digbeth, Birmingham. 4th February 1960

A young female employee checks that the machine has correctly filled and sealed the loose leaf tea before dispatch at the Ty-phoo Tea factory Bordesley Street, Digbeth, Birmingham. 4th February 1960

Production of Riley saloons in the late 1940s. Skilled tradesmen are seen fettling and finishing the bodies on the production line prior to mounting onto the chassis at the Durbar Avenue factory

Quality control on the Easter Egg production line at Cadburys Chocolate Bournville factory. 22nd January 1970

Packing on the Easter Egg production line at Cadburys Chocolate Bournville factory. 22nd January 1970

Dunlop Semtex factory, Brynmawr. 17th May 1967

The Dunlop Semtex factory, Brynmawr. 16th November 1987

Interior of the Dunlop Semtex factory, Brynmawr. 22nd July 1987

Ebbw Vale, Wales. Welsh steelworker makes his way home from the British Steelworks of Ebbw Vale, 11th March 1971. Face of Britain 1971 Feature

Ebbw Vale, Wales. Horses graze on the hillside with the British Steelworks of Ebbw Vale in the background, Blaenau Gwent, 11th March 1971. Face of Britain 1971 Feature

Generators being assembled at Bristol Siddeley, Ansty engineering works, now part of Rolls Royce, Ansty, Coventry, 6th March 1967

Rolls Royce, Ansty engineering works. Coventry. March 1987. The plant has reached a milestone in the development of a new generation of new, more powerful, marine engines

English Electric activities on Merseyside. A section of the assembly bay for transformers of the largest types for service all over the world. Circa 1950

A section of the Transformer coil winding shop at the English Electric Company, Liverpool works. Circa 1950

Women working on a cigarette production line. Cigarettes being manufactured at the rate of 60, 000 per hour. 4th January 1950

Women working at Brough s, helping to meet the enormous demand for steel drums and containers of all kinds. 10th January 1946

Baird Menswear, Guisborough. Mike Baker, sales director, at his desk. 13th December 1994

An £800, 000 extension at the Dannimac raincoats
An £ 800, 000 extension at the Dannimac raincoats factory has been opened in Middlesbrough - with the workers earning more

New fashion line at the Dannimac factory at Middlesbrough. 15th September 1978

The Dannimac factory on Southbank Road, Middlesbrough. 29th October 1996

School leavers on the production line at Dannimac, Middlesbrough, where a further 30 new starters are being recruited at present at the rate of half-a-dozen a week

Dannimac employees Miss Karen Hill, left, and Miss Susan Hall model some of the clothes which are helping their firm buck the trends of the recession. 11th December 1980

Council engineers have set a weekend deadline for a demolition firm to pull down an old factory which neighbouring parents claim is being used as a potentially lethal playground by children

The print room at King and Hutchings Uxbridge. Circa 1929

Some of the 2000 dolls that are produced each day in the dressng room. 25th July 1938

The Dorman Long factory in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire. 14th January 1953

Industry: General scene in and around a copper works foundry floor in Yorkshire. 1959 A644-002

Workmen adding the finishing touches to the new trim and assembly hall at Longbridge for British Leylands new Mini Metro. 4th May 1979

J. J. Cash Ltd at Kingfield Road, Coventry, West Midlands. 12th January 1981

Derelect areas around Bowesfield Lane, Stockton, 30th November 1981

Seal Sands, Middlesbrough, 7th February 1993. Industrial Park viewed from near the Cowpen Marsh Nature Reserve

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