Machine Collection

Nylon yarn enough to make ten thousand pairs of stocking is being used to make tow ropes for British tugs. Our picture shows Margaret Carr from Portabelle in Edinburgh

A "cut-away"feather weight sewing machine shows all the inner working
A " cut-away" feather weight sewing machine shows all the inner working (Seen on the Singer Sewing Machines stand). A machine of this model was one of the prizes in the E.C

Lace curtains seen here being manufactured at an unknown Nottingham factory. 14th March 1966

Beaming Deartment at Regent Cotton Mill owned by the Lancashire Cotton Corporation Limited, in Failsworth, Manchester, Circa 1935. The mill opened in 1906, closing 1958

Boot factory of Messrs, Manfield and Sons, Ltd. Northampton. Making room. No. of hands - 147. Pulling over uppers. April 1930

Kayser Bondor, Pentrebach & Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, Wednesday 6th May 1964. Kayser Bondor at Pentrebach specialises in manufacturing underwear. Our picture shows

Model Andrea Kovic working out at the Covent Garden Fitness Centre. 8th January 1987

The Mayor of Neath starting the paper shredding machine at Neath Book and Salvage Drive and Exhibition. A notice near the machine gives the invitation

Local factory, Meridian, on South Bank Road is beating the recession producing and selling underwear to major retailers. Pictured, a general view of machinists. 11th August 1993

Burtons menswear factory in Guisborough. October 1983

Burtons menswear factory in Guisborough. October 1983

Female workers putting lids on tins of Mansion Polish at Cherry Blossom Boot Polish and Mansion Polish Works, Chiswick, 12 November 1931

Female worker breaking jute in Dundee Jute Mill, Dundee, Scotland. 16 October 1931

Every washing machine made by Hoover at their Pentrebach, Merthyr, factory are given a running test before they leave the production line

Bowater Paper Mills Ltd. Wet end of paper machine, showing new material passing over machine wire. November 1935

Machinist at the BSA Factory, Small Heath, Birmingham seen here manufacturing front forks for BSA motorcycles. Circa 1965

A premature baby in one of the machines that can save new born babies. Each year in Britain about 2000 babies die at birth - because they cannot breathe

Mrs Olive Pearson operating a machine in the "enrobement"
Mrs Olive Pearson operating a machine in the " enrobement" department at Hull sweet-makers, Needlers Ltd. Her job is to make sure the centres are properly coated with chocolate before going

Staff member working at Dewhirst Factory, Dormanstown. 14th February 1978

Charitable Middlesbrough businessmen have presented maternity doctors with a magic box which can listen to babies hearts before they are born

The north Riding Ear, Nose and Throat support group raised £; 1268 to buy an IVAC machine for North Riding Infirmary. The cash was raised by a Lyke Wake walk, a fete and other sponsored events

Patients battling against failing eyesight have been given a boost by the introduction of disease-detecting equipment a year ahead of schedule

Santa Claus, makes time for Laundry, ahead of Christmas, 10th December 1977

Yoga fanatic Georgina Boyle tries out a new machine enabling people to measure their own output of alpha brain waves. Using these devices should allow a fuller, healthier sex life. 10th December 1971

Yoga fanatic Georgina Boyle tries out a new machine enabling people to measure their own output of alpha brain waves. Using these devices should allow a fuller, healthier sex life. 10th December 1971

Postmaster General John Stonehouse, on the eve of the introduction of his two tier postal system, the MP for West Bromwich, unsuccessfully attempts to by a stamp from the machine at Westbury

Local factory, Meridian, on South Bank Road is beating the recession producing and selling underwear to major retailers. Pictured, fabric cutting. 11th August 1993

Female workers packing tins of Cherry Blossom boot polish at Cherry Blossom Boot Polish and Mansion Polish Works, Chiswick, London, 12 November 1931

Female workers filling tins with Mansion Polish at Cherry Blossom Boot Polish and Mansion Polish Works, Chiswick, 12 November 1931

Space Invader machines in a pub. 1980

Components being manufactured for assemble at the Phillips Cycle factory in Birmingham 10th March 1953

Yarn being spun at the The Shawl Factory of GH Hurt and Son in Nottingham 31st March 1954

Clocking on at the Daily Herald newspaper offices. 18th December 1959

Women on the night shift at the J Lyons factory in Greenford, producing tea bags. 13th February 1969

Drawing pin manufacture at Fisco Co Limited in Aberdare, Wales. Drawing pins are removed from the polisher.10th November 1949

Home Office steel A. R. P. Shelters tested at Shotton. Scenes in the works of Messrs. J
Home Office steel A.R.P. Shelters tested at Shotton. Scenes in the works of Messrs. J. Summers and Sons, Ltd. where thousands of the shelters are being made

Braille printing by a blind girl. October 1920

Overwhelming evidence that sculling, if properly done, is a suitable sport for women has been obtained by The Daily Mirror

Paper industry. View of machine house from wet end. 25th July 1922

Missing inventor mystery. The "Perpetual Motion"
Missing inventor mystery. The " Perpetual Motion" machine (unfinished) invented by Mr T M Harris, who disappeared four years ago after assembling it at the motor works of Clement Talbot

New railway tickets with advertising insets. Pictured, this machine makes in an hour 50, 000 of the new tickets to be used by the L. M. S. in 1931

Flat cap being pressed on to a mould at the Denham and Hargreaves factory, Atherstone. Circa 1960

Denham and Hargreaves Hat Factory, Atherstone. Circa 1960. Circa 1960

A worker at the pencil manufacturers Chambers factory in Stapleford, seen here loading pencils in to a stamping machine which will place the companys name and logo on the finished product

Woman operating a hank to cone machine at the factory of J Henry Smith, Cooper Street, Nottingham. 9th May 1966

Mr David Ennals MP Under Secretary for the Army, seen here in the forge shop of Nottinghams Royal Ordnance during a tour of the factory. 10th August 1966

Bilston Pottery 1958 The team measuring and cutting clay for the manufacture of flower pots at the Bilston Pottery

The final process in the hallmarking of gold. Birminghams Assay Office in Newhall Street, and it is there that the standard of wrought plate made in the city is tested before sale. 1st October 1931

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