Machinery Collection (page 2)

The Daily Mirror printing presses at Stamford Street. April 1954 P044528

Three-years-old Dawn Millican was among the many visitors who visited the Northern Optical Congress at Harrogate, Yorks, this week

Munition girls at work at a Welsh shell factory working for the Ministry of Supply during the Second World War. Circa 1941

Girls was work on the machines at a Royal Ordnance Factory Engineering factory in Cardiff, Wales during the Second world War. June 1941

Trainees at a Royal Engineers Transportation training centre repair locomotive wheels in one of the workshops during the Second world War. 24th August 1943

A Royal Air Force officer etched women workers at a factory near Reading, Berkshire during the Second world War. 10th April 1942

Picture taken at a Government Training School in Birmingham where women of all ages have set out to learn the skills needed to work in munitions factories

Birmingham factory worker Beatrice Payne, at work making and testing parachute hooks, buckles and D-rings for airmen of the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. 5th May 1942

Birmingham factory worker Mts Kate Budd at work during the Second World War. 5th April 1943

Birmingham factory worker Mrs Savage of 1 Hamhurst Avenue, Handsworth Wood, at work at a munitions factory during the Second World War. 5th May 1942

Emily Davies (nearest camera) who was blinded following an air raid in the blitz, pictured at work with three other blind women testing aircraft parts at a factory in the West Midlands during

Mrs Jeanings supervising part timer Mrs Williams at her machine in a Birmingham munitions factory during the Second World War. 28th May 1942

Sunday work in progress at a munitions factory in Birmingham during the Second World War. Woman at work in the Fuse inspection department of a Birmingham Arms Factory. 26th May 1940

Birmingham factory worker Mabel Evitts, aged 28, of 63 Princes Road, Warley, at work soldering torpedoes at a West Midlands factory during the Second World War. 5th May 1942

Factory worker Mrs C Kyle at work in a Birmingham munitions factory during the Second World War. 29th January 1941

Mrs Knight gets down to some tank parts under the eye of forewoman Mrs Jeanings at a Birmingham munitions factory during the Second World War. 28th May 1942

Seventy two year old factory worker Mrs Slim of 283 Queens road, Londonderry, Smethwick, who works five hours every morning in a Birmingham factory on drilling and milling machines

Factory worker Miss D Odell at work in a Birmingham munitions factory during the Second World War. 29th January 1941

The canal arms which were filled in when Easy Row wharf, Birmingham was converted into a car park seen here being excavated to build a 1, 500 person air raid shelter. 11th September 1939

Western Command Facility Visit. One of the jobs which comes the way of the handy men of the army, the new R.E.M.E unit - repairing a bacon slicing machine. September 1942

Five sisters form a fire fighting team on a trailer pump and are seen here at practice. They are Rose, Ivy, May Margaret and Betty Ellard of Erith, Kent. 14th September 1943

Mrs A. C. Driver aged 50 at work at her lathe at the Beaufoy Technical Institute in Lambeth, part of the LCC School, where she is working to pass out and work in a munitions factory. 24th July 1940

Chair making industry continues in Britain during World War Two. Mr H E Goodchild turning chair legs on his lathe. 8th December 1941

Textile production in Britain during World War Two. Miss Eileen Rhodes with Peke Chinnie. 21st August 1943

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

Worker feeding tobacco leaf in to a machine at the start of the cigarette manufacture in the Players cigarette factory, Nottingham. 20th April 1933

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

Workers feeding tobacco leaf in to machines at the start of the cigarette manufacture in the Players cigarette factory, Nottingham. 20th April 1933

Female workers in the packing department of the Players cigarette factory, Nottingham. 20th April 1933

Manufacturing components for vacuum cleaners at the Hoover factory. Perivale, Ealing, London. 3rd September 1935

Worker at the HMV Radio and Gramophone factory at Hayes in Middlesex. 27th March 1953

Assemble worker on the production line at the Hoover Factory in Perivale 20th March 1953

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

Diesel engines being assembled at the Perkins factory in Peterborough. 10th November 1949

Idle machinery of which until yesterday workers were turning out coronation material bearing the head cipher of King Edward VIII. 11th December 1936

Father and daughter out for a Sunday bike ride watches the farmers of Stansted gather in the harvest. 10th August 1964

Mechanical Handling Exhibition, Earls Court, London, Tuesday 5th May 1970. Our Picture Shows... left to right, Mandy Lee, Lynne Hamilton

Members of the public help to harvest a late season crow of potatoes, Teesside, November 1976

Mechanical Handling Exhibition, Earls Court, London, Tuesday 5th May 1970. Our Picture Shows... Valerie Pugh giving a lift to Jenny Mould on an electric tow tractor on the Lancing Bagnall stand at

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

The new coal stacker and reclaimer which is used at the Aberthaw A and Aberthaw B 1500 mega watt Power Stationwhich is wing built on the coast between Barry and Llantwit Major

One of the employees at the Aberthaw power station watched the used ash mixed with water, being pumped into the ash settling tank, at the station. 2nd July 1965

The bucket wheel reclaimer, the duel purpose machine in the coal storage area at Aberthaw Power Station, used for stocking out and reclaiming tipping coal. 29th May 1968

The shaft at Leys Power Station. 17th April 1958

The grab crane, rises out of the ash settling tank, drawing off the ash at the Aberthaw A Power Station, and will be used for the reclaiming of the land at the station. July 1965

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

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