Machinery Collection (page 6)

Dry cleaning is an important part of the Luxdon laundry in March 1984

Its Monday every day of the week at Luxdon industrial laundry.... washing on a massive scale and ironing made easy with the right equipment in March 1984

This is the largest washing machine in the country in June 1979.The monster with the 3, 999lb. an hour appetite for dirty clothes arrived recently at a Gateshead laundry

Girls at the Wycliffe Road laundry in Sunderland making sure everything gets that special service in March 1984

The Massey Ferguson tower block and factory gates in Banner Lane, Coventry. 12th January 1981

Women working on the Vauxhall Viscount production line at the Vauxhall motor factory in Luton, Bedfordshire. 9th February 1968

Women working on the Vauxhall Victor production line at the Vauxhall motor factory in Luton, Bedfordshire. 9th February 1968

General Post Office golden voice operator winner for 1954. 2nd March 1954

A giant Grain Unloader at Wallsend slipway in 1974

A dry dock at Tees Dock Yard in Middlesbrough in 1994

3 men by and on a Steamroller. November 1967 X10361

A factory worker tipping a huge cauldron of boiling jam, ready to be packed into jars at the Maidenhead Jam factoy during the Second World War. 28th October 1943

Women working on the Vauxhall Victor production line at the Vauxhall motor factory in Luton, Bedfordshire. 9th February 1968

A secretary talking on the telephone in the office. June 1952

A secretary standing beside the typewriter in her office. June 1952

General Post Office golden voice operator winner for 1954. 2nd March 1954

For 4000 years craftsmen have beaten gold by hand, by the wielding of hammers. A gold beating machine is now used, but is only capable of doing the preliminary hammering of gold in the early stages

A new £35, 000 foundry was officially opened at the Bredbury, Cheshire
A new £ 35, 000 foundry was officially opened at the Bredbury, Cheshire, works of William Crosland Ltd. printing machinery engineers. It will give the firm a 50% increase in production. Mr

Womens Land Army. 20 year old Lewis Betty and Peggy Clarke of Gateshead Land Army cutting logs in Manchester timber farm. June 1945

Farming: Ross Pea picking machine. 1964 A1201-005

Timelord: Clock repairer Bill Marshall seen here repairing the movement to a mantle clock. 1960

Timelord: Clock repairer Bill Marshall seen here repairing the movement to a mantle clock. 1960

Instructor Anthony Rollins with trainees at the Lucas Industries factory in Birmingham. The girls are, left to right, Ann Doyle, Judith Ebdon and Maxine Southgate, all aged 17

Farming: Ross Pea picking machine. 1964 A1201-004

Farming: Ross Pea picking machine. 1964 A1201

Farming: Ross Pea picking machine. 1964 A1201-006

Farming: Ross Pea picking machine. 1964 A1201-002

Farming: Ross Pea picking machine. 1964 A1201-003

Farming: Ross Pea picking machine. 1964 A1201-001

Agricultural scene at Bath Road inn Hounslow. Automatic planting of seedling cabbages 5, 000 an hour can be planted. June 1945 P004458

Miniature tractor ploughs, controlled like motor lawn mowers, ploughed up the road verges on the Barnet By-pass, near Bignells Corner in Middlesex

The computerised machinery that automatically ensures that up to 100, 000lb. of linen can be cleaned to perfection in an industrial laundry in Sunderland in March 1984

Steam Rollers and Steam Engines. May 1973 P004917

Massey Harris Combine harvesters at work near Basingstoke Circa 1950. P004520

Large machinery at work at Acorn Bank opencast coal site at Bedlington

Twenty two tons of stone drops into a "Euclid"carrier
Twenty two tons of stone drops into a " Euclid" carrier. There is no waiting - in a few seconds the carrier is loaded and off it chugs to help build a man made mountain of stone

The great excavator was walking on to the site when the 1, 100 ton dragline machine began operations on the Ewart Hill opencast coal workings at Bedlington

Conveyor belt operator Fred Bolton watches as the 1, 000, 000th ton of coal comes from the combined collieries at Lynemouth and Ellington

Farming e Misc. Farming machine for preparing scrubland for crops. P004361
Farming Ð Misc. Farming machine for preparing scrubland for crops. P004361

Agriculture: Farming: Ploughing Mr. Giles Tedstone (31) - on tractor-manager of Doddington Park Farm, Nantwich, Cheshires, attempts to have a conversation with farm hand Benjamin Speed (3)

Women in industry. G. E. C. Electric Light Bulb Factory. Circa 1955 P006521
Women in industry. G.E.C. Electric Light Bulb Factory. Circa 1955 P006521

Agricultural scene at Bath Road inn Hounslow. Automatic planting of seedling cabbages 5, 000 an hour can be planted. June 1945 P004459

A crisp flavouring machine at the Tudor factory in 1985

Cut timber being stored ready for collection in 1981

Picking up a log like a father, the specialised mobile crane, is used for extracting the felled timber from woods and forests in 1974

Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn tours the Lucas factory at Burnley.... The Minister at the controls of an Electronics Simulator which sorts out the problems of Gas Turbines. Minister for Technology, Mr

Steam Engine. July 1972 P004916

World War II Women. A woman operating a power hammer at the L. N. E. R. loco works
World War II Women. A woman operating a power hammer at the L.N.E.R. loco works. May 1942 P010268

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