Mechanical Workshop Activities

Vintage images of mechanics at work in a fine mechanical workshop, highlighting industrial machinery and processes related to manufacturing and textiles.

Vintage Photograph. Vintage industrial machinery in action at a classic manufacturing workshop.
Vintage Photograph. Vintage industrial machinery in action at a classic manufacturing workshop.
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Worker. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel
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Gustavsberg's porcelain factory. Modeling a plaster shape for sanitary ware. Here for a W.C. chair.
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Model Kitts account for large part of Hearn Business. Steps show kit assembly. Logs are sawn on circular saw into flats...Bandsaw cuts delicate and precise slots and curves....Cut parts by thousand are stored in Bins...Assembly is family business, with parts cut by Keith, and assembled by his (L to R), wife, Aunt and Mother...Every 50th. Model is assembled...and test flown, in case of bugs in manufacture. December 14, 1955.
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Guyaule Laboratory, Ansel Adams
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Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)
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Anefo photo collection. Exhibition Idea 62 in RAI building for the modern house, the very latest on vacuum cleaner area. October 10, 1962. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland
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Fabersta Bruks AB. Pressed mold pieces before sintering as they are easy to process. Mrs. Sirkka Nissfolk manages a turning where specialty products are being formed.
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The production of electronic devices by female workers at the Siemens company on 23.11.1974 in Kamp-Lintfort, DEU, Germany, Kamp, Europe
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Car production at the Ford factory on 12.02.1976 in Cologne, Germany, Europe
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Interior from Ålshult Station's expedition.
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Telecommunications workshop in Vänersborg in 1960.
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Carpenter, 1920s to 1930s, by Roland Searle.
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Collection of the Dutch Heidematschappij. Drainage, investigations, electrolytic, researchers. undated
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Anefo photo collection. Burco assignment. Welder at work. April 17, 1961
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The intricate stage in the development of a new machine is when an unexpected difficulty arises. This is the time when the two veteran designers are happiest. The new salt-packing machine now under construction is capable of taking 3,000 "screws" of salt per hour. Three machines can operate from one motor giving a total amount or salt for potato crisp packets has always been a manufacturing bottleneck. Fastest hand operator can only produce 300 an hour. July 11, 1951. (Photo by Central Office Of Information).
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Ceremonial Swords for the Coronation -- Mrs. May Fry, 12 years in the business who comes from Acton. She is using a chamois leather, the last stage before packing - on military and diplomatic swords. Sword cutters are now busy making officers' ceremonial swords or refurbishing old ones in preparation for the coronation. The Wilkinson Sword company, of Acton, where these pictures were taken, still carries on this work, and at present has orders for 2,000. This is the largest order of its kind since the Coronation of 1937. At present the demand for swrods averages about 100 a week, but after the Coronation and the royal visit to Australia and New Zealand, it is expected to drop to about 50 a week. This firm has had the the ***** largely to itself. The new swords follow about a dozen different patterns. They are being made for the Household Cavelry, the Yeomen of the Guard, the R.A.F. and others. Many of the existing swords, including those belonging to the Yeomen of the Guard, are being
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National Institute of Agricultural Engineering -- Engineers experiment continually; some of their ideas have commercial applications and many productions have been patented and marketed. Others like this, a preliminary model for measuring the efficiency of a tractor wheel, are devised as experimental and research equipment. Machines built in the Institute's workshop make possible new and better tests. September 21, 1951. (Photo by pictorial Press).
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Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)
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Anefo photo collection. Preparations for the upcoming Grand Prix. May 16, 1962. Noord-Holland, Zandvoort
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The British Cotton Industry- Everyday Life at a British Cotton Mill, Lancashire, England, UK, 1945 Two examiners check through sheets of cotton at a mill, somewhere in Lancashire. According to the original caption, they have just returned from working in munitions factories: 'they are GBP3 a week down, but they don't now work overtime - basic rate is the same'.
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Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)
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Melrose Park, Illinois July 1942Just two months on the job, Mighnon Gunn reconditions used spark plugs for reuse in testing airplane motors in the Buick Plant in Melrose Park, IL. Many women entered the workforce for the first time during WWII, taking over factory jobs that were usually worked by the men now fighting in the war. Photograph taken by Ann Rosener for the Farm Security Administration.
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The training of apprentices (Azubis) at the Vocational Training Centre (BBZ) in Arnsberg on 19.06.1979, Germany, Europe
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Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)
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After adjustment, a thread is pulled to separate parts for cutting. Plastic material does not tear *****. April 17, 1949. (Photo by Look Magazine).
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Bagpipes Help The "Dollar Drive" -- Harry Seeley of Tottenham inserting reeds into the stocks. on a nearly completed set of bag-pipes in Mr. Starck's factory at Camden Town (London).Mr. Henry Starck (43) is earning dollars for Britain by in hand-made sets of bagpipes from his small factory in Camden Town. Mr. Henry Starck is the third generation of his family to make bagpipes, which are all made by hand, in exactly the same way as they were when the firm started 80 years ago. The only modern introduction into the factory is an electric lathe. The Starck family first made flutes (and still do) and took to producing bagpipes when Queen Victoria appointed a Royal piper. September 25, 1953. (Photo by Fox Photo).
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Poll photo collection. Reporting of Tetterode Glass Amsterdam. Soldering a stained glass window. 1948
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Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon and along the coast to Haifa. Haifa. The 'Splendid Model.' Designing and dressmaking establishment. Designers at work, close up. 1939, Israel, Haifa
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Working In Wicker For Festival Of Britain.David Paston (left) and William Furse work on cane models for the Exhibition Paston is doing fancy figure modelling, while Furse works on a model of a thatcher at work.In a workroom in Tower street, Cambridge Circus, five men who follow one of the oldest trades in London, ate busy making fantasies in wicker and cane for the Festival of Britain amusement centre at Battersea Park. They have just finished a 140 ft long and 40 ft high replica of the facade of the Crystal Palace. January 8, 1951. (Photo by Fox Photos).
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Steel Works Has Own Sanatorium -- Joe Breslin is bed-ridden at present, but that doesn't stop him getting out into the open air. He is making a rug, which he will take home with him when he leaves Gretton Hall. September 21, 1951. (Photo by Pictorial Press).
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Anefo photo collection. Exhibition idea 62 in RAI building for the modern house, here the old equipment. October 10, 1962. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland
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Robot Males Complete Radio Sets -- The only skilled had-work necessary in the entire production. The operator is fitting the valves, condensers and loud-speaker. Each of the fully-finished 'metal grown' circuits can be seen on the two pre-formed plates. May 28, 1948. (Photo by British Official Photograph).
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Collection Dutch Heidematschappij. Workers, buildings, workshops, tools. undated
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Pattern Maker First Class (PM1) Joseph Landry is running a seat of leather with a fillet iron on a wooden replica of a dual acting reciprocating steam pump. The pump is from the historic wood and iron sailing ship S.S. Media located at the San Diego Maritime Museum. The pattern makers of the Ship Intermediate Maintenance Activity, Naval Station 32nd Street are donating their personal time as a public service to assist in maintaining the Media. Base: San Diego State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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Aviation Structural Mechanic S (Structures) 3rd Class Aaron Long cleans aircraft nose wheel parts aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS NIMITZ (CVN-68) during WestPac '93. Country: Pacific Ocean (POC)
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A sailor in an engineering space aboard the amphibious assault ship USS SAIPAN (LHA-2) uses a sheet of paper to direct cool air from a vent onto his face as preparations are made to shut down one of the ship's boilers for maintenance. The SAIPAN steamed at flank speed for a week to be on station off the coast of Liberia for OPERATION SHARP EDGE. Subject Operation/Series: SHARP EDGE Country: Atlantic Ocean (AOC)
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Rubber - ECA Imports of Carbon Black Help French Rubber Industry. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel
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Italy, workers at work in an electrotechnical factory, 70s
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10/01/1936. A typesetter working inside the printing car of the newspaper "Avance", which is made in the fronts.
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In the training workshop of Hoesch AG in Dortmund, here on 6.8.1974, apprentices are trained in various trades, Germany, Europe
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Poll photo collection. Diamond worker (diamond cutter) at work in Natanya. January 1, 1964. Israel, Natanya
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Construction of a Spitfire, probably from / for the Phantasy Foundation in Blue.
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Mounting of gear: The cables are soldered to the sample jackings. As seems to have the switchboard cables already connected to the thunderstris strips.
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Repair work.
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Anefo photo collection. Electronic device to alarm at the Russian position Spring Fair. March 14, 1961. Utrecht
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Vintage Photograph. Vocational class in lathe work.
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A crewman spends some of his spare time constructing a model ship in the hobby shop on the aircraft carrier USS AMERICA (CV 66). Base: USS America (CV 66) Country: Mediterranean Sea (MED)
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Collection of the Dutch Heidematschappij. Machines, tools, workers, batteries, buckets, lawns, hedges, buildings, houses. undated
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A shipment of corn for the World Food Program is inventoried upon being offloaded from a C-130 aircraft during the AHUAS TARA II (BIG PINE) operation. The US Agency for International Development is sponsoring the program. Subject Operation/Series: AHUAS TARA II (BIG PINE) Base: Aguacate Country: Honduras (HND)
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Poll photo collection. Netherlands Antilles and Suriname at the time of the royal visit of Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard in 1955. Grinding machine at the Spritzer & Fuhrmann company in Willemstad. October 1, 1955. Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles, Willemstad