Factory Collection

Santa Clauss toy factory

Save Power at Work - Help your Fuel Watcher
World War Two public information poster for the Ministry of Food & Power - Save Power at Work. " Hi! Don t leave that machine running idle! And turn off that Blue Pencil Light!" circa 1940s

Brochure illustration, W Barratt & Co Ltd, Northampton, showing the Footshape Works where the boots and shoes are made, with addresses of branches below, in London, Bradford, Brighton and Leicester

Man at work in a clothing factory, Hemel Hempstead
Man at work in a clothing factory in Hemel Hempstead, cutting multiple pieces of cloth. Date: 1963

Wax run down at Llandarcy
The wax run-down at the BP crude oil processing plant at Llandarcy, Swansea, Wales. Date: circa 1925

Poster design for Continental Pneumatic rubber tyres

Poster design for Societe Chimique perfumes
Portuguese (or Brazilian) poster design for Societe Chimique perfumes, launching a new perfume called Rodo, marketed from the Rhone area of France, with factories in France and Switzerland

Wartime poster warning against careless talk. A man chats in a pub about what is happening where he works, he is overheard, and there are unfortunate repercussions. Careless Talk Costs Lives. 1940s

Saw Mills, Woolwich Arsenal
View of the saw mills at Woolwich Arsenal, south east London, with tree trunks about to be cut into planks. circa 1905

Introduction, Album of Views of Woolwich Arsenal. circa 1905

Food factory(?), China
Scene in what appears to be some kind of food factory, China. circa 1890

Main factory interior, Woolwich Arsenal
View of the main factory interior at Woolwich Arsenal, south east London, showing the metal turnery branch for the manufacture of fuses. circa 1905

Wheelers Shop, Woolwich Arsenal
Interior of the Wheelers Shop, Woolwich Arsenal, south east London, where ammunition wagons, water and tank carts, ambulance wagons, etc, are manufactured. circa 1905

Title page design, Album of Views of Woolwich Arsenal, south east London, printed and published by Gale & Polden Ltd, with an image of two gunners with a field gun. circa 1905

Iron and Steel Foundry, Woolwich Arsenal
View of the iron and steel foundry, Woolwich Arsenal, south east London, where shells of all sizes are cast. circa 1905

Main entrance gates, Woolwich Arsenal, SE London
View of the main entrance gates of Woolwich Arsenal in south east London, with a large crowd of people. circa 1905

Trimmers Shop, Iron and Steel Foundry, Woolwich Arsenal
View of the trimmers shop in the iron and steel foundry, Woolwich Arsenal, south east London, for the trimming and grinding of shells of all sizes. circa 1905

Advertisement for Arthur Handler & Co, Berlin, Germany

View from a factory window in South London
View from a window at the J Feaver Ltd factory in South London. Date: 1966

Women of Britain - World War Two poster
World War Two poster encouraging the women of Britain to answer the call and go and work in the munitions factories. Date: c. 1941

Binding Machines in Operation
Binding machines in operation at the Lund Humphries Printing Works. Automatic Feeders in the Binder supply sections to the endless chain of a wire-stitching machine

Machine for testing wagon springs
The Worlds First Railway Laboratory was set up at Crewe in 1864. One hundred years later, the Duke of Edinburgh opened new engineering research laboratories at Derby

Poster design for Profumo Farmaceutica, Florence

Advertisement for Bell Telephone System, with a large telephone at the centre, and various people surrounding it. circa 1950s

Advertisement for Societe Misr, Egypt, manufacturers of high quality Egyptian cotton

Ruined factory at Serre, Western Front, WW1
A ruined sugar factory in Serre near Ancre on the Western Front in France during World World War One. circa 1917

Print Users Yearbook -- factory by night
Print Users Yearbook -- a factory scene by night. circa 1930s

Workman in a factory operating machinery

Machinery in a factory
An array of machinery in a factory manufacturing white lead

Group of manual workers in a factory
A large group of female manual workers in a factory

Two women in a factory

Factory with coiled wire
A factory with newly manufactured wire standing in coils on the floor

Men and boys in a workshop, most of them looking towards the camera

Workman in a factory
A workman in a factory, having a break from his work

Manufacturing equipment
A piece of manufacturing equipment

Man driving a tram engine
A man driving a tram engine to transport barrels

Women working in a factory near Harrogate, Yorkshire
Four women working in a rather low-tech factory near Harrogate, Yorkshire. The various pipes are filling bottles with liquid -- possibly some kind of cosmetic product. Date: 1957

Centre 42 at Rilex Works in Wellingborough
The playwright Arnold Wesker making an announcement during a Saturday night dance in the Rilex Shoes Ltd works canteen in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire

Gordon Russell factory, Worcestershire
Two men in discussion at the Gordon Russell factory, Broadway, Worcestershire. Sir Gordon Russell set up the business to make furniture in the William Morris arts and crafts style. 1959

A Spooner Travelling oven
A immense Spooner Travelling Oven - with baked loaves of white bread transported from the large central baking oven round a periphery conveyor belt and roller system to the next stage of the process

Raleigh bicycle factory, Nottingham
A man in a clean white shirt working at machinery in the Raleigh bicycle factory, Nottingham

Best Dressed Girl Competition
Vic Feather, leader of the TUC, announces the winner of the Best Dressed Girl Competition at a dance. The winner is wearing a flared knee length dress with a wide belt

Centre 42 in Wellingborough
The playwright Arnold Wesker and his assistant Beba Lavrin discuss arrangements with a trades union representative in the Wellingborough Technical College hall

Women working during the First World War. Above: in a weapons factory, filling shells with explosives

Girls on Sun Bed
A group of factory girls from Leeds, Yorkshire, England, topping up their tans with the aid of sunray treatment. Shame about the goggles... Date: early 1930s

Raleigh cycle factory, Nottingham
A man at work constructing a bicycle at the Raleigh cycle factory in Nottingham. 1964

Women Factory Workers
Women factory workers at J Feaver Ltd in South London. Date: 1966

Wills Cigarette Factory
Women factory worker taking cigarette samples for checking at Wills Factory, Bristol. Date: 1961

Cigarette Factory / Mayne
Women factory workers sift tobacco at the Wills Cigarette Factory in Bristol Date: 1961

Steel Works / Stocksbridge
The processing of metal bars at the Steel Works at Stocksbridge Date: 1961

Women Leaving Factory
Women factory workers leaving Wills (cigarette) Factory, Bristol. Date: 1961

Women Cutler / Sheffield
A woman cutler at work sharpening scissor blades in Sheffield factory Date: 1961

Japanese Silk Factory
An old Japanese man and boy working in a silk factory. Date: early 1930s

Sheffield Steelworks
A corpulent factory worker walks past a Sheffield Steelworks on a damp and dreary day Date: 1961

Fireworks Factory
Women from Brooks fireworks factory, one of the oldest British fireworks companies, show off a selection of their huge rockets and catherine wheels! Date: early 1930s

United Steel / Stocksbridge
Man working on the rolling mill at United Steel, Stocksbridge, South Yorkshire. Date: 1961

Daily Mirror Advertising space advertisement - Hatter
An advertisement from the Daily Mirror looking for companies to advertise in the newspaper, using the argument that more skilled workers than ever are readers of the paper

View down Acacia Road, Bournville, Birmingham
A view down Acacia Road in Bournville model village, to the south of Birmingham, UK

Beauty Factory scene from Plaisirs de Paris
The Beauty Factory scene from the dinner show Plaisirs de Paris at the International Casino, New York, 1938, (Broadway & 45th Street) produced by Clifford Fischer Date: 1938

Label design for Leon Blanc preserves
Label design for Leon Blanc fruit and vegetable preserves of Carpentras, France, depicting mange tout green beans. 20th century

Steel / Galvanising / 1956
Hot dip galvanising in a South London factory. Date: 1956

Knitting wool production - mechanical process

Label design for Marquisat Fondant chocolate, manufactured in Lyons, France. 20th century

Manufacturing Wool Yarn
The largest (at the time) single line of worsted carding machines for opening scoured raw wool prior to combing at Patons & Baldwins factory in Darlington

Japanese Silk Worker
A young female Japanese silk worker in a factory. Date: early 1930s

Nizhny Novgorod (Gorky), Soviet Union
An illustrated article on the city of Nizhny Novgorod (Gorki), in the western Soviet Union. This fourth largest city in Russia was known as Gorky from 1932 to 1990, during the Soviet Era

Clothes Factory - 1963
A Clothes factory in Hemel Hempstead manufacturing coats Date: 1963

Metalworkers welding a railway carriage
Three metalworkers wearing protective masks weld large metal boxes together to form the shell of a railway carriage. Photograph by Heinz Zinram Date: 1950s

Signwriters at work
A wonderful photograph by Heinz Zinram showing a master signwriter at work, with his younger collegue (or apprentice) behind. A study in concentration, accuracy and exactitude in the craftsmans art

Shoe Factory Norwich
The interior of the Norvic shoe factory in Norwich. The women are sewing the shoes with Singer sewing machines as the pin ups of the era such as Cliff Richard look on Date: 1961

Poster depicting the sorting of manganese ore
Poster for the Empire Marketing Board, depicting the sorting of manganese ore. C.1930

Poster depicting Timber Stacking
Poster for the Empire Marketing Board, depicting an elephant stacking timber. C.1930

Two engineers using a measurement device
Two engineers use a precise measuring device to correctly ascertain the width of a circular metal ring. Photograph by Heinz Zinram Date: Late 1950s

Dresden China Bells
Bells being manufactured in Dresden, Germany, to build a carillon (a musical instrument made of bells which play in a chromatic sequence) which will play in a Berlin park. Date: 24 January 1930

Clothing Factory 1963
Rows of women working with sewing machines in a clothing factory in Hemel Hempstead Date: 1963

Glassmaking - Cutting
Three men working in the glass industry, cutting a block of glass Date: 1933

Making Brushes 1930S
These women are fixing bristles into ivory hairbrush handles. Date: February 1933

Overtime at a Christmas cracker factory by William Heath Rob
Colour illustration by William Heath Robinson depicting one of his usual contraptions designed to solve the increase in demand for Christmas crackers during the forthcoming festive season

Largest Wireless Valve
The worlds largest wireless valve, being made in a factory in Germany. Date: early 1930s

U. S. S. PLYMOUTH (PG 57)
Built for Mrs Alva Vanderbilt in 1931 at the Krupp factory, Kiel, Germany, the Alva was given to the U.S. navy in 1941 and renamed U.S.S. Plymouth. Torpedoed by a U-boat in 1943. Date: early 1930s

Testing Seed Potatoes
A man and woman testing seed potatoes, Germany. Date: early 1930s

Making Handbags
Men and women working together in a factory, making handbags with sewing machines. Date: early 1930s

Making Toys at Factory
In a London factory, two women workers attend to the last minute orders for Christmas; here a stack of toy locomotive engines await dispatch Date: 27 November 1929

Making Model Trains
Two skilled young women making toy locomotives in a British factory. The engines are carefully cut and bent into shape and then hand painted. Date: 1920s

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