Manufacturing Collection

Deltic engine, final gear is being fitted into a phasing gearing assembly

Bauhaus Building
The Bauhaus building in Dessau, manufacturing city in eastern Germany. The building was built in 1925 - 26 by the German architect Walter Gropius. Date: 1930s

Napier Deltic engine, cross section

Singer Sewing Machines - factory in Clydebank, Scotland. 1932

Building Diesel Locomotives in Swindon
Engineers nearing completion on the first of 35 2, 700 hp diesel-hydraulic locomotives built at the Swindon Works for the Western Region

Napier Deltic rail traction diesel engine

WW2 poster, To Victory -- With Our Help! Pilots profile with Hawker Hurricanes. Printed by Massey-Harris for distribution in England. Date: circa 1942

Blowing glass in a British factory, 1800s
Workers in a crown-glass factory, Great Britain, early 1800s. Hand-colored engraving of a 19th-century illustration

Wallsend-on-Tyne - Shipbuilding and the BP Tanker British Hazel in dock. Date: 1963

River Clyde, shipbuilding industry in Glasgow, Scotland. May 1951

Poster design, Grimwade Fine Art Pottery, Stoke. Date: circa 1920s

Greetings from Akron, Ohio, USA
Greetings postcard from Akron, Ohio, USA, rubber manufacturing center of the world, showing the Goodyear Memorial and a rubber tyre shape containing three scenes (Firestone, Goodrich and Goodyear)

Welsh woman with spinning wheel, Wales
Welsh woman outside a cottage with a spinning wheel, Wales. Date: late 19th century

Staffordshire Potteries
Factories in the Staffordshire potteries, 2nd March 1946. Original publication : Picture Post - 3088 - Pottery : A Working Partys Problem - pub

Advert, Barry, Ostlere & Shepherd Ltd, Kirkcaldy
Advert for Barry, Ostlere & Shepherd Ltd, Manufacturers of Floor Cloth, Linoleum and Cork Carpet, Kirkcaldy, Scotland. 1905

General Electric Company, Schenectady, New York, USA
General Electric Company buildings at Schenectady, New York State, USA

England / Hebden Bridge
A fine overview of the typical manufacturing town of Hebden Bridge, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Date: 1964

Glass factory workers in Britain, 1800s
Manufacturing glass at a flint-glass factory, Great Britain, 1800s. Hand-colored engraving of a 19th-century illustration

Napier Deltic 18 2500 bhp diesel engine on show

Welsh Lady using a Singer Sewing Machine
Seated Welsh Lady using a Singer Sewing machine in traditional costume, with a similarly-dressed lady alongside as well as a smart Welshman

Map of Yellowstone National Park, USA

Binocular Testing
A line of girls tests each pair of binoculars made for the Services before it leaves the factory. Their employers, Ross Ltd of Clapham, the largest optical instrument manufacturer in the country

How Navajo Indian Rugs are made - USA Date: circa 1930s

Devonshire Dock - Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria Date: circa 1910s

Metalwork
MODEL RELEASED. Metalwork. Metalworker watching a CNC (computer numerical control) lathe as it machines a metal component. CNC lathes are controlled electronically

Spokane, Washington, 1880s
Spokane Falls before the great fire, Washington Territory, 1880s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Napier Heston Racer G-AFOK with Sabre I Date: 1939

Deltic DP1 locomotive

Ford Assembly Line 1930
The Ford Assembly line in 1928

Ford Assembly Line 1929
Working on the Ford assembly line

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

Brochure cover, W Barratt & Co Ltd, Northampton
Brochure cover design, W Barratt & Co Ltd, Northampton, advertising boots by post, with a circular illustration of the Footshape Works where the boots are made. Date: 20th century

Dressing Shetland Shawls
Women from the Shetland Islands dress Shetland wool shawls on large racks Date: 1908

Scotlands Industrial Souvenir
Don Brothers, Buist and Company Limited - Flax and Jute Spinners and Manufacturers - Scotlands Industrial Souvenir 1905. Date: 1905

Steel Furnace
16th August 1952: Liquid metal spraying out of the furnace at Thomas and Baldwins steel works in Ebbw Vale, Wales. Original Publication: Picture Post - 6005 - Steel Town - pub

The parable of the laborers in the vineyard: The payment of the denarius. ca. 1500. Second Series cloth. Manufacturing in Brussels, possibly in the workshops of Pieter van Aelst

Napier Heston Racer G-AFOK with Sabre I Date: 1943

Flying testbed B2 Canberra WK163 fitted with a NSc D1-2 Double Scorpion rechargeable booster rocket Date: 1957

Shaping metal with a steam hammer
Two metalworkers use a clamp and chain to hold a large piece of metal in place while it is shaped by a pneumatic steam hammer

Germany / Dessau / Bauhaus
The Bauhaus building in Dessau, manufacturing city in eastern Germany. The building was built in 1925 - 26 by the German architect Walter Gropius

Ford Assembly Line
FORD MOTOR COMPANY The assembly line at the Rouge Plant, Dearborn, illinois

Needle-making equipment, 1819. The large machine at bottom right is George Priors dry grinder with a box partly enclosing the grindstone to minimise dust (1813)

Humour rain umbrella St. Swithin 19th century cartoon
This is a cartoon etching by the well-known Victorian social caricaturist / cartoonist George Cruikshank (1792 - 1878), dated November 1st, 1829

First World War. Big Bertha M42
WORLD WAR (1914-1918). BIG BERTHA M42. German gun used to bombard Paris from over 100 km. away in 1918. Its gauge was 210 mm. and was 34 m. long

American schooner Westward - built by Herrehoff
The American schooner Westward - built by Herrehoff in 1910 and later owned by Mr Thomas Benjamin Davis - a magnificent schooner of 323 tonnes. In 1910 she sailed in eleven races and won them all

A typical mosaic at The Alhambra- Granada-Spain
Brightly colored mosaics adorn the walls and floors of the Alhambra of Granada in Spain

Messrs Vickers Iron Foundry - Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England. Date: circa 1910s

Harry Crabb seen here making concertinas in his workshop at Liverpool Street, Islington, London 15th May 1967

Foden 5 ton Steam Wagon M8681, built in1916, at the 1959 Andover Steam Rally. (Foden Trucks was a British truck and bus manufacturing company which had its origins in Elworth near Sandbach in 1856)

Glass Blowers of Murano, 1886. Creator: Charles Frederic Ulrich
Glass Blowers of Murano, 1886

Blast furnaces, Park Gate Iron and Steel Co, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, 1964. Artist
Blast furnaces, Park Gate Iron and Steel Co, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, 1964. The iconic view of the two Blast Furnaces that stood on the Park Gate Iron and steel company site near Rotherham

Map of industrial Britain in 1881, 1906. From Cassells Illustrated History of England, Vol. VII. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris, New York & Melbourne, 1906]

Stream Train built in, Crewe Locomotive Works, 1892
Vintage engraving of a Stream Train built at the London and North Western Locomotive Works, at Crewe, 1892, 19th Century

WW2 poster, Teamwork -- Thanks Pal! Printed by DeHavilland of Canada Ltd for distribution in England. Date: circa 1942

Mass Production
Full-length image of auto workers lowering the body of a Model T onto its chassis on an assembly line ramp outdoors at the Ford Motor Company, Highland Park, Michigan

Hawker Tempest V powered by a Sabre IIB NV768, with ducted spinner aircraft propeller

Model Napier Deltic engine

Napier Deltic engine T18-37C, Jim Shortall with one the super pumper units

Advert, Glenfield & Kennedy Ltd, Kilmarnock, Scotland
Advert for Glenfield & Kennedy Ltd, Kilmarnock, Scotland. 1905

Alexander Jamieson & Co Ltd, Darvel, Scotland
Advert, Alexander Jamieson & Co Ltd, Muslin and Lace Curtains, Darvel, East Ayrshire, Scotland. 1905

View outside a leather factory, Bermondsey, south London
View outside Neckinger Mills leather factory, Bermondsey, south London. Date: 1842

Cooperage yard, Guinness Brewery, Dublin, Ireland (b / w photo)
6029985 Cooperage yard, Guinness Brewery, Dublin, Ireland (b/w photo) by Irish Photographer (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Cooperage yard, Guinness Brewery, Dublin)

Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh, visiting the Rover company in Solihull, West Midlands. February 1958

The Starting Point of Morris Motors, 1912, (1933). Creator: Unknown
The Starting Point of Morris Motors, 1912, (1933). The Oxford Garage in Oxford where British motor manufacturer and philanthropist William Morris (later Lord Nuffield) started his business

The Hudson Motor Company - Detroit, Michigan, USA. Date: 1910s

Saltaire works, c1880. Sir Titus Salt (1803-1876) discovered a method of blending alpaca wool with cotton and silk. He is best remembered as the builder of Saltaire Mill near Bradford, Yorkshire

Singer Sewing Machines - factory clock tower. 1932

Amoskeag Corporation, Manchester, New Hampshire, USA
Weave room in No. 11 Mill (a textile mill) of the Amoskeag Corporation, Manchester, New Hampshire, USA. Date: 1911

Lloyd Georges Munition Girls
Front cover of a book describing womens experiences in a munitions factory during the First World War with a detailed account by an anonymous female shell-maker

Promotional card for the Oriental Carpet Manufacturers Ltd - Turkish Company with head office at Smyrna (Izmir), Turkey and branches in London, Paris, Constantinople (Istanbul), New York, Cairo

Welder making boilers for a ship, Combustion Engineering Co. Chattanooga, Tenn. 1942. Creator: Alfred T Palmer
Welder making boilers for a ship, Combustion Engineering Co. Chattanooga, Tenn

E W Hoyt and Co, perfume manufacturers, advertisement (chromolitho)
7154216 E W Hoyt and Co, perfume manufacturers, advertisement (chromolitho) by American School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: E W Hoyt and Co, perfume manufacturers)

Saltaire (engraving)
727279 Saltaire (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Saltaire. Illustration for Yorkshire Past and Present by Thomas Baines (William Mackenzie)

Scotlands Industrial Souvenir
Hay and Robertson, Linen and Cotton Manufacturers, Dunfermline - Scotlands Industrial Souvenir 1905. Date: 1905

Advert, Carrongrove Paper Co Ltd, Denny, Scotland
Advert for The Carrongrove Paper Company Ltd, Denny, Scotland. 1905

Adverts, five Scottish businesses
Adverts for R E Walker, Reid & Co Limited, Albany Works, Dunfermline, Inglis & Co, textile manufacturers, Dunfermline, Andrew Reid & Co, Pilmuir Works, Dunfermline, Hay and Robertson

The Britannia Works in Bedford (engraving)
1589143 The Britannia Works in Bedford (engraving) by Robinson, Charles (1840-81); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Britannia Works in Bedford)

ICI, Wilton. The bottom half of a 5000 ton chemical storage tank being fitted into place. It will hold VCM, vinyl chloride monomer from new works being built opposite Lackenby Works on the Trunk

A 5000 ton chemical storage sphere is symbolic of the millions spent by the firm each year on construction projects as part of the 130 million chlorine complex. ICI Wilton. 7th October 1980

A helmet hanging with welders goggles amongst the empty cranes after the closure of Govan Shipbuilders shipyard in Scotland August 1979

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

Hammersmith Carpet Weaving at Merton Abbey Works, . Creator: Unknown
Hammersmith Carpet Weaving at Merton Abbey Works, late 19th century. Female weaver at a loom at Merton Abbey Mills in south London

Wool sorters, c1880. A print from Great Industries of Great Britain, Volume I, published by Cassell Petter and Galpin, (London, Paris, New York, c1880)

J.s Fry and Sons Cocoa and chocolate works, Bristol 1884
Interior and exterior of British company owned by Joseph Storrs Fry and Sons, Cocoa and chocolate works, Bristol. Date: 1884

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"Unveiling the Art of Manufacturing: From Bauhaus Building to Welsh Spinning Wheels" Step into the world of manufacturing, where innovation and craftsmanship intertwine. The iconic Bauhaus Building stands tall as a testament to architectural excellence, embodying the spirit of design in every corner. Delve deeper into the realm of engineering marvels with a glimpse inside the Napier Deltic engine's cross-section. Witness the intricate workings that power locomotives, as final gears are meticulously fitted by skilled hands. Travel back in time through an advert from Barry, Ostlere & Shepherd Ltd in Kirkcaldy - a window into their proud legacy of producing top-quality goods. Meanwhile, Singer Sewing Machines' factory in Clydebank hums with activity as countless garments come to life under its roof. Swindon becomes a hub for diesel locomotive production, showcasing how British expertise shapes rail transportation. Marvel at the mighty Napier Deltic rail traction diesel engine, propelling trains forward with unmatched efficiency. In times of war, manufacturing becomes synonymous with patriotism. A powerful WW2 poster reminds us that victory is within reach when we unite our efforts behind industry's relentless drive for progress. Venturing beyond metal and machinery, witness artisans blowing glass in 19th-century British factories - each delicate creation reflecting centuries-old traditions passed down through generations. Wallsend-on-Tyne proudly showcases its shipbuilding prowess; colossal vessels rise from humble beginnings thanks to dedicated workers' unwavering commitment. Finally, meet a Welsh woman gracefully spinning yarn on her wheel - an embodiment of cottage industries that once thrived across Wales. Her skillful hands keep alive ancient techniques while reminding us that manufacturing is not just about mass production but also preserving heritage and culture. From grand structures like Bauhaus buildings to humble spinning wheels tucked away in cottages – this captivating journey unveils how manufacturing has shaped our world throughout history – blending artistry and innovation to create a tapestry of progress.