Industrial Equipment Collection (#4)

Channel Tunnel
February 1907: The site in Dover, beneath the chalk cliffs, where the shaft was sunk for the original Channel Tunnel scheme, which received renewed interest in 1907

Signal Box Scene
26th October 1907: A signalman operating a signal. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Jones Mill
circa 1909: The interior of Jones Cotton Mill in Manchester. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Cotton Mill
circa 1909: The harnessing process at Jones Cotton Mill, Manchester. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Welsh Coal Mine
December 1910: Steam billowing out of the coal mine at Bargoed near Cardiff. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Gold Chain Making
circa 1909: Girls working in a section of the polishing room, making gold chain at Goods & Sons Birmingham. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Harvest By Motor
1st September 1907: Workers using a motorized tractor take a load back to the rick during the harvest. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Motorized Plough
1st September 1907: Workers using a plough pulled by motor. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Harvest Machine
1st September 1907: A motorized reaper turning a corner during the harvest. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Reaping Machine
1926: The latest sugar cane reaping machine, built in Germany. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Cotton
circa 1909: Jones Cotton Mill, Manchester. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Dockside
September 1907: Construction work under way on the new docks at Avonmouth. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Coaling Station
29th August 1907: Setting up the new belting system at the coaling station at Grimbsy docks. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Power Wheel
circa 1900: Actual power wheel used by railways engineer George Stephenson to drive a lathe at Killingworth Colliery, Northumberland. (Photo by Kirby/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Boiler Shop
24th February 1907: The boiler manufacturing area of Yarrow torpedo factory, Poplar, East London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Making Buttons
circa 1909: Workers in a Birmingham button factory packaging the finished product. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Button Factory
circa 1909: Hundreds of workers punching buttons out of sheet metal in a Birmingham factory. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Ice Lifting
25th June 1907: Slabs of ice being winched through a trap door in an ice manufacturing plant. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Kingsway Construction
circa 1906: Construction workers laying the foundations of Kingsway, central London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Torpedo Works
24th February 1907: The fitting shop of Yarrow torpedo works, Poplar, East London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Engineering Works
circa 1909: Men at work in busy factory shop-floor. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Linophone Operators
1907: Workers setting up type with Linophones which are a combination of phonograph and linotype machinery. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Production Line
1909: Workers cutting buttons in a factory in Birmingham. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Bulldog Jupiter
9th January 1930: Mechanics at the Bristol Aeroplane Company works in Filton, Gloucester, adjusting a Bristol Jupiter engine during the manufacture of a Bristol Bulldog aircraft. (Photo by Edward G)

Using Wasteland
5th January 1917: Wasteland at Harrow which is to be used by the Food From Waste Ground movement. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Boatlift on the old Canal du Centre in Thieu
Boat lift no. 4 on the old Canal du Centre in Thieu, Belgium. The four hydraulic lifts of the Historic Canal du Centre form some of the highest quality industrial monuments

Factory Floor
Workers on the Ozalid factory floor

Channel Tunnel
21st January 1975: The view from inside the Channel Tunnel under construction at Shakespeares Cliff. (Photo by Graham Wood/Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Pipework
circa 1965: Oil rig components waiting to be lifted during construction at Nigg Bay, at the eastern end of the Cromarty Firth

Power shovel
UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1960s: Power shovel with jaws open, view from below. (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Retrofile/Getty Images)

Austin Engines
3rd April 1948: Engines suspended from a monorail at the Austin Motor Companys Birmingham production plant which exports many cars to America

Obsolete Machinery
28th March 1953: Machinery in a tinplateworks in South Wales factory which is due to close. This is because of the building of giant strip-mills which need fewer workers to run them

Belfast Ship Yard
20th February 1954: The Harland and Wolff ship yard in Belfast where a liner is being built. Original Publication: Picture Post - 7029 - The Best And The Worst Of Some British Cities 5 - Belfast

Le Creusot
A model of the Creusot steam hammer at the Paris Worlds Fair, 1878. It was built by Schneider and Co. in the French town of Le Creusot. (Photo by Henry Guttmann/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Cotton Factory
Textile workers in a British cotton factory, where processes include carding, drawing and roving. Engraving by J Cart after an original work by T Allom, circa 1840

Coal Whimsey
An engine drawing coal, or a coal whimsey, at the Staffordshire Collieries. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Steam Hammer
James Naysmiths invention, the steam hammer, in operation at an iron foundry. Original Artwork: From a painting by Naysmith himself. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Welsh Quarry
A black marble quarry near Red Wharf Bay in Anglesea. Original Artwork: Aquatint by William Daniell (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Nearly Finished; Construction of Hellgate Bridge, New York City
Circa 1917, Construction of Hellgate Bridge, New York City. (Photo by Edwin Levick/Getty Images)

Goose-Necked Cranes
circa 1950: Goose-necked cranes tower above the George V dock at the Port of London. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Trainload Of Bridge Girders
A London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) train with an overhanging load of girders, on its way from Darlington to Middlesborough, 20th September 1926

Almost Ready
5th March 1936: The great transatlantic passenger liner SS Queen Mary nears completion at a shipyard on Clydebank, Scotland

Building Aquitania
21st December 1911: The Cunard luxury liner Aquitania under construction at John Brown & Companys shipyard at Clydebank near Glasgow

Riveting Work during the construction of the Cunard luxury liner Aquitania
circa 1911: Construction workers using hydraulic riveting machinery during the construction of the Cunard luxury liner Aquitania at the Clydebank shipyard owned by John Brown & Company

Building A Liner
circa 1911: The Cunard luxury liner Aquitania under construction at John Brown & Companys Clydebank shipyard. The Aquitania took three years to build and was launched in 1914 weighing 45

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