Working Collection (#16)

Coronation Engine
5th May 1911: The Coronation engine at the London and North Western Railway Works in Crewe. The workmen are fitting the body of the steam engine to the bogie (the under carriage section with wheels)

Cultivator
6th October 1932: The Cultivator, an invention by Mr Fishleigh, demonstrates its ability to remove weeds and prepare the soil for sowing at the Duke of Connaughts Estate at Bagshot, Surrey

Market Hall Traders and Porters
9th May 1928: Traders and porters busy at work in the central hall of Covent Garden Market, London. (Photo by J. Gaiger/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Car Factory 1914
22nd January 1914: An employee checking the machinery at the Wolseley Motor Companys Works at Adderley Park, Birmingham. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Birth Of A Building
April 1912: Construction work continues on the site of the new Commonwealth Offices in the Strand, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Fitting Gun Sights
9th January 1930: Workers at the Bristol Aeroplane Co works at Filton, Gloucester, fitting controls and calibrating the gun sights of the Bristol Bulldog

Ice Manufacturing
26th March 1907: The compressor inside the engine room of an ice factory. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Carriage Works
September 1911: The bogie shop at the London and North Western Railway carriage works. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Insurance Offices
The general offices of the Chartered Insurance Institute at Aldermanbury, London

Road Spraying
May 1908: A tar spraying machine surfacing a road. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Waterworks
May 1909: A lock in the waterworks at Hampton Wick. (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)

Traction Engine
1908: A traction engine carrying tar spraying equipment, during road repair experiments near Putney, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Road Foundations
Workmen using old salmon tins and other assorted containers for road foundations in Euston Road, London

Train Wheels
1926: A scene in a factory which makes wheels for trains. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Canal Crisis
Workers on the Panama Canal project deal with a landslide. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Demolition
A man carries out demolition work on the Festival of Britain site, at the South Bank, London. The shot tower is in the background. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

London Fogbound
A bargee sitting on the stern of his barge waiting for the London fog to lift before he can start work. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

A Steam Shovel
A steam shovel at work in the Bas Obispo Cut of the Panama Canal. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Heavy Work
May 1918: A steamroller at work outside a church. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Railway Construction
1906: Labourers at work on a cutting, during construction of the Manchurian-Siberia railway. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Office Workers
1910: Clerks at work in the offices of a London bus company. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Army Forge
1st February 1901: Shoeing smiths at work in a cavalry camp during the Boer War. (Photo by Reinhold Thiele/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Stretcher Party
11th June 1909: A stretcher party from the First Aid Yeomanry, at work placing a casualty in an ambulance, during exercises at camp in Lee. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Clean Up
2nd October 1912: Labourers at work clearing up debris after a water main burst in Old Broad Street. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Unemployed Demo
circa 1922: A section of the crowd on the May Day labour demonstration in London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Young Trickster
4th November 1925: A practical joker attaching a firework to a policemans jacket. (Photo by Kirby/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Cat Burglar
1924: A man demonstrating how a cat burglar works. (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)

Cider Apples
1908: Tons of apples in the yard at Henley and Sons Cider works in Newton Abbot, Devon. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Enrico Caruso
circa 1900: Italian operatic tenor Enrico Caruso (1873 - 1921), one of the first opera singers to achieve fame through gramophone recordings. (Photo by W. & D. Downey/Getty Images)

After The Strike
15th May 1926: Resumption of work by dockers at London Bridge, after the settlement of the 1926 General Strike. (Photo by E. Bacon/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Women War Workers
circa 1915: A Woman working on an engine in an engineering shop. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Ships Propeller
May 1924: Men at work on the propellers of the merchant ship Mauretania during her refitting in the dry dock at Cherbourg

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)

Factory Visit
9th January 1930: Visitors to the Bristol Aeroplane Co works at Filton, Gloucester where the all-steel fighting planes Bristol Bulldogs are constructed

Cap Makers
July 1909: Capmakers at work in M Jacobsons factory in Manchester. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Painting Wings
9th January 1930: Workers at the Bristol Aeroplane Co works at Filton, Gloucester, spraying identification markings onto the wings of the Bristol Bulldog

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)

Cable Layer
10th October 1935: Residents of Greenwich, London, waving goodye to the Dominia a cable laying ship on its way to work in the Mediterranean. (Photo by A. Hudson/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Shaping Propellers
9th January 1930: Workers at the Bristol Aeroplane Company works in Filton, Gloucester shaping and balancing propellers for the Bristol Bulldog

Cider Works
Workers shovelling sag (the remains of pressed apples) into a basket at Henley and Sons cider works at Newton Abbot in Devon, 1908. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Cider Works
Tons of apples are delivered by horse-drawn cart to be stored in the pound at Henley and Sons cider works, Newton Abbot, Devon, 1908. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Animal skins on an earth pit in tannery of Fez, FAšs-Boulemane, Morocco

Decorated capital, ruins of the Roman City Leptis Magna, Libya

Gothic portal of the basilica, Dominican monastery Mosteiro de Santa Maria da Vitoria, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Batalha, Portugal, Europe

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