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• The Preparation of Flax : the Rugging Machine

  (art) Made by: Lavrin, Nora

  image: A view inside a factory with women wearing headscarves working at various machines. In the foreground a woman is carrying a large bundle. Behind her two similarly dressed women are feeding flax through the rugging machine.

• Green Flax

  (art) Made by: Lavrin, Nora 1943

  image: Two women wearing headscarves sorting and feeding flax into a machine.

• Manufacture of Small Arms : Barrel testing (inside)

  (art) Made by: Dodd, Francis (RA) 1940

  image: In the foreground there is a man in a white coat sitting at a workbench working with a lathe. Behind him are five men working in a row. Two are looking downwards and working with hammers. The other three are examining gun barrels by holding them...

• Woolwich Arsenal in 1943

  (art) Made by: Austin, Robert Sargent 1943

  image: a view of production workers inside the munitions shed at the Woolwich Arsenal in London. They are working on a large metal component of an artillery gun.

• Coming Down : the balloon's fins and rudder are full of air. A girl pulls the air vent from underneath as the bag sinks down

  (art) Made by: Austin, Robert Sargent 1941

  image: a female WAAF balloon worker, wearing overalls and with her back to the viewer, pulls the air vent of a large balloon, which is in the process of deflating.

• On The Strip-line: Churchill tanks being dismantled

  (art) Made by: Cuneo, Terence Tenison 1943

  image: the interior of a factory with men stripping down and dismantling tanks. The hulls of several Churchill tanks are arranged in a line, men busying themselves within and on top of the tanks. In the foreground two men work on a tank engine.

• WVS Bandage-making

  (art) Made by: Hudson, Eleanor Erlund 1942

  image: WVS women at work around a table. Two are standing while cutting and folding a long piece of cloth, while the other women are making rolls of bandages using a tabletop rolling machine. The table is covered in rolls of bandages.

• In the Quarry

  (art) Made by: Sutherland, Graham (OM) 1943

  image: a view into the dark interior of a hole in a quarry. Various displaced rocks surround the hole.

• The Preparation of Flax : the De-seeding Machines

  (art) Made by: Lavrin, Nora 1943

  War Artists Advisory Committee purchase

• Blood Transfusion: Filtering Serum

  (art) Made by: Gibbs, Evelyn 1943

  image: a woman in a gown and mask, with her back to the viewer, is seated in front of medical equipment set up on a bench. She is filling a plasma bottle, and more bottles stand in a crate to her right.