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• Building Planes

  (art) Made by: Armstrong, John 1940

  image: A view across a factory floor showing men working on the sub-structure of two aircraft. In the background, other figures working at lathes and machinery are spotlighted on the upper and lower floors of the factory.

• Erecting Camouflage Netting at a Factory

  (art) Made by: Kennedy, Cedric John 1942

  image: A view looking up at four men sitting in the framework of camouflage netting suspended on poles above a structure painted with a camouflage patterns . The men are in the process of rolling out the textiles over the support.

• Men Fixing Feathered Netting over a Factory

  (art) Made by: Kennedy, Cedric John 1942

  image: A view looking up at two men rolling out camouflage material over the net framework, suspended above an industrial building.

• 43 Repair Group Air Frame Repair Service, Lincoln : repairing Liberator aircraft

  (art) Made by: Macdonald, Frances 1945

  image: two Liberators stand in a hangar workshop surrounded by scaffolding, wing and engine parts. Several uniformed workers stand beneath the plane.

• 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.

• War in the Forest : Newfoundland lumberjacks at work in Scotland

  (art) Made by: Sutherland, David M (MC, RSA) 1940

  image: Lumberjacks at work in a Scottish forest. In the foreground two men are cutting a large tree trunk with a saw and a man tends to a white horse. In the background other men manoeuvre the large trunk of a tree that has just been felled.

• Limestone Quarry Trucks

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

  image: crates of quarried stone sitting in wheeled trucks on rails that end at the quarry face. In the background there is a third crate which is empty, and a figure standing nearby.

• Trucks in the Quarry

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

  image: a large two-tiered rock emerges in the foreground in front of the rocky landscape of the quarry. There are several explosion trails in the dark sky.

• Study for 'Shipbuilding on the Clyde' - Catthie McGolwon

  (art) Made by: Spencer, Stanley (Sir) (RA)

  image: full-length profile portrait of a woman worker wearing dungarees and painting with a brush held in her right hand.