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• WAR INDUSTRY IN BRITAIN 1939-1945

  part of "MINISTRY OF FUEL AND POWER, MINISTRY OF MINES SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Factory Entertainments and Visits: Coal miners, on a trip to an armament factory, looking through the barrels of 5.25 inch anti-aircraft guns.

• WAR INDUSTRY IN BRITAIN 1939-1945

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Production official photographer

  The Wartime Workforce: Seven Northamptonshire outworkers, who produced thousands of filter parts, shown working in cramped conditions in a private house. Materials, skilled guidance and tools were provided by the parent factory.

• CECIL BEATON PHOTOGRAPHS: TYNESIDE SHIPYARDS, ENGLAND, 1943

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Beaton Cecil

  The end of the shift. Tens of workers, both male and female, having finished their work stream off a large vessel and through the shipyard.

• WAR INDUSTRY IN BRITAIN 1939-1945

  part of "MINISTRY OF LABOUR SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information official photographer

  Aircraft construction: Women workers attaching the skin of an aircraft to its frame; one operates a pneumatic air hammer which produces rivets, while another uses a dolly on the opposite side of the skin.

• WAR INDUSTRY IN BRITAIN 1939-1945

  part of "MINISTRY OF LABOUR SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information official photographer

  Aircraft construction: A group of women work on the final assembly of a Bristol Beaufighter aircraft.

• WEST INDIANS IN BRITAIN DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "MINISTRY OF LABOUR SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information official photographer

  West Indian Labour Force in Britain: The Chairman of Merseyside Labour Supply Committee greets a party of Jamaican technicians on behalf of the Minister of Labour.

• WEST INDIANS IN BRITAIN DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "MINISTRY OF LABOUR SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information official photographer

  West Indian Labour Force in Britain: A group of Jamaican technicians, who had recently arrived in Britain, leave buses outside West India House.

• WEST INDIANS IN BRITAIN DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information official photographer

  West Indian aid to Britain: The people of Jamaica supply a Crusader tank to Britain: Lieutenant Colonel Yeo (left, from the War Office) and Major General J S Crawford (Deputy Director General of Fighting Vehicle Production) at the hand-over of the tank...

• WAR INDUSTRY IN BRITAIN 1939-1945

  part of "MINISTRY OF LABOUR SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information official photographer

  Munitions production: A skilled woman welding an 18 gauge mild steel tube around which are welded eight right-angle brackets.

• WAR INDUSTRY IN BRITAIN 1939-1945

  part of "MINISTRY OF LABOUR SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information official photographer

  Munitions production: A woman truck driver transports heavy loads around a factory shop.