Early Industrial Processes
Excellent footage of industrial processes from 1910 to the 1950s. Footage shows factories, shipyards and women working on munitions and military aircraft.
Start T/C End T/C Shot Description
00:08:54 - 00:16:23 large machine shop, men working at machines, display of hand tools, crane lifting heavy parts, Herbert Devlieg Spiramatic
jigmill, man riding through workshop on motorised cart. Circa 1950s
00:16:23 - 00:17:57 factory workers, pouring molten steel into molds circa 1950s
00:17:58 - 00:19:31 Scientists in white lab coats working in laboratory, test tubes, glass beakers, lab equipment, working with samples and diagnostic
& measuring equipment, circa 1950s
00:19:32 - 00:23:45 men working in bottling plant, rigging up machinery, glass bottles processed along conveyor, packing machine, bottles being taken off production line, bottle processing machines, circa 1950s
00:23:46 - 00:24:45 men working at industrial machines, component parts being processed, circa 1950s
00:16:59 - 00:19:06 colour, shipbuilding, large sections of steel being moved by huge crane, men in hard hats, steel girders, huge tanker in background
00:06:04 - 00:06:36 large factory full of women working on lathes circa 1910s / 1920s
00:06:42 - 00:07:32 hundreds of women working in huge munitions factory, making fuses, assembling and filling shells, men supervising their work, 1910s / 1920s
00:11:24 - 00:12:14 steel works, molten steel being tapped from a furnace, forging an ignot into a billet, then transported out by steam train, 1910s /1920s
00:00:20 - 00:01:18 circa 1940s women working in aircraft factory (possibly building Spitfires) using hand tools to drive in rivets, assembling sections of airframe
00:02:43 - 00:02:53 woman welding wearing protective goggles, circa 1940s
10:11:12 - 10:11:56 large aircraft factory, men working on construction of early bi-planes & flying boats circa 1920s-30s
00:01:05 - 00:04:34 circa 1940s huge aircraft factory, men working on assembly of geodetic frame of Wellesley aircraft, wing taking shape
00:04:34 - 00:06:24 aircraft factory, circa 1940s, women covering Wellesley airframe with cloth and stitching cloth in place
00:06:24 - 00:15:19 men working on aircraft assembly, various sections of airframe being put into place, rows of aircraft frames and component parts, circa 1940s
00:53:28 - 00:55:25 shipbuilding, welding, huge cranes moving large sections of keep into place, working on various sections of ship, construction of super tanker Spiros Niarchos circa 1950s
FULL SYNOPSIS
jigmill, man riding through workshop on motorised cart. Circa 1950s
00:16:23 - 00:17:57 factory workers, pouring molten steel into molds circa 1950s
00:17:58 - 00:19:31 Scientists in white lab coats working in laboratory, test tubes, glass beakers, lab equipment, working with samples and diagnostic
& measuring equipment, circa 1950s
00:19:32 - 00:23:45 men working in bottling plant, rigging up machinery, glass bottles processed along conveyor, packing machine, bottles being taken off production line, bottle processing machines, circa 1950s
00:23:46 - 00:24:45 men working at industrial machines, component parts being processed, circa 1950s
00:16:59 - 00:19:06 colour, shipbuilding, large sections of steel being moved by huge crane, men in hard hats, steel girders, huge tanker in background
00:06:04 - 00:06:36 large factory full of women working on lathes circa 1910s / 1920s
00:06:42 - 00:07:32 hundreds of women working in huge munitions factory, making fuses, assembling and filling shells, men supervising their work, 1910s / 1920s
00:11:24 - 00:12:14 steel works, molten steel being tapped from a furnace, forging an ignot into a billet, then transported out by steam train, 1910s /1920s
00:00:20 - 00:01:18 circa 1940s women working in aircraft factory (possibly building Spitfires) using hand tools to drive in rivets, assembling sections of airframe
00:02:43 - 00:02:53 woman welding wearing protective goggles, circa 1940s
10:11:12 - 10:11:56 large aircraft factory, men working on construction of early bi-planes & flying boats circa 1920s-30s
00:01:05 - 00:04:34 circa 1940s huge aircraft factory, men working on assembly of geodetic frame of Wellesley aircraft, wing taking shape
00:04:34 - 00:06:24 aircraft factory, circa 1940s, women covering Wellesley airframe with cloth and stitching cloth in place
00:06:24 - 00:15:19 men working on aircraft assembly, various sections of airframe being put into place, rows of aircraft frames and component parts, circa 1940s
00:53:28 - 00:55:25 shipbuilding, welding, huge cranes moving large sections of keep into place, working on various sections of ship, construction of super tanker Spiros Niarchos circa 1950s