Civilian workers pose with sections of an Airspeed Horsa glider, as received from the manufacturers, before assembling it at No. 6 Maintenance Unit, Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, 26 April 1944.
IWM (CH 13022)
Miss Winifred Ashford (right) looks on as Mrs Pat Macleod tightens a nut on the wheel of her ambulance. The bonnet of the ambulance is open, ready for an inspection of the engine to be carried out. This photograph was probably taken at the depot in Paddington in 1940. Image: IWM (D 2546)
Women of the Mechanised Transport Corps at work in London England, 1940
June Beale pours tea for her friends in the dining hall at Marchant's Hill camp school for evacuees, Hindhead, Surrey, UK 1944. June is the table monitor of the group. According to the original caption, her father is a Chief Petty Officer in the Royal Navy. The children are about to tuck in to bread and jam and an apple. IWM (D 21623)
Dolly Bennett (bottom left), and Winnie Bennett (top left), with Florence Simpson and a colleague at work on the production of Hurricane fighter aircraft at a factory somewhere in Britain. IWM (D 11126)
Winnie Bennett (left) and Dolly Bennett (right) at work on the production of a Hurricane fighter aircraft at a factory somewhere in Britain WW2. IWM (D 11129)
Florence Bertold (Left) age 21 is the head of an important group of workers in the Metallurgical Laboratory of a large American steel Industry in the Easton state of New York. The Laboratory is entirely staffed by women who test the steel samples of war weapons for strength, density and other qualities. They must move heavy steel billets weighing 60 to 80 pounds around the plant, which operates 24 hours every day on three shifts. Millions of American women have entered war plants and heavy industries to release men for service in the U.S. Army Forces.
Official OWI Photo Approved by Appropriate Military Authority (AX 1183E)
Mrs A Bowker (left) and Mrs Booth-Jones pack sticky bombs, already in their protective casings, into small cases at a factory somewhere in Britain. The handles are packed around the sides of these cases, which are then sent off to a filling factory for the explosives to be added.
STICKY BOMB: THE PRODUCTION OF THE No 74 GRENADE IN BRITAIN, 1943. IWM (D 14775A)
West Indian Labour Force in Britain: A group of British Honduran Forestry workers, finished work for the day on the pine clad hills of East Lothian, Scotland, are seen talking to the manager Mr John Dunbar.
The forestry workers, left to right: Aldrick Garbutt, A Thomas, W Ellis, A Smith, E Arane and B Augustine, and manager John Dunbar.
Sally Brusse installs a hatch on a B-17 Flying Fortress on August 17th 1944 at the Boeing Company plant in Seattle, Washington. Boeing Historical Archives
Albert Edward Burnett was a skilled woodworker and cabinet maker and his skills were soon put to good use during the Second World War in construction of the detailed work that was required for components used in Mosquito aircraft production. He was also a specialist in inventing ways of using otherwise discarded and waste material turning them into useful elements for component construction.
Woman at work on London’s Tube Network, 1942, Miss Hannah Casson operates the ticket machine in her booth at a London Underground station. A queue of passengers can be seen behind the glass, waiting their turn at the window. IWM (D 9479)
WOMEN WAR WORKERS IN BRITAIN, 1943
Mrs T Charlesworth uses a lathe to machine 17-pounder gun chambers for anti-tank guns, 1943. IWM (TR 1414)
Civilian workers pose with sections of an Airspeed Horsa glider, as received from the manufacturers, before assembling it at No. 6 Maintenance Unit, Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, 26 April 1944.
IWM (CH 13022)
Miss Winifred Ashford (right) looks on as Mrs Pat Macleod tightens a nut on the wheel of her ambulance. The bonnet of the ambulance is open, ready for an inspection of the engine to be carried out. This photograph was probably taken at the depot in Paddington in 1940. Image: IWM (D 2546)
Women of the Mechanised Transport Corps at work in London England, 1940
June Beale pours tea for her friends in the dining hall at Marchant's Hill camp school for evacuees, Hindhead, Surrey, UK 1944. June is the table monitor of the group. According to the original caption, her father is a Chief Petty Officer in the Royal Navy. The children are about to tuck in to bread and jam and an apple. IWM (D 21623)
Dolly Bennett (bottom left), and Winnie Bennett (top left), with Florence Simpson and a colleague at work on the production of Hurricane fighter aircraft at a factory somewhere in Britain. IWM (D 11126)
Winnie Bennett (left) and Dolly Bennett (right) at work on the production of a Hurricane fighter aircraft at a factory somewhere in Britain WW2. IWM (D 11129)
Florence Bertold (Left) age 21 is the head of an important group of workers in the Metallurgical Laboratory of a large American steel Industry in the Easton state of New York. The Laboratory is entirely staffed by women who test the steel samples of war weapons for strength, density and other qualities. They must move heavy steel billets weighing 60 to 80 pounds around the plant, which operates 24 hours every day on three shifts. Millions of American women have entered war plants and heavy industries to release men for service in the U.S. Army Forces.
Official OWI Photo Approved by Appropriate Military Authority (AX 1183E)
Mrs A Bowker (left) and Mrs Booth-Jones pack sticky bombs, already in their protective casings, into small cases at a factory somewhere in Britain. The handles are packed around the sides of these cases, which are then sent off to a filling factory for the explosives to be added.
STICKY BOMB: THE PRODUCTION OF THE No 74 GRENADE IN BRITAIN, 1943. IWM (D 14775A)
West Indian Labour Force in Britain: A group of British Honduran Forestry workers, finished work for the day on the pine clad hills of East Lothian, Scotland, are seen talking to the manager Mr John Dunbar.
The forestry workers, left to right: Aldrick Garbutt, A Thomas, W Ellis, A Smith, E Arane and B Augustine, and manager John Dunbar.
Sally Brusse installs a hatch on a B-17 Flying Fortress on August 17th 1944 at the Boeing Company plant in Seattle, Washington. Boeing Historical Archives
Albert Edward Burnett was a skilled woodworker and cabinet maker and his skills were soon put to good use during the Second World War in construction of the detailed work that was required for components used in Mosquito aircraft production. He was also a specialist in inventing ways of using otherwise discarded and waste material turning them into useful elements for component construction.
Woman at work on London’s Tube Network, 1942, Miss Hannah Casson operates the ticket machine in her booth at a London Underground station. A queue of passengers can be seen behind the glass, waiting their turn at the window. IWM (D 9479)
WOMEN WAR WORKERS IN BRITAIN, 1943
Mrs T Charlesworth uses a lathe to machine 17-pounder gun chambers for anti-tank guns, 1943. IWM (TR 1414)
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