Munitions Industry Collection (page 2)

Planing Big Shells, 1916. Creator: Joseph Pennell
Planing Big Shells, 1916

The Shell Factory, 1916. Creator: Joseph Pennell
The Shell Factory, 1916

Munition Works, 1916. Creator: Joseph Pennell
Munition Works, 1916

The New Gun-Pit, 1916. Creator: Joseph Pennell
The New Gun-Pit, 1916

Britains Army of Women Workers, First World War, 1914-1918, (c1920). Creator: Unknown
Britains Army of Women Workers, First World War, 1914-1918, (c1920)....mess room at a national projectile factory. From " The Great World War: A History", Volume VI

Women Workers and the War... First World War, 1914-1918, (c1920). Creator: Unknown
Women Workers and the War: drilling and assembling operations on fuses, First World War, 1914-1918, (c1920). From " The Great World War: A History", Volume VI, edited by Frank A Mumby

Women at Work that Men might Fight, 1916. Creator: Unknown
Women at Work that Men might Fight, 1916. From " The War Illustrated Album De Luxe - Volume IV. The Summer Campaign - 1915", edited by J. A. Hammerton

Women Workers for the War, c1914-1918, (c1920). Creator: Unknown
Women Workers for the War, c1914-1918, (c1920). Shell-making in one of the Scottish munition works. Women manufacturing shells in a factory during the First World War

Leaving the Munition Works, 1918, 1920. Artist: Winifred Knights
Leaving the Munition Works, 1918, 1920. From Londoners Then and Now As Pictured By Their Contemporaries, edited by Geoffrey Holme. [The Studio Ltd. London, 1920]

Male munitions workers in Engineering Shop, School of Building, Brixton, London, 1915. Men working at benches with belt driven machinery

Female munitions workers, Shoreditch Technical Institute, London, 1915
Female munitions workers, mechanical engineering workshop, Shoreditch Technical Institute, London, 1915

Scene at Silvertown following an explosion in a munitions factory, London, World War I, 1917. The explosion, which happened at 6.52 pm on Friday 19 January, killed 73 people and injured over 400

Watts Shot Tower, Lambeth, London, 1813. View with Somerset House behind and to the left of the tower

Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, Kent, 1841. View showing soldiers and civilians examining cannon balls. Established in the late 17th century

Women munitions workers putting a coat of paint on aerial bombs, World War I, c1914-c1918

Munition City, 1916, (1917). Artist: Joseph Pennell
Munition City, 1916, (1917). From Bibbys Annual 1917, [J. Bibby & Sons, Liverpool, 1917]

Boys of Bradfield College making shell parts, Berkshire, c1916 (1928). From The Wonder Book of Soldiers for Boys and Girls, edited by Harry Golding. [Ward. Lock & Co

Appeal for aluminum, 1940, (1940). On 9th July 1940, Lord Beaverbrook, Minister of Aircraft Production, made an appeal for the nation to provide aluminum found in household objects to be used in

A munitions factory, World War I, 1917 (1938). Artist: Horace Walter Nicholls
A munitions factory, World War I, 1917 (1938). Munitions workers with shells in a warehouse at National Shell Filling Factory No 6 at Chilwell, Nottinghamshire

Munition Workers Wearing Respirators While Filling Sells with Trinitrotoluene (T. N. T. ), c1916, (19)
Munition Workers Wearing Respirators While Filling Sells with Trinitrotoluene (T.N.T.), c1916, (1935). From His Majesty The King 1910-1935. [Associated Newspapers Ltd. London, 1935]

Where The Shells Came From (Sheffield), c1927, (1927). Artist: Reginald Belfield
Where The Shells Came From (Sheffield), c1927, (1927). From From Landscape To Studio, by Reginald Belfield. [Methuen & Co. Ltd, London, 1927]

Girl munition workers at their lathes in a Scottish mill, c1914. By June 1917, roughly 80% of the weaponry and ammunition used by the British army during World War I was being made by munitionettes

The Czar, taken among the workmen at the great Putiloff Munition and Engineering Works, 1914
A photograph of the Czar, taken among the workmen at the great Putiloff Munition and Engineering Works at Petrograd, c1914. Tsar Nicholas II (1868?1918) visits the Putilov Works in Petrograd

His Majesty inspects the shells at Holmes and Co Ltd, Hull, Yorkshire, World War I, c1914-c1918. King George V visiting a munitions works. Stereoscopic card. Detail

Munitions factory, London, World War I, 1914-1918. Artist: Haua
Munitions factory, London, World War I, 1914-1918

Munitions factory workers, London, World War I, 1914-1918. Artist: Haua
Munitions factory workers, London, World War I, 1914-1918. Group portrait of workers in a factory producing bombs. The photographers shadow can be seen in the foreground

Moulding explosive gum cartridges, Isleten, near Fluelen, Switzerland, 1893. A print from the Illustrated London News, 7th January 1893

Views in the Royal Small Arms Factory, Enfield, c1880. The boilerhouse, grindery, annealing furnaces, brasswork, forges. A print from Great Industries of Great Britain, Volume I

In the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, c1880. The shot and shell foundry, the shot yard, bullet making, carriage department, turning room, and forging a breech coil

Packing cartridges into boxes at Isleten, near Fluelen, Switzerland, 1893. A print from the Illustrated London News, (7 January 1893)

Filling cartridges with dynamite powder at Isleten, near Fluelen, Switzerland, 1893. A print from the Illustrated London News, (7 January 1893)

Woolwich Arsenal, London, 20th Century. Established in the late 17th century, Woolwich Arsenal was named the Royal Arsenal by George III in 1805

Alfred Krupp, 19th century German metallurgist and industrialist, (1900). In 1826, aged only 14, Alfred Krupp (1812-1887) took over the steel-making factory founded by his father Friedrich

Women manufacturing shell casings in a Russian factory, World War II, 1943

Young girls assembling machine guns in a Russian factory, 1943

German state munition factory, World War I, 1917. A woman working at a 125 ton grooving press. A photograph from Der Grosse Krieg in Bildern

Filling shrapnel shells in a British munitions factory, World War I, 1914-1918

Bird s-eye view of Krupps works, Essen, Germany, 1876. In 1826, aged only 14, Alfred Krupp (1812-1887) took over the steel-making factory founded by his father Friedrich

Alfred Krupp, German industrialist and armaments manufacturer, 1886. In 1826, aged only 14, Alfred Krupp (1812-1887) took over the steel-making factory founded by his father Friedrich

The Big Push, 1916. Artist: Leonard Raven-Hill
The Big Push, 1916. A munitions worker with a trolley of new shells sending them of for a little trip to the continent (Europe) for use against the Germans

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