Multi-Spindle Drilling Machines on Aero-Engine Work
Summary
A factory scene depicting four people at work. Three overall-wearing men stand stationed at large, silver multi-spindle drilling machines with a conveyor belt in the foreground. The central figure turns to his left and reaches to lift a piece of machinery off the belt. On the far right, a woman wearing a blue cap and overalls is stationed at a smaller drilling machine. The scene depicts drilling machines engineering cylinders on Rolls Royce Merlin X V12 aircraft-engine blocks. The Merlin powered the Lancaster Bomber. 34,000 of them were made in this new Ford Motor Company Ltd. factory on the site where the Model T was made for the UK.
Object Name
Multi-Spindle Drilling Machines on Aero-Engine Work
Creators Name
Date Created
1944
Dimensions
unframed: 56.4cm x 76.5cm
framed: 84.8cm x 64.8cm
accession number
1945.6
Place of creation
England
Support
canvas
Medium
oil
Credit
Presented by Ford Motor Company Ltd.
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