Reference
Z630/6/2
Title
Booklet entitled A Souvenir of Vauxhall given to E.J.Morgans on his visit to the plant giving a synopsis of tours given around the works and including photographs as follows:
- drawing of the works in 1905;
- silver salver made from trophies won by Vauxhall cars;
- front entrance with guard;
- workers at profit sharing pay out;
- workers playing snooker and billiards in the canteen billiard room;
- giant press for making door panels;
- employees at work in the gear shop;
- electric waiter to load and unload furnaces in the heat treatment section;
- employees at work on the manifold line section of the engine parts machine shop;
- workers being treated by nurses in the surgery; machine for rifle drilling four connecting rods at the continued same time;
- artist's impression aerial view of the works site;
- interior of the kitchen;
- employees at work on the engine assembly line;
- engines undergoing running in;
- machine for shaping wood;
- employees at work at a multiple wood drill;
- overhead view of employees at work at the giant presses;
- employee at work on a machine for brake drums;
- employees at work on radiator cores in the soldering stage;
- employees working on Bedford van bodies on the production line;
- employee at work at an automatic bar lathe;
- employees soldering header and bottom tanks to radiator cores;
- employees at work in the 6.5 acre K Block;
- employees building front axle units;
- employee shaping petrol tanks;
- employee machining the Bedford back axle on giant lathes;
- employees pressing a front wing in a giant press;
- employees building differentials for Bedford back axles;
- inspector checking the wheel alignment of a Vauxhall Ten;
- chemists and metallurgists at work in the laboratory;
- inspector measuring tension of independent suspension springs;
- inspector testing the hardness of forgings;
- inspector measuring main bearings;
- inspector testing a gear box in the noise testing room;
- inspector noise testing two pairs of helical gears;
- inspector checking the dimension of cylinder bores after honing;
- inspector measuring the efficiency of shock absorbers;
- acoustics engineer testing sound insulation inside a car;
- inspector testing shock absorber pistons
Date free text
1938
Production date
From: 1938 To: 1938
Level of description
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