English Electric Co., Stafford
Pictured is a 'shop floor’ area at The English Electric Co. Lichfield Road Site in Stafford. On the left are stators in various stages of assembly and on the right several rotors are being manufactured. ...
English Electric Co., Stafford
This view shows the Asquith Machining Centre in the Turbine Generator Division on the former Main Works site on Lichfield Road, Stafford.
The Asquith, whilst still large, was a smaller version of ...
English Electric Co., Stafford
This group photograph was taken during a visit to the English Electric, Stafford Works by Sir Gilbert Rennie, the High Commissioner of Southern Rhodesia (which later became Zimbabwe) and Nyasaland (which ...
English Electric Co., Stafford
Left to right: Mrs A H Wroe, Mrs M S Thacker, Mr M S Thacker, Dr G F Tagg, Mrs C D King and Miss J V MacDonald are pictured during a visit to the English Electric’s Stafford Works. The Stafford factory ...
English Electric Co., Stafford
This picture from a glass negative was taken in the Turbine Generator Division, in an area often known as '68 Bay’ which was located on the former Lichfield Road Site in Stafford, near to the railway ...
English Electric Co., Stafford
The employee in this photograph is holding a small coil in her left hand. The manufacture of small coils could involve several hundred (possibly 300/400) turns of insulated wire round a laminated core ...
English Electric Co., Stafford
This group photograph was taken during a visit to the English Electric, Stafford Works by the Right Reverend A.S. Reeve, Bishop of Lichfield.
Left to right: unknown; unknown; Mr E.W. Peace; the Right ...
English Electric Co., Stafford
Pictured is a ‘shop floor’ area at the English Electric Co. Lichfield Road Site in Stafford. In the centre is a typical large rotor manufactured at the site. At a later stage this rotor would be threaded ...
English Electric Co., Stafford
This group photograph was taken during a visit to the English Electric, Stafford Works by the Right Honourable David Eccles, M.P. and Minister of the Board of Trade.
Left to right: wearing a bowler ...
English Electric Co., Stafford
This view is taken at the west end of a ‘shop floor’ area known as 112 Shop. Workers are seen in a pit making a concrete foundation which would later form part of a base for a very large machine known ...
English Electric Co., Stafford
Senior English Electric staff and Army personnel are pictured during a visit to the Lichfield Road Works in Stafford. In the 1940s representatives from British and American forces were regular visitors ...
English Electric Co., Stafford
This English Electric employee is pictured standing by a rotor in the Rotor Shop. In the background on the left a large lathe has another rotor fixed onto it and across the top of the picture there is ...
English Electric Co., Stafford and the Ministry of Supply
English Electric staff and a Ministry of Supply employee are pictured during a visit to the Stafford Works. In the 1940s representatives from the Ministry of Supply were regular visitors to the factory. ...
English Electric Co., Stafford Works Fire Engine
Pictured is the English Electric Co. Land Rover fire engine which was painted bright red. It was housed in the Lichfield Road site Fire Station along with pumps and firefighting equipment and stood alongside ...
English Electric Co., Stafford, Switchgear Drawing Office
The English Electric Co.'s Lichfield Road Site in Stafford was renowned for its electrical products including generators, transformers and switchgear. There were separate departments with their own Drawing ...
English Electric Co., Stafford, Switchgear Drawing Office
The English Electric Co. on their Lichfield Road site in Stafford was renowned for its electrical products including generators, transformers and switchgear. There were separate departments with their ...
English Electric test workshop, Glover Street, Stafford
Pictured is John Underhill by a development thyristor valve in the High Voltage Test facility at Glover Street in Stafford. This thyristor valve would be one part of an arm of a bridge on a valve, and ...
English Electric Tool Room, Stafford
English Electric Tool Room 24 Shop. Charles Pearson is on the extreme right. He served his time at Bagnall's Engineering Works in Stafford where his father John and brother William also worked.
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