Traction Engine at The English Electric Co., Stafford
This Pickford's traction engine is King Carnival II and she is pictured towing a turbine generator stator frame out of Gate 6, at the English Electric’s Lichfield Road Works in Stafford. In the background ...
Training session at Post Office Telephones Central Training School, Yarnfield
A training session in one of the Duncan Hall buildings. The students are being trained in electronic circuit testing.
Duncan Hall, Beatty Hall and Howard Hall (all named after Royal Navy Admirals) ...
Transformer assembly section , English Electric, Stafford
Photograph taken by Alan Bevington who worked as a photographer for English Electric from the mid-fifties until laid off in the late seventies.
Transformer works, English Electric Co., Stafford
This photograph of a new sign on the English Electric’s Transformer Works building was taken from Stychields car park at the Lichfield Road Works in Stafford. The sign was illuminated at night and visible ...
Trophy, English Electric Co.. Stafford
This Shield was used by the English Electric Co. Stafford, Works Services Departments for their Inter-Department competitions.
The Shield contains emblems representing the various Departments and also ...
Tug and locomotive, GEC Alsthom, Stafford
On the right (left to right) are David Jones and Bernard Duffy who are pictured outside GEC Alsthom Turbine Generators Ltd.'s Over-Speed Control Room on the Lichfield Road site at Queensville in Stafford. ...
Universal Grinding Wheel Bowls Club, Doxey, Stafford
Universal Grinding Wheel Bowls Club, runners-up in the Stone and District Bowling League, Division Three, 1934.
Back row (left to right): S. Carringtom, E Crutchley, A. Blunt, E. Kirk, F. Brough, G. ...
Universal Grinding Wheel Co. Ltd, Stafford
View of the machine shop where wheels are finally cut to size, showing turning lathes. Inside Factory No.1 at the Universal Grinding Wheel factory on Doxey Road, Stafford, built in 1912.
The origins ...
Universal Grinding Wheel Co. Ltd, Stafford
A view of the experimental department showing a grinder expert testing a wheel on a motor crank shaft. Inside Factory No.1 at the Universal Grinding Wheel factory on Doxey Road, Stafford, built in 1912. ...
Universal Grinding Wheel Co. Ltd, Stafford
The Laboratory block at the Universal Grinding Wheel factory on Doxey Road, Stafford, built in 1947. It adjoined the main Office building (off the picture, to the left).
The origins of Universal go ...
Universal Grinding Wheel Co. Ltd, Stafford
Factory No.3 at the Universal Grinding Wheel Co. factory on Doxey Road, Stafford. This is where machining and finishing processes took place.
The origins of Universal go back to Rooper & Harris Ltd’s ...
Universal Grinding Wheel Co. Ltd, Stafford
Showing part of the battery of testing machines where wheels undergo the severest stresses before passing to the inspection department. Inside Factory No.1 at the Universal Grinding Wheel factory on ...
Universal Grinding Wheel Co. Ltd, Stafford
Accurately weighed bonding materials being conveyed to the mixing department. Inside Factory No.1 at the Universal Grinding Wheel factory on Doxey Road, Stafford.
The origins of Universal go back ...
Universal Grinding Wheel Co. Ltd, Stafford
A line of electric arc abrasive fusing furnaces. The raw material is melted to form a crystalline structure at temperatures approaching 4,000 degrees centigrade. Inside Factory No.1 at the Universal ...
Universal Grinding Wheel Co. Ltd, Stafford
Showing four of the battery of kilns. This department is where the raw product was vitrified to form the grinding wheel. The kiln shown in the foreground is in course of firing and had a capacity of 14 ...
Universal Grinding Wheel Co. Ltd, Stafford
The control room containing instruments for recording and automatically controlling kiln temperature at all stages of the firing cycle of grinding wheels. Inside Factory No.1 at the Universal Grinding ...
Universal Grinding Wheel Co. Ltd, Stafford
An aerial view of the Universal Grinding Wheel Co. Ltd. factory on Doxey Road . All the office and manufacturing buildings can be seen, and at the top of the image can be seen the cricket ground, and ...
Universal Grinding Wheel Co. Ltd, Stafford
A corner of the mixing shop inside Factory No.1 at the Universal Grinding Wheel factory on Doxey Road, Stafford, built in 1912. In the middle foreground are multi-planular rockers, used to exclude the ...