|
Image Reference Number:
|
ESF17_02_07
|
|
Title:
|
Ercol employee operating a steam bending machine
|
|
Photographer:
|
unknown
|
|
Date:
|
1976
|
|
Decade:
|
1970-1979
|
|
Manufacturer:
|
Ercol Furniture Ltd.
|
|
Description:
|
Ercol employee operating a steam bending machine. The operator is turning the wheel which is moving the steamed parts up to the former. The operation is nearing completion, as the parts meet the former and the parts are locked into position. Other finished bent parts can be seen in the top left.
|
|
Notes:
|
This image is an outtake from Ercol's 'Craft Around the World' slide presentation from 1976. Date is from the presentation's slide carousel box.
|
|
Concepts:
|
manufacturing , employees , furniture
|
|
Technical Terms & Materials:
|
bending , formers
|
|
Copyright:
|
contact HWeFA for details about re-use of this image
|
|
Collection Title:
|
HWeFA
|
|
Object Type:
|
transparency
|
|
Object Dimensions (cm.):
|
3.6 x 2.4
|
|
Colour Type:
|
colour
|
|
Context:
|
In Bag 2 of Ercol Craft World folders
|
|
Cataloguer:
|
Sharon Grover
|
|
Auto ID Number:
|
265
|
|
Categories:
|
People/
People at Work,
Furniture Manufacturing/
Processes/
Machining
|
