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Image Reference Number: ESF17_02_18
Title: Ercol employee operating a steam bending machine
Photographer: uknown
Date: 1976
Decade: 1970-1979
Manufacturer: Ercol Furniture Ltd.
People: Jack Holmes
Description: Ercol employee Jack Holmes (Big Jack) operating the steam bending machine. He is using a wooden mallet to ensure the timber parts stay in position during the bending operation.
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. Jack Holmes identified by Edward Tadros.
Concepts:
manufacturing
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furniture
   
Technical Terms & Materials:
bending
   
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: 278
Categories: People/ People at Work, Furniture Manufacturing/ Processes/ Machining