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(132) L.935 - Casting new parts for lorries from broken scrap in France
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > Photographers > David McLellan > (132) L.935 - Casting new parts for lorries from broken scrap in France |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74548902 |
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| Description | This photograph is a posed scene to illustrate all the stages involved in casting machine parts. On the left, men are packing sand around the patterns to make the moulds. To the right, a man is making holes in the mould to pour in the metal and release gas. In the centre, two men are pretending to pour metal, although the crucible is empty. In front of them is an open mould with a complete casting. Sand-casting is still commonly used in the production of small machine parts. The sand has to be very fine and slightly moist so that it retains the shape of the pattern. It is a very quick method of making a lot of the same type of part. [Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE. Casting new parts for lorries from broken scrap in France.'] |
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| Description | Formerly a photographer with the 'Daily Mirror’, a newspaper which led the field in pictorial journalism, McLellan was appointed as an official war photographer in December 1917 along with Tom Aitken whose work also features in this collection. McLellan is especially noted for his work capturing the huge scale of operations on the Front. McLellan was one of five official photographers working on the Western Front, for the propaganda department during the last two years of the war. The photographers were driven to the site the authorities wanted them to photograph, which meant that most of their material was also largely censored. This did not, however, mean that the photographer did not get to know the people in the picture. |
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| Description | Black-and-white photographs mainly of the Western Front during the First World War. Official British war photographers took many of them for propaganda purposes. Unless otherwise stated, titles are the photographs' original captions. From the papers of Field Marshal (Earl) Haig (1861-1928). The Haig Papers also contain Douglas Haig’s diaries. |
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| Shelfmark | Acc.3155 |
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