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Description: | Bound volume of black and white photographs, taken in 1929 recording events held to celebrate the manufacture of the millionth tyre at the Goodyear factory at Wolverhampton, including views of factory buildings and offices, and delegates attending a celebratory dinner; incomplete set of numbered black and white photographs mounted in cardboard folders, showing the different stages in the tyre manufacturing process undertaken by male and female workers at the Wolverhampton factory probably taken in the 1950s or early 1960s; large number of loose black and white photographs consisting of views of the Goodyear factory at Wolverhampton, including aerial shots at different phases in the development of the plant; other photographs of building work at the plant, from its earliest construction in the late 1920s to the construction of new buildings at the complex in the 1950s; employees at work in different departments of the factory, including a photograph taken in March 1930 of the 'Tube Room Girls', identified by name on the reverse of the photograph; official visits by members of the Institute of British Agricultural Engineers in March 1955; celebrations on the first production of the All Weather Tread tyre at Wolverhampton in 1929; the manufacture of the largest tyre in the world outside America May 1957; various civic visits; and a visit by Princess Margaret in 1967. There are some duplicates. The majority of photographs are dated on the reverse, but most are not labelled. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Archives | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Archives | Temporal: | [1920s-1960s] | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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