A smith making a new spring using the John Bull coiling machine in the spring making workshop in Number 5 Machine Shop in Chatham Dockyard.

A smith making a new spring using the John Bull coiling machine in the spring making workshop in Number 5 Machine Shop in Chatham Dockyard. He is tightly holding a flexible steel rod while it is being wound round the drum of the coiling machine. Transparencies numbers PCT3296 and PCT3298 to PCT3303 were taken on the same occasion.

Object Details

ID: PCT3299
Type: Colour transparency
Display location: Not on display
Creator: National Maritime Museum Photographic Studio.
Date made: May - June 1983
Measurements: Mount: 50 mm x 50 mm;Transparency: 35 mm x 40 mm