A smith transferring a heated spring from the electric-fired Wild Barfield furnace to a dipping tank in the spring making workshop in Number 5 Machine Shop in Chatham Dockyard.

A smith transferring a heated spring from the electric-fired Wild Barfield furnace to a dipping tank in the spring making workshop in Number 5 Machine Shop in Chatham Dockyard. He is standing well back from the open furnace and the spring is on a very long handled perforated spade. A John Bull spring coil winding machine and the peanut oil dipping tank are in the foreground. Transparencies numbers PCT3309 to PCT3312 were taken on the same occasion.

Object Details

ID: PCT3310
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