Sujet

Jubilee of the Railway Locomotive Factory Works at Crewe, 1876. Creator: Unknown.

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Jubilee of the Railway Locomotive Factory Works at Crewe, 1876. '...Crewe has been created and is maintained wholly by the work of manufacturing and repairing locomotive engines for the [London and North-Western] railway company...a kind of railway jubilee took place there upon the completion of their two-thousandth engine. In honour of this event, the...Company gave the 6000 men in their employ a day's holiday, and liberally paid them for the day...A procession of the workmen was formed in four separate divisions, including those of the Bessemer steelworks, the forge, the rail-works, the engine-works, erecting and fitting, the boiler-making department, the joiners', wheelwrights', and moulders' shops, the carriage-building and fitting, painting, and repairing shops, each division with its band of music, preceded by the company's fire brigade, and followed by a volunteer fire brigade'. From "Illustrated London News", 1876.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM23A81_310

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Droits gérés

Format disponible

54,4Mo (5,7Mo) / 42,0cm x 32,5cm / 4960 x 3835 (300dpi)

Mots clés

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