| Accession Number | P03823.002 |
|---|---|
| Collection type | Photograph |
| Object type | Black & white - Print silver gelatin |
| Maker |
Kent, Milton |
| Place made | Australia: New South Wales, Sydney, Leichhardt |
| Date made | c 1945 |
| Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
| Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
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Factory employees working on the top and bottom boom, splicing, glueing and clamping of a rear ...
Description
Factory employees working on the top and bottom boom, splicing, glueing and clamping of a rear spar of a DH-98 Mosquito Bomber aircraft. This image is one of several put together in a promotional booklet after the end of the Second World War by F Dickin Pty Ltd, a plant at Leichhardt NSW which was employed to produce the rear spar of the DH-98. With the end of the war, the factory announced it was ready for new trade and used the war work in which it had been engaged as a means of announcing its new found skills and efficiencies and that it was ready for an expanding trade. F Dickin Pty Ltd was one of a number of companies taken over by De Havilland to produce components of the DH-98. Other Sydney furniture factories produced other components: Rickets and Thorp Pty Ltd, front spar; Bray and Halliday Pty Ltd, wing skins; Reilton and Griffin, tank doors. The fuselage was produced at the piano factory of Beale and Co Ltd at Annandale, NSW.