Factory employees working on the bottom boom which is being dressed on two faces and fitted to ...

Factory employees working on the bottom boom which is being dressed on two faces and fitted to jig. The boom is part 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, a former furniture factory, 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.