Factory employees fitting the bottom boom of a DH-98 Mosquito Bomber aircraft to jig, right and ...

Factory employees fitting the bottom boom of a DH-98 Mosquito Bomber aircraft to jig, right and left side. The jigs for fixing rear and front face blocks. The templates on wall indicate the block position. Mr Arthur Gardner (left) is on the floor talking to his secretary (blonde hair). Other female office employees of the company are on the factory floor, consulting notebooks or ledgers. 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.