Factory employees with the finished spar of a DH-98 Mosquito Bomber aircraft being masked for ...

Accession Number P03823.007
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
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

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Factory employees with the finished spar of a DH-98 Mosquito Bomber aircraft being masked for painting (centre) and planing the top boom before machining (right). 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 Mosquito Bomber aircraft. 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.

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