Holden's Motor Body Builders Ltd, Woodville, machinery and operations [BRG 213/77/80/1-57] • Photograph

Women working at sewing machines, Woodville.

Women working at sewing machines, Woodville.

Trim section with figures on wall out front.

Workshop at Woodville.

Workshop at Woodville.

Black and white photographs of manufacturing operations inside the Holden's Motor Body Builders Ltd (HMBB)factory at Woodville. Includes photographs taken in the plant when operating as General Motors-Holden's Limited. Comprising images of workers at metal and woodworking machinery in the workshop, and also in the drafting department, laboratory, trim section, nickel plating, forge, and making window trims and seat coil springs.

Cutting machine at Woodville.

Cutting machine at Woodville.

Black and white photographs of manufacturing operations inside the Holden's Motor Body Builders Ltd (HMBB)factory at Woodville. Includes photographs taken in the plant when operating as General Motors-Holden's Limited. Comprising images of workers at metal and woodworking machinery in the workshop, and also in the drafting department, laboratory, trim section, nickel plating, forge, and making window trims and seat coil springs.

Workers in the foundry at Woodville.

Workers in the foundry at Woodville.

Believed to be the hot bed[?] used to cool cast metals.

Nickel plating[?] at Woodville.

Nickel plating[?] at Woodville.

Workers at baths and buffing machines.

Drafting room.

Drafting room.

Workers with drafting tables and tools at Woodville.

Yard at Woodville.

Yard at Woodville.

Black and white photographs of manufacturing operations inside the Holden's Motor Body Builders Ltd (HMBB)factory at Woodville. Includes photographs taken in the plant when operating as General Motors-Holden's Limited. Comprising images of workers at metal and woodworking machinery in the workshop, and also in the drafting department, laboratory, trim section, nickel plating, forge, and making window trims and seat coil springs.

Making wooden frame joints.

Making wooden frame joints.

Black and white photographs of manufacturing operations inside the Holden's Motor Body Builders Ltd (HMBB)factory at Woodville. Includes photographs taken in the plant when operating as General Motors-Holden's Limited. Comprising images of workers at metal and woodworking machinery in the workshop, and also in the drafting department, laboratory, trim section, nickel plating, forge, and making window trims and seat coil springs.

Worker at machinery, Woodville.

Worker at machinery, Woodville.

With car panels alongside.

Working on large machinery part.

Working on large machinery part.

In the workshop, Woodville.

Working at drafting tables.

Working at drafting tables.

Black and white photographs of manufacturing operations inside the Holden's Motor Body Builders Ltd (HMBB)factory at Woodville. Includes photographs taken in the plant when operating as General Motors-Holden's Limited. Comprising images of workers at metal and woodworking machinery in the workshop, and also in the drafting department, laboratory, trim section, nickel plating, forge, and making window trims and seat coil springs.

Welding at HMBB.

Welding at HMBB.

Black and white photographs of manufacturing operations inside the Holden's Motor Body Builders Ltd (HMBB)factory at Woodville. Includes photographs taken in the plant when operating as General Motors-Holden's Limited. Comprising images of workers at metal and woodworking machinery in the workshop, and also in the drafting department, laboratory, trim section, nickel plating, forge, and making window trims and seat coil springs.

Worker at large machine.

Worker at large machine.

In workshop at Woodville.

Workers at machinery.

Workers at machinery.

Workshop at Woodville.

Windscreen section.

Windscreen section.

Workers putting windscreen and quarter window frames onto glass for car windows, Woodville.

Making car window frames.

Making car window frames.

Workers manufacturing metal frames for quarter windows, Woodville.

Machinery for moulding metal trim.

Machinery for moulding metal trim.

Believed to be a machine used for curving metal trim or window fram strips, Woodville, with spaces for 'Chev moulds', 'Willy's', and 'Austin' on the wall behind.

Churchill grinder, Woodville.

Churchill grinder, Woodville.

Believed to be an internal grinding machine.

Roller and overhead crane, Woodville.

Roller and overhead crane, Woodville.

Worker driving a bridge crane towards a large sheet roller outside the workshop.

Workers preparing sheet metal, Woodville.

Workers preparing sheet metal, Woodville.

With a bridge crane above in the workshop.

Seat spring manufacture, Woodville.

Seat spring manufacture, Woodville.

Rows of machinery for coiling seat springs, with wire feeding from spools.

Holbrook lathe, Woodville.

Holbrook lathe, Woodville.

Worker at the lathing machine in sectioned off area in workshop.

Dean, Smith and Grace lathe, Woodville.

Dean, Smith and Grace lathe, Woodville.

Worker at a large metal lathe in workshop, with swarf on the ground.

Workers at lathes, drills and milling machines.

Workers at lathes, drills and milling machines.

In the workshop at Woodville.

Forging machinery, Woodville.

Forging machinery, Woodville.

Employees working in the forge.

Milling machinery, Woodville.

Milling machinery, Woodville.

Worker at a large machine with a Cincinnati milling machine alongside.

Niles milling machine, Woodville.

Niles milling machine, Woodville.

Worker operating what is believed to be a large Niles horizontal milling machine.