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Westwood Works 1903-2003 |
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These wonderful and evocative photographs date from 1923, four years after Joseph Baker & Sons merged with Perkins Engineers to become Joseph Baker Sons & Perkins. They were taken after the Great Fire of 1922 and just before the name change to Baker Perkins Ltd.
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| Commercial Office | Drawing Office | Drawing Office | Invoicing Department | General Stores Office | Drawing Office Staff | Costing, Specification and Invoicing | Board Room |
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| Paint Shop | Stores | Tool Stores and Inspection Room | Section of Plate Shop | Packing and Despatch | Turret M/C Bay | Small Lathe Bay | Small Lathe Bay |
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| Gear Cutting and Light Boring Bay | Light Drilling Bay | Boring Bay | Milling Bay | Horizontal Boring and Planing M/C Bay | Vertical Boring and Shaping M/C Bay | Horizontal Boring M/C | Grinding and Radial Drilling M/Cs |
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| Grinding M/Cs | Tool Room | Tool Room | Tool Room | Demonstration Bakery | Heat Treatment Shop | Rough Grindery | Marking Off Tables |
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| Laboratory and Metallurgical Department | Tool Stores | Inspection Room | General Stores | General Stores | Erecting Shop | Erecting Shop | Fitting Shop |
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| Fitting Shop | Erecting Shop | Erecting Shop | Packing and Despatch Department | Plate Shop | Smiths Shop | Plate Shop | Plate Shop |
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| Smith's Shop | Tube Shop | Tube Shop | Bar Stores - Cutting Off Section | Bar and Plate Stores | Power House | Foundry | Foundry |
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| Foundry | Foundry | Foundry | Foundry | Fettling Shop | Pattern Makers' and Carpenters' Shop | Pattern Makers' and Carpenters' Shop | Pattern Stores |
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