Photographs - Collingwood Technical School, Allan Studios, Mounted photographs of Trade School CTS, circa 1940, Early 1940s

Historical information

Collingwood Technical School trained apprentices in many trades. These photographs depict some of the machines and machine parts built in class. Captions : 1. Marking off and checking castings
2. Examples of other machine parts, etc., being made in Youth Employment classes in engineering machine shop.
3. Cutting the traversing screw for a 5 ¼ inch lathe.
4. Grinding lathe spindle.
5. Cutting helical flutes in a shell end mill.
6. Arbor Press. Another valuable machine produced by Youth Employment and senior technical evening students.
7. Milling angular slides of lathe saddle.
8. 5 ¼ inch lathe product of Collingwood Technical School.

Significance

These are high quality professional photographs taken circa 1940.

Physical description

8 black and white photographs mounted on brown card. Photographs depict various aspects of lathe work.

Inscriptions & markings

Each photograph has a hand written caption on the front. Also handwritten in black pen "Allan Studios".

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