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".