1-157-794 - Oxford Science Archive/Heritage Images

Bicycle manufacture, France, 1896. Shaping the wheel rims. The machinery is all driven from a central power source through belt-and-shafting. In the right foreground a man is passing a metal strip through a shaping machine. It is then passed along the production line to the forge at the rear. Men at the grindstones wear protective goggles. Fish-tail gas lights provide illumination.