2-631-820 - Historic England/Heritage Images

Aircraft manufacturing, Dick, Kerr & Company, Strand Road, Preston, Lancashire, January 1918. Women working on the fabric of seaplane wings. One of a series of photographs taken for Dick, Kerr and Company, a locomotive and tramcar manufacturer. During the First World War the company made aircraft designed by the Seaplane Experimental Station, based at the Royal Naval Air Station in Felixstowe.