3-008-486 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: casting the shot and shell for 100 pounders, 1862. 'In viewing the manner in which the work is carried out in the various branches of the Royal Gun Factories we were much struck with the high state of efficiency which appertained to all around us. The order and regularity which prevails, combined with the honest energy of the individual workman, left an agreeable impression on us that the British public had in the event of war a reliable resource to make its strength felt in the shape of Armstrong guns...The number of Armstrong guns completed since their first introduction to the service, we understood, is upwards of sixteen hundred, which goes to prove that untiring exertions must have been made to realise this work by those who had the direction of affairs'. From "Illustrated London News", 1862.