3-011-451 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Stephenson's locomotive manufactory at Newcastle-On-Tyne: the lathe and tool shop, 1864. View representing '...as well as a wood-engraving can render such a subject, a portion of the lathe and tool shop. There are machines and tools of every kind for turning, boring, cutting, slotting, drilling, planing, and shaping pieces of metal into every conceivable form. Their variety is astonishing, and they are packed so closely together that a stranger is unable to distinguish the crowd of mechanical contrivances, although he may look upon one of these workshops as a person ignorant of geography may look upon a map of a continent, and see nothing but a mass of confused lines. Yet there is no real confusion. Every separate part is busily engaged in producing a separate portion of an engine, without which the grand result, a noble locomotive, would not be perfect'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.