3-022-183 - British Pathe Ltd/Heritage Images

Male Civilians Working Large Presses in a Factory, 1931. 'Science, progress - little doubt that the sky was the limit. The first of the thirties promised everything. Everywhere you looked you could find the ingenious applications of the new knowledge...the really great revolution was mass production - the turning out of everything for everybody. Once, a radio set was largely a matter of a soldering iron and a do-it-yourself kit. Now, it was all production line and button-pressing, with millions emerging all ready to tune into this new and wonderful world. Radio sets, motor cars, vacuum cleaners - all such things the machines could spew out, and did'. From "Time To Remember - A New Era", 1931 (Reel 2); documentary about the world in the early 1930s.