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Frances Eggleston, aged 23, came from Oklahoma, used to do office work. Removing paper from pilot's window(?), Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • perfgeek said:
    Give the workers seem to be riveting, it is unlikely they are removing paper from the pilot's window. In fact, they probably aren't even working on the cockpit - looks more like the nose or perhaps tail section.
  • marley1027 said:
    I agree with perfgeek they are riveting. The girl on the left is driving the rivet while the girl on the right is forming the shop head also known as bucking the rivet. I'll bet that at the end of the day these two couldn't hear anything. Dave
  • phoppernowlin said:
    Good image of the '40's. Nice picture.

Workers celebrating the completion of the Tyne Bridge arch

from North East Museums

  • Icy Things said:
    Tela

Riggers riveting the red-hot rivets on the lower outside south chord, Sydney Harbour Bridge, 1930-1931 / Sam Hood

from State Library of New South Wales

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  • Ian Sanderson said:
    Love the OH&S...
  • Gary Hamilton said:
    Hell of a lot of rivets ~ brave men
  • Ian Sanderson said:
    The riveters were apparently pretty amazing. The rivets were heated to red hot in furnaces on the bridge. They were then thrown from the furnace to the riveter who caught them in a tin can. There is a museum in the south east pylon of the Bridge where they show film of this.
  • nippy2009 said:
    This bridge was certainly built to last , no short cuts in those days.
  • fulvue said:
    And there are a substantial number of 'missed' rivets lying on the harbour bed!

Riveters at work on fuselage of Liberator Bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • Jonboy270 said:
    Whether for publicity or actual, the quintessential Rosie The Riveter, that helped put em in the air. God bless the American Women that came out of the kitchen and into the workforce when the Country needed her; couldn't have done without her.