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7th April 2022

'The building of DH9 fighter aircraft at the Aircraft Manufacturing Company in Hendon. Anna Airy shows how the influence of industrialists such as Henry Ford had inspired the production of machines made for the war effort. The different trades coming together to create a final outcome, visible within the composition are a mixture of men and women intently occupied in their part in the overall process. Parts of the framework and fuselage are taking shape in the left of the picture, to the final fully painted aircraft seen on the right, ready for despatch' (here).

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