Repro ID: H2655
Title: Using a rivet gun at the Thames Ironworks.
Description: Workers at the Thames Ironworks using a pneumatic hand-held riveting gun that operated on compressed air supplied from a compressor. The size and the type of gun used for a particular job depended upon the size and alloy of the rivets being driven and the accessibility of the rivet.
Creator: Unknown
Date: 1899
Credit line: Newham Archives and Local Studies Library collection.
