10.5287/BODLEIAN2OCX.2
First World War Poetry Digital Archive, University Of Oxford
University Of Oxford
First World War Poetry Digital Archive
A factory manufacturing petrol tins
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
2011
Dataset
Unknown
1916-01-01/1916-12-31
2011-12-05 11:01:52.902966
2011
GWA_2142_scan0037_Factory_1.jpg
Photograph
The Asiatic Petroleum Company (a joint venture between Shell and Royal Dutch) manufactured Petrol Tins for the war effort at a small factory in Fulham. The Shell logo can be seen on the tins. Women were employed because so many men were away at the front.