See It On A Postcard's Thursday Postcard Hunt for Woman at Work
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| 2013: Europa - The Postman's Van |
Postie at work in Ilulissat, West Greenland, some lucky person is getting a parcel.
This article on covers from Greenland's philatelic postal centres has a photo taken from where the post van is parked.
This looks like a production line for the popular
Dinky toys, made by Meccano, today highly collectable. The company also produced mechanical construction and Hornby train sets. After numerous take overs the Liverpool factory closed in 1979. Today different kinds of Meccano sets are made in France and China.
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Female workers using comptometers, Vickers Armstong, 1950s
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A human computer, workers using comptometers, the first key driven machine for adding and calculations. High speeds were attained by skilled operators. Vickers Armstrong, an engineering, shipbuilding and armaments company, after many changes today operates as BAE Systems, the UK's largest manufacturer.
2 comments:
Great postcards for this challenge. I like the black and white cards.
When you look at old postcards of people working, they always look very elegant!
I didn't know those toys were still being made nowadays.
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