Cunard Shell Works, Bootle

Cunard Shell Works, Bootle, Merseyside. Workers, male and female, finishing the interiors of shell cases in the Cunard Shell Works in Bootle. In 1915 the Cunard Steamship Company's store and engineering works at Rimrose Road, Bootle, was converted into a munitions factory. Four-and-a-half-inch, six-inch and eight-inch shells were brought to Cunard's Shell Works to be finished, checked and varnished before being taken to another factory in the area to be filled with explosive

Bootle Cases Checked Companys Converted Cunard Explosive Filled Finished Finishing Inch Merseyside Munitions Rimrose Shells Varnished

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