Bicycle Manufacture, France: Shaping the wheel

Bicycle Manufacture, France: Shaping the wheel rims. Machinery all driven from central power source through belt-and-shafting. In right foreground man is passing metal strip through shaping machine, it is then passed along production line to forge at rear. Men at grindstones wear protective goggles. Fish-tail gas lights provide illumination. Wood engraving Paris, 1896

Driven Forge Grindstones Illumination Passed Provide Rims Shaping Source Strip

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