A view of men beside a pile driver and a pile being load tested, during the construction of the Ford Motor Works

Date:
1930 - 1939
Location:
Ford Motor Works, Barking And Dagenham, Greater London Authority, RM9
Reference:
AL0185/019/03
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Description

Around 20,000 concrete piles were driven into the ground of a site on marshland at Dagenham during the construction of Dagenham Ford between 1929 and 1931.

Content

This is part of the Volume: AL0185 Album of photographs of civil engineering projects; within the Collection: ALB19 Album of photographs of civil engineering projects

Rights

Source: Historic England Archive

Keywords

20th Century Car Factory, Engineering, People, Construction