Joseph Pennell's pictures of war work in England, reproductions of a series of drawings and lithographs of the munition works made by him with the permission and authority of the British government . TURRETS XXXVIII FITTING GUNS IN TURRETS I SAW these smaller guns being fitted in a turretin another shop. They are put in and then theturret is tried. When I saw it the whole floor wascovered with parts : it was like a watchmakers tablemagnified a million times. The parts were all behindme and the authorities did not seem to want me todraw them. This is the same subject that I found atEssen but ve
Joseph Pennell's pictures of war work in England, reproductions of a series of drawings and lithographs of the munition works made by him with the permission and authority of the British government . TURRETS XXXVIII FITTING GUNS IN TURRETS I SAW these smaller guns being fitted in a turretin another shop. They are put in and then theturret is tried. When I saw it the whole floor wascovered with parts : it was like a watchmakers tablemagnified a million times. The parts were all behindme and the authorities did not seem to want me todraw them. This is the same subject that I found atEssen but very different. !*£sfc -Jtite iJm-Wte*^. - IP fl t phst rSI ? ??: i ; ^ „... 11 i—i —? i, ,i. ^--,mjf* g ^-^ *>i»_ n,™w ? ?-•• ?? ?St* ~<SG£ss<-£L^ 3:.- Vf XXXIX THE SHOPS AT NIGHT. CHANGINGSHIFTS XXXIX THE SHOPS AT NIGHT. CHANGINGSHIFTS BLACK was the bridge, black the crowd crossingit, black the crowded trams. The blue-white lightglowed from the ever-working shops, and the lights uponthe cranes by the river-side, and on the railroad tracks,suggested the workscape by their ever winking, twinklinglines and groups and dots and masses of XLREADY FOR WAR XL READY FOR WAR THE mounted howitzer was getting its finishing-touches ; it had been tested, and soon the greatdoors would open, the engine puff in, carry it off onits long journey to the front to do its infernal work—a triumph of misdirected energy and skill, for Waris Hell.
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