A few nice milling machine parts images I found:
Mary Louise Stepan, 21, used to be a waitress. She has a brother in the air corps. She is working on transport parts in the hand mill, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)
Image by The Library of Congress
Hollem, Howard R.,, photographer.
Mary Louise Stepan, 21, used to be a waitress. She has a brother in the air corps. She is working on transport parts in the hand mill, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas
1942 Oct.
1 transparency : color.
Notes:
Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.
Subjects:
Consolidated Aircraft Corporation
Airplane industry
World War, 1939-1945
Women–Employment
United States–Texas–Fort Worth
Format: Transparencies–Color
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Collection 12002-19 (DLC) 93845501
General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a34943
Call Number: LC-USW36-292
Machine Room
Image by tj.blackwell
A fantastically chaotic mess of rusting iron can be found in the mill’s old machine room, which is still populated with all manner of industrial implements from a former age. Around the fringe a grid of shelves and cupboards overflow with miscellaneous springs, sprockets, nuts, bolts and other metallic paraphernalia. The rest of the space is taken up with work benches alongside lathes, drills, clamps, vices and a variety of belt-driven units. This small room would have been, in some respects, the beating heart of the mill: continuously China manufacturing bespoke replacement parts for the looms and other equipment on the spinning floors.
Machine Parts
Image by Theresa L Wysocki
Watkins Woolen Mill.