Pouring cold water onto hot iron tyre newly fitted on wheel, thus causing metal to shrink and tighten all joints; wheelwright Mr. Sibley and employee finishing wagon wheel at Barden, North Yorkshire

SR RIB PH2/12/13

1941

Sibley, Fox Photos Ltd, Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News

English press photographic agency based in London. Originally founded by Mr Fox and Mr Salmon, it became a limited company (Fox Photos Limited) 1 January 1935 with premises at 6 Tudor Street, Fleet Street, London EC4. Circa 1970s or 1980s, a company photographer George Freston took over the business. By this time the office was at 69/71 Farringdon Road, London, EC1, with a laboratory at Scoresby Street, and offices in Manchester and Glasgow. The company ceased trading by 1999. Freston died in 2006.The photograph library was passed to Hulton Archive, and then to Getty Images. Fox Photos Ltd also had a joint enterprise with Home Movies & Home Talkies Magazine to produce a monthly film newsreel circa 1933 to 1934.

wood crafts: wheelwrighting

1 photographic print: b&w

type: PRINT, dimensions: 15 x 14.5 cm

English

Wheelwrights, Wheels, Wood, Wood products, Ironwork, CRAFTS, Barden, wheelwright, Graphic Materials

Available

RHC copy neg. NMC 35/5915

, P DX1525