A team of men working on the construction of an aircraft hangar at RAF Abingdon

Date:
17 Oct 1958
Location:
Raf Abingdon, St. Helen Without, Shippon, Vale Of White Horse, Oxfordshire
Reference:
JLP01/01/014/41
Type:
Photograph (Print)
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Description

The workers shown in the photograph are running down Securitas locking nuts on the 200 ton jacks during the course of lifting columns, with a man checking the height of the aircraft hanger roof by means of a steel tape.

This image was catalogued in 2013 as part of a pilot project funded by the John Laing Charitable Trust.

Content

This is part of the Volume: JLP01/01/014 Aircraft hangers at RAF Abingdon; within the Series: JLP01/01 John Laing Photographic Collection Project Albums; within the Collection: JLP01 John Laing Photographic Collection

Rights

© Historic England Archive. John Laing Photographic Collection

Keywords

Construction