Manawatu Knitting Mills machinery

Description

Len Gamble operating the Scheeler knitwear machine at the Manawatu Knitting Mill’s factory in Main Street, Palmerston North. The business was founded in 1888 by John Stubbs.

For more information on the Manawatū Knitting Mills, see White, Jill (2007). "Women at Work in the Manawatū Knitting Mills." Manawatū Journal of History, Vol. 3, pp.20-29.

Identification

Object type

Image

Relation

Public Photograph Collection Bc 112

Date

August 13, 1975

Digitisation id

2009N_Bc112_BUI_2384

Held in

Coolstore