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.