Daily Herald Photograph: Ilford factory, film coating machine

One photograph titled 'Scene at Ilford's' showing a factory worker inspecting large rolls of photographic film as it moves through a film coating machine. The worker in this photograph is likely checking the coating quality at the latter stage of this process. [Ilford acquired various sites and merged with many smaller manufacturing companies over the decades. By the 1930s, manufacturing seems to have been consolidated into three main sites: Ilford for glass plates, Brentford for film and Mobberley for paper, although paper was sent to Ilford for cutting, packing and distribution. However, they also had laboratories to deal with raw materials, cine films etc. This photograph was probably taken at the Brentford laboratory.]