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A QI picture quiz

http://www.flickr.com/photos/19128895@N02/4378792892/sizes/o/

1. What is being made in this factory?
2. Where is it located?
3. In which year was the picture taken?

I have three klaxons (one for each question)

Happy to answer yes/no-type questions about it, but not today.

OK, tea break over - back on your heads...

I can't view it from work! Instead I'm going to guess, given the absolute zero amouint of information given in the post.

1. Corsets
2. Shrewsbury
3. 1934

Reasoning? I read the other day that there used to be a factory in Shrewsbury, and the brand name was Sillouette. They used to make swimming costumes and things as well. There was a musical based on the lives and times of the factory and its workers. It was first performed at the end of last year. Had I had enough holiday spare, I would have signed up to be part of it.

I too am going to guess as I cant see external piccies/websites.

Records. Factory records in fact. fac_23 was, I believe, the last release on the label, incidentally. Year? Oh gawd, late seventies?

shells, artillery type

woolwich arsenal

1916

Good guesses - even if you can't see the picture.

Not correct, though you've skilfully avoided the klaxons

Ah, but then I hadn't seen Taff's post.

Sorry, Taff, but munitions get a

Would this have anything to do with the reason Carlisle pubs were so unique up until the 1970s?

And if I'm right, I want the points for making it bleedin' obvious what the answers are

Er... I don't know anything about Carlisle pubs, but interesting factory facts will score points, of course.

Ooh, more shooting in the dark:

Cars
Bells
Clocks
Munitions

I must have tripped at least one klaxon there, surely?

D'oh not with the muitions cos Taff got in there first.

Do I get a +1 for my factory records information though?

Munitions has already been tripped by Taff.

Ok, I'll go for

'Porridge', Gretna, 1917

From the hemlines of the uniforms and the head scarves I'm going to guess 1940s.

My first impulse on seeing the title was Andy Warhol, but this obviously has nothing at all to do with him, has it?

It looks more WW1 to me...wasn't tthat the first time women took "men's" jobs? Up until then they'd only done "women's work" in factories. The lack of labour during the first world war was the first step in breaking down tradition demarcations of what different genders could do.

If they're not making munitions, then they'll be making something else to help contribute to the war effort? The machinery looks like sewing machines, so is it uniforms?

RF

Well, if it's wartime and we're supposed to guess the year, then I'd say 1917 or 1918, in the USA?
* from s*

Tin hats
Coventry
1942

iPads
Cupertino
2010

I'll give clues tomorrow - I'll see how far you lot can get by detective work first. Nobody's particularly close so far.

Singer sewing machines
Clydebank
1912