Fitting-Up Box-Respirator Gas Masks at the Oxford Works c1914-1918

Black and white photograph of an all women workforce fitting-up box-respirator gas masks, at the John Bell, Hills and Lucas, Ltd., Wholesale Druggists, Oxford Works, Tower Bridge Road, London. Although primarily concerned with the wholesale and manufacturing side of pharmacy, the business of John Bell, Hills and Lucas, Ltd. turned its efforts to producing anti-gas respirators during the First World War, for which they engaged a large female workforce.