page_title: Nuffield Tools and Gauges
section_title: Morris Motors Tools and Gauges branch
hierarchical_section_title: Nuffield Tools and Gauges / Morris Motors Tools and Gauges branch
caption_attribution_description: English: The British Machine Tool Industry- the Manufacture of Industrial Tools and Equipment, UK, 1945 Men at work in the manufacture of slip gauges at a machine tool factory, somewhere in Britain. According to the original caption, these gauges "are rectangular blocks of special quality steel of extreme hardness and stability, having two opposite faces lapped flat and parallel in terms of millionths of an inch, so that a series can be wrung together to produce any required size".
context_page_description: Nuffield Tools and Gauges Limited was a designer and manufacturer of specialised mass production plant for Morris Motors Limited and its subsidiaries. It also supplied outside customers.
context_section_description: Formerly a branch activity within Morris Motors a separate company was incorporated and named Nuffield Tools and Gauges Limited to take over that branch business as of 31 December 1942. This followed acquisition of the Cheylesmore Coventry building. Once the home of the Swift Cycle Company and then in use as a factory making shells it had been badly damaged by repeated enemy action in 1940-1941.
caption: Manufacturing slip gauges, 1945
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