During 1943, in the middle of the Second World War, Hendey commissioned a well-known photographer, Robert Yarnall Richie, to produce a picture essay of their production processes. Richie's consummate skill is amply demonstrated in the following pages with the beautifully composed pictures made the more dramatic by low-angle lighting. The complete set is a masterly piece of work and must rank as the most artistic study ever to be published of a machine-tool manufacturing company.
Interestingly, for a machine-tool plant, the illustrations portray a manner of production that relied upon quite ordinary lathes (though operated by highly-skilled employees) with, from the pictures, little evidence that help was afforded by the use of mass-production capstan or other specialist equipment.
Robert Richie may also have been responsible for a similar commission undertaken for the makers of  Monarch lathes, a 1938 publication titled "Features of Monarch Lathes".
Other interesting factory tours are those for the German companies Koepfer, VDF, Maho, Schiess (100 years), Index and the English Dean, Smith & Grace and Archdale - together other material from the Fellows 50th Anniversary, Moore Jig Borers the first 50 years, Pfauter Gear Hobbers 60th Anniversary, TOS Machine Tools History and with some inside views of lathe makers Herbert, Wadkin, Colchester and Lang..