Armaments Collection

Consolidated Liberator GRV FL927 / G
Consolidated Liberator GRV, FL927/G, fitted with rocket projectile sponsons and a Leigh Light under the starboard wing, under test at the Aircraft and Armaments Experimental Establishment

Lloyd Georges Munition Girls
Front cover of a book describing womens experiences in a munitions factory during the First World War with a detailed account by an anonymous female shell-maker

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra 1944
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Wilhelm Furtwangler, playing a Beethoven concerto during a lunch hour in a German armaments factory in Germany in 1944

The Horrors of Home
A Captain, home on leave during World War I returns to his tranquil countryside village to discover it is now a hub of industry complete with belching chimneys, manufacturing armaments for the war

The New Krupp Munitions Factory, Essen, Germany Date: circa 1908

Stand of the Projectile Company Ltd at the Royal Naval Exhibition in 1891

Elswick Works, River Tyne

British Munitions factory during WW1

Newcastle-Upon-Tyne Elswick Works early 1900s

Ballista. Engraving. Museo Militar, 1883. Later colouration
Ancient Age. Ballista or bolt thrower, ancient missile weapon. Engraving. Museo Militar, 1883. Later colouration. Date: 2019

Spanish Civil War Republican Side Preparing The
spanish, civil, war, republican, side, preparing, the, armaments, of, tanks, spain, salamanca, archivo, historico, nacional, horizontal, black, and, white, b, w, outdoor, daylight, exterior, outside

The Birmingham Small Arms Trophy, made up of pistols and bayonets, on display at the International Exhibition of 1862 as proof of Birminghams specialism in weapon and armaments manufacture. Date: 1862

Lord Armstrong, armaments manufacturer
William George Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong (1810-1900), armaments manufacturer, scientist, inventor and philanthropist. circa 1890s

Hale Rocket making process
Bramah-type hydraulic press introduced by William Hale to fill his rockets Date: 1855

WW2 - With the W. A. A. F. - Mounting and Loading Guns
WW2 - With the W.A.A.F. - Mounting and Loading Guns Date: circa 1942

Valletta, Malta - The Armoury - Governors Palace. Date: 1923

Ukraine. Yevpatoria. Cannon
Ukraine. Autonomous Republic of Crimea. Yevpatoria. Cannon used in defense of the city during the Russo-Turkish, 1877-1878

Europe in Arms 1932
Armed Europe can t see its way to making even a 25% cutback in armaments Date: 1932

Short S81 Only one built for the Royan Navy and used to test various gun armaments from early 1914 until October 1915

Messrs Kynochs War Munition Factory
A page from the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News with pictures reporting on the work being done at Kynochs war munitions factory at Witton, Birmingham. Date: 1915

Cartoon, There are none so deaf, WW1
Cartoon, There are none so deaf, showing a typical pessimist talking about the war to two women in a restaurant. Surrounding them is a border of barbed wire, keeping out any item of good news

A Munitionette, Munition worker, WW1
A woman operating an automatic cartridge machine in a munition factory during the First World War. Date: 1917

Hales Rocket Factory, Rotherhithe
Hales Rocket Factory, at Rotherhithe Date: 1853

Munitions being loaded onto battleship, WW1
A dockyard scene during the First World War showing munitions being hoisted aboard a battleship. Date: 1915

Training men in munition work, WW1
Men of the later Derby groups being trained in munition work. The Derby groups were men who had attested before the end of 1915, putting themselves forward for joining up if required

Aerial gunpower in 1940 by G. H. Davis
The aerial gunpower of Britain, France and Germany: the armament of the bombers and fighters now in action. Machine gun versus canon

King George VI visits a Royal Ordnance factory, WWII
King George VI being given a tour of inspection of a Royal Ordnance factory and seeing at first-hand the immense effort being put in to produce arms, in this case anti-aircraft and anti-tank guns

Howitzers being unloaded at a railway station, 1939
Station porters at a small country station at an undisclosed location in Britain, unloading heavy calibre howitzers from railway trucks. Date: 1939

A 9. 2 Howitzer in action, 1939
Scene at a famous Army school of Artillery in Britain showing some of the latest and heaviest guns in action with men being trained to use them

British detachment landing at Reval (Tallinn), WW1
A British detachment landing at Reval (now Tallinn, Estonia) just after the end of the First World War, to instruct the Estonians in the use of the Madsen gun. Date: December 1918

Growth of the Worlds Dreadnoughts
The Dreadnought Fever visualised in The Sphere by diagrammatic illustrator, G. H. Davis showing the huge growth in the building of dreadnoughts (all-big-gun battleships)

Women war workers, USA
Women working on armaments in America

Alfred Krupp
ALFRED KRUPP German industrialist, whose iron and steel works diversified into shipbuilding and armaments

Skeletons of War Planes
The skeletons of German warplanes in a scrapyard in Munich as a result of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles which stripped Germany of her armaments

Bombing Sheffield 1940
German bombers destroy the armaments factories at Sheffield

John Adolph Dahlgren
JOHN ADOLPH DAHLGREN American naval officer; designer of armaments

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