Engineers Collection (#14)

Engine room of LFB fireboat Massey Shaw
London fireboat engineers at work in the engine room of the Massey Shaw. Showing the Port and Starboard engines and various engine and pressure gauges behind the two firefighters

Engine room of London Fire Brigade fireboat
London firefighter engineers at work in the engine room of a fireboat

LCC-LFB fire engine trials at Crystal Palace
The Merryweather Hatfield pump was first developed by Merryweather of Greenwich in the late 1890s. By 1916 the decision was taken to move totally to motorised fire engines

LCC-LFB fireboat Beta III on sea trials
Civilian marine engineers on the Beta III fireboat during her sea trials prior to being placed in operational service

Belle Plain Landing, Va. Camp of 15th New York engineers. Date photographed May 1864, printed later

The US Engineers need you. Poster showing a workman, and silhouette of troops and truck crossing a pontoon bridge. Date 1917

Colonel Dickson, Royal Engineers. Colonel Dickson standing beside horse, facing left. Date 1855

Captain Staunton i. e. Stanton, Royal Engineers
Captain Staunton i.e. Stanton, Royal Engineers. Captain Stanton, full-length portrait, standing, facing slightly right, next to a horse. Date 1855

US Engineers - Foremost Skilled mechanics, technical specialists. Poster showing three men in helmets, holding a surveyors transit, a drafting compass, and a pistol. Date 1917

Which? Soldier or mechanic - Enlist in the Engineers and be both For information apply at 808 Market Street, Wilmington, Delaware. Poster showing a man in overalls at work, and a soldier. Date 1919

Petersburg, Va. Cottage of Col. Nathaniel Michler, US Engineers, at Bryant house. Photograph of the main eastern theater of war, the siege of Petersburg, June 1864-April 1865

Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. Date c1877

Lieutenant-Colonel Chapman, CB, Royal Engineers. Frederick Edward Chapman, CB posed standing with his horse in front of a hut. Date 1855

The Wreck of the Titanic - Honour to the Brave
Page from the Sphere honouring the brave men who were part of the Titanics crew who were lost with the ship when it sank, including all the engineers (36), the band (8), the postal clerks (5)

Training Camp for Royal Engineers at Aldershot Date: 1912

Hydrological Equipment
Equipment used by the River Board Engineers on the River Ouse, near Skelton, Yorkshire, England, for hydrological surveys, including the rate of flow, measurement, etc. Date: 1960s

Belgian engineers at Termonde, Belgium, WW1
Belgian engineers blowing up a railway bridge at Termonde, Belgium, towards the start of the First World War, in order to delay the German advance. Date: 18 September 1914

Kingham, Oxfordshire - Breaking up Stubble
Martins Patent Cultivator breaking up the stubble at Kingham, Oxfordshire. These were sold by C. Lainchbury & Son, an engineering firm from Kingham. Date: 1910

Australian Signals laying telephone cable, France, WW1
Australian Signals laying telephone cable near Eaucourt l Abbaye, northern France, during the First World War. Date: 1917

British troops laying light railway, WW1
British troops laying a light railway in preparation for the advance during the First World War. Date: 1916

British Signal Corps laying subterranean cable, WW1
Men of the British Signal Corps laying a subterranean cable during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Kitcheners army recruits drilling, Chatham, Kent, WW1
Kitcheners army recruits drilling outside the Royal Engineers Electrical School at Chatham, Kent, during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Royal Engineers working party in trucks, Arras, France, WW1
A Royal Engineers working party travelling in trucks on a light railway, passing through a ruined building at Arras, northern France, during the First World War. Date: March 1918

Herbert Kitchener and others in Western Palestine
Herbert Kitchener (later Lord Kitchener, 1850-1916) and others inside their tent whilst on a mapping survey of Western Palestine (Israel, West Bank and Gaza today) for the Palestine Exploration Fund

Kitcheners army recruits, Chatham, Kent, WW1
Kitcheners army recruits at the Royal Engineers Barracks in Chatham, Kent, during the First World War, with an ornamental stone gateway behind them. Date: 1914-1918

Signal exchange beneath Fricourt Chateau, France, WW1
Royal Engineers at work in a signal exchange in a captured German dugout beneath Fricourt Chateau, Somme, northern France, during the First World War. Date: September 1916

Chatham siege demonstration 1868
The annual field day and exhibition of siege operations at Chatham, Kent. Watched by a large crowd of spectators, Royal Engineers

Man fixing an aeroplane

Engineers shop, NIPRCC East Harling, Norfolk
Scene in the engineers shop at the East Harling, Norfolk, branch of the National Institutions for Persons Requiring Care and Control

End of broad gauge, 1892
Brunels Great Western Railway pioneered the broad gauge from 1838 until 1892 when the final break with broad gauge took place. Here, the engineers are shown converting the tracks to dual gauge

Bridge construction WWI
Construction of a bridge at Armentieres in France during World War I

Engineers - Brno, Czech Republic
Employees of an automotive engineering works - Brno, Czech Republic

LMR Dual-Purpose Maintenance Depot
The Depot at Allerton on the outskirts of Liverpool, opened to serve the maintenance needs of the London Midland Railway (LMR) to maintain and service electric and diesel rolling stock

Lawnmower Dealership
Lawnmowers of every size and variety available from W Hartnup - Engineer of Hurst Green, Sussex

Laying Railway Tracks
Three construction workers guide a large rail into position. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Installing an engine for a diesel locomotive
Three railway engineers install a large diesel engine onto the positioned wheel, axle and undercarriage. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Three Engineers and a large belt-drive
Three Turkish engineers stand proudly in front of a large piece of belt-driven machinery, possibly a generator

Awarding the War Cross - Dardanelles
The awarding of the War Cross to allied soldiers in the Dardanelles - 16th July 1915. Engineers Park, Sed Dur-Bahr, Turkey

Amiens-Rouen Line 1917
Repair to the railway bridge over La Celle River at Pont de Metz (2 miles south west of Amiens) carried out by the 8th railway company of the royal engineers on the Amiens-Rouen Line in France

Royal Engineers 1917
Royal engineers passing across snow-covered ground in single file East of Contalmaison in France on the British front during World War I in February 1917

Neuve Chapelle 1915
La Bassee Estaires Road repaired by the Territorial Engineers for the Battle of Neuve Chapelle on the Western Front in France during World War I on 10th March 1915

Royal Engineers Working Party coming down the railway line from Ypres on the Western Front in Belgium during World War I on 7th January 1918

Lowering a large railway shaft
A large central rotational shaft is lowered into position by a team of railway engineers. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Making a jeep railroad - Burma
Making a jeep railroad. A supply line constructed by Indian engineers to run to Mandalay in readiness for expansion further south into Burma

For Valour : British Officers and N. C. Os who have been aw
From top left: 2nd Lieut David Nelson V.C. ( L Battery, R.H.A); Capt Theodore Wright. (Royal Engineers); Capt H.S. Ranken (Royal Army Medical Corps); Capt F.O. Grenfell (9th Lancers); Lieut J.H.S

American Troops crossing the Rhine, Second World War, 1945
Photograph showing American troops and vehicles crossing a pontoon bridge built by American engineers on the River Rhine, 1945. This bridge was built in a record time of six and a half hours

British Soldiers playing Bounce the Beecham, Hong Kong, 19
Series of photographs showing members of the 25th and 40th Companies of the Royal Engineers playing the Bounce the Beecham game invented by William Heath Robinson, Hong Kong, 1910

British Tanks crossing a Bailey Bridge, Holland; Second Worl
Photograph showing British tanks and self-propelled guns crossing a Bailey bridge, Holland, 1944. This bridge had been built by British engineers over a canal during Operation Market Garden

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