Engines Collection (#28)

Italian military dirigible or airship
An Italian military dirigible or airship, the M1, with two Fiat S76A engines, first used during the Italian-Turkish war (1911-1912). Date: circa 1910-1913

Italian SIA 7B1 biplane bombers with Fiat engines, WW1
A long row of Italian SIA 7B1 biplane reconnaissance bombers with Fiat A12 engines, standing on an airfield during the First World War. Date: 1917

Armstrong Whitworth FK 12B triplane, WW1
A British Armstrong Whitworth FK 12B triplane on an airfield during the First World War. It was equipped with Rolls Royce Eagle engines. Date: 1914-1918

Great Western, Marigold Steam Train, Flower Class Locomotive 4163 1908

Swiss Rack Railway at Rigi Kulm, Switzerland. The line ascends Mount Rigi from Arth-Goldau and Vitznau and is operated by the Rigi-Bahnen

Hand pump fire engine
A hand pump fire engine. 1882

Fire engine in Paris, answering a call
An electric fire engine of the Paris Fire Brigade, answering an emergency call. 1900

Naubauer engine
Auto Motor, Six Cylinder Naubauer. Close-up of a Naubauer automobile engine

Car engine
Automobile (Cars). Close-up of an automobile engine

Wreckage of R101 airship
The mangled wreckage of the British R101 airship which crashed on 5th October 1930 near Beauvais, France, on its maiden voyage

519 President Roosevelt on a Santa Fe engine, before reaching Redlands, California

Engine Five, Salem fire department, 76 Washington Street

S Teerwood. Fire engine
A fire engine with its crew riding along the sides, makes it way through city streets to attend to a fire

Dvur Kralove nad Labem - Railway Station - Czech Republic
Dvur Kralove nad Labem - a town of the Czech Republic in Hradec Kralove Region, in the Labe (Elbe) river valley

The Present Time - 60 miles an hour
Embroidery picture showing a steam engine pulling several carriages at a speed of 60 miles per hour

French tank engine WWI
Engine of the Saint Chamond tank at Marly-le-Roi in Seine et Oise during World War I

Railway junction in the morning mist
A superb atmospheric photograph looking across a complicated railway junction. From the collection of a Scottish rail accident investigator

Railway junction in the morning mist (alternate version)
A superb atmospheric photograph looking across a complicated railway junction. From the collection of a Scottish rail accident investigator

Railway Sidings
A moody photograph of a set of very dark railway sidings, with a sole sentinel signal box and a couple of small shunting steam engines, just beginning their days work

Injectors for Diesel Engines, manufactured by C.A.V. Ltd. of Sudbury Suffolk. A wonderful photograph by Heinz Zinram

Rusing Firemen WWII
Firemen rush down to main the engines during World War II in England

Inter-Colonial Railway
Train of the Inter-Colonial Railway running between Canada and America. Burns wood fuel and has a spark arrester on the smoke stack

American Steam Engine

Empire State Express
Inter State Express train running between New York and Buffalo in America

Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - Railway Station & Depot
The Railway Station and Depot - Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The United States assumed territorial control over Guantanamo Bay under the 1903 Cuban-American Treaty

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

Regular Fireman - Constantinople, Turkey
Regular fireman in constantinople drill at their compound, practising scaling the side of a dummy building with long ladders and hosing down a fire

Trebuchet
A Trebuchet siege engine from the 16th century

Smiths KLG Sparkplugs
A tin/alloy sign advertising Smiths KLG Plugs. *EDITORIAL USE ONLY*

Royal Air Travel by Thompson
A Vickers-Pegasus Viastra all-metal monoplane fitted with two Bristol Pegasus engines built to the order of the Prince of Wales for personal use in this country and abroad

Main Line Express Engines
An illustration showing various express engines

Express Engines Of The World by Laurence Davis
Examples of express trains engines from around the world taken from Boys Own newspaper

The Prince of Wales opening the Metropolitan Main Drainage W
Engraving showing the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) officially opening (by starting the engines) the Metropolitan Main Drainage Works at Crossness in April 1865

Jets to clear snow drifts in Wales in 1947
Men engaged in fitting jet units to the rear of a wagon on a snow encrusted stretch of line near Brecon, an ingenious way of clearing the disabling snow drifts preventing trains carrying coal

Experiment with jets to clear away snow in Wales, 1947
Jet engines or gas turbines, acting like blow lamps, eat their way through the snow as a truck advances down the railway line in the hills of South Wales

The Pumping Engine for Trafalgar Square Fountains, London, 1
Engraving showing one of the pumping engines used to draw water, from deep underneath Trafalgar Square, to supply the fountains and nearby Government offices, 1845

Water pump
An advertisement from 1893 for Marryweathers hand fire-engines, a device which doubles up as both a fire extinguisher and plant watering machine

Train that runs on a single curve, the Gyroscopic car
The train that runs on a single rail. The Gyrscopic car invented by Louis Brennan, exhibited at Gillingham in Kent. The 22 ton car was designed to carry 10 to 15 tons

Floating railway bridge across the Forth River
A floating railway across the Forth between Granton and Burntisland. The route designed to carrying goods and live stock without the inconvience of unloading the trucks

The Flying-boat Lieutenant de Vaisseau Paris, February 193
Photograph of the 37-ton flying-boat Lieutenant de Vaisseau Paris during public trials on the Etang de Biscarosse in the Landes, France

The Marquis of Salisbury opening the Liverpool Docks Overhea
Engraving showing the Marquis of Salisbury (1830-1903) turning on the current at the generating station, Bramley-Moore Dock, Liverpool, 4th February 1893

Interior of the engine house at Camden Town
Interior view of the new great circular engine-house at the Camden Town depot of the North Western Railway. The vast circular building accommodates engines

The Great Westerns new giant, the Caerphilly Castle
The most power passenger engine in Great Britain in 1923, The Great Westerns New Giant, Caerphilly Castle. An engine designed by C. B Collett and constructed at Swindon

Launch of HMS Windsor Castle, September 1852
Engraving of the re-launch of HMS Windsor Castle, 140 Gun First rate warship, on 14th September 1852 at Pembroke Dockyard

The dramatic position of two engines after colliding near Lu
A dramatic sight after two engines collided travelling near Ludhiana, India, resulting in 20 fatalities

Watt Studies Newcomen s
When James Watt was given Newcomens engine to repair, he quickly saw its inefficiencies and set out to provide remedies. The result, patented in 1769, revolutionised steam engines

Fire Engine
Horse drawn fire engine

Invicta Steam Engine
The Invicta steam locomotive built by George Stephenson, used on the Canterbury and Whitstable Railway, the first regular steam passenger railway in the world

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