Gear Collection

T class Submarine
Inside a British submarine: complex details of the craft in which our underwater crews live and fight. A sectional view of a boat of the T class, showing how machinery, torpedoes

Met Police cadets giving a display
A group of Metropolitan Police cadets in sports gear, giving a display of their athletic skills. Seven poles are held in place so that seven cadets can climb up and sit at the top

The four-wheel main landing gear of a Convair B-36. Each main wheel has a diameter of 56in

Penrhiwceibr Colliery, Glamorgan, South Wales
View of Penrhiwceibr (Penrhiwceiber) Colliery, Glamorgan, South Wales. The colliery closed in 1985

Testing a new type of steering gear / W Heath Robinson
Illustration by William Heath Robinson. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/Mary Evans Picture Library

Skateboarder 1970S
A boy skateboarding in protecive gear, including shin pads and a helmet, Crawley, Sussex, England

A Row of Ramblers
A jolly row of hikers on the moors, perhaps even On Ilkley Moor Baht At ! Date: early 1930s

LCC-LFB Holloway fire station appliance room
Station 76 was Holloway fire station, North London, located in Mayton Street, opened in 1907. Here its self propelled pump and pump-escape stand ready in the appliance room

Royal Air Force Display Poster, Hendon, showing a pilot in flying gear, gesturing towards three biplanes in flight. 1934

Racial / Japan / Samurai
Three Samurai warriors in their fighting gear

Hercules, locomotive luggage engine, side elevation Date: 1844

Great Crane at Woolwich Arsenal, south east London
The Great Crane at the Arsenal, Woolwich, south east London, used to lift sections of large guns

Elliot Colliery, New Tredegar, Rhymney Valley, South Wales
General view of the Elliot Colliery, New Tredegar, Rhymney Valley, South Wales

Severn Tunnel Diver
The brave diver Alexander Lambert descending the shaft into the flooded tunnel. In Fleuss diving gear, he closed the headwall door and prevented further flooding

Ufos / Helena, Montana
Classic domed disk with windows and four-piece landing gear hovers over country home near Helena, Montana, USA Date: April 1966

United States Air Force - Martin NRB-57D Canberra 53-3973 31 May 1956 accepted by the 4080 Strategic Reconnaissance Wing 1959-61: AFSC. Converted to WB-57D

Second Coxswain Mann of the Aldeburgh Lifeboat Station, 1909
Photographic portrait of Second Coxswain Mann, of the City of Winchester and Dresden, both Aldeburgh lifeboats; credited with saving hundreds of lives

Futuristic underwater croquet. The players are all wearing diving helmets with oxygen packs on their backs

LIONEL BUSTER CRABB Commander Crabb, underwater sabotage agent and alleged double-agent, who disappeared whilst investigating the Russian cruiser Ordkhonikidze Date: 1910 - 1956

Tunnel construction, Great Western Railway, South Wales
Tunnel construction taking place on the Great Western Railway, somewhere in South Wales

Great Crane at Woolwich Arsenal, in south east London, London, laying in marsh land between Greenwich and Gravesend. The majority of heavy guns for the Navy

LFB fire appliance on the road, London
An LFB fire appliance on the road, London, 16 April 1955. Date: 1955

Foxhunting lady in studio photo, Mid Wales
A foxhunting lady poses in full hunting gear in the photographers studio, Mid Wales. She sits sidesaddle on a table, rather than on her horse

Lady in Sailing Gear
A lady dressed for a sailing trip

Matron Instructs Nurse
A Matron (distinguished by her head gear) explains a piece of equipment to a nurse. Note the bottle of poison on the left

Advert / Fosters Ales
M B FOSTERs ALES Bottled beers

Futuristic encounter with an octopus
A futuristic encounter with an octopus on the seabed. A man rescues a woman from its clutches

Futuristic underwater exploration, with two men in diving gear observing an array of strange creatures

Piper PA-11 Cub Special N4873M (msn 11-390), seen fitted with the Whittaker tandem-wheel landing gear system. This device, which consisted of dual main wheels fixed one behind the other

A fishing boat returns to Aberdeen Harbour, SW Hong Kong. The boat is loaded with nets and the crew prepare the mooring lines Date: 1984

HMS Argus 149
Royal Navy - HMS Argus 149, an aircraft carrier, seen in March 1939. Argus served from 1918 to 1944. After commissioning, the ship was involved for several years in the development of the optimum

Coal Mine Pit Top early 1900s Date: circa 1900s

1934 Engineering Staff At Burnley Tramways About
1934, Engineering, staff, at, Burnley, Tramways, about, to, lift, the, last, tram, body, onto, running, gear, in, 1930s, thirties, Vintage, Lantern, Slide, early, lancashire, maintenance, depot

WW2 British Marine And Royal Navy Sailor
A pair of WW2 illustrations from a children's ABC book. The left image shows a British marine standing with polishing gear

Vickers Valiant WB215
Vickers 671 Valiant WB215, the second prototype, seen at the SBAC Farnborough International Air Show from 3-9 September 1956

The Moss Gear Company of Birmingham
The Moss Gear Company finds its origins, in Aston Manor, Birmingham, in 1910. Those engineers who established the company were not named Moss, but Duckitt

Congo. Fishermen Wagenya preparing their wooden tripods
History of Africa. 19th century. Fishermen Wagenya preparing their wooden tripods across the river rapids at Stanley Falls. Engraving by W. Meyer

The Engineer, three bound volumes, 1910-1911
The Engineer, three bound volumes CXI from January to June 1910, July to December 1910 and January to June 1911, including in supplement Olympic launch, page 209 Olympic fitting-out

Ladies Race at Sonning
The winner of the Ladies Adjacent Hunts Race, organised by the Berks and Bucks Farmers Staghounds, being congratulated by the runner-up. Date: 1932

Spanish sallet. Engraving. Museo Militar, 1883
Combat helmet. Spanish sallet (Celada de encaje). Engraving. Museo Militar, 1883. Later colouration. Date: 2020

Medieval Knight's helmet with visor. Engraving. Museo Militar, 1883. Later colouration. Date: 2020

Lucie Delarue-Mardrus, writer, poet and traveller
Lucie Delarue-Mardrus (1874-1945)was a prolific poet and novelist, penning more than 70 books. As well as being married to a man for fifteen years

Advertisement for Dewar's White Label whisky. Captioned, Dewar's - always a welcome find!'. Showing two huntsmen in hunting gear, admiring table with bottle of Dewar's whisky

Her Von Jagow, the German Police President, photographed on horseback, in hunting gear. Captioned, The "Hero" of the Recent Berlin Riots

Bus door gear on low loading demo bus
Bus door gear on low loading demonstration bus, Elysian Northern Counties. Date: circa 1940

Photograph of Old Face Plate Lathe, originally installed in the Soho Foundry of Boulton and Watt, Birmingham which was purchased by Avery in 1895. 3-speed gear and differential. Date: circa 1920

FRANKLIN CAR ADVERT
the airplane-type car - it's air-cooled, so you can drive through Death Valley for 104 miles in low gear if you so want... Date: 1931

Piper L-21B-135 Super Cub G-OTAN - 54-2445 (msn 18-3845, ex R-155), seen fitted with the Whittaker Tandem Gear. Date: circa 2006

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