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Preston Docks, LancashireA wonderful photograph showing the Bardic Ferry unloading British Road Services trucks while docked at the quayside in Preston, Lancashire. Photograph by Heinz Zinram
NFS 60ft hand-operated turntable ladder, WW2An Austin K4-Merryweather 60 foot hand-operated turntable ladder (TL). A total of 50 such appliances were built and mounted on Austin K4 chassis for the Home Office between 1942 and 1943
GLC-LFB appliance fleet -- Emergency TenderThe GLC-LFB was created on 1 April 1965. A series of photos was commissioned of each type of fire engine, either within or absorbed into the enlarged London Fire Brigade
Oil Tankers of the Manchester Oil Refinery. Photograph by Heinz Zinram
Cover design, Progress, April 1927 - Lever Brothers magazine, mythological figure in Liverpool Date: 1927
GLC-LFB Eastern Command Control UnitThe GLC-LFB was created on 1 April 1965. A series of photos was commissioned of each type of fire engine, either within or absorbed into the enlarged London Fire Brigade
Coal arriving at OrgreavePickets and police look on as coal is brought into the British Steel coking plant at Orgreave, South Yorkshire during the Coal miners strike
Robinsons Ltd removal vans, Cricklewood, NW LondonTwo Robinsons Ltd removal vans, Cricklewood, NW London, also at Knolls House, Manchester and Moseley Road, Birmingham, offering a weekly road service. Date: circa 1920s
Lorry in a JamA huge tank on the trailer of a truck. Date: 1970s
Delivery truck c. 1910Hearse and Casket Body on Buick m/4 Four Cylinder Commercial Chassis. Photographic post card of a drawing or print of a Buick hearse
Burrell General Purpose Traction Engine TA369 Red Gauntlet (msn 3798) at the 1959 Andover Steam Fair. (Charles Burrell & Sons were builders of steam traction engines, agricultural machinery)
Removal Men and their vansA pair of early motorised removal lorries and their teams of removal men - the company is P. W. Caswill of Acton Lane, Chiswick, London - they also offered warehousing
Burrell Showmans Road Locomotive WB9110 Perseverance II (msn 3483), built in 1913 with an 8 Nhp compound steam engine. Seen at an auction at Walford Cross near Taunton in 1959
Burrell Devonshire General Purpose Traction Engine TA1849 Jellicoe (msn 3368), with Coeur De Lion 5nhp Engine, built 1913, at a 1959 Walford Cross auction. With Aveling & Barford Steam Roller YA2197
Chesham, Bucks, Watercress Lorries, Mash & Austin LtdChesham, Buckinghamshire, Watercress Lorries of Mash & Austin Ltd. - suppliers to Covent Garden Market. Date: circa 1930s
A British transport depot during WW1
Holmfirth Towngate probably 1920s
Portpatrick Harbour probably 1930s
Thwaite Traction Engine early 1900s
Patricroft Liverpool Road probably 1920s
British Troops going to the Front WW1
Burrell General Purpose Traction Engine PW 6287 Firefly number 4032, with 7nhp single-cylinder Engine, built in 1925. Seen at York on 16 May 1971
Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Militia marching to the front at the beggining of war
Final phases during the evacuation of Dunkirk, WW2Scene from the final phases of the evacuation of Dunkirk, northern France, showing a British anti-tank post at the Menin Gate
Street scene during the evacuation of Dunkirk, WW2Street scene during the evacuation of Dunkirk, northern France, showing a burning lorry with billowing black smoke, and debris littering the ground after an intensive German air attack. Date: 1940
Dunvilles whisky wagons in LondonLarge number of wagons, heavily laden with cases of Dunvilles world-famed V.R. whisky, travelling from St. Katherines Dock to Dunvilles London headquarters in Shaftesbury Avenue
Poster, War Supplies for Russia, WW2Poster, War Supplies for Russia, a convoy of British and American lorries streams along the Persian route to Russia during the Second World War. circa 1940
Aerial view of Paseo de Cristobal Colon, Seville, Spain. Date: circa 1930
Fair Day, Antrim - a view of a Hiring Fair on the Main street with lots of people and lorries, cars and cattle. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Antrim). Date: circa early 1900s
Burrell Steam Tractor VLD346 Furious, (msn 3191), built in 1907, at the 1959 Andover Steam Rally. (Charles Burrell & Sons were builders of steam traction engines, agricultural machinery)
Burrell Showmans Road Locomotive Prince of Wales HR6658 (msn 3887), at the 1959 Crystal Palace Steam Rally. (Charles Burrell & Sons were builders of steam traction engines, agricultural machinery)
Burrell General purpose Tarction engine TA369 Red GauntletBurrell General purpose Traction engine TA369 Red Gauntlet (msn 3998), at the 1959 Andover Steam Rally. (Charles Burrell & Sons were builders of steam traction engines, agricultural machinery)
Burrell Road Tractor CYB558 at Walford Cross, near Taunton, with the 1926 Babcock and Wilcox 6 ton Steam Roller - Toby. Works No. 95/4009 - Reg. No. YB 7976
Burrell Showmans Road Locomotive HO5993 May Queen (msn 3447), built 1913, at the 1959 Crystal Palace Steam rally. (Charles Burrell & Sons were builders of steam traction engines)
Burrell Showmans Road Locomotive PB9624 King George VI (msn 3489), built 1913, at the 1959 Crystal Palace Steam rally. (Charles Burrell & Sons were builders of steam traction engines)
Kingsway, London, runs north from The Strand to High HolbornKingsway, London - running north from The Strand to High Holborn, built 1899-1905 Date: 1934
Soho, London - 68 Old Compton Street W1 - outside a newsagent, Moroni and Son. 1973
Lorries of Army Service Corps in Great War Deeds, WW1A train of motor lorries of the Army Service Corps charging through a body of German cavalry. Reproduction of a painting by Frederic de Haenen in Great War Deeds
Firefighters working to remove van trapped under bridgeFirefighters working to remove a van trapped under a low bridge, Norbury, SW London
Sea front road at Manama, Bahrain, Persian GulfSea front road at Manama, capital of Bahrain, Persian Gulf. Date: late 1940s
Soho, London - Dean Street and Old Compton Street W1Soho, London - corner of Dean Street and Old Compton Street W1, with a man posting a letter in the pillar box. The Post Office Tower is visible in the far distance. 1973
LCC-LFB Dennis hose laying lorryThe hose laying lorry from Lee Green fire station pictured at Brigade Headquarters, Lambeth SE1. The hose laying lorry carried one mile of 3.5 inch hose that could be laid out from the lorry as it
Damaged heavy unit at NFS, London Regional HQ, WW2A damaged heavy unit awaiting repair at the Lambeth vehicle and equipment workshops, Daltons Drive
NFS mobile kitchen / canteen unit, WW2A mobile kitchen used by the National Fire Service (NFS), donated to the British home front war effort by the Canadian Red Cross, seen here on display at Regional (London) headquarters, Lambeth. SE1
The Flow of Gold from the USA to France: Bullion in Kegs. ThPhotograph showing bullion being transferred from a train which had just arrived from le Havre, at the Batignolles station in Paris, into motor lorries for transport to the Bank
LFDCA-LFB Demountable pods and bulk foam unitLorries capable of carrying demountable pods were introduced into the London Fire Brigade to transport different classifications of pods to incidents as required
Port of Tarragona - Black and white lorries waiting to be unloaded- ships in harbour, distant buildings Date: circa 1890s