Maxim Collection

Machine Gun Corps Poster
Travel all over the world with the Machine Gun Corps. A persuasive military recruitment poster, promising the potential for travel to far corners of the globe

Another Maxim Maxim by Bairnsfather
Another Maxim Maxim " Machine guns form a valuable support for infantry" A cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather Date: 1915

Engineers at Furness Abbey, including Sir Hiram Maxim (front 2nd) Date: 1920

Cameron Highlanders with Maxim gun, WW1
Two soldiers of the Cameron Highlanders using a Maxim gun during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Restaurant Maxim, 30 Wardour Street, Soho, London
circa 1910s

Maxim-Dunne glider
The Maxim-Dunne glider at Crystal Palace 1904 Date: 1904

An interior view of Restaurant Maxim, London, 1920s
An interior view of Restaurant Maxim, 30 Wardour Street, London, 1920s Date: 1920s

Water Shute and Maxim Flying Machine
The Water Shute and Maxim Flying Machine, Southport

British Expeditionary Force Machine Gun Team
Members of the British Expeditionary Force in action in France at the beginning of the First World War. This photographic card depicts a Maxim machine gun team in light uniform

A Maxim Maxim, by Bruce Bairnsfather
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Hiram Maxim Test-Rig 1891 Early Use of Steel Tube Constr?
Hiram Maxim Test-Rig 1891 Early Use of Steel Tube Construction of Airframe Date: 1891

Maxim Gorky
Caricature by Joseph Simpson (1879-1939) Date: 1905

Maxim veteran car advertisement, early 1900s Date: circa 1900s

Vaux Maxim Ale

Japanese angelica-tree, Aralia elata var. mandshurica (Dimorphanthus mandshuricus maxim. var. foliis varieg). Chromolithograph by Pieter de Pannemaeker from Jean Lindens l Illustration Horticole

Soldier firing rifle-calibre Maxim Gun. circa 1900

Sir Hiram Maxim, inventor of the automatic gun. late 19th century

Four Contingent Battleships Ordered 1909
Building a Dreadnought, at Barrow-in-Furness. Digging out the upper half of a Dreadnought turbine cover. Thedressing shop in the large iron foundry of the works of Vickers, Sons and Maxim

Indian troops take their Maxim machine guns into the firing line on the Western Front in France. The ammunition is carried in boxes behind Date: 1915

SCHNAUZER STANDING 1949
DELABORDE MAXIM Owner: Board Date: 1949

Sir Hiram Maxim steam-driven aeroplane, Baldwyn?s Park, Kent
Sir Hiram Maxim steam-driven aeroplane in the course of construction at Baldwyn?s Park, Kent, 1890

Sir Hiram Maxim operating the valve of the steam engine?
Sir Hiram Maxim operating the valve of the steam engine during a propeller test at the shed at Baldwyn?s Park, Kent, where Sir Hiram Maxim constructed his steam-driven aeroplane, 1890

Whirling table - propeller test - Baldwyn?s Park, Kent
The whirling table on propeller test at the shed at Baldwyn?s Park, Kent, where Sir Hiram Maxim constructed his steam-driven aeroplane, 1890

The steam engine for driving the whirling table in the ?
The steam engine for driving the whirling table in the shed at Baldwyn?s Park, Kent, where Sir Hiram Maxim constructed his steam-driven aeroplane, 1890

Shed at Baldwyn?s Park, Kent - Sir Hiram Maxim
The shed at Baldwyn?s Park, Kent, where Sir Hiram Maxim constructed his steam-driven aeroplane, 1889

Machine Gun, Medium, Maxim, 7. 92 Mm Mg08 / 15
Maxim MG08/15 7. 92 mm machine gun, 1915 (c); used by the German Army in World War One; relic condition. Date: circa 1915

Sir Hiram Maxim operating the valve of the steam engine ?
Sir Hiram Maxim operating the valve of the steam engine during a propeller test at the shed at Baldwyn?s Park, Kent, where Sir Hiram Maxim constructed his steam-driven aeroplane, 1890

Russian machine gunners on eastern front, WW1
Russian machine gunners in action with a Maxim gun on the eastern front during the First World War. Date: 1914-1917

The Flying Machine, Earls Court
The Flying Machine entertainment ride at Earls Court designed by Sir Hiram Maxim and opened in 1905

Sir Henry Morton Stanley with a Maxim Automatic Machine-Gun
Engraving of Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904), the Anglo-American journalist and explorer, sitting astride a Maxim Automatic Machine-gun, 1887

1st Bn, Kings Royal Rifle Corps, Chitral Relief Force, 1895
Photograph: 1st Bn, Kings Royal Rifle Corps, Chitral Relief Force, 1895. The men are posing with a. 303 in. Maxim machine gun and. 303 in. Lee-Metford Magazine Rifle

Russian Literary Giants - Chekov, Tolstoy and Gorky
Three Russian Literary Giants - (left) Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904), Playwright and short story writer (centre) Count Lev (Leo) Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828-1910)

Maxim Gorky / Sorrento
MAXIM GORKY Russian writer (born Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov) at Sorrento in 1868 Date: 1868 - 1936

Vickers, Sons & Maxim Shipyard, The Docks, Cumbria
Vickers, Sons & Maxim Shipyard, The Docks, Barrow-in-Furness, near Walney Island, Cumbria, England. Showing the HMS Natal & Cantilever Crane Date: 1907

Old Saws and New Meanings, by Bairnsfather
Old Saws and New Meanings There is certainly a lot of truth in that Napoleonic maxim, " An army moves on its stomach" A cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, in The Bystander 1916

Portrait photograph of Maxim Gorky, Russian and Soviet author, a founder of the Socialist Realism literary method and a political activist

Fun on the flying machine at Southport, Merseyside
Fun on Hiram Maxims " Captive Flying Machine" amusement ride at Southport, Merseyside, which opened in 1904. Testament to the design

Tolstoy and Gorky
The Russian writers, Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), left, and Maxim Gorky (1868-1936), at Tolstoys rural house in Y snaya Poliana, 1908. Date: 1908

MAXIM GUN (IWN, 1915)
MAXIM GUN Diagrammatic view of the gun and its mechanics

Myth / Father Time / Maxims
Allegorical illustration of Father Time with a child and two young women Date: 1887

Naik Shahamad Khan, manning a Vickers-Maxim gun
Photograph of Naik Shahamad Khan, Machine Gunner, manning a Vickers-Maxim. 303 machine gun, 89th Punjabis. Associated with World War One, Mesopotamia (1914-1918)

Maxim Gorky - Russian and Soviet writer
Maxim Gorky (Alexei Maximovich Peshkov) (1868-1936) - Russian and Soviet writer, a founder of the Socialist realism literary method and a political activist. Date: circa 1910s

Maxim. Sebast. Foy - 1
MAXIMILIEN SEBASTIEN FOY French soldier and statesman Date: 1775 - 1825

Maxim. Sebast. Foy - 2
MAXIMILIEN SEBASTIEN FOY French soldier and statesman, wearing his military uniform. Date: 1775 - 1825

Maxim. Sebast. Foy - 3
MAXIMILIEN SEBASTIEN FOY French soldier and statesman, wearing civilian dress. Date: 1775 - 1825

Maxim / Hiram / Cig Card
SIR HIRAM STEVENS MAXIM British inventor, born in America, best known for the Maxim recoil-operated machine gun (1884) Date: 1840 - 1916

Maxim Gorky / Oval Photo
MAXIM GORKY Russian writer (born Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov) Date: 1868 - 1936

MAXIMs 1894 PROJECT
Hiram Maxims monoplane project, is tested on a track at Baldwyns Park, Kent : its failure to rise more than a few centimetres discourages further experiments Date: 31 July 1894

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