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Cotton weavers at their looms, Preston, LancashireWomen operating cotton weaving looms at the works of Messrs Horrockses, Crewdson and Co Ltd of Preston, Lancashire
Cotton weaving shed, Preston, LancashireA huge cotton weaving shed at the works of Messrs Horrockses, Crewdson and Co Ltd of Preston, Lancashire, with people at work
Telephone SwitchboardNew Scotland Yard switchboard
Operators of small boats enlist now! US Coast Guard. Poster encouraging boat owners to enlist in the US Coast Guard at the Recruiting Station, 146 Baronne St. New Orleans, La
A long line of telephone switchboards with female operators
London telephone exchange, WWIIWomen telephone operators at a London telephone exchange with tin helmets, during World War II
WW2 ATS poster for Signal Operators Date: circa 1940
YWCA Poster, Back our girls over there, WW1YWCA Poster, design by Clarence F Underwood, Back our girls over there, United War Work Campaign, First World War. 1918
Wartime Railway OperatorsA photograph of some British railway telephone and map operators. Date: circa 1944
WW2 - Wireless Operators Instruction ClassA photograph of an active British WW2 Royal Air Force wireless operators instruction class, aloft in the latest (of the time) type of training plane. Date: circa 1940s
Operators of a Type Composing MachineTwo men operate a type composing machine. The machines collect and arrange the metal types used in early film photographic printing processes, a job previously done by human hand
Army Radio Operators, WW2 preparations Date: 1939
Beale & Company AdvertisementThis richly bordered illustrated advertisement for Beale & Company Ltd, promotes the new Beale Player-Piano. The instrument has no limit other than the operator's own mental vision
Linotype operators at work in the composing room of the Morning Star newspaper Date: November 1981
Telephone operator, Mayfair Exchange, LondonTelephone operator surrounded by wires at the Mayfair Exchange, London, Ocober 1932. 1932
A Wireless Station on the Western FrontA wireless station installed in an old loft on the Western Front. Packing cases and roughly made tables serve as furniture and two operators, wearing the wireless receivers
Advertisement for the Mount Railway, MadeiraAdvertisement for the Mount Railway Company of Madeira, offering excursions for tourists, with return passage between steamer and pier, toboggan or return by railway
Local men with tourist car in Funchal, MadeiraLocal men with a tourist car in Funchal, Madeira, designed to entertain visitors by sliding down the steep slopes of the town. Date: circa 1910
Central telephone exchange 1903The post office central telephone exchange, St. Pauls Churchyard, London, England. Date: 1903
Hawker Siddeley HS-125-1A N257HHawker Siddeley HS-125 series 1A/522 N257H (msn 25104) of Star Kist Caribe Inc at San Francisco International Airport. G-ATUWHawker Siddeley Aviation Ltd 1966N257H - Star Kist Caribe Inc - 1967N140AK
Miles M. 38 Messenger 2A G-AJVCMiles M.38 Messenger 2A G-AJVC (msn 6371). After several UK based operators, G-AJVC was taken on by Tyrolean Travel Ltd. flying mostly in Germany
Bell 47G 3-B2 VH-SKH of helicopter operators Brisbane, at Noumea, New Caledonia. Date: 1972
Workers at Finns Shoe Factory, PenzanceRows of women working at sewing machines at Finns Shoe Factory - Penzanze, Cornwall
De Havilland DH 89 Dominie -the RAF version of the Dragon Rapide airliner, used to train navigators and wireless operators
Watchroom at Fire Brigade HQ, SouthwarkWatchroom at Metropolitan Fire Brigade headquarters in Southwark Bridge Road, with men manning the switchboard and monitoring the fire alarm control board where calls for assistance were received
D-Day - Metal Detectors in use after invasionAmerican GIs stroll through a captured village close to the Normandy coast following the invasion. Two metal detector operators check the road ahead of the troops for hidden/buried mines or booby
British Air Defence Exercises - Searchlight operatorsAir Defence Exercises - 90cm Anti-Aircraft Searchlight operators. Date: circa 1940
Chinese telephone exchange, Chinatown, San Francisco, USAInterior, Chinese telephone exchange, Chinatown, San Francisco, California, USA. Date: 1936
Brain / Business CentreThe brain, depicted as a business centre: a series of offices including the headquarters (cerebrum) and camera operators (the eye muscles) etc. Date: 1920s
Soldier filming in trench 1916Taking film in the battle fields under fire: an example of the conditions cinematograph operators had to work in during the First World War. Date: 1916
The Kings Christmas Speech, 1933A page from The Sphere December 1933, entitled, The Kings Christmas Speech - how it will be broadcast to the world". Pictured are engineers
Filming the 1937 CoronationA diagrammatic drawing by Douglas Macpherson of the window constructed behind the tomb of St Aymer de Valence in the Abbey sanctuary
Training in taking telephone messagesMen of the London Fire Brigade being trained in taking telephone messages. Date: 1930
Men working at watchroom telephone switchboardFirefighters working on the watchroom telephone switchboard at Southwark Fire Station. Date: circa 1909
Lt Col the Rt Hon Lord Grimthorpe chairman of North-EasternLt Col the Rt Hon Lord Grimthorpe, chairman of North-Eastern Airways, addressing delegates at the Conference of International Air Traffic Operators in the Argyll Room at 4 Hamilton Place, London
The first Empire Airmail serviceThe departure from Ratmalana Aerodrome, Colombo, of the first Empire Airmail service on 28 February 1938. A Waco Model C Series 4 belonging to Tata Sons Ltd
London Fire Brigade Headquarters telephone switchboard
LCC-MFB Firemen in switchboard & control roomWatchroom at Metropolitan Fire Brigade headquarters in Southwark Bridge Road, with men manning the switchboard and monitoring the fire alarm control board where calls for assistance were received
NFS radio operator at Ealing HQ (34 D), WW2NFS radio operator at the radio desk, Fire Force Area 34, Ealing HQ (34 D). On the board in front of her is the listing for the London Regional Area call signs
NFS (London Region) Salvage Corps in action, WW2The London Salvage Corps was not part of the London Fire Brigade but operated in harmony with it. It came under the umbrella of the NFS during WW2
NFS London Region control room, HQ, WW2Firemen and firewomen of the NFS (London Region) at the telephone switchboard of the control room at Lambeth HQ
Two Morse Code operators, Metropolitan PoliceTwo Morse Code operators at work in the Metropolitan Police communications office. Date: circa 1940s
Two Metropolitan Police telegraph operators at work, New Scotland Yard, London. Date: late 1930s
Two Metropolitan Police radio operators in the control room. One officer is giving instructions for an announcement to be broadcast over the microphone. Date: mid 1950s
Telephone OperatorsMen and women working as telephone operators. Trelleborg
X-ray of elephant to locate a diamond ringIn an effort to locate a diamond ring worth $450, three expert X-ray operators and four trained elephant attendants worked a whole day photographing by X-ray process the whole interior of
Female wool weaving operators, YorkshireFemale wool weaving operators tend their machines at a Yorkshire factory
Gossip central! A telephone exchange in Columbus, Ohio, America
