1939 Collection (#49)

The front cover of The Aero Modeller, December 1939, V, (49). Date: 1939

Boeing 314 Clipper NC18603 of Pan American Airways
Boeing 314 Clipper, NC18603, of Pan American Airways at Foynes in 1939. Date: 1939

The Air Traveler in Port 1939
The Air Traveler in Port. 1939. Date: 1939

Vickers Wellington I at the 1939 RAeS Garden Party at the Great West Aerodrome, Hayes, Middlesex. Date: 1939

Blohm und Voss Ha139 under construction circa 1939
Blohm und Voss Ha139 under construction. circa 1939. Date: 1939

Lady Mary Heath 1896-1939 christens the aircraft
Lady Mary Heath, 1896-1939, christens the aircraft named after her. Date: 1939

Blackburn B-25 Roc seaplane L3059 at Helensburgh
Blackburn B-25 Roc seaplane, L3059, at Helensburgh in November 1939. Date: 1939

Blackburn B-24 Skua IIs from the second production batch, including L2953. These were delivered to the Admiralty in May 1939. Date: 1939

Cover of Popular Flying March 1939
Cover of Popular Flying, March 1939. Date: 1939

US Navy Goodyear K-Series airship at a transportation mast in 1939. Date: 1939

Three Westland Lysanders over Salisbury Plain in 1939. Date: 1939

Handley Page HP52 Hereford L6003 taking off from Sydenham
Handley Page HP52 Hereford, L6003, taking off from Sydenham in August 1939. Date: 1939

Handley Page HP53 Hereford L7271 prototype
Handley Page HP53 Hereford, L7271, prototype on Conswater Bridge at Queens Island, Belfast, in February 1939. Date: 1939

The fin of the sole Bristol Brabazon G-AGPW
The fin of the sole Bristol Brabazon, G-AGPW, immediately prior to taxy tests on 3 September 1939. Date: 1939

Two Swiss Air Force Ju52 / 3ms A-710 and A-703
Two Swiss Air Force Ju52/3ms, A-710 and A-703. These aircraft were delivered in October 1939 and remain airworthy today. Date: 1939

The unarmed Bristol Beaufighter first prototype, R2052, at Filton in July 1939 (sideview). Date: 1939

Design for Printed Textile with enclosed flowers. Pencil and Watercolour on copy paper. Silver Studio. 1939

Cartridge case recovery unit for recycling spent anti-aircraft shell cases, c.1938-1939 Date: circa 1939

Bugatti aerodynamic car
Aerodynamic experiments: Bugatti aerodynamic car driven by Friderich in 1923 French Grand Prix at Tours; Mercedes-Benz model from 1939

1939 Mercedes-Benz, Type M164
The 1939 Mercedes-Benz, Type M164 Date: 1939

Gallery 3
The Natural History Museum at Tring. Once the private museum of Lionel Walter, 2nd Baron Rothschild (1868-1937), and part of the Natural History Museum, London since 1937

Open case with snake skeleton, 1939. The Natural History Mu
This Indian python skeleton, Python molurus, is still on display today

Spain. Civil War (1936-1939). Parade of the Moorish Guard. Photography

GAYA, Ramn (1910); MACHADO, Antonio (1875-1939). Spanish poet from the Generation of 1898. First page from the closing

Hemessen, Jan Sanders Van
ORTEGA Y GASSET, Jos (1883-1955); FREUD, Sigmund (1856-1939). Spanish philosopher and essayist.; Austrian psychiatrist, author

MACHADO, Antonio (1875-1939). Spanish poet from the Generation of 1898. Portrait of Antonio Machado. Oil on canvas

Advert for Wills Gold Flake cigarettes 1939
Whats yours ? Its a Wills Gold Flake the mens cigarette that women like. Date: 1939

Advert for Stockings by Bear Brand 1939
A photograph showing two ladies taking tea dressed in stylish 1930s day dresses. 1939

Modes et Travaux 1939
Woman in striped grey skirt and grey jacket Serge Ivanov Date: 1939

Advert for Harrods gifts for the H. M forces 1939
Gifts fo H.M forces. Sevice cardigan and pullovers, khaki shirts, upper boots, tan cape leather gloves, suede leather cardigan, socks, balaclava helmet scarf, proofed poplin under jacket. Date: 1939

Ration of the British field forces 1939
A guild to show British field forces diet, and the amount allowed per man, per day of food, drink and tobacco. Date: 1939

World War Two Polish infantry
Poland as a military power: cavalry, tanks and infantry. Poland prepares - the Polish infantry manoeuvers their unit across open ground. Date: 1939

Advert for Dolcis shoes 1939
Stepping sunwards. For gay feet to flash over sunsplahed beaches, new Dolcis sandals, rediant with glowing colour or brilliant contrasts

Advert fo Revelation suitcases 1939
Expanding suitcases. Confidence in having the best - confidence in knowing that your suitcase will always adjust itself to whatever you wish to pack - confidence too

LCC-LFB Dennis open pump escape at a fire station
Readying for the outbreak of WW2, a regular London pump-escape pictured with the wartime fire appliances which would greatly outnumber the pre-1938 London appliance fleet

Lambeth HQ Control Room

London Fire Brigade Headquarters control room
LFB Lambeth HQ Control Room

Newly constructed Lambeth HQ
Lambeth HQ after construction of Underground Control Room

Armed Guard at entrance to Lambeth HQ Control Room

London Fire Brigade Headquarters telephone switchboard

AFS volunteers undergoing hose drill, WW2
The Auxiliary Fire Service (AFS) was created in 1938 to supplement the regular London Fire Brigade. Some 21, 000 volunteer firefighters would be recruited

LCC-LFB-AFS training -- tying a knot
The Auxiliary Fire Service (AFS) was created in 1938 to supplement the regular London Fire Brigade. Some 21, 000 volunteer firefighters would be recruited

LCC-LFB AFS volunteer measured for uniform, WW2
A volunteer for the newly formed AFS being kitted out with his uniform. The Service was created in 1938 to supplement the regular firefighters on the home front, to tackle fires from bombing raids

Firewoman of the AFS, Jean Savory, WW2
Miss Jean Savory (1920-2000), firewoman, one of the first volunteers to join the AFS on the outbreak of WW2. She was attached to Red Cross Street fire station in the City of London

London firefighters drilling at Brigade HQ, Lambeth SE1
LCC-LFB firefighters (recruits) under instruction and drill in the drill yard of Brigade Headquarters at Lambeth (also a fire station)

Massey Shaw fireboat at Blackfriars river fire station
The Massey Shaw fireboat, launched in 1935, moored alongside her Blackfriars river station, located on the Victoria Embankment, City of London

Fire boat SS Sambre at Enderbys Wharf, Greenwich
The London Fire Service fire boat, the SS Sambre, at Enderbys Wharf, Greenwich, SE London

Stocks of fire brigade hose fittings, LFB HQ workshops
An assortment of pump collector heads, hose adapters and suction hoses on the floor of the London Fire Brigade workshops at Lambeth

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