Cable Collection (page 6)

Sir George Elliot MP, Vanity Fair, Spy
SIR GEORGE ELLIOT MP, 1st Baronet (1814-1893) Conservative Party Member of Parliament, Businessman from Gateshead, North-East England

Sir Richard Tangye
Sir Richard Trevithick Tangye, civil engineer and industrialist, manufacturer of engines and other heavy equipment. Seen here in the late 1850s with the Great Eastern steamship before its launch to

Deep-sea diving suit, for salvage work on HMS M1 subrine
German deep-sea diving suit brought from Kiel for examining the lost submarine M1. On 21 November 1925, while on an exercise in the English Channel

Tokyo, Japan - Asakusa Branch of Matsuya Department Store (opened 1931) with the River Sumida in the foreground. Note the cable car ride on the store roof! Date: circa 1931

Kobe, Japan - View from Mt Maya
Kobe, Japan - Commanding view of the city and suburbs from the cable car on Mt Maya Date: 1935

Keage (Biwako) Incline / Cable Railway at Kyoto, Japan
Keage (Biwako) Incline, Kyoto, Japan - an old cable railway that was in use until 1948. Date: circa 1910s

Cable car station at the foot of Mount Rokko, Japan
Cable car station at the foot of Mount Rokko, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. Date: circa 1930s

The Cable Ship Faraday in the mouth of the River Thames. Built by Siemens Bros. in circa 1874 and spent 50 years laying cable

Brazil - Rio de Janeiro, Sugarloaf Mountain cable railway
Brazil - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sugarloaf Mountain with cable railway. In the foreground is the (now-demolished) Military Academy building, which was located on Praia Vermelha. Date: circa 1905

Mount Hood Skiway - leaving the Upper Terminal - an aerial tramway which connected Government Camp and Timberline Lodge from 1951-1956 - Oregon, USA. It closed due to financial difficulties

Georgia, Tbilisi - Old Tramway
Tramway in Tsitsishvili (now Baratashvili) Street, Tbilisi, Georgia. Date: circa 1910s

Cover of Rolls Royce Aero Engines
Cover of Rolls-Royce Aero Engines and the Great Victory Aeroplanes by Boyd Cable. circa 1919. Date: 1919

Motor car cable duct-centre seat bay, London Transport, 1983 Date: 1983

A cable car in the Austrian mountains
View of a cable car somewhere in the Austrian mountains. Date: 1953

French Cable Car Date: 1934

George Washington Cable
GEORGE WASHINGTON CABLE American author, chiefly about the South in such books as Old Creole Days and The Grandissimes. with his autograph Date: 1844 - 1925

GLC LFB Breathing apparatus communications set
Battery operated communications equipment for use with compressed air breathing apparatus sets. Microphones are fitted into the specially adapted full face masks

Brooklyn Bridge, New York City
The great East River suspension bridge: connecting the cities of New York and Brooklyn. view from New York, looking south Birds eye view

As a Duck to Water by Lindsay Cable
A lone female bather in a fetching red and yellow bathing suit sits on the end of a pier or jetty and gazes into the water below. Date: 1927

Cable railway, Marseilles, France. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Barcelona, Spain - Cable car from Miramar Date: circa 1930s

Railway line in the snow near M� engladbach, Germany. Early 1960s

Eizan Cable car - Japan
Eizan Cable car - the highest Cable car in Japan. Date: circa 1910s

Riga, Latvia - Fantasy card
Riga, Latvia - Complete fantasy card, featuring a cable car, an airship, a tram, a hot air balloon, an early motorcar, a policeman on a bicycle and a jolly black man in a suit smoking a cigar

Australian Signals laying telephone cable, France, WW1
Australian Signals laying telephone cable near Eaucourt l Abbaye, northern France, during the First World War. Date: 1917

Swiss Skiing Scene
A scene showing a cable car, skiers and the ski lift, Switzerland. 1960s

Indian Tram
A common sight in India, a tram packed to the gills with passengers, some of them even hanging on the outsides for dear life. This tram is destined for Jadar. Date: 1930s

London Trolley Bus

Electricity plyon erected, 1933
Erecting the last pylon: hauling up a section of the 26, 265th steel cable tower built by the central electricity board to carry current all over Great Britain

Australian Signals laying cable near Albert, France, WW1
Australian Signals laying cable in a muddy area near Albert, northern France, during the First World War. Date: 21 September 1917

Open Cable Car at San Sebastan, Spain
Spain - San Sebastian - The Monte Ulia Funicular Shuttle Arrives at the Station. This open cable car was opened on September 30, 1907 and was designed by Leonardo Torres y Quevedo (1852-1936)

British Signal Corps laying subterranean cable, WW1
Men of the British Signal Corps laying a subterranean cable during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Austro-Hungarian soldiers on a hill, WW1
Austro-Hungarian soldiers standing on a hill during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

The Divinity that Shapes our Ends by Lindsay Cable
A rather tranquil scene showing a man having his nails manicured by a pretty beautician. Date: 1930

Air Scouts on a tractor
Two Air Scouts drive a cable towing tractor at Lasham airfield. 1960s

The Great Eastern scrapped: the auction, 1888
The Great Eastern under the hammer. After a thirty year career, the great steamship was scrapped, with her hull and fittings being sold at auction at New Ferry, Liverpool. 1

Laying transatlantic cable
Laying the Atlantic Cable : paying out the land end of the cable from the stern of the Niagara. Date: 1857

Indonesia - Jakarta - The Telephone Exchange. Jakarta was formerly known as Sunda Kelapa (3971527), Jayakarta (15271619), Batavia (16191942), and Djakarta (19421972)

Mackay-Bennett cable ship
The cable ship Mackay-Bennett, which recovered over 200 bodies from the scene of the Titanic disaster, before heading for Halifax, Nova Scotia

The Atlantic Telegraph Expedition: on board the Great Eastern, the crew prepares for the final attempt to grapple the lost telegraph cable which had snapped at the beginning of August

Gipsy woman with long hair
A gipsy woman at an encampment, with long hair, an orange scarf round her neck and a knitted cable-style cardigan. Her caravan can be seen in the background

Model fishing boat maker, Cornwall
A model fishing boat maker in his workshop, somewhere in Cornwall. He is in the process of constructing a new boat with two masts

Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - Fishermans Point Cable Office
The Cable Office on a street in Fishermans Bay - Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The United States assumed territorial control over Guantanamo Bay under the 1903 Cuban-American Treaty

Alberta, Canada - The Edmonton to Strathcona Ferry
Alberta, Canada - The Edmonton to Strathcona Cable Ferry - bearing a horse and cart and a large amount of cut timber

Tunisia - Bizerte - Ferryboat
Chain Ferryboat at Bizerte - setting off from the quay with a couple of carts, a carriage, pedestrians and a policeman on horseback. Bizerte is known as the oldest and most European city in Tunisia

A Mans A Man For A That by Lindsay Cable
Two women dressed in masculine outfits of shirts, ties, flat shoes and, in the case of one, knickerbockers or plus-fours, smoke cigarettes and comment on a passing gentleman wearing a kilt

On the Rocks by Lindsay Cable
A charming illustration in delicate hues depicting a young woman dressed only in a swimsuit sitting up a rock on a beach, and apparently gazing down at her reflection in a rock pool

The electric wire at Cape Grinez
The first submarine electric telegraphic despatch from Dover to Cape Grinez, near Calais. The image shows a view of Cape Grinez, taking the wire up the cliff

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