Capacity Collection

GLC-LFB Fire boat - Fire Hawk
Entering service in February 1976, the Fire Hawk was built by Watercraft of Shoreham at a cost of £ 60, 000. Measuring 45 feet in length, 13.5 inch beam and with a 3.5 foot draft

Cartoon, Honourable Ratio
Honourable Ratio: or, Naval Conversationsin London. Ratio 5:5:3, between Great Britain, United States of America and Japan. Date: 1934

Vultee BT-13 Valiant Sprayer Conversion N75133, re built by Ken Tyler of Long Island as a single-seater with a 125 US gal capacity spray tank in the rear cockpit area. Date: circa 1958

Guinness Brewery, Dubllin - Massive storage vats
Storage Vats at St. James's Gate - the Guinness Brewery in Dublin, Ireland. There are 179 vats like this in which the stout beer is stored before being drawn off into casks for distribution to

Douglas DC-1 NR223Y of Transcontinental & Western Air (TWA) Flown by TWA as a flying laboratory and for occasional scheduled passenger flights

Comic postcard, Man uses lung testing machine at the seaside Date: 20th century

Type C Pole Dinkeys, top and bottom view, designed by American Telephone & Telegraph Companys engineers. Used extensively for hauling long heavy poles, equipped with solid rubber tyres

Four Wheel Trailers double your truck capacity and cut your cost of hauling 50%. Showing trailers used by the Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Highway Pole Trailers move long loads, quickest and cheapest. For poles, girders, timber, and cargo of long dimensions. Capacity one ton to five tons. Date: early 1920s

Combination Pole and Cable Reel Trailer, two trailers for the price of one, equipped for hauling cable reels, equipped for hauling poles. With specifications below. Date: early 1920s

USN - Lockheed R7V-2 Super Constellation BuNo
United states Navy - Lockheed R7V-2 Super Constellation BuNo 131630 or 131631. Turbo-Prop conversion of the R7V-1 for the US Navy

Loading a small boat into a Cargo Plane operated by International Air Freight Ltd - capacity per machine over 2 tons or 700 cubic ft. Date: 1920s

New Haven, Connecticut, USA - Football game at the Yale Bowl. Date: circa 1930s

Saunders-Roe SR. N4 Princess Anne Hovercraft
The Saunders-Roe SR.N4 (Saunders-Roe Nautical 4) Princess Anne, otherwise known as the Mountbatten-class, the biggest hovercraft to have been completed upon its introduction

GREECE. PELOPONNESE. LACONIA. Sparta. Ruins of a theater

Stadium for the 1928 Amsterdam Olympic Games
An aerial view of the stadium built for the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics. Originally with a capacity of 32, 000, the stadium was rebuilt to accomodate 42, 000

Farming pre-war in 1944 - layout of fields and crops (2 / 2)
Abbey Farm - 1944. The standard farm layout during WW2 in Britain (from 1944) showing the layout of fields and crops, Arable balanced with Grass

Farming pre-war in 1939 - layout of fields and crops (1 / 2)
Abbey Farm - 1939. The standard farm layout pre-WW2 in Britain (from 1939) showing the layout of fields and crops, predominantly old pasture

The Cutting Short of a Long Story by H M Bateman, this illustration shows a man blowing up the tire on his bicycle. An old man possibly a vicar comes along and starts to tell a story

Cyclopedia of Automobile Engineering
Knox Pay-as-you-enter bus, 28 passenger capacity, Knox Automobile Company, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA. 1912

Royal artillery battery exercises in Wales: radio and mule
Royal artillery battery exercises in mountainous Wales, to test the carrying capacity of mules:here a portable radio set is carried on horseback. Date: 1940

Liege Exhibition 1905
The construction of a concert hall with the capacity for up to 3000 people, for the Liege Exposition Universelle. Built entirely of steel, using over 300 tons of metal. Date: 1905

LFB-AFS Commer transportable water unit (back)
LFB-AFS Commer transportable water unit (TWU, commonly known as the Bikini). It carries three deflated rubber rafts and nine light portable pumps

LFB-AFS Commer transportable water unit (front)
LFB-AFS Commer transportable water unit (TWU, commonly known as the Bikini). It carries three deflated rubber rafts and nine light portable pumps

LFB firefighter with new motor pump
LFB firefighter at HQ with newly delivered motor pump fitted with a six-cylinder engine, pumping capacity about 930 gallons per minute, 11 April 1938. Date: 1938

Charlotte Fire Department vehicle, North Carolina, USA, August 1935. It was the first enclosed Sedan-type fire appliance in America -- a six-cylinder engine of 160 horsepower with a pumping capacity

Fire engine and crew, LCC-London Fire Brigate
A fire engine and its crew at Southwark HQ -- the first pneumatic tyred appliance, commissioned in April 1928, with a Dennis Tamini pump capacity of 500 gallons per minute. Date: circa 1928

Mass production of aircraft by G. H. Davis
Potentialities of mass production of flying boats as troop carriers and heavy freighter airplanes during the Second World War

Petrol rations and oil tankers by G. H. Davis
Petrol rations and oil tankers: an analysis for car owners during the Second World War. A diagrammatic explanation setting out the relative basic petrol allowances for private cars for August

Piltdown Man: reconstructed skulls compared
Ape-Man of Modern Man? The two Piltdown skull reconstructions. A page from the Illustrated London News, debating the merits of Dr. A

Piltdown Man: brain capacity compared
A page from the Illustrated London News, debating the merits of Dr. A. Smith-Woodwards reconstruction of the Piltdown Mans brain over the reconstruction proposed by Professor Arthur Keith s

Pierre Paillette
PIERRE THOMAS LAURENT PAILLETTE Courageous French sailor who later became a fireman, in which capacity I dare say he was equally courageous... Date: 1776 - ?

Chest measurement of LFB applicant
An LFB applicant has his chest measured by A D O Packer, commandant of the Training School. The brigade minimum is 36 inches with a two-inch expansion

Air Raid Shelters in the vicinity of The Coliseum, London
A list of Air Raid Shelters, their location and capacity, published in a London West End Theatre Programme (The Coliseum, Charing Cross). Date: circa 1930s

LCC-LFB fireboat Beta at Cherry Garden Pier
Fireboat Beta alongside Cherry Garden Pier, Rotherhithe, in the Port of London, downstream from Tower Bridge. The twin funnelled Beta had a large capacity firefighting fitted monitor near its prow

LCC-LFB fireboat Massey Shaw demonstrates pumping
Moored at its Blackfriars river station on the Victoria Embankment, the newly commissioned Massey Shaw fireboat demonstrates its massive pumping capacity by discharging a vast amount of water

LCC-LFB fire engine trials at Crystal Palace
The Merryweather Hatfield pump was first developed by Merryweather of Greenwich in the late 1890s. By 1916 the decision was taken to move totally to motorised fire engines

Titanic - Lifeboats needed to save lives on board ships
A diagram published in the Illustrated London News following the disaster of the sinking of White Star passenger liner, RMS Titanic showing the ratio of lifeboat capacity to passenger numbers

Ireland Workhouse Extension 1847
Plan view by architect George Wilkinson of proposed extensions to increase the capacity of Irish workhouse buildings. The sections in blue are the original buildings, with the new sections in red

Weight & See / Whr
The New Safety Ice-Tester for testing under comfortable conditions the capacity of the ice to bear the weight of the average British citizen

The Church in the firing-line
A French soldier-priest ministering to his comrades under fire. In 1915, it was estimated that over 20, 000 priests served in the French army in some capacity

Lorimer automatic exchange
Photograph of the Canadian Lorimer automatic telephone exchange, a system which dispensed with the need for telephone girls

Cup Final 1923
Trouble at the Cup Final when the over-capacity Wembley crowd invades the field; but order is restored and Bolton Wanderers win the cup against West Ham

Fathers Large Appetite
A son is astonished by his fathers digestive capacity

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