Casing Collection

WWI - Battle of Champagne - Spent shell casings
WWI - Spent shell cases from just one battery after the first day of the Battle of Champagne (25th-30th September 1915) Date: 1915

WW2 - Royal Air Force Metal Worker
A portrait photograph of a British WW2 Royal Air Force metal worker stripping an engine casing with an automatic drill. Date: circa 1940s

Harland and Wolff, Belfast, gatehouse wall clock
Rare gatehouse wall clock from Harland and Wolff, Queen?s Road, Belfast, dating from approx. 1900?1910 and still in working condition

The Engineer, three bound volumes, 1910-1911
The Engineer, three bound volumes CXI from January to June 1910, July to December 1910 and January to June 1911, including in supplement Olympic launch, page 209 Olympic fitting-out

Price's rotary digger for cutting tunnels, showing 8 hydraulic rams used to force the digger forward, casing 12.5 ft diameter Date: 1909

Canadian Pacific - Loco number 21C5 with modified front
Canadian Pacific. Loco number 21C5 with modified front end and casing, at Eastleigh Works Yard during experiements in smoke deflection. Date: 1943

Discoveries in the Great Egyptian pyramid
Discoveries in the Great Egyptian Pyramid - 1 Original casing stone from the north side - 2. Granite ball, 1lb 3oz in weight - 2. Piece of cedar, apparently a measure- 4

City of London handcart with scrap metal, WW2
WW2 - City of London Corporation handcart containing scrap metal, including bomb ordinance, Southwark Bridge, London. The cart also contains iron railings and general household metalwork

Egypt. Great Pyramid of Giza, known as the Pyramid of Khufu (Cheops). Is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza Necropolis. Tomb of the Fourth Dynasty Egyptian Pharaoh Khufu

Advertisement for Waltham pocket watches, Riverside Series. 1914

China. Beijing. Forbidden City. Roof of a building in the interior

Egypt. The Pyramids of Giza. Pyramids of Khafre and Menkaure
Egypt. The Pyramids of Giza. Pyramids of Khafre (or Chephren) and Menkaure (or Mykerinos). 26th century B.C. 4th Dynasty. Old Kingdom

Egypt. The Pyramids of Giza. Pyramids of Khufu, Khafre and M
Egypt. The Pyramids of Giza. Great Pyramid of Giza (known as the Great Pyramid and the Pyramid of Cheops or Khufu), the Pyramid of Khafre (or Chephren) and the Pyramid of Menkaure (or Mykerinos)

Egypt. The Great Pyramid of Giza called the Pyramid of Menka
Egypt. The Great Pyramid of Giza called Pyramid of Menkaure. The smallest of the three Pyramids of Giza. Tomb of the fourth-dynasty pharaoh Menkaure. Detail. 26th century B.C. Old Kingdom

Egypt. Pyramids of Giza. The Pyramids of Khafre (Chephren) and Khufu (Cheops). Fourth-dynasty. 26th century B.C. Old Kingdom

Egypt. Henutsens pyramid at Giza. Limestone stones. Fourth-dynasty Queen. 26th century B.C. Old Kingdom

Egypt. The Great Pyramid of Giza, called the Pyramid of Khufu and the Pyramid of Cheops. Is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza Necropolis

Egypt. The pyramid of Hetepheres I with the Pyramid of Khufu
Egypt. The pyramid of Hetepheres I, G 1-a, with the Pyramid of Khufu (Cheops) and Khafre (Chephren) at the background. 26th century B.C. Old Kingdom

Egypt. Satellite pyramids of the Great Pyramid of Khufu or Cheops, known as The Pyramids of Queens. From right to left: pyramid G 1-a

Egypt. Pyramid G1-b. Giza
Egypt. Pyramid G1-b, one of the subsidiary pyramids of the Giza East Field of the Giza Necropolis located to the eastern side of the Great Pyramid of Giza or Pyramid of Khufu (at the background)

Egypt. Blocks of stone fallen from one of three satellite pyramids of the Great Pyramid of Khufu or Cheops in the Giza Necropolis. 4th Dynasty. 26th century B.C. Old Kingdom

Egypt. Henutsens pyramid at Giza. Columns. Fourth-dynasty Queen. 26th century B.C. Old Kingdom

Egypt. Henutsens pyramid at Giza with the Pyramid of Khufu (Cheops) at the background. Fourth-dynasty Queen. 26th century B.C. Old Kingdom

Martyrs Monument, Hakugyokuzan Ryojun, Port Arthur, Memorial. ort Arthur is now under Chinese control and is known as Lushunkou (a district in the municipality of Dalian, Liaoning province)

WW1 - French air reconnaisance, 1914
WW1 - French air-scouts on a Breguet biplane. A Sergeant of Engineers is piloting, one passenger is observing the country below, the other throws out a cylindrical case containing a message

Cracker Ball released by electromagnet to crush scrap metal
Steel Cracker Ball released by electromagnet to crush scrap metal Date: circa 1920s

Drilling an Oil Well - Boring by Turbine. Liquid mud is pumped at high pressure through a non-revolving pipe to a turbo drill (shown in the inset enlargement) at the bottom of the well

Remains of German gun and ammunition, WW1
The remains of a German gun and ammunition hit by the British on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

German ammunition left behind, Morval, France, WW1
German ammunition left behind following abandonment of Morval, France, on the Western Front during World War One. The shells can be seen inside their wickerwork protective covering. Date: circa 1916

Lloyd George with remains of shell, Western Front, WW1
Lloyd George with the remains of a shell on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Cartoon, Krupps New Man-Throwing Howitzer, WW1
Cartoon, Surprises in Store for England, 1. Krupps New Man-Throwing Howitzer. An imaginary scene showing German soldiers standing inside shell casings, ready to be fired at the enemy

Nurses from Great Ormond Street Hospital examine bomb
Nurses from The Great Ormond Street Childrens Hospital examine fragments from the bomb which struck the building but (thankfully) caused no loss of life - September, 1940

Shock Proof Car Clock
A shock proof car clock (with luminous figures), which adheres to the dashboard by means of its rubber casing. Only 7 shillings and 9 pence from Harrods of London. Date: 1930s

Italian Munitions Factory - Naples
Finishing Shop for an Italian Munitions Factory - Naples, Italy. Date: circa 1915

Met Police stopwatch -- outer casing
A Metropolitan Police issue stopwatch for the purpose of catching speeding motorists. This method worked on the principle of timing motorists over specific distances to estimate their speed

A French soldier lying inside an artillery shell case
A French soldier is shown lying inside the casing of a French artillery shell. In his hands he is holding a smaller shell. Date: 1916

Glyptodon doedicurus, extinct animal
A glyptodon doedicurus: the extinct ancestor of the armadillo

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