Companies Collection (page 2)

Suez Canal Company office in Port Said, Egypt
The administration buildings of the Suez Canal Company as seen from the Mediterranean Sea, now housed by the Suez Canal Authority (SCA)

De Lesseps statue at the entrance of the Suez Canal, Egypt
De Lesseps statue by Emmanuel Fr魩 et at the entrance of the Suez Canal in Port Said, Egypt, gesturing invitingly towards the canal which meant an easier way of transport

Office of the Suez Canal Company in Ismailia, Egypt
Garden of the office of the Suez Canal Company in Ismailia, a city in north-eastern Egypt. The Suez Canal Company was created by Ferdinand de Lesseps

View of the harbour ramps, Algiers, Algeria
View of the harbour ramps and shipping company rail terminus, Algiers, Algeria. Date: circa 1910

Carter Paterson & Co. stables and depot. Parcel deliveries

Leading London Publishers in 1899
Page from The Sketch magazine featuring portraits of leading London publishers. Top row from left: Mr T. Norton Longman, Mr C. J. Longman, Mr Frederick Macmillan

Whitehall - view down whitehall people, companies goods vehicles 2 men wearing palackards. Part of Box 34 Boswell Collection - London Streets. Date: circa 1890s

Aero Exhibition 1913
The AERO EXHIBITION at Olympia, London, features actual aircraft and balloons as well as stands for such companies as Bleriot. Date: 1913

How Prevent Accidents
Comment on ideal way to insure against railway accidents - tie directors of railway companies to their engines! Date: 1853

Early fire brigade - hand in hand insurance company
An engraving of men from the Hand in Hand Insurance Company. Before the establishment of regional fire brigades, fires were tackled by insurance companies

Hope Insurance Company fireman in uniform
Colour engraving of a Hope Insurance Company fireman in uniform, with a large badge on his sleeve. At one time, firemen worked for different insurance companies and wore different colour uniforms

Insurance companies memorial with the Latin motto: Finis Coronat Opus (the end crowns the work). The bas relief sculpture shows modern-day firefighters with water hoses and ladder, fighting a fire

Private A C Crapper bringing up a limber of supplies, WW1
Private A C Crapper bringing up a limber of supplies to the trenches under heavy fire. After the horses had bolted, 670 Private Crapper of the 1/4th (Hallamshire) Battalion

Dunlop advertisement, WW1
Dunlop Rubber Company advertisement from the First World War publicising the fact that 1500 of their employees had enlisted while the rest were working in shifts day

Mayfair Catering Company advertisement 1928
Advertisement for the Mayfair Catering Company, offering everything a society hostess might need for successful entertaining during the Season from silver and glasses to flowers

Swan Upping Flags
Swans on the Thames are chiefly the property of the companies of Dyers and Vintners, and of the Queen. Here the boats fly the flags of those companies. Date: 1930s

John D Rockefeller
JOHN DAVISON ROCKEFELLER American financier, head of the Standard Oil Companies probably the richest man in material wealth that ever lived. Date: 1839 - 1937

Broad Exchange, Broad Street, New York, USA
The Broad Exchange Building, 25 Broad Street, Manhattan, New York, USA. Built in 1900 to provide office space for financial companies including Paine Webber. Date: 1916

The front cover of Enterprise August 1949
The front cover of Enterprise, August 1949, the internal magazine of the de Havilland companies. Date: 1949

Art de la Guerre, par principes et par regles
" Art de la Guerre, par principes et par regles" (Paris, 1749), by marshal de Puysegur. Representation of a battalion in five lines of thirteen companies. Engraving. SPAIN. Barcelona

Family with Holmess - Moulmein - With Cal and Mary Holmes. Cal was Chief Officer of the Steele Companies of Burma, including teak, china, cotton, and rice milling an old Burma hand Date: 1951

LCC-LFB Serious fire at Prudential building, Holborn
Two firefighters view the fire poster at the Prudential Assurance Company building in High Holborn WC1, shortly after extinguishing a major fire there

GLC-LFB - Morris utility van, LFB Water Section
The GLC-LFB was created on 1 April 1965. A series of photos was commissioned, showing each type of fire engine either within or absorbed into the enlarged London Fire Brigade

19th century Insurance Company Fire Notice, County Fire office, with an image of Britannia with lion and shield

Two firemen holding the standards of their companies. Date between 1890 and 1940

Panama City, Panama. The traffic policeman has a fine post in the middle of the street, sheltered from sun and rain by a parasol/umbrella and protected from errant drivers by a frame

Costume Jewellery
Making costume jewellery, Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. Date: 1960s

Chile - Talcahuano - Harbour, Warehouses, Customs
Chile - Talcahuano - Harbour, Customs buildings and Warehouses of the Major Commerical concerns of the region. Date: circa 1910s

Crowd in auditorium
Balls, Motion Pictures. Interior of an unidentified auditorium with employees of motion picture distribution and sales companies attending a ball

Madison Square Garden, New York
Advertising Show, Madison Square Garden, May, 06. 1906 advertising show at Madison Square Garden; booths of many advertising related companies visible, such as printing, stationers etc

Cockspur Street
On the right is the Fire Station of the Phoenix company - at this time, fire services are provided by independent companies who race one another to the scene of the fire

Photograph of locomotives
Various UK locomotives: at the top, a model of a 1600 horsepower diesel electric locomotive, built at Derby in December 1947. Below are eight locos of various railway companies

British Soldiers playing Bounce the Beecham, Hong Kong, 19
Series of photographs showing members of the 25th and 40th Companies of the Royal Engineers playing the Bounce the Beecham game invented by William Heath Robinson, Hong Kong, 1910

Birmingham Firemark
A Birmingham firemark of the Sun Fire Office. Firemarks were displayed by insurance companies, who maintained fire brigades to protect the properties they had insured

The great railway strike, Stratford
Deserted railway track at Stratford. The station was at a standstill during the great railway strike. The strike took place in the last two weeks of September 1919

Arms of Companies 2
Arms of six London city companies - Drapers, Fishmongers, Goldsmiths, Merchant Taylors, Mercers and Grocers

Arms of Companies 1
Arms of six London city companies - Skinners, Haberdashers, Salters, Ironmongers, Vintners and Clothworkers

Fire / Hose Carriage
Hand-drawn hose-carriage and reel, partly maintained by the ratepayers of London, partly by a contribution from the Fire Insurance Companies, and partly by the Government

Aristocratic Directors
The fox and the guinea-pigs - aristocratic directors lend their names to dubious companies in return for suitable emoluments

Travelling Actors
Actors, part of a travelling theatre company, performing their comedy (or mime) routine on a platform in the middle of a field

Pyne - Lord Mayor
THE LORD MAYOR He is chosen annually by the Liverymen, members of the several companies in the City of London : he is generally a wealthy merchant

Chicago Rail Strike
During the strike, a train departs under the protection of volunteer policemen, armed with guns : the strike is opposed with great brutality by the railway companies

All Professionally Made to Order for Quick Shipping