Completion Collection

Tower Bridge / Scaffolding
Dismantling the scaffolding on the eve of completion

Sydney Bridge Construct
The Sydnet Harbour bridge nearing completion : at the time of its opening, it is the largest suspension bridge in the world

HMS Leviathan, Drake-class armoured cruiser
Royal Navy - HMS Leviathan, a Drake-class armoured cruiser. HMS Leviathan was one of four Drake-class armoured cruisers built for the Royal Navy around 1900

Completion of the new Earls Court station, London
Completion of the new Earls Court underground station, London. Top: an illuminated train indicator which shows trains in motion. Middle: the new flyover junction

TS Conway, 1935
Aerial photograph showing the three-masted training ship Conway, moored in the River Mersey, 1935. This photograph shows the crew of boys lining the starboard bulwarks to cheer a cadet leaving

Finishing of the manufacture of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable
Completion of the Atlantic Telegraph cable as the last inch of cable passes through the machinery of Messrs Glass and Elliott at Morden Whard, East Greenwich

HMAS Yarra - River-Class Torpedo Destroyer
Royal Australian Navy - HMAS Yarra / HMS Yarra, a River-Class Torpedo Destroyer, making way at speed, on the River Clyde during manufacturers trials in 1910. Yarra was built by William Denny & Bros

Stroukoff YC-123E Provider 55-4031
Stroukoff YC-123E-SA Provider 55-4031, modified by Stroukoff Aircraft Corp, Trenton NJ. With Pantobase undercarriage and wing-tip floats for operating off water, snow, ice, and sand, as well as land

Metro-Land Houses
An architectural illustration of a set of barn roofed houses which at the time, were in the course of completion at Wembley Park. Date: circa 1917

Paris
A drawing of Parisian people walking a pavement and entrance way to the Pantheon, a monument in Paris, France. The edifice was built between 1758-1790, designed by architect Jacques-Germain Soufflot

Knavesborough
A pencil drawing of Knavesborough, a market town in north Yorkshire, with its 24.5 metre high gritstone viaduct. Upon nearing completion in 1848, the viaduct collapsed into the River Nidd

Beagle Pup 100 G-AXIA
Beagle B.121 Pup Series 1 / 100 G-AXIA (msn B121-078), nearing completion at Shoreham Airport, , circa April 1969. Date: 1969

Beagle Pup 150 G-AXID
Beagle B.121 Pup Series 2 / 150 G-AXID (msn B121-086), nearing completion at Shoreham Airport, before delivery to the Shoreham Aero Club, circa August 1969. Date: 1969

Beagle Pup G-AXEV
Beagle B.121 Pup Series 1 G-AXEV (msn B121-070), nearing completion at Shoreham Airport, before delivery to Geoffrey Beard, circa April 1969. Date: 1969

Beagle Pup G-AXHK
Beagle B.121 Pup Series 1 G-AXHK (msn B121-071), nearing completion at Shoreham Airport, before delivery to the Middleton St. George Aero Club, circa May 1969. Date: 1969

Boeing VC-137C 72-7000
United states Air Force - Boeing VC-137C 72-7000 The spirit of 76 (msn 20630, model 707-353B, carried N8459 for flight testing)

HMS Escort, E-class destroyer
Royal Navy - HMS Escort, an E-class destroyer, built for the Royal Navy in the early 1930s. Although assigned to the Home Fleet upon completion

HMS Leviathan, Drake-class armoured cruiser
Royal Navy - HMS Hornet, an Acheron-class Destroyer that served during the First World War and was sold for breaking in 1921. She was the seventh Royal Navy ship to be named Hornet

HMS Boadicea - a Boadicea-Class scout cruiser
Royal Navy - HMS Boadicea, a Boadicea-Class scout cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century

Sud Aviation SA. 330 Puma F-ZWWR
Sud Aviation SA.330 Puma F-ZWWR (msn 05, also later registered as F-OCRK, F-ZWWR and F-BRBU') at the June 1969 Paris Air Show, marked with airshow serial 337'

AJEP W-8 Tailwind G-BALR
AJEP W-8 Tailwind Series 1 G-BALR (msn TW4-381), at Southend Airport in October 1977. This aircraft was destroyed when it flew into Steeple, Scoat Fell, in bad weather on 29 February 1984

ATR 42 white-tail storage, before completion, sale and delivery. Date: 1998

United States Air Force - Republic YRF-84F Thunderstreak 49-2430 FICON parasite, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, seen with the retractable nose hook extended

United States Air Force North American T-6G Texan 50-1279, buzz-number TA-279, (msn 168-443), at the USAF Museum storage compound at Wright-Patterson AFB, OH

Hawker Siddeley HS-125-3A RA G-AWKI
Hawker Siddeley HS-125-3A/RA G-AWKI (msn 25161), with Hawker Siddeley Aviation Ltd for flight test and delivery to completion centre in the United States. Date: 1968

Beagle B. 121 Pup Series 2 G-AXHO
Beagle B.121 Pup Series 2 G-AXHO (msn 077), for E.A.E. Coventry, nearing completion at Shoreham Airport. Date: 1970

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Washing up
The caption on the postcard is Washing up - probably a play on sorting things out now that the war is over. The reverse carries a message from Winston Churchill We must now devote all our strength

St Gotthard Railway tunnel, Switzerland
19th century vintage photograph: St Gotthard Railway tunnel, Switzerland, shortly after completion

Completion of Sacre Coeur, Montmartre, Paris, France
Completion of the Basilica (church) of the Sacre Coeur, Montmartre, Paris, France. Date: 1914

Completion of Canadian War Memorial sculptures
Completion of the sculptures for the National War Memorial, designed by Vernon March. When March died in 1930, six of his siblings (pictured here) completed the bronze statues

Sud Aviation SA. 330 Puma F-ZWWR
Sud Aviation SA.330 Puma F-ZWWR (msn 05, also later registered as F-OCRK, F-ZWWR and F-BRBU ) at the June 1967 Paris Air Show, marked with airshow serial 350, in company with Puma 07

Royal Thai Air Force - GAF Nomad 22B VH-UVJ - 40232 (msn 138) nearing completion at Hawker-Pacific. This aircraft was delivered to the RThAF in December 1982 Date: 1982

Royal Thai Navy - GAF Nomad 24A VH-HBW - 129215 (msn 129) nearing completion at Hawker-Pacific, before delivery to the RThN in April 1985. Date: 1978

Miles M. 38 Messenger 2A G-AKIM
Miles M.38 Messenger 2A G-AKIM (msn 6724), built by Miles (Northern Ireland) Ltd. at Newtownards and flown to Woodley for completion to customer specification. Date: 1950s-1960s

Messerschmitt P1101 -the second prototype of this advanced jet nearing completion when captured After the war, the US adapted the type as the Bell X-2

Snail Haunted House
A hornted house! The Snail Haunted House at Dreamland, Margate, Kent, England, being rushed to completion in order to be ready for the forthcoming Easter Holidays. Date: 1930s

Paris / Eiffel Tower 1889
Celebrating its completion

Shipbuilding at Belfast, Great Liners Approaching Completion - a view of two boats at the shipyard. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Belfast). Date: circa early 1900s

Tram Construction at Belfast, New Cars Approaching Completion in Finishing Shed - a general view of the finishing shed with tram bodies and undercarriage

Flatiron building, Broadway / 5th Avenue, New York
Flatiron building in its year of completion. Originaly named The Fuller building upon it completion in 1902. Now widely known as the Flatiron building due to its resemblance to a cast iron cloths

Queen Mary Ocean Liner, suspended
R.M.S. Queen Mary at the John Brown shipyard, December 1931. Work on the ship, then known as Cunard No. 534, had been suspended on 13th December 1931 as Cunard had run out of funds

Queen Mary Ocean Liner crisis stops work
Tragedy comes to Clydeside. On 10th December 1931, almost exactly a year after signing of the contract for the construction of Hull Number 534, know as Queen Mary Ocean Liner

Reception on completion of Eiffel Tower
VIPS, state and civic dignitaries, along with senior engineers gather for a reception at the top of the completed Eiffel Tower on 31 March 1889. Date: 1889

Hoover Dam, Nevada, USA - Nearing completion
Hoover (Boulder) Dam, Nevada, USA - Nearing completion Date: 1935

Sydney Harbour Bridge: general view showing bridge and pylons at late stage towards completion Date: circa 1931

A design to represent the beginning and completion of an American settlement or farm Dessein qui represente la maniere d etablir et de parachever une habitation ou ferme Americaine

Grand banquet, given by the citizens of Cincinnati, to the v

Proposed design for the completion of the Washington Monument, Washington, D.C. Date ca. 1877

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