Control Collection (#11)

Temporary points maintenance - Army - French strike of 1912
Strike on the Northern French Railways in 1912. Bridge at Briche, a control switch being operated by temporary railwaymen - the French Army! Date: 1912

Traffic Tower, 5th Avenue and 42nd Street looking North, NYC
Traffic Tower, 5th Avenue and 42nd Street looking North, New York City, NY, USA. Date: 1920s

A Policeman at Piccadilly Circus, London, close to Eros
A Policeman at Piccadilly Circus, London, close to the Statue of Eros, stopping the traffic (consisting of a row of London taxis). Date: circa 1909

Soviet Armenia - Cheese Factory
Soviet Armenia - Kalinin Mechanical Steam Cheese Plant No.1 - Foreman Akushev inspects the pressed round cheeses. Date: circa 1930s

The French / Italian border at Menton
Superb photographic postcard (there is so much going on!) depicting the French / Italian border at Menton - The French Customs Post

Triple control position indicator

Henry Farman F20, 2838, dual-control trainer

National Physical laboratory Hovercraft Unit Experimental craft HD2, HD2-001, built to investigate methods of improving lateral control and manoeuvrability

Le Bourget Airport, Paris - Painting by Andrew McGeachy
ParisLe Bourget Airport, France (shown here with the main terminal building still partly under construction) - famous as the landing site for Charles Lindberghs historic solo transatlantic crossing

Dr Eckener in the control cabin aboard the Graf Zeppelin LZ
Dr Eckener in the control cabin aboard the Graf Zeppelin, LZ 127

Control cabin aboard the Graf Zeppelin LZ 127 (sketch)
Control cabin aboard the Graf Zeppelin, LZ 127 (sketch)

Looking through the navigation room into the control cabin aboard the Graf Zeppelin, LZ 127, colour tinted

London control zone and associated national airways, London Airport inbound and outbound routes. 15 August 1951. Date: 1951

The first Do31 hovering rig was known as the Control Systems Test Rig and first flew in 1964. It was powered by four Rolls-Royce RB108 lift-jet engines. Date: 1964

An aerial view of the south east face passenger building and control tower, Heathrow Airport Central, from a BEA S-55 helicopter taking off for the South Bank

The south east face passenger building and control tower, Heathrow Airport Central. In the foreground are Vickers Viscounts of BEA

Aerial view of the control tower and south east face passenger building, Heathrow Airport Central. On the left is the Queens Building

Queens Building the Europa Terminal & central control tower
Queens Building, the Europa Terminal and central control tower rise up out of a sea of gravel at Heathrow Airport in the early 1950s. Just above the control tower can be seen the road tunnel

The north side control tower was built by the RAF on familiar military lines. In this 1945 view an RAF Anson and several military supply vehicles can be seen

de Havilland DH84 Dragon VH-UZX
de Havilland DH84 Dragon, VH-UZX, of Air Travel & Survey Pty equipped with Marconi Aircraft Equipment Type AD37H/5062B/56B, complete with autopilot control

Avro Lincoln B2 RF342 / G-APRJ
Avro Lincoln B2, RF342/G-APRJ, with a boundary layer control wing mounted on top of the fuselage

Control equipment for electric trains for British railways
?Items of control equipment for electric trains for British railways?

Sommer?s Farman biplane
?Wicker chair and foot control of Ailerons in Sommer?s Farman biplane?. ?Vehicles of the air? by Victor Lougheed. p.440a

In Athy Control, Gordon-Bennett Race, Ireland, 1903 Date: 1903

Harmonia axyridis Arkansas, harlequin ladybird
Harlequin or halloween ladybird (Harmonia axyridis). These ladybirds are classified as pests in some countries as they gather in huge swarms

Human Brain Display

United States (19th c. ). Oil exploitation in
" United States (19th c.). Oil exploitation in Pennsylvania. Picture from " L Illustration". Engraving."

Brazil. Colonial America (1648). Battle of Guararapes, happened between Portuguese and Dutch troops for the control of

First Crusade. Taking of Jerusalem, 14th July 1099. Gottfried of Bouillon under control. Copy of a paintinb by Victor Schnetz (1841). Engraving. SPAIN. Barcelona

Advert for the Radiation New World Gas Cooker 1938
Are you a slave to your cooker ? The new world 45/48 gas cookers with exclusive regulo control. Power burners to give more concentrated heat

Advert for electric cookers by Belling 1931
Happy ladies ! Belling has made electric cooking cheap. 1. New visible heat boiling-griller and fastest in the world. 2. Temset automatic oven control. 3. All gleaming white mottled enamel finish

ULIVIs F-RAYS
Signor Ulivis F-Rays will make it possible for explosives to be detonated by remote control : push-button warfare becomes a freseeable possibility Date: 1914

Queen Elizabeth II at the LFB Annual Review in Lambeth
Queen Elizabeth II at the Annual Review of the London Fire Brigade, Lambeth HQ on 11 November 1966

Lambeth HQ Control Room

London Fire Brigade Headquarters control room
LFB Lambeth HQ Control Room

Newly constructed Lambeth HQ
Lambeth HQ after construction of Underground Control Room

Armed Guard at entrance to Lambeth HQ Control Room

NFS recruits training on control panel, WW2
National Fire Service recruits training on a control panel

Breathing apparatus control point at scene of fire
Breathing apparatus control point at the scene of a fire

Brigade Command Unit at the scene of oil refinery fire
Brigade Command Unit at the scene of an oil refinery fire, Buncefield, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire

LCC-LFB Coach purchased as a Brigade Control Unit
This rather dishevelled looking former coach was purchased by the London Fire Brigade as its new Brigade Control Unit. Following a thorough overhaul

LCC-LFB Brigade headquarters station watchroom
The watchroom of Southwark Fire Station. Although this had a telephone switchboard serving the adjacent headquarters of the Brigade

LCC-MFB Streatham fire station wireless van
Whilst the new Streatham fire station was being built, a sub-station was employed to serve the local area. Seen here is the interior of the horse drawn mobile MFB wireless van that housed

GLC-LFB Brigade Headquarters Control Unit (CU)
The mid 1970s saw a number of innovative appliance designs come into play as the London Fire Brigade adapted to an ever changing and more Health and Safety conscious working environment

LCC-LFB Fire scene in a London street
The hose lines indicate a serious fire has occurred, requiring at least two jets to bring it under control, but little evidence of what actually happened

GLC-LFB New Lambeth brigade control room
Formally opened by Queen Elizabeth II at the Centenary Review of the LFB, seen here is a view of the new fire brigade control room at Lambeth HQ

GLC-LFB Salvage Tender
The GLC-LFB was created on 1 April 1965. A series of photos was commissioned of each type of fire engine, either within or absorbed into the enlarged London Fire Brigade

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

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