Deliveries Collection

Records of first UK aerial mail service
Thepostmasters official handwrittenrecordsrelatingto thefirst UKaerialmail service from London to Windsor andWindsor to LondoninSeptember1911. 1911

Milk boy with three-wheeled cart & cans
A three-wheeled handcart, used to deliver milk in the East End of London

Horse pulling coal delivery cart
Horse pulling a coal delivery cart of Joyner and Sons with two tradesmen riding on the cart. Date: 1930s

French parcel delivery man at Christmas, 1913
A busy parcel delivery man in Paris seen hard at work during the Christmas season. Attched to one of the big magasins or department stores, he is loaded with parcels and packages up to his chin

Delivery truck c. 1910
Hearse and Casket Body on Buick m/4 Four Cylinder Commercial Chassis. Photographic post card of a drawing or print of a Buick hearse

Sugar industry

British Postman in Snow
Snow does not deter this country postman making his deliveries with a horse- carriage

Horse and cart making deliveries in a flooded street
The flood is in Watford and someone in an upper story of a house has a basket hanging on a rope and the baker in the horse and cart is putting things in it. Date: 1903

Milkmen in Charlotte Street, London
Milkmen making early morning deliveries, Charlotte Street, London. Date: circa 1930s

People You See: The Baker. From Teddy Bear (18 January 1964). Original artwork loaned for scanning by the Illustration Art Gallery. Date: 1964

Vickers Varsity T. 1 VX828 - 1st prototype
Vickers Varsity T.1 VX828, - 1st prototype flown on 17 July 1949 from Wisley aerodrome

The Main Street (Hauptstrasse) at Thun, Switzerland
The Main Street (Hauptstrasse) at Thun, Bernese Oberland region, Switzerland. Date: circa 1904

Carter Paterson & Co. stables and depot. Parcel deliveries

Errand Boy & Snowballs
On his way to deliver a goose and a box of Huntley & Palmers Dessert biscuits, a delivery boy stops to have a snowball fight

Soho, London - Peter Street and Wardour Street W1
Soho, London - junction of Peter Street and Wardour Street W1, with a delivery van. 1973

The Round Game of Happy Families, Master Scraps
Chad Valley, The Round Game of Happy Families, Master Scraps the Butchers Son. circa 1910

Photo of Swan and Edgars delivery van
Black and white photograph of a Swan and Edgar delivery van in the Tatler of 10th November 1909

Paddington Street, West London. Date: circa 1905

Delivery man on a Christmas card, holding a large basket upside down and spilling the contents, including a goose, a bottle of wine and several apples. Date: circa 1890s

Boys clearing snow on a Christmas card
Boys clearing snow from the front of a house on a Christmas and New Year card. circa 1890s

Two boys snowballing on a Christmas card, when they should be making deliveries. Date: circa 1890s

Deliveries at Wolf Rock Lighthouse, Lands End, Cornwall
Deliveries at Wolf Rock Lighthouse, Lands End, Sennen, near Penzance, Cornwall, England. Date: 1890s

Horse and cart deliveries being made to shops in London

Coal Delivery Carts in the East End of London
Coal Delivery Carts in an East End Street in London Date: 1930s

Puppies attaching the post - Ridways Tea Advertisement
" The Pick of the post"

After You, Madam
Arrival of Father Christmas and a stork, both with Christmas deliveries Date: 1927

Santa Claus Flying Round The Earth In His New Aerial Car, by
A colour illustration showing Father Christmas speeding up his deliveries by using a flying machine as his sleigh. Date: 23rd November 1907

Delivery boy
Aeolian Co. Portrait, Stephens Delivering Aeolian Magazine. Aeolian Co. Portrait, Stephens Delivering Aeolian Magazine

Internal Roadway at Daily Mirror Printing Works
Part of the Internal Roadway at Daily Mirror Printing Works, facilitating the delivery of newsprint by day and the despatch of completed newspapers at night. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Royal Army & Clothing Department, Pimlico on the banks of the River Thames. The Midland Railway Company wagon is making deliveries

Argentina Postman
Making deliveries in the mountain regions, the Argentine postman uses mules

Indian Postman (Deccan)
In the Deccan of southern India, the postman may need to be ferried from place to place to make his deliveries

Delivery Cycles
Express delivery ! Bouillon Cibils employ cyclists to deliver their meat extract - for larger deliveries, a tricycle van, for smaller ones, one with a handy box

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