Drill Collection (page 10)

Live carry-down from drill tower at Lambeth Brigade HQ
Saturday drill displays at Brigade HQ Lambeth. London firefighters performing a rescue by carrying down an extension ladder from the second floor window during the display

LFB trailer pump competition at Brigade HQ, Lambeth, WW2
Two trailer pump crews engaged in a competition in the headquarters drill yard. The trailer pump had to be set into the water in the emergency inflatable dams

LCC-LFB taxi converted for fire brigade use, WW2
Aerial view of a taxi converted for World War II fire brigade use by Auxiliary firefighters in London, showing the two ladders it carried on its roof

LCC-LFB Fire Station D, Floating Platform Wharf, Rotherhithe
London firemen at hose cart drill, Fire Station D Floating Platform Wharf, Rotherhithe, SE London

LFB Fire Station D, Floating Platform Wharf, Rotherhithe
London firemen at hose cart drill, Fire Station D, Floating Platform Wharf, Rotherhithe

LFB mechanical fire appliance at Southwark HQ
Two London firemen at drill with a motorised fire appliance (with its ladder removed), watching at drills being performed out of shot

The drill-master of the East

Women in industry. Tool production. Inspecting thousands of drills each day, women employed by a large Midwest drill and tool company must learn to detect the tiniest flaw in these vital machine

Oil roughnecks screwing one piece of drill pipe to another piece by means of a heavy pipe wrench, Kilgore, Texas. Date 1939 Apr

Oil field workers adding a length of pipe to drill stream by means of heavy pipe wrenches, Kilgore, Texas. Date 1939 Apr

Ambulance drill at Headquarters Army of Potomac, near Brandy Station, Va. March, 1864. Date 1864, printed later

Liverpool Cottage Homes - Girls drill
Girls perform a playground drill with sticks at the Liverpool Vestrys Cottage Homes, Olive Mount, Wavertree. The homes were erected in 1898 to house pauper children away from the workhouse. Date: 1906

Sea Scouts alongside RSS Discovery
Sea Scouts in a boat drill alongside RSS Discovery. 1944

Romanian Soldiers on the training ground. Date: 1903

Trooping the Colours - Chakrata, India
Trooping the colours at Chakrata, India in the Dehradun district in the state of Uttarakhand, India. Date: circa 1910s

Boys in training, physical drill, Shotley Barracks, WW1
Boys in training, doing physical drill in a field before breakfast at Shotley Barracks during the First World War. They are naval cadets attached to HMS Ganges, a Royal Navy training ship

Annual celebrations of Dr. Barnardos Homes
Scene from the annual celebrations of Dr. Barnardos Homes in The Royal Albert Hall. Here young girls perform physical exercise in the Indian Club Drill display. An exhibition of the good work of Dr

Southern Africa - Gold Prospecting
Working underground in a South African goldmine - using a machine drill Date: 1907

Using a Seed Drill
Spring drilling kale seed with an old-fashioned horse-drawn seed drill on a farm near Grimscote, Northamptonshire, England. Date: early 1960s

Drilling Sugar Beet
Drilling sugar beet on a farm in Norfolk, England. Date: 1950s

Turkish infantry drilling, Yedikule, Turkey, WW1
Turkish infantry drilling at Yedikule (Fortress of the Seven Towers), near Istanbul, Turkey, during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

American troops training in France, WW1
American troops taking part in machine gun training in France during the First World War Date: September 1917

Allied action at Arsuf, Middle East, WW1
Allied action on the Mediterranean coast at Arsuf in the Middle East (now in Israel) during the First World War. Sandbag defences are being held by the 2nd Battalion Black Watch

Physical drill on the HMS Iron Duke, WW1
Physical drill for the crew on the HMS Iron Duke during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Gun crew drilling on British trawler HM Principal, WW1
A gun crew drilling on the British trawler HM Principal during the First World War. Date: 1916

Kitcheners army recruits drilling, Chatham, Kent, WW1
Kitcheners army recruits drilling outside the Royal Engineers Electrical School at Chatham, Kent, during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Seychelles Scouts at Rifle Drill
Scouts at rifle drill. circa 1920s-30s

Lincolnshire Regiment recruits at rifle drill, WW1
Lincolnshire Regiment recruits at rifle drill at the start of the First World War. Date: September 1914

TS Exmouth - Musical drill
Music drill on the Training Ship Exmouth - band members (centre) are flanked by other boys doing physical drill. The Exmouth, moored of Grays in Essex

Soldier Training 18th C
Military training step by step : An 18th century French soldier puts the bayonet at the end of his rifle and waves his sword. Date: Circa 1760

Soldiers Training 18th C
Military training of 18th century French soldiers. Date: Circa 1760

Stone Drill 18th Century
Various elements (including gears) of a stone drill from 18th century France. Date: Circa 1760

Stick Drill, Lambeth Schools, West Norwood, London
Boys perform an exercise known as stick drill at the Lambeth Schools for workhouse children on Elder Road, West Norwood, South London. They are all wearing identical uniform

Fire Drill at Lambeth Schools, West Norwood, London
A Fire Drill taking place at the Lambeth Schools for workhouse children on Elder Road, West Norwood, South London. A long canvas escape chute is connected to a second-floor window

Mexican army during a drill in Bateria de la Fortaleza de San Diego, Veracruz

British in Mexico, 1914
Front cover of the Illustrated London News showing members of the British colony in Mexico city preparing to defend themselves in anticipation of unrest in the capital

Metropolitan Police Drill Instruction book
A Metropolitan Police instruction book: Drill Instruction

Soldiers on parade, Haverfordwest, South Wales
Soldiers on parade in Jubilee Gardens, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales, around the time of the outbreak of the First World War

Boys assemble for drill, NIPRCC East Harling, Norfolk
Boys assembling for drill at the East Harling, Norfolk, branch of the National Institutions for Persons Requiring Care and Control

Morning drill, NIPRCC East Harling, Norfolk
Morning drill at the East Harling, Norfolk, branch of the National Institutions for Persons Requiring Care and Control, an organisation privately run by the Rev Harold Burden to house feeble minded

Training Ship Exmouth, flag signalling drill
Uniformed boys on the deck of the Training Ship Exmouth learning flag signalling. The Exmouth, moored off Grays in Essex, was used by the Metropolitan Asylums Board as a naval training establishment

Training Ship Exmouth, gun crew
Uniformed boys on the deck of the Training Ship Exmouth in formation as a gun crew, pulling a gun carriage. The Exmouth, moored off Grays in Essex

Union Workhouse, Tonbridge, Kent, Boys Drill
A line of boys at Tonbridge Union workhouse in Kent, probably in band uniforms, hold their rifles in military drill style. A man at the left of the line (their bandmaster?) looks

Changing of the Guard at Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland

Fire Brigade - Abadan Oilfield, Iran
A group of Iranian firefighters practising the swift deployment of the hose from their engine at the Abadan oilfield, Iran

PE and Band, Training Ship Wellesley, North Shields
Boys taking part in an exercise drill, with the band behind them, on the Training Ship Wellesley, on the River Tyne at North Shields, Northumberland

Dentist operates on patient
A dentist operates on a female patients teeth with a drill and a mirror. Other implements can be seen on the tray alongside

Digging up the tarmac on a road
A workman in a trilby hat digs up the tarmac surface of a road with a pneumatic drill

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