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St Pancras Station, London - Interior. Date: circa 1870s
London Fire Brigades organisation and equipmentA selection of small drawings of the events that take place in 1937, when a call by a pedestrian seeing flames and smoke to the very end when the fire has been put out
George Beaumont with manual fire engine, PinnerGeorge Beaumont, Chief Officer of the Pinner Voluntary Fire Brigade, with a manual fire engine which was kept at Waxwell Lane, Pinner, having previously been housed at The Hall
Little boy on rocking horseA rather superior looking little boy dressed in a tartan kilt and Scottish velvet jacket rides on a rocking horse. In the background are a toy castle, a model train engine with signals
The prototype Saab 90 Scandia, SE-BCA, during a single-e?The prototype Saab 90 Scandia, SE-BCA, during a single-engine take-off from Saab?s airfield at Linkping
Napier Nomad compound diesel engine, port front quarter
Napier Nomad compound diesel engine, port view
Rolls-Royce Exe 24-cylinder, air-cooled, X-block, sleeve-valve engine B Series outside the Ramp Hangar at Hucknall
Rolls Royce / Snecma Olympus 593 Mk602 productionRolls-Royce/Snecma Olympus 593 Mk602 production at the Rolls-Royce Bristol Engine Division
Bristol Bulldog TM K3183 with Napier Rapier I engineBristol Bulldog TM, K3183, fitted with a Napier Rapier I engine, suspended in the 24ft wind tunnel at the RAE Farnborough
Boulton and Watt engine, drawing
French Grand Prix of 1921The first road race to be won by an engine powered by a straight-eiggt engine was the French Grand Prix of 1921 in which J Murphy averaged 78.1 mph for 322 miles at Le Mans
Station 28, Whitechapel BA pumps crewFirefighters from Whitechapel fire station posing with their Proto Mark IV oxygen breathing apparatus sets with their open Dennis dual purpose appliance which could carry either an extension ladder
LCC-LFB Kensington fire station, SW LondonLocated in Old Court Place near Kensington Church Street, Kensington fire station retained a horse drawn turntable ladder until 1921 when it was finally replaced by a motorised version
Oil fuelled Merryweather pump
A London Fire Brigade pump escape
Firefighters working at scene of restaurant fire, Biggin Hill, SE London
LCC-LFB Dual purpose appliances (pump escape)Introduced into the London Fire Brigade in 1934, dual purpose appliances meant that the ladders the fire engines carried were interchangeable
LFB-AFS convoy and fire exercisePart of the Civil Defence Corps until it was disbanded in the late 1960s, the Auxiliary Fire Service consisted of volunteer firefighters who would attend a fire station for drill and training
GLC-LFB appliance fleet - foam tenderThe 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 - Turntable Ladder at Brigade HQThe 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
LFB Dennis dual-purpose pump, Lambeth HQLambeths (D61) pump at its base station, on display in Brigade headquarters drill yard. Side mounted pump outlets together with hose-reel tubing and two hook ladders can be seen
LCC-LFB vehicle repair workshops, Lambeth HQThe London Fire Brigade vehicle repair and maintenance workshops located within the extensive headquarters complex in Lambeth, SE1
Barnet Voluntary Fire Brigade with manual horse pumpThe officers and firemen of the Barnet voluntary fire brigade with the manual horse drawn pump fire engine
Barnet Fire Brigade fire crews with appliances outside the fire station
LCC-MFB horse drawn steamer at GreenwichA horse drawn steamer and crew at Greenwich fire station, Bisset Street, SE London, during the latter years of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade (it was renamed the London Fire Brigade in 1904)
LCC-LFB Vehicle and equipment workshops complexThe Headquarters complex at Lambeth SE1 had extensive vehicle and equipment workshops. Maintenance, repair and restoration work could be undertaken by highly skilled mechanics and craftsmen
LCC-LFB emergency dam unit and trailer pump, WW2Emergency water supplies were vital to supplementing the available mains supply for fighting the vast swathe of fires that swept parts of London during the Blitz
Government supplied NFS pump escape and trailer pumpA grey pump escape and trailer pump prior to having its NFS station identification number painted on the side. Seen here at the London Fire Brigade headquarters in Lambeth
Wheeled escape ladder vehicle of the London Fire Brigade
London Fire Brigade turntable ladderA London Fire Brigade turntable ladder
Cub Scouts cleaning fire engine
British battleship HMS King Edward VII sinking, WW1The British battleship HMS King Edward VII with her stern down during the First World War. She struck a mine off Cape Wrath, off the northern Scottish coast
Scouts with a Rolls-Royce engineA group of Scouts looking at a Rolls-Royce Merlin engine. 1940s
Architects proposed front elevation, IMechE HQ, Storeys Gate, 1896 1896
Sir Herbert Nigel Gresley
Locomotive no 326 Bessborough 4-6-2 tank locomotive
Cab of the Knight of the Thistle
Locomotive no 2908 Lady of Quality
Ground plan of the engine, boilers Date: 1795
J Nasmyths patent steam hammer, front elevation
Constructed drawing of Jenny Lind, side elevation, from contemporary notes and tracings Date: 1897
Trials on the Midland Railway, May 1848, between Jenny Lind and Jenny Sharp Date: 1896
IMechE Coat of Arms, from the Royal Charter, 1930 Date: 1930
Single cylinder steam engine, paper model c.1908 Date: 1908
Power and control in R101The first diesel-engined airship: power and control in R101. Illustrations of some of the features of R101: a power car, the chart room, and mooring arrangements
View of a fully armed train, IraqView of a fully armed train with the number 29 painted on its side, on a railway track somewhere in Iraq. Date: circa 1920
British soldiers walking past a train, IraqThree British soldiers walking past a train, somewhere in Iraq