Engines Collection (page 29)

The Mouth and Carriage of the Pneumatic Letter and Parcel Co
Engraving showing the mouth of the despatch-tube and a carriage, carrying mail, of the Pneumatic Despatch Company, Battersea, London

Fire Engine 1940S
A fire engine from the Durham County Fire Brigade

Steam navvy used to make the new dock at Swansea. By the late nineteenth century, chores traditionally done by workmen were being performed by steam engines

Fitting shop at the Grand junction railway works
The fitting shop at the Grand Junction railway engine works at Crewe. Repairs of locomotive engines and the completion of new engines

The most powerful French locomotive that was running in 1914
The most powerful French locomotive running in 1914. The Mikado began service in 1914 and was used by the Paris-Lyons-Mediterranean Railway Company for goods transportation

Hjorths electro-magnetic motive engine
Sketch of the Danish inventor Hjorths electro-magnetic motive engine. The motor was a significant development from earlier electro-magnetic engines

The Mallard
The LNERs Mallard, the locomotive that attained 125 m.p.h - a record in 1938 for steam engines. The record took place on a straight stretch of track between Grantham and Peterborough

Aquitanias Engines
AQUITANIA One of the engines of the Aquitania being lowered into position during its construction

Cycle-cars were fashionable and popular from Edwardian times to the early 1920s, when their light weight, small size, low purchase price and running costs made motoring accessible to the masses

Killingworth Engine
George Stephensons locomotive designed to carry coal at Killingworth Colliery, near Newcastle-on-Tyne. It was the precursor of the Rocket and other engines

Steam Ploughing 1870
STEAM PLOUGHING Using two 6-horse power engines, one at either end of the furrow, which move forward slowly, providing power to the plough via a cable

Making Toys at Factory
In a London factory, two women workers attend to the last minute orders for Christmas; here a stack of toy locomotive engines await dispatch

Sapeurs Pompiers Engine
French sapeurs-pompiers manoeuvre their engines at the scene of a fire

Hand-Drawn Engines
Although the larger engines of French sapeurs-pompiers are drawn by horses, smaller appliances are drawn to the scene of the fire by the firemen themselves

Repairing Fire Engine
French sapeurs-pompiers in the workshop of a fire station carry out maintenance and repairs on their engines

Vickers-Armstrong Plane
Valiant B1, with Rolls Royce engines, maximum speed in excess of 600 mph

Making Model Trains
Two skilled young women making toy locomotives in a British factory. The engines are carefully cut and bent into shape and then hand painted

Boulton & Watts Engine
Steam engines under construction at the factory of BOULTON & WATT at Soho, near Birmingham

Fire Brigade & Engine
The Romsey Fire Brigade and their horse pulled engine

Manual pump engine for putting out fires

Fontaine express train
Fontaines express loco

American Camden Train
Camden loco

Stirling Downed by Me109
A Messerschmitt 109 poses before the British Short Stirling bomber it brought down - it has lost three of its engines - and the fourth looks fairly dodgy too !

Electrical Engine
The electrical locomotive which replaced the original steam engines - resulting in quieter, smoother and above all cleaner travel

Great Easterns Engines
The huge screw engines of the Great Eastern, designed and bult by James Watt and Co

German Steam Warship
Ein Segelschiff - with sails backed by steam engines

Fire Engine Arrives
The arrival of the fire-engine

Beverley Fire-Engine
A fire engine in action at Beverley, Yorkshire

C18 FIRE-ENGINES 1735
18th century fire-engines made by a firm which became Merryweathers. The engine on the left is from Windsor Castle

NEWSHAMs ENGINE / 1721
Newshams Fire-engine, London

Hodge Steam Fire-Engine
The Hodge Steam fire-engine. The first recorded attempt at fire prevention in New York City was in 1659, and this locomotive-style engine is the first native-built engine

Hand-Drawn Engine / 1878
A hand-drawn chemical fire engine employed for fire extinction about 1878. The chemicals were held in copper cylinders mounted at the front of the vehicle

Metallic Fire Engine
Metallic manual fire-engine, designed by Merryweathers for use on Fiji, for plantation work

Deluge Fire Engine
Merryweathers Deluge direct-acting fire engine

PARIS TYPE FIRE-ENGINE
Paris type manual fire- engine, with the pumps contained in the water cistern, with everything mounted on an oak base plate

Hodges Manual Engine
Hodges manual Fire-engine. It was presented by the inhabitants of Lambeth to Mr F Hodges, a local distiller who maintained an efficient fire- brigade at his own expense!

Silsbys Fire Engine / NY
Typical American fire-engine of the late 19th century. This model was made by Silsby for the Metropolitan Fire Department of New York

Bristol Chemical Engine
Horse-drawn chemical engine, supplied by Merryweathers for the City of Bristol. The copper cylinders held the chemical fire-fighting compounds

Merryweather Fire Engine
One of two motor fire engines completed by Merryweathers in 1927. This vehicle is a six- wheeled version, with a Hatfield pump capable of delivering 400 gal a minute

Two Steam-Plough Systems
Comparison of two separate methods of ploughing using a steam engine. Howards system (top) and Fowlers (below), with Hornsbys traditional animal-mounted plough between

Alexander Mikulin
ALEXANDER MIKULIN Russian engineer, noted for his design of aicraft engines

Fire Engine Scrap
A horse-drawn fire engine canters to a blaze, with five firemen ready to go into action

Leyland Firemaster
Wolverhamtons first British Leyland Firemaster TFM 2, a diesel-engined front-mounted pump fire engine, this one with bodywork designed by David Haydon Ltd. of Birmingham

FIRE ENGINE 1821 - 1902
A horse-drawn Victorian fire engine, in use for almost a century, between the years 1821 and 1902

Hornblower Steam Engine
Diagram of the steam engine patented by Jonathan Hornblower, from Cornwall, in 1781; his patent was overturned in 1799

Dolphin Steamer
American despatch boat, with sails as well as its steam engines

17th century fire equipment
John Keelings appliance for putting out fires

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