Float Collection

Peter Pan & Wendy Flying
Peter Pan and Wendy float away over the city

Milkman and his Float
A milkman taking bottles from the crates on his float to deliver to someones doorstep

Milkman delivering milk
Fresh milk is delivered by the milkman, who stands by his milk float. Date: 1975

A cunning stroke by William Heath Robinson
A clever but unsportsmanlike contrivance to increase buoyance and prevent fatigue among Channel swimmers. A useful inflatable idea to help long-distance swimmers by the gadget king

Cabral and Coutinho fly from Portugal to Brazil
Gabo Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral - Portuguese aviators who flew from Lisbon, Portugal to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1922 in a Fairey IIIB Float plane- the first time this feat was achieved

Britten-Norman BN2 Islander G-AVCN on a full-size float
Britten-Norman BN2 Islander, G-AVCN, on a full-size float mock-up in the Bembridge Experimental Hangar

A parade in Fall River Massachusetts, Sherwin Williams float

The Great Docks Strike of 1912 - Scene at Grays, Essex
The Great Docks (Docker s) Strike of 1912 - Scene at a Demonstration at Grays, Essex. The pre-war era witnessed massive industrial unrest as dockers, transport workers

Fairey Campania two-seat seaplane
Fairey Campania two-seat carrier-borne reconnaissance or coastal patroller seaplane, which entered production in early 1917. It was mounted on a wheeled trolley for takeoff from a ships flight deck

The Lady of Shalott setting out on her boat for Camelot
Colour illustration of the Lady of Shalott setting out on her boat for Camelot

Kashmir, River Jhelum - woman paddles a wooden boat
Kashmir, River Jhelum - woman with two small children paddles a flat-bottomed wooden boat, or shikara Date: 1986

Filling the Air with Fairy Forms -- a little girl blows a dandelion clock and in her imagination it turns into a flight of fairies. Date: circa 1920s

Horse-drawn float in carnival, Eastbourne, Sussex
Horse-drawn float led by Jim Wicking in a carnival at Eastbourne, Sussex. circa 1962

Zeppelin-Lindau Rs II German long range flying boat, seen here in its initial form with biplane tail. It first flew in June 1916, after which modifications were made

Bleriot-Voisin float glider shortly after launch on the Sein
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Nice Carnival - a decorated float
Nice Carnival, France - a decorated float depicting a clown riding a dragon

Hot Air Ballo0N / 2002
Hot air balloon in Newbury, Oxfordshire

Eskimo Hunts a Narwhal
An Eskimo fisherman pursuing a narwhal

Short Scion Senior float-plane L9786, seen with a scale model of the Sunderlands planing bottom as its float. Date: circa 1938

Sabden Treacle Miners procession float, possibly 1930s

WW2 - Minesweeper Otter Float
A photograph which shows some WW2 merchant seamen deploying an otter float upon a minesweeper. Date: circa 1942

WW2 - Blackburn Skuas Capture Italian Cant
An illustration of some British WW2 Blackburn Skua bombers forcing down and capturing an Italian Cant 506b float plane in the Mediterranean. Date: circa 1940s

G-ADHJ - Mercury - Transatlantic Float Seaplane - the upper component of the Short Bros. Mayo Composite Aircraft - launched in mid-air from a Flying Boat (see 13816872). Only one ever built

Set of three lifeboat related postcards including real photo Lifeboat Demonstration in Southampton, 1906. Date: circa 1900s

Piper J3-65 Cub float-plane, with father and son fishing from a float. Date: circa 1960

The Fairy Folk on Freddy Frog's Ferry Date: 1930

Title page design, Mr Punch's Pocket Book 1871 Date: 1871

Udet U. 13 float under construction
Udet U.13 float under construction for D-945, the sole U.13. Date: 1926

Carnival at Nice, France (2/2)
Carnival at Nice, France - Serenade to the Moon (small float) Date: 1896

Carnival at Nice, France (1/2)
Carnival at Nice, France - Spectacular float featuring an elaborately-dressed Gentleman rigding an eagle, carrying a large basket of wine! Date: circa 1920s

Electricity Council appliance testing lab, Leatherhead
Electricity Council appliance testing laboratories, Leatherhead, Surrey. A new extension was opened on 16 May 1969. Showing the Housecraft Department

A musician sits on a float in an ecstatic trance, really into the music, while a couple of children sit beneath him at the Port of Spain Carnival, Trinidad, W. Indies. Date: 1968

A German custom where walnut shells are floated in a bowl of water, either the walnut comes together or drawn to the side, according to their movements it brings good luck or ill-luck. Date: 1908

Cartoon, Disenchantment, WW1
Cartoon, Disenchantment. The old ones are no fun, they die too quickly, muses a German U-boat commander. Date: 1916

Southend Carnival parade, along the sea-front. Date: circa 1955

Mac Beardall, Doug Frazer and Dennis Wright dressed as skin-clad savages in the aftermath of the H-bomb on the Westminster College float at a procession of London students in aid of the National

Comic postcard, Bald head in the sea, WW2 Date: circa 1940s

Comic postcard, Plump man floating on the sea Date: 20th century

c. 1880s Japan - festival procession

Milkman and milk float, London
Milkman with his electric milk float making early morning delivery to Bloomfield Place, Westminster, London. Date: circa 1950s

Comic postcard, People in the sea Date: 20th century

Angelic women in the most wonderful photo ever taken
Two women appear angelic, dressed in flowing material as they are photographed amongst the clouds. The positioning of the women

Carnival float, Newport, Rhode Island, USA
Boilermakers carnival float for Old Home Week, Newport, Rhode Island, USA. Date: 1905

Historical procession, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Historical-allegorical procession, Rembrandt events, Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 1906, with a horse-drawn float and people in costume. Date: 1906

Religious Procession in Tokyo, Japan
Religious procession in Yedo, (now known as Tokyo) Japan. Date: circa 1880

Japanese Matsuri Festival
Matsuri is the Japanese word for a festival or holiday. In Japan festivals are usually sponsored by a local shrine or temple

Patriotic fancy dress, c. 1910
A man dressed up as a woman pushing a pram festooned with streamers and flags and containing three children in bonnets and bedecked straw hats

Little girl dressed up as a milk delivery person
A little girl dressed up as a milkman (or milk woman), complete with her miniature milk float. The photograph of King George VI

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