Float Collection (page 4)

Pageant, Hythe, Hampshire
Pageant, Hythe, Southampton, near Dibden, Hampshire, England. Showing the Ladies Fellowship float from St Johns church Date: 1960s

Carnival Float, Lindley, Yorkshire
Carnival Float, Lindley, Huddersfield, near Birchencliffe, Yorkshire, England. Showing Joseph Sykes Brothers Mill Yard Date: 1910s

Carnival Float - Lidget Street, Lindley, Yorkshire
Carnival Float - Lidget Street, Lindley, Huddersfield, near Birchencliffe, Yorkshire, England. Date: 1910s

Carnival Float, Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire
Carnival Float, Mablethorpe, near Sutton-on-Sea, Lincolnshire, England. Showing Horse & Cart Date: 1934

Gordon Works Float, Rawtenstall, Lancashire
Gordon Works Float with girls dressed as Early Victorians, Rawtenstall, Rossendale, Lancashire, England. Showing a rare example of Watershot Stonework Date: 1900s

Float in Pageant, Hythe, Hampshire
Float in Pageant, Hythe, near Southampton, Hampshire, England. Date: 1950s

Children on Horse-drawn Carnival Float, Unknown Location
Horse-Drawn Float, England. Possibly Empire Day Celebrations Date: 1900s

Electric Cooker - Oven Advertising Float, Great Finborough
Electric Cooker/Oven Advertising Float, Great Finborough, Stowmarket, Suffolk, England. East Anglian Electricity Service Date: 1920s

Mardi Gras Pageant, Canal Street, New Orleans, USA
Mardi Gras Pageant taking place in Canal Street, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Date: 1904

Founders Week Parade, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Founders Week Parade, 9 October 1908, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. The float shown represents the Old Ironsides (railway engines) of 1832. Date: 1908

Blitz in London -- oil tank fire, Thames Haven, WW2
Blitz in London -- oil tank fire, Thames Haven, near Thurrock, Essex, 8 September 1940. Two fire floats of the Essex Fire Brigade moored alongside a jetty

Gieve life saving waistcoat for torpedoed shipwreck victims
Advertisement for the Gieve life-saving waistcoat from Gieves Ltd, The Royal Naval Outfitters, intended for use by victims of torpedoed ships during the First World War

Learning to float
Young lady, supported by a male friend, learning to float. Date: circa 1908

Festival procession, Japan
People taking part in a festival procession, Japan. Date: circa 1890s

The hydro-aeroplane by G. H. Davis
The hydro-aeroplane: coming changes in its construction. Showing the evolution of the waterplane or seaplane. 1912

Levitation in Sunderland flying boat by G. H. Davis
Levitation in a Sunderland flying boat during the Second World War. Crew members and objects floated up into the air. This strange experience lasted for just a few moments

British naval seaplane, the Britannia AOVO, WW1
The Britannia AOVO, a British naval seaplane in use near Palestine during the First World War. This model was also used by Germany, having been supplied to both sides before the war broke out. 1917

WW1 Home Front - Milkmaid - Cowleys Dairy, Brighton, Sussex
WW1 - Brighton, Sussex - A Milkmaid from Cowleys Dairy sells milk from a churn on a hand cart. The newspaper billboards in the background announce the exacuation of Warsaw

Fisherman making and repairing lobster pots
A fisherman making and repairing lobster pots. Date: circa 1930

Aerial view of seaplane
Aerial view of a seaplane floating on the water, about to have a hook attached to it from a crane

Seaplane hanging from a crane
A seaplane hanging from a crane, with people inside it

People loading a car at Perranporth, Cornwall. Date: 1931

Fisherman repairing lobster pots
A fisherman repairing lobster pots. Date: circa 1930

Queen of the Carnival
The Queen of the Carnival, dressed up to look like Cleopatra, riding along the road on a horse-drawn float, with three female attendants

Two girls bathing in a stream with a rubber ring

Street parade with people in costume
A street parade with people in costume, including big heads

Carnival float, The Typists Dream, showing young women in holiday attire, as if on a beach, rather than sitting in an office typing

Winning Float for an Electricity Company - North East London. Date: circa 1930s

Blackpool, Lancashire - Illuminated Gondola. Date: circa 1920s

Chalon-sur-Soane - Carnival Day
Chalon-sur-Soane, a commune in the Saone-et-Loire department in the region of Burgundy in eastern France. The Gladiators Circus is the theme of the first float, complete with columned theatre

The Floating Bridge, Istanbul, Turkey
The Floating Bridge across the Golden Horn, Istanbul, Turkey Date: 1838

Submarine training at HMS Vernon - Escape Chamber
Submarine training at HMS Vernon, a shore establishment or stone frigate of the Royal Navy at Chatham Dockyard, Kent. Waiting on the surface after a successful escape. Date: late 1930s

Festival float on Romford High Road, Essex, with chiclren dressed up as various characters (possibly types of the British Isles??). Date: circa 1928

Uruguay - Float for the Edison Electric Company
Uruguay - Festival Advertising Float for the Edison Electric Company, South America. Date: circa 1910s

Fairey IIIF, J9165, with float struts designed to measure the resistance of the floats

Float-equipped Junkers Ju52 / 3m SE-ADR
Float-equipped Junkers Ju52/3m, SE-ADR

Float-equipped de Havilland DH50

Float-equipped Ford Tri-Motor

A dynamic model of a twin-float seaplane in the RAE tank

Float equipped Hawker Osprey over Alexandria

LCC-LFB First fireboats in the London Fire Brigade
A fire float and tug were first introduced in 1877 and used until 1900 when they were replaced by shallow draft fireboats

LCC-MFB Fire float and tug at drills
Prior to the MFB acquiring its first purpose made fireboat, a tug would tow a fire float (containing a steam fire pump) to the scene of riverside blazes and fires on ships on the Thames

MFB fire float and tug on the River Thames
A Metropolitan Fire Brigade fire float and tug on the River Thames. These composite craft were introduced in 1877 and used until 1900 when they were replaced by fireboats

Drawing of MFB fire float and tug on the River Thames
A drawing of a Metropolitan Fire Brigade fire float and tug heading to a riverside blaze in the distance. The fire float was a fire pump mounted in a barge that could supply water to the land via

MBW-MFB fire float and tug at drill on River Thames
These fire floats and tugs were composite craft introduced in about 1877. They were replaced by fireboats from 1900

AFS contingent in Lord Mayors Show
Auxiliary Fire Service (AFS) Control Room float in the Lord Mayors Show, City of London

NFS (London Region) fire float on upper Thames, WW2
A clinker built boat converted into a fireboat and stationed on the upper reaches of the River Thames in the London Region area

NFS (London Region) fire float on the Thames, WW2
A motor launch fire float under tow by a fireboat on the River Thames

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