Fuel Collection (page 6)

Funeral ceremony of a top Lama in Tibetan Buddhism.. Handcolored lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsches Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures, Meissen, circa 1835-1840

Gas bag omnibus in Edinburgh, WW1
An example of a coal gas powered vehicle in Edinburgh - in this case a bus which holds a voluminous rubber bag for the gas on its roof

Steam locomotive, Great Eastern Railway
Steam locomotive 62785 of the Great Eastern Railway, built in the late 19th century. circa 1960s

WWI Poster, US Food Administration
Design by Harvey Dunn, Victory is a Question of Stamina, Send the Wheat, Meat, Fats, Sugar, the fuel for Fighters. United States Food Administration poster. Date: 1917

American warships coaling, Honolulu, Hawaii. Date: circa 1909

Mr Asquiths Wolseley Landaulette with gas container, WW1
Ex-Prime Minister Herbert Asquiths Wolseley Landaulette motor car equipped with the Lyon-Spencer gas container on its roof

Scouts at Argostolion, Kefalonia, Greece
Scouts at work in Argostolion, Kefalonia, Greece. Four earthquakes hit the island in August 1953, destroying many buildings; the scouts helped with clearing up and humanitarian aid activities

Avro Tudor Mk. V G-AKCD William Dempster Ltd. LAP
Avro Tudor 5s were built for BSa but never used as passenger airliners. Refitted as fuel tankers and used on the Berlin Airlift. G-AKCD was sold to William Dempster Ltd

Boy scouts turning peat, Denmark
Boy scouts turning peat for drying, Denmark

Fire safety for children -- a boy and girl playing near a wrecked car. The boy is about to strike a match near the open fuel cap

Coal-gas powered delivery van of the Illustrated London News
An example of coal-gas powered vehicles during the First World War, this example being the delivery van of the Illustrated London News and Sketch Ltd

Wartime information poster, WW2
Wartime information poster -- turn that GAS down! Less gas -- more ships. Date: 1940s

WW2 poster, the Battle for Fuel
WW2 poster -- You are in the Battle for Fuel -- are you keeping inside your target? Date: circa 1940

Gas powered car by Annie Fish, WW1
A car powered by coal gas which was contained in a rubber bag similar to a pneumatic tyre and placed on the top of the car

British oil carrier fuelling a super dreadnought & submarine
Illustration showing a new kind of fleet auxiliary vessel, the oil-carrier, supplying oil fuel to the fleet, in this case a super-dreadnought and two submarines

Advert for Kooksjoie range cooker 1918
Kooksjoie range cooker, from the London Warming and Ventilating Co. Ltd, a behemoth of a thing, whose manufacturers promise it consumes just half a ton of coal per month

The everlasting fuel, atomic power, by G. H. Davis
The everlasting fuel: atomic power replacing the consumption of hundreds of thousands of tons of coal. The probable compact layout of an atom-powered municipal electricity generating station in

Big fighting ships auxiliaries by G. H. Davis
Navy notes of the week. A big fighting ships auxiliaries: some little-known members of the British fleet. 1912

Sinking of a German submarine by G. H. Davis
The sinking of a German submarine, showing the action in four stages between HMS Birmingham and the German U-boat U15. Also shown: how long a cruiser can keep going with one supply of coal (middle)

Three types of oil ships in the navy by G. H. Davis
The question of oil in the navy: the three types of oil ships. 1. The vessels which only use oil as a supplementary aid to coal. 2. The vessels which depend wholly upon oil as fuel to produce steam

The atoms power for peace by G. H. Davis
The atoms power for peace: the shape of things to come. Showing an atomic-driven locomotive, power house and liner, based on an expert forecast. 1945

Keeping a check on fuel consumed by G. H. Davis
Your fuel target: keeping a weekly check on the fuel consumed in an average household during the Second World War. Electricity and gas meters will tell you if you are keeping to your proper average

Day in the life of an average household by G. H. Davis
Your fuel target: a day in the life of an average household during the Second World War. Detailing economies that need to be practised in order to keep within the limits of fuel consumption laid down

Fuel for domestic appliances by G. H. Davis
Your fuel target: details that will help in planning economy during the Second World War, so that fuel rationing can be avoided

Tanker Ohio with fuel for Malta by G. H. Davis
How the tanker Ohio delivered fuel to Malta during the Second World War, in the face of numerous enemy attacks. Date: 12-14 August 1942

Rommels Panzers by G. H. Davis
Rommels Panzers: details of the PZ Mark IV, and German methods of tank transportation and refuelling during the Second World War. Date: 1942

Auxiliary fuel tanks for increasing range by G. H. Davis
Increasing aircraft range: auxiliary fuel tanks fitted to fighters and bombers, essential to long-range air attacks during the Second World War. Date: 1942

Petrol rations and oil tankers by G. H. Davis
Petrol rations and oil tankers: an analysis for car owners during the Second World War. A diagrammatic explanation setting out the relative basic petrol allowances for private cars for August

Refuelling aloft by G. H. Davis
Refuelling aloft -- a device which enables transatlantic flying boats to carry a much increased payload. How Imperial Airways transatlantic flying boats are refuelled in the air

Railway engines converted to oil fuel by G. H. Davis
Saving coal: mainline railways convert engines to oil fuel. A series of drawings illustrating the conversion of a locomotive. Date: 1946

Oil wells at Los Angeles, California, USA. Date: 20th century

Transatlantic flight by G. H. Davis
The transatlantic flight: the type of British machine which will attempt it. Top: dropping the chassis at the moment of setting out -- a daring device

Advert for Powell Duffryn 1944
Phurnacite smokeless fuel. Phurnacite is increasing in popularity for Domestic Boilers, stoves and central heating Plants

Gas-powered transport by G. H. Davis
A substitute for petrol: internal combustion engines run on gas for road transport. Showing a bus with the plant on a trailer, and other types of converted vehicles

Germanys desperate oil situation by G. H. Davis
The merciless statistics of Germanys desperate oil situation during the Second World War. The relative value of Germanys normal sources of oil supply, cut in half by the Allied blockade

Two men in an army truck, France, WW1
Two men in an army truck during the First World War, delivering supplies of petrol. Date: 1915

Corner of a large tiled kitchen, showing a gas cooker (right) and a large stove with doors for the coal (in a scuttle at the side), and a flue. There are pots and pans on a tall stand (left)

Two boys with pony on country lane, Scotland
Two boys with a pony on a country lane in Scotland. The wickerwork basket contains peat (cut turf)

Harbour scene with seagulls
A harbour scene with fishing boats and seagulls. A Shell-Mex BP vehicle is parked on the right

Car with contraption on the back
A car with luggage on the roof rack and a large contraption (possibly holding extra fuel) fixed to the back

Madras fuel tanks on fire, WWI
Oil tanks of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, a subsidiary of the Burmah Oil Company, on fire in Madras (now Chennai), India

Smoke from shelled fuel tanks in Madras
Thick black smoke pouring from shelled fuel tanks in Madras (now Chennai), India, hit by the German light cruiser SMS Emden in World War One. Date: 22nd September 1914

Anglo-Persian Oil fuel tanks burning in Madras
Anglo-Persian Oil, a subsidiary of the Burmah Oil Company, fuel tanks (agents Shaw Wallace) burning in Madras (now Chennai), India

Womens Royal Air Force -- Coal Fatigue
Illustration, Eight Months with the Womens Royal Air Force. Showing two women on Coal Fatigue, ie shovelling coal. Date: 1919-1920

Steam engine and tender on a railway track
A steam engine and tender on a railway track outside a shed

Pluto Pipe-Lines across the Channel by G. H. Davis
Series of illustrations showing the workings of the Pluto ( Pipe Line Under The Ocean ) pipes across the English Channel which pumped millions of gallons of petrol from Great Britain to France during

Gloster Mars I, G-EAXZ, in its Gloster I form where the ?
Gloster Mars I, G-EAXZ, in its Gloster I form where the fuel tank was housed internally to improve the pilot?s view and the wings were rebuilt

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