Fuel Collection (page 8)

Huts of Charcoal Burners - Nevers
The conical huts of charcoal burners in the woods close to Nevers, France Date: 1903

Fuel Market, Basra, Iraq - WWI era
Fuel Market, Basra, Iraq - a British officer is being ferried down the Shatt al Arab waterway (which eventually feeds out into the Persian Gulf) in some style Date: circa 1917

Aircraft refuelling at Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador. At the time Gander was one of the worlds largest airports due to its position as a refuelling station for transatlantic flights. Date: 1929

Gulf petrol station
The Gulf filling station, Trelleborg 1955. Date: 1955

British monitor HMS Severn at Harwich, WW1
British monitor (small warship) HMS Severn with crew on deck, coaling up at Harwich during the First World War. Date: 12 December 1914

Workmen laying an oil pipeline in Persia for the BP company. Date: circa 1925

Rue Royale Fires
Fires are started in parts of Paris, often by petroleuses - women carrying cans of fuel. Firemen fight fires in the fashionable rue Royale, seen as symbolic of the old regime. Date: April- May 1871

Hamburg, Germany - Port Area (Steinhoft) Date: 1901

Peak Cavern
Cottages around the entrance to Peak Cavern, Castleton, Derbyshire, England. Date: 1930s

Nuclear Computer 1973
Inspection of nuclear reactor fuel element components at Springfields Laboratories : Close-up of the computerised measurement of the grids. Date: 1973

Oil derricks at Binagadi, north of Baku, Armenia, WW1
Oil derricks at Binagadi, north of Baku, Armenia, towards the end of the First World War. August 1918

Fire in the Baku oilfields, Armenia, apparently caused by a lack of discipline over cigarette smoking. Date: early 20th century

Oiling and Coaling on land
Light labour and hard labour: oiling and coaling on land. The new method and the old- a contrast. The top image shows a torpedo boat taking in oil fuel through a hose linking her with a tank in

An oil transport ship
A carrier of the new fuel: the petroleum. An oil transport ship which can carry over 6000 tons of oil fuel. Date: 1910

Oiling and Coaling in mid-ocean
Bunkering at sea: oiling and coaling in mid-ocean. The new method and the old- a contrast. The top drawing show the simple

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In a London Gasworks
Workers in a London gasworks stoking the furnaces : a continual supply of fuel must be fed into them by hand - a laborious business. Date: 1907

Welder welding
Atlantic Blaugas Co. Man welding, using Blaugas system as fuel

Boiler Room, Wigmore Schools, West Midlands
The boiler room at the Walsall and West Bromwich District School on Pennyhill Lane, Wigmore. The schools engineer and four young helpers stand alongside massive lumps of coal

Small country Automobile Garage
A pump attendant stands by the petrol pump at this local country garage

Double page spread in a diary for 22-27 November
A double page spread in a young persons diary for 22-27 November. Each day is given a small illustration, relating either to the season, or to the anniversary of an historical event

Stoking furnace, Dinorwig Slate Quarry, North Wales
A foundryman stoking the foundry furnace at Dinorwig (or Dinorwic) Slate Quarry, near Llanberis, North Wales

Biplane bomber with crew and arabs in the desert, Iraq
A biplane bomber in the desert, with crew and arabs resting in the shade of the wings, somewhere in Iraq. Cans of fuel can be seen spread out on the ground

Car outside John O Groats Hotel, Scotland
A car with two passengers, a woman at the wheel and an elderly man in the back, sits outside the John O Groats Hotel in Scotland. A petrol pump can be seen on the far right

Filling Oil Cans - Hackney Wick
A female employee fills BP Oil Cans at a plant in Hackney Wick, London

Air and Petrol test - Hackey Wick
Female employees at the BP works at Hackney Wick, London perform an air and petrol test

Sealing Cans - Hackney Wick

Whitby Parish poor relief voucher for coal
A voucher for a shilling bag of coal, issued as poor relief by the Churchwarden at Whitby, North Yorkshire

The Waterfront - Algiers
The waterfront of Algiers, Algeria, showing the elegant colonaded seafront and the houses of the city rising up the hill behind

Wood Vendors, Constantinople
Wood vendors - Constantinople with a view of the port and the Galata Tower in the distance

Refueling a British Road Services truck
A promotional photograph for British Road Services. Here a truck of the fleet is refueled at a trade pump. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Charcoal works - Quay de Grenelle, Paris
Piles of wood at a charcoal works, Paris

Charcoal production - wood storage, France
Charcoal works at Quay de Grenelle, Paris. A horse-drawn wagon is loaded up

First Battle of the Scarpe 1917
An exploding dump in Arras during the First Battle of the Scarpe (First Battles of Arras) on the Western Front in France during World War I in April 1917

Pratts High Test Petrol & Oil
An enamel sign advertising Pratts High Test Petrol & Oil. *EDITORIAL USE ONLY*

Plume Oil sign
An enamel sign advertising plume oil with the logo of Pegasus the winged horse of ancient myth. *EDITORIAL USE ONLY*

Pratts Perfection Motor Spirit
An enamel sign advertising Pratts Perfection Motor Spirit. *EDITORIAL USE ONLY*

Medinoil Lubricating Oil
A large enamel sign advertising Medinoil - Motor Lubricating Oil. Manufactured in England by Medina Refinery Limited of London SE8. *EDITORIAL USE ONLY*

Redex Tuning Service
A tin/alloy sign advertising Redex Modern Additive & Tuning Service. *EDITORIAL USE ONLY*

Circular sign for Filtrate
A round enamel sign advertising Filtrate. *EDITORIAL USE ONLY*

Well, Bibi-Eibat, Baku - Azerbaijan
Naphta burnout at a well at Baku, owned by Rothschilds, who began drilling in Azerbaijan in 1892. Rothchilds fuel interests in the region were bought out by Royal Dutch Shell in 1911

Ceil Well, Baku - Azerbaijan - producing Petrol and naphta

Gas-Driven Car
A rather unsafe looking gas- driven Calcott car with a huge Lyon-Spencer gas container on its roof drawfing the car itself. Owned by Lady Idina Wallace.Hope she didn t smoke

Seaham Harbour, County Durham, is an important port for the coal mining areas of Durham. The South Hetton railway line with trucks heaped with coal can be seen running down to the sea

Leviathan refueling
The fuel ship British Councillor bunkering (refueling) the large liner Leviathan. The second of a trio of transatlantic liners built by Germanys Hamburg America Line as the SS Vaterland for

Woman making mudbricks - Madhya Pradesh - India
Scene in a village Madhya Pradesh Province, India with a woman making waht appear to be mudbricks, although these could be roofing tiles or dung fuel (?). Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Coaling a Royal Mail steam packet at Kingston, Jamaica
Scene at the harbour in Kingston, Jamaica, showing lines a women carrying baskets of coal on their heads on board a Royal Mail steam packet ship

Oil Pipelines - Llandarcy Oil Refinery, Swansea
A row of eight oil pipelines at the Llandarcy BP Oil Refinery, Swansea, Wales

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