Lorries Collection (page 4)

NFS fire force No. 34 District fire control unit, Northwood
District fire control unit, located at Pinner Road, Northwood, Middlesex. Showing the communications aerial erected and loudspeakers on the drivers cab

LFB fire Control Unit at Brigade HQ, Lambeth, WW2
One of the LCC-LFB fire control units allocated to Brigade and District headquarters which attended major fires during the Second World War

LFB enclosed Leyland pump, Brigade HQ, WW2
A side view of the Leyland pump with its extension ladder and hook ladders on the appliance. These dual-purpose appliances allowed the escape ladder and extension ladders to be interchanged

LCC-LFB emergency tender at Lambeth fire station
Crew of an emergency tender demonstrating the range of equipment it carries including breathing apparatus, hot cutting equipment and a smoke extraction unit

LCC-LFB Lee Green hose laying lorry at Lambeth HQ
Lee Green fire stations hose laying lorry at Lambeth HQ. The side roller shutter doors are open, showing the stored hoses which can be easily layered out from the rear access door while the lorry is

LCC-LFB hose laying lorry
A hose laying lorry from Lee Green fire station, SE London, with its side roller shutters closed

London Region NFS / AFS breakdown lorry with crew, WW2
AFS wartime crew on an NFS breakdown lorry. The NFS came into force in August 1941 and the London Fire Brigade was enlarged into the London Region which covered the Greater London area

British Expeditionary Force arrive in France, 1939
A British column of Army lorries is cheerily greeted by French military motor cyclists as it moves through a French village in the early weeks of World War Two. Date: 1939

Women transport drivers, World War Two, 1939
A female driver handling a big Army Service Corps lorry during World War II. Date: 1939

Lorry Going over Bridge
A lorry going over the narrow Farndon Bridge over the River Dee, Cheshire, England. Date: 1960s

Warehouse Lorry
A Long Vehicle lorry, delivering a load of barrels to a London warehouse. Date: 1960s

Italian infantry in wood near Rheims, France, WW1
Italian infantry in France during the First World War. Showing transportation trucks and men on a road in a wood near Rheims, north eastern France. Date: June 1918

Lorries passing mine crater on way to Western Front, WW1
Lorries passing round a mine crater on their way to the Western Front during the First World War. The makeshift road is lined with tree trunks. Date: 1914-1918

Italian Fiat 30 prime movers in use during WW1
Italian Fiat 30 prime mover lorries in use during the First World War for the transport of heavy artillery. Seen here with troops on a winding mountain road. Date: 1917

Anon. Ever so Fast! 1920
Book cover showing a variety of vehicles zooming along a road, including an open top car, a bus, a removal van, a motorcycle and a motorcyle with a sidecar

Internal Roadway at Daily Mirror Printing Works
Part of the Internal Roadway at Daily Mirror Printing Works, facilitating the delivery of newsprint by day and the despatch of completed newspapers at night. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Wartime Vauxhall Production
Military Bedford vehicles line the roads waiting for shipping from the Vauxhall Factory in Luton during World War II

Inflatable decoy truck
A Bedford MW inflatable decoy truck produced by Vauxhall during World War II

Lorries in the Thar Desert, India
People and lorries in the Thar Desert (the Great Indian Desert), India. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Battle of the Drocourt-Queant Line 1918
German ammunition lorries destroyed by shell fire near Queant at the Battle of the Drocourt-Queant Line on the Western Front in France during World War I in September 1918

Motor lorry with caterpillar wheels and tank
A motor lorry with caterpillar wheels crossing the desert with supplies in Egypt during World War One. Close by is a tank which uses the same type of mechanism to travel

The Spanish Foreign Legion moving through Andalucia; Spanish
Photograph showing lorries full of the Nationalist Spanish Foreign Legion passing through a town in Andalucia, Southern Spain, on the way to the Madrid front, 1936

The great railway strike, Stratford
Deserted railway track at Stratford. The station was at a standstill during the great railway strike. The strike took place in the last two weeks of September 1919

Clearing Rubble
A domestic building site is cleared of rubble and wreckage by a mechanical digger and two haulage trucks

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