Lorry Collection (page 10)

Three workmen stop for a cup of tea on a snowy day
Three workmen stop for a welcome cup of tea on a snowy winters day. (2 of 2)

Man shovelling manure from the back of a lorry
A man shovelling manure from the back of a lorry

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

Wandering Theatre Group of the 9th Army (German soldiers) during the Second World War leaving for the front. The 9th Army was activated on May 15, 1940 with General Johannes Blaskowitz in command

Malta - University of Saint Francis Tour
A touring group from the University of Saint Francis, Indiana, USA with prop statues, being transported through the streets of Valletta, Malta

Fast Delivery advertisement
Advertisement for the DCL (The Distillers Company Limited). Thei fast delivery is illustrated here by a tanker being throw fast like a ball from a mans hand. Photographic montage by Heinz Zinram

Interior of the Mersey Tunnel, under the River Mersey, Liverpool & Birkenhead

Shovelling rubble onto a lorry
A workman bends down to shovel up some rubble from roadworks onto the back of a lorry

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

WaF WWII
WaFs washing down an RAF lorry during World War II

Filling Sandbags - WW2 Home Front (2 / 4)
World War Two - British Home Front - London. Men and young boys fill sandbags in the street. The sandbags were piled against buildings

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

Unidentified mountain area, India
An unidentified mountain area in India, with people and a lorry. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

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

Pickfords Removers and Storers - Highgate
A removal van pulls up in front of a row of houses in Highgate Village, London. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Transporting troops 1918
British troops on a lorry passing an 18 inch gun stuck in a ditch on the Western Front in France during World War I in October 1918

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

Selection of Toy Cars
A selection of toy motor vehicle, some with their original boxes, including the land speed record-breaking cars John Cobbs fabulous Railton Special and Major Henry Segraves Golden Arrow

Construction workers in Kashgar, western China
Construction workers with a lorry in a street in Kashgar, western China. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Vintage Petrol Tanker in New South Wales, Australia

Steam Delivery Lorry
The steam lorry of W.V. Bowater and Sons, of 121 Queen Victoria Street, London, delivering huge rolls of paper which will be used for printing newpapers

Cornish Coal Lorry
Cornish coalmen unloading coal from their lorry onto a ship before it sets sail from the harbour with its cargo of China clay

Mobile Ironmonger
A mobile ironmonger from Hirst Martock, Somerset, his lorry piled high with pots and pans, bath tubs, baking trays, lino etc

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

Wwi / German Troops / Lorry
German troops are transported by lorry to the Romanian Front

Steam Lorry Circa 1923
Steam wagon used by Beck and Politzer, haulage contractors and wharfingers : even at this date, steam power is widely used for heavy-duty carriage

Dumping Rubbish 1940S
Men working at a rubbish dump, unloading a lorry of waste paper for Kingston-upon-Thames Health Department, Surrey, England

Thumbing a Lift
A young man hitch hiker, thumbs a lift from a Denis McCarthy lorry

Transporting Motor Cars
Transporting new cars by lorry

Steam Lorry in Midhurst
The quiet life of Midhurst is shattered by the arrival of a steam lorry

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