Machinery Collection (page 9)

Davey Paxman General Purpose Engine KE 2700
Davey Paxman General Purpose Engine, regn. KE 2700, number: 19412, Drumtochty. Built in 1916 by Davey, Paxman & Co. at Colchester, powered by a 7 Nhp single cylinder steam engine. Date: circa 1956

Wallis & Steevens General Purpose Engine Fair Rosamund
Wallis & Steevens General Purpose Engine, regn. BL 4707, number: 7370, Fair Rosamund - Old Bill ). Built by Wallis & Steevens of Basingstoke in 1914, powered by a 6 Nhp single cylinder steam engine

Burrell Showmans Road Locomotive HR 6658
Burrell Showmans Road Locomotive, regn. HR 6658, number: 3887, The Prince of Wales. Built in 1922 by Charles Burrell & Sons at Thetford and powered by an 8 Nhp compound steam engine. Date: 1950s

Marshall General Purpose Engine
Unknown Marshall General Purpose Engine. Date: 1970s-1980s

Ruston Proctor Road Tractor
Unknown Ruston Proctor Road Tractor. Date: 1970s-1980s

Fowler Ploughing Engine
Unknown Fowler Ploughing engine, built by John Fowler & Co. in Leeds ca 1870. Date: 1970s-1980s

Ladies at a factory in Scotland keep munition works going at the weekend, lady seen on the left is Mrs Godfrey Collins, whose husband was Liberal Member of Parliament. Date: 1916

Biomedical centre, London -- a woman attaches sensors to a patient. Date: 1972

Biomedical centre, London -- a woman in an office operates a telex machine. Date: 1972

Biomedical centre, London -- a patient in a locked room listens to something through headphones while a woman operates a machine in the room beyond. Date: 1972

Biomedical centre, London -- a woman operates a machine while a patient in a locked room listens to something through headphones. Date: 1972

Beachy Head, near Eastbourne, Sussex, the site of many deaths and rescues. Seen here are members of the rescue team at the top of the cliff, transporting a piece of lifting equipment

It took two men several hours three times a week to wind up the Clock Tower (Elizabeth Tower), so Londoners could get an accurate time. Date: 1900

Fourteen colour plates are used to make the engraving for the special supplements, here you can see the different print machines used for each colour that is done separately. Date: 1881

Lambeth Waterworks, supplying fresh water to parts of south London, photograph showing the pumping room. Date: 1900

Lancashire, England - Textile Cotton Mill worker and looms. Date: circa 1905

Horse doping tests in a laboratory, Newmarket
Horse doping tests -- a laboratory technician in a white coat turns a knob on a Packard Liquid Scintillation Spectrometer, used for testing samples at the Horse Doping Test Centre in Newmarket

Royal Small Arms Factory, Enfield 1871
Various scene inside the government-owned rifle factory, Royal Small-Arms Factory, Enfield. Date: 1871

Brussels Carpet Loom, Glasgow 1843
Scotch carpet factory. Date: 1843

Steam sewing factory 1854
A large clothes manufactures at Holloway and Co factory, here you can see twenty machines at work, driven by steam power attended by young women. Date: 1854

NOISE POLLUTION TESTER
This man measures noise pollution - street traffic, excessively loud speakers, motor vehicles, machinery etc, at the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington. Date: 5 October 1932

TOOLS FOR MAKING VELVET
THE TOOLS FOR MAKING OF VELVET. Date: circa 1730

MOUNTING THE WARP
THE MANNER OF MOUNTING THE WARP (on a cane roll) Date: circa 1730

DOUBLING AND UNTANGLING
THE DOUBLING OF THE TWISTS and THE UNTANGLING OF THE SKAINES (skeins) Date: circa 1730

SPINNING WHEEL AND REEL
THE GREAT SPINNING-WHEEL AND THE REEL Date: circa 1730

SHAVING OLD & NEW C1830 SHAVING OLD & NEW C1830
The old way and the new way of shaving: take your pick! Date: circa 1830

HARTS CONTINUOUS LIFT-2
Harts continuous lift system in action, with the engine mechanism shown below. (pic 2 of 2) Date: 1882

Advert for Rowland Priest, manufacturer of pulleys 1889
Examples of pulleys, hoists and a lifting jack Date: 1889

APPLEBY STEAM ENGINE
Appleby marine oscillating engines for use in steam vessels Date: 1880

ERICSSONS STEAM ENGINE
Ericssons calorific steam engine Date: late 19th century

ALLEGORY OF MECHANICS
LA MECANIQUE allegorical design depicting the angel of mechanics, fire in one hand, a locomotive in the other, against a background of machinery Date: circa 1890

MACHINES ALLEGORISED
LA MECANIQUE allegorical design depicting the angel of mechanics, fire in one hand, a locomotive in the other, against a background of machinery Date: circa 1890

PARIS EXH / MACHINE HALL
View of the machinery hall at the Paris Exhibition Date: 1889

Scene in a Flint Glass Factory, glass cutter at work 1841
Scene in a Flint Glass Factory, Holland Street, Blackfriars, London, glass cutter at work. Date: 1841

FIRE ENGINE 1851
SHAND & MASON fire engine, displayed at the Great Exhibition, 1851 Date: 1851

Great Exhibition, cotton machines 1851
A perspective view, looking West, of Messrs. Hibbert and Platts cotton machines and Messrs. Hick and Sons high- pressure steam-engine and driving gear. Date: 1851

RIBBON WEAVING LOOM
Ribbon weaving loom Date: circa 1730

CHILDREN SKIP / GLASGOW
A group of girls skipping in an East Glasgow street with some building machinery in the background. Date: 1960s

SKIPPING / 1960S
A group of girls skipping in an East Glasgow street with some building machinery in the background. Date: 1960s

CHILDREN PLAY / GLASGOW
Children playing in an East Glasgow street with some building machinery in the background. Date: 1960s

ANTISS SPINNING WHEEL
Antisss improved spinning wheel Date: 1797

MACHINES / EXCAVATOR
EXCAVATOR Date: 1901

Boring machine used in the Hoosac tunnel 1869
Workers using a primitive boring machine to make the tunnel, lying between Switzerland and Italy, being thirty-six miles long and about twenty-five feet broad

John Ainslies tile machine 1846
John Ainslies tile machine. Date: 1846

TEXTILES / SPINNING
Hand spinning Date: 1760

Paper making machine 1890
A paper making machine. Date: 1890

Cotton Carding Machinery
Interior of cotton mill: girls and women tend carding, drawing and roving machinery. Date: 1835

Sheffield Steel manufactures 1866
Sheffield : scythe-grinders. Date: 1866

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