Measurements Collection

Ratner patent safe, fire and fall resisting, Grade 1, Size MP, with details and measurements. Date: circa 1920s

Britains New Navy in Training - HMS Raleigh. circa 1930s

Ratner fire-resisting safes and wall safes
Ratner light fire-resisting safes, and wall safes, with details and measurements. Date: circa 1920s

Ratner patent extra strong safe, fire and fall resisting, Grade 2, with details and measurements. Date: circa 1920s

Ratner patent safe, fire and fall resisting, for registrars, Size No. 5, with details and measurements. Date: circa 1920s

Cunard Line, RMS Aquitania, tin printed sign (back)
TRAVEL AGENT?S PRESSED TIN PRINTED SIGN (back), THE CUNARD LINE, depicting Aquitania under way, signed Burns lower left, within simulated wooden frame with Cunard banner title

New York police identifying criminals using different methods, known as the Bertillon System. Face and head measurement were taken to ensure identity

Piaggio PD-808RM MM62016
Aeronautica Militare - Piaggio PD-808RM MM62016 (msn 523), of 14 Stormo, in the hangar at Pratica di Mare AB. (RM - Radiomisura - radio measurements'- radio/radar calibration aircraft)

British Aerospace BAe 146-301ARA G-LUXE (msn E3001), of Direct Flight / Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements (FAAM), at the Royal International Air Tattoo - RAF Fairford 8 July 2012

Aeritalia G. 222RM MM62140 - 14-21 & MM62141 - 14-22
Aeronautica Militare - Aeritalia G.222RM MM62140 / 14-21 & MM62141 / 14-22 (msn 4069 & 4076), of 14 Stormo - 8 Gruppo. (RM - Radiomisura - radio measurements')

Aeritalia G. 222RM MM62141 - 14-22
Aeronautica Militare - Aeritalia G.222RM MM62141 / 14-22 (msn 4076), of 14 Stormo - 8 Gruppo. (RM - Radiomisura - radio measurements')

Aeritalia G. 222RM MM62140 - 14-21
Aeronautica Militare - Aeritalia G.222RM MM62140 / 14-21 (msn 4069), of 14 Stormo - 8 Gruppo. (RM - Radiomisura - radio measurements')

Man at work in an oil rig control room
Man at work in the control room of an oil rig drilling platform off the coast of Cornwall. Date: circa 1970s

Ratner patent anti-blowpipe safe, A Type, with details and measurements. Date: circa 1920s

Lavatory doors, Liverpool Abattoir, Stanley Street, Liverpool, constructed from standard Plymax type M flush doors. Date: 1936

Bath partitions at Downham School, Harlow, Essex, constructed from Plymax standard lavatory design for slipper bath cubicles. Date: 1936

Lavatories in a telephone exchange, City of London
Lavatories in a a telephone exchange, Faraday House, Queen Victoria Street, London EC4, constructed from Plymax standard lavatories type C with special marble finish. Date: 1936

Lavatories in a department store, using Plymax plywood
Lavatories in a department store, constructed from Plymax standard lavatories type C, with Venesta plywood type A flush doors. Date: 1936

Lavatories at Downham School, Harlow, Essex, constructed from Plymax standard lavatory compartments type B. Date: 1936

EXAMINING PEARLS 1930S
Examining pearls - even the most minute and careful measurements have to be taken to ensure the exact grading of the pearls. Date: 1930s

Jerry - Tailor 1820
A gentleman wearing a form of undress in patterned silk coat with roll collar & slippers while a tailor takes the measurements of a man in short coat & breeches. Date: 1820

Advert for head measuring band for hats 1880
Mail order service - head-measuring band for hats from Henry Heath, Hat Manufacturer Date: 1880

Denon at Sphinx
Attached to Napoleons Egyptian expedition, Denon is instructed to take measurements of antiquities; he measures the Sphinx

Silk postcard, HMS Olympic, giving the liner's measurements

Early flying machine design
An early flying machine design, showing a man standing in a winged assembly similar to a paraglider. Designed by Jacob Degen, Vienna, 1807, with measurements given below. 1807

Instrument panel, Brandenburg DI fighter plane, WW1
A close-up view of the instrument panel of the Hansa-Brandenburg DI (KD) 28.68 Phonix-built fighter plane in service during the First World War from 1917 onwards

Sizing up at the Miss California Beauty Contest
Judges at the Miss California beauty contest held at Venice, California in the summer of 1939, using a scientific device to assist them in their decision

TAILOR 1827
A tailor cuts a piece of fabric with scissors while his two female employees take a customers measurements in the background. Date: 1827

Indicating scale, Leyland Metz fire engine
Indicating scale on a Leyland Metz fire engine, showing the elevation and extension of the adjustable ladder

New LFB recruit being measured for uniform
A new LFB recruit being measured for his uniform

How your body measurements should be taken 1924
American clothing catalogue, showing where you should measure yourself, for a womans bust, waist and hip line, and also for length of skirt

Height measurement of LFB applicant
An LFB applicant has his height measured by a senior instructor, Station Officer Butt. The brigade minimum is 5 feet 7 inches in stockinged feet

Chest measurement of LFB applicant
An LFB applicant has his chest measured by A D O Packer, commandant of the Training School. The brigade minimum is 36 inches with a two-inch expansion

Advert for J. Roussel lingerie with elastic lace belt 1936
Roussel creates for you a belt in elastic lace... so light... so dainty... yet so firm in its moulding action. Roussel has created amasterpiece in this luxuriously feminine belt - woven for each

Technical diagram of a flying machine, with measurements and annotations. The small red circle labelled C is the pilots seat. late 18th century

Technical diagram of a flying machine, with pilot
Technical diagram of a flying machine, with measurements and annotations, and a pilot seated at the controls. circa late 18th century

European Lady and her Durzee or Tailor
An European Lady giving instrucions to her Durzee or Native Indian Tailor. (Plate 13 of 20). Date: 1813

Surveyor at work with a theodolite
A surveyor at work with a theodolite level

Two engineers using a measurement device
Two engineers use a precise measuring device to correctly ascertain the width of a circular metal ring. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

White Star Line, SS Olympic window sketches
A White Star Line handwritten booklet entitled Particulars of Oceanic Steam Navigation Co, SS Olympic, May 1911. The vessel returned to the shipyard in Belfast in October 1911 for alterations

Walruses and Explorers
These polar explorers were busy taking their measurements when suddenly these walruses appeared and sent them scampering away across the ice

At the Dressmaker 1895
A woman at the dressmakers stands in her chemise while the dressmaker takes some measurements

C16 TAILOR
Taking a ladys measurements in Tudor times

Law / Police / France
Taking the measurements of a suspect, using the Bertillon system

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