Mobile Collection (page 4)

Perambulate library 1857
A Gentleman travelling from village to village, wheeling a large box containing a supply of books to rural people. Once they had received their books he would take the next set that they had used to

French Mobile Bakery
A French mobile bakery - the bread-making apparatus in use Date: 1900

Battersea Mobile Library
The interior of Battersea mobile library in the 1950s with various keen bookworms browsing the shelves and having their chosen books stamped by the librarian. Date: 1950s

Kent Mobile Library
A mobile library van making a stop in an unidentified Kentish village, late 1940s-early 1950s. Date: c.1950

Camel smala or mobile headquarters, Southern Algeria. Date: circa 1910

Duncan Place, Mobile, Alabama, USA
Duncan Place, at the foot of Government Street, Mobile, Alabama, USA. The statue is of Rear Admiral Raphael Semmes (1809-1877)

Entrance to Bankhead Tunnel, Mobile, Alabama, USA
Entrance to the Bankhead Tunnel in Mobile, Alabama, USA. It is a road tunnel which was built under the Mobile River and opened in February 1941. Date: 1941

Men with mobile field oven and motorcycle, WW1
Men with a mobile field oven, and a Royal Navy motorcycle combo, WW1. The chalked words on the oven, HMS Fred Carno, were a comic saying for chaotic operations. circa 1914

WW1 - Military tank and soldiers in Aisne, France, 1918
WW1 - A military tank crosses through the remains and ruins of a village in the Aisne Front, France, 1918. A soldier with a horse drawn artillery carriage

Mobile bacteriological laboratory, RAMC officers in France
RAMC officers pose in front of a mobile bacteriological laboratory on the Western Front, a new aid which allowed diseases to be identified easily. Date: 1915

The Admiralty and the Mobile Defense, Alger - Algiers
L AmirautÚáÑt la Defense Mobile - The Admiralty and the Mobile Defense, Alger/Algiers, Algeria. Date: 1910s

WW1 - Eastern Front - Russian Staff Officers on a Train
WW1 - Eastern Front - Russian Staff Officers in their office onboard a Railway Train Date: 1915

WW2 Christmas card, Civil Defence, designed by Allan Burrows, produced by the Paddington Mobile Unit (ARP), with cartoons of typical activities (inside). Date: circa 1942

Fire station staff in meal break, London, WW2
Fire station staff having a meal supplied from a mobile canteen van in a school playground in London during the Second World War. Date: 1940s

LFB firefighters unloading piping from a vehicle

First mobile kitchen donation, WW2
The Home Secretary, Herbert Morrison, receiving the keys to the first mobile kitchen from Lord Bennett (Richard Bedford Bennett)

AFS firefighters being served from mobile kitchen, WW2
AFS firefighters being served hot meals from a mobile kitchen presented by the Junior Red Cross of Saskatchewan, Canada. Date: 1940s

Interior of a mobile kitchen, WW2
Interior of a mobile kitchen, looking towards the rear, 25 August 1941. Date: 1941

NFS mobile kitchen in operation, WW2
An NFS (London Region No 5) mobile kitchen in operation, handing out meals to women in uniform. The vehicle was donated by the Canadian Red Cross. Date: 1940s

WW2 - Blitz, London - Progress report sent to Local Control
Senior Company Officer Jimmy Syrett, up with the branchmen, sends a progress report to Local Control. He is using one of the early walkie talkies with a throat, or larynx, microphone

LCC-LFB mobile control unit, with a fireman making adjustments

Refreshment vehicle at Lambeth HQ
Refreshment vehicle at the new Headquarters of the London Fire Brigade, Lambeth, probably during the visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth for the opening of the building. Date: 1937

Girls Friendly Society Princess Mary Caravan
The Girls Friendly Society supported young women by help in finding work, providing hostels etc. The caravan, shown here with GFS workers, was purchased in 1922 as a mobile publicity unit

Present situation in Mexico
The present situation in Mexico: the US naval ports of embarkation. An aerial view, showing Pensacola, Mobile, New Orleans

Warfare on wheels by G. H. Davis
Warfare on wheels: mechanised and mobile units of the modern British Army during the Second World War. Showing many types of vehicle used by the various military units. Date: 1942

Fishermans Sledge - Pulled by Dogs
A fisher man sitting on a dog pulled sledge in Astrakhan a south west region of Russia. Date: 1873

Russian Wartime Mobile Radio Station
A Mobile radio station used by the Russians during the Russo-Japanese War (8 February 1904 5 September 1905). Date: circa 1904

Three British soldiers outside Cypher Office, WW2
Three British soldiers outside a railway carriage being used as a Cypher Office during the Second World War. Date: circa 1940s

Willie Pape
WILLIE PAPE American pianist, child prodigy from Mobile, visited England 1863. Date: 1850 - ?

Mobile Teas 1930S
A travelling cafe, a van selling teas, snacks and other light refreshments. Date: early 1930s

The LZ129 Hindenburg is manoeuvred to its mobile mooring?
The LZ129 Hindenburg is manoeuvred to its mobile mooring mast by US Tars at Lakehurst, New Jersey, on 9 May 1936

Mobile Department Store in Cuba
A mobile One-man Department Store arrives on a housewifes doorstep - Havana, Cuba. Date: 1910s

Yokohama, Japan - Cherry Blossom at Sakuramichi
Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan - Cherry Blossom at Sakuramichi. Date: circa 1910s

Berlin, Germany - Mobile Sausage Seller in the Lustgarten Date: circa 1905

French Mobile Telegraph post - Southern Tunisian Desert
French Mobile Outdoor Wireless Telegraph post - Southern Tunisian Desert - WWI era. Date: circa 1915

Biarritz, France - Chateau Basque and Chateau des Falaises and (even more importantly!) a lovely postcard seller and his mobile stall! Date: circa 1910

Street Baker - Cairo, Egypt - with his lovely fold-put trestle table which he has positioned in a prime spot in front of a beautiful window, with tracery screening surrounded by fantastic tiling

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Raytheon / Northrop Hawk surface-to-air guided missiles
Raytheon/Northrop Hawk surface-to-air guided missiles on a mobile missile loader

Gastrioceras, goniatite
Gastrioceras, a Carboniferous goniatite. Goniatites were highly mobile creatures similar to octopus and squid, but were protected by a coiled shell divided up into many chambers

Guglielmo Marconi assists in Milan to the test
" Guglielmo Marconi assists in Milan to the test of the first Stazione Radio Mobile. Illustration by Achille Beltrame for " Domenica del Corriere" (1906). Engraving."

Roadside Barber
This man standing next to his car is actually a roadside barber! Date: early 1930s

Royal couple given refreshments at Lambeth HQ
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth being given refreshments at a catering lorry during the opening of the new Headquarters of the London Fire Brigade, Lambeth

LCC-LFB Canteen van at Colonial Wharf fire
Hungry and thirsty firefighters gathering for refreshments at the Brigades canteen van following a major fire at Colonial Wharf

LCC-MFB Streatham fire station wireless van
Whilst the new Streatham fire station was being built, a sub-station was employed to serve the local area. Seen here is the interior of the horse drawn mobile MFB wireless van that housed

Salvation Army Canteen Van
The London Fire Brigade had dispensed with its own canteen vans, due to financial cutbacks, and relied on the services of the Salvation Army to provided refreshments to fire crews at major fires

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