Mobile Collection (page 6)

NFS mobile kitchen in use, WW2
These mobile kitchens, presented to the NFS (London Region No 5), were donated by the Canadian Red Cross

NFS (London Region) mobile kitchen vehicle, WW2
Donated to the London Region of the NFS by the Canadian Red Cross, this mobile kitchen unit is displayed at the Regional (Brigade) Headquarters, Lambeth, SE1

NFS (London Region) AFS exercises, WW2
Firefighters at a hose pump during NFS (London Region) AFS exercises

London Region (LFB) mobile canteen van
Home Office supplied mobile canteen van typical of those used throughout the London Region to provide tea and refreshments to firefighters at large incidents

Lashed to the shrouds. Farragut passing the forts at Mobile, in his flagship Hartford. Adm. David Farragut lashed to upper mast, holding spyglass; during Battle of Mobil Bay, Jan. 1864

Battle of Mobile Bay. Date c1886 Dec. 13

Voiles mobile. System Ate. Lanteigne menuisier. Design drawings for a system of airship navigation proposed by Aug. Lanteigne, utilizing a series of 16 balloons on a single keel

Mobile. Taken from the marsh opposite the city near Pinto s

Orange Seller - Paris, France
Orange Seller - on a Paris street, France Date: circa 1901

Japan - Traditional Provincial Hat Maker working at the roadside. Date: circa 1907

Italian Sharpshooter on a bicycle
A mobile member of the Italian Army - a cycling sharpshooter Date: circa 1910s

Guernsey - Battle of the Flowers
Guernsey, Channel Islands - Battle of the Flowers. The Battle is a classic island event, where locals compete to win the prestigious Prix DHonneur award for the best mobile floral float

Galati, Romania - Military Marine Arsenal
The Military Marine Arsenal and the floating docks at Galti, Romania - the largest seaport on the Danube. Date: circa 1903

Police motorcyclist, 1904
A police sergeant fully equipped for running to earth motorists who exceed the speed limit. Under law introduced in 1904, all motor vehicles were compelled to be registered

Field kitchen and staff, France, WW1
A field kitchen and three staff in France during the First World War. This particular field kitchen catered for 200 men. Date: 1914-1918

Mobile hospital near Chaillons, France, WW1
Mobile hospital no. 39, The Yale Unit, near Chaillons, St Mihiel, France, at the end of the First World War. A sketch by A Smith. Date: November 1918

1950s Christmas decorations cartoon
Two rather conservative gentlemen survey with curiosity a hanging Atomic style mobile in an otherwise traditional sitting room while one comments to the other, Got no idea

Hand drawn postcard by George Ranstead Apres la Guerre
Humorous postcard hand drawn by amateur soldier artist of the Great War, George Ranstead, which is the first of a series he drew suggesting what life might be like after the war had ended

Arnhem prisoners launch mobile food restaurant
Three ex-officers of the Parachute Regiment, captured at Arnhem, having sunk their savings into a new idea in catering conceived in a German POW camp

Mary Churchill christens a canteen, 1944
A Church Army Mobile Canteen was named The Second Front by Subaltern Mary Churchill, A.T.S at a ceremony on Horse Guards Parade. Miss Churchill is seen with Captain G.A Bucknell, the Rev

Thessaloniki - Greece - Mobile Butcher Date: circa 1910s

Police Mobile Exhibition
A Sussex Police Mobile Exhibition van, Presenting the Police in Sussex. Date: 1960s

Brisben-Walker motor factory
Autos, Mobile Auto Factory (Brisben Walker) Builder & Proprietor. Steam engine room at the Mobile Automobile factory at Kingsland Point, Hudson River (near Tarrytown, NY) with larg

Wagon of Russ Van Vleet, a mobile butcher
Henrey Castel, wagon of Russ Van Vleet, a mobile butcher, hollinssworth bros

Parisian knife-grinder

The Romance of Caravanning
Scenes within Baron de Sennevoys caravan, a veritable palace on wheels. The baron had just returned from a three month journey in Normandy covering over 700 miles

Cairo, Egypt - Mobile street hot food vendor
A mobile hot food vendor sells his steaming wares in Cairo, Egypt

Hoover advert
The Hand that held the Hoover helps the Bombed! Advert celebrating the good work of the Womens Voluntary Service, showing the mobile canteens used to provide sustainance to the wartime workers

Mobile decontamination unit
Demonstration by Hornsey Borough Council of a mobile cleansing unit for gas decontamination squads, invented by one of its workers. The unit folds up into a trailer that can be pulled by a car

Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (1901 - 2004) inspecting a mobile canteen presented to the British Red Cross and Order of St

Mobilising Bedouin Troops
Bedouin troops mobilised in Iran. Cavalry carry long spears and the flag of the Ottoman Empire flies above the troops

Captured Nebelwerfers in Tunisia; Second World War, 1943
Photograph showing Allied soldiers inspecting captured German Nebelwerfer guns in Tunisia, North Africa, 1943. The Nebelwerfer was a six-barrelled mortar on a mobile carriage

General Montgomery reading the lesson, France; Second World
Photograph showing General Montgomery (1887-1976), reading the lesson at an outdoor Church service in France, 1944. In the right background is the first mobile motor Church

British Water-filter cart
A British water-filter cart being filled from a river. Ensuring troops remained free of disease was a pressing concern during World War I, and preventative measures against water-borne bacteria

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

Mobile army cinema
The Austrians provided their troops with a mobile cinema during World War I. One wagon carried an orchestra and one carried a light projector

Police Careers Team
The Metropolitan Police Careers Team opposite the Houses on Parliament with their mobile office van preparing for their tour of N.E. Scotland

Mobile Grinder 1970S
Henry Jones, mobile grinder with his grindstone on a trolley, Horley, Surrey, England

Levelling Mountains
Massive mobile drills mounted on caterpillar tracks will blast at rock to level inconvenient mountains

Ww1 / German Anti-Aircraft
A mobile German anti-aircraft artillery piece

SIMMS WAR MOTOR 1902
Simms War Motor, manufactured by Vickers and Maxim

French Mail Train 1909
The wagon-poste of a French mail train : the bureau ambulant (mobile sorting office)

Romanian Peasants Panic
Panic breaks out when a mobile cinema gives peasants of Bessarabia, Romania, their first glimpse of the wonders of cinematography !

Singapore Street Food
Mobile street vendors hawk their goods on the streets of Singapore

MOOREs STEAM MAN 1893
Two illustrations of Canadian inventor George Moores Steam Man, a fully mobile robot automaton powered by an internal steam engine

Croydon Lights
At Croydon, lights - some fixed, others mobile - indicate the pilots position and guide his landing

Futuristic mobile home
A futuristic mobile home, chugging happily along a country road

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