Operated Collection (page 7)

Airspeed Ambassador G-AMAE Dan-Air - Le Bourget
Airspeed Ambassador 2 G-AMAE was delivered to BEA in 1952, flown to Australia where it operated for Butler Air Transport from 1957 to 1958. Operated by Dan-Air for 10 years from 1960 to 1970

De Havilland DH89A G-AGHI BEAC Prestwick
De Havilland DH89A Dragon Rapide operated by British European Airways Cargo. It was inherited when BEA took over Allied Airways in 1947 Date: 1947

Bristol 170 Freighter Mk. 31 VH-BFB Ansett-MAL Bankstown
A Bristol 170 freighter operated in Australia by Ansett-MAL, created when Ansett took over Mandated Air Lines. Flew with them from 1962 to 1967 mainly between Bankstown, Sydney and Madang

LFB-AFS Commer transportable water unit (back)
LFB-AFS Commer transportable water unit (TWU, commonly known as the Bikini). It carries three deflated rubber rafts and nine light portable pumps

LFB-AFS Commer transportable water unit (front)
LFB-AFS Commer transportable water unit (TWU, commonly known as the Bikini). It carries three deflated rubber rafts and nine light portable pumps

Steam-operated fire pump, Paris
Steam-operated fire pump, as used by the Paris fire brigade. It was built by A Thirion and photographed by Berthaud. Date: 1872

Ladder, carriage frame and runners (battery operated). Showing the Miles mounting quadrant

Mothers and children wait for admission to a Cecil House, Lo
Mothers and children at one of the womens lodging houses known as Cecil Houses. The hostels, for homeless and vagrant women

Mothers and children at a Cecil House, London
Mothers and children at one of the womens lodging houses known as Cecil Houses. The hostels, for homeless and vagrant women

Comfort of motorists in climbing hills by W H Robinson
By fixing telescopic, hand operated device to the back wheel, the motorist can keep his car at all times on an even keel, when ascending up steep hills. Date: 1919

Rockets and flying bombs by G. H. Davis
Rockets and flying bombs as seaborne weapons of future navies. How wireless-controlled robot projectiles may be carried and operated by capital ships. 1945

Laundry at the Beaufort War Hospital, Fishponds, Bristol
An interior view of the laundry at Beaufort War Hospital, Fishponds, Bristol. Sheets are being ironed in a large rotary press. In peacetime, the hospital operated as the Bristol Lunatic Asylum

Former Kitchener Home Boy in Canada
A former inmate of the Kitchener Memorial Home For Boys, 122 Hillfield Avenue, Hornsey, after his emigration to Canada. The home, operated by the Waifs and Strays Society, could house 50 boys

Advert for Pye Portable Radio 1930
Pye Portable Radio... what a world of difference that one word makes. Ask your radio dealer. He will tell you of the magnificent reputation of the Pye Portable

Advert for Portable hand-held lamps and torch 1902
No wires, no liquids, no acid and no danger, portable hand-held battery operated lamp and torch. 1902

BATH CHAIR BOAT
An unconventional bath chair boat, operated by levers. Date: early 1930s

Fairey Firefly TT1, SE-BR?, target tug operated by Svens?
Fairey Firefly TT1, SE-BR?, target tug operated by Svensk Flygtjnst AB for the Swedish army and navy

Fairey Firefly TT1, SE-BRD, target tug operated by Svens?
Fairey Firefly TT1, SE-BRD, target tug operated by Svensk Flygtjnst AB for the Swedish army and navy

Ozora Ichigo (Number One of the Big Sky), a civil utilit?
Ozora Ichigo (Number One of the Big Sky), a civil utility variant of the EH101 operated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police

Temporary points maintenance - Army - French strike of 1912
Strike on the Northern French Railways in 1912. Bridge at Briche, a control switch being operated by temporary railwaymen - the French Army! Date: 1912

St Thomass Hospital and Westminster Bridge - Aerial photogr
St Thomass Hospital and Westminster Bridge taken from the goldbeater balloon operated from the gig in the Thames

Northrop RF-61C (previously designated F-15A), 45-59300, operated by NACA carries a body to altitude. After release, the body exceeded the speed of sound, 24 September 1950

Airspeed AS5 Courier, G-ACVF, during rebuilding at Rochford, was the only Courier to survive WW2 and operated on pleasure flights and taxi work for East Anglian Flying Services

Royal Hong Kong Auxiliary Air Force
The Royal Hong Kong Auxiliary Air Force operated a fleet of six aircraft (c.1974): a Britten-Norman Islander, two Beechcraft Musketeers and three Alouette III helicopters

The first of three standard Percival P50 Princes, A90-1, for the Long Range Weapons Establishment at Woomera, Australia. They will be operated by the Royal Australian Air Force

An Avro Dyak built by a&E
An Avro Dyak built by the Australian Aircraft & Engineering Company (a&E) and operated by the Queensland & N.T. Aerial Service Co Ltd (QANTAS)

Boeing 707-321C G-BEBP of Dan-Air
Boeing 707-321C, G-BEBP, of Dan-Air who operated it on behalf of IAS

Westland 30 N4499N of Pan Am over New York
Westland 30, N4499N, of Pan Am, over New York. The aircraft operated a service between Manhattan (Battery Park/World Trade Center) and John F. Kennedy and Newark airports. c. December 1984. Date: 1984

Convair Model 39 Liberator-Liner NX30039
Convair Model 39 Liberator-Liner, NX30039, while being jointly operated by Coinsolidated Vultee and American Airlines

George Cayleys 1796 helicopter model
Right: George Cayleys 1796 helicopter model: the contra-rotating rotors are feathers stuck in corks, operated by a bow-string

Sketch of the 1849 boy-carrying machine showing the triplane wing structure, tail-unit, and wheeled car with pilot-operated elevator-cum-rudder, and propulsive flappers. 1853

De-militarised Short Sunderland III G-AGHZ Hawkesbury
De-militarised Short Sunderland III, G-AGHZ, Hawkesbury, operated by BOAC

Vickers Viscount 802 G-AOHM operated by BAF
Vickers Viscount 802, G-AOHM, operated by BAF

A Bristol Sycamore operated by Australian National Airways equipped with an electromagnetometer for locating mineral ore deposits

de Havilland DH106 Comet 2E G-AMXK
de Havilland DH106 Comet 2E, G-AMXK, when operated by Smiths Instruments

Former Lufthansa Junkers Ju52 / 3mg2e floatplane
Former Lufthansa Junkers Ju52/3mg2e floatplane operated by the Norwegian airline DNL. It was taken over by the Luftwaffe in April 1940 and then returned to Lufthansa as D-AKIY

The de Havilland Mosquito TIII operated by British Aerospace for many years until its tragic crash in 1996. Date: 1996

West Derby Union, Liverpool - Map of Institutions
A 1925 map of the institutions operated by Liverpools West Derby Union. By this date, the union had absorbed the formerly separate poor law authorities of Liverpool Parish and Toxteth Park. Date: 1925

Ragged School Union - Arthurs Home, Bognor Regis
Children stand in front of Arthurs Home at Bognor Regis - one of the homes operated by the Ragged School Union. Date: circa 1907

Interior of Clipper
Smoking and strolling about are permitted on the Martin 130 China Clipper operated by Pan American : Concorde was never like this ! Date: circa 1936

GLC LFB Breathing apparatus communications set
Battery operated communications equipment for use with compressed air breathing apparatus sets. Microphones are fitted into the specially adapted full face masks

Manually pulled and operated Insurance Company engine
A manually pulled and operated Insurance Company fire engine

Montage of images of parish fire pumps
Four examples of manual parish fire pumps. The top image is typical of the manual pump used in London by the Insurance fire brigades prior to the creation of the London Fire Engine Establishment

Human figure with Russian battleship for a head being operated on by Japanese surgeons. Date 1904

Operated by Union Railroad Elevator Company, Toledo, Ohio. Ship David Dows and boat unloading cargo at grain elevator; carts and wagons hauling merchandise, and train, on left

Man standing on a platform manipulating a set of paddle-like wings for a hand-operated aeronautical propeller. Date ca. 1850

Design drawing for system to raise and lower a captive balloon, controlled by four ropes forming a pyramidal shape and operated by winches on the ground below. Date between 1820 and 1870

Children reading Sunday papers, Rustan brothers farm near Dickens, Iowa. Note convenience of running water in background. This farm was formerly owner operated but they are now tenants of

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