Operating Collection (page 5)

Industry / Rope 1827
A rope maker reels out newly made rope across his garden with the help of an assistant operating a wheel at the other end. Date: 1827

Futuristic machine for reading human thought waves
A futuristic machine which registers and translates human thought waves, even if the subject is unconscious or unable to speak. Date: 1928

The Dartmouth Ferry, Devon
The Dartmouth Ferry (also known as the DartmouthKingswear Floating Bridge, a vehicular cable ferry), operating between Dartmouth and Kingswear, Devon Date: circa 1920s

Theatre nurse at Hayle Hospital, Cornwall
Theatre nurse in an operating theatre at Hayle Hospital, Cornwall. Date: 1980

Two theatre nurses at Hayle Hospital, Cornwall
Two theatre nurses in an operating theatre at Hayle Hospital, Cornwall. Date: 1980

Doctor and nurses treat a patient in the operating room, Brooklyn Naval Hospital, Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York, USA Date: circa 1900

Planes of a British submarine, WW1
The planes of a First World War submarine - horizontal rudders to regulate the angle of ascent and descent. Date: 1914

National Childrens Home, Canada - One of Our Boys Ploughin
A emigrant to Canada from the National Childrens Home (NCH) is operating a horse-drawn plough

WW1 - French air reconnaisance, 1914
WW1 - French air-scouts on a Breguet biplane. A Sergeant of Engineers is piloting, one passenger is observing the country below, the other throws out a cylindrical case containing a message

Vultee Model 72 Vengeance IA -this one operating with the Australian forces in the Pacific

North American P-51A Mustang-this earliest version, with its Allison engine, is seen in service with US forces operating out of Burma in 1942

Grumman JF Duck -very useful light transport capable of operating from either land or water

Arado Ar 196A seen here operating from a Mediterranean base proved to be a very effective convoy shadower

WW1 River Don Steelworks, Sheffield, Yorkshire
World War 1 River Don Steelworks, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England. Captioned Hydraulic Press operating upon Armour Plate Date: 1910s

Garden in Baslow, Derbyshire Peak District
Ted Ellis on the left and Ernest Battersby beside him with sherry and cigarettes. A third drink waits onthe tray for whoever had been tasked with operating Ernests camera. Date: circa 1906

German boy scouts with camp loom
German boy scouts operating a camp loom

Engraving of firefighters in action at a burning building
Engraving of firefighters in action at a fire, operating hosepipes and attempting to rescue a woman from the upper window of a burning building. Date: 1836

Blitz in London -- demonstrating deluge set, WW2
Blitz in London -- as part of a war weapons week, a firefighter on the Embankment in Central London, 20 May 1941, demonstrates the deluge set

A Munitionette, Munition worker, WW1
A woman operating an automatic cartridge machine in a munition factory during the First World War. Date: 1917

Scammell pump in Orange Street, London W1, WW2
Scammell 65-gallon pump in operation, supplying water to four hosepipes, at a fire in Orange Street, London W1, 21 September 1942. Date: 1942

Leyland dual purpose monitor appliance
A Leyland dual purpose monitor appliance with monitor at work

LFB monitor on dual purpose appliance
LFB monitor at work on a dual purpose appliance

Engraving of worm-driven fire squirt
Engraving of people operating a large worm-driven fire squirt mounted on two wheels, to put out a fire in a burning building, reproduced from Besoni, Theatrum Instrumentorum et Machinarum, 1568

Firefighter in Orange Street, London W1, WW2
Firefighter operating a two-man manual hose in Orange Street, London W1, 21 September 1942. Date: 1942

Massey Shaw fireboat, River Thames, London
The London Fire Brigades Massey Shaw fireboat with two firefighters on deck operating the hoses

Firefighters operating a Dennis breakdown lorry (commissioned at HQ on 3 April 1936)

Dennis breakdown lorry, demonstrating wrong method
Firefighters operating a Dennis breakdown lorry (commissioned at HQ on 3 April 1936), demonstrating the wrong method of lifting and towing the front axle

Four AFS firefighters operating hosepipe, WW2
Four AFS firefighters operating a hosepipe. Date: circa 1940s

Operating the London Fire Brigades fireboat Massey Shaw below decks Date: circa late 1930s

Woman operating field telephone van, WW2
Woman operating a field telephone van during the Second World War. Date: 1940s

Firefighters operating old pump at special drill display
Firefighters operating an old pump at a special drill display given on 13 October 1937 to Chief Officers of provincial fire brigades. Date: 1937

Manual pump in Orange Street, London W1, WW2
A two-man manual pump in Orange Street, London W1, 21 September 1942. Date: 1942

Firefighter training, LFB HQ, Lambeth
Firefighter training at the London Fire Brigade HQ in Lambeth, with a man operating a hose at the top of the turntable ladder. Aerial view, probably taken from the top of the drill tower

Eastern General Hospital, Cambridge, Operating Theatre Date: circa 1916

German submarines in North Sea by G. H. Davis
The German submarines now operating against the British fleet in the North Sea. Sectional view of a German U-Boat, showing its flatter deck and boat-shaped appearance. 1914

Four famous British aeroplanes by G. H. Davis
Four famous British aeroplanes: the Hurricane (fighter), the Spitfire (fighter), the Defiant (night fighter), and the Blenheim (bomber fighter)

Man in textile industry operating machine, Scotland
A man in the textile industry in Scotland, operating a machine with many rollers

Indian man with oxen and water well
An Indian man with a pair of oxen, operating a water well

Workman in a factory operating machinery - lead works
Workman in a factory operating machinery. The factory produced lead shrapnel for the use in high explosive artillery shells during WW1. Date: circa 1915

Two women in a factory operating machinery. A barrel of green paint is part of the process. The Factoru produced (among other things) lead shrapnel for use in explosive artillery shells (WW1)

A 9. 2 Howitzer in action, 1939
Scene at a famous Army school of Artillery in Britain showing some of the latest and heaviest guns in action with men being trained to use them

Champion Coconut Openers
Champion coconut openers of America, operating their coconut opening machine. Date: early 1930s

Princess Trixie the Highly Educated Horse
Princess Trixie, a Grey 1/2 Arab mare, who was highly educated and travelled the world - here she is advertising (" Grand" ) National Cash Registers, by keeping her accounts in check

Submarine training at HMS Vernon, a shore establishment or stone frigate of the Royal Navy at Chatham Dockyard, Kent. Operating the flooding gear in the escape chamber of a Submarine. Date: late 1930s

Samuel Cody at Aldershot with his first Kite Operating Squad made up of Sappers of the RE. These men were the first Air Contingent of the British Army

Steam engine operating flapping wings. Hargrave Slide 32

A Surgical Mix-Up
An awkward mistake in the operating theatre Date: 1907

LCC-LFB Southwarks Emergency Tender with lights
Southwarks Emergency Tender with lights. By the mid-1920s emergency tenders were developing into far more than just a carrier of firefighters with breathing apparatus

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