Operating Collection (page 6)

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

Home Office-NFS Fire Force mobile telecom unit, WW2
NFS firewoman control officer using the London Fire Brigade Portable Telephone Cabinet (Home Office)

Turntable ladder display, London Fire Brigade HQ Lambeth
London regular firefighters operating extended turntable ladders in Lambeth Headquarters drill yard for a demonstration of firefighting skills

Operating track, covered with rubber flooring, and crossed w
Front of operating room in which are arranged parallel with track, 24 cameras at a distance of 12 inchdes from the center of each lens, and an electro-shutter in front of each. Date c1881

New interchange station, 31st and Market streets, West Phila

Schoolchildren on Red Crag, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
These three schoolgirls from Walton-on-the-Naze Secondary School, Essex, are taking direction from a schoolboy operating the camera for a 16mm film project

Boy operating pedal-driven drum raft
A boy operating a pedal-driven drum raft at Longridge Water Activities Centre, watched by a number of spectators. circa 1960s

British Western Front in France - Base Hospital operating th
An official First World War Press Bureau picture from the British Western Front in France showing the operating theatre of an unidentified Base Hospital

An operation at Yezd Hospital, Iran
An operation at Yezd (Mission) Hospital, Iran, A card produced by the Medical Mission Auxiliary, London Date: 1907

Somono family and home
A Somono family by their hut. The Somono are a tribe living in Mali and known as excellent river fishermen, operating on the River Niger. Date: circa 1920s

Communications Palmin 3
Operating an optical telegraph

Communications Palmin 4
Operating an electric telegraph using the Morse code

Working a gun on submarine parent ship, WW1
Men of the British Royal Navy working a gun on a submarine parent ship during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Communications Palmin 6
Operating the electric telegraph

Operating Table 2
St Bartholomews Hospital Operating Table in the Trendelenburg position. [This catalogue contains 2000 pages of medical equipment] Date: 1930

Operating Table 1
St Bartholomews Hospital Operating Table in horizontal position. [This catalogue contains 2000 pages of medical equipment] Date: 1930

Weaving Loom 18th C
A man weaving on a hand-loom, operating the treadles with his feet. Date: Circa 1760

Machine Tool Press
A smart young worker, wearing spectacles and a waistcoat, operating a machine tool presss. Date: 1950s

Cat on Operating Table
A young veterinary nurse, Elizabeth Greaves, 17, bandages the leg of an unconscious cat, which has just had an operation to remove a tumour from its leg Date: late 1960s

Austrian gunners operating 12cm trench mortar, WW1
Austro-Hungarian gunners operating a 12cm trench mortar (in firing position) during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Belgian gunners during evacuation of Antwerp, WW1
Belgian gunners during the evacuation of Antwerp, First World War. Date: circa 1914

Austrian gunners operating mortar, WW1
Austro-Hungarian gunners operating a mortar during the First World War. Date: 1917

Indian troops operating Lewis gun, WW1
Indian troops operating a Lewis gun on a mounting against hostile aircraft during the First World War, probably in Palestine. Troops in the background can be seen taking shelter in trenches

Indian troops in trench with Lewis guns, Palestine, WW1
Indian troops in a trench with Lewis guns, ready to fire at enemy aircraft in Palestine during the First World War. Date: circa 1917-1918

Austrian gunners loading 12cm trench mortar, WW1
Austro-Hungarian gunners loading a 12cm trench mortar during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Scouts using RAF flight simulator
Scouts being instructed on how to operate a LINK trainer by a Royal Air Force officer. 1940s

Scout operating winch for gliders
A Senior Scout at the controls of a winch used for launching gliders at the Lasham Gliding Centre. 1960s

Axminster carpet loom, Festival of Britain, London
A large Axminster carpet loom on display and in action in the Power and Production Pavilion, Festival of Britain, South Bank, London. Date: May 1951

Cutting Huge Logs
Two men operating a huge industrial chainsaw to cut equally huge felled tree trunks into logs. Date: 1950s

Tree-Surgeon & Audience
A cartoon on the tree- surgeons art: a tree trunk lies in an operating theatre with an axe embedded in its bark while the surgeon demonstrates his skill Date: 1927

Attacking Channel Ships
German JU-87 Stukas and Messerschmitt 110s operating from French bases attack shipping in the Thames estuary, sinking many allied vessels Date: December 1940

Print room at Lloyds Weekly Newspaper, London
Printing presses operated by workmen churn out copies of Lloyds Weekly Newspaper, one of the first mass market newspapers, with copies then bundled for despatch on a trolley

French Cream room at a sweet factory, London
Women handle large wooden trays in the French Cream room at the sweet manufacturers Clarke, Nickolls and Coombs, at Hackney Wick, London. The firm made Clarincos chocolates

Hand-operated loom for Axminster carpets, Glasgow
A team of five men operate the large hand loom for Axminster carpets at the factory of Messrs Templeton, Glasgow, Scotland

Workman with slate quarry tram, North Wales
A workman with a slate quarry tram, somewhere in North Wales. This small tram can carry half a ton of raw slate, and one man can operate it

Man operating haulage equipment, South Wales
A man operating haulage equipment in a mine in South Wales

Surgeons operating at Hayle Hospital, Cornwall
Three surgeons operating at Hayle Hospital, Cornwall

Operating a Vertical Projector
The Head of the offset-deep process Department at the Lund Humphries Printing works, operating a vertical projector. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Wool Winding Machine - Patons & Baldwins
A woman worker in dark blue overalls operating and checking a huge wool-winding machine at Patons & Baldwins factory at Darlington

Operating a wool-winding machine
A woman operating and checking a huge wool winding machine at Patons & Baldwins factory at Darlington. Patons & Baldwins was one of the largest manufacturers of knitting yarn in the UK between

A metalworker operating a drill
A wonderful photograph showing a metalworker operating a drill using all four of his limbs. The manufacturers craft in an industrial setting, attesting to years of experience

Sand-filled mould - Metalworking
A factory worker slides a sand-filled mould into position beneath an industrial molten-metal dispensing machine. The man has a tattoo on his forearm which reads True = Love and Mam = Dad

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