Operator Collection (page 2)

Cutting screw threads with hand chaser 1875
Skilled operator cutting threads or screws on a lathe by hand. Date: 1875

Scotty, Trading Post operator, Pelee Island, Ontario, Canada
Scotty, Trading Post operator, Pelee Island, Lake Erie, Ontario, Canada, in kilt and sporran, and other tartan accoutrements. Date: circa 1930

Farmers in France cultivating the ground after World War One were finding unexploded projectiles. In this drawing you can see a operator with a telephone receiver (microphone)

Douglas DC-3A XA-FUV Xicontenatl
Douglas DC-3A-S1C3G XA-FUV Xicontenatl (msn 3261), of Aeronaves de Mexico. NC25617: United Airlines, from November 1940 to July 1948

Persian Rug Making, Glasgow 1843
A weaver operates a Persian rug-making loom at a Glasgow carpet factory. Date: 1843

GIRL IN PHONE BOX
A young woman puts 1/- (a shilling) into a public pay phone in a telephone box. Only 6d (sixpence) or 1/- coins accepted. Dial 100 for the operator. Those were the days. Date: 1960s

Bushbys patent pill making machine 1869
Pill mass, is first placed between two plain rollers to form a sheet of thickness required for the size of pill to be made, the thickness of the sheet necessarily determining the size of the pills

Blind Typists - Royal Normal College, Upper Norwood
Blind Typists - Royal Normal College for the Blind, Westow Street, Upper Norwood, London. Taking down a telephone message in shorthand

Lullingstone Silk Farm, Ayot St. Lawrence, Hertfordshire
Skilled Silk Operator at her reeling machine at the Lullingstone Silk Farm, Ayot, House, Ayot St. Lawrence, Hertfordshire. Date: circa 1930s

A lathe operator at work
A metalworker checks the settings on a large industrial lathe. A lathe is a machine tool which spins a block of material to perform various operations such as cutting, sanding, knurling, drilling

Postcard, Governor's Island, New York, USA. From Jack Phillips, future Marconi wireless operator on RMS Titanic in 1912, handwritten postcard, signed Jack, addressed to Miss E

White Star Line, RMS Teutonic - future Marconi operator on RMS Titanic, Jack Phillips, who died in the 1912 disaster. Handwritten postcard, signed love Jack'

Welsh Guards
One of 34 photographs associated with the Welsh Guards, 1950-1969.Showing canteen; sign-writer; carpenters; drivers; machine gunners; firing mortars; sport; welder; mess waiters

Watchroom at Fire Brigade HQ, Southwark
Watchroom at Metropolitan Fire Brigade headquarters in Southwark Bridge Road, with men manning the switchboard and monitoring the fire alarm control board where calls for assistance were received

Young sailor of HMS Ganges, WW1
A young sailor in the uniform of HMS Ganges during the First World War, with a wireless operators badge on his sleeve. The Ganges was a Royal Navy training ship

S. S. Californian officers and crew
Officers and men of the S.S. Californian attend the British inquiry into the Titanic disaster. From left to right: G.Glenn, fireman; W.Thomas, greaser; C.F.Evans, wireless operator; J.Gibson

British Air Defence Exercises - Searchlight operators
Air Defence Exercises - 90cm Anti-Aircraft Searchlight operators. Date: circa 1940

WW2 wireless operator on a Hudson plane
The wireless operator on board an American-built Lockheed " Hudson" plane over Heligoland during WW2, reporting on the action by radio to his home station. Date: 1940

Linen Bleaching Process, Calendering - closer in view of above but no operator or linen going through the machine. (Location: Ireland). Date: circa early 1900s

Poster, The Telephone in Business, showing a female telephone operator and a map of England. 20th century

Chinese telephone exchange, Chinatown, San Francisco, USA
Interior, Chinese telephone exchange, Chinatown, San Francisco, California, USA. Date: 1936

Locomotive designed in 1814 by British engineer and inventor George Stephenson (1781-1848). Nineteenth-century engraving. Colored

Gertrude Ederle channel swim attempt with jazz band
Page from The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News reporting on the channel swim attempt of American swimmer Gertrude Ederle (1905-2003)

WW1 - Lady aviator air-gunner demonstration in aeroplane
WW1 - An illustration of Mrs A. S. Hitchcock who was part of the Italian Army for expert skill in aeroplane operation. She is seen here giving a demonstration within Italian lines for a number of

Female lift attendant at a West End business, WW1
" Men must fight, and women must work." A woman lift attendant at a business in London in 1915. 1915

WW1 - Scene at a German HQ - Moving flags on a map Date: 1914

Crew of HMS Astraea, British second-class cruiser
Group photo, crew of HMS Astraea, British second-class cruiser, at Hong Kong, including telegraphist with machine. Date: circa 1908

Zeppelin engine gondola
A scene in the rear gondola of a German Zeppelin airship. In the centre, two engineers are tending the powerful Maibach motors

War Work Women Lift Operator WW1. Shows a lady lift operator in smart uniform with caption, Buttons we can t live without. Date: circa 1918

LFB Telephone Switchboard - Lambeth HQ, SE1 Date: circa 1930s

Metropolitan Fire Brigade horse-drawn steamer
A Metropolitan Fire Brigade horse-drawn steamer with driver-operator

Radio equipment at Baden Powell House, London
Demonstration of radio equipment at Baden Powell House, South Kensington, London. The building was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1961. Date: circa 1960s

Training in taking telephone messages
Men of the London Fire Brigade being trained in taking telephone messages. Date: 1930

Men working at watchroom telephone switchboard
Firefighters working on the watchroom telephone switchboard at Southwark Fire Station. Date: circa 1909

Russell Sage
RUSSELL SAGE American financier, a shrewd operator who died worth $70m, a tidy sum even now, still more so in those days. Date: 1816 - 1906

Telephone Operator - Wakeman, Ohio, USA
Telephone Operator at Wakeman, Huron County, Ohio, United States - a little village along the Vermilion River. Date: 1911

Soviet QSL card - plaque on Venus
A commemorative card from a Soviet Radio Station (a QSL card) commemorating the sending of a plaque bearing a portrait of Lenin to the Planet Venus

The 1930 transatlantic crew (from left) Capt Charles Kingsford Smith, leader; Capt Evert van Dijk, pilot; Capt Paddy Saul, navigator and John Stannage, wireless operator

Printing workshop (18th c. ). Engraving
Printing workshop (18th c.). Engraving

London Fire Brigade Headquarters telephone switchboard

London Fire Brigade telephone switchboard operator
A London Fire Brigade telephone switchboard operator

LCC-LFB Grand Hotel fire, Trafalgar Square W1
Firefighters in breathing apparatus attend a fire in the Grand Hotel, on the corner of Trafalgar Square and Northumberland Avenue

LCC-LFB fire, Talwin Street, Bow, East London
London Fire Brigade crews at the scene of a serious blaze, now under control, in an East London commercial premises at Talwin Street, Bow

LCC-MFB Firemen in switchboard & control room
Watchroom at Metropolitan Fire Brigade headquarters in Southwark Bridge Road, with men manning the switchboard and monitoring the fire alarm control board where calls for assistance were received

LCC-LFB AFS exercise
A London firewoman acting as a radio operator on the heavy unit from Hammersmith fire station at a combined full-time/auxiliary fire exercise

NFS radio operator at Ealing HQ (34 D), WW2
NFS radio operator at the radio desk, Fire Force Area 34, Ealing HQ (34 D). On the board in front of her is the listing for the London Regional Area call signs

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

NFS London Region control room, HQ, WW2
Firemen and firewomen of the NFS (London Region) at the telephone switchboard of the control room at Lambeth HQ

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