Pump Collection (page 4)

Tecton Bomb Shelter Design 7, 600 People
An architectural design showing a sectional view of a bomb shelter that can contain 7, 600 people, numbers indicate features including the entrance ramps, air-lock and first raid post

Gas pump. Route 66 State Park Visitor Center. Missouri, USA
Old gas pump inside the Route 66 State Park Visitor Center. State of Missouri, United States

Advert, Bowser, the Premier Petrol Pump Date: 1927

Milk Production in the 1960s: Milk pump Date: circa 1962

Advert, Merryweather, Fire Fighting Steam Pump
Advert, Merryweather, Long Acre, London, the Valiant fire-fighting steam pump, useful as a fire engine. Date: 1907

Campaign for Real Ale event
Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) event, 6 September 1976. CAMRA was set up in 1971 because of dissatisfaction over the general quality of beer being marketed by a small number of breweries who were

Enfield 8000 Electric Car at a petrol station
An Enfield 8000 Electric Car at a petrol station, where a woman holds out an electric plug to the puzzled pump attendant. The battery-operated city car was manufactured between 1973 and 1977

London firefighters training at Brigade HQ, Lambeth SE1
LCC-LFB firefighters (recruits) undergoing pump training in the drill yard of Brigade HQ. Hard suction hose is being connected to the open topped pump

Couples ingenious device so they don't wake up the baby. A makeshift pump that extinguishes incendiary bombs that have landed in your home without leaving the comfort of your bed. Date: 1941

Hammersmith Ghost Paranormal Apparitions 1804
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Comic postcard, Chair, drink, smoke and dog Date: 20th century

Soldiers stopping to replenish their water bottles, this could be filled at certain fixed stations brought in by flexible pipes. Date: December 1917

Photograph of Pump House PH, Brighton, Sussex. The main side of the print (shown here) depicts: Right face on view of the pub

Dancing Bear and Dog, Camel and Monkey and the Royal Exchange. Street entertainer with chained bear in muzzle and musician with dancing dogs in costumes 23

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Advert, Grand Pump Room Hotel, Bath. 1927

Air raid preparations at London gas station, September 1939
An extreme example of sandbagging in anticipation of air raids at a garage in North London. The Sphere jokes that " motorists have to look twice before they recognise the petrol pumps"

Views and elevations of an 18th century beer pump machine
Views and elevations of an 18th century beer pump with levers, taps and pipes contained in a cabinet. Copperplate engraving by Mutlow after an illustration by J. Farey Jr

Chinese agriculture. Peasants planting a field with a seeding machine (a hopper with two pipes leading to pronged feet), man irrigating a field on a water pump

Types of hydraulics systems and pumps: Persian wheel or sakia, Tantalus or Pythagorean cup, Ctesibiuss ancient pump, and sucking, forcing, lifting and chain pumps

Captain Jekylls improved ship pump and Benjamin
Hydraulic pumps including Captain Jekylls improved ship pump and Benjamin Martins pump. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry from Abraham Rees Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts

The Sipho Wirtembergicus and Archimedes screw
Examples of hydraulic siphons including natural springs, waves, syringe, rope pump, the Duke of Wirtembergs siphon or the Sipho Wirtembergicus and Archimedes screw

Balling furnace and finery used in iron manufacture
Sections and elevations of balling furnace and finery used in iron manufacture, along with tools and pump. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by John Farey from Abraham Rees

Airfield B16 pumping station Moulineaux Normandy
This is proably the only remaining such structure and was stone built for its purpose to pump fuel to the airstrip at Villons le Buissons. Inspection will reveal the signs CARPE DIEM and JULY 1944

Royal Pump Room, Harrogate, West Yorkshire. Date: circa 1908

Cailletets apparatus for the liquefaction of oxygen
Louis Paul Cailletets apparatus for the liquefaction of oxygen. Date: 1885

The Star Hotel, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, as it appeared in the time of Nelson, who often stayed there. circa 1900

Exact time, France 1880
The unification and distribution of time using pneumatic chronometers, France - scene in the shop where the clocks are sold. Date: 1880

Evening on the pier at Swinemunde
Women cyclists enjoying a quiet evening on the pier at Swinemunde (Swinoujscie), a port on the Baltic Sea, north-west Poland, near the border with Germany. circa late 19th century

Royal Pump Room, Harrogate, Yorkshire. circa 1900

Interior, Royal Pump Room, Harrogate, Yorkshire
Interior of the Royal Pump Room, Harrogate, Yorkshire. circa 1900

Montpelier Pump Room, Harrogate, Yorkshire. circa 1900

Merryweather fire-engine 1905
New motor fire-engine just adopted by the London Fire Brigade, could do 50 h.p and was capable of delivering 500 gallons a minute. Date: 1905

Typical Victorian manual parish fire pump
A typical Victorian manual parish fire pump of the type used in London by the Insurance fire brigades prior to the creation of the London Fire Engine Establishment under its Chief Fire Officer

Typical Victorian manual parish water supply on wheels
A typical Victorian manual parish water supply consisting of a barrel on wheels of the type used before the creation of the London Fire Engine Establishment under its Chief Fire Officer

LCC-LFB - Dennis pump escape fire engine
LCC-LFB 61 - Dennis pump escape fire engine, 30 April 1950. Date: 1950

First Steam Fire Engine, England
First Steam Fire Engine constructed in England, by Braithwaite and Ericsson, inventors and constructors of London. Date: 1830

First Steam Fire Engine, USA
First Steam Fire Engine constructed in the United States of North America, by Paul R Hodge, inventor and constructor of New York. Date: 1840

Firefighting training display at Southwark Headquarters
London Fire Brigade special training event at Southwark Headquarters, open to the public, with jets of water pointing down towards the centre of the courtyard. Date: circa 1910s

John Keelings appliance for putting out fires, from a trade card. Date: 1670s

National Fire Brigades Association certificate, confirming First Prize to Southend Fire Brigade in the Combined Motor Pump Competition held at Basingstoke, dated 8 September 1922

LCC-LFB officers group photo with vehicle (enclosed pump). Date: circa 1930s

LCC-LFB engines and crews, Whitechapel fire station
Located at 27 Commercial Road, East London, Whitechapel fire station opened in 1874. It was also a superintendent station (district headquarters) and was known as Station No 27

Willesden Local Board Fire Brigade turnout, with horse-drawn vehicles and ladders. Date: circa 1890s

Merryweather Type : B Fire Pump Valiant
Merryweather and Sons, Ltd. Type: B Fire Pump Valiant, Built in 1945. Date: 1970s

Shand, Mason and Company Fire Pump
Shand, Mason and Company vertical twin-cylinder fire pump Date: 1970s

Aldgate pump located at the junction where Aldgate meets Fenchurch Street and Leadenhall Street. People thought that the water had medicinal purposes and collected bottles on Sundays

Local businesses were on protest against the increase charges of the Metropolitan Water Board on their registered meter. Photograph showing London City workers drawing water from the free Aldgate

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