Pumping Collection (page 2)

The Round Game of Happy Families, Mrs Pumps
Chad Valley, The Round Game of Happy Families, Mrs Pumps the Milkmans Wife. circa 1910

Eisleben Water Raising Machine. William Richards, Hettstedt, 1813. This engine was used until 1885 in Eisleben for pumping water out of a copper mine

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Pumping engine at Buffalo USA Date: 1880

Interior of the Abbey Mills Pumping Station, London, 1868
Engraving showing the interior of the Abbey Mills Pumping Station in West Ham, London, 1868. This pumping station was part of the Metropolitan Main Drainage works. Date: 15 August 1868

Humorous Dutch card - pumping up a car tyre. Sent as a Mother and Fathers day card from the sender to his/her parents! Date: circa 1910

Mill Steam Pumping Engine, Unknown Location, England. Date: 1900s

Pumping Well, Findon, Sussex
Pumping Well, Findon, Worthing, Sussex, England. Showing man with Yoke and Buckets Date: 1911

Oil Pumps in the city of Los Angeles
Oil pumps (Nodding Donkies) can be found inside the city of Los Angeles

LFB firefighters in multi-hose display
LFB firefighters in a multi-hose display at headquarters, with pumping machine and vehicle

Leyland pumping unit on Bedford chassis
Leyland extra heavy pumping unit on a Bedford chassis -- view of the controls

LFB firefighter with new motor pump
LFB firefighter at HQ with newly delivered motor pump fitted with a six-cylinder engine, pumping capacity about 930 gallons per minute, 11 April 1938. Date: 1938

Charlotte Fire Department vehicle, North Carolina, USA, August 1935. It was the first enclosed Sedan-type fire appliance in America -- a six-cylinder engine of 160 horsepower with a pumping capacity

Bomb damage and crater, Petherton Road, London, WW2
Panoramic view of extensive bomb damage and a crater in Petherton Road, North London, 2 July 1944. A salvage operation took place, pumping out flooded basements. Date: 1944

Salvage operation, Petherton Road, London, WW2
Salvage operation, pumping out flooded basements in Petherton Road, North London, on 2 July 1944, during the Second World War. Date: 1944

LCC-London Fire Brigade, motorised pump at hose drill
Fire crew in the drill yard of the London Fire Brigade headquarters, Southwark, getting hose lines to work from a motorised fire pump. Date: 1909

Fireboat Massey Shaw with eight hoses pumping. Date: 1935

Cornish engines erected - East London Water Works
Cornish engines erected at the East London Water Works, Old Ford Date: 1842

Abbey Mills Pumping Station, London, 1868
Engraving showing the exterior of the Abbey Mills Pumping Station at West Ham, London, 1868. This pumping station was part of the Metropolitan Main Drainage. Date: 15 August 1868

Abbey Mills Pumping Station, London, 1867
Engraving showing the construction of the Abbey Mills Pumping Station in London, 1867. This station was built to pump fresh water to the city. Date: 13 April 1867

The Underground Reservoir at Crossness, 1865
Engraving showing the interior of the underground reservoir of the Metropolitan Main Drainage Works at Crossness in 1865. This image shows the reservoir illuminated for the officially opening by

Pluto Pipe-Lines across the Channel by G. H. Davis
Series of illustrations showing the workings of the Pluto ( Pipe Line Under The Ocean ) pipes across the English Channel which pumped millions of gallons of petrol from Great Britain to France during

Japan - The Mitsui Miike Coal Mine - The Adaby Pump
Japan - The Mitsui Miike Coal Mine at Omuta, Fukuoka and Arao, Kumamoto The Adaby Pump Date: circa 1910s

Engine House, Abbey Mills pumping station

Centrifugal pumping engines by W H Allen & Co. London

LCC-LFB enclosed pump at Southwark HQ
The Brigade introduced these enclosed pumps in 1935, designed for the Brigade by its then Chief Officer, C C B Morris. The pump also carried breathing apparatus sets for three of its crew

LCC-LFB motorised pump at hose drills, Southwark HQ
Working in the drill yard of the London Fire Brigade headquarters, Southwark, firefighters getting hose lines to work from a motorised fire pump

Water drawn from Thames to fight a fire in Bow
Scene of fire at warehouse in Bow, East London, showing water being drawn from the Thames to help fight the blaze

LCC-LFB Early motorised fire engine
This machine was one of the early self-propelled petrol motor fire engines used by the LFB. It was made by Merryweather and Sons Limited

LCC-MFB Fire float and tug at drills
Prior to the MFB acquiring its first purpose made fireboat, a tug would tow a fire float (containing a steam fire pump) to the scene of riverside blazes and fires on ships on the Thames

LCC-LFB fireboat Massey Shaw demonstrates pumping
Moored at its Blackfriars river station on the Victoria Embankment, the newly commissioned Massey Shaw fireboat demonstrates its massive pumping capacity by discharging a vast amount of water

LCC-LFB fire engine drills at Southwark HQ
The Metropolitan Fire Brigade was renamed the London Fire Brigade in 1904, with much of its former equipment still in regular use. Self-propelled fire engines were being introduced by 1904

LCC-LFB fire engine trials at Crystal Palace
The Merryweather Hatfield pump was first developed by Merryweather of Greenwich in the late 1890s. By 1916 the decision was taken to move totally to motorised fire engines

Shand Mason Bristol motor steam fire engine
This Shand Mason motor steam fire engine with independent pumping and propelling engines was developed later than Merryweathers Fire King self-propelled steam engine

LCC-LFB enclosed pumping appliance
A rear mounted enclosed pump showing the hosereel tubing

NFS (London) fire station pumping exercise, WW2
An NFS firefighter using a trailer pump to lift water from the static dam at an NFS fire station and relaying the water

NFS (London) open water pumping exercise, WW2
NFS London firefighters undertaking a pumping exercise from an open water supply (reservoir)

NFS-London Region open water exercise, WW2
Four heavy units and trailer pumps at work by an emergency dam undertaking a pumping exercise

NFS (London Region) AFS exercises, WW2
Firefighters at a hose pump during NFS (London Region) AFS exercises

Blitz in London -- firefighting from the River Thames
Blitz in London -- the London Fire Brigade had three fireboats in peacetime, based at Lambeth, Blackfriars, and Cherry Garden Pier, Rotherhithe

Pumps working from dams, Thames Haven, WW2
Two major pumping units (NFS) set into an emergency inflatable dam and supplying water to the scene of a serious oil tank fire at the Thames Haven oil tank farm near Thurrock in Essex

Massey Shaw fireboat at Blackfriars river fire station
The Massey Shaw fireboat, launched in 1935, moored alongside her Blackfriars river station, located on the Victoria Embankment, City of London

Auxiliary firefighters at drill, Lambeth HQ, WW2
Auxiliary crews from station 75W (Shelborne Road School sub station in Holloway) getting to work with a trailer pump and jets in the drill yard of Brigade Headquarters

Five technical illustrations show network of ropes and apparatus for securing multi-passenger platforms on captive balloons; arrangement of ropes for netting;

Optical illusion disc with man pumping water. Date 1833

Girl Pumping Water
A little girl puts her weight behind the old village water pump on the village green at Lullington, Somerset, England. Note the massive oak timbers of the canopy. Date: 1950s

Village Well House
This odd-shaped building on the village green at Offley, Hertfordshire, England is a well house, within which is modern pumping machinery providing water on tap. Date: 1930s

Pumping machinery installed at Surbiton, 1932 Date: 1932

Small pumping engine, front and side elevations

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