Ramp Collection

Silver City plane at Lydd, Kent, for Channel crossing
Silver City plane at Lydd, Kent, with a car being loaded ready for a Channel crossing. Date: 1962

Algiers, Algeria - Waterfront Boulevards
Algiers, Algeria - Les Boulevards et les Coteaux (the slopes/ramps) de Mustapha Superieur. Date: circa 1920s

Rolls-Royce Exe 24-cylinder, air-cooled, X-block, sleeve-valve engine B Series outside the Ramp Hangar at Hucknall

Launch - Cromer Lifeboat
The return of the Cromer lifeboat after assisting a crippled trawler to port

People and car on ferry at Cowes, Isle of Wight
People and a car on the ferry at Cowes, Isle of Wight. Date: 1922

The launch of the lifeboat - Appledore, Devon. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Rostov on the Don River, Russia - Unloading grain
Unloading of grain on the banks of the Don River - Rostov-on-Don - the administrative center of Rostov Oblast, Russia. Date: 1903

SKI JUMP 1914
A ski jumper flies off the end of the ramp. Date: 1914

Birdie Reads Thermometer
Birdie Bowers reads the thermometer on the ramp

Plunging elephants at the London Hippodrome
Elephants plunging into the tank at the London Hippodrome, the climactic scene at the London Hippodrome during their Christmas production for 1903-4 The Golden Princess and the Elephant Hunters

MV Renfrew Rose, a River Clyde passenger ferry built in 1984
MV Renfrew Rose, a passenger ferry built in 1984. She operated as the Renfrew Ferry crossing the River Clyde between Renfrew

Turkey. Kanuni Sultan Suleyman bridge. Buyukcekmece
Ottoman Empire. Turkey. Kanuni Sultan Suleyman bridge or Buyukcekmece Bridge. Buyukcekmece, near Istanbul. It was built by Sinan on a commission from Selim II, 16th century

Serruya's Ramp, Gibraltar Date: circa 1910

Turkey. Istanbul. Small Bridge (Kutchuk Tchekmedje)
Ottoman Empire. Turkey. Istanbul. Small Bridge (Kutchuk Tchekmedje Lake). Engraving by Lemaitre, Vormser and Lepetit. Historia de Turquia by Joseph Marie Jouannin (1783-1844) and Jules Van Gaver

Boeing C-135A Stratolifter 60-0378
United States Air Force (USAF) - Boeing C-135A-BN Stratolifter 60-0378 (MSN 18153), on the ramp having number 3 engine replaced

Cromer's Motor Lifeboat and Crew at the end of the Town Pier. Date: circa 1910s

Politics Political People London 1969 1960s 60s
politics, political, people, london, 1969, 1960s, 60s, sixties, housing, problem, problems, street, property, georgian, homeless, homelessness, squat, squatter, squatters, empty, building, buildings

London Fire Brigade Firemen Firefighting Firefighters
london, fire, brigade, firemen, firefighting, firefighters, lfb, light, alloy, hose, hoses, hosepipe, hosepipes, ramps, ramp, protect, protecting, protection, marked, dead, slow, equipment, metal

LFB light alloy hose ramps, marked DEAD SLOW -- one pair of four-foot end sections assembled to bridge two lines of 2.75 inch hose

Charing Cross - Temporary Entrance 1864
Temporary entrance to the station from Villiers Street. 1864

Rollercoaster in the Jardin Baujon, early 19th century. Fashionable society enjoying the aerial walks, with cars pulled up the central ramp before riding fast chutes to left and right

Fieseler Fi 103 - (V-1 flying bomb) on its launching ramp
Fieseler Fi 103 - V-1 flying bomb (German: Vergeltungswaffe 1 - Vengeance Weapon 1) on its launching ramp at the Imperial War Museum Duxford. Date: circa 1990s

Penguin Pool by Lubetkin
The double helix form of the concrete ramps in the penguin pool at London Zoo designed by Berthold Lubetkin of the Tecton Group in 1934

Launch of the HIJMS Kongo at Barrow-in-Furness
Launch of the HIJMS (His Imperial Japanese Majestys Ship) Kongo by Madame Koike, first Battleship of the Kongo Class and the last Japanese Capital Battleship built outside of Japan

View of the harbour ramps, Algiers, Algeria
View of the harbour ramps and shipping company rail terminus, Algiers, Algeria. Date: circa 1910

Stone-breaking cell in a workhouse
Illustration showing a workhouse stone-breaking cell. Tramps and vagrants broke stones in return for a nights accommodation Date: circa 1909

Fort Perch Rock Battery, New Brighton, Lancashire
Fort Perch Rock - a former defence installation situated at the mouth of Liverpool Bay at New Brighton. Built in the 1820s to defend the Port of Liverpool

Lifeboat / Cromer / Norfolk
A lifeboat creates a huge splash as it is launched into the sea at Cromer, Norfolk

Car driving off a cross-channel ferry. Date: early 1960s

Boat carrying goods in the port of London. XIX century colored engraving

Junkers Ju 352A close up of tail and rear ramp

Loading horses onto a train at night, WW1
Loading horses onto a train at night, circa 1915, by Margaret M Neame (fl. 1913-1917). Date: circa 1915

Ramsgate, Kent - Marina Palace of Varieties
Ramsgate, Kent - The Marina Palace of Varieties also known as The Establissement - located by the East Cliff at the end of the Pier. Date: late 19th century

Car ferry with coach on board
A car ferry with a coach on board

Quay Town, Minehead, Somerset Date: circa 1910s

View of Shanghai, China, by Ting-Qua

The Short S38, piloted by Commander Charles Rumney Samson, leaves the the launching ramp on HMS Hibernia at Weymouth on 9 May 1912 for the first flight from a ship underway in Great Britain

HMS Hibernia with temporary launching ramp
HMS Hibernia with the temporary launching ramp and the Short S38, as used on 9 May 1912 for the first flight from a ship underway in Great Britain

Either HMS Hibernia or HMS Africa with a temporary launch ra
Either HMS Hibernia or HMS Africa with a temporary launching ramp for a Short S38

A Pindair Skima 3 running up bow loading ramp
A Pindair Skima 3 running up the bow loading ramp of a Vosper Thornycroft VT2

The port wing of a Mohawk Airlines BAC One-Eleven is loaded into the sole Canadair CL-44-O, N447T, of Transmeridian Air Cargo on the ramp at Wisley

The sole Canadair CL-44-O N447T of Transmeridian Air Cargo
The sole Canadair CL-44-O, N447T, of Transmeridian Air Cargo on the ramp at Wisley next to the prototype BAC One-Eleven 475

North American F-100 Super Sabres of the 479th Fighter Day Wing, George AFB, California, lined up on the base flight ramp

Three RAF Armstrong Whitworth AW660 Argosy CMk1s on the ramp, including XN847

Boeing B-50A 46-003 running-up on the ramp
Boeing B-50A, 46-003, running-up on the ramp

Boeing B-50A running-up on the ramp

?M4? tank being ramp-loaded onto track vehicle, Bombay, India. November 1942 (Watney collection) Date: 1942

NFS heavy unit crew removing mobile pump by ramp
A heavy unit from a Brixton fire station sub-station, seen here at Regional headquarters, Lambeth, with the crew either removing or loading the trailer pump which was the appliances fire pump when

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