Ready Collection (page 9)

The hydrogen balloon Bee inflated ready for ascending at Knowless Oxygen Works at Wolverhampton

The first production Rolls-Royce RB211 turbofans at Derby ready for delivery to Lockheed. February 1972

Explorer gondola ready

Piccard ready for the ascent 1931-1932
Piccard ready for the ascent, 1931-1932. Date: 1931

Piccards balloon ready for its first ascent

Advertisement for Shoolbreds flannel shirts, WW1
Advertisement for Shoolbreds flannel shirts, cut out and ready for women to sew for soldiers at the front in the First World War. Date: 1914

The fuselage of Lt Spenser Greys two-seat Mercury III outside the Balm Road, Leeds, works ready for despatch to Brooklands in December 1911. Date: 1911

Thor IRBM ready for launch

A Douglas A3D-2 Skywarrior 138968 on the catapult
A Douglas A3D-2 Skywarrior, 138968, on the catapult ready to depart the USS Independence. circa 1962. Date: 1962

Balloon ready for lift-off

The Aerodrome ready for flight rests on the catapult
The Aerodrome, ready for flight, rests on the catapult. 7 October 1903. Date: 1903

An Atlas-Agena rocket is launched from Cape Kennedy on 25 October 1965 for the first dual launch ready for an in-orbit rendezvous with a Gemini. Date: 1965

A SABCA-manufactured Fokker FVIIb-3ms OO-AIH of Sabena
A SABCA-manufactured Fokker FVIIb-3ms, OO-AIH, of Sabena seen ready to leave Brussels on a night mail flight to Croydon

Vickers Wellesleys ready for take-off

The last span of a railway bridge - ready to join

Reconversion of Queen Elizabeth
When the work of reconversion was over the Queen Elizabeth was virtually a new ship, ready to cast off her moorings at Southampton and begin her maiden voyage as a passenger liner

South African gas alarm post trench sentry, 1917
Soldier ready to ring the bell to give warning to a gas attack. In the Western Front they took gas attacks as " all in the days work"

Love story without words (Histoire d amour sans paroles). Story of Jean III de Brosse and his wife Louise de Laval (16th c.). Fol. 14r. Man and woman at the room ready to go to bed

Vegetables for Soup
A pile of fresh vegetables, including cabbage, cauliflower, onions, celery, etc. ready to be made into a pan of vegetable soup. Date: early 1930s

LCC-MFB Shand Mason steamer
Shand Mason steamer ready for the turnout from Manchester Square Fire Station. This is a more powerful two-cylinder model. Water in the boiler was kept warm by a small gas ring

LCC-LFB Dennis open pump escape at a fire station
Readying for the outbreak of WW2, a regular London pump-escape pictured with the wartime fire appliances which would greatly outnumber the pre-1938 London appliance fleet

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-MFB Fire station appliance room
A typical scene in any Metropolitan Fire Brigade fire station appliance room as the escape cart and steamer stand in readiness

LCC-MFB Escape cart at Southwark HQ
Escape cart in the yard of Southwark HQ. Prior to this time, the 50 foot wheeled escape ladders were pushed to fires. Around 1890 the Chief Officer, Captain Wells

LCC-MFB Escape cart standing ready in station
An MFB fire station, showing the escape cart, carrying a 50 foot wheeled escape, ready to be connected to the horses who are standing in the stalls on either side of the fire engine

LCC-MFB Redcross Street fire station stables
A fireman (coachman) poses with his fire engine horse in the fire station stables at Redcross Street fire station, City of London

Conversion of NFS mobile kitchen unit to LFB control unit
London Fire Brigade mobile kitchen ready for conversion to a control Unit

LCC-LFB firewomen with mobile kitchen, WW2
The crew of a mobile kitchen (three cooks and a driver) who kept the regular and auxiliary firefighters fed during the Second World War

Cover design, Farman aviation brochure, promoting popular tourism and economical travel, showing a couple in Paris getting ready for a trip to Madrid. circa 1920

Genl. Kuropatkin ready for anything awaits the coming of the Japanese. Print shows the Russian General A.N. Kuropatkin armed and waiting for an approaching Japanese soldier. Date 1904 or 1905

Ready for the next. Illustration shows Uncle Sam as a matador wiping the blood off his sword after dispatching a bull labeled Beef Trust in a bullring with a portly man labeled Monoply anxiously

The ready-made Napoleon. Illustration shows William II, emperor of Germany, exchanging his coat and helmet for a hat and coat in the style of Napoleon I

Ready - Join US Marines. US Marine, three-quarter length, standing, facing front. Date 1942

The merry musical satire Ready! Aim! Fire! The merry musical
The merry musical satire Ready! Aim! Fire!. Poster for Federal Theatre Project presentation of Ready! Aim! Fire! at the Hollywood Playhouse, showing explosions of musical notes on a globe. Date 1937

The champion ready for another bout. Illustration shows Benjamin Harrison, standing in boxing ring, pulling on a boxing glove labeled Protection, with man labeled Labor seated in his corner

Group of the 47th Regiment, winter dress, ready for the trenches. Group of eight soldiers in winter clothing; one reclining, four sitting, two standing, and one bending over. Date 1855

Ready for the signal: the celebrated running horse Harry Bassett, by Lexington, dam Canary Bird, the property of Col. D. McDaniels & Co. of Princeton, N.J. (James Roe, rider). Date c1872

Ready for the trot: bring up your horse!. Date c1877. Ready for the trot: bring up your horse!. Date c1877

Major General Zachary Taylor: rough & ready. Date c1847. Major General Zachary Taylor: rough & ready. Date c1847

Captured guns at Richmond ready for transportation to Washington, May, 1865. Photograph showing a stockpile of captured Confederate weapons at Rocketts wharf in Richmond. Date 1865 May

Ready for Rehearsal by W. S. Hutton
A confident young actress in a sleeveless blouse and shorts smokes a cigarette whie waiting to perform in a rehearsal. Date: 1927

Be ready! Keep him smiling United War-Work Campaign, week of Nov. 11th to 18th. Poster showing a soldier holding a mug from which steam is rising and eating a piece of pie

Father Knickerbockers next job - He got rid of Tammany Rule, and now, if he gets rid of Hayseed Rule, he will be ready for Home Rule

An American pineapple, of the kind the Axis finds hard to digest, is ready to leave the hand of an infantryman in training at Fort Belvoir, Va. American soldiers make good grenade throwers

Facial at Helena Rubinstein in readiness of the Opera
A lady enjoying a brief hour having the Tired Womans Treatment at Madame Rubinsteins restful salon in Grafton Street, London, before going out to the opera in the evening. Date: 1927

Rough and ready Pressed, sweet fine cut Cavendish tobaco, manufactured No. 2 Wall, 213 & 215 Duane Streets, New York. Print shows tobacco label with illustration of Zachary Taylor directing Capt

The Great Bartholdi Statue, Liberty Enlightening the World. Advert for the New York Clothing Company, Warsaw for ready made clothing and furnishing goods Date: 1885

Getting ready for dinner during wheat harvest, central Ohio. Date 1938 Aug

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