Rig Collection

Derrick Floor of an oil rig, Iran
Derrick Floor of an oil drilling rig, Iran

Oil rig Dixilyn Field 97, 110 miles off Lands End, Cornwall, with a supply boat in the foreground. DF97 was formally known as the Venture 2

Oil Well at Chillingar, Iran. One of Irans largest oil fields, Chilingar was named after George V. Chilingar, one of the best-known petroleum geologists in the world

Drilling rigs - Churchyard - Kilgore, Texas, USA
" Oil be Damned!" Kilgore, Texas - drilling oilwells in a churchyard! Date: circa 1940

Avro Vulcan B2 XH558 of No 27 Squadron RAF Scampton
Avro Vulcan B2, XH558, of No 27 Squadron, RAF Scampton, checks a North Sea oil rig. February 1975. This aircraft was restored to airworthiness by the Vulcan to the Sky Trust in 2007. Date: 1975

Hindu God Indra
Indra, King of the hindu gods in an early collection of hymns, the Rig Veda. He had authority over the sky; he could rend clouds apart with thunderbolts to make rain

Lord Roberts Full Rig
FREDERICK SLEIGH, first lord ROBERTS military commander, in full dress uniform as befits a leader of the Empire

Flowing oil well near Sapulpa, Oklahoma, USA. Date: circa 1920

Bank door transportation
Safes, Bankers Trust Co. Vaults. Team of horses pulling a vault door on Broad Street at Pearl Street, presumably on its way to the Bankers Trust Co. for installation; sign of rig reads: EMERGENCY DOOR

Boeing 367-80 N70700 (msn 17158) taking off out of Boeing Field. N70700, first flown on 15 July 1954, was the prototype of the Boeing 707 - 717 - Stratotanker family

Blue Streak test rig installation at Hatfield, c1958
Blue Streak test rig installation at Hatfield, circa 1958. Date: circa 1958

Lockheed HC-130B Hercules 1341
United States Coast Guard - Lockheed HC-130B Hercules 1341 Clearwater (msn 282-3542, ex USAF 58-6973), taxiing through the freshwater spray rig at Clearwater Coast Guard Air Station

Man at work in an oil rig control room
Man at work in the control room of an oil rig drilling platform off the coast of Cornwall. Date: circa 1970s

Workmen on oil rig supply ship off The Lizard, Cornwall
Workmen on the supply ship of the oil rig Atlantic I, 38 miles south west of The Lizard, Cornwall. Date: circa 1970s

Winchman on oil rig Atlantic I, 38 miles off The Lizard
Winchman on the oil rig Atlantic I, 38 miles south west of The Lizard, Cornwall. Date: circa 1970s

Anchor of oil rig Atlantic I, 38 miles off The Lizard
Man on top of the positioning anchor of the oil rig Atlantic I, 38 miles south west of The Lizard, Cornwall, which can be seen in the distance on the right. Date: circa 1970s

Oil rig Atlantic I, 38 miles off The Lizard, Cornwall
Oil rig Atlantic I, 38 miles south west of The Lizard, Cornwall. Date: circa 1970s

A Rig-Out for Jack, The Guild of the Good Samaritan, Clothe the Poor. 1899

Trinidad Oilfield, West Indies Date: 1910s

Postcard booklet, Spindletop oil field, Beaumont, Texas, USA
Postcard booklet, aerial view of Spindletop, a salt dome oil field at Beaumont, Texas, USA. Date: 1942

Postcard booklet, oil fields, Dixieland, USA
Postcard booklet, oil fields in Dixieland, USA. Date: 1937

Short SC. 1 XG905
Short SC.1 XG905, the second SC.1, on the tether rig at Belfast for initial tethered flight tests. The firstt SC.1, XG900

Oil in Dorset
Night photograph of the 80 ft high B.P. Exploration Companys drilling rig near Kimmeridge in Dorset where a show of oil had been encountered at a depth of about 1800 feet in limestone in

Oil cars at shipping station, Bakersfield, Kern County, USA
Oil cars at Southern Pacific shipping station, Bakersfield, Kern County, USA. Date: circa 1910s

Blue Streak test rig at Hawker Siddeley Dynamics? factory at Hatfield

Static test rig installation at Hatfield for Blue Streak, c1
Static test rig installation at Hatfield for development of Blue Streak, circa 1958. Date: circa 1958

Romania - Bustenari - Oil Rigs Date: circa 1908

Deep sea diver in diving bell, off The Lizard, Cornwall
Deep sea diver in a diving bell, preparing to descend to examine oil drilling equipment below the oil rig Atlantic I, 38 miles south west of The Lizard, Cornwall. Date: circa 1970s

Oil rig Atlantic I, 38 miles off The Lizard, Cornwall
Oil rig Atlantic I, 38 miles south west of The Lizard, Cornwall. Date: circa 1970s

Anti-nuclear power demonstration, Gwithian, Cornwall
Anti-nuclear power demonstration at Gwithian, Cornwall, with a CEGB drilling rig and site office in the background. Date: 1970s

A tall ship, Endeavour, by G. H. Davis
A tall ship: the high, narrow sail-plan of Endeavour. Showing the sail-plan, mast and hull, beautiful lines and rig of the challenger for the Americas Cup; inset is a diagram showing her new

Signal Hill Oil Field and Long Beach, California, USA
Signal Hill Oil Field on the horizon, with Long Beach in the foreground, California, USA. Date: 20th century

Bench 30 at Abadan
Abadan is a city on Abadan Island in the Khuzestan province in southwestern Iran, close to the border with Iraq. Rich oil fields were discovered in the area in the early 20th century

Hindu God Indra / Elephant
Indra, King of the hindu gods in an early collection of hymns, the Rig Veda. He had authority over the sky; he could rend clouds apart with thunderbolts to make rain

Clipper. 19th century. Colored engraving

Gushing oil well near Sapulpa, Oklahoma, USA. Date: circa 1920

Drilling rig at Rosemanowes Quarry, Penryn, Cornwall
Drilling rig at Rosemanowes granite quarry, near Penryn, Cornwall. Date: circa 1980s

Engineers & Drilling Rig, Storrington, Sussex, England. Where Storringtons Water is Coming From Date: 1900s

Drilling an Oil Well - Boring by Turbine. Liquid mud is pumped at high pressure through a non-revolving pipe to a turbo drill (shown in the inset enlargement) at the bottom of the well

Cadet on the Sorlandet, a Norwegian tall ship
Cadet in the rigging of the Sorlandet, a Norwegian tall ship, probably during a Tall Ships Race. Date: 1960s

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

Our latest Rig Out Fur Coats A wolf in sheep clothing
Our latest Rig Out Fur Coats. A wolf in sheep clothing. Somewhere in France. 386202 Acting Sergeant Herbert Gibson, Mm, 1St Northumbrian Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. Born September 1889

Signal Hill Oil Field at night, California, USA, with Long Beach visible in the distance. Date: circa 1938

The Maxim 80hp water-cooled, four-cylinder engine for th?
The Maxim 80hp water-cooled, four-cylinder engine for the 1910 biplane in a test rig at Crayford, Kent

A Burmese Oilfield - showing a vast forest of wooden drilling rigs. Date: circa 1910s

The ornithopter flying fox design of Major R F Moore u
The ornithopter flying fox design of Major R.F. Moore under test. Each bat-pattern wing (7 feet span) was flapped on a test rig powered by a gas engine

Kaman early rotor test rig circa 1945-46
Kaman early rotor test rig. circa 1945-46. Date: 1945

Bristol Proteus Britannia installation test rig

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