Supply Collection (page 13)

Increasing supplies for lifeboats by G. H. Davis
Increasing the water and food supplies for ships lifeboats during the Second World War. New measures for saving the lives of crews of ships sunk in the Battle of the Atlantic. Date: 1941

British naval action in Narvik harbour by G. H. Davis
The Royal Navys first heroic dash into Narvik harbour in face of tremendous odds: German destroyers and store ships sunk. Captain Warburton-Lee led the second destroyer flotilla in to attack greatly

Londons secret reservoir by G. H. Davis
Very valuable in droughts: Londons secret reservoir. The water question: artesian wells that give immunity from droughts -- how Inveresk House and other large buildings get their own supply

Aqueduct, Appian Way, Rome, Italy. Date: late 19th century

Water carrier dispensing water
A water carrier dispensing water from a large container. Date: circa 1890s

Advert for Chilprufe wool underwear for children 1943
Quailty... a necessity when supplies are limited. The output of Chilprufe pure wool is now confined solely to a range of essential garments for infants and young children

Advert for Gor-ray Koneray pocket skirts 1945
Come the dawn. The great day will dawn when there will be once more unlimited supplies of unrestricted styles in Gor-ray skirts. Till then and afterwards a Gor-ray is always smart for work or play

British soldiers drawing water, Western Front, WW1
British soldiers drawing water at a pump in a ruined village on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

British soldiers taking in water, Western Front, WW1
British soldiers taking in water for their train transport on their way up to the trenches on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Lloyd George with remains of shell, Western Front, WW1
Lloyd George with the remains of a shell on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Lloyd George discussing ammunition supply, WW1
Lloyd George discussing ammunition supply with Lord Reading and M. Albert Thomas (French Minister for Munitions) on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Railway with supplies for British troops, WW1
A railway train bringing supplies for British troops on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

American warship at St Thomas Coaling Station 1900s

Motor transport work, Western Front, France, WW1
British troops engaged in motor transport work near the Western Front in France during World War One. They are packing parts at a depot ready for despatch. Date: circa 1916

Bakers who supplied troops on Western Front, WW1
Some of the bakers who baked bread to supply to troops on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Unloading flour from a ship for the Western Front, WW1
Unloading flour from a ship for food supplies on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Planes Used and Ordered by the B. O. A. C by G. H. Davis
A diagram listing the number, origin, routes and current supply of a number of different plane models to the B.O.A.C (British Overseas Airways Corporation)

Germanys desperate oil situation by G. H. Davis
The merciless statistics of Germanys desperate oil situation during the Second World War. The relative value of Germanys normal sources of oil supply, cut in half by the Allied blockade

Decorative 16th century fountain
An engraving of a decorative 16th century fountain adorned with mock birds and foliage. Date: 1588

Winter greatcoats being made in army clothing factory, WWII
A great effort being made to get a big supply of greatcoats finished quickly so that no men may be caught by winters grip without them

Car with suitcases on roof rack - Germany post-war
A car with several suitcases packed together on the roof rack. Note the wood gas generator power supply system - Germany, 1945 - essential due to the severe petrol shortage at the end of WW2

Advert for Goodyears Chemigum synthetic rubber 1942
Another Goodyear contribution to progress. Since the Japanese Invasion of the Dutch East Indies the loss of our crude rubber supply has been extremely serious to the Allied War Effort

Constructing the Assiut Barrage
Foundations and masonry in the process of construction during the building of the Assiut or Asyut Barrage on the River Nile in Egypt, about 350 miles downstream of the original Aswan Dam

View of the Aswan Dam
Birds eye view of the Aswan Dam and locks on the River Nile in Egypt. Date: 1902

Building the Aswan Dam
Excavation at the Western Channel of the Aswan Dam on the River Nile in Egypt. Date: 1902

Faversham Water Pump
The ornate water pump at the Market Place, Faversham, Kent, England. Installed in 1855, it replaced an earlier pump dating from 1635. In 1864, a piped water supply was Date: 1855

SEVEN SPRINGS
In the narrow main street of the Cotswold village of Bisley, Gloucestershire, England are the Seven Springs, which are one spring in seven fountain outflows! Date: 1930s

Cawthorne Fountain
The village water fountain at Cawthorne, near Barnsley, Yorkshire, England, made to represent a village cross, with serpents round the base. Date: 1960s

French Watercarriers
French water carriers, some with a horse-drawn cart, others with buckets slung from a shoulder-yoke. Date: circa 1845

Ebbing & Flowing Well
Ebbing and Flowing Well, near Giggleswick, Yorkshire, England, excites much interest to passers-by, for the level of the water rises and falls at regular intervals. Date: 1930s

Village Pump, Java
Native drawing water from the village pump, Java, Indonesia. Date: early 1930s

Excavations for Pool
Excavations under sea level, working night and day to have the new sea water supply for warm baths ready for Easter at Cliftonville Bathing Pool, near Margate, Kent, England. Date: 1932

Clothing - Air Raid Victims - Queen Elizabeth & Lady Reading
Inspecting a clothes distribution scheme for Air Raid victims (which have arrived in Britain from New Zealand) - a visit by Queen Elizabeth & Eva Violet Isaacs (neaMond), Marchioness of Reading

The D-Day Landings - 6th June 1944 - General de Gaulle - WW2
WW2 - The D-Day Landings - Operation Overlord - Normandy, France, 6th June 1944 - General de Gaulle surveys the beaches. Date: 1944

Istanbul - The Aqueduct of Valens
The Aqueduct of Valens - Constantinople. Built by Emperor Valens in about 375 AD. Water tapped from streams outside the city. In use until the late 19th century

The Mahmud II dam in the Belgrade Forest - Istanbul, Turkey
The Mahmud II dam in the Belgrade Forest (Belgrad OrmanAn) lying 15km north-west of Istanbul, Turkey. Built in 1839 as one of the three dams that were constructed in the Taksim water conveyance

Russo-Japanese War - Captured Wagons, Office and Train
Russo-Japanese War - Captured Russian baggage wagons, The Head Office of the Military Railways at Dairen (now Dalian, formerly Dalny)

Japan - Women drawing water from a well Date: circa 1906

South Africa - Women carrying mealie-meal - a relatively coarse flour made from maize (called mielies or mealies). A staple food in South Africa, Lesotho, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi

Germany - Duren - North Rhine-Westphalia - New Water Tower
The New Water Tower at Duren - a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, capital of Duren district in Germany, Iocated between Aachen and Cologne on the River Rur. Date: circa 1910s

WW1 - German soldiers carry spare wing for Fokker Biplane
WW1 - German soldiers carry spare wing for a Fokker Biplane near the front line at Reims Date: circa 1916

WW1 - Thessaloniki, Greece - French Military Landing Quay
WW1 - Thessaloniki Bay, Greece - French Military Landing Quay Date: 1916

East Africa - Eritrea - Massawa - Underground Water Cistern at Taulud Date: circa 1910s

Turkey, Istanbul - Water Tender Date: circa 1930s

WW2 - Comic Postcard - Where to put Cookery Books?
WW2 Rationing - Humour - Where shall we put the old-time Cookery Books? Fiction or Humour ?! Date: circa 1944

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Inside Information
" This is a time for everyone to stand together and hold firm." - Winston Churchill, The Prime Minister. Inside Information - a little girl out shopping for fish is slightly disappointed to

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Home Grown
" Every pound you lend today will hasten victory on its way." A little girl and boy proudly water their window box vegetable patch - doing their bit to dig for victory during WW2

Persian Waterwheel on the Indus, Pakistan - irrigation technology. Date: circa 1910s

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