Supplying Collection

Fuel winter crisis: Heating pumped from the earth and water
Diagram illustrating how heat in the earth and water can provide heating for homes and factories. City Electrical Engineer of Norwich

Burrell Showmans Road Locomotive Winston Churchill NR 965
At a traction engine rally outside the Museum of Science and Technology on Newhall Street, Birmingham:- Burrell Scenic class Showmans Road Locomotive, regn. NR 965, number 3909, Winston Churchill

Turkey. Constantinople - Cistern of Philoxenos
Ottoman Empire. Turkey. Constantinople (today Istanbul). Cistern of Philoxenos or Binbirdirek Cistern, The 1001 columns. It was constructed under a palace in the 5th century

Way to Increase your Greengage Jam Ration
Owing to the short supply of sugar, it was necessary to cut down the amount used in the jam production. Illustrated by William Heath Robinson showing inside a jam factory where every part of

William Heath Robinson shows how a remarkable and most heroic attempt was made by the Italians to convoy fresh fish to their troops through a minefield in the Mediterranean escort by fighter

Advert for Metropolitan Drinking Fountain 1878
Metropolitan drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association, set up in London by Samuel Gurney, a Member of Parliament and philanthropist to supported by voluntary contributions

Laying big main water pipes, Southwark and Vauxhall 1900
Photograph showing engineers and assistants lifting up heavy large circular piping with a crane ready to be put underground, in the streets of South London

Headstone of Flight-Lieutenant David Lord, VC
David Lord is buried in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery at Oosterbeek. He had spent five years, mostly in India with 31 Squadron

PLUTO Memorial Port en Bessin Normandy
PLUTO - Pipe Line Under The Ocean was an ingenious method of supplying the Allied Forces with fuel from a main base at Southampton. The idea is said to have been that of Lord Louis Mountbatten

Proposed Metropolitan subway under London streets 1853
Proposed Metropolitan subway for sewage, gas and water supply. Date: 1853

PAINTING TOY ANIMALS
This woman is working overtime hand-painting toy animals at a north London factory, supplying big orders received from many little girls who want a Noahs Ark like Princess Elizabeths. Date: late 1920s

Norias at Orontes River in Hama, Syria
Two norias on opposite banks of the Orontes River in Hama, a city in west Syria. Norias are devices similar to water wheels which were used to lift water to a higher elevation

Noria at Orontes River in Hama, Syria
One of the Norias of Hama, a city in west Syria, as seen through a stone arch at the bank of the Orontes River. Norias are

Early Vulcan Petrol Tanker supplying BP motor fuel. Date: circa 1919

Croton aqueduct at Yonkers
Old Croton aqueduct at Yonkers. The aqueduct was built 1837-42 to supply water to reservoirs in Manhatten, New York and remained in service until 1955. Date: 1845

Croton aqueduct title page
Title page of Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct by F B Tower of the Engineer Department, Wiley and Putnam, New York and London, 1845 Date: 1845

Croton aqueduct bridge
Old Croton aqueduct bridge. The aqueduct was built 1837-42 to supply water to reservoirs in Manhattan, New York and remained in service until 1955. Date: 1845

Croton aqueduct bridge for roadway
Old Croton aqueduct bridge for roadway. The aqueduct was built 1837-42 to supply water to reservoirs in Manhattan, New York and remained in service until 1955. Date: 1845

Section through Croton aqueduct
Section through old Croton aqueduct. The aqueduct was built 1837-42 to supply water to reservoirs in Manhattan, New York and remained in service until 1955. Date: 1845

Croton aqueduct at Sing Sing
Old Croton aqueduct at Sing Sing. The aqueduct was built 1837-42 to supply water to reservoirs in Manhattan, New York and remained in service until 1955. Date: 1845

View above Croton Dam. The Croton aqueduct was built 1837-42 to supply water to reservoirs in Manhatten, New York and remained in service until 1955. Date: 1845

Submerged pump pistons. Supply cities. Engraved by Decreef. La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana, 1878

WW2 Christmas card, Father Christmas with a telescope, watching ships and aeroplanes supplied by America to Britain (inside). Date: circa 1942

Queen Mary Ocean Liner, stocking out
Housekeeping aboard the liner. The huge supply for the Queen Marys stay at port between voyages. To ensure that fresh supplies were always available, triplicate stocks of linen were ordered

First World War (1918). Supplying for the English army coming from a parachute. Drawing

Queen Mary Ocean Liner, being fitted out
With the launching of the Queen Mary Ocean Liner a new phase of work began. Eighteen months between September 1934, and her departure for preliminary trials on 24 March 1936

Queen Mary Ocean Liner, supplying her 1000 needs
The Queen Mary, then known as Hull Number 534, had been halted between 1931 and 1934 due to the Great Depression of the 1930s

Greek boy scouts supplying water to children, possibly in the wake of an earthquake

Blitz in London -- oil tank fire, Thames Haven, WW2
Blitz in London -- oil tank fire, Thames Haven, near Thurrock, Essex, 8 September 1940. Two fire floats of the Essex Fire Brigade moored alongside a jetty

Winter rations for British troops in the trenches 1917
British commissariat methods: Army ration corps supplying hot food to the men in the trenches at the Battle of Arras on the Western Front in France; serving hot stew in bad weather often added very

British oil carrier fuelling a super dreadnought & submarine
Illustration showing a new kind of fleet auxiliary vessel, the oil-carrier, supplying oil fuel to the fleet, in this case a super-dreadnought and two submarines

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

WW2 - Comic Postcard - Stingy Librarian regretting charity
Stingy Librarian - Not the Troops best friend! She only seems willing to part with the most obscure titles to ship out to the boys at the frontline

Mali - Timbuktu - The Ponds (Mares) - Fetching water
Mali - Timbuktu - The Ponds (Mares) - Large excavations dug out of the sand to draw up water from the depths. Date: circa 1910

Mali - Timbuktu - The Ponds (Mares) - Large excavations dug out of the sand to draw up water from the depths. Date: circa 1907

Belgian Boy Scouts distributing food and drink - WWI
Boy Scouts of Belgium (BSB) distributing food and drink along the front line in the trenches outside Liege, extremely dangerous and brave work - WWI. Date: circa 1915

PERU. Trujillo. Chan Chan. Ceremonial and supplying pond. Chimu art

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

Tophane Cesmesi Fountain, Constantinople, Turkey
The Tophane Cesmesi Fountain - one of the most famous of the baroque street fountains in the city. Built in 1732 by Mahmut I. Has marble walls, covered by floral designs and arabesques

Constantinople - Water Carrier with donkey

The Hanwell Asylum
A exterior view of the Hanwell asylum in north-west London. The asylum opened in 1831, on the outskirts of London. Patients were encouraged to become self-sufficient

Stall by the Nile
A small Bazaar on the banks of the Nile supplying a wide variety of merchandise from a very small hut

WW1 / 1915 / POPE & AMERICA
Like Jesus clearing the traders from the Temple of Jerusalem, the Pope reproves the Americans for supplying arms to the Allies

Battersea Power Machine
BATTERSEA POWER STATION, London Electricians at work on a stator for one of the 80, 000 kilowatt turbo-alternators, supplying power to London

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