Target Collection (page 4)

Mechanical Pieces, Plate 186, showing a range of items including a bird tree with clock, a monkey conjuror or magician, a sleeping beauty, a woman at a sewing machine, a bird in a cage

Newspaper Tax Opposed
A meeting for the repeal of the taxes on knowledge, held at St Martins Hall, Long Acre, London : the chief target is the tax on newspapers. Date: 1851

Whaling / New England
A small whaler makes haste towards its target, in choppy seas off New England, U.S.A. Date: 1890

John Gower / Archery / Strut
JOHN GOWER English poet, friend of Chaucer, aiming his arrow at a target Date: 1325 - 1408

Zodiac / Sagittarius / Maxim
illustrated as an archer firing an arrow at a target held by a frog (!) Date: 1887

Jousting tournament, St Erth, Cornwall
Jousting tournament taking place at St Erth, near Hayle, Cornwall. The two jousters have their helmets on, ready to charge. Date: circa 1970s

Cartoon, An easy target, WW1
Cartoon, An easy target. A German sailor tells his Commandant that a merchant ship has stopped near them. The Commandant replies that in that case hes not likely to miss it. Date: 1916

Illustration, scene at an archery event
Illustration, Scene at an archery event of the 1790s, featuring the Bowmen (and Women) of Kent in historical costume, apparently held on Blackheath (which was then in Kent)

Naval rifle range, Weihaiwei island, China
Naval rifle range, Weihaiwei (Weihai) island, China, when it was a British colony. Date: circa 1910

WW1 - Firing a mortar
WW1 - Three soldiers positioned in a dug-out trench, aiming and firing a mortar at its target. Date: circa 1915

Miles Martinet -one of the first ever aircraft specifically designed as a target tug

WW1 - British seaplanes in action, Cuxhaven, Germany, 1915
WW1 - Seven British seaplanes flying towards their first real oversea air raid. The British naval pilots on a mission to bomb various enemy naval works in Cuxhaven, Germany, 1915. Date: 1915

Armstrong Whitworth AW 38 Whitley V -despite its slow and ponderous performance, the Whitley was the first RAF aircraft to bomb a German target

Bruce Bairnsfather cartoon, Maxim Maxim
Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1 cartoon, Maxim Maxim -- Fire should be withheld till a favourable target presents itself, published in the Bystander, 1916. Date: 1916

WW2 Poster -- be discreet
You may be a walking RAF - but don t let everyone know it! Be discreet! Colour lithograph by Sgt Norman Tiger Harrison, Royal Corps of Signals, India

LCC-London Fire Brigade firefighting demonstration in London

German trenches, Le Target, Belgium. 386202 Acting Sergeant Herbert Gibson, Mm, 1St Northumbrian Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. Born September 1889

Periscope fitting - Le Target, Belgium
The periscope fitting for safety in the trenches. Le Target, Belgium. 386202 Acting Sergeant Herbert Gibson, Mm, 1St Northumbrian Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. Born September 1889

WW2 poster, the Battle for Fuel
WW2 poster -- You are in the Battle for Fuel -- are you keeping inside your target? Date: circa 1940

Enemy aeroplanes attack British steamer by G. H. Davis
Enemy aeroplanes attacking a British steamer. Bombs and bullets from above -- the Avocet attacked by three German planes during the First World War

Destroyer at target practice by G. H. Davis
Navy notes of the week: a British destroyer at target practice, with marksmen firing torpedoes. 1912

Britains acoustic shell by G. H. Davis
The acoustic shell: Britains ace killer of flying bombs during the Second World War. The British-invented radio proximity shell, which explodes itself when in lethal range of its target. 1945

RAF and Army cooperate against enemy by G. H. Davis
Rocket typhoons versus German tanks: how the RAF and the Army cooperate in smashing enemy armour during the Second World War

Sperry automatic computing gun sight by G. H. Davis
A mechanical brain: the Sperry automatic computing gun sight, in use during the Second World War. An invention which enabled US bombers to target a large number of enemy fighters. Date: 1944

Lancasters use low-flying tactics by G. H. Davis
Lancasters use low-flying tactics in the Le Creusot (Schneider Works, 17 October) and Milan raids (military targets, 24 October) during the Second World War: new problems set for the enemy

Keeping a check on fuel consumed by G. H. Davis
Your fuel target: keeping a weekly check on the fuel consumed in an average household during the Second World War. Electricity and gas meters will tell you if you are keeping to your proper average

Day in the life of an average household by G. H. Davis
Your fuel target: a day in the life of an average household during the Second World War. Detailing economies that need to be practised in order to keep within the limits of fuel consumption laid down

Fuel for domestic appliances by G. H. Davis
Your fuel target: details that will help in planning economy during the Second World War, so that fuel rationing can be avoided

Bomber force panorama by G. H. Davis
1000 bombers: a panorama showing the Allied bomber force which attacked the Rhineland and Western Germany, at the rate of ten bombers per minute

Malta, target of German bombers, by G. H. Davis
A British stronghold in the Mediterranean during the Second World War: Malta, the target of German dive-bombers. The British naval and air base commanding the Sicilian Straits

Favourite RAF targets in Germany by G. H. Davis
Favourite RAF targets for disorganising German transport -- Kiel naval base, Hamm railway marshalling yard and the Dortmund-Ems Canal. Date: 1940

Night attacks on Germany by G. H. Davis
Background to an 800-bomber raid: the vast organisation behind every big night attack on Germany during the Second World War

Flying Fortresses by G. H. Davis
The deadly teamwork of the Flying Fortresses: massed precision bombing and defence gunnery during the Second World War. Flying in a tight formation designed to give the closest cooperation in attack

Allied gunners at work, Western Front, France, WW1
Allied gunners at work, sighting a 6-inch howitzer on a hot day on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

British target-finding invention by G. H. Davis
Bombing through clouds during the Second World War: a British target-finding invention. Illustrating the Gen-Box principle, which sees targets invisible to the human eye. Date: 1944

Atom bombers view of Bikini Atoll by G. H. Davis
Target for annihilation: an atom bombers view of Bikini Atoll, in the Pacific Ocean, with the fleet of warship victims assembled in the lagoon. Date: 1946

Submarine HMS C32 launching torpedo, WW1
A submarine, the British HMS C32, sinks below the surface of the sea to launch a deadly torpedo, which leaves a visible track as it speeds towards its target. Date: 1914

Wings for Victory Week display
A Wings for Victory Week display stand during the Second World War, showing people what their War Savings can buy. The target is to raise half a million pounds. Date: 1939-1945

GUY TARGET
GUY JEAN-BAPTISTE TARGET French lawyer and statesman, active during the revolutionary era. Date: 1733 - 1807

Sir Kingsley Wood is greeted by Mr Scott-Paine when insp?
Sir Kingsley Wood is greeted by Mr Scott-Paine when inspecting an armoured target boat for the RAF, built by British Power Boat Co, Hythe, Southampton

Republic F-84E Thunderjets of the USAF 49th Fighter Bomb?
Republic F-84E Thunderjets of the USAF 49th Fighter Bomber Wing over North Korea on their way to attack a chemical plant and troop target near Namsok, August 1952

Fairey Firefly TT1, SE-BR?, target tug operated by Svens?
Fairey Firefly TT1, SE-BR?, target tug operated by Svensk Flygtjnst AB for the Swedish army and navy

Fairey Firefly TT1, SE-BRD, target tug operated by Svens?
Fairey Firefly TT1, SE-BRD, target tug operated by Svensk Flygtjnst AB for the Swedish army and navy

RAFVR at Gatwick, instruction with the camera gun and Vickers gun. Each pupil fired a course of 180 rounds with the latter on a 25 yards silhouette target of aircraft

Miles M25 Martinet used as a target tug by the Svensk Flygtjae

Turana an Australian target drone
Turana, an Australian target drone

Royal Aircraft Establishment Aerial Target (AT) circa 1924. Date: 1924

Boulton Paul Defiant target tug

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