Test Collection (page 9)

Fleet of warships, Bikini target, by G. H. Davis
The original Bikini Atoll target: the fleet of more than 70 warships at anchor in the lagoon awaiting their fate. The fleet included famous American and ex-enemy warships, most of which

Test Match by David Wright - original gouache
Test Match by David Wright, featuring a seductive blonde wearing a pink strapless dress and a black picture hat. Date: 1946

Sir Hiram Maxim operating the valve of the steam engine ?
Sir Hiram Maxim operating the valve of the steam engine during a propeller test at the shed at Baldwyn?s Park, Kent, where Sir Hiram Maxim constructed his steam-driven aeroplane, 1890

Nord 1500 Griffon, an experimental aircraft to test a co?
Nord 1500 Griffon, an experimental aircraft to test a combination turbojet-ramjet

Bengt R. Olow, Saab?s Chief Test Pilot, with the Saab 210

WW1 - Austrian Scientists at work in Adana, Turkey
A pair of Austrian Scientists working in secrecy in Adana, Turkey during the First Work War. Note the portrait of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Major James L Cordes, Chief Test Pilot, Handley Page
Major James L. Cordes, Chief Test Pilot, Handley Page (under the umbrella) at the 1939 Royal Aeronautical Society Garden Party at the Fairey Aviation Aerodrome, Great West Road, Hayes, Middlesex

Nord 1500 Griffon, an experimental aircraft to test a combination turbojet-ramjet

The last Hawker Typhoon, a IB, with test pilot Moss

Martin SM-68 Titan ICBM on a test stand

Jaguar S06 XW560 right and Jaguar S07 XW563 at Warton
Jaguar S06, XW560, right, and Jaguar S07, XW563, at Warton following test flights. circa 1970. Date: 1970

Bill Pegg Bristol test pilot left and Cyril Uwins
Bill Pegg, Bristol test pilot, left, and Cyril Uwins, chief test pilot, Bristol Aeroplane Company, in front of the first production Bristol Blenheim

Avro Lancaster II LL735 - Metropolitan-Vickers
Avro Lancaster II, LL735, was used by Metropolitan-Vickers to test the F2/1 gas turbine in 1943 and later with the F2/4 Beryl in 1945. Date: 1943

Pratt & Whitney R-4360 Wasp Major radials in final assembly prior to test

An aerial view of the Concorde Thermal Fatigue Test plant being built at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough. Left is the smaller test frame where a programme of thermal test cycles was

Vought F7U-3P Cutlass 129748
Vought F7U-3P Cutlass, 129745, being flown by John Konrad, Vought chief test pilot

Gloster F9 / 40 DG205 / G forerunner of the Meteor
Gloster F9/40, DG205/G, forerunner of the Meteor, with, from left, John Crosby-Warren, test pilot; Michael Daunt, test pilot; Frank McKenna, md, Gloster; Air Cdre Frank Whittle and W.G

The first YB-29 was converted to XB-39 Spirit of Lincoln
The first YB-29 was converted to XB-39, Spirit of Lincoln, to flight test the Allison V-3420 liquid-cooled engine

Swimming a Witch
The art of Swimming a witch. The lady floating is the witch, who by dint of her buoyancy has failed the test. At the bottom right-hand corner you can see the feet of the woman who passed the test but

NFS mobile kitchen / canteen unit, WW2
A mobile kitchen used by the National Fire Service (NFS), donated to the British home front war effort by the Canadian Red Cross, seen here on display at Regional (London) headquarters, Lambeth. SE1

HMS Stoic
Submarine HMS Stoic, crushed in deep submergence tests, 1949 Date: 1949

Bikini attol (in the Pacific ocean). Aerial view of clouds raised by test explosion of an atomic bomb. Date 1946

Bullock Creeping Grip tractors, tank experiment, WW1
Bullock Creeping Grip tractors coupled together -- a tank experiment during the First World War. Date: circa 1915

Diesel Fuel Injection Pump Testing
A technician tests a distributor fuel injection pump on a Hartridge machine at the CAV Engineering Centre in Acton, London

Advertisement for Lancaster & Thorpe opticians, Derby
Advertisement for Lancaster & Thorpe, The Opticians, The Spot, Derby, offering sight testing and the scientific fitting of glasses

Medium / Helen Duncan
HELEN DUNCAN Duncan produces ectoplasm during a test by Harry Price

Caproni Transaereo
The ambitious Caproni Ca.60 Transaereo, optimistically depicted over Lago Maggiore, under test rises only a few metres before nose-diving into the lake, never to rise again

Rattler V Alecto Test
In a British government trial to compare the merits of screw and paddle wheel, the warsloop Rattler proves more powerful than the paddle- steamer Alecto

Sunday School Exam Paper
Test for Sunday school class at 56 Old Bailey, London on subject of Samuel, the child, reformer and judge. 8 Questions can gain you 100 marks

Scene from Shakespeares play, The Merchant of Venice
A scene from Shakespeares comedy, The Merchant of Venice, in which Bassanio chooses the leaden casket rather than the gold or silver one, and wins Portia, a rich heiress

Trial of steam fire engines at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham
Trial of Steam Fire Engines 1863 at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham. From a photograph by Hudson and Kearns. Date: 1863

Tatler cover - Marion Davies & Suzanne Lenglen
Actress Marion Davies pictured making up tennis star Suzanne Lenglen for a film test at a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio. Date: 1927

Tatler cover - Victorious England cricketers
England cricketers of 1933 featured on the cover of The Tatler at the time of a tour in Australia where they played five test matches and won the Ashes four matches to one

Sammy Woods, Australian-born sportsman
Sammy (Samuel Moses James) Woods (1867-1931), Australian-born sportsman who played rugby union for England and test cricket for both Australia and England, as well as Somerset

Communist China - workers in sports session
Workers having fun taking part in a tug of war session during the Cultural Revolution era in Communist China. circa 1970

The Guest Who Fished An Alexandra On The Test by H M Bateman. For the benefit of those who are not fishermen, an Alexandra is a fly considered so alluring to trout, and consequently so deadly in use

More Types From Harley Street by H M Bateman. Skin - The Microscopic. The one with the magnifying glass and the test tubes. Brain - The Genius. He knows all about the mind. Nerve - The Intense

Christmas Preparations - In Heath Robinsonland
No. 2 - Training a young wait. Blasting a trumpet player with wind and rain so he is prepared for all weathers once he goes Christmas carolling. Date: 1909

Royal artillery battery exercises in Wales: radio and mule
Royal artillery battery exercises in mountainous Wales, to test the carrying capacity of mules:here a portable radio set is carried on horseback. Date: 1940

Diorama - Bank of England under Electric Arc Street Lighting
Photograph of a diorama by R. T. Roussel, showing the Bank of England and Royal Exchange illuminated by Electric Arc Street Lighting in 1881 Date: 1881

Radio-controlled tortoise
A woman operates a remote control device for Toddle the tortoise. The aerial picks up a signal and makes the arm holding the lettuce (and Toddle!) swing left or right

Anti-snoring machine
The inventor of an anti-snoring machine attaches it to a woman for testing. Date: 1960s

Isaac Peral (1852-1895). Spanish engineer, sailor and designer of the Peral Submarine. Partial tests verified the Peral submarine in the dock of Arsenal de la Carraca, 1889. Cadiz. Andalusia. Spain

111-ton gun at Woolwich
Firing the 111-ton gun at Woolwich (the largest gun in existence). Constructed at the Elswick Works of Sir W. G. Armstrong, Mitchell & Co

William Forbes
WILLIAM FORBES Copperbottoms retreat, or a View of Carron Work - a Scottish manufacturer alarmed by a product test ! Date: CIRCA 1797

Dornier Do. X
Seen here on a test flight, the 150-passenger DO.X is the largest aircraft in the world, but as with most grandiose projects, it proves a colossal failure - only 3 are built. Date: July 1929

Krupp Gun Recoil Test
Testing the barrel recoil of a Krupps field gun Date: 1911

Lumiere / Louis / Ils Photo
LOUIS-JEAN LUMIERE French chemist, industrialist and pioneer (with his brother) of cinematography Date: 1864 - 1948

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