Transportation Collection (page 8)

c. 1880 London - Phillips and Company tea establishment
c.1880 London - Phillips and Company tea establishment - historic London by Dixon and Bool

Rockwell Space Shuttle Orbiter OV-101 Enterprise. The first Orbiter built, used for atmospheric flight testing and never up-graded to flight status

Erie Canal Locks at Lockport, NY State, USA
circa 1910s

United States Army Beechcraft RU-21D Laffing Eagle 67-18105 (msn LM-101) converted to JRU-21D, later to RU-21H Guardrail V, then U-21H

Foden Steam Wagon AN9568 London Pride (msn 13138), built 1928, at a 1959 Walford Cross auction. (Foden Trucks was a British truck)

Foden D-type Steam Wagon RX1719 Early Bird
Foden D-type Steam Wagon reg. RX1719 Early Bird (msn 12852), built 1927, at Ferndown in dorset. (Foden Trucks was a British truck)

Aveling & Porter Steam Roller BY2185 (msn 2185), built 1886, of Croydon Corporation, at the 1959 Crystal Palace Steam Rally

Piaggio P. 166B G-AVSM
Piaggio P.166B G-AVSM (msn 416) of McAlpine Aviation at Newcastle Airport Date: 1968

de Havilland Canada DHC-6-300 Twin Otter 3X-GAY (msn 553) of Republic de Guinee at London Heathrow Airport, on delivery to Guinee via Reykjavik, Iceland - London-Heathrow, UK - Lisbon, Portugal

Handley Page Clive III G-ABYX of Sir Alan Cobhams National Aviation Day flying circus. One of the Hinaidi I prototypes, J9126

Old railway track at Winsford, Cheshire
Bullhead rail on stone sleepers at Over & Wharton (Winsford, Cheshire) on the LNWR. Possibly a re-use of redundant tramway blocks? Date: 1905

Siebe Gorman steel bladed diver's knife with bronze scabbard

Hawker Siddeley HS. 125-600B G-HALK
Hawker Siddeley HS.125-600B G-HALK (msn 256033), of Halkin Estates Ltd. at Luton Airport in May 1987. Date: 1987

The Hillman Imp - a comfortable 4-seater with folding rear seats to provide estate car convenience. Date: 1963

HMS Encounter, 2nd class protected cruiser, Challenger class
Royal Navy - HMS Encounter, a 2nd-class protected cruiser of the Challenger class, operated by the Royal Navy (RN) and Royal Australian Navy (RAN), as HMAS Encounter

HMAS Yarra - River-Class Torpedo Destroyer
Royal Australian Navy - HMAS Yarra / HMS Yarra, a River-Class Torpedo Destroyer, making way at speed, on the River Clyde during manufacturers trials in 1910. Yarra was built by William Denny & Bros

Russia - Sevastopol Sebastopol inner harbour, Crimea Ukraine
19th century vintage photograph Russia - Sevastopol Sebastopol inner harbour, Crimea Ukraine

American steam locomotive with cow catcher
Vintage 19th century photograph: American steam locomotive with cow catcher on the front

World War II captured German U boat Tower Bridge London
World War II vintage photograph - captured German U boat U776 passes under Tower Bridge London

c. 1880s India - street scene by Orr and Barton of Bangalore
c.1880s India - unidentified street scene by photographers Orr and Barton of Bangalore

1890s France Paris - Eiffel Tower and Champs de Mars

c. 1930s street scene in London with bus and policeman
c.1930s street scene in London with bus and policeman

World War II B-17 Flying fortress makes food drop
World War II vintage photograph - B-17 Flying fortress makes food drop to Netherlands towards the end of the war

RAF Halton Ten Tors expedition 1977 - RAF Bedford coach
RAF Halton Apprentices competing in the 1977 Ten Tors cross-country team march. - The ubiquitous RAF Bedford SB3 (43AC42) with Strachans Pacesaver bodywork, used by the 1977 Ten Tors team

French Railway News - Service Streamlined since War. Date: 1952

Commodore Vanderbilt - New York Central Railroad
Commodore Vanderbilt steam locomotive featured Art Deco streamlining designed by Henry Dreyfuss - New York Central Railroad. 95ft long, developing 4075 horsepower and could attain a speed of 90 mph

Andy Newman and Coastel 2, which was located between RAF Stanley and Stanley in the Falkland Islands. Date: 1984

Tunnel connecting Liverpool with Birkenhead 1926
Diagram showing where the tunnel connecting Liverpool to Birkenhead would be, under the River Mersey. Spanning 44ft wide with two desks for vehicles only

Beechcraft 65-B80 Queen Air XB-MIL, at Gatwick Airport, in company with Beagle Airedale G-ATAW and de Havilland Dove G-ARUM. Date: circa 1969

Piper PA-24 Comanche F-BJAG
Piper PA-24-250 Comanche F-BJAG (msn 24-359) Date: circa 1970

Piper PA-22 Tri-Pacer G-ARDP
Piper PA-22-150 Tri-Pacer G-ARDP (msn 22-4254), at Newcastle Airport (Woolsington). Date: 1960s

de Havilland DH. 89A Dragon Rapide G-AGJG
de Havilland DH.89A Dragon Rapide G-AGJG (msn 6517, built as Dominie X7344). 00.00.41: X7344 - built as a Dominie for the Royal Air Force Date: circa 1965

Brantly B. 2b G-AVCA
Brantly B.2b G-AVCA (msn 466), at Kidlington Airport. Date: circa 1968

Stinson-Faucett F-19 OB-PAH-140 (msn 25, re-registered as OB-R-140 in 1964), outside the Faucett HQ in Lima. The Stinson-Faucett F-19, built in Lima, Peru

Radioplane SD-1 surveillance drone developed from the OQ-19 family, seen on its zero-length launcher for JATO (Jet-Assisted Take-Off) boosted take-off. Date: circa 1953

Radioplane OQ-19D aerial target. The OQ-19 was a low-speed target used for gun and missile anti-aircraft training. Radioplane, a division of the Northrop Corporation

Hiller XROE-1 Rotorcycle at an air display, passing the US Army Square Dance helicopter team, who are ready to begin their sequence. Date: circa 1958

Handley Page Victor K. 2 8911M - XH673
Handley Page Victor K.2 8911M (XH673) being assembled on the parade ground at RAF Marham. Sadly this aircraft was scrapped in 2020 despite concerted attempts to have it preserved elsewhere

Youngman-Baynes High-Lift VT789 ( Percival P.46 G-AMBL), at the 1948 SBAC Radlett air show. The High Lift was a one-off experimental, flying test-bed for the system of slotted flaps invented by R.T

Boeing F4B-4 special NX9846 (ex A9241 / NC-14). The second of two US Marine Corps F4B-4s stripped of military equipment for the Bureau of Commerce, (later Fa), in 1940 and registered NC-14

Leduc 0. 21 01, mounted on a S. E. 161
Leduc 0.21 01, mounted on its SNCASE SE.161 Languedoc mother-ship, parked next door to the second 0.21, also mounted on a Languedoc mother-ship

British Aerospace Sea Harrier FRS. 1 XZ451
Fleet Air Arm - British Aerospace Sea Harrier FRS.1 XZ451 (base code R, call sign 005) of 801 Naval Air Squadron, embarked on HMS Ark Royal. Date: 1990

SEPECAT Jaguar GR. 1 XZ381
Royal Air Force - SEPECAT Jaguar GR.1 XZ381 EC of No.6 Squadron at RAF Marham. Date: 1993

USAF - Republic F-84F Thunderstreak 52-6993 - buzz number FS-993 - of the 366th Tactical Fighter Wing at RAF Wethersfield, possibly en-route for delivery to Chaumont-Semoutiers Air Base

Beechcraft A65 QueenAir G-AROU (msn LC-114) of Shorts, at the 1963 Biggin Hil International Air Fair. Date: 1963

Beechcraft C-45H Expeditor N8640E (msn AF-510, ex 52-10580), of Grimes Manufacturing Company, in use as a flying laboratory for navigation and anti-collision lights

Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina N610FF
Canadian Vickers PBV-1A Canso (PBY-5A) N610FF (msn CV-399) of Barringer Research Limited, based in Toronto, Canada. The aircraft is seen at London Heathrow Airport for the 60 Years of Heathrow

Ruston Proctor General Purpose Engine Tulip Queen BE 7421
Ruston Proctor SH class General Purpose Engine, regn. BE 7421, number 44836, Tulip Queen. Built in 1912 by Ruston and Hornsby Ltd (R&H) of Lincoln and Grantham

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