Transporting Collection

The Kinecar by William Heath Robinson
Double page illustration by William Heath Robinson (1872-1944) showing a well-equipped omnibus transporting passengers while they watch a film

The Interport Field Gun Competition - Royal Navy
The Royal Navys field gun competition is a contest between teams from various Royal Navy commands, in which teams of sailors compete to transport a field gun and its equipment over

Boeing 377 SGT Super Guppy F-BTGV Airbus Finningley
The first of a total of 4 Super Guppy Turbines to be built by Aero Spacelines. Flew for Airbus for more than 20 years transporting Concorde and Airbus sections

Consett Ironworks
Consett Iron Works, county Durham - a spectacular sight at night. Note the railway for transporting the coal in the foreground

COAL TRAIN
Coal train hauled by a 4-4-2 tank locomotive at the harbourside

Olympic arrives at Halifax, WW1, dazzle painting
The troopship Olympic arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia with a cargo of 6000 Canadian soldiers. It was the premier troopship in the world and throughout the First World War transported 70

MAB First Ambulance Interior
Interior of one of the first ambulances to be operated by Londons Metropolitan Asylums Board in the 1880s for transporting fever and smallpox patients to and from the Boards hospitals

Coal Narrow Boats
A pair of laden narrow boats, with their cargoes of coal, passing through a lock on the Grand Union Canal near Watford, Hertfordshire, England

Heavy horses pull a Timber Wagon uphill. Painting by Raymond Sheppard

Kayak on the roof of a small 1950s UK car
Kayak on the roof of a small 1950s UK Austin A30 Seven car. Date: 1951

Peat carts, Benbecula, Outer Hebrides, Scotland
Horse-drawn carts transporting peat (cut turf) on the island of Benbecula, Outer Hebrides, northern Scotland

Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, Whaleback ship - Poe Docks
Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, Whaleback ship leaving Poe Docks. A whaleback was a type of cargo steamship of unique design

Circus Elephant Accident
George Lockhart is crushed by a circus elephant at Walthamstow. The elephant escaped from the train which was transporting him to the next circus destination

Manchester Goods on horse cart, LNWR Goods Depot, Camden
A load of Manchester Goods transported by horse cart to the LNWR (London & North Western Railway Co.) Goods Depot at Camden, London. Date: circa 1907

Oasthouses at Whitbreads Hop Gardens, Paddock Wood, Kent. Date: circa 1930s

Shipping Shetland Ponies
Transporting a small herd of Shetland Ponies in a modest-sized sailing boat. Date: circa 1906

Factors governing an invasion by G. H. Davis
The situation of Britain face to face with a German north-west Europe: factors governing an invasion during the Second World War

Thessaloniki, Greece - Street Porter Date: circa 1916

Harvesting Apples
Harvesting apples on a British farm. After being picked, the crop is collected in boxes for transporting to the packing station. Here, apples from the orchard are being inspected

Rail / Break of Gauge
The break of gauge at Gloucester: the trans-shipment of goods from the broad gauge to the narrow gauge carriages

Liebig / Cotton 6
Transporting bales of cotton on steamboats on the Mississippi river, USA

Aldwarke lock on the Sheffield & South Yorkshire Navigation near Rotherham - coal transport by barge from Aldwarke Colliery. Date: circa 1920

Hand tinted photo of a velocipede (used for transporting)
Hand tinted photo of a velocipede (used for transporting men to the slate quarries) at Llanberis, Wales - Victorian period

Transporting wool from Sheep Station to the Railway Station
Transporting wool from the Sheep Station to the Railway Station for export, Australia, Victorian period

Camels transporting coal, Beijing, China, early 1900s

Small boats ferrying folk from the Asian side of Bosphorus
Small boats transporting people across from the Asian side of the Bosphorus, Istanbul, Turkey. Date: circa 1910s

Transporting the mail, from a fascinating album which reveals new details on a little-known campaign in which a British military force brushed aside Tibetan defences to capture Lhasa, in 1904

Departing Bowness Ferry boat on the way to Furness Abbey
The departing Bowness Ferry boat on the way to Furness Abbey, transporting a horse-drawn carriage across Lake Windermere, Lake District, Cumbria. Date: circa 1908

Athletes and Sculptures
Athletes posing, and being rendered in the form of sculpture. Shown posing are swimmer and actor Johnny Weissmuller (1904-1984) and boxer Primo Carnera (1906-1967)

Rotherhithe Road Tunnel - Burrowing Under the River Thames
Men working in dark conditions, topless due to the temperature in the eighties. Excavating the clay soil at the rate of about five feet per day

Queen Victoria's Funeral Train from Paddington to Windsor
The Great Western Railway Company's engine, Royal Sovereign which belonged to Queen Victoria train was used to convey the coffin and the Royal mourners on the day of the funeral

The new Great Bell manufactured by Messrs Tayor, travelling from Loughborough, Leicestershire for St Paul's Cathedral, London. Date: 1882

J & W Nicholson & Co Distillers - Transport 1899
Shire horse and cart transporting wine and spirits to London. Date: 1899

Landing wines and spirits 1902
Unloading wine and spirit barrels from a ship. 1902

Loading freight into one of the Fleet of International Air Freight Ltd.s Cargo Planes - capacity per machine over 2 tons or 700 cubic ft. Date: circa 1920s

Bullock carts transporting tea, Ceylon, (Sri Lanka) c. 1890
Bullock carts for transporting tea, Ceylon, (Sri Lanka) c.1890

Colonials in Persia, transporting luggage by camel
British colonials in Persia, transporting luggage by camel. Date: circa 1900s

Covered ox cart for transporting people, gharry, gharri, In
Covered ox cart for transporting people, gharry, gharri, country travel India. Vintage 19th century photograph

Transporting boxes of tea by ox cart, Japan. Vintage 19th century photograph

Christmas scene by Cecil Aldin
Mischievous children seated at the front of a stagecoach greeting everyone they pass with a snowball with their mother looking anxious at the back

The Biggest Banquet Scotland Ever Saw
Diagrammatic drawing giving an impression of the huge quantities of food and drink transported from London by the firm J. Lyons to Aberdeen to cater for a great banquet given by Lord Strathcona to 2

Dunvilles whisky wagons in London
Large number of wagons, heavily laden with cases of Dunvilles world-famed V.R. whisky, travelling from St. Katherines Dock to Dunvilles London headquarters in Shaftesbury Avenue

Cattle steamship at sea 1891
Vessels were tied up to the docks in Jersey City and Weehawken in America. The cattle were loaded up onto narrow gang-planks

Unloading bananas from steamship 1891
Fruit steamships were solely used for tropical fruits, such as bananas, cocoa-nuts, oranges, pineapples and other fruits. 1891

Return of Maximilians Body to Europe
Transporting the body of Maximilian from the floating catafalque onto the funeral chariot of the court. Crowds of people watch as Maximilians coffin is moved from the floating catafalque to

The tractor coach at Deauville takes children down to beach
One of the delights at the fashionable French resort of Deauville - the crowded tractor-coach taking children from their hotels down to the sea to bathe. Date: 1928

WW2 - Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps in France - unloading flour supplies for the troops " (to) help them march to victory". Date: circa 1944

Warship from 15th century
English warship of the fifteenth century, showing a cog ship, single-masted vessel, clinker-built with steep sides and a flat bottom. 15th century

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