Truck Collection (page 7)

Clearing the snow
People You See. From Teddy Bear (9 January 1965)

Christmas toys
People You See. From Teddy Bear (25 December 1965)

Snowplough
People You See. From Teddy Bear (25 January 1969)

Road Gritter
People You See. From Teddy Bear (13 September 1969)

Tree surgeon
People You See. From Teddy Bear (23 October 1965)

Oil Delivery

GLC-LFB - Breakdown Lorry at Croydon HQ
The GLC-LFB was created on 1 April 1965. A series of photos was commissioned of each type of fire engine, either within or absorbed into the enlarged London Fire Brigade

Farmers children sitting in farm truck, Saturday afternoon, San Augustine, Texas. Date 1939 Apr

Son of white migrant sitting on bumper of their truck, Weslaco, Texas. Notice New Mexico license. Date 1939 Jan

Drought refguees from Oklahoma camping by the roadside. They hope to work in the cotton fields. The official at the border (California-Arizona) inspection service said that on this day, August 17

Sakhalin Island, Russia - Convicts at working moving timber
Russian Convicts on Sakhalin Island work to move timber on a basic railroad. A katorga (penal colony) was established by Russia on Sakhalin in 1857. Date: circa 1910s

Mine rescue team wearing breathing apparatus
A mine rescue team wearing new breathing apparatus set off into the mine by truck. circa 1911

British Expeditionary Force arrive in France, 1939
A British column of Army lorries is cheerily greeted by French military motor cyclists as it moves through a French village in the early weeks of World War Two. Date: 1939

Richard Boss Crokers horses, Dublin, Ireland
Horses belonging to Richard Boss Croker, an Irishman who emigrated to America as his family fled the potato famine, and worked successively as barman

Llanelli railway strike riots, Wales
One of the coal-carrying trucks in Llanelli, Wales, which rioters wrecked during the railway strike. 1911

Women transport drivers, World War Two, 1939
A female driver handling a big Army Service Corps lorry during World War II. Date: 1939

Slingsby Truck - 3
Undertakers bier carriage (This is just one of 100s of trucks etc in this catalogue) Date: circa 1900

Slingsby Truck - 4
Jinrikisha [sic} (also known as rickshaw) (This is just one of 100s of trucks etc in this catalogue) Date: circa 1900

Slingsby chemists truck
Chemists truck. (This is just one of 100s of trucks etc in this catalogue) circa 1900

Slingsby Truck - 5
Express carrier tricycle (This is just one of 100s of trucks etc in this catalogue) Date: circa 1900

Commer 6-Ton Truck
Commer Manchester chassis for a 6-ton load. Date: 1914

Slingsby Truck - 6
Oxygen bottle truck (This is just one of 100s of specialisefd trucks etc in this catalogue) Date: circa 1900

Slingsby Truck - 1
Grocers truck. (This is just one of 100s of trucks etc in this catalogue) Date: circa 1900

Lorry Going over Bridge
A lorry going over the narrow Farndon Bridge over the River Dee, Cheshire, England. Date: 1960s

Loading up a boat at a supply depot in UK, WW1
Loading up a boat destined for France at a supply depot somewhere in the UK during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Belgian troops with dogs, Belgium, WW1
Belgian troops with dogs pulling artillery carts, Belgium, leaving for the front line towards the start of the First World War. Date: 25 October 1914

Iranian Earthquake - Koppeh Dargh - 1st May 1929. Food being brought for the refugees. Date: 1929

Italian infantry in wood near Rheims, France, WW1
Italian infantry in France during the First World War. Showing transportation trucks and men on a road in a wood near Rheims, north eastern France. Date: June 1918

Fortune Theatre, Russell Street, London
The Fortune Theatre on Russell Street, Covent Garden, London presenting Fly Away Peter. Date: 1947

Austrian infantry in trucks, Western Front, WW1
Austrian infantry travelling in trucks through a French town on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Trucks crossing Orange River, Upington, South Africa, WW1
Trucks carrying railway material across the Orange River at Upington, South Africa (Northern Cape), during the First World War. Date: February 1915

Champagne Trolley
A three-wheeled trolley for transporting champagne, one of hundreds of different trucks and trolleys available in Slingsbys Patent Trucks List. 1910

Sewing Machine Truck
A truck constructed specially to carry sewing machines, one of hundreds of varieties of trucks and trolleys available in Slingsbys Patent Trucks List. 1910

Useful Box Truck
A useful box truck, one of hundreds of types of trucks and trolleys available in Slingsbys Patent Trucks List. 1910

Sliding Cover Dust Truck
A sliding cover dust truck, presumably for a street cleaner, or for transporting rubble or industrial rubbish with a cover to prevent said dust blowing away in the wind

Bakers Double Rack Truck
A bakers double rack truck for transporting numerous loaves of bread made from hardwood and wrought iron. (as in the truck is made from hardwood and wrought iron, not the bread!). 1910

Royal Engineers working party in trucks, Arras, France, WW1
A Royal Engineers working party travelling in trucks on a light railway, passing through a ruined building at Arras, northern France, during the First World War. Date: March 1918

Railway Refreshment Truck
A rather elaborate railway refreshment truck with urns, a glass cabinet and small railings around each shelf to keep refreshments from falling out

Wallpaper truck
A wallpaper truck used for transporting numerous rolls of wallpaper. One of hundreds of varieties of trucks and trollies available to buy in Slingsbys Patent Trucks List, 1910. 1910

Carload of Mammoth Navel Oranges
A frankly ridicuolous carload of Mammoth American Navel Oranges! Date: 1909

Rail car transporting a giant lemon Date: 1910

Navvies building a new railway line, UK
Navvies building a new railway line at an unidentified location in the UK. A station building can be seen in the top right

A group of cowboys on the back of a truck, America

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Haulier and horse in a South Wales mine
A haulier guides a horse, pulling a loaded dram (truck) along an underground track in a South Wales mine

Blondin tower, Penyrorsedd Slate Quarry, North Wales
View of a Blondin tower at Penyrorsedd Slate Quarry, Nantlle Valley, Caernarvonshire (now Gwynedd), North Wales. This is part of the high wire carriage system used to move the slate around

Moving slate waste, Penyrorsedd Slate Quarry, North Wales
A workman moving slate waste at Penyrorsedd Slate Quarry, Nantlle Valley, Caernarvonshire (now Gwynedd), North Wales

Blondin system, Penyrorsedd Slate Quarry, North Wales
View of the Blondin high wire and truck at Penyrorsedd Slate Quarry, Nantlle Valley, Caernarvonshire (now Gwynedd), North Wales

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