Tube Collection (page 2)

Peanut worms, Sipunculus nudus, etc
Peanut worms, Sipunculus nudus 1, Siphonosoma cumanense 4, etc. Sipunculo nudo, Sipunculo microrinco, Sipunculo macrorinco, Sipunculo commestible

Cartoon, Notice to Quit, electricity on London Underground
Cartoon, Notice to Quit, a comment on the introduction of electric trains on the London Underground, showing The Fairy Electra banishing the Steam Locomotive Underground Demon

First underground train, Edgware Road to Kings Cross, London
First underground train, running from Edgware Road to Kings Cross, London. Building works on the Metropolitan Line began in 1853, and the first journey took place ten years later. Date: 1863

A torpedo fired from HMS Afridi - British Destroyer
A torpedo fired from HMS Afridi - Britains Biggest Destroyer (at this time). Date: circa 1939

Building the Paris Metro, France - Boulevard Saint-Andre. This tube at Saint-Michel was built above ground first and then literally sunk below street level after the tunnels were dug out. Date: 1907

Hiram Maxim Test-Rig 1891 Early Use of Steel Tube Constr?
Hiram Maxim Test-Rig 1891 Early Use of Steel Tube Construction of Airframe Date: 1891

Cut and cover, building the London Underground, Victorian period

Building the London Underground, Victorian period

An above ground London underground station, early 1900s

Women working on a condenser tube during the First World War

WW1 Women working on a condenser tube in a factory

The Engine Room of HMS Mauritius. Date: 1945

A London tram passing over cut and cover works during the construction of the London Underground, early 1900s Date: circa 1900s

Kolynos Dental Cream, advertising bookmark in the shape of toothpaste tubes

Finished electronic valves, Ernest Turner Electrical Instruments factory, High Wycombe in 1951

Ernest Turner Electrical Instruments factory, High Wycombe in 1951

Doctor syringing a patient's ear Date: 1888

Everybody's Underground Part 1
Part one of a set of three Everyone's Underground posters designed by Aubrey Hammond. One of the most remarkable poster groups ever issued by London Transport

Everybody's Underground Part 3
Part three of a set of three Everyone's Underground posters designed by Aubrey Hammond. One of the most remarkable poster groups ever issued by London Transport

Everybody's Underground Part 2
Part two of a set of three Everyone's Underground posters designed by Aubrey Hammond. One of the most remarkable poster groups ever issued by London Transport

Advert, HMV television with Emiscope tube
Advert, HMV Television with Emiscope tube Date: 1952

Map of London's Leading Cinemas and Music Halls Date: 1931

Price's rotary digger for cutting tunnels, showing 8 hydraulic rams used to force the digger forward, casing 12.5 ft diameter Date: 1909

London Underground Railway Signal Box Date: 1909

Map of the London Underground Railway System Date: 1909

The Tube Railways of London - group photo of workmen, with greathead shield driving a station tunnel, the ends of the hydraulic rams pressing on flange of furthest ring Date: 1909

Price's rotary digger and greathead shield
Front view of Price's combined rotary digger and greathead shield with six revolving arms and removal buckets Date: 1909

Underground railway station under construction Date: 1909

Tunnelling for the London Underground Railway Date: 1923

Air raid cartoon
Cartoon depicting Oxford Circus tube station during an air raid. Date: 1940

Middle class violinist and singer watched by envious couple
The musical pair are well dressed Edwardians. The other pair are well dressed working class carrying a crying child, and the man is making remarks behind his hand

Overdressed Edwardian matron on Queen's Road tube
Complete with hat, umbrella and full length dress the lady is being eyed askance by a more modern gentleman leaning on his stick under the Queen's Road sign.Postcard advert for Shurey's

Coquettish Edwardian lady & peeking gentleman on seat
Figures are at Bond Street tube station with the large station sign behind. Postcard advert for Shurey's Publications supplied free with Shurey's magazines Date: circa 1910

Elegant couple in evening dress dancing the tango
The artist is well known. She was born in Vienna where this card was drawn and moved to Sweden in the 1930s. The man is dressed in tailored black tie and the lady has a long frilled tube dress

Passengers sitting on Post Office Tube Station platform
Postcard advert for Shurey's Publications supplied free with Shurey's magazines. Lady reading a book, man smoking a pipe and a uniformed Post Boy between them. Date: circa 1910

Smart toff, lady, working class woman - Holland Park Station
Postcard advert for Shurey's Publications supplied free with Shurey's magazines. Holland Park Tube Station platform. Date: circa 1910

Graphophone, Paris Exhibition of 1889
Graphophone, Universal Exhibition of Paris, 1889 Date: 1889

de Havilland DH. 114 Heron 2D G-ANPV
de Havilland DH.114 Heron 2D G-ANPV (msn 14098), of Tube Investments, at Coventry Airport in December 1966. Date: 1966

Chimpanzee feeding milk to a lion cub. Date: circa 1960s

Linking North and South London 1907
Diagram showing the proposed method the County Council are going to link north London to south. Connecting by tramway tunnel beneath the Wellington Street approach to Waterloo Bridge. Date: 1907

Diagram showing a proposed the never-stop train system described as electric cars mounted on tubular shaft along a continuous route in London. Date: 1911

New tunnels for the Post Office Railway. 70ft beneath the ground near Oxford Street the nearly completed, double track line

Londoners sleeping in the Underground during the Blitz
German bombing campaign against Britain between September 1940 and May 1941 mainly targeting London and industrial places

Margaret Gardner, London Underground Guard
Margaret Gardner, the first female guard on the London Underground Date: January 1977

Ann Dadds
Mrs Ann Dadds, from Plaistow, East London, becomes the first woman train driver on the London Underground Date: October 1978

Bob Crow, RMT trade union leader, giving a speech
Bob Crow, British trade union leader, General Secretary of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) and a member of the General Council of the TUC

The Boiler shop (Water-tube boilers) at the Germania Shipyard, Kiel. Date: 1902

London Life - A Shoeblack works outside a Station Entrance on The City and South London Railway (C&SLR), the tunnels and lines of which now form the Bank Branch of the Northern line, Date: circa 1910s

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