Weight Collection (page 8)

Sri Lanka - Picking and weighing tea
Picking and weighing Green Tea in Sri Lanka

Marshall Britannia Boiler transported - India
The transportation of a Marshall Britannia boiler across the Indian countryside by a vast team of oxen and men. Many thousands of portable steam engines were made between the 1840s and 1920s

Laos - Sacks of cardamom being weighed. A very superior French overseer takes down the details in a jotter

Man on a weighing machine, Austria
A man poses on a roadside weighing machine somewhere in the Austrian countryside

Bosnia and Herzegovina - Sarajevo - Market traders weighing large sacks of grain in the main Sarajevo Market

Porter Carrying an upright piano - Tunisia
An arab porter moves an upright piano by carrying the weighty instrument with his head, Tunisia

Loading up a camel - Algeria. There is a set of scales (and administration desk) in the background to make sure the weight of the goods is correctly recorded prior to departure

Apple Salesman with a gigantic pannier - Turkey
Apple seller standing alongside his large pannier, filled to the brim with fruit. The weight of this woven backpack must have been immense

Elderly porter - Constantinople, Turkey
An elderly porter carrying a leather case with a rug on top

Turkish porters - Constantinople
Turkish porter carrying (struggling beneath!) an enormous wooden crate up a street in Constantinople, Turkey

Seller of Quince, Constantinople, Turkey

Weighing Scales in Use
A person stands on weighing scales with their loafers placed to the side. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Armenia - Carrying an immense wooden case
Extraordinary photographic postcard of an Armenian porter carrying a ridiculously large wooden box on his back

Clock of St Georges Church, Esher, Surrey
A close-up view of part of the clock of St Georges Church in Esher, Surrey. The clock dates from the late 16th or early 17th century

Catch of the day
A jolly fisherman wearing a bright yellow waterproof jacket holds on to his mighty catch - an enormous cod. His fishing companion seems less than impressed with his catch or his bufoonery!

William Ball, also known as John Bull, 1851
Engraving showing William Ball (1795-1852), an Englishman from Shropshire, who came to be nicknamed John Bull on account of his weight - 40st

Weight & See / Whr
The New Safety Ice-Tester for testing under comfortable conditions the capacity of the ice to bear the weight of the average British citizen

Exchanging Clothes at a Second-hand Depot, Berlin, 1948
Photograph showing several citizens of West Berlin bringing their old woollen garments to a second-hand clothing depot, Berlin, August 1948

The Weighing Office at the Bank of England. Machine for Cutt
In June 1842 all light sovereigns were recalled to the Bank of England and weighed. If they were below the standard weight they were defaced and cut using this machine

The Weighing Office at the Bank of England. Section of the W
There was a crisis at the Bank of England in the early nineteenth century when it was discovered that a large proportion of the 8, 000, 000 gold sovereigns in circulation were light

The Weighing Office at the Bank of England. Bates Scales fo
In June 1842 a proclamation was issued announcing that a large prportion of the gold coinage in Britain had become worn and devalued and was below its prescribed weight of five penny weights

The smallest tortoise and the Largest tortoise in the New Yo
The smallest Albemarble Island specimen in the New York zoological park, weighing 3 3/4oz, perched on the head of the largest Galapagos tortoise in the park

Railway accident at Chester showing a dilapidated span of the Dee Bridge. It was thought that the weight of the train caused it to strike a girder at which point the bridge gave way

A Rudge-Whitworth Sociable Bicycle, 1896
Photograph of a Rudge-Whitworth Sociable Bicycle, capable of carrying two people side-by-side. It would appear that this machine best suited couples of comparable weight

The Great Westerns new giant, the Caerphilly Castle
The most power passenger engine in Great Britain in 1923, The Great Westerns New Giant, Caerphilly Castle. An engine designed by C. B Collett and constructed at Swindon

Canadian guide making a canoe, 1858
Engraving showing a French Canadian voyageur (guide) making a canoe on a framework of cedar covered with sheets of birch bark

Weight of Power / Balkans
Thanks to Russia the balance of power in the Balkans tips in favour of Serbia & the god of war rather than Germany & the angel of peace

Fable / Oak & Willow
THE OAK & THE WILLOW The willow bends under the weight of the wind, while the oak tree resists and is uprooted

Death & the Woodcutter
DEATH AND THE WOODCUTTER A wretched woodman, worn down by lifes woes and the weight of his load of sticks, calls on Death to relieve him of his suffering

Woman Weighing Herself
A woman in a suit weighs herself on a set of weighing scales outside an opticians shop

Staites patent electric light apparatus
Engraving of Edward Staites patent electric light apparatus, exhibited at the Hanover Square Rooms, London in 1848. The light used a weight-driven mechanism

The Normandie, the largest liner in the world
The burning of the luxury liner, the Normandie in 1942. The Normandie was the largest liner in the world. As World War II commenced the liner was taken out of service

Hill climbing in a Rolls Royce1906
Climbing a hill with a gradient of 1in 609, with 9 passengers aboard, each with an average weight of 11st 2lb each, in a Rolls Royce in 1906

Cycle-cars were fashionable and popular from Edwardian times to the early 1920s, when their light weight, small size, low purchase price and running costs made motoring accessible to the masses

Weighing Machine 1883
A little girl sits on a weighing machine on the London underground

Homomotive Carriage
E Whittington & F Wakefields Homomotive Carriage, propelled by the weight of the rider

Ridinger Haute Ecole 3
Haute Ecole : Training a horse to the Vaulting Trot with a sandbag to simulate weight of rider

Very Robust Bed 20C
Italian beds are designed to take a fearful pounding - dancing elephants wouldn t break the springs !

Money Changer / China
A money changer examines a coin to check against others which he stoes on strings to correctly assess size and weight

Mrs Tomson Tested
Alleged medium Mrs Tomsons claim that she could lose weight paranormally is tested by sir Hiram Maxim at his factory in Norwood, south London

Santorios Balance C16
Santorio (b.1561) weighed himself for 24 hour periods and proved that weight gain or loss varied according to the type of food consumed

Button Maker 1827
Making metal buttons using a pulley with a weight which is released to stamp the buttons before they are shanked with a solder and polished by women

Putting the Shot, 1875
Putting the weight, or shot, at the Universities Athletic Sports, held at West Brompton

Putting the Shot, 1867
Oxford and Cambridge athletes compete at Beaufort House, Walham Green : Cambridge won the PUTTING THE WEIGHT (or SHOT)contest

Lady Shops, Man Carries
An elegant lady holds a bouquet and walks the dog whilst her man crumples under the weight of her shopping

Cutting Room at Mint
Coin blanks of a specified weight are cut out from strips by presses

Coin Weighing Machines
Automatic coin-weighing machines separate coins into three different weight divisions

Pyx Office at Mint
Ingots of silver are weighed in the Pyx office, checking that they are the correct weight

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