Wheels Collection (page 19)

Italian gunners in a wood near Rheims, France, WW1
Italian gunners with a 75 mm battery in action in a wood near Rheims, north eastern France, during the First World War. Date: July 1918

British battery in action, Samarra, WW1
A British 6-inch 26-cwt battery in action at Samarra, Mesopotamia (now Iraq) during the First World War. Date: 1918

British 60-pounder guns in action, Samarra, WW1
British 60-pounder guns in action at Samarra, Mesopotamia (now Iraq) during the First World War. Date: 1918

Ariels Girdle
A light locomotive engine on four wheels, with carriages attached. Exhibited by W.B Adams, designer and patenter, during the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park, 1851. Date: 1851

Joy Wheels, Festival of Empire Exhibition, Crystal Palace
Joy Wheels and Maxim Flying Machine at the Festival of Empire Exhibition, held at Crystal Palace, South London. Date: 1911

British soldiers firing at a German plane, WW1
British soldiers of the Royal Horse Artillery attached to the 1st Cavalry Division firing at a German plane with an automatic rifle (a Hotchkiss Mark 1)

Caravan dwellers in Durham
An assortment of caravans, some with wooden wheels and others having lost their wheels, near a quarry in County Durham. Date: circa 1936

British Howitzer near Albert, France, WW1
A British 6 inch (30 cwt) Howitzer near Albert, northern France, during the First World War. Date: 1915

Battle of Flers-Courcelette, Western Front, WW1
Scene at the Battle of Flers-Courcelette on the Western Front in northern France during the First World War. A shell hole is used as the gun position of an advanced Field Battery at Sunken Road

German soldiers with captured British guns, WW1
German soldiers with captured British guns on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Australian gunners with heavy gun, Western Front, WW1
Australian gunners and horses transporting a heavy gun on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

British 8 inch Mark VI Howitzer, WW1
British 8 inch Mark VI Howitzer with its distinctive triangular platform for greater stability, designed by Vickers in 1915 for use during the First World War. Date: 1915-1918

Soldiers with a Daimler-Foster tractor, WW1
Soldiers with a large Daimler-Foster tractor marked OHMS (On His Majestys Service) in a field during the First World War. Built for Daimler by Foster of Lincoln

Arnhem prisoners launch mobile food restaurant
Three ex-officers of the Parachute Regiment, captured at Arnhem, having sunk their savings into a new idea in catering conceived in a German POW camp

Gun-carrying British tank, WW1
A gun-carrying British tank, used during the First World War. Showing the method of carrying the wheels of a 60-pounder gun at the sides, outside the body of the machine

Damaged British male tank, Western Front, WW1
A damaged British male tank on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: circa 1916-1918

Heavy artillery in action in the desert, WW1
Heavy artillery in action in the desert during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Removing a field gun, Flanders, Western Front, WW1
Men removing a field gun with the help of a team of horses on the Western Front in Flanders during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Big gun in Battle of the Lys, near Ypres, WW1
A big gun in front of a farmhouse near Ypres, Belgium, with shells ready for firing, during the Battle of the Lys, First World War. Date: April 1918

Gun parts of ANR on Rufiji River, East Africa, WW1
Gun parts of the 1st Service Battery ANR on the Rufiji (Rufigi) River in German East Africa (now Tanzania) during the First World War. The photograph was taken during the wet season

Tank climbing a steep slope, Lincoln, WW1
A " Mother" tank climbing a steep slope at Burton Park, Lincoln, during the First World War. Date: January 1916

British and French soldiers, Bas Maisnil, France, WW1
Two British officers (Davidson and Churchill) of the 1st Cameronians (Cameron Highlanders) with two French artillerymen, alongside a 75mm French field gun and ammunition wagon at Bas Maisnil

Howitzer in action in the desert, WW1
A 6 inch (30 cwt) Howitzer in action in the desert during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Kut guns in arsenal at Baghdad, WW1
A row of Kut guns in the arsenal at Baghdad, during the First World War. Probably some of the Turkish Howitzers captured by General Maude at Kut-el- Amara. circa 1917

Removing a field gun, Western Front, WW1
Men removing a field gun with the help of a team of horses on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Portable searchlight on wheeled trolley, WW1
A large portable searchlight on a wheeled trolley used during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

British 5 inch Howitzer, Richebourg, France, WW1
A British 5 inch Howitzer belonging to the 4th Howitzer Brigade, 49th West Riding Division, in action at Richebourg Saint Vst on the Western Front in northern France during the First World War

British 9. 2 inch Howitzer, WW1
British 9.2 inch Howitzer, designed in 1913 for use during the First World War. It continued in use during the Second World War. Date: 1914-1918

London Evening News - Printing Press, running off the 10, 000th number during the papers Celebration Week on November 21st, 1913. The London Evening News was first published on July 26th 1881

Colourful Garden
This woman knows how to create a colourful garden, as she wheels flowers in her wheelbarrow. Her patio is crammed with potted plants and hanging baskets galore. Date: 1960s

Dalmatian by Coach Wheel
Dalmatian, once also known as coach dog as the dogs ran between the wheels of its owners carriage as a guard and for show and smartness. Date: 1919

New Year Clover Cart
A pretty lady wishes you a Happy New Year as she drives a cart loaded with clover for good luck. Date: 1907

STUNT CARS
Danger men on wheels. Thrills and spills from the Destruction Squad, thats what the crowd, even when its raining, love to see! Date: 1960s

Loco Section 1882
Section of a steam locomotive, showing how the heat from the furnace drives the wheels and emits smoke from the funnel. Date: 1882

Hand pump fire engine
A hand pump fire engine. 1882

Nash garage
Warren. Nash Motor Corporation, Greasing Front Wheels. - Close up of a mechanic working on a Nash auto at the Warren

Ole. Tonnesen, blacksmith and wagon shop, Iowa

Old wheels of the famous twenty mule team Borax wagons, Death Valley, California

Man with early car, Crickhowell Castle, Powys, Mid Wales
An elderly country gentleman with a very early motor car (roof folded back) in front of the ruins of Crickhowell Castle, Crickhowell, Powys, Mid Wales

Red Cross workers on World War One battlefield
A hand painted lantern slide depicting Red Cross workers on a World War One battlefield at night, looking for survivors after a battle

Six children with a makeshift cart in a London street
Six children with a makeshift cart, on a scruffy terraced street in London. Two of the boys have bare feet

Workman with slate quarry tram, North Wales
A workman with a slate quarry tram, somewhere in North Wales. This small tram can carry half a ton of raw slate, and one man can operate it

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

Spinning flax, Inebriates Reformatory, Guiltcross, Norfolk
Inmates spinning flax at the Eastern Counties or East Harling Inebriates Reformatory, Norfolk. Housed in the former Guiltcross Union workhouse

Two boys on a home-made go-kart
Two boys enjoying a ride on a home-made go-kart in Horley, Surrey. They are travelling at such a speed that the photograph is blurred!

Set of old pram wheels in a pond
A set of old pram wheels half submerged in a pond, near a wooden stump

Boy on a home-made go-kart
A boy goes for a ride on a home-made go-kart in Horley, Surrey

Billy Blue, Holsworthy Union Workhouse, Devon
Billy Blue, an inmate of the Holsworthy Union workhouse, Devon, pulling a handcart on which is a large chest bearing the workhouses name

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