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Whistles Collection

Background imageWhistles Collection: Police Equipment

Police Equipment
Selection of Metropolitan Police equipment including truncheons, helmets, notebooks and whistles

Background imageWhistles Collection: Policemen in station parade room, London

Policemen in station parade room, London
Four policemen stand ready in their uniforms, with notebooks, whistles and truncheons, in the station parade room at Ruislip, north west London, watched by their commanding officer

Background imageWhistles Collection: Queen Mary Ocean Liner, whistles used for signalling

Queen Mary Ocean Liner, whistles used for signalling
Queen Marys three giant whistles two on the fore funnel and one on the midships funnel, were fitted. Each were seven feet in length, and could be heard five miles away, but so low pitched

Background imageWhistles Collection: MAFEKING CELEBRATION

MAFEKING CELEBRATION
RELIEF OF MAFEKING Celebrating crowds throng the streets of London: flags, banners, whistles, trumpets, confetti & false noses pressed into service of high spirits Date: 18 May 1900

Background imageWhistles Collection: Sterling silver goods, Plate 207

Sterling silver goods, Plate 207, showing bells, a trowel, bouquet holders, whistles, a dram flask, cutlery and other items. Date: circa 1880s

Background imageWhistles Collection: A Japanese traffic controller

A Japanese traffic controller holds onto his sign, and is blowing his whistle. The sign he holds currently reads Stop. Date: 1932

Background imageWhistles Collection: Bobak / Steppe Marmot - adult - whistles warning

Bobak / Steppe Marmot - adult - whistles warning others - near a burrow in steppe - observes an intruder from a distance (Marmota bobak). steppes of Orenburg region - South Russia - June

Background imageWhistles Collection: Steam Clock

Steam Clock
Built by the Canadian horologist Raymond Saunders. Though it looks 19th Century it was constructed in 1977. The five steam whistles sounding the hours make it a popular tourist attraction

Background imageWhistles Collection: Trainee Gendarmes

Trainee Gendarmes
French police cadets saluting and blowing whistles during a training session. Date: early 1930s


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