Whitworth Collection (page 10)

Joseph Whitworth

Whitworth lathe

Whitworth gauge

Whitworth measuring machine

Whitworth Gardens, Darley Dale, Derbyshire, England. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Armstrong Whitworth FK 12B triplane, WW1
A British Armstrong Whitworth FK 12B triplane on an airfield during the First World War. It was equipped with Rolls Royce Eagle engines. Date: 1914-1918

Armstrong Whitworth Argosy aeroplane
The Armstrong Whitworth " Argosy" aeroplane, a three-engined cabin biplane carrying 20 passengers, two pilots and a steward. Date: circa 1936

Four presidents of the IMechE: (left to right) John Penn, Joseph Whitworth, Robert Napier, and William Fairbairn

Ensign Air Liner and Empire flying boat
Poster advertising the Ensign air liner for European services, now being built by the Armstrong Whitworth company, and the Empire flying boat built by Short Brothers

Sultan Mehmed V Reshad of Turkey - Imperial barge
Sultan Mehmed V Reshad of Turkey (1844 - 1918) with his sons in an imperial barge returning to the Old Palace, with the more modern barge standing off in distance (see below)

Aircraft Production Line at Coventry; Second World War, 1939
Photograph showing a shed full of Whitley bomber wings at the Armstrong Whitworth works in Coventry, Britain, 1939. The wings, 84 foot in length from tip to tip, were being built up stage by stage

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

SS Sampo, 1898
Photograph of Steamship Sampo a newly constructed ice-breaker, built by Armstrong, Whitworth and Co. for the Senate of Finland, 1898

Armstrongs hydro-electric machine
Hydro-electric machine invented by William George Armstrong (1810-1900), later Baron Armstrong of Bamburgh and Cragside, in the 1840 s

Armstrong Whitworth 1936
This is the Armstrong Whitworth XXIII, prototype of the Whitley bomber : though relatively advanced, it will be obsolescent by the time war breaks out in 1939

Joseph Whitworth / Col Lit
SIR JOSEPH WHITWORTH English mechanical engineer and inventor

Joseph Whitworth / W Inven
SIR JOSEPH WHITWORTH English mechanical engineer and inventor

Joseph Whitworth / Erfindu
SIR JOSEPH WHITWORTH English mechanical engineer and inventor

Landing at Schipol
An Armstrong Whitworth Argosy of Imperial Airways prepares to land at Schipol, the airport of Amsterdam

Passengers in Argosy
Passengers comfortably installed in an Imperial Airways Armstrong Whitworth Argosy air liner from Croydon to continental Europe

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