Wheels Collection (page 64)

The Return by Ethel Parkinson
The Return -- three children bring a large log home with them, to the delight of their little dog. Two girls are pulling the log along, while a smaller girl sits on the log, cradling her doll

Saint Malo, France - Le Pont Roulant
Le Pont Roulant at Saint Malo - a remarkable track-mounted ferry bridge, enabling the crossing at high tide between the hold of the Exchange, Saint Malo to Naye of Saint-Servan

Road sweeper with his cart
A road sweeper with his cart, containing various brushes and a spade. He probably works for the St Marylebone Borough Council in London

A Huddersfield Horse cab
A fine photograph of an equally fine horse-drawn cab, with an open soft top, driven by the proprietor of the firm, W Haigh. Mr Haigh specialised in furniture removals, cabs and as a Daily Carrier

Turkish Ox Cart - Gallipoli
Turkish ox-cart - Gallipoli. Note the three-block solid wheels, a technology dating back to the earliest wheels depicted in relief carvings from the ancient near Eastern/Mesopotamian civilisations

Chidren in Kashgar, western China
Four children in Kashgar, western China. Two small boys sit in a cart on wheels, pulled by an older girl

Farmer with oxen and cart, Madhya Pradesh, Central India
A farmer with his oxen and cart on a country lane in Madhya Pradesh, Central India. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts Date: circa 1940

Testing Train Wheels
A railway engineer uses an electronic device to test the solidity and structural integrity of a large steam train wheel. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Shock absorbers in action
An artistic photograph of a train suspension system in action, absorbing the shock of the wheel on a rail when in motion. A photograph used in an advertisement for Rocksil rock wool - used

Oiling a Locomotive Wheel and Piston
A railway engineer oils the end of a piston on an immense steam train wheel. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Turning a Cam shaft
An engineer turns a cam shaft on a large piece of complex mechanical and elctronic machinery. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Manufacturing a train wheel
A heavy welding machine used to combine layers of metal to make a large train wheel. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Small three-wheeled car
Sporty chap in his miniature three-wheeler

Motor lorry with caterpillar wheels and tank
A motor lorry with caterpillar wheels crossing the desert with supplies in Egypt during World War One. Close by is a tank which uses the same type of mechanism to travel

Thermometer advertising Dunlop tyres
A promotional tin/alloy thermometer advertsing Dunlop Tyres - " For Top Mileage - Top Safety". *EDITORIAL USE ONLY*

Tartar Carriage, Azerbaijan
Tartar Carriage - used by local people in the district of Baku, Azerbaijan

MAB Ambulance, London
One of the ambulances operated by Londons Metropolitan Asylums Board in around 1930. At that date, the MAB was the largest user of civil ambulance services in the world with a fleet of 150 vehicles

MAB First Ambulance
Side view of one of the first ambulances to be operated by Londons Metropolitan Asylums Board in the 1880s for transporting fever and smallpox patients to and from the Boards hospitals

Flying and ploughing in Weybridge, Surrey
A primitive aeroplane flies over a field which a man and his team of horses are ploughing. The plane has two bicycle-type wheels on the undercarriage

Locomotive construction in a large railway shed
A steam locomotive is moved across a large shed by means of a large crane arm with pulleys and chains. The lower section of the photograph shows a more complete locomotive

An Ancient British War Chariot
An Ancient British Tribal War Chariot

Rack and Pinion Railway
A Blenkinsop rack rail and spur. Rack and pinion is a pair of gears which convert rotational motion into linear motion. The circular pinion engages teeth on a flat bar - the rack

English Gent in Egypt in rickshaw
English gentleman in his rickshaw - Egypt. He has descended the steps leading down from his front door to meet his servant and transportation for the day

Yemen - Camel Water Cart at Aden

Street scene with horse and cart, Kashgar, western China
A street scene with a horse and cart in Kashgar, western China. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Increase in rail fares
The New Dragonades Or, How to squeeze money out of the working-man. Dedicated to Liberal" -minded Directors." Two steam trains with dragons heads crush working men beneath their wheels

Wheelwrights - Mandu, Madhya Pradesh
Wheelwrights at work near Mandu, Madhya Pradesh Province, India attach metal rims to large cart wheels. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Transporting wood - India
Wooden ox-pulled carts filled with wood pause at the roadside in the Madhya Pradesh Province, India. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Egypt - Ladies taken for a ride on a cart
A group of Egyptian women taken for a ride on cart

Interior of the Royal Southampton Railway state carriage
Carriage constructed by the South Western Railway Company for the conveyance of Queen Victoria and her family to their residence in the Isle of Wight

Franco-Prussian War. The Mitrailleuse
The French field gun in action, on wheels, its multiple shot action is clearly visible

Trial of a Channel Ferry Model on the Serpentine, February 1
Engraving of a trial of a Steam Channel Ferry design on the Serpentine, Hyde Park, from The Graphic, 26th February 1876. This working steam scale model appears an ambitious project, with three hulls

Floating railway bridge across the Forth River
A floating railway across the Forth between Granton and Burntisland. The route designed to carrying goods and live stock without the inconvience of unloading the trucks

Hospital saloon on the London and North Western Railways
A hospital on wheels, the invalid saloons on the London and North Western Railway. Special thick flooring was used to deaden the vibrations and noise from the patient

Making Scythes / Grinding
Making scythes at Belbroughton, Worcestershire. Here the blades are being ground by hand on huge wheels

Making a Toy Horse
A girl making toy wooden horses on wheels in a British factory

Wheelwright 1930S
A man, possibly a wheelwright, wheels a large cart wheel across a yard

Parking on Hills
On steep hills set the wheels against the kerb

Social / Nurse / Serpentine
A nurse wheels her charge in a perambulator past the Round Pond in Kensington Gardens, London, where boys are sailing model yachts

First aid, Ashford Litter
The Ashford Litter, for use in first aid etc. This is the 1899 model, with a two-wheeled undercarriage, prices from 8 10s to 17 2s 6d

First aid, Rea-Edwards Litter
The Rea-Edwards Litter, with wooden wheels -- a first aid box can be fitted to the axle

Ploughing with Horse
Ploughing by traditional methods, with one large carthorse

Board room on wheels for the Birmingham Corporation
Two photographs showing the board room on wheels for the Birmingham Corporation. The coach was fitted up to enable authorities to transact business while paying official visits

American Washing Machine
A maid operates a primitive- looking washing machine, made in America

UPS-AND-DOWNS / FAIR / 1804
Early Amusement wheels (hand- turned) at a St Petersburg Fair, Russia

Safe on Wheels C1900
A safe on wheels (for ease of theft)

French Set up 155 Gun
French artillerymen set up a 155 canon on wheels

Adoption Society Boy
A nurse at the National Adoption Society playing with a little boy in a bobble hat with his toy elephant on wheels

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