Engine Collection (page 6)

Locomotive no 902 Highland Chief

Steam Train
Steam Engine from the Canadian Pacific Railway, Vancouver, canada

Bluebell Railway, West Sussex, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Sutherland Fire Engine
Merryweathers Sutherland fire-engine, which gained first prize at the international contest at the Crystal Palace. The engine continued in use for 27 years

Pumping Engine
Kempton Park, Surrey : the triple expansion pumping engine in the waterworks. Note the size of the men

Watts Steam Engine
James Watts improved steam engine of 1788

TREVITHICKs LOCO 1808
Trevithicks latest engine, known as the " catch-me-who- can" is the centre-piece at the steam circus on the New Road, Euston Square, London

The DRG Class SVT 877 Hamburg Flyer sometimes also Flying Hamburger or in German Fliegender Hamburger was Germanys first fast diesel train

Victory steam engine on the Henley-on-Thames Bridge
The story is that the steam engine is off to join the troops in the Boer War Date: early 1900s

Hush Hush Railway Engine crossing the Forth Rail Bridge
Hush Hush Railway Engine (designed by Sir Herbert Nigel Gresley CBE) crossing the Forth Rail Bridge. The LNER W1 No. 10000 (known as the Hush-Hush due to its secrecy)

The thunderbolt crashes through a fence in the countryside
in a scene from the classic Ealing Comedy

Steam train outside Newquay station, Cornwall. Around 1925
Cornishman and amateur photographer, Major Arthur William Gill, was well known in Cornwall and elsewhere during the 1920s and 1930s for his presentations of stills

GLC-LFB ERF diesel pump-escape fire engine
The ERF pump escape attached to Millwall fire station, the latest addition to the Brigades appliance fleet. It was a dual-purpose appliance that could carry either the 50 foot wheeled escape ladder

Locomotion at Darlington Railway Station early 1900s

Newcastle under Lyme Railway Station early 1900s

Popeye gets into position for the traction engine rally, on 13th June 1958, driven by Mr Jack Wakefield and Mr Stan Martin, both of Hetton-le-Hole

A line-up of Green Goddess fire engine ready for action in the hanger at RAF Catterick

South Devon Railway Leopard class Saddle Tank Engine
Vintage engraving of Lance a South Devon Railway Leopard class Saddle Tank Engine. Lance (1875 to 1892) GWR no. 2130, it was one of two locomotives kept working at Swindon railway works for shunting

Major fire in Wandsworth Road, Clapham SW8
London firefighters and the London Salvage Corps (in the long coats) at the scene of a fire involving shops and dwellings in Wandsworth Road, Clapham, SW8, on 9 September 1959. Date: 1959

Vehicle engine scrap metal

Sunrise from an airplane above the clouds with wing unit, above Norway

Streamlined Hudson
A streamlined 4-6-4 Hudson steam locomotive of the New York Central Railroad. Designed by Henry Dreyfuss and built by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO), the engines were introduced in 1938

York North locomotive depot, London & North Eastern Railway, 29 April 1942
York North locomotive depot, London & North Eastern Railway. A4 locomotive 4-6-2 no. 4469 Sir Ralph Wedgwood damaged beyond repair as a result of a German air raid during the Second World War

Bristol Jupiter and Bristol Lucifer engine production in the early 1920s. Date: 1920

Cutaway drawing of the Rolls Royce / Snecma Olympus 593 engine
Cutaway drawing of the Rolls-Royce/Snecma Olympus 593 engine installation on Concorde

Henry Simonis & Co fire appliances, Nuremberg, Germany
Two Henry Simonis & Co fire appliances on a street in Nuremberg, Germany

Hendon Fire Brigade (later part of Middlesex FB)
In 1855 a fire brigade was established in Hendon, renamed the Hendon Volunteer Fire Brigade in 1866, and a manual fire engine was kept in a building near the church

LFCDA-LFB Heavy fire Rescue tenders
The 1990s saw a new breed of fire rescue tenders, large and small, introduced into the London Fire Brigade. The heavy rescue unit carried a comprehensive range of cutting and spreading equipment

LFCDA-LFB Fire Rescue tenders
The 1990s saw a new breed of fire rescue tenders, large and small, introduced into the London Fire Brigade. The heavy rescue unit carried a comprehensive range of cutting and spreading equipment

LCC-LFB - North Kensington fire station
The firefighters from North Kensington fire station, Faraday Road, W10, pose on the station forecourt on their pump escape and pump

ELEVATOR, 1862. The Otis Patent Hoisting Engine, first installed in the A. T
ELEVATOR, 1862. The Otis Patent Hoisting Engine, first installed in the A.T. Stewart Store, later Wanamaker s, in New York City: line engraving, 1862

German Fokker D VIII fighter plane, WW1
A German Fokker D VIII single-seater fighter monoplane with a 140 hp Oberursel engine, used towards the end of the First World War

Daniel Goochs North Star locomotive for the GWR

Locomotive no 14-? 4-4-0

Curtiss OXX-6, V-8 Engine, ca. 1916. Creator: Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company
Among the most successful early engines marketed in the United States were those designed and built by aviation pioneer and inventor Glenn Curtiss

1924 Automotive 1924
JANUARY 01: Owen Wilson-Jones (left) works on his Salmson with his mechanic Stanley Dellow during the Automotive 1924 on January 01, 1924. (Photo by LAT Images)

Pobjoy Cataract seven-cylinder radial engine

The Thunderbolt thunders through Titfield
in a scene from the classic Ealing Comedy

2-4-2 Tank Engine Suspended by Cranes, Rochdale, Lancashire, England. Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Date: 1900s

USA, Nevada. Old steam train engine in historic Gold Hill train station, our side Virginia CIty
USA, Nevada. Old steam train engine in historic Gold Hill train station, our side Virginia City, Nevada

Handmade Logging Train
A hand-made, jerry-rigged, locomotive built round a steam engine circa 1890. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

The Wright brothers 1903 Flyer plane, side view

Union Pacific Loco
circa 1935: The imposing front view of a Union Pacific railroad engine with an Art Deco style typeface. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

East Pool Mine, Illogan Cornwall. 1900-1909
Surface view of East Pool mine works, from East Pool stamps. Photographer: John Charles Burrow or Herbert Hughes

Winchmore Hill railtrack in January 1947

The Mallard, the fastest train in the world

Poster by Sebille - Chemins de fer de l etat - Paris, Havre, New York - ? TopFoto

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