Motor Collection

Women's Motor Corps, May 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Women's Motor Corps, May 1917. The members of the Women's Motor Corps of the National League for Women's Service at the 71st Regiment Armory, New York City, May 1917, during World War I.

Colonel J.H. Wells swearing in woman motorist, 29 May 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Colonel J.H. Wells swearing in woman motorist, 29 May 1917. Women in the motor corps of the National League of Women's Service taking the oath of allegiance at the 71st Regiment Armory

Major Connell inoculating woman motorist, 29 May 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Major Connell inoculating woman motorist, 29 May 1917. Major Connell, surgeon of the 71st Regiment, inoculating one of the three hundred women in the Women's Motor Corps of the National League

English women motor volunteers inspected, between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
English women motor volunteers inspected, between c1915 and 1918. Women driver volunteers standing in front of automobiles during World War I, in England.

Yacht Althea, engine room, between 1907 and 1915. Creator: Unknown
Yacht Althea, engine room, between 1907 and 1915. Engine made by Standard Motor Construction Company; Witherbee Igniter Co. dials in amperes and volts

Irrigation pump on edge of field, San Joaquin Valley, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Irrigation pump on edge of field. Electric power typical of San Joaquin Valley farming. Tulare County, California

First magnetoelectric motor built by Hippolyte Pixii, c1832 (c1890). This was the first application of Faradays demonstration (1831) that magnetism produces an electric current

Installing one of the 4 motors on the transport plane at Willow Run, between 1941 and 1945. Creator: Howard Hollem
Installing one of the 4 motors on the transport plane at Willow Run. Photo shows the Willow Run manufacturing plant, run by the Ford Motor Company near Ypsilanti, Michigan

Women are trained to do precise and... Douglas Aircraft Company plants, Long Beach, Calif. 1942
Women are trained to do precise and vital engine installation detail in Douglas Aircraft Company plants, Long Beach, Calif

Woman at work on motor, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. 1942. Creator: Alfred T Palmer
Woman at work on motor, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif

Part of the cowling for one of the motors for a B-25... North American Aviation, Inglewood, CA
Part of the cowling for one of the motors for a B-25 bomber is assembled in the engine department of North American Aviation, Inc.s Inglewood, Calif. plant

Tightening a nut on a guide vane operating seromotor in TVA s... Watts Bar Dam, Tennessee, 1942
Tightening a nut on a guide vane operating seromotor in TVAs hydroelectric plant, Watts Bar Dam, Tennessee. Located 530 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River

A good job in the air cleaner of an army truck, Fort Knox, Ky. 1942. Creator: Alfred T Palmer
A good job in the air cleaner of an army truck, Fort Knox, Ky. This Negro soldier, who serves as truckdriver and mechanic, plays an important part in keeping army transport fleets in operation

Colored mechanic, motor maintenance section, Ft. Knox, Ky. 1942. Creator: Alfred T Palmer
Colored mechanic, motor maintenance section, Ft. Knox, Ky

Cowling and control rods are added to motors for... North American Inc. Inglewood, Calif. 1942
Cowling and control rods are added to motors for North American B-25 bombers as they move down the assembly line, North American, Inc. Inglewood, Calif

New River Marine Base, motor detachment, Jacksonville, North Carolina, 1942. Creator: Alfred T Palmer
New River Marine Base, motor detachment, North Carolina. Photo shows the Marine Corps Air Station New River, at Jacksonville, North Carolina

Mounting motor on a Fairfax B-25 bomber, North American Aviation, Inc. Inglewood, Calif. 1942. Creator: Alfred T Palmer
Mounting motor [on a] Fairfax B-25 bomber, at North American Aviation, Inc. plant in [Inglewood], Calif

Marine motor detachment, New River, Jacksonville, North Carolina. 1942. Creator: Alfred T Palmer
Marine motor detachment, New River, N.C. Photo shows the Marine Corps Air Station New River, at Jacksonville, North Carolina

Part of the cowling for one of the motors... North American Aviation, Inc. Inglewood, Calif. 1942
Part of the cowling for one of the motors for a B-25 bomber is assembled in the engine department of North American Aviation, Inc.s Inglewood, Calif. plant

Employees at North American Aviation, Incorporated, assembling... Inglewood, Calif. 1942. Creator: Alfred T Palmer
Employees at North American Aviation, Incorporated, assembling the cowling on Allison motors for the P-51 fighter planes, Inglewood, Calif

Woman working on an airplane motor at North American Aviation, Inc. plant in Calif. 1942. Creator: Alfred T Palmer
Woman working on an airplane motor at North American Aviation, Inc. plant in Calif

The laundry unit, FSA mobile camp, Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
The power unit. FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp. Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon

Possibly: On board the fleshing boat Alden, out of Gloucester, Massachusetts, 1943. Creator: Gordon Parks
[Untitled photo, possibly related to: On board the fleshing boat Alden, out of Gloucester, Massachusetts. Part of the seining crew adjusting the seining nets to the seining boat on the first morning

Highway corner, Reedsville, West Virginia, 1935. Creator: Walker Evans
Highway corner. Reedsville, West Virginia

Rocket Pump, Liquid Fuel, R. H. Goddard, ca. 1938-1941. Creator: Robert Goddard
This is a centrifugal pump designed and made by U.S. rocket pioneer Robert H. Goddard for forcing the propellants into the combustion chamber of a rocket motor. Most likely it dates from ca

1955 De Soto Fireflite. Creator: Unknown
1955 De Soto Fireflite

2009 Bonhams car auction at Beaulieu. Creator: Unknown
2009 Bonhams car auction at Beaulieu

First L. G. O. C. Motor Bus, 1904, (1933). Creator: Unknown
First L.G.O.C. Motor Bus, 1904, (1933). Steam bus of the London General Omnibus Company Ltd, a single-decker which ran from Piccadilly Circus to Hammesmith

Petty officer of a British submarine, World War II, 1945. Creator: Unknown
Petty officer of a British submarine, World War II, 1945. A Petty Officer is watching the main electric motors driving the submarine after she has submerged

Junkers L 1, 80 horse power aeroplane engine, 1932. Creator: Unknown
Junkers L 1, 80 horse power aeroplane engine, 1932. Air-cooled engine with upright cylinders. From " Die Eroberung Der Luft", (The Conquest of the Air)

Argus As 8 100 horse power aircraft engine, 1932. Creator: Unknown
Argus As 8 100 horse power aircraft engine, 1932. Four-cylinder, air-cooled, inverted inline aircraft engine produced in Germany

Siemens Sh 20 60 horse power aircraft engine, 1932. Creator: Unknown
Siemens Sh 20 60 horse power aircraft engine, 1932. The Siemens-Halske Sh 20 air-cooled engine was manufactured by Siemens & Halske in Germany in the 1930s

Motor car engine laboratory, Borough Polytechnic, Southwark, London, 1936

Louis Bleriot sitting in his monopolane, c. 1920
Louis Ble riot (1872 – 1936) sitting in his monopolane, c. 1920 (b/w photo)

Enter the new Ford, New York City, USA, 1927. Henry Ford (1863-1947), founder of the Ford Motor Company, Tex Rickard (1870-1929)

The part played by motor transports in the retreat from Antwerp, 1914. Cars attached to the Belgian Army and the British Naval Brigade drawn up on the outskirts of the city

General Sir John Maxwell, commander of Egyptian troops, motoring through one of the camps, 1915. General Sir John Maxwell sits in the back of the car and is second from the right of the photograph

At an automobile exhibition, Agricultural Hall, Islington, London, 1902 (1903). A motor show organised by the Automobile Club of Great Britain. From Living London, Vol. III, by George R. Sims

Waiting for the Motor, c1903. Artist: The ACME Tone Engraving Co Ltd
Waiting for the Motor, c1903. From Penroses Pictorial Annual 1903-4, edited by William Gamble. [A. W. Penrose & Co. London, 1903-4]

Advertisement for the Second Swiss National Car and Bicycle Exposition, Geneva, 1906

Advertisement for the Automobile Club de Frances International Automobile Exposition, 1899

Pair of giant motors, 1938. Churchmans cigarette card, from a series titled Modern Wonders [WA & AC Churchman, Great Britain & Ireland, 1938]

Advanced Class Boys, 1937. Artist: WA & AC Churchman
Advanced Class Boys, 1937. Seaman Boys receiving instruction in Gunnery, Churchmans Cigarette Series, The Navy At Work

A Convoy on the Marchand Mission in 1898, (1899). Artist: Henri Meyer
A Convoy on the Marchand Mission in 1898, (1899). The Marchand Mission was an expedition undertaken by French emissary Jean-Baptiste Marchand (1863-1934)

Departure to Oudjda officers wounded... (20th century)
Departure to Oudjda of the officers wounded in Meharidja on 17th & 18th april 1912, (20th century). French postcard

Sound Recording Disc Electricity Motor Battery Liquid, c1880

Leon Edouxs hydraulic passenger lift (elevator), 1887

Leon Edouxs elevators (lifts) at the Eiffel Tower, Paris, 1889
Elevators (lifts) by Leon Edoux for carrying passengers to the second and third levels of the Eiffel Tower, Paris, 1889

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