Spraying Collection

Leith Pier on fire, 1871. Creator: Unknown
Leith Pier on fire, 1871. Last Saturday, between 800 and 900 yards of the West Pier at Leith [a port area in the north of Edinburgh, Scotland], was destroyed by fire'

American Firemen, Bassens, 1919. Creator: Bain News Service
American Firemen, Bassens, 1919. Shows American firemen on the dock at Bassens, France after World War I

Fort McHenry, Cement Gun Used in Building Camp, 1917

Fort McHenry, Cement Gun Used in Building Camp, 1917

Getting Ready for a Visit, plate eight from Intimacies, 1898. Creator: Félix Vallotton
Getting Ready for a Visit, plate eight from Intimacies, 1898

War production workers at the Heil Company making gasoline trailer tanks for the U.S. Army Air Corps, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Elizabeth Little, age 30, the mother of two children, spraying small parts

Print, ca. 1863. Creator: Ichiryusai Yoshitoyo
Print, ca. 1863

Washing A Locomotive on the Canadian National Railway, at Montrea, 1935. Creator: Unknown
Washing A Locomotive on the Canadian National Railway, at Montreal, by means of the special spraying equipment devised for this purpose, 1935. From " Railway Wonders of the World, Vol. 1"

View of HMS London sailing beneath Tower Bridge, London, 1988
View of the warship HMS London sailing beneath Tower Bridge, Stepney, London, 1988. a fireboat sprays fountains of water into the air in the foreground

A 1961 Austin Westminster in a car wash, Grimsby, 1965. Artist: Michael Walters
A 1961 Austin Westminster in a car wash, Grimsby, Lincolnshire, 1965. An Austin A110 model Westminster in a car wash in Grimsby in 1965

The Toilet Of The Clerk Prosecutor, (1885). Artist: Carle Vernet
The Toilet Of The Clerk Prosecutor, (1885). The prosecutor holds a mask to protect his face as his hairdresser sprays his new hairstyle

Firemen demonstrating hoses worked by a petrol motor pump through top windows onto the courtyard, London Fire Brigade Headquarters, London, 1909

Fire at the Olympic Theatre, Wych Street, Westminster, London, 1849. Artist: J Maund
Fire at the Olympic Theatre, Wych Street, Westminster, London, 1849. View depicting the destruction of the theatre by fire on 13th March, 1849, showing a fireman showering the building with water

Fire at the Royal Exchange, City of London, January 1838

Cleaning the streets of Billingsgate, London, 20th century. Londons main roads received a thorough clean at about 2 am every morning

Crack detection on round bars, J Beardshaw & Sons, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1963. A worker uses a spray gun to apply a fluid which will shaw any cracks whch may exist in the bar

Spraying the ovens at Manvers coking works near Rotherham, South Yorkshire, 1963. An industrial spraying machine can be seen with a worker spraying the refractory linings in the ovens at the works

Spraying refractory linings at Manvers coking works, near Rotherham, South Yorkshire, 1963. Two workers with a machine spraying the refractory linings in the ovens at the works

Mini van being washed in a car wash, Co-op garage, Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, 1965

The Bartholdi Fountain and the Capitol, Washington DC, USA, late 19th or early 20th century

Etons amateur firemen practising a hose drill, Berkshire, c1922. A print from Peoples of all Nations, Volume III, edited by JA Hammerton, The Fleetway House, London, c1922

Fire engine on a sledge, 1662 (1956)

A fire damaged prison camp in Germany, World War I, 1915. A print from Le Pays de France, 26 August 1915

British firefighters damping down a bombed church, World War II, June 1940. Two firefighters use a hose to spray water onto smouldering roof timbers

Fire engine, from Georg Andreas Bocklers Theatrum Machinarum Novum
Fire engine. From Georg Andreas Bocklers Theatrum Machinarum Novum, Nuremberg, 1673. Engraving

Fire engine, from Isaac de Caus Nouvelle Invention de Lever l Eau Plus Hault, 1664. Engraving

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