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PREVREF 1546 & 1547 duplicate photos

It was said that the driver turned his hat round when train in reverse. PREVREF 1549 duplicate copy

W. LONGSTAFF & Co's 2,900 ton ship loading loadstone at Newlyn from the Amey Roadstone Corporation's conveyor belt network installed my MM T D Cranes Ltd in 1972. Conveyor equipment was manufactured by Messrs Naylor Bros, of Warrington. It was…

The Solentbrook's hold being filled with Penlee roadstone.

The Solentbrook, W Longstaff & Co's 2,900 ton d.w. ship loading stone at newly from the then newly-installed conveyor which replaced the railway system.

PREVREF 1539 & 1553 duplicate photos

Loco Penlee built by Orenstein & Keppel of Berlin

Marianne awaiting a roadstone cargo at the end of Penlee's conveyor at Newlyn pier.

Scillonian I with bowline out at Lighthouse Pier

Clipper bow steam yacht and other boats in Penzance. In First World War, it became HMS Argon in 1917.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Argus_(1904)

See PREVREF 1519

Photo reproduction of a painting of the steam and sail yacht Lillie Western.

Scillonian aground on Scilly during wartime (see SHIP 4.027)

Scillonian III alongside Albert Pier in Penzance

The Scillonian off Albert Pier in Penzance

The 900-ton HMV SCILLONIAN pictured in dry dock at Falmouth where she underwent a survey prior to an extensive refit.

PREVREF 1528 duplicate copy

Based in Penzance and used alongside to Scillonian as cargo vessel.

This ship renamed Peninnis while a second ship was run in parallel