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Belt Driven Stone Crusher
Belt-driven stone crusher with traction engine, with man working and small child in the foreground.
Great Fowler Steam Ploughing Engine
A Great Fowler blowing engine.
Anti Balance Plough 4 Furrow Pulled by Tract Eng
The plough pulled by two steam traction engines positioned at opposite ends of the field. Four men pictured.
Miners with Tallow Candles in front Skip Shaft
A group of miners at Geevor Mine. There are 18in spanner tallow candles fixed with clay to their helmets.
Tamping Rods?
Tamping Rods?
C & W C Harper at Local Communications Board
Britains Ocean Telegraph Cables fan out into the Atlantic from the sandy beach of Porthcurno, a Cornish cove near Land's End. These cables, which are linked with the 155,000-mile network owned by Cable & Wireless Ltd., are operated from the company's…
R Angove at C & W Test Bench on Maintenance
Richard Angove at the test bench at Cable & Wireless doing regular maintenance work (routining) on the synchroniser. Drive relays are shown behind two clock controls at the top left of the photograph. The bottom of the clock can be seen between them.
K E Finney adjusting C & W Equipment
Engineer Mr K.E. Finney adjusting the balance on Porgibthree (the No. 3 cable between Porthcurno and Gibraltar). The light reflected from the mirror on the fork coil records the duplex balance disturbance on the scale above.
C & W R G Bell at 110v Generator
Mr R.G. Bell at the 110v motor generator change-over panel. Pictured behind him is 110v mgs, with 10v mgs nearest the camera. On his left is a 110v distribution board. On his right are the main supply switches and battery switchgear. On the extreme…
C & W Survey Sled On Board C S Recorder
This photograph shows survey operations on board the C.S. Recorder in the Mediterranean for the Mat I telephone cable project. The ship was on charter to Italcable for the work. On the foredeck, you can see the survey sled.
C & W Stanley Angwin Surveying Cable Route
During April 1965, C.S. Stanley Angwin (2,500-ton gross) surveyed the route for the Tortola-Bermuda telephone cable which will provide the northern outlet for the 21-million W.I. dollar project in the Eastern Caribbean to improve inter-island and…
Final Splice of Hong Kong-Gwam C&W cable Mercury
The Hong Kong/Guam section of SEACOM was laid during September and October of 1965. Assisted by Cable & Wireless, Ltd., repair ship Cable Enterprise Mercury completed the lay into Guam on 22 October 1965.
This photograph shows the final splice on…
This photograph shows the final splice on…
C&W Repeater entering the Water from C S Mercury
The Hong Kong/Guam section of SEACOM was laid during September and October of 1965. Assisted by Cable & Wireless Ltd, repair ship Cable Enterprise Mercury completed the lay into Guam on 22 October 1965. This photograph shows a repeater entering the…
C & W Exploded view of Lightweight Coaxial Cable
This diagram shows a sectioned specimen of deep-sea, light-weight coaxial cable of the kind likely to be used by Cable & Wireless Ltd. and the Canadian Overseas Telecommunication Corporation in the Anglo-Canadian Telephone Cable in 1961.
The same…
The same…
C & W Detailed Diagram of Sea Plow
A detailed diagram of the sea plow on 'Operation Sea Plow'.
C & W Cable from CS Monarch in Trench on Beach
Engineers from the Plymouth Area THQ Marine Branch landing a shore-end at Porthcurno (Cornwall) from the cable ship Monarch.
Holborn Manual Exchange 1904
Women workers in telephone exchange (Holborn Manual Exchange)
Threshing by Steam Engine Croust Time Roskestal
Three men (P Hosking, W Chapple and H Burrows) threshing
by steam engine at Roskestal. Croust time..
Machine owned by J&A Hosking St Buryan. See PREVREF 2065/6
by steam engine at Roskestal. Croust time..
Machine owned by J&A Hosking St Buryan. See PREVREF 2065/6
Clod Crusher hauled by three Horses
A horse-hauled clod crusher used for cultivation (used from about 1900), A typical country scene in Cornwall.
Cultivator or Scuffler hauled by three Horses
Typical late-afternoon scene in almost any Cornish scene in the 1920s or '30s. The machine is a cultivator, known all over Cornwall as a 'scuffler'. The height of the tines is adjustable through the handle on the driver's right.
Three Horse Plough & Ploughman
Typical horse-ploughing scene.
PREVREF 2161 duplicate
PREVREF 2161 duplicate