Fuel Collection

Each man for himself - prospectors at West Wylam digging for coal during the fuel shortage in February 1952

The Goodies, on the perfect answer to petrol rationing, ride their three seater tandem bicycle in London, Wednesday 21st November 1973

Mr. Douglas Purser who runs his Ford 1, 600 c. c. Capri on Coal
Mr. Douglas Purser who runs his Ford 1, 600 c.c. Capri on Coal, is pictured shovelling anthracite into the burner. February 1975 75-01164

A training exercise at the Merchant Navy School, teaceing rookies how to shovel coal and clean the furnaces with stones instead of coal

Picture shows some vintage petrol pumps in the Teesside area of England. Roadside petrol pumps were first installed in Britain in 1913, though they did not enter into general use until 1921

Mrs Annie Berry takes in her coal, which is delivered in a heap in the street. Stanleytown, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. 1st March 1954

Irish peat cutters on Achill Island County Mayo, Ireland New use for peat. It has been found that peat makes an excerllent addition in the manufacture of cattle food

Coal Mining underground scenes at Hucknall Colliery in Nottinghamshire. May 1972 P017832

Two men pushing a cart full of coal in a mine. July 1978 P018160

British soldiers gather fuel for an elderly Dutch woman outside the ruins of her home in Sint Joost. The men are Lance Bombardier K. Davies and Bombardier S

Operation Pluto (Pipe Lines Under The Ocean) where pipes were layed under the English Channel by which Allied Armies in Europe were nourished during WWII

Pipes for use in constructing the long line are transferred by US soldiers from a C-47 cargo plane to a truck in northern Burma

Allied Forces capture an enemy aerodrome during the ongoing battle around the Salerno area of Southern Italy following the successful landings

Captured petrol and oil dump in Derna during Second World War. 2nd March 1941

Burning coal dumps at Spitsbergen seen from the air. 150, 000 tonnes were burnt to prevent the Germans from using it. Circa September 1941

A German woman wears shorts for her work as they recover coal from the River Elbe. 3rd September 1945

Details of a pipeline that will extend 2000 miles from Calcutta to Yunnan, South China were revealed by Lieutenant General Daniel I. Sultan, commander of US forces in the Burma-India theatre

Gasoline at an air base somewhere in England during Second World War. 21st November 1944

The stockade of a restored coal mine in the Donets Basin region which was recently liberated by the advancing Red Army during the battle against the German Army on the Russian Front

A Nazi Gasoline train, one of ten specially built in Germany for fuel transport, pictured after being derailed and set on fire by French patriots near Varennes Le Grand during the night of 31st

A German petrol dump hidden in the woods, found in the Forest de Evreux near the River Seine in Northern France as Allied Forces continue to fight in Normandy following the D-Day landings

Petrol Queues for the Motor Mart garage on London Road. Long queues are forming in a bid by motorists to beat the 6pm deadline, after which a 5d increase will be applied. 22nd November 1968

Last minute queues for "cheap"petrol. Queues more than 100 years long build up
Last minute queues for " cheap" petrol. Queues more than 100 years long build up outside one Coventry garage as motorists fill up before tomorrows price increases

Mechanic Mr Keith Brodrick, putting up a "No Petrol"
Mechanic Mr Keith Brodrick, putting up a " No Petrol" notice at the Butts Garage. Some of Coventry and Warwickshires petrol stations

"2p off every gallon, cash sales only"offer at a petrol station in West
" 2p off every gallon, cash sales only" offer at a petrol station in West Midlands. 19th February 1975

Petrol station. West Midlands. 21st June 1967

Petrol station sign, West Midlands. 19th February 1975

Gulson Garage, West Midlands. 19th February 1975

Petra for Normandy. A fleet of small ships are enabling our troops in Normandy to keep on the move. Thousands of 4-gallons Jerry Cans of petrol being stored into a casting vessel. 29th June 1944

Women with scarves round their heads search a spoil heap near Manchester for fuel during the general strike, 1926

A United States Air Force KB50 tanker refuelling F100 and F101 fighter planes during a demonstration at the Coventry Air Pgeant at Baginton. July 1960

A United States Air Force tanker refuelling fighter planes during a demonstration at the Coventry Air Pageant at Baginton. August 1963

New coke ovens open at South Bank, Middlesbrough. 1971

Operation Pluto (pipe-lines under the ocean). First pictures. One of the greatest supply stories of the war is now being told for the first time

The London and North Eastern Railway Class U1 Beyer-Garratt locomotive, designed for banking coal trains. 29th April 1949

Aircraft refuelling at Gatwick Airport. 21st June 1983

In a symbollic gesture, Energy Minister Anthony Wedgwood-Benn and Argyll Consortium boss Fred Hamilton " turn on" the first oil to flow into Britain from the North Sea

Suez Crisis 1956 A billboard outside a petrol station vividly demonstrates the severity of the petrol shortages

Oil Pump in Moonie oil fields Moonie known as a nodding donkey

View of Sellafield Nuclear Power plant in Cumbria, Northern England February 1990

Suez Crisis 1956 Lines of cars queueing outside a petrol station show the severity of the petrol shortages

Shell Oil Chairman Mr McFadzian. 22nd February 1972

Shell Oil Chairman Mr McFadzian. 22nd February 1972

Coal roars down through the new mechanical tipping chute, filling the tender of ex-Great Eastern Railway Claud Hamilton class No

This pensioner received her ration of coal during the fuel shortage in January 1972

Miner Arthur Knox, 21 and his friend 23 year old Anthony Proudlock digging for coal at Washington F Pit in February 1972 during a fuel shortage

Gas heaters were used in some schools during the fuel shortage in February 1972

Prudhoe Bay Alaska. April 1977 77-02128-010

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