Testing Collection

The Electric Car. A new unusually quiet little motor car can be seen going through its paces around London. Produced by Enfield Auto Motive Limited

The largest self-righting lifeboat to be built for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, was tested at Portsmouth today. It was the 48ft

The crew of Little Haven Inshore Lifeboat testing a new Honda miniature tractor. The machine could soon be part of equipment at lifeboat stations throughout the country if it passes strict tests

The moment of detonation of the second test of Britains Hydrogen bomb. As seen by members of the press and naval ratings aboard HMS Alert 35 miles offshore of Malden Island

LCC Weights and measures office. A collection of fraudulent weights and measures, at one of the offices. Weights filled with cork and wood, measures with false bottoms etc. 7th July 1932

Making bowls is a fine art. At Messers Clapshaw and Cleave works, Coventry Road, Birmingham where woods for the game of bowls are made

Dr Vladimir Petrow, the man who discovered the Volidan birth pill, checking an experiment with one of his research team in one of the laboratories

Employees at Messra Lever Brothers Ltd. Port Sunlight, Cheshire, are human guinea pigs. During the course of a day they may be required to test on themselves shaving cream, lotions, lipstick

Exercises by the Great Yarmouth lifeboat The Earl and Countess of Howe at Porstmouth. The boat was turned completely over by means of straps attached to a dockyard crane

A billowing inferno of flame and smoke swirls 250ft into the sky from a man made lake of 6, 000 gallons of fuel oil. Moving slowly through the blaze is a specially fire-proofed lifeboat steered by

A new rescue craft was tested at Littlehampton, Sussex, Wednesday 17th April, 1963. It 13 the R.F.D. " Zodiac" - a high speed inflatable all weather craft powered by an outboard engine

The largest self-righting lifeboat to be built for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, was tested at Portsmouth today. It was the 48ft

Londons Lifeboat dock testing equipment. Lifebelts are placed in tanks of water for twenty fours hours then re-weighed to test how much water has soaked in. 24th January 1937

A Cromwell tank being tested in Britain. July 1944

A mushroom cloud rises over the Pacific moments after the detonation of Britains second Hydrogen bomb. As seen by members of the press

Engines being assembled at the Triumph car factory in Coventry. 23 September 1931

Members of the press and naval ratings aboard HMS Alert 35 miles offshore of Malden Island, Kiribati. Seen here dressed in protective suits known as Goon Suits

Czecho-Slovakia Crisis (Sept. 13-29, 1938. ) A. R. P. measures taken in Liverpool as members
Czecho-Slovakia Crisis (Sept.13-29, 1938.) A.R.P. measures taken in Liverpool as members of the public seen here receiving their gas masks at an un-named school 27th September 1938

Lifeboat HQ at Poplar, water tests for life belts. July 1932

Trials of Miss England II. Kaye Don in the motor-boat Miss England II, with Mr R E Garner, mechanic, on land. Lough Neagh. Northern Ireland. 20th January 1931

A British Army Mk IV tank being tested on a steep gradient at Oldbury in the West Midlands 4th April 1918

Protecting the housewife. Weights and measures testing department of the LCC. Testing scales and weights. Thousands are brought to this office each year to be tested

Tennis Balls being weighed at Slazenger in Bradford, Yorkshire, England. As of 2018, the required weight of a tennis ball is 58.5 grams. Picture taken 22nd May 1968

Tennis Balls being dropped from a height to see how good their bounce is, at Slazenger in Bradford, Yorkshire, England. As of 2018, the required weight of a tennis ball is 58.5 grams

Apprentice at the British Rail Research Laboratories electrically testing a rail fastening assembly. 18th May 1964

Testing at the Rocket Propulsion Establishment, Westcott, Buckinghamshire, Thursday 5th November 1964

The Royal Albert Hall, London. 1969. Picture set show improving and testing the acoustics at The Royal Albert Hall. 3 men in the centre of the auditorium with their instruments

The Fairey Long Rang Monoplane, seen here at RAF Northolt just about to take off for RAF Cranwell. 3rd December 1932

Picture shows a TV Commercial shoot for an early style of electric car. Picture taken 3rd January 1974

Optician with Visual Survey Telebinocular, Newcastle, 22nd July 1971

LHT 117 Motorcar has its breaks tested in a state of the art Car Testing Bay at a Teesside garage, 18th August 1960

Tea tasters at Tetley s, Teesside. 1972

The FAB 4 (Fast Afloat Boat) is tested by the RNLI in the Bristol Channel off Barry Dock, where the Barry lifeboat is based

A specially adapted Avro Lancaster seen here carrying out a live testing of a Barnes Wallis Upkeep bouncing bomb off the coast at Reculver, Kent circa May 1943

Cleveland Agricultural Show, Mike Badger checks the honey. 28th July 1990

The largest tyre ever made to date (27th October 1978) by Dunlop, seen here on its arrival at Fort Dunlops test centre in Birmingham

Aircraft seating exhibition. 17th January 1957

Warrant Officer Tom Guttery (centre) seen here in the test house of his workshop at an RFC training unit at Montrose, Scotland in 1916

Donald Campbell launches Bluebird K7 on Ullswater for tests, 8th February 1955. He set a record of 202.15 mph (324 km/h), beating the previous record by some 24 mph (39 km/h) held by Stanley Sayres

This is the pattern of movement caused by a six ton 16 cwtLondon transport double decker bus when it goes into an uncontrolled skid

This is the pattern of movement caused by a six ton 16 cwtLondon transport double decker bus when it goes into an uncontrolled skid

American space experiments in progress in the desert, twenty five miles from the little town of Almogordo in New Mexico, USA December 1957

An employee of the Knockando Whisky Distillery checks the casks in the bonded warehouse. The whisky is left a minimum of three years but usually between 8 and 25 years in wooden barrels to mature

Barrels being tested in the bonded warehouse at the Knockando Whisky Distillery, Moray, in the Strathspey whisky producing area of Scotland. January 1972

By the soft light of a candle the wine shows a rich ruby light. This inspection in a vault is by Patrick Connolly, a director of Connolly and Olivieri Ltd, and assistant head cellarman, Ray Sheward

London RT Bus being safety tested by The Ministry of Transport. The top deck is loaded with ballast equivalent to 30 passengers, and there is no ballast on the lower deck. 21st November 1952

British Hat and Allied Felt Makers Research Associations new laboratory at Stanley House, Fairfield, Manchester. Oh my Hat: - Barbara Hodson measuring the stiffening produced by proofing in hats

Monkeys at the University of Texas are being subjected to lengthy experiments by scientists to try and find a cure for the killer disease AIDS in human beings

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