Crane Construction Machinery Collection (page 3)

Ship Building Strike
1st April 1957: A vessel under construction at the Burrow-in-Furness shipyard where work has stopped during a strike. Original Publication

Dounreay
The bottom half of the worlds first electricity-producing fast breeder reactor at Dounreay Nuclear Power Development Establishment in Scotland, 14th July 1956

Suspension Crane
A suspension crane lifting lengths of timber at the Navy Yard in Philadelphia, USA, 22 December 1919. (Photo by Archive Photos/Getty Images)

George V Dock Goose-Necked Cranes
Goose-necked cranes tower above the George V Dock (1921-1981) at the Port of London. King George V officially opened the dock on 8 July 1921

Goose-Necked Cranes
circa 1950: Goose-necked cranes tower above the George V dock at the Port of London. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

City Commuters
5th October 1954: City workers crossing London Bridge on their way to work on the third day of a bus strike. (Photo by Derek Berwin/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Aftermath of the Abbots Ripton Crash in Cambridgeshire, January 1876
The aftermath of a rail crash at Abbots Ripton in Cambridgeshire, where the Flying Scotsman collided with a coal train, and was then hit by the Leeds express, January 1876

Loading Locomotive
June 1927: A steam locomotive being hoisted by a crane onto a ship at Newcastle, bound for India. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Holborn
1912: Traffic and passers-by at Holborn in London. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Greatest Liners
Three of the worlds greatest liners, the Cunard vessel Aquitania (left), the White Star vessel Olympic (right) and the USS Leviathan ( former Hamburg America Line vessel Vaterland)

Queen Elizabeth
The Cunard superliner Queen Elizabeth in dry dock at Southampton, to be fitted with Denny-Brown stabilisers to counteract her roll. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Scottish Shipbuilding
An inspection of the midship framing forming the hull of the Cunard luxury liner Aquitania, under construction at the Clydebank shipyard owned by John Brown & Company

The Caronia
14th May 1947: The new Cunard liner Caronia, under construction at Clydebank. The Caronia weighed 34, 183 gross tons and was capable of carrying her 930 passengers at a speed of 22 knots.The Caronia

Building Aquitania
21st December 1911: The Cunard luxury liner Aquitania under construction at John Brown & Companys shipyard at Clydebank near Glasgow

Riveting Work during the construction of the Cunard luxury liner Aquitania
circa 1911: Construction workers using hydraulic riveting machinery during the construction of the Cunard luxury liner Aquitania at the Clydebank shipyard owned by John Brown & Company

Shipbuilding Yard
circa 1911: Construction of the Cunard luxury liner Aquitania at John Brown & Companys Clydebank shipyard. The Aquitania took three years to build and was launched in 1914 weighing 45

Scottish Shipyard
circa 1911: The Cunard luxury liner Aquitania surrounded by scaffolding while under construction at the Clydebank shipyard owned by John Brown & Company

New Dock
19th October 1932: The Cunard liner Mauretania being towed into the West Dock, Southampton for her annual overhaul after the summer season. She is the first liner to use this facility

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