Finance Collection (page 18)

SS Orsova
The Orient Steam Navigation Company passenger liner SS Orsova, built on the Clyde and launched in 1909. She was torpedoed off Plymouth during World War I, then repaired and returned to service

Girl About Town
A girl about town leans on her Alvis motor car and surveys the dilapidated facade of a thatched cottage. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Bankside View
St Pauls Cathedral seen from Bankside on the River Thames, London, with barges on the river.. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Electric Car
American inventor and physicist Thomas Edison (1847 - 1931) with his first electric car, the Edison Baker. He is holding one of the batteries used to power the vehicle

Black Canyon on the Boulder river in Colorado before work starts on the construction of the Boulder Dam. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Mississippi Riverboat
circa 1930: A riverboat on the Mississippi. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Victorian Fire Engine
1879: A steam driven Victorian fire engine with crew aboard. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Lagonda
8th September 1936: A Vincent Lagonda. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Harvest Help
circa 1895: A Victorian family holding hay rakes are helping with the haymaking. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Parking Spiral
circa 1933: Spiral ramp allowing easy access for cars to all levels of a car park, the Garage Littorio, Piazza Roma, Venice (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Tote Machines
1929: Inside the tote room at Ascot race course showing the tote machines. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Night Fishermen
circa 1930: Fisherman in their boat silhouetted against a darkening sky. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Citroen Cars
circa 1930: Visitors to the Citroen stand at a motor exhibition. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Rocket Power
circa 1930: Rocket cyclists pedalling away in a cloud of smoke. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Shadow Wheel
circa 1930: A bicycle wheel throws its shadow on a pavement. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Constantinople
circa 1930: Looking towards Stamboul along Galata Bridge the main thoroughfare in Constantinople (Istanbul). Trams run along the centre of the bridge and ships are moored alongside

A Field In California
circa 1925: An oil field in California. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Merchant Ship
circa 1915: A merchant ship, the Star of Alaska in sail. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Down The Watter
1885: Moored at Broomielaw, Glasgow in the foreground the steamer Chancellor (1880) behind which is Buchanans Vivid and then Eagle both dating from 1864

Wheres The Ground?
circa 1930: Riveters at work on the 55th storey of the Cities Service Building, New York. In the background is the Woolworth Building. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Foundation Garments
circa 1925: A mannequin in a department store dressed in a suspender belt and bra. The shop is possibly Harrods of London, during their Great Summer Sale

Great Wheel
1875: Great Wheel at Earls Court, London. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Bentley Car
1935: Mr Heitners open-top Bentley sports car. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Beauty Salon
1930: A nude mannequin in the window of a beauty salon in Germany. (Photo by Alexander Binder/General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Whaling Vessel
circa 1930: A whaling ship plunges through the waves during an Antarctic trip, dragging the carcasses of several whales behind it. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Fair Weather Riders
1921: A crowded open-top tram on Fifth Avenue, New York. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Canal Workers
circa 1868: Construction workers who operate the dredging equipment on the Suez Canal at Port Said. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Out On A Wing
circa 1920: The construction team of the Rohrbach airship Romar line up on the aircrafts wings. The Romar completed its first successful flight in 1928

Wrigley Building
circa 1930: The Wrigley Building in Chicago built for maximum daylight and ventilation by the Wrigley chewing gum company. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Krupp Factory
1912: The Krupp steelworks and arms factory in Essen. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Fish Market
1870: Piles of fish on the ground at Lowestoft Fish Market, Suffolk. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Future Commuters
circa 1890: Labourers clearing the ground for a railway line running beside a village of thatched huts in Kenya. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Tea Plantation
circa 1900: Workers sorting basketfuls of fresh tea leaves at a Lipton tea plantation in Ceylon. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Captured Tanks
circa 1917: Germans testing the climbing powers of captured British tanks, redecorated in German colours. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Arctic Aircraft
circa 1925: The Dornier-Wal N25 in which Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen led an expedition to the North Pole in 1925. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

St Lazare Station
circa 1925: St Lazare station in Paris filled with people waiting to travel during the August holidays. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Eros Bus
1909: The silhouette of the Eros statue hovers above passengers on board a motor bus passing Piccadilly Circus in London. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Amundsens Ship
circa 1910: The ship Fram, used for the expedition to the South Pole led by Norwegian explorer Roald Engelbrecht Gravning Amundsen. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Gun Turning
circa 1895: The rough turning of a large gun at Woolwich Arsenal. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Manhattan Skyline
circa 1930: A view over the Hudson River of the Lower Manhattan skyline, New York. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Tottenham Court Road
1900: Horse-drawn vehicles at the junction of Tottenham Court Road and Oxford Street, London. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Caledonian Market
circa 1900: The Caledonian Market in London. (Photo by Paul Martin/General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

London Shoeshine
circa 1900: A bootblack at work in a London street. (Photo by Paul Martin/General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Dining Car
circa 1910: A de luxe dining car on board a train with dining car staff in attendance. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

U-Boats In Kiel
1917: U-Boats in Kiel Harbour during the First World War. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Boat Sinking
circa 1916: A British merchant vessel in the North Sea, sunk by a U-Boat which has surfaced. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Ship Explodes
circa 1916: A ship explodes in the middle of the sea during the First World War. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Shipbuilding
circa 1910: The Mauretania under construction at John Brown and Co Ltd shipyard on Clydeside. John Browns shipyards were the most famous on Clydeside and produced many liners

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