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Walt Disney filming penguins at London Zoo

Photographs

1935-06-13

Streamlined car on display at a motor exhibition, Olympia

Photographs

1935-10-17

Children at an adoption home

Photographs

1938-12-20

Father Christmas with the kiddies

Photographs

1932-12-03

A driver at wheel of an Amilcar C6 racing car

Photographs

1933-05

Golden Spurs and Coronation Ring

Photographs

1937

Notre Dame

Photographs

c. 1937

Hans Stuck in a Mercedes-Benz SSK racing car

Photographs

1931

Lodge model H14 sparking plug, small 14mm for moto

Road Transport

1934

Model 207.IFL shell fuse nosecap

Aeronautics

1940

Melotype typewriter, c. 1936-7, serial no. 37952

Printing & Writing

1936-1937

Mechanical Horse, 6-ton, Great Western Railway, built by Scammell in 1939, fleet number 6271, registration FLL 362.

mechanical horse

Road Vehicles (Railway)

1939

Electric cooker, model E37G

Domestic Appliances

c.1940

Siemens 16mm magazine cinecamera

Cinematography

1936

Print advertisement for Cine-Kodak cameras

Cinematography

1940

Motor coach, Southern Railway and British Railways Southern Region, electric motor open 3rd brake, No S11179S, 4-Cor, built 1937 for services between London and Portsmouth.

4 Cor electric motor coach

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1937

Wagon registration plate, cast iron, Great Western Railway, GWR 21 tons, 4077 of 1933.

wagon registration plate

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1933

Example of standard railway signal pulley, 1938.

signal pulley

Signalling & Telecommunications

1938

Gate valve from Mather and Platt sprinkler system

Pumping Machinery

c.1938

McVitie Weston valve collection, Marconi WT Co valve, type HL2

Electronic Components

1932

McVitie Weston valve collection, Cossor valve, type V.R.19

Electronic Components

1932

Solid body camera for 127 rollfilm 1 1/4 x 1 5/8 inches. Fitted with an Ensign Multar anastigmat lens F:50mm f/3.5-16 No. 129481. focal plane shutter /2/5/10/15/25/50/75/100/150/250/500/1000/T. Shutter cocked by wind on knob. Coincidence type coupled rangefinder, helical focusing lens mount. Direct vision optical finder. Lens cap. No. H 21085. Ensign Limited.

Ensign Multex Model 0 camera

Photographic Technology

1936

Clarkes Stove gas iron

Gas Industry

c.1935

Salon electric hair dryer, `Airlux', Serial No. 174, manufactured by Osborne, Garrett & Co. Ltd, London W1. (and at Birmingham, Glasgow & Manchester). c1938

Salon electric hair dryer, `Airlux', Serial No. 17

Domestic Appliances

c. 1938

KLG Sparking Plug, L583 with Type MSR cap suppress

Road Transport

c.1937

Foden 6 ton diesel lorry, 1931 serial no. 14004, registration no. LG7186

Road Transport

1931

Motoring and Hiking map, Section D (Including Barnsley, Bradford, Chesterfield, Doncaster, Halifax, Harrogate, Huddersfield, Leeds, Mansfield, Newark, Sheffield, York) Scale 3 miles to an inch. Folded in card covers, by W. & A. K. Johnston Limited., Edinburgh and London. 1937.

Motoring and Hiking map, Section D (Including Barn

Domestic Appliances

1937

Zeiss Ikon Contax precision miniature camera; with camera cu

Photographic Technology

1932

Mechanical-advantage demonstration with windlass, pulley block and weight

Children's Gallery

1932

McVitie Weston valve collection, Cossor valve, type MVS-PEN-B

Electronic Components

1939

Cigarette box, c. 1930.

Plastics and Modern Materials

1931-1940

Hughes Medal of the Royal Society, London

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1939

England vs Austria, 1932

Photographs

7 December 1932

Ferranti electric meter

Electricity Supply

1940

Imperial "Good Companion" typewriter, c.1937

Printing & Writing

1937

Station pointer, 60cm legs, by Ed. Sprenger, Berli

Surveying

1940

Medal commemorating first free balloon stratospher

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1931

Mac-key

Radio Communication

1935-40

Egg cup, ceramic, Great Western Railway - Hotels, made by John Maddock and Sons Limited, Burslem, 1940; cream withred and black bands and "GWR" in red diamond, marked underneath "GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY HOTELS 3/40".

Ceramic egg cup, Great Western Railway - Hotels

Passenger Comforts

1940

Nobel Prize for Physics, awarded to George Paget Thomson

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1937

Soap box and nail brush

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

1940

Circular powder box of cream urea formaldehyde, li

Plastics and Modern Materials

1931-1940

Length of piping from Merlin Spitfire aircraft engine (see Pt10)

Vickers-Supermarine Mk I Spitfire, c 1940, with separate Merlin engine.

Aeronautics

1940

Photograph showing a snow leopard at the London Zoo

Photographs

1931-12-03

AEC Mammoth Major Mk 1 four axle lorry, 1934, fitt

Road Transport

1934

Linotype Model 48

Printing & Writing

1935

"Monte Carlo" Folding Camera

Photographic Technology

1935-1940

Print advertisement for Cine-Kodak eight camera

Cinematography

1935

Model flash steam plant

Motive Power

1935

McVitie Weston valve collection, Mullard valve, type CL33

Electronic Components

c. 1940