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WITH THE R. A. F. in FRANCE

... likely to come upon a sentry behind an innocent-looking bush and then to start wondering why he should be guarding a tall bathing machine. A little iarther on, the visitor doubles up beneath strange flapping curtains of netting. It is now possible to raise ...

Published: Saturday 27 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1036 | Page: 15 | Tags: Photographs 

Letter From Florida

... district other than Briny Breezes Trailer Camp, the biggest congregation of motor gipsies in the U.S.A., and, of course, the bathing machine imported from Trouville by Mr. Harvey S. Ladew, nephew of the late Berry Wall, who ornamented Trouville before Deauville ...

Published: Wednesday 19 March 1941
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1216 | Page: 18, 19 | Tags: Photographs 

Bookshelf

... a typical day at Margate around 1780 accommodation, amusements, prices and bathing etiquette. A Margate citizen, Beale, a Quaker, had been the inventor of the bathing machine which, prudish, gloomy and often dangerous, was to reign through the greater ...

To-day in Besieged HONG KONG

... and split skirts, out for a picnic, pause to smile at British Tommies digging bomb shelters just behind a swanky bathing beach where machine gun pill boxes squat among summer cottages. Enough barbed wire to fence in all the cattle in a Canadian prairie ...

Published: Friday 01 November 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2322 | Page: 18, 19, 66 | Tags: Photographs 

GERMAN PRESSURE ON A DISTRACTED SYRIA: To the Confused Internal Conditions in this Area is Now Added the Menace ..

... PRESSURE ON A DISTRACTED SYRIA To the Confused Internal Conditions in this Area is Now Added the Menace of the German War Machine AT the present moment, Syria seems likely to become a battleground between the Axis Powers and the British Allies, with the ...

Published: Saturday 07 June 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1988 | Page: 15 | Tags: Photographs 

LOAD OF 50-GIRL-POWER OF BEAUTY ABOARD THE WING OF A FLYING FORTRESS

... officers and fifty beautiful young bathing girls from the Aquacade at the New York World's Fair. They came to pay a visit to Mitchel Field and inspect the big machines. The aeroplane in the photograph is the same machine whi ch carried medical supplies to ...

Published: Wednesday 16 October 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 108 | Page: 19 | Tags: Photographs 

STRIDES IN CIVIL AVIATION: The London Airport Receives Its First Passengers: The Miles Marathon Prototype Tests

... in the centre and aoDroached by subterranean roadways linking up with the Bath Road. Three of the new runways, which will lie on newly-acquired ground to the north of the Bath Road, will not be begun until after 1950, and no demolition of houses in that ...

Published: Saturday 29 June 1946
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 791 | Page: 19 | Tags: Photographs 

AIR EDDIES: Yorker

... another's bath water without knowing it, each fresh supply being merely die same water after it had gone round the filters. Other stories about this aircraft were less printable and no more true. But it does really seem to be a fine machine. It seems ...

Published: Wednesday 21 July 1943
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 908 | Page: 32 | Tags: Photographs 

COMRIE: PROTOTYPE for the MODERN MINE

... taken back to their homes by special buses they will go to the modern pithead baths BRINGING THE NEWLY-CUT COAL FROM THE MINE TO THE SURFACE WORKS Left The tippler machine which empties the coal from the trams without the trams being disconnected. They ...

Published: Saturday 30 November 1946
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 580 | Page: 29 | Tags: Photographs 

AIR EDDIES: Noisy Noises

... because unless it is clearly understood, so many people spread the story that German machines have been flying directly over the house on the previous night. If German machines had, in fact, been flying directly over all the houses where they were reported ...

Published: Wednesday 17 July 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 593 | Page: 30 | Tags: Photographs 

FINLAND'S STAND Loot Captured from the Soviet Forces: How the Finnish Soldiers Keep Fit

... DICTATOR COUNTRIES PLACE SO MUCH RELIANCE WEARING THE LAPLAND TYPE OF FOOTGEAR, THESE FINNISH SOLDIERS EXAMINE A SOVIET SEWING MACHINE TAKEN FROM AN ENEMY CONVOY Among the loot discovered on one of the northern sectors were rolls of propaganda film, to be used ...

Published: Saturday 13 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 365 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs