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1. Tilbury Container Terminal: a container being lifted.
*Tilbury Container Terminal: a container being lifted. A view from below of a container being raised for placement onto the 'Moreton Bay'. It gives a good sense of the scale of the cranes used. In a short...
2. Tilbury Container Terminal: a container being lowered in to the Moreton Bay.
*Tilbury Container Terminal: a container being lowered in to the Moreton Bay. A container is being loaded into the 'Moreton Bay' at the Tilbury Container Terminal in 1971.
3. Tilbury Container Terminal: positioning a crane over a container in stack shed.
*Tilbury Container Terminal: positioning a crane over a container in stack shed. Moving goods from the shed to the quay by crane at the Tilbury Container Terminal in 1971. The contrast with the legions of warehousemen who used to...
4. Trinity Buoy Wharf.
*Trinity Buoy Wharf. An aerial view of Trinity Buoy Wharf, formerly the maintenance headquarters of the Corporation of Trinity House. The small lightouse used to train...
5. The SS Wandle passing under London Bridge.
*The SS Wandle passing under London Bridge. The SS 'Wandle' passing under London Bridge on her maiden voyage on 30 October 1932. She carried coal - up to 2,220 tons - for the Wandsworth and...
6. The ore bulk carrier LA Loma.
*The ore bulk carrier LA Loma. Dry bulk carriers have revolutionised the transport of iron ore, coal and grain. Most iron ore is now carried in ships like this. Over 95% of all...
7. Loading the Comorin (1951) at the King George V Dock.
*Loading the Comorin (1951) at the King George V Dock. Computer equipment for Hong Kong being loaded onto the P&O vessel 'Comorin' (1951) at the King George V Dock in May 1968. The £45,000 computer...
8. Loading the Comorin (1951).
*Loading the Comorin (1951). Computer equipment for Hong Kong being loaded onto the P&O vessel 'Comorin' (1951) at the King George V Dock in May 1968. The £45,000 computer...
9. The Kanagawa Maru (1896).
*The Kanagawa Maru (1896). The passenger and cargo liner 'Kanagawa Maru' (5,853 gross tonnage), was built in 1896 by Henderson of Glasgow for the Japanese operator Nippon Yusen...
10. Loading computer equipment at the King George V Dock.
*Loading computer equipment at the King George V Dock. Computer equipment for Hong Kong being loaded onto the P&O vessel 'Comorin' (1951) at the King George V Dock in May 1968. The £45,000 computer...
 
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