Crossing Gallery

Silver Cross advertisement

Advertisement for Silver Cross prams (or baby coaches), featuring an immaculately turned out young 1950s mother wearing an off the shoulder pink dress with pearls, heels and long yellow gloves, pushing a happy looking little baby in the world's most exclusive baby coach'. A smiling policeman sees them across a zebra crossing, while a Rolls Royce waits for them to cross

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The ocean liner Normandie by G. H. Davis

The new giant French ocean liner which made a record Atlantic crossing in four days, three hours: the "Normandie" - a diagrammatic drawing of her interior construction by G. H. Davis in the Illustrated London News. Also shown are comparisons with Big Ben and the National Gallery to get some sense of the ship's enormous size. Also the turbo-electric machinery which was, according to this illustration, sufficiently powerful to drive the whole of the underground railway system of London during rush hours. In the top right are photographs showing the foldaway beds in first class cabins. Date: 1935

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British Mark IV tank with Tadpole Tail, WW1

British Mark IV tank with Tadpole Tail, introduced in 1917 and used during the latter part of the First World War. The Tadpole Tail was an elongation of the rear horns to increase trench-crossing power, necessitated by the wider trenches of the Hindenburg Line. Date: 1917-1918

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