ZUM4883599: Oct. 10, 1953 - Petrol Strike Threatens to Halt London: Empty Petrol tanks face London and the Home Countries this morning as the result of the unofficial strikes of 6,000 Petrol-tanker drivers. Ministers were meeting today to prepare emergency plans to use troops to distribute petrol if the strike continues / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4886613: Oct. 10, 1953 - Feather Pluckesr fear machine rivals strike in London's east end: Ten popular because their firm had introduced a” Plucking Machine” from the United States. The men are members of the 84 strong London Poultry Dresser's Association and fear that their jobs may become redundant. Their boss, Mr. I. Grossman of Lewis and Co., Cobb Street, London E. said that the machines pluck and clean 120 birds an hour while a plucker does about 200 a day rough plucked not clean / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4886642: Oct. 10, 1953 - Now the animals are again on Bremen town hall: The work of plastic art” Bremen City Musicians” by Professor Gerhard Marcks found now its place on the Western side of the old town hall. They are not quite contented by the not realistic picture of the animals and they are fearing that the population might do any harm to the monument during night time. Therefore it was ordered that a guard of Brmen police had to stay there every night. If the animals could as they perhaps wanted then they would probably break out in a load roaring but they are just” not realistic” / Bridgeman Images
ETE4887502: Second World War (1939-1945) - World War II (WWII or WW2) Great Britain Spring 1944 - On an Air Base of the 9th USAF during the DDAY preparations, from left to right: General Dwight Eisenhower (Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe), General Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory (Commander of the Air Forces) and General American Lewis H Brereton (9th USAF CG) / Bridgeman Images