ZUM4888548: Oct. 10, 1953 - Argyll and Sutherland highlanders get ready to leave for British Guiana. Te 1st. Batt. The argyll and Sutherland high lander now stain at Redford Barracks, edinburgh are sailing to British Guiana on Saturday, to help combat the communist factions that now menace the peace of the colony. A detachment have been acting at royal guard at balm oral castle -but they have released by H.M. The queen - and are now joining their colleagues / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4888873: Oct. 10, 1953 - Scene Scene in Regent street London. Strike of Petrol tanker drivers clear traffic off roads: Many of London's main thoroughfares were showing unmistakable signs - traffic scarcity owing to the continued strike of Petrol Tanker Drivers. It is estimated that practically the whole of London will be virtuallya at a standstill by Monday - if the strike is not settled before them. Troops are standing-by ready to take over driving the tankers in order to keep essential services in action as soon as the Government issued the order / 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
ZUM4871847: Aug. 08, 1953 - Ten hours Afloat. Dramatic Rescue of Survivor of U.S. Atom bomber Crash in the Atlantic.: As seen from the searching vessel - the Cargo ship” Manchester Shipper” - Sgt. Roy Spears - still afloat after ten hours in the water. Sgt. Spears was taken aboard the cargo ship after being ten hours in the water after being the American Convair - Atom Bomber- world's largest plane - which crashed in the Atlantic. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4872034: Tue 02, 1953 - Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture An exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture, organized by the International Faculty of Arts, was held today at Park Lane House. Keystone Photo Shows: - A visitor to the exhibition, seen looking at Hamish Macpherson's” Mother and Child”, in Petradene, at the exhibition today. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4872128: Tue 03, 1953 - King Frederick IX (1899-1972) 54 years today: H.M. King Frederik IX of Denmark is 54 years old today. King Frederik had resolved that his birthday should be celebrated quietly. But thousands of Copenhagen crowded the Amalienborg square to give home their birthday cheers. The cheers were enormous when the Royal family appeared on the balcony of Amalienborg. The Royal Guard marched in its splendid red full dress uniform through Copenhagen / Bridgeman Images
ICA4872092: Le Nouveau candide, Satirique en N & B, 1980_9: Elections, President of the Republic - Giscard d'Estaing Valery, Mitterrand Francois, Marchais Georges, Rocard Michel, Chirac Jacques, Debre Michel - Illustration by Jacques Faizant (1918-2006), Faizant, Jacques (1918-2006) / Bridgeman Images