W.D. & H.O. Wills

Railway Equipment

Stock ID: DLD

Full set of 50 vintage cigarette cards.

This series consists of the following subjects:

• 1. On the Footplate of a Modern Locomotive
• 2. Automatic Train Control System
• 3. Controls of Electric Train
• 4. How the Slip Coach System Works
• 5. Guard Slipping a Coach
• 6. Modern Locomotive Coaling Plant
• 7. Locomotive alongside a Water Tank
• 8. Guard Viewing Signals through Periscope
• 9. Picking Up Mails at Speed
• 10. Interior of Mail Sorting Coach
• 11. Steam Breakdown Crane
• 12. Testing the Wheels
• 13. Mechanical Track Layer at Work
• 14. Automatic Ticket-Printing and Change-Giving Machines
• 15. How an Escalator Works
• 16. Passimeter Booking Office
• 17. Point Construction
• 18. Track Signals
• 19. Modern Single Line Working Methods
• 20. Dover-Dunkerque Train Ferry
• 21. How to Distinguish Locomotive Types (1)
• 22. How to Distinguish Locomotive Types (2)
• 23. Locomotive Head Codes
• 24. Beyer-Garratt Articulated Locomotive
• 25. How the Communication Cord Works
• 26. How the Vacuum Brake Works
• 27. How the Westinghouse Compressed Air Brake Works
• 28. Picking Up Water at Speed
• 29. Diesel Railcar and Trailer
• 30. Dead Man’s Handle
• 31. All-Electric Kitchen Car, “Flying Scotsman”
• 32. Side Tipping Wagons
• 33. 120-Ton “Crocodile” Wagon
• 34. Vehicle Used for Tunnel Inspection
• 35. Weed-Killing Train
• 36. Wheeled Road-Rail Tank Trailer
• 37. Mobile Crane Handling Container Traffic
• 38. Lowering Locomotive Wheels on Wheel Drop
• 39. In the Control Tower, Whitemoor
• 40. Hump Yards and Railbrakes, Whitemoor
• 41. Ganger’s Motor Trolley
• 42. Correcting Track Alignment
• 43. Shunting by Capstan
• 44. Modern Vacuum-Operated Turntable
• 45. Hydraulic Buffers
• 46. Train Describer
• 47. Modern All-Electric Signal Box, Waterloo
• 48. Control Room, Three Bridges
• 49. Colour Light Signals
• 50. Transferring Mails from Ship’s Tender to Train