Firework display featuring ships and castles History of science Collisions were all too common

Collisions were all too common in the 1870s and Punch often featured cartoons about the perils of railway travel to emphasise its dissatisfaction with the lack of real investment in new technology

Circa 1969

as John Bull points out

The Bodyguard World Tour 1993

The company closed on 1970

Firework display featuring ships and castles History of science Collisions were all too commonAnother order for a generall worke [for the pleasure of a Prince or some great person], and is to be acted on the water'. Plate between pp 68 & 69 from the book Pyrotechnia; or, A discourse of artificiall fire works, by John Babington, (London, 1635). Original: engraving. 1635