Crashes Collection

MONTPARNASSE ACCIDENT
At Mont Parnasse terminus of the Chemin de Fer de l'Ouest, the Granville train crashes through the buffers and into the street, killing a poor woman selling newspapers Date: 1895

Trams causing havoc on a Belfast street
Horses, carts, wagons and pedestrians in an almighty crash involving two trams in Donegal Place in Belfast. The card caption reads: " Our Trammelled Streets" Date: 1905

GLC-LFB Road traffic accident (RTA)
A collision between a bus and car resulted in the bus careering into a terraced house and a response by all the emergency services

Master of the Asteroid, Wonder Stories Scifi Magazine Cover
MASTER OF THE ASTEROID - A stranded astronaut is honoured as a god when he crashes on a distant planet

Messerschmitt Bf-110
Luftwaffe Messerschmitt Bf-110 During WW2 Date: 1940s

Gerhardt Cycleplane
Men Inspecting Crashed Gerhardt Cycleplane with Hangars Behind Date: 1920s

Hawker Sea Fury Landing Accident / Crash Sequence Onto Aircraft-Carrier Hms Glory (R62) Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm Faa During Korean War Date: 1952

WW2 - Poindexter Crashes The Fifth Column
An illustrated front cover for a WW2 story book, Poindexter Crashes The Fifth Column, written by George C. Foster. Date: 1941

Billy Crashes His Bicycle
An illustration for a wartime children's short story book, Adventures! The image shows a boy named Billy, crashing into a motor vehicle and falling off his bicycle. Date: circa 1940s

An Oblivion
A comical illustration which shows a stunned watercolour painter who has settled himself on the tip of a rock to do a watercolour storm study, humourously he forgot to bring water

Brownie Grocer crashes into the baker's Blackberry Pie Date: 1910

English Electric Canberra B. 2 WJ730
English Electric Canberra B.2 WJ730, on the RAE Farnborough dump in June 1962, after being withdrawn from use by the Empire Test Pilot's School

Ww1 Wwi World War One First 1st Great I Reginald
ww1, wwi, world, war, one, first, 1st, great, i, reginald, alexander, john, vc, victoria, cross, royal, naval, air, service, rnas, officer, aircraft, test, testing, flight, henry, beach, newman

SEVERO & MECHANIC DIE
Brazilian Severo sinks his fortune in what he believes to be a foolproof dirigible : alas, it isn't, and he and his mechanic die when it crashes in the avenue de Maine, Paris. Date: May 1902

Lieutenant Collot, a French military aviator, successfully flies beneath the Tour Eiffel, Paris : unfortunately he then hits a cable and dies in the subsequent crash. Date: 1926

Tour Eiffel Air Crash
French aviator Lieutenant Collot successfully flies his biplane beneath the Tour Eiffel, but in a moment he will hit a cable and crash fatally Date: 1926

Lockheed L-049 Constellation
On 8th January 1951 G-Ahen Lockheed L-049 Constellation Overshot the Runway at Filton During a Training Flight, it Was Repaired and Returned to Service Date: 1951

Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm Faa Pilot Meets Ships Captain a?
Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm Faa Pilot Meets Ships Captain after an Accident / Crash Aircraft-Carrier Hms Glory (R62) in the Far East During Korean War Date: 1951

Avro 652 Anson
Two Rcaf No 7 Service Flying Training School Avro 652 Ansons Collided 50 Feet above the Ground and Became Locked Together During Glide Approaches to the Same Runway at Macleod, Alberta

Avro 621 Tutor Crashed Near a Railway-Line at Castle Donington - Flight Cadet Peter Vaughan of Ilford Received a Broken Leg and a Cut Chin and Was Taken to Derby Royal Infirmary Date: 1938

Avro 652A Anson 1 / I
Avro 652A Anson 1 Crashed into a Hangar During Take-Off from Croydon, UK on 8th March 1949 Date: 1949

British Army Aeroplane No 1
The Wreckage of Colonel Samuel Franklin Codys British Army Aeroplane No 1 Being Removed from the Landing Site after Making the First-Flight

World War Two Canadian Fighter Air Ace George Frederick ?
World War Two Canadian Fighter Air Ace George Frederick Buerling Nicknamed Screwball. During His Flying Career He Was Credited with 31 Kills

Zeppelin
3D Stereoscopic Image of the Gondola - from Which Bombs Were Dropped on London - of a Zeppelin Brought Down Off the Essex Coast, Guarded by a Soldier Date: 1918

Ufos / Mantell / Godman
Captain Thomas Mantell of the U.S. National Guard encounters a huge UFO in his P-51, but crashes while attempting to pursue it (picture 1 of 2) Date: 7 January 1948

UFOS / AZTEC
Alleged alien remains from a UFO crash near Aztec, New Mexico. Possibly a monkey used in a military rocket test which failed. Date: 7 July 1948

Gloster Bamel
Specially designed as a single seat racer, a Bamel crashes while flying at Hucclecote, Gloucestershire, on 12 July. Date: 1921

WW1 - Zeppelin downed over Potters Bar
WW1 - An illustration depicting the four stages of a Zeppelin raider bursting into flames, and its fall through the starry night sky over Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, England

WW1 - Seaplane crash, 1915
WW1 - A derelict mine-sweeper seaplane seen crashed in the ocean and discovered by a Dutch trawler YN7. Two men row in a small boat towards the aircraft. Date: 1915

Rumpler C III German two-seater biplane. It entered service in early 1917 but was quickly withdrawn when a design fault led to numerous crashes. Date: circa 1917

German Gotha plane brought down over Thanet, WW1
A Gotha biplane crashes to the ground, one of the casualties of an air battle over the Isle of Thanet. The plane was one of two brought down, crashing into a cornfield. Date: 1917

Gentleman crashes on his bicycle and utters a loud... " Mark of exclamation!" Date: circa 1940s

Emiel Hartman crashes in his man-powered ornithopter at Cranfield, Bedfordshire. 4 November 1959

Working Elephants 1907
Elephants help to extinguish the flames when a train carrying a menagerie crashes in West Virginia, USA. Date: 1907

AKRON CRASHES 1933
AKRON : always accident- prone, the American airship is caught in a storm and plunges into the sea, never to emerge... Date: 1933

Crash and Bull
When the Paris-Amsterdam passenger plane is forced to land in a field near Brussels, it is attacked by a bull who resents the intrusion Date: 1925

Vulcan aircraft crash
Crash of Vulcan Mk 1, VX770, RAF Syerston, Notts, 20 Sept. 1958 (1) Date: 20th September 1958

Rough Seas hit the Waterfront at Ramsgate, Kent Date: circa 1910s

Crashed Avro 504A
A crashed Avro 504A. One of the most famous biplane trainers, it first appeared in 1913. Used in the opening stages of World War One for bombing and reconnaissance. Date: 1914

Elephant at a Party
A baby elephant gate-crashes a childrens birthday party and attempts to whisk away the birthday cake with its trunk! Date: 1960s

A Trip on a Tricycle Chair, 1890
Illustration showing a Trip on a Tricycle Chair that leads to disastrous consequences for the chairs driver. At top right, the young man in the bowler hat purchases the machine

Crash Amid Crocodiles
To crash in central Africa is sufficient of a calamity in itself, but to crash into crocodile-infested Lake Victoria is more than anyones share of bad luck

Caught by Trailing Rope
When a plane takes off at Prague, a boy is caught up in a trailing rope, but he lands in a tree

Boucher / Fatal Crash 1934
Helene Boucher, French aviator, crashes fatally in fog

Boucher / Crash 1932
Helene Boucher, French aviator, crashes her Avro

Paris Tram Crash
Left to itself, a Paris tram starts - seemingly of its own accord - and crashes at 60 km/hour

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