Cycle Collection (#10)

Captain H V Kershaw, Boy Scout Commissioner for Nairobi, British East Africa

Officers of the 4th Guiana Scout Troop, South America

Belgian motorcycle despatch rider, 1914
A Belgian motorcycle despatch rider just manages to outpace a group of German Uhlans on horseback in a moonlight encounter. Date: 1914

French Army dog Prusco
One of the many dogs used by the French Army, Prusco, sits on the side car of a motor cycle, alongside the motor-cyclist scout

Poster, Rudge, Britains best bicycle since 1869, showing people playing tennis. Date: circa 1939

Poster, Rudge bicycles, showing people on a golf course. Date: circa 1950

Poster design, Peugeot Valentigney, depicting a lion with a bicycle

Poster, Cycles La Gracieuse & Gloria
Poster design, Cycles La Gracieuse & Gloria, depicting an allegorical female figure with wings and a bicycle. Date: circa 1910

Motor cycle with side-car ambulance, WW1
A motor cycle with side car converted into an ambulance, outside the War Office in London. Several of these vehicles were already in use at the front at the time. Date: 1914

Motor machine guns taking cover, Western Front, WW1
Motor machine guns taking cover in a sunken road on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Tank Corps mascot on motorcycle, Western Front, WW1
Stunter, the clever mascot of the Tank Corps, balancing in front of the rider on a motorcycle near the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: May 1918

British motor machine gun battery, Western Front, WW1
A British motor machine gun battery leaving camp in answer to a signal on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Selfridges cycle advertisement by H. L. Oakley
Delightful advertisement for the cycle department of London department store, Selfridge s, guaranteeing top speeds at low prices and featuring a silhouette of a cyclist zooming downhill by H. L

Motor cyclist on the Western Front, WW1
A motor cyclist putting his enthusiasm to good use on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 1914

Two contrasting forms of transport, then and now. Above: a lady in a sedan chair, about to leave Hampton Court for home. Below: a rather more racy journey

Young woman and boy on two-seater cycle, Bruges, Belgium
A young woman and a boy riding a four-wheeled two-seater cycle (also known as a velo double) in Bruges, Belgium. Date: 1936

Cycle track on roadway, Germany
A cycle track on a roadway in Germany, with two cyclists making good use of it. Date: 20th century

Cartoon, The Motor Dreadbike, WW1
Cartoon, The Motor Dreadbike, authorised and approved by the Army Council. An imaginary armoured motorcycle for use during the First World War. Date: September 1914

Transport methods used by soldiers, WW1
Methods used by soldiers for transporting their equipment during the First World War. Showing a French cyclist scout aiming his rifle with his cycle on his back

Six young men on their bicycles in a field

Young woman with bicycle and hockey stick
A young woman with a bicycle and a hockey stick, standing in front of a window

Couple on a two-seater cycle, Belgium
A couple on a four-wheeled two-seater cycle (also known as a velo double) outside the Taverne Emile in a town in Belgium. Date: 1936

Woman and boy on two-seater cycle, Bruges, Belgium
A woman and a boy riding a four-wheeled two-seater cycle (also known as a velo double) in Bruges, Belgium. People are sitting at tables outside a cafe on the left. Date: 1936

Boy cycling over a bridge
A boy cycling over a bridge. Date: circa 1940s

Woman with a bicycle
A smiling woman in a garden with a bicycle

Repeating Pattern - Bicycles. *PLEASE NOTE that the magnifying glass is solely to show the detail of the repeating pattern and will not feature on the final file.*

Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan - 100 Stone Steps Date: 1910s

Cycle Tyres - Dunlop - Speed and Sports Range - Road Racing (Hgh Pressure) File Pattern, Road Racing (High Pressure) File Pattern with Ribbed centre, Sports, Speed, Tandem, Sprite and Sprite Tandem

Motor Cycle Tyres - Dunlop - Eight different styles of tyre
Eight different types of Dunlop Motor Cycle Tyres - the Fort, Standard, Heavy Duty (Beaded Edge), Standard (Ribbed), Solo Sports, Sports, Road Racing (Ribbed) and Road Racing (Triple Stud)

Young Boy with a Penny Farthing Bicycle
Studio photograph of a small young boy with a large penny farthing bicycle. Date: circa 1890s

Close-up of Otto-cycle engine. Hargrave Slide 59

Otto-cycle engine four-cylinder I crank engine
Otto-cycle engine four-cylinder I crankengine. Hargrave Slide 58

?Ordinary? cycle

Macmillan?s cycle

Hobby Horse cycle (without pedals), c.1820-1880 Date: 19th century

Argynnis paphia, silver-washed fritillary
Plate 31. A Watercolour by Frederick William Frohawk (1861-1946) depicting a caterpillar, chyrsalis and adult silver-washed fritillary butterfly

Stagmatoptera precaria, mantid
Life cycle of the mantid (Stagmatoptera precaria). Reproduced as an engraving after the orginal watercolour from as Plate 66 Metamorphosis Insectorum (1705) by Maria Sybilla Merian (1647-1717)

Common rock types
A collection of common rock types - left to right - Igneous (granite), sedimentary (sandstone) and metamorphic (schist)

Butterfly lifecycle
Plate 109 from 298 water-colour drawings of insects and larvae, Frankfurdt 1622 by C. Flegel

Calcidiscus leptoporus and Syracolithus quadriperforatus, co
In this scanning electron micrograph, the transition of a life-cycle stage in Calcidiscus is shown from the outer cover to the inner layer. Specimen taken from W. Mediterranean

CASTAGNO, Andrea del (1423-1457). Dante Alighieri. ca. 1450. Portrait holding a book, from a cycle of famous personages. Fresco transferred to canvas. Renaissance art. Quattrocento. Fresco. ITALY

CASTAGNO, Andrea del (1423-1457). Francesco Petrarca. ca. 1450. Portrait holding a book, from a cycle of famous personages. Fresco transferred to canvas. Renaissance art. Quattrocento. Fresco. ITALY

Cycle of the Months. 1391-1407. ITALY. Trento. Castle Buonconsiglio. Eagles Tower. August: farmers reaping wheat. Work commissioned by Giorgio di Liechtenstein. Anonymous author

Cycle of the Months. 15th c. ; Cycle of the Months
Cycle of the Months. 15th c.; Cycle of the Months. 15th c. ITALY. Trento. Castle Buonconsiglio. Eagles Tower. Court scene, a knight and a lady. Detail

ITALY. Bolzano. Roncolo Castle. Dance scene belonging to a cycle dedicated to the story of Tristan and Iseult. Renaissance art. Fresco

ITALY. Trento. Castle Buonconsiglio. Eagles Tower. Cycle of the Months. Detail of a farmer sharpening the scythe. International

Beeston Motor Cycles advert
Beeston Motor Cycles, 1896

Stanley Show Cycles Exhibition, 1896 Date: 1896

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