Driving Collection (#27)

Scooter girl
A policeman shouts out an anxious warning to a little girl who is merrily riding her scooter on the road forcing a chauffeur driven car to slow down

Family in a fine open-top sports car
A Mother takes her two children for a spin in this beautiful and imposing open-top British sports car - a Standard Rhyl Sas. This is obviously a posed picture, as the crank handle is still in place!

Three-wheeled sports car in the country
Two chaps in full driving attire park their sporty three-wheeler in a field

Couple out for a spin
A couple head out into the countryside for a spin in this sporty three-wheeled car

Two chaps in a sporty 20s motor
Two chaps in full driving attire park their sporty three-wheeler in a field

Dicing with death
A group out motoring encounter a broken bridge but the daring driver puts his foot on the accelerator and the car jumps the gap

Four in Hand Club at Hyde Park
The opening meet of the Four in Hand Driving Club at Hyde Park, a popular social event for the upper classes, showing Lord and Lady Ludlow (Henry Ludlow Lopes, 2nd Baron Ludlow of Heywood)

The Cafe de la Paix, Boulevard Capucines, Paris
Undated photograph of outside of the Cafe de la Paix, Boulevard Capucines, Paris. HPG/1/14/5 (vii)

Motor omnibus and motor car
Traffic passing a bridge in an unidentified town. A shiny blue open top car runs alongside a yellow omnibus emblazoned with advertising. Date: c.1925

Standard Motor Company advertisement
Advertisement for the Standard Motor Company of Coventry, England, wishing all their customers a Happy Christmas. The illustration featuring a Standard car (model unknown)

Britannia and Eve, November 1931
Front cover illustration featuring a lady in a beret and scarf driving a convertible car

Coaching Club in Hyde Park, London
The Coaching Club driving from Hyde Park to Ranelagh -- a fashionable social event for the upper classes

1914 Motor Car
People driving a vintage motor car in Australia in 1914

Driving a car
Women driving a vintage motor car in Australia in 1914

Aborigine Women
Aborigine women driving a Ford motor car in Australia c. 1909

Brother and sister in a toy vintage car
A young boy in a sailor suit at the wheel of his fantastic replica model car complete, with running boards, fenders, horn, lanterns and steering wheel

Drinking by an Austin 7 car on the beach
Two gentleman (one in full-length swimming costume) share champagne in front of an Austin 7 car on a Middle Eastern beach. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Dirty Work at the Crossroads by William Heath Robinson

Tatler Motor Show Number 1954
Front cover of The Tatler featuring an illustration of an intrepid driver wearing cap, goggles and scarf steering his vintage car to the summit of a very steep hill

Benzo-Moteur advertising poster
Advertising poster for Benzo-Moteur petrol for cars, featuring a confident lady driver glancing back at a couple in another motor

Cars at the hunt
A watercolour painting depicting a large early car arriving in a country location, where it appears the local hunt are about to set off

Prince Philip at the Wheel
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh at the wheel of his 3 litre Lagonda drophead coupe, whose Tickford body is finished in " Edinburgh green

The Tatler Front Cover 1955
Illustrated front cover of The Tatlers Motor Show Number showing a quirky selection of vintage cars

Driving cattle captured from the enemy, Sierra Leone
A scene in Sierra Leone, West Africa during the Mendi expedition showing troops of the 3rd Battalion, West India Regiment helping to drive cattle captured from the enemy

The Humorist Christmas Number Front Cover
A couple, pausing momentarily on the top of a hill to admire the snowy scenery, take the opportunity for a quick kiss underneath some mistletoe hanging from a branch, as their backseat passengers

The Super Sports
An exaggerated version of a sports car driving through busy London streets

Coal gas Motorcycle
Motorcycle and side car with children passengers, driven by coal gas during World War I

Womens Volunteer Reserve 1916
Womens Volunteer Reserve driving the Royal Mail during World War I. Here being given engine instruction in November 1916

Road, Rail and Sea - Charles Robinson
Cover illustration by Charles Robinson for the Childrens book Rad, Rail and Sea by Clare Jerrold. A (very young-looking!) couple drive an open car below the imposing buly of a railway bridge

Off for a drive in the trap
Three children take a horse and trap out for a ride on a country lane

Alpine Difficulties / W Heath Robinson
A gentleman finds himself and his car stuck, balanced on the peak of an alpine hill. Illustration by William Heath Robinson

First Aid
WaC driver more preoccupied with checking her hair after crashing the car she is driving than on checking the officer who is looking rather dishevelled himself in the back seat

Toby Xmas Number 1922
Front cover illustration for Toby childrens magazine or comic, featuring Father Christmas driving through snow on a motobike

Copa Barcelona 1911 poster
Poster advertising a motor race in Barcelona in June 1911, organised by the Catalan Automobile Club

Golfing Time by Rene Vincent
The Motor car as an adjunct to summer holiday sport, eliminating the drawback of distance from the scene of action: Golfing Time - the arrival on the links

Humorous driving illustration
He: Why the dickens does that girl in front keep sticking out her left hand? She: Oh! Thats the Smith girl- shes just got engaged!

The Tatler Motor Supplement front cover, 1913
Cover illustration for The Tatlers 1913 motoring supplement featuring two lady motorists and their dog driving at speed through the countryside

Man and car on a country lane in Devon
A man stands at the back of an open topped car on a country lane in Devon. Perhaps he has broken down

We can quite believe it
A portrait of the Artist driving off the first tee. W. Heath Robinson playing golf. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the Estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary Evans

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