Motors Collection (#2)

Thornycroft Marine Motors site. Date: circa 1940

Manx Motors bus. Date: circa 1940

Advert, Bankss Motor Car and Cycle Garage, Wilmslow Advert
Advert, Bankss Motor Car and Cycle Garage, Manchester Road, Wilmslow, Cheshire. 1905

Advert, Charabanc Motor Coach Tours, Bath Tramways Motor Co Ltd. 1927

Women training to become motor-bus conductresses 1917
Women on a trial trip on a motor-bus as part of their training to become conductresses. The Illustrated London News comments on the war

Inside of ration book for motor spirit, September 1939
Coupons for petrol found inside a ration book issued by Surrey County Council, 5 September 1939. Petrol rations were based on the horsepower of a vehicle

Motor spirit ration book front cover, September 1939
Front cover of a ration book for motor spirit, issued by Surrey County Council on 5 September 1939, shortly after the outbreak of war

Advert, Drysdale & Co, Manufacturers, Glasgow
Advert for Drysdale & Co, Makers of Pumps, Fans, Engines and Motors, Kirkpatrick Street, Glasgow, Scotland. 1905

The Sketch, 1938 Motor Dicta
The weekly motoring column in The Sketch magazine, 1938, with this one showing comedian Claude Dampier with his new Chrysler, Mrs Joseph Mackle with her Daimler Straight Eight and, at the bottom

General Motors and other buildings, Detroit, Michigan, USA
Aerial view of General Motors building, Fisher Building and Art Centre Building, Detroit, Michigan, USA. Date: circa 1940

General Motors building, Detroit, Michigan, USA
General Motors building, Laboratory and Convention Hall, Detroit, Michigan, USA. Date: circa 1940

Stock Share Certificate - General Motors Corporation, 100 shares. 1964

A man driving the new four-seater Wolseley motor car, speed of 30 m. h. Date: 1905
A man driving the new four-seater Wolseley motor car, speed of 30 m.h. Date: 1905

General Motors FM-2 Wildcat N7835C (msn 5832, BuAernumber 86774), at the Air Museum, Claremont. Date: circa 1957-1962

General Motors FM-2 Wildcat N35KX (msn 5626) Later N35M, then N86572, now airworthy with the Warhawk Air Museum, Nampa, ID Date: circa 1950

Alberto Ascari winning in a works Ferrari 500 at Stowe Corner - British Grand Prix, 19th July, Silverstone, England 1952. Date: 1952

Horseless carriage 1896
Advertisements on the side of open-top carriage in the streets of London. Date: 1896

SOCIAL / COUNTRY CLUB 20C
Advertisement for Dunlop tyres showing a number of cars drawing up to a very modern house (or possibly club house) where an outdoor party is taking place

THEATRE GOING / MET OPERA
a crowd of operagoers in the lobby of the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, waiting for their carriages and motors Date: January 1913

USA / MET OPERA / LOBBY
NEW YORK the lobby after the opera - waiting for carriages and motors Date: January 1913

Avenger at North Weald
A Grumman TBF-1 / General Motors TBM-1 at North Weald 1990s (not sure which) Date: 1990s

Wildcat at North Weald
General Motors FM-2 Wildcat at North Weald 1990s (not sure which) Date: 1990s

General Motors Building, Detroit, Michigan, USA
General Motors Building, West Boulevard and 2nd - Detroit, Michigan, USA Date: 1938

Card of the International Anti-Vivisection League - Cat Fur
Belgian card produced for the International Anti-Vivisection League - An outcry on the use of Cat Fur for fashionable overcoat linings and the covering of motor parts

Elephants pull steam roller & motors for Amir of Afghanistan
The most remarkable caravan that ever entered Afghanistan - a steam roller and motors for the Ameer. Ten elephants sent to Chaman to convey a steam roller, a motor car

View of unidentified open-top bus. Date: circa 1940s

Aerial view of General Motors factory, South Africa
Aerial view of a General Motors factory in South Africa (possibly in Port Elizabeth), for the manufacture of Chevrolet, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Buick, Cadillac, Vauxhall, Opel, Bedford and GMC vehicles

The Chrysler Building at the Chicago Worlds Fair)
The Chrysler Building at the Century of Progress International Exposition (Chicago Worlds Fair) 1933. It was held to celebrate the citys centennial

DUKW powered ferry on the Great Chindwin River, Burma - circa 1945. The DUKW (popularly pronounced " duck" ) is a six-wheel-drive amphibious truck that was designed by General Motors

Red Cross travelling repair shop 1916
Interior view of a travelling repair van, with a soldier working on repairing vehicles in the war zone. Date: 1916

Mending Red Cross ambulances 1916
Soldiers working under a canopy in the war zone, repairing most needed Red Cross ambulances. Date: 1916

Advert for Buick, Red Cross ambulances 1916
Buick were used for emergencies in World War One at the front, with British Red Cross and St Johns on the side of the vehicle Date: 1916

Armstrong Siddeley Six car and stately home
A chauffeur driven Armstrong Siddeley Six car driving up to a stately home in the distance. Date: 1929

Railway Ring Gears
These giant ring gears transmit power from electric motors to the driving wheels on the new passenger locomotives between New York and Washington D.C. U.S.A. Date: 1930s

Monge Submarine
Monge : until 1914, most French submarines are steam- driven, hence the smoke. She has electric motors for underwater sailing. Date: circa 1905

Advert for Dunhills Harris Tweed coat 1909
Advertisement for a ladies Harris Tweed coat ideal for motoring or travelling. Showing a very elegant lady posing in a handsome

Photo of Fashionable Motor Millinery 1909
Black and white photographs entitled Fashionable Motor Millinery in an article The Highway of Fashion in the Tatler of 10th November 1909

Photo of Charming Motor Bonnets 1909
Black and white photographs entitled Charming Motor Bonnets in an article The Highway of Fashion in the Tatler of 10th november 1909

Stylish late1930s Bedford coach - custom body work by Duple Bodies & Motors Ltd. Edgware Road, The Hyde, Hendon, London, NW9. Date: circa 1901

St. Marys Russian Hospital for British Officers, Mayfair
St. Marys Russian Hospital for British Officers, South Audley Street, Mayfair. The sign on the corner reads (rather wonderfully): " Motors please do not hoot" ! Date: circa 1910

Automobile Row, Farnam Street, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Automobile Row on Farnam Street, Omaha, Nebraska, USA, full of car showrooms, car dealers and garages. Date: 1916

Sun Motors car wash, St Petersburg, Florida, USA, offering a complete auto wash in three minutes for one dollar 25 cents. Date: circa 1940s

A vision of the (near) future, WW1 cartoon by H. M Bateman
H.M. Bateman comments amusingly on the prospect of cars driven entirely by coal gas, with the result of overcharging being that the car floats off into the atmosphere. Date: 1917

Rambler automobile factory, Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA
Aerial view of the Rambler automobile factory, Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA. It later became the Jeffery factory, and later still Nash Motors. Date: circa 1910

Sunbeam motors advertisement, WW1
Advertisement for Sunbeam Motor Car Company of Wolverhampton showing one of their vehicles as a Red Cross ambulance or van during the First World War. Date: 1918

Zeppelin engine gondola
A scene in the rear gondola of a German Zeppelin airship. In the centre, two engineers are tending the powerful Maibach motors

Collecting holly for Christmas Decorations
A family driving out in the snow to gather holly for their Christmas decorations. Date: 1931

Miss Donnett Paynter with ambulance, WW1
Miss Donnett Paynter with her motor ambulance given by her father, Commander Hugh H. Paynter, R.N. for use at the FANY Convoy

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