Speeding Collection

Monaco 1952 poster
Stunning poster advertising the 1952 Grand Prix in Monaco, featuring a sleek red car speeding around the palm trees of the principality

Imperial Airways Speeding up the Empire. Flights to Europe, Africa, India, the Far East, Australia, Bermuda and New York. A tropical-looking African lady of the Empire dominates the poster while in

Lti 20-20 Speed Gun
Metropolitan police officer with LTI 20-20 speed gun checking the speed of cars in the traffic

Advertisement for Rolls Royce cars -- Spirit of Ecstasy bonnet ornament photographed in motion. 1959

Montreux Grand Prix 1934 - Painting by Andrew McGeachy
The Montreux Grand Prix of 1934, held on 3rd June and won by Carlo Felice Trossi in an Alfa Romeo (car number 6 - shown here in the lead). Date: 1934

Traffic Police C. 1900
Three police officers, one in uniform and two in plain clothes working together to catch speeding motorists. The two plain clothed policemen hold stopwatches

1st International Aircraft Exhibition Poster, 12-28th October 1935 Milan Sample Fair. Showing a group of eagles watching a plane speeding past. 1935

Hispano-Suiza H6C racing the Baby Bootlegger Speedboat
A modified racing Hispano-Suiza H6C 1924 Speedster racing against the speedboat Baby Bootlegger of New York (designed by George Crouch)

Met Police stopwatch -- inside face
A Metropolitan Police issue stopwatch for the purpose of catching speeding motorists. This method worked on the principle of timing motorists over specific distances to estimate their speed

Ufos / Fate Cover 1958
This UFO, resembling an electric light bulb, is seen over San Francisco by D Bruce Berry and Marion Shepherd

A Happy Party of Little Motorists. Six young children are taken for a spin in an open-top car. They are all wrapped up warm against the elements. Date: circa 1905

Doug Pinkerton, high wheeler -2
Champion racing cyclist Doug Pinkerton racing his high-wheel, or penny farthing bicycle. First published The Sunday Correspondent Date: 1990

Doug Pinkerton, high wheeler -1
Champion racing cyclist Doug Pinkerton racing his high-wheel, or penny farthing bicycle. First published The Sunday Correspondent Date: 1990

The Bolt from the Blue, speeding 1920s couple
A couple in an open top red car, more interested in each other than the road, fail to notice a police officer attempting to stop them for speeding. Date: 1929

Love & Six Cylinders
Young woman at the wheel of a powerful speeding open-top car with her man in the passenger seat. Artist: Anon. Date: circa 1920

Illustration, Speeding on penny-farthings
Colour illustration, Speeding'. showing man and woman on penny-farthings. From a page captioned, A pleasure of The Era of Peace: Speeding'. From the coloured lithographs Velocipedes by Ch

Perdriau Rubber Advertisement
An advertisement illustration for Perdriau Rubber Co. Ltd, Australian manufacturers of all rubber goods, including tyres, belting, hose, waterproof sheeting, air goods, hot water bottles

The Motor Picture Book, What, Only Doing Sixty? Date: 1930

The Motor Picture Book, The Speed Merchant Date: 1930

Stunt woman rides her motorbike through a glass plate, shattering it as she speeds through. Date: circa 1970s

Stirling Moss, English racing driver
Sir Stirling Craufurd Moss (b 1929), English racing driver from 1948 to 1962. He retired after a crash left him in a coma for a month. His name has become synonymous with speed. Date: circa 1960s

Comic postcard, Two men in a speeding car Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Two boys speeding in a go-kart Date: 20th century

The Opera House, Paris, France
A car speeds past the Paris Opera House, with a busy street scene. Date: circa 1930s

Steam engine speeding along
A passenger steam train speeding along on an incline with billowing smoke. Date: circa 1930s

Casey Jones on Board Date: 1948

Speeding Along Road Date: 1910

LION IN PASSENGER SEAT
One way to avoid being stopped for speeding is to have a large lion in the passenger seat... Date: 1909

Heritage mail coach speeding through Folkestone
Four-horse team heritage mail coach speeding through Folkestone, Kent. circa 1910s

Sailing at Long Branch, New Jersey, USA
Sailing (at full speed!) at Long Branch, New Jersey, USA. Date: 1947

Birthday card, Good Luck, with black cat, aeroplane and horseshoe Date: 20th century

Ticketed motorists, 1903
Some early motorists who, having found to be exceeding the speed limit, have received tickets. Date: 1903

Racing car smashing its way to victory
Racing cars smashing around a course but carrying on regardless. Date: 1932

Young girl on a sledge
Young girl with a sprig of holly speeding downhill on a sledge with a bunny rabbit. Date: circa 1912

Motorbike speeding through flames. Date: 1976

Advert / Michelin Tyres
Michelin Tyres - beats the train Date: 1905

A speed fiend
MOTOR MANIA : THE JOY OF THE DRIVER NOT ALWAYS THAT OF THE DRIVEN - as true today as it was a hundred years ago... Date: 1908

Santa on his sleigh
Happy children watch Santa speeding by on his sleigh. Artist: Ada Leonora Bowley Date: 1913

Advertisement, IBM Corporation
Advertisement, IBM (International Business Machines) Corporation -- speeding business through electronics. 1950

Top Speed
Promotional postcard for Top Speed The New Era Production presents. The Unique High Class Revue. Touring to Palace Theatre, Lincoln, 15th February 1920. Date: 1920

The Dirt-Track Rider who appeared in Rotten Row. A motorcyclist causing noisy havoc amonst the genteel riders on Rotten Row in Hyde Park, London. 1929

Advertisement for Shell Motor Spirit - a speeding car. Date: early 20th century

Children on a sled
Two happy children speeding down a snowy slop on a sled. Artist: Helen Grace Culverwell Marsh Lambert Date: circa 1920

Cartastrophes by W H Robinson
A cow carries on eating grass, after it has just been run over by a speeding motorist, farmer is upset that the cow has two holes in his back where the tyres once were. Date: 1919

Assembling the Whitley night bomber by G. H. Davis
How a Whitley night bomber is assembled in section, speeding up aeroplane production by simplification during the Second World War. Date: 1941

Full Speed Ahead
Having persuaded his lady friend to come for a ride, a little Dutch boys commands his wooden hobby horse to travel " Full Speed Ahead" ! (2/3) Date: circa 1920

We are Moving - Humorous Motoring postcard, showing a male driver getting rather over-excited at the wheel, courtesy of the amorous advances of his lady passenger

Blitzen Benz record-breaker - painting by Andrew McGeachy
The Blitzen Benz car, built in Mannheim by Benz & Cie running a full speed. At Brooklands on November 9, 1909, at the Brooklands circuit at Weybridge, Surrey

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