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Don Bradman Going out to Bat for the Last Time, Melbourne Cr
Photograph of Don Bradman going out to bat, during his last first-class cricket match; a game between Bradmans XI and L. Hassetts XI, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, December 1948

Tazio Nuvolari - D Type Auto-Union
Tazio Nuvolari, probably the finest driver seen in this period, on a D Type Auto-Union with 3-litre, twelve cylinder, 450 hp rear mounted engine

Autocar Poster -- Circuit des Ardennes race
Autocar Poster -- British driver Charles Jarrott winning the Circuit des Ardennes race in the famous 70 Panhard. His average speed during the race was 54 mph. Date: 1903

Autocar Poster -- Targa Florio race, Sicily
Autocar Poster -- Italian champion Felice Nazzaro driving the Fiat car in which he won the Targa Florio race in Sicily. His average speed for the race was around 33 mph on gruelling mountain roads

Autocar Poster -- French Grand Prix
Autocar Poster -- French driver Boillot in a blue Peugeot, chasing the American Bruce Brown in a red Fiat, in the French Grand Prix

SS Deutschland, 1900
Illustration of the Hamburg-American Liner Deutschland, launched in 1900 and holder of the Blue Riband for the fastest Atlantic crossing from 1900-1906

Gilbert Jessop (1874-1955)
Photograph of Gilbert Jessop, the Gloucestershire and England batsman, who was famous for his feats of quick-scoring - he once scored a century in only 40 minutes

Sugar Beet Weighed
In the washing room, 28lbs of beet is weighed before and after washing and the average dirt content is calculated for the complete load

Sqn Ldr Bill Waterton leaves Gloster Meteor EE549 at Fa?
Sqn Ldr Bill Waterton leaves Gloster Meteor EE549 at Farnborough after flying from Le Bourget to Croydon in 20 minutes at an average speed of 616mph on 16 January 1947

Call Boy Impregnated Safety Matches, average 50 matches

Merton Abbey Tapestry Looms
A photograph showing women working at the tapestry looms of Merton Abbey, William Morris, being a fervent believer in socialism, paid his workers here more than average

Don Bradman
Charcoal sketch of Donald George Bradman, nicknamed The Don. The Australian cricketer was widely acknowledged to be the greatest batsman of all time with a test career batting average of 99.94

Westland Lynx 800 ZB500 World's fastest helicopter
Westland Lynx 800 ZB500 (msn 102, ex G-LYNX, ex ZA500'), at the Royal International Air Tattoo - RAF Fairford 18 July 2003

British Aircraft Company - B. A. - Cataract Swallow 2 G-AELG
British Aircraft Company (B.A.) Cataract Swallow 2 G-AELG (msn 449), at Lympne for the 1946 or 1947 (it competed in both) Folkestone Aero Trophy air races

Parnall Heck 2C G-AEGI, seen with race number 33 at Elmdon for the 1949 Kings Cup Air Race. On 29 July 1949, G-AEGI flew in the Kings Cup Race at Elmdon airport

Autocar Poster -- first French Grand Prix
Autocar Poster -- Szisz in his red Renault, in which he won the first French Grand Prix. His average speed for the race was 63 mph. The circuit used was near Le Mans. Date: 1906

Peggy Moran / 10-Pin Bowl
Actress Peggy Moran, one of Hollywoods top-ranking female bowlers, boasting an average score of 175

The Artists Father, the Average Adjuster Lucas von
Carl Fredrik von Breda (1759-1818). Swedish painter. The Artists Father, the Average Adjuster Lucas von Breda, 1797. National Museum. Stockholm. Sweden

German Guns, Leningrad
A German rail-mounted gun targets Leningrad : shells land on the city on an average of one every 3 minutes, day after day, week after week Date: 1942

Cole Bros FC football team 1934-1935, with an average age of 20-21. Back row: Nook, Rose, Lancaster, Hawley, Hirst, Dixon, Stewart (Secretary)

Keeping a check on fuel consumed by G. H. Davis
Your fuel target: keeping a weekly check on the fuel consumed in an average household during the Second World War. Electricity and gas meters will tell you if you are keeping to your proper average

Day in the life of an average household by G. H. Davis
Your fuel target: a day in the life of an average household during the Second World War. Detailing economies that need to be practised in order to keep within the limits of fuel consumption laid down

Autocar Poster -- Paris-Berlin race
Autocar Poster -- scene from the Paris-Berlin race, featuring a Mors No.4 car driven by Fournier, beating a Panhard car. Its average speed during the race was around 44 mph. Date: 1901

Avro Triplane G-AUCR
Avro Triplane, G-AUCR, was the first postwar designed and built commercial aircraft to be introduced to Australia. Hudson Fysh flew this aircraft into second place in the 1921 Aerial Derby at an

L Chiron at the wheel of the Type 51 Bugatti, an eight-cylinder, 2 litre car developing 160 bhp, winner of the 1931 ten-hour French Grand Prix at Montlhery with an average of 78.16 mph

Sir Henry Birken in the 1931 French Grand Prix at Pau
Sir Henry Birken (refreshing himself with an orange) in the 4.5-litre, four cylinder, 240 hp supercharged Bentley, four seater sports car, weighing two tons

Sir Henry Segrave on the Sunbeam at Brooklands
Sir Henry Segrave on the six-cylinder 105 hp 2 litre Sunbeam photographed at Brooklands before winning the 1923 French Grand Prix at an average of 75.3 mph for 496 miles at Tours Date: 1923

F Nazzaro - 1922 French Grand Prix
F Nazzaro on th 90 hp 2 litre six-cylinder Fiat with which he won the 1922 French Grand Prix at an average of 79.2 mph over 499 miles at Strasbourg

HAMSUN, Knut (1859-1952). Norwegian writer, Nobel
" HAMSUN, Knut (1859-1952). Norwegian writer, Nobel Prize in 1920. " Just and ordinary fly of average size". Cover."

The average village wife. Date 1802 or 1803

No creature in this world so ignorantly nurtured as the average baby Advice at your health bureau. Poster promoting proper health care for children, showing a girl with a fawn

Evening recreation of the Young Holy Ghosters - Ages 15 - 25, average is 18 - all mill workers - all Portuguese. Whole House on George Street. Great need of leadership

Dusting plane hedge-hopping after spraying swath on beanfield. These planes can spray 100 acres an hour, can usually fly one or two hours unless it rains or storms in an average day

New Zealand Back Garden
This back garden vegetable patch is typical of many at the rear of the average New Zealand home. Date: 1950s

Manchester Union Casual Wards, Manchester
Casual wards for tramps and vagrants at Tame Street, Ancoates, Manchester. The original premises were set up in a former cotton mill in 1897 but were rebuilt in around 1900 after being burnt down

Weight & See / Whr
The New Safety Ice-Tester for testing under comfortable conditions the capacity of the ice to bear the weight of the average British citizen

Bullion Office. Bank of England. American Silver. The Smalle
Silver deposits in the Bank of England include oblong pigs of silver from South America, weighing on average 65 lbs each, and smaller semi-globular pieces from Valparaiso

American oli powered diesel electric locomotive
The Streamline Union Pacific Train for high speed passenger service. This oil powered diesel electric locomotive is fitted with a 900 H.P twelve cylinder diesel engine

J. B. Hobbs Batting, 1924
Photograph of Jack Berry Hobbs (1882-1963), the Surrey and England batsman, in attacking pose, during the 1924 season. Hobbs was the first cricketer to surpass W.G

Andrew Sandham Batting in the Nets, 1924
Photograph of Andrew Sandham (1890-1982), the Surrey and England batsman, batting in the practice nets, during the 1924 season

J. B. Hobbs scores the run to make his 126th Century, 1926
Photograph of John Berry Hobbs scoring the single run which took him to his 126th first-class century, during a match between Surrey and Somerset, 1926

R. M. S. Queen Mary, Ocean Dock, Southampton, 1936
Photograph of the R.M.S. Queen Mary arriving at the Ocean Dock, Southampton, after winning the Blue Riband of the Atlantic on 30th August that year

R. M. S. Queen Mary Arriving at Southampton, 1936
Photograph of the R.M.S. Queen Mary arriving at Southampton after winning the Blue Riband of the Atlantic on 30th August that year

Hill climbing in a Rolls Royce1906
Climbing a hill with a gradient of 1in 609, with 9 passengers aboard, each with an average weight of 11st 2lb each, in a Rolls Royce in 1906

A Workman above the average
A telephone operator suspended on a wire outside the Law Courts in London in 1909

Schneider Trophy 1923
The 1923 contest, at Cowes, England, is won by American aviator D Rittenhouse, flying a Curtiss CR-3 at an average speed of 285 km/hour

Churchs Steam Car
Dr Church, of Birmingham, develops the Leviathan from a design by Trevithick. It carries 44 passengers daily between London and B hm at an average 14 mph (22 km/h)

Marconi Set 1930S
Marconis Large Screen Projection Model has so big a picture (22" x18" - 60x50cm) that it is not recommended for use in domestic rooms of average size

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