Bike Collection (page 14)

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

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

Man with motorbike in a field
A man with his motorbike in a field. He is either repairing the bike or picking flowers!

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

Cycling silhouette
An aerial view of a group of cyclists in silhouette. Date: 1896

Women dispatch riders in training, WW2
Women dispatch riders in training during the Second World War. Date: 1940s

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.*

Advertisement for Triumph bicycles -- boy model (David Scully). 1959

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)

Gentleman crashes on his bicycle and utters a loud... " Mark of exclamation!" Date: circa 1940s

Motorcycle police
People You See. Motorcycle police. From Teddy Bear (19 April 1964)

Newspaper Girl
People You See: The Newspaper Girl. From Teddy Bear (27 June 1964)

King George VI inspecting dispatch riders of the LFB, WW2
King George VI visits the Headquarters of the London Fire Brigade, Lambeth

NFS (London Region) dispatch riders display team, WW2
NFS dispatch riders demonstrate their motorcycle riding skills with a acrobatic display at Regional headquarters, Lambeth SE1

NFS firewomen in dispatch rider training, WW2
London Region NFS firewomen undergoing dispatch rider training. Taught to do everything with a motorbike that could be done, these women would undertake all-terrain training

NFS-Firewomen dispatch rider training
Women dispatch riders in training during the Second World War

Boer Christmas Card
Christmas card from the Boer War featuring a caricature of President Kruger, 1899 Date: 1899

Hercules bicycles Coronation advertisement
Advertisement for Hercules Bicycles, founded in 1910 in Birmingham, showing the street of a typical British town decorated with flags, swags and bunting for the 1953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II

Chas. H. Kabrich, the only bike-chute aeronaut novel and thrilling, bicycle parachute act in mid-air. Date c1896

The American Burlesquers 15 beauties : Bunco bike. Date c1897

All Clear by Helen McKie - ARP wardens on bicycles
Jolly illustration by Helen McKie showing a rather lecherous looking older male Air Raid Patrol warden cycling alongside a young, pretty female colleague. Date: c.1940

The Motor Cyclist and the Magnetic Shell
" The Motor Cyclist and the Magnetic Shell: A Military Fantasy" H. M. Batemans animated, slightly maniac style is perfectly suited to this sequential cartoon showing a motorcyclist being

Motor bike & sidecar & tram
The Wonders of Speed. Book illustration.Date: 1924

Police motorcyclist, 1904
A police sergeant fully equipped for running to earth motorists who exceed the speed limit. Under law introduced in 1904, all motor vehicles were compelled to be registered

French view of an English Gent in London
Spectacularly stereotypical French view of an English Gent in London, complete with plaid trousers, pith helmet, sinister expression (!) and a background of dark satanic mills!!! Date: 1901

Ice Cream Motor Bike
This rather serious man in a leather bomber jacket is actually a travelling salesman, selling ice creams from his motorcycle! Date: 1930s

A group of cyclists in France
A silhouette showing a group of cyclists in the Bois de Boulogne, France Date: 1898

Cycle Cross, cross country cycle racing. Date: 1981

Safety Bike
A man wheels a Safety Bicycle, an early form of bicycle from the 1890s which replaced the Penny Farthing. However, he obviously does not think it safe enough to ride through Holborn, London! 1930s

FROST BIKE
Frost bike - hoar frost on some parked bicycles! Date: 1940s

C W A Scott as a little boy
Flight Lieutenant Charles William Anderson Scott, AFC (13 February 1903 15 April 1946) record-breaking English aviator, best known for winning the MacRobertson Air Race in 1934

Kangeroo safety bicycle advert, 1885
Faster than any bicycle, safter than any tricycle: the record breaking Kangeroo safety bicycle. Somewhat resembling a penny farthing, the machine was made by Hillman

Machine Gun Battalion at Dieval, northern France, WW1
Men of the 24th Motor Machine Gun Battalion at Dieval, northern France, awaiting an inspection by General Horne towards the end of the First World War. Date: 12 June 1918

Museum display of British soldiers with machine gun
A museum display of dummy British soldiers with various means of transport and a Vickers machine gun. Date: 20th century

Museum display of British soldiers with transport
A museum display of dummy British soldiers with various means of transport. Date: 20th century

Man of a Motorcycle Machine Gun Unit, WW1
A man belonging to a Motorcycle Machine Gun Unit with a Scott motorcycle during the First World War. Date: March 1915

Bicycle / Girl Falls Off
A girl comes right off - and her bikes a write-off ! Date: circa 1900

Girls Cycling, Autumn
Two Danish girls cycle along a suburban road in autumn, while the leaves fall about them in a picturesque manner Date: 1900

Scouts on Bikes 1930
The Happiness of the Road: A batch of happy boy scouts on their return from a weekend camping near Windsor, Berkshire, England. Date: 18 May 1930

Two sightseers at Stonehenge, Wiltshire
Two late Victorian sightseers at Stonehenge, Wiltshire. One man sits on a flat stone (possibly the sacrificial stone), while the other man leans on his bicycle

Metropolitan Police motor cyclists
A group of Metropolitan Police motor cyclists, with the River Thames and Tower Bridge in the background

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