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Benz Motor Car of 1888

The Benz Patent-Motorwagen Number 3 of 1888 - probably the first petrol car brought into England. A three-wheeled vehicle with a horizontal single cylinder motor. This vehicle was used by Bertha Benz for the first long distance journey by automobile (more than 106 km or sixty miles). Without her husband's prior knowledge, she drove 106km to visit her Mother, stopping at Pharmacies en route for fuel and in turn inventing brake pad lining to solve the tricky situation of braking on hills!! Date: 1888

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

WW1 - German anti-British propaganda postcard

WW1 - German anti-British propaganda postcard - Caught and Trapped - a duplicitous British Army Officer is captured by the forces of the Central Powers trying to smuggle a machine gun to his men, under all sorts of disguises, including a red cross flag, the outfit of an army Chaplin and a decoration of sporting goods hanging off his mule. Date: circa 1916

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Carriage of Prince of Putbus in Queen Victoria's

Carriage of Wilhelm Malte I, Prince of Putbus, Ambassador Extraordinary to the King of Prussia, Frederick William III, in Queen Victoria's coronation parade. Handcoloured aquatint engraving from Fores Correct Representation of the State Procession on the Occasion of the August Ceremony of Her Majesty's Coronation, June 28th 1838, published by Fores, Sporting and Fine Print Repository, Piccadilly, London, 1838

© Florilegius