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Car & Motorbike on RoadA motorcyclist and two ladies in an open saloon car enjoy a drive into the country in this advertisement for Gargoyle Mobiloils & Greases
The Aldgate Pump, London. A group of young lads and cheeky street types surround the venerable pump. To the left of the pump is a hand-crank Fire Call Post - signed/marked on the lampost as Fire Alarm
Convict in prison cell turning hand-crank
New Banting Bed for Reducing the FigureThe New Banting Bed for Reducing the Figure. Cartoon by William Heath Robinson
Cardboard advertising sign for Exide BatteriesA delightful cardboard sign advertising Exide Batteries - the long life battery. *EDITORIAL USE ONLY*
Burrell General Purpose Engine 3262, PerseveranceMaker: Charles Burrell & Sons of Thetford, Norfolk Type: General Purpose Engine Number: 3262 Built: 1910 Registration: AH 5278 ClassD Cylinders: Single Crank Compound Nhp: 5 Name: Perseverance Date
Crossbowman. Engraving by Serra (after a 14th century codex)Crossbowman reloading using windlass. Engraving by Serra (after a codex of the 14th century). Museo Militar, 1883. Later colouration. Date: 2019
The Motor Picture Book, Just a Sharp Turn Date: 1930
The Evolution of the Cycle -- tricycle and two bicyclesThe Evolution of the Cycle -- the first crank-driven tricycle, Dalzells Machine (circa 1840), Landiss Machine (1861). (4 of 8) Date: 1892
Burrell General Purpose Engine CE7825Burrell General Purpose Engine, regn. CE7825, number: 2536, Her Majesty. Built in 1902 by Charles Burrell & Sons at Thetford, in Norfolk, powered by an 6 Nhp single crank compound steam engine
Aldgate pump located at the junction where Aldgate meets Fenchurch Street and Leadenhall Street. People thought that the water had medicinal purposes and collected bottles on Sundays
Hand-Cranked Grinder Date: 1880
Advert for Centaur tricycles 1884Latest inventions and improvement in bicycles. Date: 1884
Ramsden electric machine designed by Jesse Ramsden (1735-18Ramsden electric machine used for producing electricity. It was designed by Jesse Ramsden (1735-1800), English optician and astronomical and scientific instrument maker
Lloyd Georges lady chauffeurThe Right Hon. David Lloyd Georges Napier car being started by his lady chauffeur who, according to The Tatler, handles it in a very skilful manner. Date: 1916
WW2 - Land Girls working the land. Date: circa 1943
Stiff by H. M. Bateman, WW1 cartoonHilarious sequential cartoon by H. M. Bateman showing a French soldier unable to move the crank on the front of an officers car
LCC-LFB learner drivers on a London streetA picture taken outside the headquarters of the London Fire Brigade in Southwark Bridge Road, SE1, on 14 September 1935, showing a motorised Dennis fire engine with an L-plate on the front
LCC-LFB trainees looking at an engineA group of trainee firefighters and an instructor, looking at the engine of a motorised fire vehicle with an L plate on the front before setting out on the road. Date: circa 1920s
Gallipoli Coffee Machine (Grinder)A Gallipoli Coffee Machine (Grinder) with crank and section for coffee beans. Trench Art
Unhelpful Phrenological assessment of a Park Loafer. Phrenologist (to Park Loafer) - " Now, you re full o Nerves, you are
LCC-LFB learner drivers on a London streetA picture taken outside the headquarters of the London Fire Brigade in Southwark Bridge Road, SE1, on 14 September 1935, showing a motorised fire engine with an L-plate on the front
To the right hon ble Lord Bangor, this plate representing a complete perspective view of all the machinery of a bleach mill, upon the newest and most approved constructions
Kodak Camera 1930SSmart cameras have striped fronts this year. At the Kodak works at Wealdstone, England, where these cameras are made, each is tested by a scientist to ensure a needle-sharp focus Date: 1930s
Family photo with children in Go-cartA late Victorian family pose in their backyard, the three children (of decreasing age) sit proudly in their fantastic homemade toy go-cart, entitled Swift
Cranking up the engineA very little girl beams as she has a photograph taken while turning the crank handle of a very large car
Family in a fine open-top sports carA Mother takes her two children for a spin in this beautiful and imposing open-top British sports car - a Standard Rhyl Sas. This is obviously a posed picture, as the crank handle is still in place!
Christmas in the home of a peace crankA man rather disdainfully labelled as a peace crank watches in dismay as his children play aggressively with a variety of war-inspired toys during World War One
Vintage Car in the SnowA vintage car covered in snow. Anyone fancy helping to crank start it?
INDIA FIRE PUMP / 1883Merryweathers India hand force-pump, for use in country districts and on big estates