Driver Gallery

Drivers & personalities in the Five Hundred Miles Race, 1929

Five of the leading lights in the great Five Hundred Miles Race which took place at Brooklands on 12 October 1929. At the top is Mr Kaye Don who drove a supercharged Sunbeam, Earl Howe (top right), at the wheel of a supercharged Lea-Francis, Captain Woolf Barnato in a Bentley, Mr R. F. Oats (bottom right) at the wheel of an O.M. and at the bottom left, Captain Malcolm Campbell of Blue Bird fame, who sponsored the race. Date: 1929

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

Motor Car for Sale - Owing to Liquidation - Drink Driving

Motor Car for Sale - Owing to Liquidation - A Drink Driving Offender arrested by the village Policeman after a hearty session at The Cross Keys.... This leads to the vehicle being put up for sale! Date: circa 1907

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

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The 20-seat Daimler bus for Doncaster, Edenthorpe, Hatfield and Thorne (new village). When Ernest Parish started running on a route between Doncaster and Armthorpe, it was already a route well-served by other operators

The 20-seat Daimler bus for Doncaster, Edenthorpe, Hatfield and Thorne (new village). When Ernest Parish started running on a route between Doncaster and Armthorpe, it was already a route well-served by other operators. Operating out of a garage on East Lane, Stainforth, the company was named after a well-known cartoon character of the period, Felix the Cat. Date: circa 1925

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection