Fast Collection

Monaco 1952 poster
Stunning poster advertising the 1952 Grand Prix in Monaco, featuring a sleek red car speeding around the palm trees of the principality

Italian Grand Prix poster
Poster for the meeting of the first ever Italian Grand Prix, held at Brescia - 4th to the 11th September 1921. The meeting also includes racing for aeroplanes and motorcycles

Motorbike racing - Tourist Trophy Race
Motorcycle race - high speed cornering in the great Tourist Trophy Race. Date: 1932

Corbetts Vision
In American planner Harvey Corbetts vision of a future city, fast traffic will be segregated from slow, and people from both Date: 1925

Flying Scotsman - LNER High-pressure Compound Express Locomotive No. 10, 000 leaving Waverley Station, Edinburgh, Scotland - designed by Sir Herbert Nigel Gresley

Prince Michael of Kent driving an E-type Jaguar at Brands Ha
Nineteen year old Prince Michael of Kent (born 1942) driving at 100mph in an E-type Jaguar at Brands Hatch race track in April 1962

Humber Hawk advertisement
Advertisement for the 1954 Humber Hawk car, packed with power and aready to prove it. Apparently, the powerful overhead valve engine gave vivid exciting acceleration

Brooklands Poster
A poster for the racing programme at Brooklands Race Tract at Weybridge, Surrey, featuring Sir Malcolm Campbell driving (at the time) the worlds fastest car, Bluebird

Use the Air Mail Poster
GPO Poster, Use the Air Mail, The Fastest Mail. Depicting the underside of a monoplane against a blue and black sky

SOS message from Titanic
A wireless message received by the Russian steamer Birma from the Titanic about five minutes after Titanic struck the iceberg that sank her

German Student Duel / 1880
A German students duel at Gottingen. The Mensur, as practised by German fraternities, is a fast yet rarely-lethal affair with cuts accepted as marks of honour

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, Tatters chasing the car
Illustration by Cecil Aldin -- Tatters, a wire-haired fox terrier, not wishing to be left behind, chasing his masters car on hearing the horn sounding. Date: 1927

Messerschmitt Me 262A -the only way Allied fighters could tackle this fast jet was to pouce on it as it slowed to land

A coat by Moorcott to drive a Triumph sports car
A girl wearing a green and white Scottish tweed coat with deep raglan sleeves and slit pockets designed by Moorcot, sits in a Triumph 2 litre sports model capable of well over 100 mph! Date: 1953

Eve Adamised 1927
Eve Adamised : new woman in a liberated age dons male attire of suit & tie with hair in an Eton crop, but signals her gender with make-up, earings & a cigarette holder

The DRG Class SVT 877 Hamburg Flyer sometimes also Flying Hamburger or in German Fliegender Hamburger was Germanys first fast diesel train

Advertisement for Rolls Royce cars -- Spirit of Ecstasy bonnet ornament photographed in motion. 1959

Hawker Hector with Napier Dagger III engine
A detail of a Hawker Hector focussing on the Napier Dagger III H-24 air-cooled piston Engine. Developing 805hp the Dagger was the next step for D

The Fast Mail by Lincoln J. Carter. First produced in England at Rochdale on 26th December 1891 and at the Grand Theatre, Islington, London on 27th June 1892

Dogs Leap, R. Roe, Limavady, Co. Londonderry - a view of a fast flowing river and bridge in the distance. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Londonderry; Limavady). Date: circa early 1900s

Motor racing in the 1950s
Reg Parnells maiden BRM V16 win Goodwood, England, 30th September 1950. Date: 1950

Hispano-Suiza H6C racing the Baby Bootlegger Speedboat
A modified racing Hispano-Suiza H6C 1924 Speedster racing against the speedboat Baby Bootlegger of New York (designed by George Crouch)

RMS Empress of Britain, ocean liner
The RMS (Royal Mail Ship) Empress of Britain, an ocean liner built between 1928 and 1931, owned by the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company

Patriotic poster, Buy British - Britain Always First
Britain Always First - poster celebrating Britihs achievements in breaking speed records on land, water, air and rail. Part of a government campaign to tackle a balance of payments crisis

SS Lucania - Cunard
SS Lucania. This Cunarder is the first ship to be equipped with Signor Marconis wireless system : for a while she holds the Blue Riband for the fastest Atlantic crossing. Date: circa 1920s

Cover design, British Airways Summer Timetable 1938, as the crow flies, only faster! 1938

HMS Hogue, British armoured cruiser
HMS Vindex, a seaplane carrier of the Royal Navy during the First World War, previously a fast passenger ferry for the Isle of Man Steam Packet

Poster celebrating Leon Vanderstuyft
Poster celebrating the achievements of Leon Vanderstuyft, the Belgian racing cyclist who amazingly covered over 125 kilometers in one hour. The poster lists various speeds and victories

De Havilland Comet 1956
The Comet is the first commercial jet-liner, carrying 36 passengers at 800 km/h, half as fast again as any other airliner currently in commercial service

M. G. Magnette
The archetypal sports car popular with fresh air enthusiasts and motorists who value performance : this is the N type. The MG slogan is Safety Fast. Date: 1936

Futuristic fast food stops on the Channel crossing
A futuristic scene showing fast food stops for aeroplane pilots on the Channel crossing

LMS Princess Coronation Class 6220 Coronation - built in 1937, which special livery of Caledonian Railway blue with go-faster stripes

Comic postcard, People in a charabanc for Coronation
Comic postcard, People in a charabanc, going to the Coronation Date: 20th century

Fried fish shop run by Polly Nathan in Middlesex Street (Petticoat Lane) in the East End of London. Mrs Nathan was apparently the aunt of a South African millionaire who had offered to pay her enough

Champion Australian axemen at the London Hippodrome
Peter McClaren, the champion axeman of Australia) and Harry H. Jackson, giving an exhibition of tree cutting at the London Hippodrome in 1907. Date: 1907

Malcolm Campbells Blue Bird, land speed record 1928
Artists impression of the Napier-Campbell Blue Bird fitted with a Spring engine from the Air Ministry, with bodywork designed by Mulliner

Royal Air Force - Avro Vulcan K. 2 XH561
Royal Air Force - Avro Vulcan K.2 XH561 of No.50 Squadron at RAF Wildenrath for an air display. After the Falklands conflict, the Victor K.2 fleet was fast approaching their fatigue limits

I ll be with you soon - or bust! Young man in a red sports car breaking the 5mph speed limit and incurring the wrath of a nearby policeman Date: 1933

The Bolt from the Blue, speeding 1920s couple
A couple in an open top red car, more interested in each other than the road, fail to notice a police officer attempting to stop them for speeding. Date: 1929

H. M. S. Tumult (F121) - Type 16 fast anti-submarine frigate
H.M.S. Tumult (F121) - Type 16 fast anti-submarine frigate - Commissioned in 1943 (as a T-class destroyer), built by John Brown & Company. Date: circa 1950s

The Tree of Jesse
A print of a stained glass window depicting the Tree of Jesse, where Jesse is shown fast asleep in a walled garden. Date: circa 1929

Boeing-Vertol 107-ii-15 Y-61 - 04061
Marinen - Boeing-Vertol 107-ii-15 Y-61 / 04061 Mona ii (msn 501, HKP 4B), at Middle Wallop on 13 July 1986. (Marinen - Swedish Navy Aviation)

Poster, Auto Barre, Niort, France. Date: circa 1895

Poster, Road America Can-Am Championship, 28-30 August 1970, Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. Date: 1970

Grosser Preis von Deutschland (German Grand Prix), Nurburgring race track, World Championship, 5 August 1956. Date: 1956

Poster, German Grand Prix, Nurburgring race track, World Championship, 1 August 1965, including a cycle race. Date: 1965

Poster, Brooklands Motor Course, Weybridge, Surrey, The British Mountain Handicap, Britain's Richest Car Race, Easter Monday, 13 April 1936. Date: 1936

Poster, Brooklands, Weybridge, First Race Meeting of the Season, Saturday 12 March, Car & Motor Cycle Races on Track and Road Circuit, The Right Crowd and No Crowding. Date: circa 1935

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