Fast Collection (page 3)

Poster, Flotta Lauro, fast de luxe passenger and freight services. 1952

Race - steam train and racing car, 1920s
A racing car races a steam engine and begins to out pace it. Date: 1929

Bristol M1C frowned upon by Officialdom, this fast single seater became the much sought mount of senior pilots

First ride of Pony Express, Missouri to California, USA
Depiction of the first ride of Pony Express, from St Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California, USA, on 3 April 1860. Showing the first messenger setting off on what was the first fast mail line

Road safety poster, A Long Way Off? Drivers travel much faster than we do! Showing two children trying to cross a busy road, with two scenarios

Poster advertising Bugatti automobiles and autorails

Roger Bannister
SIR ROGER GILBERT BANNISTER CBE, neurologist and athlete best known for being the first man to run a mile in under four minutes. Date: 1929 -

Fast trotting at Mystic Park, Medford, Mass

Fast trotting to fast wheels. Date c1893

Fast trotting in the west: Lucy and Goldsmith Maid. Date c1871

RETFORD ROVER TRAIN
The Retford Rover steam locomotive on the Flying Scotsman route from Kings Cross, London, England, to Edinburgh Waverley, Scotland. Photographed at Kings Cross. Date: 1960s

World Champion Typist - Albert Tangora
Albert Tangora (1903 1978) set the world speed record for sustained typing on a manual keyboard for one hour, 147 words per minute, on October 22, 1923

Donald Campbell Memorabilia, including his helmet, a biogrpahy about him, a Bluebird pennant and the trophy awarded to aommemorate a new world water speed record of 216.2 mph set on Lake Mead in 1955

YOICKS
Bonzo the dog crashing into toy animals after running too fast and not looking where he was going. George Ernest Studdy (1878-1948) was the creator of Bonzo

Book of Nonsense / Lear
There was a Young Girl of Majorca, whose aunt was a very fast walker; She walked 70 miles, & leaped 15 stiles, Which astonished that Girl of Majorca

Hot Dog Wagon - Greenfield Village - Dearborn, Michigan, USA. Date: circa 1920s

Sir Malcolm Campbell - Bluebird
Sir Malcolm Campbells Bluebird breaking the land speed record at Daytona Beach in 1931. Date: 1932

Motorcycle racing
Thrill-fiends on wheels! An exciting motorcycle race in which one competitor skids and flies into the air. Date: 1933

Dirt track rider, 1930s
A dirt track rider motorcycling at speed past a group of cheering boys. Date: 1932

Racing car smashing its way to victory
Racing cars smashing around a course but carrying on regardless. Date: 1932

Napoleonic era cartoon woman in bonnet on hot day
Ink and watercolour cartoon no.2 Walking fast and far, in a hot sun to overtake a woman?you have decided?is Angelic till on eagerly turning as you pass her you are petrified by a Gorgon

Rushing stream, Brecon Beacons, South Wales
Walker standing by a rushing stream in The Brecon Beacons, South Wales. circa 1966

Soho, London - street vendor selling hot dogs and hamburgers. Photographed at night. 1973

Dufed Bridge - Mullfjellet, Sweden
Railway Bridge to the west of Duved, Are Municipality, Jamtland County over the Indalsalven, one of Swedens longest rivers. Date: 1904

Music cover, The Generals Fast Asleep, words and music by Jimmy Kennedy and Michael Carr. 1935

Trassey Burn, Mournes, Co. Down - a view of a fast flowing stream in the foreground and the mountains in the distance. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Down; Mournes). Date: circa early 1900s

Animals at a French Zoo - Springbok - small short-horned antelope. Part of Box 209 Boswell collection - Old and New French Zoo. Slide 7

Lake Baikal, Siberia, Russia - Ice Yachting - almost as fast and dangerous as motoring !! Date: 1908

Fast Road Northern, France Date: 1980s

Fast ramming boat. 1487-1492. Model
Fast ramming boat. Codex Ashburham 2037, sheet 3r, 1487-1492. Model. The Science and Technology Museum Leonardo da Vinci. Milan. Italy

Clipper. 19th century. Colored engraving

WW2 poster, Yield Not An Inch! Waste Not A Minute! Stand Fast! Work Fast! Date: circa 1941

Ritz Fast Asleep
Ritz, whilst enjoying a snooze, rolls over onto his back. Date: 1991

Renault 18Cv Torpedo
Renault 18cv Torpedo Sport Date: 1924

Fashions Palais Royal
Clothing worn by society & the demi-monde of the Palais Royal. One man wears cossack trousers, another top boots while many of the ladies wear evening dress. Date: 1822

Roller Skating 1891
Seriously over-dressed Victorian ladies roller- skating at the Olympia rink, London, where " fast skating", though highly unlikely, is " strictly prohibited". Date: 1891

Cowper / Raimbach / Fuseli
WILLIAM COWPER English poet fast asleep, watched over by his Muse Date: 1731 - 1800

Challenger Made Fast
H.M.S. Challenger made fast to St Pauls Rocks Date: 1873

A speed fiend
MOTOR MANIA : THE JOY OF THE DRIVER NOT ALWAYS THAT OF THE DRIVEN - as true today as it was a hundred years ago... Date: 1908

Henry Segrave - Sunbeam Mystery at Daytona Beach
Major Henry Segrave driving the Sunbeam Mystery in which he broke the world land speed record at Daytona Beach on 29 March 1927, driving over 200mph. Date: 1927

Henry Segraves Sunbeam racer in cross-section
Cross section of the Sunbeam Mystery racer driven by Major Henry Segrave on Daytona Beach on 29 March 1927 being the first person to achieve over 200mph on land. Date: 1927

Advertisement, Lockheed Super Constellation Aircraft -- most comfortable way to get there fast. 1955

Advertisement for Shell Motor Spirit - a speeding car. Date: early 20th century

Hawker Fury - RAF biplane fighter aircraft
Hawker Fury - a British biplane fighter aircraft used by the Royal Air Force in the 1930s. It was a fast, agile aircraft, capable of more than 200 mph. Date: circa 1930s

Debutantes out and about in the 1960s
A variety of photographs showing debutantes out and about at parties in the Swinging Sixties. They went to Guinea parties and Shake parties in fast cars and wearing the latest fashions Date: 1964

Mig-3 -One of the new breed of fast Soviet fighters All too many were lost to rapidly advancing Germans forces in July 1941

Siemens Schuckert DIII -only few of these impressive fast climbing fighters were delivered before hostilities ended

Savoia Marchetti SM79 -Italys finest bomber of the war Fast and well armed it flew against Malta and Allied Mediterranean convoys

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