Fast Collection (page 6)

Time Speed Happily - Cars Speeding legally
Time Speed Happily - A New Years card for 1908. Cars Speeding legally by, whilst a policeman (as Old Father Time, perched on a winter world complete ith beard and scythe)

Eddie Rickenbacker, American fighter pilot, WW1
Edward Vernon Rickenbacker (1890-1973), nicknamed Fast Eddie, American fighter pilot and air ace of 94th Aero Squadron during the First World War. Seen here in northern France in his Spad XIII

Arnhem prisoners launch mobile food restaurant
Three ex-officers of the Parachute Regiment, captured at Arnhem, having sunk their savings into a new idea in catering conceived in a German POW camp

Lloyd B. Labeach sprinting, 1948 London Olympics
Sprinter Lloyd B. Labeach from Panama thrusts forward to win Heat 4 in the second round of the 100 Metres competition. His time was 10.5 seconds. Date: 1948

A Perilous Passage by George Ranstead
A man is given a terrifying ride in a sidecar by a female motorcycle rider, zooming away from other vehicles, buses, trams and horses in the street

Cycling in Lakeland If you cycle in Lakeland you ll find on the whole its a mixture of pushing and losing control !! circa 1920s

A Motor Tour of Lakeland If you desire to go the pace, try motoring through this lovely place !! circa 1920s

Sopwith Pup Aeroplane
The Sopwith Pup fighter plane, a favourite with the Royal Naval Air Service. Armed with a single machine gun, it was manoeuverable and fast and could climb and hold altitude. Date: circa 1917

Two Girls Sliding C1880
Two girls are sliding - one keeps her footing, the other she slid so fast, she slid so free, that down fell she ! Date: circa 1880

Fast Lady & Cigarette
A progressive lady smokes a cigarette 1920

Fable - The Tortoise and the Hare
The complacent hare takes a nap under a tree while the Tortoise romps home in this cautionary tale advocating the slow and steady over the fast and flippant. Illustration by Malcolm Greensmith

Runners in Victoria Place, Haverfordwest, South Wales
A group of runners (or are they just fast walkers?) wearing light-coloured clothes are watched by the townspeople in Victoria Place, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales

Two boys on a home-made go-kart
Two boys enjoying a ride on a home-made go-kart in Horley, Surrey. They are travelling at such a speed that the photograph is blurred!

Boy on a home-made go-kart
A boy goes for a ride on a home-made go-kart in Horley, Surrey

Bablot in a 1911 motor race
The winning driver Paul Bablot speeding through the countryside in his Delage car during a motor race of 1911, the Coupe des Voitures Legeres (Light Cars Cup), held at Boulogne sur Mer, France

Anon. Ever so Fast! 1920
Book cover showing a variety of vehicles zooming along a road, including an open top car, a bus, a removal van, a motorcycle and a motorcyle with a sidecar

Fast reversing / W H Robinson
For reversing quickly, a car with two fronts and a steering wheel at both ends. Please note: Credit must appear as (c) Courtesy of the estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/Mary Evans Picture

Rapid Reversing / W H Robinson
For rapid reversing, backward streamline. Please note: Credit must appear as (c) Courtesy of the estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/Mary Evans Picture Library

Zip bonnet / W H Robinson
The new zip opening bonnet for fast and easy access to the engine. Please note: Credit must appear as (c) Courtesy of the estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/Mary Evans Picture Library

Fast Delivery advertisement
Advertisement for the DCL (The Distillers Company Limited). Thei fast delivery is illustrated here by a tanker being throw fast like a ball from a mans hand. Photographic montage by Heinz Zinram

Cairo, Egypt - Mobile street hot food vendor
A mobile hot food vendor sells his steaming wares in Cairo, Egypt

Cooking street food - Tunis, Tunisia
Cooking and selling street food in Tunis, Tunisia

Discipline and Dissipation
Two men sit in a train carriage, one is fast asleep whilst the uniformed gentleman, uninterested in the newspaper he holds, stares ahead at this sleepy passenger

Tatler Motor Show Number 1954
Front cover of The Tatler featuring an illustration of an intrepid driver wearing cap, goggles and scarf steering his vintage car to the summit of a very steep hill

The Express Train passing a signal-box at high speed

Fast Castle
The ruins of Fast Castle, Berwickshire Scotland

Copa Barcelona 1911 poster
Poster advertising a motor race in Barcelona in June 1911, organised by the Catalan Automobile Club

A Christmas Morning On The Hill Side, by W. Bryce Hamilton
A colour illustration of a fast pace sledge race on a winter morning

A Remarkable Instance of Quick Skating
A man is ice skating so fast that he leaves his shadow behind. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the Estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary Evans

Allied truck watering Italian roads; Second World War, 1944
Photograph showing an Allied truck employed in watering dusty Italian roads, 1944. The warning sign on the right-hand side gives the reason for the watering

Sleeping at the Table
A little boy falls fast asleep at the dinner table

European Travel
With todays modern transport links as fast as they are, Paris is literally one step away from London for this well turned out (British?) traveller

F. R. Foster (1889-1958)
Photograph of Frank Foster, the Warwickshire and England cricketer, demonstrating his left-arm fast-medium bowling action, c.1910

Fast Colours
Two 1920s ladies wearing boldly coloured and patterned summer dresses, promenading along a sea front. Both are holding fashionable Chinese parasols

Worth Going to Bed For by Harold Earnshaw
Illustration by Harold Cecil Earnshaw to accompany a rhyme by J.M. Barrie, showing a little boy fast asleep and enjoying a particularly vivid dream crammed with castles, pirates, elephants

Toboggan Girl 1928
A girl races downhill fast on a toboggan, exposing her stocking tops along the way

England / Abinger Hammer
The blacksmith whose motto is " By me you know how fast you go" strikes the clock and indicates the historical importance of ironworking to Abinger Hammer in Surrey

Women Jockeys Foreseen
A RATHER FAST STEEPLECHASE Women jockeys foreseen

Ufos / Arnold / Cascade Mt
Idaho businessman Kenneth Arnold sees group of fast- moving UFOs over the Cascade Mountains, Washington State, USA

Bloomers 1850
Bloomerism - an American custom

Maid sees little girl asleep
The maid is pleased to see that Margery is already fast asleep

Canadian Pacific poster
Poster for the Canadian Pacific Line shipping company promoting its fast, luxurious service from Britain to Canada on its Empress steamers

1916 / Verdun Salute
A patriotic postcard salutes the brave efforts of French forces in standing fast against German efforts to capture Verdun fortress

Girl and Doll Asleep
A girl and her doll - both fast asleep

Ignitron Device C1936
The Westinghouse " Ignitron" tube was designed to register fast-moving objects

PAT A CAKE
Pat a cake, pat a cake, bakers man, So I do, master, as fast as I can; Pat it, and prick it

Rail / Uk / Accident Cartoon
Muddleby Junction - a confused pointsman tries to remember which line the fast approaching express train is travelling on

Shocking Frock 1928
An example of the sort of clothing and type of dancing that seemed so shocking to the older generation

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