Fastest Collection

QUEEN MARY
Cunard White Star liner - at the time, both the largest and the fastest ship of her kind in the world, with accommodation for 5000 passengers. Date: launched 26 Sept. 1934

Royal Line poster
Poster produced by the Royal Line shipping company claiming to have the fastest service from Britain to Canada, perfect for emigrants anxious to get there quickly!

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

Canadian Pacific
Poster for the Canadian Pacific shipping line advertising the " Empress" Steamers, and illustrated by the Empress of Ireland

Turbinia - steam turbine-powered steamship
Turbinia - the first steam turbine-powered steamship. Built as an experimental vessel in 1894, Turbinia wasy the fastest ship anywhere in the world at that time

Hawker Fury LA610 of 1945 was powered by a Napier Sabre VI
Hawker Fury, LA610, of 1945 was powered by a Napier Sabre VII which probably made it the fastest piston-powered Hawker aircraft. Date: 1945

SS Deutschland, 1900
Illustration of the Hamburg-American Liner Deutschland, launched in 1900 and holder of the Blue Riband for the fastest Atlantic crossing from 1900-1906

Poster, Cunard Line, Southampton, Cherbourg, New York - Fastest Ocean Service in the World Date: circa 1928

Gipsy Moth Iv, Greenwich
Sir Francis Chichesters boat Gipsy Moth IV broke the world record for the fastest voyage around the world by a small vessel. Here greeted by crowds at Greenwich, London. Date: 1960s

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

Turbinia - the first steam turbine-powered steamship. Built as an experimental vessel in 1894, Turbinia wasy the fastest ship anywhere in the world at that time

STEAMSHIPS / MAURETANIA
Cunarder on the Atlantic run, at this time the fastest ocean-going liner of them all, breaking all the Atlantic records

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

Diane Leather winning the mile race
The worlds fastest woman miler: Diane Leather of Birchfield Harriers winning the womens mile in 4 minutes 45 seconds at an athletics meeting at the White City on 21st September 1955

WW2 poster, The Fairey Fulmer, the Navys fastest fighter. Date: 1940

USN - Lockheed R7V-2 Super Constellation BuNo
United states Navy - Lockheed R7V-2 Super Constellation BuNo 131630 or 131631. Turbo-Prop conversion of the R7V-1 for the US Navy

Hawker Hunter F-3
Neville Duke Flying Wb188 the Hawker Hunter F.3 World Speed Record-Breaker on Final-Approach Landing at Tangmere, UK with Flaps Extended at the End of the Record-Breaking Flight in September 1953

Poster, Brooklands 500 miles race, Weybridge, Surrey, 24 September 1930, the world's fastest long distance race Date: 1930

Poster, Lloyd Express, North German Lloyd Bremen - New York, Cherbourg, Southampton, Bremen - Fastest Transatlantic Service. Date: circa 1935

Westland Lynx 800 ZB500 World's fastest helicopter
Westland Lynx 800 ZB500 (msn 102, ex G-LYNX, ex ZA500'), at the Royal International Air Tattoo - RAF Fairford 18 July 2003

The Cheltenham Flyer - World's Fastest Train

Original Napier Samson 6 cylinder, the fastest of its day. Date: circa 1904

Opening of Grand Prix de la Marne, Reims, France
Opening of Grand Prix de la Marne, near Reims, France, the fastest European road circuit. 20th century

Pietro Bordino, racing driver, in a Fiat
One of the worlds fastest racing drivers, Pietro Bordino, in a Fiat. 1927

USE THE AIR MAIL POSTER
Poster advertising air mail saying Use the Air Mail, The Fastest Mail. Date: 1933

Liore et Olivier LeO 451 -one of the fastest bombers of its day, the type flew against German and Italian targets during May and June 1940

Quebec Steamship Company - S. S. Bermudian
The S. S. Bermudian of the Quebec Steamship Company - held the record for the fastest trip between New York and Bermuda of 39 hours, 20 minutes, set on 9th February, 1912. Date: circa 1913

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 -

Hermann Lang on the twelve-cylinder Mercedes-Benz
Hermann Lang on the twelve-cylinder, 490 bhp, 3 litre Mercedes-Benz with which in 1939 he made the fastest timed laps of four Grand Prix circuits with an astonishing peak of 117.5 mph in practice for

A Cheetah in full flight
A Cheetah running at full speed. Pen, ink and wash drawing by Raymond Sheppard

The Tea Clipper - Cutty Sark
The Tea Clipper Cutty Sark. Built in 1869, she served as a merchant vessel (the last clipper to be built for that purpose), and then as a training ship until being put on public display in 1954

M. G. Six Sports car Illustration
An illustration captioned Morning on the Moors showing an M.G. Six Sports car, which at the time was one of the fastest standard sports cars available at a price of 510"

Plectorhinchus vittatus, oriental sweetlips
Ff. 215. Watercolour painting by George Forster made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Vought F4U-1 Corsair -when first flown in May 1940, this fighter was not just the US Navys fastest, it had few speedier rivals worldwide

De Havilland DH 98 Mosquito B IV -powered by two Rolls-Royce Merlins, once introduced, the type remained the RAF fastest bomber for the rest of the war

The Mustang plane by G. H. Davis
The Mustang: fastest army cooperation plane in the world, in use during the Second World War. A hard-hitting, amazingly fast reconnaissance aircraft. Date: 1942

British Mosquito bomber by G. H. Davis
The high speed British Mosquito bomber, constructed almost entirely of wood, was nicknamed The Wooden Wonder. Used for long-range day and night combat, attacking railways

Daimler Light
The Daimler Light Straight Eight will set you back all of L1200, but for your money you get the fastest Daimler yet produced, with aristocratic looks and comfort as well. Date: 1937

Talbot Coupe
This handsome tourer is one of the fastest cars on the road - it can top 90 mph ! Date: 1937

French Spinning Champ
Mademoiselle Liane Roch, who received a medal from the President of France, for being the fastest and most skillful hand spinner in Alsace. Shown here with her spinning wheel! Date: 1930s

Thomas Fossett - Texas Tom - Rodeo Rider - " the fastest and most expert rider ever known." Date: circa 1920

Lucania Steamship
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: 1901

Canadian Pacific White Empresses
The Empress of Japan Canadian Pacific ocean liner, the fastest trans-pacific steamship of its time, sailing from Vancouver to Japan and China via Honolulu

Norddeutscher Lloyd poster
Poster for the Norddeutscher Lloyd shipping line which operated out of Bremen in North Germany. The poster features the Europa and Bremen passenger steamships

Welbeck Abbey Motor Race
The first automobile race in England at Welbeck Abbey: the start. The fastest car attained a pace of 42 miles/hour

SAILING SHIP ARIEL
The fastest of all the China clippers which brought tea from China to Britain

Cheltenham Flyer 1935
The driver of the Cheltenham Flyer oils its wheels. It was one of the fastest trains of the day covering the 77 miles between Swindon and Paddington in 65 minutes

Lusitania / Mauretania
The Lusitania and her sister-ship the Mauretania, Cunarders on the Atlantic run, are described here as the fastest vessels in the world

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