Amelia Earhart, pioneering aviator, with planeAmelia Mary Earhart (1897-1937), American pioneering aviator, standing in front of her plane. Date: circa 1930s
Britains frogmen divers by G. H. DavisIntroducing Britains frog-men: diving wreckers who blasted open a path to the Normandy beaches. These underwater commandos worked off the D-Day beaches
Advert, Rudge-Whitworth Quality Motor Cycles Date: 1939
Churchills praise for RAF Pilots" Never was so much owed by so many to so few" - Prime Minister Winston Churchill from a speech made on 20th August 1940
Recruitment poster for the Corps of Military Police - Second World War. circa 1940
Brooklands Race PosterA poster for the British equivalent of the Le Mans 24- hour race, the Brooklands Double-twelve hour race
Motor Racing 1930SA poster advertising a mixed car and motorcycles racing programme at the Nurburgring in Germany
Amy Johnson - pioneering English pilotAmy Johnson (later Mollison) CBE (1903-1941) - pioneering English pilot who was the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia
The Battle of BritainA circular painting depicting the brave men of the Royal Airforce on the ground and in action during the Battle of Briatin
Amy Johnson CBE (1903-1941) - pioneering English female pilot - pictured standing in front of her Gipsy Moth just before she undertook a 19-day solo flight to Australia
Police Motorcycle Team at Crystal PalaceThe Metropolitan Police Motorcycle Team at Crystal Palace Centre. Five of the riders are wearing white corker helmets and all are riding White Triumph motorcycles with white legshields
Conrad von Hotzendorf, Austro-Hungarian Army, WW1Count Franz Conrad von Hotzendorf (1852-1925), Chief of the General Staff of the Austro-Hungarian Army at the outbreak of the First World War. Seen here with his Chief of Staff, General Muller
Jack Johnson on his Racing Motor CarArthur John Johnson, better known as Jack Johnson, the American heavyweight boxer, pictured in 1908. Johnson was the World Heavyweight Champion between 1908 and 1915
Brooklands PosterA 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
Girls on Sun BedA group of factory girls from Leeds, Yorkshire, England, topping up their tans with the aid of sunray treatment. Shame about the goggles... Date: early 1930s
Poster, Sir Alan Cobhams National Aviation Day Campaign Air Display (also known as Cobhams Flying Circus), Chapel Farm, Lochgelly Road, Kirkcaldy, 13-14 July 1935. Date: 1935
Calthorpe Racing Car1908 Tourist Trophy Race, 24th Sept, Calthorpe 4-cylinder racing car. Known as the Four Inch Race because that was the maximum size of cylinder bore allowed for entry. Race heId on Isle of Man
Bank holiday at GoodwoodA plug and spanner bank holiday at Goodwood. R. D. Poore in his 3.8 Alfa-Romeo and Leslie Johnson in the E-type 1 1/2 litre E.R.A. top the rise after St
Car & Motorbike on RoadA motorcyclist and two ladies in an open saloon car enjoy a drive into the country in this advertisement for Gargoyle Mobiloils & Greases
Doolittle / Gee Bee PlaneCaptain James Doolittle, American aviator, and his Gee Bee plane
Two women police officers in gas masks, London, WW2Two women police officers in gas masks in London during the Second World War. One of them is Florence Bragg (joined November 1936). Date: 1940s
Methods of escape from submarine by G. H. DavisThe latest methods of escape from a sunken submarine: the rescue bell, the one-man escape chamber, and escape without the use of breathing apparatus. 1954
Despatch riders with Douglas motorcycles, WW1Two despatch riders with Douglas 349cc motorcycles during the First World War. Date: circa 1916
Drivers & personalities in the Five Hundred Miles Race, 1929Five 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)
Policeman riding a Triumph motorcyleA police rider turning a corner on his Triumph motorcycle, fitted with white legshields and a front numberplate (denoting this picture is pre-1975)
1906 Tyre AdvertisementAn advert for Jenatzy Tyres of Brussels
Flight / Flying GirlPretty young aviatrix in a belted leather flight coat, leather gauntlets, helmet & goggles
Taking a ride over the Isle of Wight in an aeroplaneTaking a ride over the Isle of Wight in a two-seater aeroplane. The lady passenger is bereft of flying hat/helmet and goggles and obviously therefore enjoys the feeling of the wind in her hair
Two men at the controls of a Sunderland flying boatTwo men (second fitter and rigger) at the controls of a Sunderland Mark I flying boat and bomber, used by RAF 230 Squadron during the Second World War. Date: circa 1938
Policemen on their motor cyclesA long line of Metropolitan Police officers on their motor cycles. Date: circa 1940s
Costume / Out & away 1919Man: brown tweed suit, bowtie, trilby & spats. Women: riding habit of grey jacket with sloping front borders, bowler hat, cravat & crop or cap & goggles & fur lined greatcoat Date: 1919
Home made carA young man got up in motoring kit including a balaclava and goggles, poses at the wheel of an evidently home made car with hand-scrawled number plate!
Female Aviator with flying helmet and goggles
A Happy Party of Little Motorists. Six young children are taken for a spin in an open-top car. They are all wrapped up warm against the elements. Date: circa 1905
Harry Tate / Vfair 1912HARRY TATE (Ronald Macdonald Hutchison) English music hall comedian, best known for sketches on golfing, motoring and fishing
Gustav Hamel signing receipt for mail, HendonThe aviator Gustav Hamel in the cockpit of his aeroplane, signing the official receipt for the mail, just before setting out from Hendon Aerodrome to Windsor on the very first airmail flight
Berlin Motor Race PosterA poster for a motor racing meeting on 12th and 22nd October at Berlin, Germany
Stainforth / SupermarineFlight Lieutenant George Hedley Stainforth, British aviator, and the Supermarine S6B in which he exceeded the 400mph speed record in 1931
Amy Johnson / Cig CardAmy Johnson (Mrs Mollison), pioneer British aviator who made several record flights - seen here in 1935
Heath / Avro Avian PlaneMary Lady Heath, Irish aviator, and her Avro Avian: she was the first woman to fly solo from England to South Africa
German Tail-Gunner 1918A German tail-gunner seated behind his machine gun
WW1 - Georges Guynemer in his SPADGeorges Guynemer (1894-1917) - popular hero and an airman of distinction, Guynemer won many medals in his prolific career. Photograph published in September 1917
Glamourous AviatrixA glamourous blond Aviatrix, sporting red goggles and a cream flying helmet and jumpsuit enjoys a well earned smoke in between flights
Pratt's High Test Fuel - Advertisement for Pratt's High Test petrol depicts a woman at the steering wheel, goggles at the ready. Artist: Albert Bailey. Date: 1926
Lady Cobham and Sir Alan Cobham's fourth survey flight round Africa for Imperial Airways Date: 1927
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Flight-Lieutenant J N Boothman, pilot Date: 1935
Captain Hs Broad, pilot Date: 1935
