Hour Collection (page 5)

L Chiron at the wheel of the Type 51 Bugatti, an eight-cylinder, 2 litre car developing 160 bhp, winner of the 1931 ten-hour French Grand Prix at Montlhery with an average of 78.16 mph

The One Hour Motor Tricycle Record

Approaching Okinawa - South Pacific -..down for an hour refuelling. Very hot and glary, and nothing but quanset hut bake-ovens to wait in. What a place to die for! Date: 1952

General Strike 1926

Every hour is lunch hour at the dreadnought club. Illustration shows the Roman god Mars, eating a battleship, with Uncle Sam and Marianne sitting at a table with rulers of European

The hour of the dog. Print shows a young woman sitting on a mat, holding a long scroll and writing materials, she has turned to the left to speak with a young servant or apprentice kneeling behind

The girl of the hour. Illustration shows a fashionably-dressed young woman ice skating on a pond in a park; she is being admired by several men and boys standing on the left

Book talks, 12: 15 to 12: 45 noon hour, every Thursday Nov. th
Book talks, 12:15 to 12:45 noon hour, every Thursday Nov. thru Apr. Poster for book talks at the Chicago Public Library, showing the sun. Date between 1936 and 1940

Story hour WPA recreation project - Dist. no. 2. Poster showing a girl sitting at the knees of a woman holding an open book. Date between 1936 and 1939

A trip around the world at story hour time Story hour club - WPA library center. Poster for the WPA statewide library project, showing two children on a large book

Saving daylight ends, for 1918, Sunday, Oct. 27th Set your clock back one hour at 2 AM Sunday October 27th. Poster showing Uncle Sam shaking hands with a clock-headed figure

Noon hour on berry farm, Bottomleys near Baltimore, Md. The dinning room. (See report July 10, 1909). Location: Baltimore, Maryland. Date 1909 July

Noon hour at Obear-Nestor Glass Co. East. St. Louis, Ill

National eight hour law

Dusting plane hedge-hopping after spraying swath on beanfield. These planes can spray 100 acres an hour, can usually fly one or two hours unless it rains or storms in an average day

Enoch Arden - the hour of trial. Date c1869

Kiss Me Quick. Couple kissing taking the opportunity while children are not looking. Children: this is the third time within an hour that I have placed your hats properly upon your heads

A Kiss in the Dark
Mischievous Conductor, Dark Tunnel, through in half an hour! Scene: When the Train struck the light in just 3 minutes. Couple kissing on a railway train with a cheeky joke twist Date: 1881

Broadway and 155th Street, New York
Broadway at 155th Street, with cut out figures cars and airplanes added. The cut-outs are painstakingly placed so as to almost look a part of the picture

Poster: Buses give way to tanks. Pleasure travellers must give way to war workers! Avoid rush hours. 1940s

Siegel Department Store
The Siegel, Cooper store on State and Van Buren streets, Chicago, is one of the worlds largest - accommodating 10000+ customers an hour and employing 2500 staff. Date: 1916

Rue de Lafayette, Paris 1927. Date: 1927

Cyclists in Hamilton, Bermuda
Cyclists in Bermuda - this postcard is captioned " Rapid Transport" Date: circa late 1930s

National Amusement - The Bus Kitchen 1918
If the ministry of food carries out its latest scheme, there should be plenty of excitement in getting ones dinner from the travelling food kichens

When national kichens come in bulk! 1918
National Kitchens opened in the First World War to help poor people get hot food. Date: 1918

EARLs COURT 1968
Rush Hour in the Earls Court area of London. Date: 1968

London Commuters
London commuters, most of them men in suits, walking over a bridge during the rush hour. Date: late 1970s

London Bus Queue
A miserable scene at a London bus stop, showing a crowd of people waiting for a bus during the Rush Hour. Date: 1979

Waterloo Commuters
Passengers and commuters leaving one of the platforms at London Waterloo railway station, England. Note all the old- fashioned railway carriage doors. Date: 1981

Rutland Boughton
RUTLAND BOUGHTON English musician, best known for his very successful The immortal hour but he wrote symphonies and chamber music too. Date: 1878 - 1960

Intellectual child cynic by David Wilson
Humorous cartoon showing a small, rather grown-up and intellectual boy lying on his bed reading while the radio is on and saying to his mother, There goes that Childrens Hour

Poster, In Her Hour of Need Your Country Calls for You. circa 1915

Poster, Obey the Speed Limit
Poster warning drivers to Obey the Speed Limit, which is 30 mph in built-up areas. 20th century

Eeling in Kent / 1930S
Eel spearers at work on the marshes at Reculver, Kent, England. By digging a pronged spear into the mud, skilled eel catchers catch as many as ten pounds of eels an hour. Date: 1930s

Commuters Await Train
A crowded platform of rush hour commuters waiting for a train on Malden station. Date: 1930s

W C Bryant (Leisure Hour
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT American writer and educator, known for Thanatopsis. Date: 1794 - 1878

The mechanical mule team, Los Angeles aqueduct. These caterpillars crawl across the desert wastes and over mountain roads about three miles an hour, drawing several tonnes of machinery and supplies

The sands run out
Kaiser Wilhem II stares gloomily as the sands of German militarism run out

Richard Oastler, factory reformer
Richard Oastler (1789-1861) was a labour reformer and abolitionist, born in Leeds, Yorkshire. He fought for the rights of working children in the Factory Act of 1847

Two-relay lodging house, East End of London
A group of men stand outside a lodging house in the East End of London. This establishment employed the two-relay system where each bed was shared between two people

Park Lane - Brook Street Gate - London

Birds-eye view of Oxford Street, London
A birds-eye view looking down a busy Oxford Street, London, the heart of the retail centre of the capital. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

The Cafe de la Paix, Boulevard Capucines, Paris
Undated photograph of outside of the Cafe de la Paix, Boulevard Capucines, Paris. HPG/1/14/5 (vii)

Embroidered Train
The Present Time A train with two carriages, capable of speeds of 60 miles per hour

Scottish Shipbuilding Yard, 1915
Dinner hour at a Scottish Shipbuilding Yard, 1915

Prince George and war ambulance
Prince George, later Duke of Kent (1902-1942), fourth son of King George V and Queen Mary, in the courtyard of Buckingham Palace with Mr Hansell

Le Five O Clock At Deauville by Edmund Blampied
An impression of the polo ground at Deauville during the tea hour. Since the war, afternoon tea - that formerly despised meal - has become the most fashionable of ceremonies among l haut monde

Nelsons supreme hour at Trafalgar, 21 October 1805
This picture illustrates Admiral Nelson giving an order on H.M.S. Victory during the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October 1805

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