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Motor Bike Collection

Background imageMotor Bike Collection: Lawrence of Arabia

Lawrence of Arabia
British archaeologist, soldier, intelligence officer and writer, Thomas Edward Lawrence (1888-1935), known as Lawrence of Arabia. Seen here in RAF uniform on a Brough Superior SS100 motorbike

Background imageMotor Bike Collection: Recruitment poster for the Corps of Military Police

Recruitment poster for the Corps of Military Police - Second World War. circa 1940

Background imageMotor Bike Collection: Policeman on BSA motorcycle, London

Policeman on BSA motorcycle, London
A Metropolitan Police officer riding a BSA motorcycle in London. The BSA could travel at up to 70 miles per hour

Background imageMotor Bike Collection: Police Officer & Triumph

Police Officer & Triumph
Metropolitan Police officer on a Triumph motorcycle during World War II

Background imageMotor Bike Collection: Rocker & Rock Chic

Rocker & Rock Chic
Rebellious teenagers on a motorbike in Charlwood, Surrey. They are wearing their leathers, and the girl is swigging a bottle of shandy!

Background imageMotor Bike Collection: Stockholm Grand Prix

Stockholm Grand Prix
A poster for the Stockholm Grand Prix, 29th-30th May 1948

Background imageMotor Bike Collection: Woman on Super Sunbeam motorcycle

Woman on Super Sunbeam motorcycle
A lady sits astride a Super Sunbeam motorcycle outside the Red House in Buntingford, Hertfordshire, smiling and wearing a beret style hat, a fur-collared coat and Fair Isle jumper

Background imageMotor Bike Collection: Car & Motorbike on Road

Car & Motorbike on Road
A motorcyclist and two ladies in an open saloon car enjoy a drive into the country in this advertisement for Gargoyle Mobiloils & Greases

Background imageMotor Bike Collection: Police Motorcyclist

Police Motorcyclist
Metropolitan Police officer on his motorcyle

Background imageMotor Bike Collection: Motocross Scramblers

Motocross Scramblers
Muddy bikers revving up their engines between the starting strings at a Motocross scrambling race. Date: 1980s

Background imageMotor Bike Collection: Atomic Motorbike

Atomic Motorbike
Motor Cycle Driven by Atomic Power

Background imageMotor Bike Collection: Matchless Motorbike

Matchless Motorbike
Matchless motor cycle with sidecar

Background imageMotor Bike Collection: Motorcycle Machine Gun Unit firing at aircraft, WW1

Motorcycle Machine Gun Unit firing at aircraft, WW1
Two men belonging to a Motorcycle Machine Gun Unit with a Scott motorcycle during the First World War, using a Vickers machine gun to fire at aircraft. Date: 1914-1918

Background imageMotor Bike Collection: Officer of Tank Corps with dog and motorbike, France, WW1

Officer of Tank Corps with dog and motorbike, France, WW1
An officer of the Tank Corps on a Douglas motorbike with a spaniel dog, at Neulette, northern France, towards the end of the First World War. Date: 3 May 1918

Background imageMotor Bike Collection: Police Motorcycles

Police Motorcycles
Metropolitan Police motorcyclists esccorting an ambulance past Buckingham Palace in London

Background imageMotor Bike Collection: The Last Word by William Heath Robinson

The Last Word by William Heath Robinson
A motorcyclist, engrossed in a crossword, fails to notice that he is driving over the edge of a cliff just as he discovers the right answer to one of the clues

Background imageMotor Bike Collection: A Winters Mooring at Beccles

A Winters Mooring at Beccles
A woman poses with a motorbike alongside a boat moored at Captain Bloomfields Moorings at Beccles in Suffolk, East Anglia

Background imageMotor Bike Collection: Llandudno Tram

Llandudno Tram
One of the single-decker side deck trams which used to run at Llandudno, Wales

Background imageMotor Bike Collection: Policeman riding a Triumph motorcyle

Policeman riding a Triumph motorcyle
A police rider turning a corner on his Triumph motorcycle, fitted with white legshields and a front numberplate (denoting this picture is pre-1975)

Background imageMotor Bike Collection: Family of five on a motorcycle in Rhodes, Greece

Family of five on a motorcycle in Rhodes, Greece
A family of five on a Zundapp motorcycle in Rhodes, Greece

Background imageMotor Bike Collection: Policemen on their motor cycles

Policemen on their motor cycles
A long line of Metropolitan Police officers on their motor cycles. Date: circa 1940s

Background imageMotor Bike Collection: French Motorbike Champ

French Motorbike Champ
Demester, winner of La Coupe Internationale des Motocyclettes Date: 1904

Background imageMotor Bike Collection: French Motorbike Champ 2

French Motorbike Champ 2
Hoffmann, French motor cycling champion; to tell the truth, hes standing still, but a little retouching gives the illusion hes travelling at speed

Background imageMotor Bike Collection: Motorbike with Skates

Motorbike with Skates
Swiss-American inventor Thomas Avoskans motor cycle with skates

Background imageMotor Bike Collection: Old man standing next to a motorcycle near a beach

Old man standing next to a motorcycle near a beach
An old man with a walking stick, standing next to a motorcycle parked near a beach

Background imageMotor Bike Collection: Elderly couple in motorbike and sidecar

Elderly couple in motorbike and sidecar
A elderly man sits on a muddy looking motorbike while his wife smiles from the attached sidecar. Two men, possibly their sons, grin in the background

Background imageMotor Bike Collection: Submarine Motorbike

Submarine Motorbike
Submarine Motor Cycle

Background imageMotor Bike Collection: Well dressed man on a motorcycle

Well dressed man on a motorcycle
A rather well dressed man sitting on a motorcycle. He is wearing a bowler hat, white gloves, a black bowtie, dark jacket, pinstriped trousers and shiny shoes

Background imageMotor Bike Collection: Carrying a ladder on a Sunbeam motorcycle

Carrying a ladder on a Sunbeam motorcycle
A man, Alan Fraser, a photographed driving away on a Sunbeam motorbike with a quite large set of ladders attached precariously to his back

Background imageMotor Bike Collection: Impala motorbike, design by Leopoldo Mil Sagnier from 1961

Impala motorbike, design by Leopoldo Mil Sagnier from 1961, produced by Montesa. Photography

Background imageMotor Bike Collection: Messenger Boy

Messenger Boy
People You See. From Teddy Bear (date unknown)

Background imageMotor Bike Collection: Motorbike

Motorbike
Dramatic black and white motorbike illustration of a motorcycle cornering at speed. Date: 1936

Background imageMotor Bike Collection: The Butterfly on the Wheel by Nick

The Butterfly on the Wheel by Nick
A couple in fancy dress, the lady in a butterfly costume, ride together on a motorcycle through the night sky. The bikes number plate reads, I LUV U. Date: 1927

Background imageMotor Bike Collection: You re Splendid Dad by Helen McKie - World War II

You re Splendid Dad by Helen McKie - World War II
A young woman on a motorbike stops to offer her admiration to her father (or just an older male acquaintance) who twiddles his moustache while in Home Guard uniform

Background imageMotor Bike Collection: Puch motorcycle

Puch motorcycle
A monochromatic posterization of a Puch motorcycle at high speed 1941

Background imageMotor Bike Collection: Police motorcyclist, 1904

Police motorcyclist, 1904
A police sergeant fully equipped for running to earth motorists who exceed the speed limit. Under law introduced in 1904, all motor vehicles were compelled to be registered

Background imageMotor Bike Collection: 1905 Motorcycle

1905 Motorcycle
Allveleo, motorbike manufactured at Landskrona, Sweden, 1905. Date: 1905

Background imageMotor Bike Collection: A Perilous Passage by George Ranstead

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

Background imageMotor Bike Collection: Museum display of British soldiers with machine gun

Museum display of British soldiers with machine gun
A museum display of dummy British soldiers with various means of transport and a Vickers machine gun. Date: 20th century

Background imageMotor Bike Collection: Armoured cars at Biefvillers, Somme, France, WW1

Armoured cars at Biefvillers, Somme, France, WW1
Armoured cars setting out on a reconnaissance mission at Biefvillers during the Second Battle of the Somme on the Western Front in northern France during the First World War. Date: 25 August 1918

Background imageMotor Bike Collection: Museum display of British soldiers with transport

Museum display of British soldiers with transport
A museum display of dummy British soldiers with various means of transport. Date: 20th century

Background imageMotor Bike Collection: Man of a Motorcycle Machine Gun Unit, WW1

Man of a Motorcycle Machine Gun Unit, WW1
A man belonging to a Motorcycle Machine Gun Unit with a Scott motorcycle during the First World War. Date: March 1915

Background imageMotor Bike Collection: Sherman tank destroys nine Panther tanks

Sherman tank destroys nine Panther tanks
Poster entitled Battle Front Dispatch, containing a report from Winston Churchill of how one Sherman tank destroyed nine enemy Panther tanks outside Caen in Northern France during the Second World

Background imageMotor Bike Collection: Durand music publishers, Paris, France

Durand music publishers, Paris, France
The front entrance to the shop of Durand & Cie, music publishers, Paris, France. Date: early 1960s

Background imageMotor Bike Collection: Metropolitan Police motor cyclists

Metropolitan Police motor cyclists
A group of Metropolitan Police motor cyclists, with the River Thames and Tower Bridge in the background

Background imageMotor Bike Collection: Man on an early motorcycle in front of a house

Man on an early motorcycle in front of a house
A man on an early motorcycle, possibly a Triumph, registration A 2421, in front of a house

Background imageMotor Bike Collection: Man and boy with junior sized motorcycle

Man and boy with junior sized motorcycle
A man gives his son a bit of advice under an umbrella before the boy sets off on his junior sized motorcycle

Background imageMotor Bike Collection: Two young men on a motorcycle

Two young men on a motorcycle
Two young men sitting on a motorcycle. The one nearest the camera is wearing leather jacket, scarf, and a helmet with goggles



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