Motor Collection (#48)

LCC-LFB - Self-contained smoke helmets (BA sets)
Self-contained smoke helmets (BA sets) were introduced for use in an atmosphere dense with smoke and dangerous fumes. A special motor appliance fitted for smoke helmet work was based at Southwark HQ

LCC-LFB New enclosed London fire engine
The new enclosed breathing apparatus and ladder carrying fire engine supplied to the London Fire Brigade by Dennis, based on an LFB design

LCC-LFB Knightsbridge firemen competition winners
The winning crew of the annual horse drawn and motorised pump escape competition with their station superintendent. Knightsbridge fire station was opened in 1907, and still stands in Basil Street

LCC-LFB Early motorised fire engine
This machine was one of the early self-propelled petrol motor fire engines used by the LFB. It was made by Merryweather and Sons Limited

LCC-LFB Holloway fire station with motorised pump
Holloway fire station with motorised pump. The adoption of motorised fire engines was becoming widespread by the start of the First World War

LCC-LFB Turntable ladder and crew at Southwark
A steel Magirus 100 foot turntable ladder at the Brigade Headquarters, Southwark SE1

LCC-LFB early foam tender at Southwark with crew
An early foam tender at Southwark HQ with crew. The coming of the motor vehicle brought with it the consequent risks involving fires of petroleum

Self-propelled fire engine at LCC-LFB Southwark HQ
The Hatfield motor pump was the first petrol driven engine appliance in which the engine was used to operate the fire pump

LCC-MFB petrol driven motor tender
This chain transmission driven first-aid tender carried the first small water tank which operated under pressure of carbon dioxide gas

Shand Mason Bristol motor steam fire engine
This Shand Mason motor steam fire engine with independent pumping and propelling engines was developed later than Merryweathers Fire King self-propelled steam engine

NFS (London Region) fire float on the Thames, WW2
A motor launch fire float under tow by a fireboat on the River Thames

Cover design, Aero & Marine Exhibition
Cover design, catalogue of Aero & Marine Exhibition, 16-25 March 1914, at Olympia, west London, under the patronage of His Majesty the King

British Motor Products poster
Empire Marketing Board 1927-1933 poster, Which Countries Buy British Motor Products Date: 1927-1933

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Indianapolis Motor Speedway, greatest race course in the world. Poster shows dramatic race scene with automobiles on race track and spectators leaning over railing of grandstands

Sport and celebrities in the Bystander
Page from the Bystander showing, from top left, lady Chesham with her greyhound, Silver Chain, a runner at White City stadium

De Dion Car Poster
L Elegante Moteurs de Dion Poster. In 1900, de Dion-Bouton was the largest automobile manufacturer in the world, producing 400 cars and 3, 200 engines that year circa 1900

Say! Young fellow, do you want to be a mechanic? The Motor Transport Corps will train you. Earn while you learn. Poster showing soldiers in a truck calling out to a young man. Date 1919

The Motor Transport Corps offers you an opportunity to become an expert auto mechanic and repairman. Poster showing a mechanic in overalls. Date 1919

Airship powered by an electric motor developed by Albert and Gaston Tissandier departing from Auteuil, Paris, France, October 8, 1883. Date 1883

The YMCA motor kitchen in France. Poster showing a truck fitted out as a YMCA canteen, serving soldiers, with smoke rising from battlefields in the distance. Date 1915

Why bother about the Germans invading the country? Invade it yourself by Underground and motor- bus. Easter - 1915. Poster showing children at play in a spring landscape. Date 1915

Magneto side of the Wright four-cylinder motor used in 1911. Date 1911

Rear view of the Wright brothers four-cylinder motor as installed in their 1903 airplane. Date 1928 Jan. 6

Left front side of the Wright brothers reconstructed 1903 motor. Date 1928 Jan. 10

Ford V 8 saloon advertisement 1935
Advertisement for Ford Motor Company Limited, showing a smart, black new V-8 Saloon de Luxe arriving at a port, prompting all onlookers to wave in admiration. Date: 1935

Rear view of the Wright brothers 1903 motor in the shop, January 1, 1928, before its shipment to the Science Museum in London on January 31, 1928. Date 1928 Jan. 1

Underside view of the Wright brothers reconstructed 1903 motor. Date 1928 Jan. 10

Joyce Green Hospital - motor ambulance
A patient on a stretcher is being removed from a motor ambulance at the Joyce Green Smallpox Hospital at Long Reach near Dartford

British Expeditionary Force arrive in France, 1939
A British column of Army lorries is cheerily greeted by French military motor cyclists as it moves through a French village in the early weeks of World War Two. Date: 1939

Fleet of Standard cars for King and Queen in India

Six women in Chicken Stealing Competition
Six women competitors in the Chicken Stealing Competition held at the Essex Motor Club Annual Gymkhana at High Beach, Epping Forest, Essex. circa 1911

The Motor Cyclist and the Magnetic Shell
" The Motor Cyclist and the Magnetic Shell: A Military Fantasy" H. M. Batemans animated, slightly maniac style is perfectly suited to this sequential cartoon showing a motorcyclist being

Motor bike & sidecar & tram
The Wonders of Speed. Book illustration.Date: 1924

Sea Scouts on Motor Torpedo Boat 102
Motor Torpedo Boat 102 of the 1st Blofield and Brundal Sea Scouts. 1977

Steyr motor car
A monochromatic posterization of an elegant womangetting into a car Date: 1941

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

Volvo P 121 / 122
Volvo P 121/122 Amazon, 1956. Date: 1956

Volvo PV 1927 Date: 1927

Ford Bus
A Ford Bus 1923. Date: 1923

Shipping Shell Motor Spirit on board the Terra Nova at Sydney for the motor sledges used by Captain Scott during his 1911-12 Antarctic expedition

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

500 miles world record beaten at Brooklands, 1931
J. Dundee finishing first driving the Bentley of Captain Woolf Barnato, which averaged a speed of 118.39 miles per hour over the 500 mile race at Brooklands race track in 1931. Date: 1931

Blind motor car driver, 1904
Despite the fact Mr Sharp of Watford is totally blind, he has obtained a licence to drive a motor car. To warn other motorists, his bowler hat is inscribed with the words, Blind. Thats alright then

Canadian National Exhibition - Motor Racing
Canadian National Exhibition, Toronto - 1914. Motor Racing - the finish line before the Grandstand. Date: 1914

Motor car Railroad - Medellin, Colombia
Medellin, Colombia - The tramway company Tranvia de Oriente opened a gasoline-powered line in 1925, seen here in the process of construction

SIII Wolseley 18 / 85 traffic car
A 1947 SIII Wolseley traffic car, complete with radio transmitter and loudspeaker, parks up alongside a huge queue of people. Date: circa 1947

Volvo PV 51, 1937. Date: 1937

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