Mph Collection

Supermarine aeroplane, Rolls-Royce S. 6
The Supermarine aeroplane, Rolls-Royce S.6, winner of the International Schneider Trophy Air Race in 1922, 1927 and 1929, and holder of the world speed record of 357.7 mph

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

Hitchin, Herts 1940S
The corner of Bridge Street, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, where the speed limit for W.D. (War Department) vehicles is 15 m.p.h. The Half Moon pub, sells Noted Luton Ales, too

Autocar Poster -- Circuit des Ardennes race
Autocar Poster -- British driver Charles Jarrott winning the Circuit des Ardennes race in the famous 70 Panhard. His average speed during the race was 54 mph. Date: 1903

Autocar Poster -- Targa Florio race, Sicily
Autocar Poster -- Italian champion Felice Nazzaro driving the Fiat car in which he won the Targa Florio race in Sicily. His average speed for the race was around 33 mph on gruelling mountain roads

Hitchin, Herts 1940S
The corner of Bridge Street, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, where the speed limit for W.D. (War Department) vehicles is 15 m.p.h. A horse and cart keeps strictly to this limit

Gurneys Steam Carriage
Goldsworthy Gurneys steam carriage is one of the most successful of its kind and 15 are built : tested by the War Office one averages 15 mph on the round trip London to Bath

Autocar Poster -- French Grand Prix
Autocar Poster -- French driver Boillot in a blue Peugeot, chasing the American Bruce Brown in a red Fiat, in the French Grand Prix

Stunt woman rides through flames on motorbike
Sue, 23, one of a team of stunt women, rides her motorbike through a twenty-foot long tunnel of burning hay bales. Wearing only a T-shirt and hot pants she entered the tunnel at 60 mph

Autocar Poster -- race on new Brooklands track, Surrey
Autocar Poster --s F Edge driving a Napier car on the new Brooklands racing track in Surrey. He maintained a speed of 60 mph for 24 hours, setting a new record. Date: 1907

French Grand Prix of 1921
The first road race to be won by an engine powered by a straight-eiggt engine was the French Grand Prix of 1921 in which J Murphy averaged 78.1 mph for 322 miles at Le Mans

Schneider contest nerve centre by G. H. Davis
The Schneider contest nerve centre: timing at over 300 mph. How the amazing speeds of the seaplanes were recorded: the timekeepers and their work on Ryde Pier. Date: 1929

A. C. Sports Car
A.C. sports two-seater - maximum speed 90 mph ! Date: 1936

WW2 - Supermarine Seaplane
An illustration of a BritishVickers Supermarine Seaplane which won the Schneider trophy for Great Britain in 1931, setting the world's speed record at 407 mph

The Motor Picture Book, What, Only Doing Sixty? Date: 1930

Pratt & Whitney R-1340 Wasp
Curtiss XP-3A No.2 28-189 (msn 10993), fitted with a 410hp Pratt & Whitney R-1340-1 Wasp, in a close fitting NACA cowling

HMS Hornet, Acheron-class Destroyer
Royal Navy - HMS Hornet, an Acheron-class Destroyer that served during the First World War and was sold for breaking in 1921. She was the seventh Royal Navy ship to be named Hornet

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

Poster, International Air Races, St Louis, USA, 1-2-3 October 1923. Date: 1923

4th Gordon Bennett Trophy, Camille Jenatzy (60 Mercedes 9.2 litres) the winner at 49.2 mph. Shown sitting in his car after the race. Date: 2nd July 1903

Raymond Mays, Sir Malcolm Campbell and Earl Howe
Three famous motor racing drivers at Shelsley Walsh (left to right): Raymond Mays, Sir Malcolm Campbell (world record holder at 301 mph), and Earl Howe. 20th century

Rudolf Caracciola on Mellaha circuit, Tripoli Grand Prix
Rudolf Caracciola on the Mellaha circuit during the Tripoli Grand Prix, driving a Mercedes, with a winning speed of 123 mph. 1935

Red Jenatzy, winner of Gordon Bennett Cup motor race
Red Jenatzy, winner of the Gordon Bennett Cup motor race at the wheel of a 1903 Mercedes, with a speed of 49.2 mph. early 20th century

Parry Thomas, racing driver, inspecting 400 hp engine
Parry Thomas, motor racing driver, inspecting the 400 hp engine on Babs, the car which he designed, gaining a world land speed record of 170.6 mph. circa 1920s

Bimotore Alfa-Romeo racing car
The Bimotore Alfa-Romeo, a road-racing car which covered the measured mile at 200.8 mph. 20th century

Alfa-Romeos, opening lap of Grand Prix de la Marne, France
Three Alfa-Romeos at about 140 mph during the opening lap of the Grand Prix de la Marne, France, with Louis Chiron ahead of Achille Varzi and Guy Moll. 1934

Main Road, Ashingdon, near Rochford, Essex
View of Main Road, Ashingdon, near Rochford, Essex. Date: 20th century

British Aircraft Company - B. A. - Cataract Swallow 2 G-AELG
British Aircraft Company (B.A.) Cataract Swallow 2 G-AELG (msn 449), at Lympne for the 1946 or 1947 (it competed in both) Folkestone Aero Trophy air races

Parnall Heck 2C G-AEGI, seen with race number 33 at Elmdon for the 1949 Kings Cup Air Race. On 29 July 1949, G-AEGI flew in the Kings Cup Race at Elmdon airport

Hubert Latham, Henry Farman and Roger Sommer at Riems
Hubert Latham in his Antoinette IV, with Henry Farman in his Farman III biplane and roger Sommer, also flying a Farmn III at the Grande Semaine d Aviation de la Champagne, held near Reims in France

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

Autocar Poster -- first French Grand Prix
Autocar Poster -- Szisz in his red Renault, in which he won the first French Grand Prix. His average speed for the race was 63 mph. The circuit used was near Le Mans. Date: 1906

Team of stunt women posing with a stunt bicycle Date: circa 1970s

Zeppelin-Staaken VGO R III giant German biplane
Zeppelin-Staaken VGO R III, serial no. 10/15, giant German biplane, the only one built. It went into operational use near Riga in Latvia, making its first operational sortie on 13 August 1916

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

Tin Model of a Bluebird
The Bluebird in which Sir Malcolm Campbell set a new land speed record of 301.129 mph at the Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah on 3rd September 1935

Animals at a French Zoo - Springbok - small short-horned antelope. Part of Box 209 Boswell collection - Old and New French Zoo. Slide 7

The Supreme Sunbeam with Henry Segrave at the wheel
The Supreme Sunbeam, 1000 HP car, with Henry Segrave at the wheel -- he was the first man to reach over 200 mph, on Daytona Beach, Florida, USA, 29 March 1927. Date: 1927

Autocar Poster -- speed record on Saltburn Sands
Autocar Poster -- Sir Algernon Guinness setting a new speed record of 120 mph on Saltburn Sands in a 200 hp Darracq car. Date: 1908

Mines and torpedoes by G. H. Davis
Navy Notes of the Week: the question of mines and torpedoes. Showing naval minesweepers at work, sweeping a wire across an underwater mine field; a modern high-speed long-range torpedo;

Air battles at 500 mph by G. H. Davis
Air battles at 500 miles an hour: possibilities of the new jet- and rocket-propelled aircraft. A pictorial outline of some problems likely to face pilots

Germanys Messerschmitt ME110 by G. H. Davis
Germanys new destroyer plane, the Messerschmitt ME110. The much-discussed new German twin-engined fighter, six of which were brought down by RAF bombers in the Heligoland air battle

Revolutionary design for air liner by G. H. Davis
A British flying wing project: a revolutionary design for a speedy night-flying air liner. Details of the proposed Armstrong-Whitworth flying wing

How to build a racing car by G. H. Davis
A sport for model enthusiasts: how to build a car which will race at speeds in excess of 40 mph. Details of the construction of a model racing car, powered by a tiny petrol engine

Autocar Poster -- Paris-Berlin race
Autocar Poster -- scene from the Paris-Berlin race, featuring a Mors No.4 car driven by Fournier, beating a Panhard car. Its average speed during the race was around 44 mph. Date: 1901

Autocar Poster -- Jenatzy beating speed record
Autocar poster -- Camille Jenatzys Jamais Contente beating the World Speed Record near Acheres in France, averaging just over 65 mph. Date: 1899

Beaufighter long-range fighter by G. H. Davis
Most deadly of long-range fighters: the Beaufighter in detail. Heavily armed, and flying at over 300 mph, the Beaufighter added to the might of the RAF during the Second World War. Date: 1941

Manoeuvrability and pilot blackout by G. H. Davis
What fighting at nearly 400 mph means to the airman -- the difficulties of manoeuvrability and pilot blackout. How problems of high speed and wing loading have been solved

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