Pneumatic Collection

Bicycle Made For Three - Continental Pneumatic Advert
Bicycle Made For Three - Continental Pneumatic Tyre Company (of Hanover, Germany) Advertisement. The pair at the rear of the bicycle appear to be contributing slightly less to the forward momentum as

Advert for Harrods piano sale 1919
Selection of bargain pianos, prices start at 148 gns for a Cramer Baby Grand in rosewood to a Chappell upright Boudoir Grand at 64 gns. 1919

Bone-Shaker Bike C1830
It has pedals, but no chain, and no pneumatic tyres - hard work to propel, and hard on the seat... Date: circa 1830

The Micheline - a train on pneumatic tyres
The Micheline - the first train on pneumatic tyres. In commercial use since 1931 - the birth of the Michelin Tyre. This example was run on the L.M.S. Line (Bletchley to Oxford) in 1932

New Banting Bed for Reducing the Figure
The New Banting Bed for Reducing the Figure. Cartoon by William Heath Robinson

A splendid cabinet photograph of two well-dressed women standing proudly with their bicycles. Date: circa 1890s

Rover car with fitted Coal-Gas installation
A Rover car fitted with a neatly made coal-gas installation. The gas bolster originated by Wood-Milne Ltd. was a recepticle built along the lines of a pneumatic tyre

London / Embankment / 1867
A section of the Thames Embankment, showing the Subway, the Pneumatic Railway, the Metropolitan and District Railway and the Low-Level Sewer

Track Cycling Race - Continental Pneumatic Advert
Continental Pneumatic Tyre Company (of Hanover, Germany) advertising postcard showing a track cycle race in full swing. Date: 1916

Girl lighting her cigarette - Continental Pneumatic Advert
Continental Pneumatic Tyre Company (of Hanover, Germany) advertising postcard, featuring a touching scene as a glamorous and confident lady cyclist stops to grab a light for her cigarette from a

Advert, Gas Switch, The Pneumatic Gas Lighting Co Ltd
Advert for the Gas Switch, a pneumatic distance gas lighter, made by The Pneumatic Gas Lighting Co Ltd, Farringdon Street, London. 1909

Two Edwardian women with their bicycles in a garden. Date: circa 1907

Advertising Russian Pneumatic Tyres in Belgium
Advertising - Provodnik Russian Pneumatic Tyres in Belgium - " This is what I need to prevent skidding!". Date: circa 1910

The Hardy Simplex road drill, Hardy Patent Pick Company, Sheffield

The Hardy Simplex, early 1900s

Pianola advert
An advert for the pianola. It is a player piano is a self-playing piano, containing a pneumatic or electro-mechanical mechanism that operates the piano action via programmed music recorded

Wildfowling in a Pneumatic Boat
Wildfowlers on Lake Keuka at Hammondsport, New York State, using a recent innovation in water-craft construction - the inflatable pneumatic boat. Date: circa 1924

Advert, Bailey Whalebone Pneumatic Road Wagon
Advert for the Bailey Whalebone Pneumatic Road Wagon Date: 1901

Compagnie Dunlop - Manufacturing Dunlop Tyres 1896
In the 1890s, when Dunlop tyre was first introduced the bicycle was popular in France that they were unable to keep up with extraordinary demand for pneumatic tyres

His pneumatic machine Date: circa 1657

Section of the Thames Embankment
A section of the Thames Embankment, taken by the Charing Cross railway bridge, showing; (1) the subway, designed to hold the gas pipes, the water pipes, perhaps the telegraph wires

Michelin Tyre Company promo postcard
circa 1910s

Two girls with their new bicycles and proud parents
British family outside their house. The parents look very proud, possibly because their two duaghters have just learning to ride their shiny new bicycles! Date: circa 1920

Train with pneumatic wheels demonstrated at Bletchley
A rail road car, a train with pneumatic wheels which runs on rails was demonstrated at Bletchley this morning in a trail run to Oxford

Pneumatic machine and batteries
Pneumatic machine 3, and batteries 1, 2. Physique: Pile a auge, pile a colonnes, machine pneumatique. Handcoloured steel engraving by du Casse after an illustration by Adolph Fries from Felix-Edouard

Exact time, France 1880
The unification and distribution of time using pneumatic chronometers, France - scene in the shop where the clocks are sold. Date: 1880

Interior in Dunlop factory 1896
Thousands of Dunlop pneumatic tyres, Belfast was the scene of its introduction, then a move was made to Dublin, whose Corporation

Three scruffy boys watch the men digging up the road in Piccadilly

General Post Office London 1890s
Women at work in the General Post Office tube room at St Martins-le-Grand in the City of London. The room had pneumatic tube connections to post office establishments. Date: circa 1890s

Reinagles Leviathan 1846
Reinagles pneumatic engine, the Leviathan. Date: 1846

London - Embankment - 1867
A section of the Thames Embankment, showing; 1. subway, 2. low level sewer, 3. Metropolitan and District Railway and 4. Pneumatic Railway. Date: 1867

EXACT TIME, FRANCE 1880
The unification and distribution of time using pneumatic chronometers, France - reservoirs of compressed air. Date: 1880

EXACT TIME, FRANCE
The unification and distribution of time using pneumatic chronometers, France Date: 1880

Otto von Guericke Demonstrating his Experiment
His pneumatic pistol, using atmospheric pressure Date: circa 1657

Franklin, Pennsylvania, USA - Birds eye view - toward the Chicago Pneumatic Tool Co. Date: circa 1930

Izmir, Turkey - Jewish Traditional Mosaic making
Storeroom for normal road cars at the Michelin pneumatic tyre factory. Date: 1907

LCC-LFB A motorised Dennis pump escape
The adoption of motorised fire engines by the LFB led to a reduction in the number of stations required. A report produced in the 1920s recommended the closure of some 15 fire stations

The first pneumatic tyres ever made
Photograph of the fist pneumatic tryes ever made as displayed at the Imperial International Exhibition at White City. They were the work of Mr William Thomson of the Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Co

Paris to Bordeaux Race 1895
The first car driving on Michelin tyres to win the Paris to Bordeax race in 1895. Ceramic tile picture ftom the Michelin Building in Fulham Road, London Date: 1905

Paris Vienne Race Michelin
Paris - Vienne Race 1902. Farman sur Panhard. Tile picture from the Michelin Building in the Fulham Road, Chelsea

Trade catalogue for Edwardian sweet making utensils 1911
Trade catalogue for Harrords department store, showing a variety of sweet making utensils. 1911

French Train Puncture
A railway worker changes a wheel to repair a punctured tyre on a new French pneumatic tyred motor coach. Date: 1930s

Cycle Tyres - Dunlop - Roadster and Carrier Range - Fort, Roadster, Magnum, Edinburgh, Cambridge, Champion, Carrier, Invader, Clipper Carrier, Scout and Cruiser. Date: circa 1935

Milk delivery men and carts, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
Ws Baker & Son Victoria Dairy milk delivery men pictured with their carts at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. Milkman Bill Whittle (left)

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa - Crown Gold Mines
Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa - Crown Mines - Gold Mining - miner operating a pneumatic drill. Date: circa 1930s

Cartoon, Scientific Researches! New Discoveries in Pneumaticks! or, an Experimental Lecture on the Powers of Air, by James Gillray

Paris Vienne Race 1902
Auguste Bucquet riding a Werner motorcycle, winning the Paris to Vienne race 15 May 1902. The hoarding translates literally Michelin tyres drink the obstacles

Circuit des Ardennes 1906 won by Duray driving a Lorraine Dietrich. Ceramic tile picture ftom the Michelin Building in Fulham Road, London Date: 1906

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