Record Collection (page 12)

Happy Birthday record
A 78rpm Kidditunes disc of the popular ditty Happy Birthday To You! The sleeve features illustrations of popular Nursery Rhymes. " Fun and Joy for Girl and Boy" Date: circa 1960s

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

Tommy Hampson collapsed after 800m win, 1932 Olympics
Thomas " Tommy" Hampson (1907 1965), British athlete, winner of the 800 metres at the 1932 Summer Olympics. Pictured on the front cover of the Illustrated Sporting

Record label - The Winner
A record label for a recording of The Sweetest Flower That Blows, composed by C. B. Hawley and sung by Robert Carr. The label features a winning racehorse crossing the finish line. Date: c.1920

Notices in a bartering shop
Notices in English and German in the window of a bartering shop. A pile of long-playing records can be seen on the right. Date: circa 1940s

The First Channel Flight by Bleriot
Page of pictures charting the successful flight of Louis Bleriot across the Channel from Calais to Dover in forty minutes. Date: 1909

Bringing home some jumbo spuds
A farmer brings home a splendid crop of giant potatoes.... Date: circa 1910s

Taking thread: Sound-Waves on a Cord 1922
Mr. W F Croll, who holds the parent, of a method of recording and reproducing sound-waves by means of a cellulose thread instead of by the generally known disc or cylinder record

Athlete / Tavernari
The Italian runner TAVERNARI, who won another World Record at Budapest, Hungary, on 15 June, covering 500 metres in just 1 minute and 2/9ths of a second! Date: 1930s

Mermoz Photo
JEAN MERMOZ French aviator who vanished into the Atlantic on what proved to be the last of his record-breaking flights. Date: 1901 - 1936

Gloster Mars I, G-EAXZ, at Sunningend as prepared for an?
Gloster Mars I, G-EAXZ, at Sunningend as prepared for an attempt on the British speed record in December 1921

HM King George VI congratulating Sqn Ldr John Woodburn G?
HM King George VI congratulating Sqn Ldr John Woodburn Gillan and inspecting the Hawker Hurricane on which he made a record flight from London to Edinburgh on 11 February 1938

Vickers Vespa VII, G-ABIL, captured the World?s Height R?
Vickers Vespa VII, G-ABIL, captured the World?s Height Record on 16 September 1932 with an altitude of 43, 976ft

The Duchess of Bedford with Capt C. D. Barnard, left, pil?
The Duchess of Bedford with Capt C.D. Barnard, left, pilot, and Robert ?Bob? Little in front of their Fokker FVII, G-EBTS, The Spider, in August 1929 following their record-breaking flight of 10

Advertisement for Expanded Fittings furniture -- female model (Geraldine Hill) posing. 1959

LMS Holiday Caravan - London Midland & Scottish Railway
An LMS Holiday Caravan - London Midland & Scottish Railway. Advertised as: " All the fun of Camping, with none of the bother" !! Date: circa 1935

Lance Corporal G. Wood - World Champion Jumper
Lance Corporal G. Wood, Royal Garrison Artillery (a pre-1930 corps of the British Army) - World Champion Jumper! Seen here clearing a horse and carriage, emblazoned with script detailing his feats

The Gondola of Auguste Piccard
The Gondola of Prof. Auguste Piccard and Monsieur Cosyns used for the second ascent into the stratosphere on August 18th, 1932. The maximum height reached was 16, 940 metres (10 1/2 miles)! Date: 1932

Powerboat Ailsa Craig winning off Bermuda
The Ailsa Craig finishing off St Davids Head, Bermuda - powerboat winner of the James Gordon Bennett Trophies in 1907 and 1908 Date: circa 1908

Capt George Eystons Thunderbolt world landspeed record car of 1937/38

Blue Bird K3, Sir Malcolm Campbells Saunders-Roe built boat, beat the world water speed record on 1 September 1937 at 126.32mph

Percival P3 Gull Six, G-ADPR, Jean, used by Jean Batten on two record-breaking flights

Blitzen Benz record-breaker - painting by Andrew McGeachy
The Blitzen Benz car, built in Mannheim by Benz & Cie running a full speed. At Brooklands on November 9, 1909, at the Brooklands circuit at Weybridge, Surrey

Supermarine Swift F4 WK198 on test
Supermarine Swift F4, WK198, on test before the World Airspeed Record attempt

From left: Lionel Peter Twiss OBE DSC* 1921-2011
From left: Lionel Peter Twiss, OBE, DSC*, 1921-2011, is congratulated after establishing a new world air speed record in a Fairey Delta 2 by Robert Lockley, chief engineer, Fairey Aviation

Lionel Peter Twiss OBE DSC* 1921-2011 leaving the Fairey
Lionel Peter Twiss, OBE, DSC*, 1921-2011, leaving the Fairey Delta 2 after establishing a new world air speed record. Date: 1921

Bristol 138A K4879 during the second record-breaking flight
Bristol 138A, K4879, during the second record-breaking flight over Farnborough in June 1937. Date: 1937

Martin JRM-1 Marshall Mars 76822 after 308
Martin JRM-1 Marshall Mars, 76822, after 308 (a new world record) people were carried on a flight from Alameda, California to San Diego

Lockheed P-80A-LO Shooting Star 44-84999 touches down
Lockheed P-80A-LO Shooting Star, 44-84999, touches down at La Guardia, New York, after covering the 589 miles from Wright Field, Dayton Ohio, in the record breaking time of one hour and two minutes

Georges M Legagneux
Georges M. Legagneux, who, with a passenger, in a flight from Paris to Brussels (195 miles), broke the speed record, covering the distance at the rate of 63mph

The first Dornier DoX during its record-breaking flight over Lake Constance on 20 October 1929 with 169 people on board. Date: 1929

Pilot Louis Noel in the Grahame-White Type 10 Charabanc
Pilot Louis Noe

Amy Mollison was honoured at an official luncheon by the Royal Aeronautical Society, Royal Aero Club and Society of British Aircraft Constructors at the Park Lane Hotel upon her return from

Amy with her husband Jim Mollison
Amy with her husband, Jim Mollison, alongside their de Havilland Dragon, G-ACCV, Seafarer, in June 1933 just before their unsuccessful attempt on the worlds long distance record. Date: 1933

Capt Geoffrey de Havilland and Mrs Louie de Havilland after their successful attempt on the two-seat light aeroplane altitude record. 26 July 1928. Date: 1928

de Havilland Vampire F1 TG278
de Havilland Vampire F1, TG278, experimentally fitted with a de Havilland Ghost turbojet, 4ft extensions to the wings and a special hood

Flt Lt M J Adam of the Royal Aircraft Establishment
Flt Lt M.J. Adam of the Royal Aircraft Establishment Experimental Section increased the world altitude record to 53, 937ft on 30 June 1937 in the Bristol 138A, K4879. Date: 1937

Sqn Ldr F R D Swain of the Royal Aircraft Establishment
Sqn Ldr F.R.D. Swain of the Royal Aircraft Establishment Experimental Section in the Siebe, Gorman and Company Ltd pressure suite in which he achieved the world altitude record of 49

Capt George Eystons Thunderbolt world landspeed record car of 1937/38. Date: 1937

English Electric Canberra B2 WD952
English Electric Canberra B2, WD952, was powered by two Bristol Siddeley Olympus turbojets. This aircraft set a world altitude record of 65, 890ft on 29 August 1955. Date: 1955

The USS Norton Sound - guided missile research ship
The USS Norton Sound, the US Navys guided missile research ship, from which a Martin Viking rocket was launched on 12 May 1950 to establish a new record for US-built

Sqn Ldr Neville Duke taxies out Hawker Hunter 3 WB188
Sqn Ldr Neville Duke taxies out Hawker Hunter 3, WB188. The first Hunter prototype was modified for a successful attempt on the world speed record in 1953. Date: 1953

Hawker Hunter 3 WB188
Hawker Hunter 3, WB188, the first Hunter prototype was modified for a successful attempt on the world speed record in 1953. Date: 1953

Supermarine S6B S1596
Supermarine S6B, S1596. This aircraft went on to claim the World Absolute Speed Record

RAF Long Range Flight of three Wellesleys during a tour of Australia after the record flight

Shaft brackets and stern frame transported by rail
A record feat in railway transport was accompllished when the speacial L&NER train loaded with the shaft brackets and stern frame for the new liner made its journey from Darlington to Middlesbrough

Patches painted on the bow of the Queen Elizabeth
To record the movements of the hull at all stages of the ships plunge to the waters of the Clyde the white patches painted on the bow of the Queen Elizabeth are photographed by cine-camera when she

Changing wheels during the record attempt

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