Route Collection (page 6)

Maximilian visits Rome en route for Mexico
Maximilian and Charlotte visit Rome en route for Mexico as Emperor and Empress of Mexico. Two carriages move forward between two lines of soldiers barring the crowds of people from moving forwards

Columbus outlines project to The Council at Salamanca
Christopher Columbus outlines project to the Council at Salamanca Spain in January 1492, holding up a map as he explains his intended route across the Atlantic. Date: 1492

Columbus outlines journey to the Scientific Commission
Christopher Columbus outlines journey plans to the Scientific Commission at Salamanca. Columbus explains his project of discovery, pointing at a globe. Date: 1492

Columbus at Venice
Columbus in Venice 1488, supplicating to the Doge and his ministers, to fund his expeditions to find a new trading route to Asia. He was unsuccessful and was turned down. Date: 1488

Embankment making the tracks 1906
Labourers laying steel tracks for the new electric tram-way at Thames Embankment, London, construction started by the London County Council at the end of August 1909

Embankment torn to pieces for the trams 1906
London County Council beginning the construction of the electric tram-way along the Thames Embankment from Westminster Bridge, starting at the end of August 1909

Road racing at Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland, with Sir Malcolm Campbell at the wheel of No. 1, a Mercedes. 20th century

Motor racing track course for Tripoli Grand Prix
Motor racing track course for the Tripoli Grand Prix. 1930s

Motor racing track course at Monza, Italy
Motor racing track course at Monza, near Milan, Italy. 1930s

Motor racing track course at Linas-Montlhery, France. 1930s

Circuit in Reims, France for Grand Prix de la Marne
Motor racing track circuit in Reims, France, for the Grand Prix de la Marne. 1930s

Motor racing track, new circuit, Douglas, Isle of Man, used for the first time in 1936. 1936

Mellaha racing circuit used in Tripoli Grand Prix
The Mellaha circuit used in the Tripoli Grand Prix. 20th century

Horse-drawn bus, London
Horse-drawn bus, on a route between Fulham and Liverpool Street, London. late 19th century

Poster, French Line, transatlantic cruise liner
Poster, French Line, Compagnie Generale Transatlantique, design by Albert Sebille. circa 1935

Homburg Course, Gordon-Bennett Cup Race
Early Motor Car Racing - Homburg Course, Gordon-Bennett Cup Race, 1904. 1904

The Paris-Madrid Race route, 1903
Early Motor Car Racing - The Paris-Madrid Race route, 1903. 1903

Paris-Vienna and Gordon-Bennett Cup Races
Early Motor Car Racing - Paris-Vienna and Gordon-Bennett Cup Races map, 1902. 1902

Isle of Man Course, Gordon-Bennett Cup Race
Early Motor Car Racing - Isle of Man Course, English Eliminating Trials, Gordon-Bennett Cup Race of 1904. 1904

Argonne Circuit, Gordon-Bennett Cup Race
Early Motor Car Racing - Argonne Circuit, French Eliminating Trials, Gordon-Bennett Cup Race 1904. 1904

Irish Course, Gordon-Bennett Cup Race
Early Motor Racing - Irish Course, Gordon-Bennett Cup Race. 1903

Route of British Troops, Basra, Iraq, WW1
Route by which British troops entered Basra, Iraq, on 22 November 1914, in the early stages of the First World War, photographed about two years later. circa 1916

Poster, Middle East Airlines, with a map showing routes. 1958

Flying Scotsman ad, 1925
Page from The Tatler, 22nd July 1925, featuring adverts for travelling north from Kings Cross by the Flying Scotsman (East Coast route, L.N.E.R.), and the Ocean Coast. Date: 1925

The Art of Arriving in Scotland, The Bystander 1925
Page from The Bystander, 9th September 1925 featuring adverts for Phyllis Earle hairdressing salons, the millinery department at Marshall & Snelgrove

Bystander page, travel East Coast Route, 1914
Page from the Bystander featuring adverts for Lightening, the new smokeless powder, Triumph, and travel to Scotland by the East Coast Route, 1914 Date: 1914

HM Terrible, cruiser, en route to the Cape of Good Hope in 1899. 1899

Cable route to Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, USA
Cable route to Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, California, USA. Date: circa 1925

Grizzly Dome Tunnel, Butte County, California, USA
Grizzly Dome Tunnel, Feather River Highway (State Route 70), Plumas County, California, USA. Date: 1937

Views along the Shasta Route, California, USA, showing Mount Shasta, the Sacramento River, Pilot Peak, Castle Crags and Moss Brae Fall. Date: circa 1900

Cruise liner
Workers Empire Exhibition pamphlet cover illustration: Come and see the empire by the all red route Workers Empire Exhibition Committee, 1938. Date: 1938

Queen Victoria in London: en route to Kensington Palace 1899
Queen Victoria in London: en route to Kensington Palace, 15th May 1899 Date: 1899

Boeing DH-4M-1 110 of the US Air Mail Service, seen before its modern restoration. The Boeing DH-4 was initially almost identical to the original de Havilland design

A sketch map of the infamous Dardanelles Operations and Gallipoli Campaign, an Allied expedition to gain control of the Dardanelles to open up a Black Sea route to Russia. Date: 1915

CROSSING THE ALPS Napoleon and his men take the Saint Bernard route to Italy Date: 20 May 1800

Waving to Engineer Date: 1947

Hotels on the route of the London-Geneva Pass Road
Recommended Hotels on the route of the London-Geneva Pass Road - selected for quietness, good food and reasonable prices. This particulr card was from the Grand Hotel Ripotot at Champagnole

Westminster Abbey - viewed from the end of Whitehall
Westminster Abbey, London - viewed from the end of Whitehall across Parliament Square. Date: circa 1910

Boeing 747 N728PA Pan Am Heathrow
Date: 1984

Waifs and Strays Children Emigrating to Canada
A party of boys from Church of England Waifs and Strays homes on-board ship en route to Canada. The emigration of orphans

Waiting for the mail train 1890s
Two officers of the Post Office fixing the mail-bag to the post outside Bletchley station on for the London and North Western Railway

Travelling rail post office 1890s
Her Majestys mail-carriers, sorting letters on the London and North Western railway with speeds of sixty miles an hour. Date: circa 1890s

READING A ROAD MAP
To the adventurous schoolboy there is high romance in following the line of a road, even on paper and the mature motorist delights in following the route correctly. Date: 1940s

London Transport bus tickets -5
Original London Transport bus tickets - penny ticket on the route from Alperton to Ladbroke Grove, threepenny from Golders Green to New Cross. Date: unknown

London Transport bus ticket -4
Original London Transport bus ticket - penny ticket on the route from Harrow Weald to Scrubbs Lane. The punch-hole indicates the particular journey being made. Date: unknown

COACH IN VIRGINIA 1874
A stagecoach negotiates a bumpy route in the hills of Virginia. Date: 1874

AERODYNAMIC PLM TRAIN
Futuristic aerodynamic train planned for the Paris-Lyon- Marseille route. Date: 1937

Checking the Route
Smartly and sensibly dressed in his big heavy motor coat, an American motorist checks his route which he probably pronounces rout. Date: 1907

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