Speed Collection (page 6)

Steam engine speeding along
A passenger steam train speeding along on an incline with billowing smoke. Date: circa 1930s

Comic postcard, A fast one from the demon bowler Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Bunny faces the fast bowler Date: 20th century

World War II B-29 Superfortress bombers, Yokohama
Vintage World War II photograph - incendiary bombs shower from B-29 Superfortress aircraft over the Japanese city of Yokohama

Part of the London Wall in the churchyard of St. Giles
Part of the ancient London Wall in the churchyard of St. Giles, Cripplegate, London. Built in the third century, and repaired by London Mayor Ralph Joceline in 1477

Poster, Mercedes-Benz. Date: 1954

Poster, Mercedes-Benz Triple Victory! Date: 1950s

Poster, 2nd Grand Prix, Monaco, April 1930. Date: 1930

Poster, Bugatti racing cars

Poster, Bugatti cars and autorails

Poster, Renault cars

Miss England Speedboat
Miss England was the name of a series of speedboats used by Henry Seagrave and Kaye Don to contest world water speed records in the 1920s and 1930s. Date: circa 1950

Bluebird
Gas-turbine powered vehicle that was driven by Donald Campbell and achieved the world land speed record on Lake Eyre in Australia on 17 July 1964. Date: circa 1950

Photograph of a portrait of Unwin by Speed Harold. Date: circa 1920

Speed and the World Speeds with You
Photo montage in The Bystander reflecting the 1930s obsession with speed and transport, as exemplified by pictures of racing cars, aeroplanes and steam trains. Date: 1932

Joe Carstairs in her motor boat, 1925
Canvas and power: Miss M B Carstairs in her racing motor-boat, part of the Women in Sport series in the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News

French Railway News - Paris-Dijon Speed-up - Electrification shortens the journey, knocking an hour off the old timetable. 1951

Veldhoven Liberation Memorial and HCR Memorial
The Operation Market Garden plan required that the Guards Armoured Division, which was leading the ground advance north, should advance at maximum speed in order to cross the river bridges as soon as

Cartoon, A Suggestion, London Underground escalator
Cartoon, A Suggestion, a comment on the escalator (moving staircase) at Earls Court Station on the London Underground. Showing people sliding down the parcel chute in the middle

1932 Gee Bee Model R Racer Aircraft - in which Mr James Doolittle won the Thompson Trophy at a speed of 252.6 mph - built by Messrs

Jo Carstairs in racing boat Estella IV
Marion Joe Carstairs, pictured with her engineer Mr Joe Harris in the Napier engine racing motor boat, Estella IV which she planned to drive in the International Trophy Race for Motor Boats to be

The Aeolus built by Burlington s
The Aeolus, Americas First Stainless Steel Streamline steam locomotive built by Burlington in West Burlington, Iowa. Date: 1937

A New Knight of the Road by Webster Murray
A motorcyclist with a woman riding pillion rides through the night as the ghost of a mounted highwayman looks on with surprise. Date: 1924

The rocking-horse would run away, by Minnie Asprey. circa 1918

Motor racing along a country lane - ParisMadrid race 1903
The notorious ParisMadrid race of May 1903 was an early experiment in auto racing, organized by the Automobile Club de France and the Spanish Automobile Club, Automovil Club Espanol

Poster, German motorcycle racing successes on DKW
Poster, German motorcycle racing successes in four out of five classes on DKW Auto Union cycles (later part of Audi). 1936

Poster, Motocyclette New-Map. 1930

The Finish by H. M. Bateman
The Judges Nightmare - The Finish. Horses and jockeys finish a race with a dead heat. Date: 1927

Christmas Greetings postcard. circa 1910

Advert for Jaeger, Kay Petrie, Motor Racing Driver
Advert for Jaeger, Regent Street, London -- Kay Petrie, Motor Racing Driver. 1936

The Dry Stane Dykes of Galloway, Scotland - Quality and Quantity: Mr Cs Jardine standing alongside the excellent dyke he built in four hours to win both a special award for speed

Racing cars at Anfield, Liverpool. Date: 1930

Poster, Under Two Flags, based on a best-selling novel by Ouida

Poster, greyhound racing. mid 20th century

Motor racing champion Major Sir Henry Seagrave prior to his death in a speedboat on Lake Windermere, Lake District, June 1930. 1930

Mors car, world record holder, with Collomb driving
Mors car, world record holder, with Jules Collomb driving. 1912

Indianapolis Motor Speedway and Grandstand, USA. 1912

Harvey Herrick, world road race champion in a National car. 1912

H P Scripps six-cylinder 50-60 speedboat. 1912

Cartoons, Hail, Rain, Steam and Speed by an Old Stoker - Refreshment Rooms. A satire on JMW Turners painting of the same name. 1850

Title page, Hail, Rain, Steam and Speed by an Old Stoker - a satire on JMW Turners painting of the same name. 1850

Bob Burnam in Ohio Racer
Bob Burnam, crowned Speed King of the World, in his Ohio Racer. 1912

Buy British and speed up the wheels of employment - Part of a government campaign to tackle a balance of payments crisis, reinforced by a speech by the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII)

Society on a speedboat at Monte Carlo
On a speed-boat near the Summer Sporting Club, Monte Carlo, the Hon. Kay Norton (right), Mrs Richard Hoffman of New York (left) and (in the foreground), Lady Castlerosse

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

Sir Malcolm Campbell with his dog
Sir Malcolm Campbell, motor racing driver and land speed record winner, seen here with his dog. 1930s

Sir Malcolm Campbell in first Blue Bird, a Darracq
Sir Malcolm Campbell at the wheel of his first Blue Bird, a Darracq. 1912

Sir Malcolm Campbell at the Brooklands pits
Sir Malcolm Campbell in his racing car at the Brooklands pits. 1923

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