Spokes Collection

Wheelwright makinbg wooden wheels, Blists Hill, Ironbridge
A skilled wheelwright works on a wooden cart wheel in his workshop at Blists Hill Working Museum, Ironbridge, Shropshire. First published The Independent newspaper Date: 1989

The Trundholm sun chariot. Early Bronze Age. C. 1400 BC
Prehistory. The Trundholm sun chariot. Early Bronze Age. C. 1400 BC. Scandinavian

BSA three wheeler sports car and driver, South Wales
Mr Jack Holt driving his 1932 BSA three wheeler sports car, bought in 1938 from Morgan of Caerphilly. Probably photographed in the Haverfordwest area, Pembrokeshire, South Wales

Wheelwrights making cart wheels
Wheelwrights or wainwrights making large wooden wheels in a traditional rural workshop. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Early Bicycles
A variety of early bicycles, including two varieties of the Celerifere of 1793 (1 & 2), the Draisienne (Dandy-Horse) of 1819 (3) and Gompertzs Velocipede (4)

Macmillans Bicycle
Kirkpatrick Macmillan and his early Dandy Horse bicycle

Communist Factory Worker
A young man, the ideal of the heroic communist worker, working at a complicated piece of machinery in a cellulose paper factory in Balakhna, Russia

Spoking a Wheell
A wheelwright fitting spokes to the hub of a wheel, Berkshire, England. Date: 1930s

Bronze ship's eight spoked wheel, Brown Brothers
MARITIME: Brown Brothers and Company, Rosebank Ironworks, Edinburgh, bronze ship's eight spoked wheel. 30ins

19th century brass and wood ship's wheel, made in Belfast
MARITIME: A good 19th century brass and hard wood ship's wheel with the legend NORTHUMBRIAN MAID. BELFAST. 1843 in the brass central boss, on display stand

The Accelerator Velocipede Date: 1839

Japan - Cart Maker
Cart Maker, Japan. Date: circa 1920s

Early English Post Phaeton Carriage. From the collection of the City of Nottingham Art Museum. Date: 1698

Wooden spoked wheel on market barrow, London
Wooden spoked, iron rimmed wheel on an East End market barrow, London. Date: circa 1950s

Type C Pole Dinkeys, top and bottom view, designed by American Telephone & Telegraph Companys engineers. Used extensively for hauling long heavy poles, equipped with solid rubber tyres

17th century Wheelwright
A wheelwright wields a massive mallet to hammer the spokes into a wooden carriage wheel. Date: 17th century

Barbados - Donkey Cart
Bajan Woman driving a small donkey cart, Barbados. Date: circa 1910s

Dog-drawn Milk Cart - Brussels, Belgium circa 1910s

Boys with bent wheel, Balham, SW London
Three boys looking at a bent wheel on a pile of junk in a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Japanese Woman with paper umbrella transported by Rickshaw. Date: circa 1910s

Ver-o-peso market - Belem, Brazil
Ver-o-peso market - a market hall in Belem, Brazil located at Guajara Bay riverside. A Heavy load of goods on a large horse-drawn wagon. Date: 1930s

Hanoi, Vietnam - Rickshaw Date: 1903

Washer Women - Bermuda with their laden donkey cart. Date: circa 1910s

Sicilian Carriage - Sicily, Italy
Decorated (and fully occupied!) Sicilian Carriage - Palermo, Sicily, Italy Date: circa 1903

Italy - Sicilian Donkey Wagon (Carro)
Italy - A beautifully decorated Sicilian Donkey Wagon (Carro) with a load of children!

A Huddersfield Horse cab
A fine photograph of an equally fine horse-drawn cab, with an open soft top, driven by the proprietor of the firm, W Haigh. Mr Haigh specialised in furniture removals, cabs and as a Daily Carrier

Returning home postcard
A lovely postcard of a donkey wagon laden with luggage to be sent to inform friends and relatives of the date of return from holiday in Bermuda

Homomotive Carriage
E Whittington & F Wakefields Homomotive Carriage, propelled by the weight of the rider

Wheelwright Worker
A wheelwright working on the spokes of a wheel

Tricycle Advertisement
An advertisement for Premier and Cruiser tricycles, manufactured by Hillman, Herbert & Cooper of Coventry

Hose and Ladder Carriage
Hose and ladder carriages by Merryweathers. Each ladder was provided with sockets so that they could all be fitted together to form one long fire-escape

Pressing Grapes by Hand
In Bordeaux, France at this time they crushed grapes by hand using a long handled tool with 3 spokes (possibly like a potato masher) to extract the juice

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