Steering Collection (page 3)

Vincenzo Lancia - Italian Motor Engineer and pilot
Vincenzo Lancia (18811937) - an Italian pilot, engineer and founder of the Motor Company Lancia. Pictured in a Fiat Motorcar Date: circa 1908

Father Christmas in a car on a Victorian scrap
Father Christmas and chauffeur in a car full of presents on a Victorian scrap. Date: circa 1890s

Car with passengers and pink flowers on a Victorian scrap. Date: circa 1890s

Boy steering a boat, Thailand. Date: circa 1970s

Mr Fred Terry and Miss Julia Nielson
Mr Fred Terry (1863-1933) - English Actor and his wife Miss Julia Nielson (1868-1957) whom he married in 1891. Date: 1912

Man on the bridge of a cross-channel ferry. Date: early 1960s

Brochure illustration, Oldsmobile car -- safety interiors, beautifully furnished, luxuriously comfortable. Date: 1930s

Aircraft Firefighters School, Stansted, Essex
Aircraft Firefighters School based at Stansted, Essex, where men and women from around the world were trained. Old aircraft were deliberately set ablaze to give crews realistic training

Elaborately carved stern of a Burmese Boat / Barge. Date: circa 1908

Woman police officer undergoing driving training
Woman police officer on a driving course, sitting at the steering wheel with a male officer next to her in the passenger seat

Woman police officer at the wheel of a car, London
Woman police officer (Evelyn Walker) at the wheel of an open topped car, possibly during a training session, with a male officer in the passenger seat. Date: 1972

Charvins Aeroscaphe
Charvins ambitious design for the Societe Francaises des Aeroscaphes has propellors at each end as well as rotors on the side for steering. Date: 1864

Motoring Scene 1916
A man goes for a spin in an open-top car, in this advertisement for Petroleo Gal hair oil! Date: 1916

Studebaker flatbed truck with men in cage, USA (possibly Florida), and men in the street wearing fancy dress. circa 1918

Men in flower-covered car in a parade, USA, with a man on horseback and a brass band behind. Date: circa 1908

Illustration in The Worlds Wonder Ships -- rudder of the Queen Elizabeth Cunard liner. It weighs 140 tons, equal to the tonnage of the Mayflower

Planes of a British submarine, WW1
The planes of a First World War submarine - horizontal rudders to regulate the angle of ascent and descent. Date: 1914

Little boy in pedal car, Philadelphia, USA
A little boy (Lewis Junior) in a pedal car, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Date: circa 1910

King George V as a yachtsman at Cowes, Isle of Wight. Date: 1924

Queen Mary Ocean Liner, being fitted out
With the launching of the Queen Mary Ocean Liner a new phase of work began. Eighteen months between September 1934, and her departure for preliminary trials on 24 March 1936

Dutch sea scout on a sailing boat, Holland, with his hand on the tiller

Dutch sea scouts at the wheel, Holland
A group of six Dutch sea scouts at the wheel of a ship, with their leader standing behind them, Holland. Date: 1972

Greek boy scouts on HMS Devonshire in Egypt
A party of Greek boy scouts on board HMS Devonshire at Alexandria, Egypt, on 2 October 1957. They are interested in the Gyro Compass Repeater used in the steering of the ship. Date: 1957

Woman on a sailing boat, holding the tiller. Date: circa 1960s

How wireless beacons guide ships in the fog
The Marconi invention can determine distance of the ship from the beacon to steer the vessel into a Harbour during foggy weather

Men and boy on deck of ship
Two men and a boy on the deck of the Sorlandet, a Norwegian tall ship

Woman driving a car

How wireless waves guide aeroplanes during bad visibility
Method of directing the pilots of aircraft flying to and from Croydon has been revolutioned by the Marconi directional visual beacon station erected at croydon. WWII

Lady Motorist at the Wheel
Atylish Lady Motorist at the Wheel - an advertising plate for John Bull Tyres. Date: circa late 1940s

Death of Pope Pius X
The death of Pope Pius X (Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto, 1835-1914, served 1903-1914 as the 257th pope of the Catholic Church)

Fruit Label -- The Man at the Wheel, depicting a man in naval uniform inside a ships wheel. Date: 20th century

Business card design, woman driving a car
Business card design, depicting a young woman driving an open topped car through the countryside. Date: 20th century

People posing with Austin car
Six people posing in and around an Austin car bearing an Automobile Assocation membership badge

Jeep undergoing repair
A jeep in a yard, undergoing repair

Little girl at the steering wheel
A little girl at the steering wheel of a car or van. Even if she could drive, she is too small to see out of the windscreen or reach the pedals

Little boy riding in a toy car
A little boy riding along in a toy car with a pipe in his mouth

Sir George Tryon - 2
SIR GEORGE TRYON British naval commander who scored a spectacular own goal by steering his ship the Victoria into the path of the Camperdown... Date: 1832 - 1893

Dekobras Submarine
The interior of Maurice Dekobras submarine, showing the capstan and a drinks cabinet. Date: early 1930s

Advertisement for beauty products -- male and female models (D Orme and M Colbrook) posing in a car. 1959

BSA Vintage Car - Veteran Car Rally (London to Brighton?) Date: circa mid 1970s

Dicky and Dolly

Conrad / Typhoon / Helm
TYPHOON Short story by Joseph Conrad The second mate at the helm Date: First published: 1902

Balloon ascent by Blanchard, Champ de Mars, Paris
Balloon ascent by Jean-Pierre Blanchard from the Champ de Mars, Paris, with Pere Dont-Pecque (Dom Pech, a Benedictine monk). 2 March 1784

Balloon ascent of Lunardi, Artillery Ground
Ascent of Lunardis celebrated air balloon from the Artillery Ground, London, watched by spectators. 15 September 1784

Blanchards balloon and apparatus
A representation of Jean-Pierre Blanchards balloon and apparatus, with annotations. Below the large round balloon is a parachute, and under that two men in the gondola with wings for steering. 1780s

Technical diagram of a flying machine, with measurements and annotations. The small red circle labelled C is the pilots seat. late 18th century

Technical diagram of a flying machine, with pilot
Technical diagram of a flying machine, with measurements and annotations, and a pilot seated at the controls. circa late 18th century

Blanchard balloon ascent, Rouen, France
Third balloon ascent of Jean-Pierre Blanchard, with Mr Boby, from the old barracks at Rouen. They later descended on the Plaine de Puissanval. 18 July 1784

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