Straight Gallery

French Grand Prix of 1921

The first road race to be won by an engine powered by a straight-eiggt engine was the French Grand Prix of 1921 in which J Murphy averaged 78.1 mph for 322 miles at Le Mans. The car was a Duesenberg with a 3 litre engine giving 115 hp. The driver in this photograph is Joe Boyer Date: 1921

© The Institution of Mechanical Engineers/Mary Evans

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Bristol Buckingham B Mk.I KV335

Bristol Buckingham B Mk.I KV335. A victim of failure to meet the original specification and the success of Mosquito day raid and night strategic bombing. The vast majority of the Buckinghams produced went straight to storage and/or conversion to transports. The transport conversions were also mostly delivered straight to storage and never flew again, until scrapped after the war. Date: 1944

© The Peter Butt Aviation Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library

Peter Henry Emerson. River bank scene, Norfolk?

Vintage 19th century/1900's photograph by Peter Henry Emerson. Emerson was a British writer and photographer. His photographs are early examples of promoting straight photography as an art form. He is known for taking photographs that displayed rural settings and for his disputes with the photographic establishment about the purpose and meaning of photography. River bank scene, Norfolk?