Stunt Collection

Tightrope Cycling Act
A German husband and wife team perform a dramatic tightrope cycling act

Stunt / Wall of Death
Wall of Death - Motorcycle rider Fearless Billy Ward riding the wall (picture also shows Dare Devil Marjory Ward )

Stunt woman rides through flames on motorbike
Sue, 23, one of a team of stunt women, rides her motorbike through a twenty-foot long tunnel of burning hay bales. Wearing only a T-shirt and hot pants she entered the tunnel at 60 mph

Giant Machnow at Taylors Depository, Pimlico, London. Feodor Machnow, (Fyodor Makhnov) was born in 1878 at the village of Kostyuks in the Ukraine

Harold Lloyd in the film Safety Last 1923, famous vintage Hollywood movie image

Votes for women air balloon, 1909
Votes for women more in the air than ever: the suffragettes dirgible for the opening of Parliament. Armed with a megaphone and handbills

The Promenade Percies
A motorcycle acrobat troupe called The Promenade Percies practise their act involving balance on a trapeze attached to the bike

Suffragettes Chalking Pavement Deputation. A group of W.S.P.U members in replica prison dress chalk the pavement announcing the deputation to Mr. Asquith, 24th february 1909

Boeing F4B-4 special NX9846 (ex A9241 / NC-14). The second of two US Marine Corps F4B-4s stripped of military equipment for the Bureau of Commerce, (later Fa), in 1940 and registered NC-14

Boeing F4B-4 NR9846 (ex A9241 / NC-14). The second of two US Marine Corps F4B-4s stripped of military equipment for the Bureau of Commerce (later Fa), in 1940 and registered NC-14

Members of the Ballet Montmartre pose for artist, Harrogate
Members of the Ballet Montmartre (on tour in the UK as part of an all-French Variety Bill) pose for Hungarian Artist Jean-Georges Simon in Harrogate

A stunt Motorcycle acrobatic display team - three men on a bike... Date: circa 1930s

Harold Lloyd, American actor, comedian and stunt performer Date: 1931

Royal Tournament Rehearsal
Life Guards rehearsing a display of bare-back horse-jumping for the Royal Tournament, to be held at Olympia the following week. Date: 1932

High Diving Horse
William Doc Carver (1851-1927) had been mounting a diving horse show since 1894. The rider in this picture is probably his daughter Lorena. Date: circa 1925

Minnie Thompson, Dallas cowgirl in New York
Minnie Thompson from Dallas, Texas, performs horse riding feats outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Central Park, New York. She had won many prizes as a trainer of unbroken horses. Date: 1910

Death of a stuntman, Eastbourne
Death of a stuntman at Arlington Stadium, near Eastbourne. John Bell, aged 23, was being towed behind a car on a wooden sledge when, as part of the stunt

In Warsaw, a man tightrope walks along a tramway cable, is arrested and taken to a psychiatric hospital Date: 1937

TIGHTROPE ACCIDENT
Acrobat Giacomo Gullotti dies when his tightrope wobbles violently while performing the stunt over the Piazza Nicastro. Date: 1930

WALL OF DEATH, 1936
WALL OF DEATH Al Johnson rides an Indian Scout 101 on the Wall of Death at Whitstable, Kent Date: 1936

Helene Dutrieu
Hlne Dutrieu (1877 - 1961), Belgian world champion cyclist, automobile racer, stunt driver, cyclist and motorcyclist and pioneer aviator

Flying the Flume at Crystal Palace 1904
French Mademoiselle Dutrien (le fleche humaine), the human arrow, performing at Crystal Palace, London. After riding down a curving track on her bicycle which falls some seventy feet

H鬨ne Dutrieu Helene Dutrieu
HÚ¼¿ne Dutrieu (1877- 1961), Belgian cycling world champion, stunt cyclist, stunt motorcyclist, automobile racer, stunt driver, pioneer aviator, wartime ambulance driver

Aircraft Engineering Corporation Ace K-1 N69097. This single-seat biplane, powered by a 40hp Ace engine; was designed by Alexander Klemin (Professor of Aeronautical Engineering, NYU) and N W Dalton

Inauguration of Air service between Detroit and Cleveland
A Ford Motor Company-sponsored stunt to publicise the inauguration of the commercial Air freight service between Detroit and Cleveland

Stunt woman cannonball loses her knickers
Liza Knight, an 18-year-old stunt performer from Leicester, felt quite a draught after being shot from a cannon during a rehearsal

Adrienne Posta at the opening of the Tomcat boutique, 1966
The opening of Irvine Sellers new boutique, Tomcat in Carnaby Street in 1966 attended by the singer Adrienne Posta who looks a little unsettled to find herself sharing a ride with another

Team of stunt women posing with a stunt bicycle Date: circa 1970s

Balloon popper -- an elderly man with an umbrella pretends to pop a balloon belonging to some trendy young women riding in a white sportscar. Date: 1970s

Stunt cyclists
Keiths Bicycle Track. Cyclists performing on the bicycle track on stage at Keiths Union Square Theatre, N.Y.C

Edward Reddish riding his bicycle off Worthing Pier
Edward J Reddish performs his Great Bicycle Dive off the pier at Worthing, Sussex

The Modern Boy front cover - Wing walkers play tennis
Front cover of The Modern Boy featuring an illustration of two men playing tennis on the wings of a plane mid-flight. Date: 1932

Dangerous aerial stunt by Dick Grace
Stunt men undertaking a double leap from aeroplanes for a movie stunt, the film in question being The Lost Squadron. One of the men featured is Dick Grace

Motorcycle stunt riders
Stunt rides on a motorbike and sidecar perform one of their tricks, loosening and throwing away the sidecars wheel while continuing to ride at speed. Date: 1932

Ted McNamara and burning barrel, Sennen Cove, Cornwall
Ted McNamara, adventurer, drinking a toast to the barrel in which he was attempting to cross the Atlantic to Florida, until it capsized 50 yards from shore

Ted McNamara retrieving barrel, Sennen Cove, Cornwall
Ted McNamara, adventurer, and Customs men, retrieving the barrel in which he was attempting to cross the Atlantic to Florida, until it capsized 50 yards from shore

Stunt woman rides over wooden plank with a woman underneath. Date: circa 1970s

Rupert Davies and Laurence Harvey on fishing trip, Brighton
The actors Rupert Davies (1916-1976) and Lawrence Harvey (1928-1973) on a fishing trip, with Brighton in the background, on a wet, cold winters day

Motorbike speeding through flames. Date: 1976

Car crashing through front of truck
Car crashing through the front of a truck. (2 of 3) Date: 1976

Motorbike crashing through glazed frame
Motorbike crashing through a glazed frame held up by two women. Date: 1976

Scene at a stock car race, with cars, spectators, and a man with a Union Jack flag on his back. Date: 1965

Stuntman attempts to fly car over river
Stuntman Bill Johnston of Destruction Squad was supposed to fly his car over a river in the English Midlands, but failed to achieve sufficient speed due to the wet ground

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