Stunt Collection (page 2)

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

Rag week stunt on the river, Cambridge University, showing students in costume in a punt, one of them playing bagpipes, another playing a drum. Date: 1967

Eddie Merton, superstitious stuntman, who always slept in a coffin on the night before a dangerous stunt. Seen here with a suitcase, helping to carry the coffin into his hotel. Date: 1971

Destruction Squad, flying car in quarry
Destruction Squad, flying car in a quarry. Joe Weston Webb fitted out an old Ford Popular with wings and a tail plane, then persuaded a stunt driver to shoot it over a water-filled quarry in the hope

Boy stuntman on bed of nails
Britains youngest stuntman, 8-year-old Tom Paynton, is encouraged by his father Eric as he practises on a bed of nails in the garden. Date: circa 1960s

Cycle Stunt in USA
Hollywood stuntman Buddie Mason cycles along the cornice of a high-rise building in Los Angeles, California. Date: 1925

Niagara Bridge Stunt
Laurence Donovan drops 200 feet from Niagara Bridge Date: 1886

Synchronised Swimming Wedding causes quite a stir
August 1962, Kinson, Bournemouth. The wedding of Eileen Hart, 22 of New Milton and David King of Coombe Gardens, Bournemouth caused quite a stir (and claims of a publicity stunt)

Niagara Falls at night, with lighting, New York State, USA
Niagara Falls at night, with multicoloured electric lighting using one billion lights, New York State, USA. Date: circa 1915

H鬨ne Dutrieu - Girl Hawk
H鬨 ne Dutrieu - Girl Hawk, Belgium. She was a cycling world champion, stunt cyclist, stunt motorcyclist, automobile racer, stunt driver, pioneer aviator, wartime ambulance driver

Jules Gautier, stunt swimmer, with boat crew
Jules Gautier, the Manacled Swiimmer, with boat crew on the river. Date: 1910

Suffragette In Police Van Womens Parliament. A W.S.P.U publicity stunt ahead of the Womens Parliament at Caxton Hall and the deputation to the Prime Minister Asquith, 24th February 1909

The Push The Rifle Grenade Stunt - German Field Postcard
The Push. The Rifle Grenade Stunt. Drawn on a German Field Postcard (Feldpostkarte). 386202 Acting Sergeant Herbert Gibson, Mm, 1St Northumbrian Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps

Pearl Fay White - American film actress and stunt star
Pearl Fay White (18891938) - American film actress, the " Stunt Queen" of silent films, most notably in The Perils of Pauline (1914). Date: circa 1914

Prohibition Stunt
During the Prohibition era in the U.S.A. drinkers had to go to great lengths to think of new and ingenious ways and places to hide their booze! Date: 1930s

Motorcycle Stunt
A stunt involving a motorcycle driving off rocks above a girl crouching on the beach below! Date: early 1930s

The Stage and Film Actress Pearl White in WW1 Uniform
Pearl Fay White (18891938) - American film actress, the " Stunt Queen" of silent films, most notably in The Perils of Pauline (1914)

French Aviator - Chanteloup
French Aviator - Pierre Chanteloup (1890-1976). Date: circa 1910s

Uruguay - Wing Walker at an Airshow, Montevideo Racetrack
Uruguay - Wing Walker acrobat at an Airshow at the Hipodromo Nacional de Maronas, a horse racing track located in Ituzaingo neighbourhood, Montevideo, Uruguay - circa 1922-23

NFS (London Region) dispatch riders display team, WW2
NFS dispatch riders demonstrate their motorcycle riding skills with a acrobatic display at Regional headquarters, Lambeth SE1

Some stunt for Samuel

Trick Riders of the 16th and 5th British Lancers. Two riders dressed as a criminal and a policeman act out a chase and in so doing leap over a row of orientals holding parasols

Stunt Car over Flames
A stunt car flies through the air over a bonfire of tyres and the crowd, standing in the rain, are loving it! Date: 1960s

Housewives Stunt School
Housewife Teresa Vincent leaps from the first floor of a building onto cardboard boxes and mattresses 20 feet below. It makes a change from washing up, she explained. Date: 1960s

STUNT CARS
Danger men on wheels. Thrills and spills from the Destruction Squad, thats what the crowd, even when its raining, love to see! Date: 1960s

From Plane to Car 1928
JUMPING FROM A PLANE American film actor Reed Howes drops from the wing of a biplane into a car travelling at full speed Date: 1928

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