Suitcase Collection (page 4)

All Ready by Muriel Dawson -- a little girl in yellow coat and hat, with a green suitcase, bucket and spade, is ready to set off for her summer holidays. Date: 1936

Advert for Revelation travel wardrobe 1937
Gifts by Revelation. A range of Revelation suitcases, from holders for your bottles of creams and lotions. To a travel case to hang your dresses straight from your wardrobe into your Rev-Robe with no

Advert fo Revelation suitcases 1938
Going away at Christmas? - Giving away at Christmas ? Going away? Then go with efficient suitcase - a Revelation!... You can pack it quickly, easily, and as full as you like

Poster design for Canadian Pacific travel, Homeward Bound, featuring an elegant woman in a purple outfit, standing with her luggage and golfing bag in front of a red and white chequered flag

People loading a car at Perranporth, Cornwall. Date: 1931

Two airmen standing in front of plane
Two airmen in goggles standing in front of a large biplane

Car with suitcases on roof rack - Germany post-war
A car with several suitcases packed together on the roof rack. Note the wood gas generator power supply system - Germany, 1945 - essential due to the severe petrol shortage at the end of WW2

Kissing Controversy
The Khaki Boy: " If I had known that tunnel was so long, I d have kissed you." The Mauve Girl: " Gracious! Didn t you? Somebody did!" Date: circa 1924

Mother and daughter sitting on a beach

WW2 - Comic Postcard - Cheerio
Little girl off on her travels, carrying a hat box, suitcase and violin. Her train awaits. The war will not be stopping her leisure travelling. Date: circa 1942

Official post suitcase, post between Quito and Cuenca (Ecuador). Made of leather. Sculpture. ECUADOR. Quito. Aurelio Espinosa Polit Ecuadorian Library

Taxi Girl
People You See. Taxi Girl. From Teddy Bear (date unknown)

Mummy Show You How: Going on Holiday. From Teddy Bear (28 July 1973)

Street Hawker
People You See. From Teddy Bear (20 December 1969)

Advert fo Revelation suitcases 1939
Expanding suitcases. Confidence in having the best - confidence in knowing that your suitcase will always adjust itself to whatever you wish to pack - confidence too

Silhouette of a fashionable woman on her travels. A man in the background is lifting a bag of golf clubs

H. L. Oakley - silhouette artist
Jolly silhouette self-portrait by H. L.Oakley (1882-1960), renowned silhouette artist, who depicts himself with a knapsack and suitcase (complete with H.L.O initials) on tour

Metropolitan police dog investigating suitcase contents
A Metropolitan Police dog investigating the contents of a suitcase, in a sparsely furnished room used for training purposes. Date: circa 1960s

Close of Play by Harold Earnshaw
Family going to the railway station after a tiring holiday. Date: 1927

Advert fo Revelation suitcases 1937
Advertisement for Revelation leather suitcases with chromium-plated locks and fittings. 1937

HEs OFF
A man picks up his suitcase. Date: late 1960s

Group of women in front of a coach
A large group of women posing for their photo in front of a coach, perhaps before setting off on a trip. circa 1940s

Blitz on Clydeside, 1941
Women and children waiting on a street with the few possesions left to them after a nights bombing on Clydeside. Date: 1941

Noton luggage advertisement, 1953
Advertisement for Noton fine, luxury luggage, showing an elegant group at a train station. Date: 1953

Policewoman with evacuee children
A policewoman helping evacuee children find their train out of London during the Second World War

RAF officers arriving at a railway station in Iraq
RAF officers and others arriving at a railway station, somewhere in Iraq

Turkish porter carrying two suitcases
A Turkish porter bent double under his load of two suitcases, a selection of Gentlemans canes and a fez hatbox!

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

Matita coat for travelling
For the journey and en route anywhere, this wonderful tweed suit and three-quarter length white coat are perfect travellers

Portmanteau Buoy
A jolly Victorian gent from the days when Britain unquestionably ruled the waves doffs his hat as he floats proudly in his safety device de jour - his portmanteau buoy

Advertisement for the Finnish Tourist Association -- to Finland with me -- showing an eager man dashing off with his suitcase

Elegant travel, 1956
The ideal travel coat - loose, comfortable and roomy enough to go over any suit; two toned, light-grey checked tweed - raglan deep sleeved with curved cuffs and hemline

Tatler Travel Number front cover, 1956
Bright and jolly front cover design for The Tatler Travel Number by Lowen featuring, rather inexplicably, a red squirrel, who is packing various bits of sporting equipment

An advertisement for handbags
An advertisement showing a selection of handbags from Revelation Suitcase Company

Light Baggage Only
Humorous illustration by Leon Heron showing a 1920s woman being transported on a porters trolley along with her suitcase. Light-hearted humorous illustrations relating to travel

European Travel
With todays modern transport links as fast as they are, Paris is literally one step away from London for this well turned out (British?) traveller

London Coastal Coaches
A cheery coach driver encourages travellers to travel by coach with frequent daily services which cover the country

Street Pedlar 1930S
Passers-by look dubious, as a street pedlar tries to sell his wares from a suitcase

Vs Naipaul / Caricature
Vs NAIPAUL Trinidad-born British writer

Thumbing a Lift
A young man hitch hiker, thumbs a lift from a Denis McCarthy lorry

Hitch-Hiker / Sci&vie / 1955
An adventurous young woman traveller flags down a car from the road-side

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