Tyres Collection (page 4)

Advert / Michelin Tyres
Michelin Tyres - beats the train Date: 1905

Changing a Tyre 1931
A man stops to change a wheel on his car, while the sun sets: wherever hes going, hes going to be late! Date: 1931

Dunlop advertisement featuring farming scene, 1938
Advertisement for Dunlop tyres demonstrating their essential role in maintaining the smiles on the faces of these jolly agricultural workers. Date: 1938

Advertisement, The General Dual 8 Tire
Advertisement, The General Dual 8 Blowout-Proof Tire (Tyre), the biggest advance in skid prevention in 25 years - let the smile of safety replace the frown of fear when it rains. 1935

Fishing boats in St Ives harbour, Cornwall
Fishing boats, including Celtic Lass, in St Ives harbour, Cornwall. Date: circa 1970s

Advertisement, General Squeegee Tire. 1947

Great Central Filling Station, Marylebone Road, London
Great Central Filling Station, on the corner of Marylebone Road and Wyndham Street, London, with petrol pumps and garage. circa 1910s

Boats on the beach, St Ives, Cornwall. Date: 1960s

Advert for Dunlop, wired tyres, 1927 1927

WW2 poster, request for salvage
WW2 poster by Fougasse, Please put out all your paper, metal, bones, rags and rubber for salvage, as they can help make tanks, munitions, tyres and planes. Date: circa 1940

Soldiers and others at Creil station, northern France, WW1
Soldiers and others at Creil station, northern France, during the early stages of the First World War. One of the men (centre) is an Algerian Spahi. Date: 1914

Title page, The Somme, Michelin
Title page, The Somme, Volume I, The First Battle of the Somme (1916-1917), published by Michelin, 1919, dedicated to the memory of Michelin workmen and employees who lost their lives

Dunlop Promotion - Cart Tyres, Holbrooks, Warwickshire
Dunlop Promotion - Cart Tyres, Holbrooks, Coventry, Warwickshire, England. Date: 1920s

WW1 - British Tommies welcomed on arrival in France Date: 1914

Hartford Rubber Works Co, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Buildings of the Hartford Rubber Works Co, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Date: circa 1900s

Toddler playing with car tyre, Balham, SW London
A toddler playing with a car tyre (attached to a parked car) in a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Homeward Bound on Christmas Eve by H. L. Oakley
The broken trace in 1818, and a burst tyre in 1919. A silhouette contrasting two modes of transport a century apart by Harry Lawrence Oakley. Date: 1919

Japanese scouts on an outdoor activity

Clincher tyres advertisement, WW1 - Reginald McKenna
Advertisement for Clincher Tyres during the First World War featuring a caricature of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Reginald McKenna who says we must economise

Paris Madrid Race Michelin
Paris - Madrid Race 1903. Gabriel sur Mors. Tile picture from the Michelin Building in the Fulham Road, Chelsea

Major blaze at waste tyre dump, Mitcham, Surrey
Even though WW2 was over, the NFS continued until 1948. The London Region covered the Greater London including Mitcham, Surrey

Blitz in London -- typical close-up of rubble, WW2
Blitz in London -- a typical close-up of rubble following an air raid. Date: 1940s

Fire engine and crew, LCC-London Fire Brigate
A fire engine and its crew at Southwark HQ -- the first pneumatic tyred appliance, commissioned in April 1928, with a Dennis Tamini pump capacity of 500 gallons per minute. Date: circa 1928

Tramp with Gramophone
A tramp, begging cap in hand, stands with a gramophone mounted on a tricycle - the wheels have lost their tyres. A lorry stands behind. Date: Date unknown

Sir Arthur du Cros
Sir Arthur Philip du Cros, 1st Baronet du Cros (26 January 1871 28 October 1955) was a British industrialist and politician

Dunlop advertisement, WW1
Dunlop Rubber Company advertisement from the First World War publicising the fact that 1500 of their employees had enlisted while the rest were working in shifts day

Warland dual rims advertisement with lady driver, WW1
First World War advertisement for Warland Dual Rims for quick tyre changes - essential for the motor vehicle driver, and the chauffeuse particularly

Manufacture of Dunlop tyres, 1896: trimming the casings
Manufacture of cycling accessories: women trimming the casings of Dunlop tyres. Date: 1896

Manufacture of Continental Pneumatic tyres, 1900
Manufacture of cycling accessories: a man admires a Continental pneumatic tyre. Date: 1900

Manufacture of Dunlop tyres, 1896: inserting the wires
Manufacture of cycling accessories: women inserting the wires into Dunlop pneumatic tyres. Date: 1896

Manufacture of Dunlop tyres, 1896: inflating the tubes
Manufacture of cycling accessories: women inflate the tubes of Dunlop tyres. Date: 1896

Allocation of heavy bombers by G. H. Davis
The transport problems that would arise were heavy bombers switched from Britain to the Middle East during the Second World War

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

Advertisement for Dunlop tyres, WW1
A patriotic advertisement for Dunlop tyres in the early stages of the First World War. Dunlops are British-made -- avoid continental tyres made by the enemy! Date: September 1914

Dunlop advert featuring cars queueing up the Mall for the Co
Advertisement for Dunlop tyres, featuring one of the spectacles of the London Season, with a long queue of smart cars (sporting Dunlop tyres obviously), on the Mall in St

Advert for Gamages childrens toys 1929
Gamages. The childrens mecca. Beautiful toys and novelties - everything the heart of a child desires is to be found at Gamages, one of the Worlds greatest stores. Date: 1929

Advertisement, Dryad Tea Waggon
Advertisement for the Dryad Tea Waggon, with three oak trays, on four plated swivel wheels, rubber tyred, with cane work. Very convenient for houses with long passages and for tea on the lawn

Jeep undergoing repair
A jeep in a yard, undergoing repair

Man repairing a jeep
A man repairing a jeep

Motor Tyres Triple Stud Pattern - Dunlop - Three styles - Fort Triple Stud, Standard Triple Stud and Sports. Date: circa 1935

Motor Tyres 90 Pattern - Dunlop - Three styles - Fort 90, Standard 90 and Extra Low Pressure 90. Date: circa 1935

Giant Pneumatic Tyres - Dunlop - Three styles - 90 High Pressure, High Pressure (Triple Stud) and Low Pressure. Date: circa 1935

Cycle Tyres - Dunlop - Speed and Sports Range - Road Racing (Hgh Pressure) File Pattern, Road Racing (High Pressure) File Pattern with Ribbed centre, Sports, Speed, Tandem, Sprite and Sprite Tandem

Motor Cycle Tyres - Dunlop - Eight different styles of tyre
Eight different types of Dunlop Motor Cycle Tyres - the Fort, Standard, Heavy Duty (Beaded Edge), Standard (Ribbed), Solo Sports, Sports, Road Racing (Ribbed) and Road Racing (Triple Stud)

The B. F. Goodrich Rubber Company Factory, Akron, Ohio Date: 1930s

Rangoon Rubber Plantation - Rangoon - Without enough rubber, know how, or equipment, they cant get made badly- needed tyres, but they certainly let themselves go on balloons. Date: 1951

Bicycle shop
People You See. From Teddy Bear (date unknown)

LCC-LFB motorised pump-escape with pneumatic tyres
The London Fire Brigade introduced Dennis dual purpose appliances which were fitted with pneumatic tyres, making fire engines faster and safer

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