Wheel Collection (page 24)

Advertisement for beauty products -- male and female models (D Orme and M Colbrook) posing in a car. 1959

Earls Court Exhibition of 1905 - The Great Wheel, Back View
Earls Court Exhibition of 1905 - The Great Wheel - Back View Date: 1905

Tram, rickshaw and wheelbarrow - Shanghai, China
Tram, rickshaw and wheelbarrow - Bubbling Well Road, Shanghai, China Date: circa 1909

Transport by wheelbarrow, Shanghai, China. Date: circa 1908

One-wheeled Chinese wheelbarrow, Shanghai, China. Date: circa 1909

Firework Display for the Shah of Persia - 1902
Firework Display for the Shah of Persia at Crystal Palace, 24th August 1902. There were 70, 000 spectators! Date: 1902

Irish Girl at her spinning wheel Date: circa 1903

Spinning wool for Irish Homespuns - Northern Ireland Date: circa 1903

Luxembourg City, Grund, bridge over the Alzette River. This view has hardly changed to the present day. Date: circa 1910

Lady Bather at Ostende, Belgium sat on the wheel of a bathing machine. Her costume is possibly rather daring for this era. Date: circa 1910

Regional Costume of Savoie, France - Chatel and Chambery Rhone-Alpes region in southeastern France. Date: circa 1910s

Two Algerian soldiers firing from behind the cover of a cart. Date: circa 1915

Big Wheel at the Tokyo Industrial Exhibition, Japan at Ueno Park, 1907 Date: 1907

Blackpool, England - The North Pier and Tower. Date: circa 1910s

Monte Carlo, Monaco - Theatre and Gardens and an inset embossed 100 Franc coin, from 1882 bearing the profile portrait of Charles III, Prince of Monaco (1818-1889). Date: circa 1903

Hanoi - Vietnam - Wheelbarrow driver - delivering his load of recently deceased pigs! Date: circa 1904

Egyptian street knife grinder - Port Said. A young boy is fascinated and has popped his head out of a small window to watch the grinder grinding away. Date: circa 1902

Workmen and their wagon from Guria, Georgia - Solid wheels
Workmen and their wagon from Guria, a region (mkhare) in western Georgia, bordered by the eastern end of the Black Sea. Note the solid state wheel - transport technology as old as the wheel itself

Ver-o-peso market - Belem, Brazil
Ver-o-peso market - a market hall in Belem, Brazil located at Guajara Bay riverside. A Heavy load of goods on a large horse-drawn wagon. Date: 1930s

Llama Priest, Tibet, China Date: circa 1899

Spinning wool - Tangiers, Morocco Date: circa 1910s

Silver Slipper Casino - Reno, Nevada, USA. Gamers taking on the roulette wheel and betting against the house in Blackjack. Date: circa 1950s

Soviet Armenia - Cheese Factory
Soviet Armenia - Kalinin Mechanical Steam Cheese Plant No.1 - Foreman Akushev inspects the pressed round cheeses. Date: circa 1930s

Hanoi, Vietnam - Rickshaw Date: 1903

Vietnamese girl spinning silk by hand on a wheel. Date: circa 1907

Young Boy with a Penny Farthing Bicycle
Studio photograph of a small young boy with a large penny farthing bicycle. Date: circa 1890s

Washer Women - Bermuda with their laden donkey cart. Date: circa 1910s

Essaouira, Morocco - Childrens Holiday - Wheel Rides
Essaouira - a city in the western Moroccan economic region of Marrakech-Tensift-Al Haouz, on the Atlantic coast (also known by its Portuguese name of Mogador or Mogadore)

The first Vickers Hovertruck, a conversion of a standard long wheel-base Land Rover

Samuel Franklin Cody at the wheel of a 1909 biplane. Date: 1909

Samuel Franklin Cody at the wheel

First design for the tension (or suspension) wheels
First design for the tension (or suspension) wheel for aircraft undercarriages: (a) side elevation; (b) cross-section, with section of the key for tightening the cordage. 1808

Establishing nose-wheel lift of the English Electric P1 WG7
Establishing nose-wheel lift of the English Electric P1, WG760, at Boscombe Down. 24 July 1954. Date: 1954

The after gondola of the R34 containing two engines geared to one propeller. The emergency elevator wheel may be seen through the central window

RAF Volunteer Reserve pilot undertaking instruction on a Link Trainer, Gatwick, circa 1940. By relating the position of the students aircraft to marks on a chart

HMS ?Sphinx?: oscillating jet condensing paddle wheel machinery / IMechE obj. 1855 Date: 1855

6500kw twin wheel aerogenerator hexagon spar tower
Plan of 6500kw twin wheel aerogenerator hexagon spar tower by P H Thomas, 1944 Date: 1944

6500kw twin wheel turbine model. ?The wind power aerogenarator twin-wheel type? by P H Thomas, 1946 Date: 1946

Dunlop spare wheel compared with standard, 1960 Date: 1960

Hand driving wheel

Wheel cutting machine

A size spur wheel cutting machine

Fly wheel turning lathe

Wheel bossing lathe

L Chiron at the wheel of the Type 51 Bugatti, an eight-cylinder, 2 litre car developing 160 bhp, winner of the 1931 ten-hour French Grand Prix at Montlhery with an average of 78.16 mph

Delage which won the French Grand Prix at Montlhery
The supercharged twelve-cylinder 2 litre Delage which won the French Grand Prix at Montlhery in 1925 at 69.7 mph for 621 miles. These cars would reach 134 mph with 190 hp available from the engine

The evolution of the wheel: 6. Greek wheel (7th century BCE); 7. wheel of Athenian era; 8. German wheel; 9. primitive wheel from heavy cart; 10. Spanish wheel (14th century)

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