Wheels Collection (page 6)

Train decorated with flowers on a birthday postcard
Train decorated with blue and pink flowers on a birthday postcard. circa 1900s

Three children on a French New Year postcard
Three children riding through the snow in a car shaped like a giant pine cone on a French New Year postcard. Date: circa 1900s

Cats buying fruit on a New Year postcard
Cats buying fruit from a stall on a New Year postcard. circa 1890s

Ornate railway engine on an Italian birthday card. Date: 1901

Passengers in a carriage on a cutout Christmas card
Passengers in a horse-drawn carriage with red flowers on a cutout Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Children in a cart at harvest time on a Victorian scrap
Children riding in a horse-drawn cart at harvest time on a Victorian scrap. Date: circa 1890s

William Judges with performing seal and dogs. circa 1898

Johannes Treu, the worlds strongest tooth-athlete
Power achievement of the Russian Johannes Treu, claimed to be the worlds strongest tooth-athlete. circa 1898

Motorcycle and sidecar on the Champs Elysees, Paris
An early motorcycle and sidecar on the Champs Elysees, Paris. circa 1898

Hotels on wheels by the Midland Railway, 1893
Hotels on wheels, by the Midland Railway. Interior of a first class dining carriage, showing portion of saloon with smoking room; and third class interior. Page 1 of 2. Date: 1893

German Albatros D. III biplane, WW1
German Albatros D.III biplane, First World War. Watercolour by Lieutenant Richard Barrett Talbot Kelly. circa 1917

Luxurious Hotels on Wheels, G. N. R. ad, 1907
Page of The Tatler with advert for the G.N.R. Luxurious Hotels on Wheels, 1907 Date: 1907

Bocage centenary, Setubal, Portugal -- commemorating the death of Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage (1765-1805), Portuguese poet born in Setubal. Date: 1905

Improved cast-iron portable copper
Mounted on wheels, a man pouring water into a cast-iron portable boiler. Date: late 19th century

Pedespeed 1870
19th century recreation early roller skates, fourteen or fifteen inches in diameter wheels attached below the knees with a foot piece. Date: 1870

Pleasure velocipede 1869
New World, pleasure, recreation or exercise, this newly invented contraption was used by young and old in public or private grounds

Ornate Japanese carriages. Date: circa 1900s

Typical Victorian manual parish water supply on wheels
A typical Victorian manual parish water supply consisting of a barrel on wheels of the type used before the creation of the London Fire Engine Establishment under its Chief Fire Officer

First Steam Fire Engine, England
First Steam Fire Engine constructed in England, by Braithwaite and Ericsson, inventors and constructors of London. Date: 1830

First Steam Fire Engine, USA
First Steam Fire Engine constructed in the United States of North America, by Paul R Hodge, inventor and constructor of New York. Date: 1840

Firefighters and policemen climbing a ladder, while a woman and girl stand in the open doorway below. Date: circa 1910s

LCC-MFB firemen with vehicle. Date: circa 1900s

LCC-LFB Hanwell Fire Brigade prizewinners
LCC-LFB Hanwell Fire Brigade winners of shield, 1st Prize at Crystal Palace 1904 Demonstration and Grand Fete, 17 August 1904. Date: 1904

LFB firefighters in action in a London street
LFB firefighters in action with ladders and hoses at a fire in a London street. Date: mid-20th century

Advert for Osborne tricycles 1884
Front steerer and double driver with open front. 1884

Trevithick & Vivians steam carriage 1801
Richard Trevithick and Andrew Vivians steam car driving on ordinary roads. 1801

Carriage steam-powered road vehicle
French steam-powered road vehicle, powered by a steam engine at the front using no rails. Date: 1870s

Walter Hancocks steam-powered road vehicle 1833
Walter Hancocks Autopsy, high pressure steam vehicle with passengers in London. Date: 1833

De Dion-Bouton Tr鰡rdoux steam Phaeton 1885
De Dion-Bouton was a French automobile manufacturer, here is one of thier inventions in August 1884. Date: August 1884

Christmas present - wooden raven 1909
Xmas gift for Christmas, novel moving wooden raven on wheels, when drawn alone its head sways, eyes roll and beak opens. 1909

Man pulling a loaded cart, Paris, France
Man pulling a loaded cart across a road in Paris, France. Date: 1960s

Sir Arthur du Cros
Sir Arthur Philip du Cros, 1st Baronet du Cros (1871 - 1955), British industrialist and politician. Managing director of Dunlop Rubber Company and Unionist member for Hastings. Date: 1896

Harvey du Cros
William Harvey du Cros (1846 - 1918), Dublin-born financier, the founder of the pneumatic tire industry, based on the discovery of John Boyd Dunlop, first applied to cycles

Advert for Hamleys Christmas toys 1929
Various toys for girls and boy s, a clockwork Rolls-Royce model car, with four doors that open and rubber tyres. Six electric models to build, for any boy

An Ancient British warrior and his chariot
An Ancient Briton with his war chariot. Note the sold form of the wheels and the addition of scythe blades to cause additional damage when engaging enemy forces. Date: Circa 100BC

Trade Catalogue for surprice spirit tables 1930
Selection of quality 1930s spirit tables made from fumed oak in a jacobean style and polished burr walnut, fitted with the finest English cut glass set. 1930

L-W-F Model H Owl - AS64012
L-W-F Model H Owl AS64012, in later guise with extended centre nacelle and four-wheel main undercarriage. The Owl was distinctive for its tube-like twin booms with central nacelle fuselage

Albatros WRE. 1 16 amphibian monoplane
Albatros WRE.1 16 amphibian monoplane at Bodensee. The third RE.1 monoplane, powered by a 100PS Mercedes D.I, 6-cylinder in-line engine, was fitted with floats to make it amphibious

Fourteen colour plates are used to make the engraving for the special supplements, here you can see the different print machines used for each colour that is done separately. Date: 1881

Printing the original weekly newspaper The Graphic. Date: 1881

Men working in the batteries and dynamo machine room before going to print. Date: 1881

Finising and planing the electrotypes, before the printing can be done. Date: 1881

Lambeth Waterworks, supplying fresh water to parts of south London, photograph showing the pumping room. Date: 1900

Happy Easter - German greetings card showing a young lad, his large green shorts held up by red braces, wheeling a basket of Easter Eggs passed a group of rather non-plussed chickens! circa 1910s

Blue Baby Carriage

Roquefort - Cheese Manufacture - Aveyon - France - The Caves. Date: circa 1910s

Toy horse on wheels on a cutout New Year card. (1 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Mechanism of the Great Cloak 1857
In 1851, Edmund Beckett Denison designed the mechanism for the clock of the Palace of Westminster (the Houses of Parliament in London), responsible for the chimes of Big Ben. Date: 1857

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