Wheels Collection (page 9)

The Beach, Teignmouth, Devon, with holidaymakers and mobile beach huts. Date: circa 1905

Hagley Road, Birmingham, West Midlands
Hagley Road, near Bearwood, Birmingham, West Midlands, with two buses and a cart. Date: circa 1908

The Dandy Charger - man on a boneshaker bicycle. early 19th century

Horse-drawn tram on a Victorian scrap, advertising Raphael Tuck & Sons Artistic Cards. Date: circa 1890s

Samarkand, Uzbekistan - The Registan with Arba. Note the Traditional Arba Wagon in the foreground, with very large, heavy wheels, suitable for traversing difficult terrain. Date: 1903

Tashkent, Uzbekistan - Street in the Old City - with Arba
Tashkent, Uzbekistan - Street in the Old City. Note the Traditional Arba Wagon in the foreground, with very large, heavy wheels, suitable for traversing difficult terrain. Date: circa 1910s

Paddle boat. Study by Leonardo da Vinci, 15th century. Mode
Paddle boat. Study by Leonardo da Vinci for a paddle propulsion boat. Windsor, Royal Library, sheet 12650, about 1490. Model by Louis Tursini, 1952

Syria. Hama. Noria in the Orontes river next to the aqueduct
Syrian. The Norias of Bechriyyat in Hama. The waterwheels at Hama, known as Norias, are up to 20m high and have been standing since the 13th century. Middle East

Advertisement for Felco bearing block. 1949

Cartoon, Disraeli and Queen Victoria
Cartoon, Opening Parliament. Benjamin Disraeli wheels Queen Victoria to Westminster in her bathchair. 1880

London & North Western Railway engine, Charles Dickens
London & North Western Railway passenger engine, Charles Dickens (LNWR 955), built in 1882. It covered more than two million miles over twenty years on the London-Manchester service

Advert for Oetzmann & Co. Victorian furniture 1880s
Victorian furniture, available from Oetzmann & Co, Hampstead, London. Circa 1880s

Advertisement, Surrey Machinist Co, Blackman Street, London, depicting a pennyfarthing bicycle. 1883

Gyroscopic Wheel Unicycle of E J Christie
A New Terror of the Road - the quite remarkable invention of Professor E. J. Christie of marion Ohio - a huge Gyroscopic Wheel Unicycle

Advert for Maple & Co. library table & chair 1904
Library table, finely carved with lift-up flap exposing deep well fitted pigeon-holes and ten drawers, stationery rack with fall-down flap comes with back chair in marone morocco. Date: 1904

Sopwith T1 Cuckoo single-seat torpedo bomber. It was a carrier-borne machine with wheels in place of floats, first flown in June 1917

Siemens Schuckert D IV German fighter plane, seen here before leaving the factory. Deliveries began in late August 1918. Date: 1918

Pfalz D III single seat German fighter biplane, first flown around June 1917, and in operation from August 1917, being useful for fast attack missions such as those against well defended balloons

Junkers D I German fighter plane photographed in a field in Belgium on 21 January 1919. Although left abandoned in the open for more than three months, it was still deemed to be basically airworthy

Fokker E III of Max Immelmann at Douai, France
Fokker E III of the German pilot and ace Max Immelmann (1890-1916) at Douai, France, where his unit, KEK 3, was based. Date: circa 1915-1916

Group of children on waste ground, Balham, SW London
A group of children on waste ground in Balham, SW London. The girl standing up seems to be giving a speech or singing a song. Date: circa 1961

Boys on a go-kart in a Balham street, SW London
Three boys on a go-kart in a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Blitz in London -- ladders and rubble, WW2
Blitz in London -- ladders and rubble in a street. Date: 1940s

A Willow Art (Longton) china model of a British tank with trailing wheels. Inscribed Model of British tank with the Coat of Arms of the City of Cardiff - Registration No. 638588. Commemorative Ware

Model of artillery piece, WW1
Model of an artillery piece, the barrel made out of different sized bullets on a wooden carriage with spoked wooden wheels covered with brass. Trench Art

Model of a Skoda 8cm Mountain / Field Gun, WW1
Model of a Skoda 8cm Mountain/Field Gun. Trench Art

Queen Mary ocean liner: Steering-wheels; crows nest
The first example of complete steering-gear duplication; and the first crows nest provided with warmth (besides improved shelter) for the look-out men. Date: 1936

Coffee stall on Western Front, France, WW1
A coffee stall brought from London to the Western Front in France during World War One, with soldiers gathered round it. Date: circa 1916

Horse and cart with owner
Horse and cart in a field with a man, probably the owner, Es Briggs of North Foreland House, Broadstairs, Kent

WW1 Machinery in a lead factory - shrapnel production
An array of machinery in a factory manufacturing white lead, used to make artillery shrapnel during WW1 Date: circa 1915

Horse pulling a vehicle
A horse pulling a three-wheel vehicle on a cobblestone street in Germany. Date: circa 1940s

Hama, Syria - The Giant waterwheels on the Orontes River. The city is renowned for these seventeen norias, which locals claim date back to 1100 BC

Cycle Tyres - Dunlop - Roadster and Carrier Range - Fort, Roadster, Magnum, Edinburgh, Cambridge, Champion, Carrier, Invader, Clipper Carrier, Scout and Cruiser. Date: circa 1935

Shanghai District, China - Travelling by wheelbarrow across fields Date: circa 1910s

Blue tits perched on a wheel on a cutout Christmas card
Four blue tits perched on a snow-covered wheel on a cutout Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

La France - LBSCR
Four wheels coupled express locomotive La France with flower garlands, Tricolor & Union Jack flags, London, Brighton & South Coast Railway (LBSCR). Loco Mag, vol 11, 1905, p.172a Date: 1905

Fire brigade horse drawn manual fire pump
A horse drawn manual fire pump typical of those used by the London Fire Engine Establishment (1833) and in the Metropolitan Fire Brigade before the widespread introduction of horse drawn steam engines

Fast trotting to fast wheels. Date c1893

General Service army wagon, Mark I
A General Service army wagon, Mark I, 12 feet long, for general transport use in wartime. Date: early 20th century

German seaplane on a beach, WW1
A German seaplane on a beach during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Battle of Burqa, Palestine, WW1
Action during the Battle of Burqa in Palestine during the First World War, showing the 264th Brigade RFA (Royal Field Artillery) with 18-pounder guns

Gypsy encampment near Pontypool, South Wales
Two traditional style caravans at a gypsy encampment near Pontypool, South Wales

Very Hot! by William Heath Robinson
The wonderful Heath Robinson New Patent Thawing Machine. This stupendous invention has been specially designed to enable the pedestrian to walk with confidence on the most slippery roads

Perpetual Motion Wheels
Perpetual motion machines of the overbalanced wheel type invented by Bernard Launy and Jeremie Metz; neither will work in practice however

SS Ernest Bazin, 1897
Illustration of M. Bazins Roller Steamer, SS Ernest Bazin, leaving Le Havre on a sea trial, July 1897. This vessel, launched in 1896

Hospital Ward Maids
A nurse wheels a patient forward in his metal bed so that the daily Ward Maids can clean and polish the floors at Queen Marys Hospital, Sidcup, Kent, England

Coal Seller
A coal seller wheels his barrow through the streets of London

Wheeled tents of the Tartars or Tatars, Russia
Wheeled tents of the Tartars or Tatars, a Turkic ethnic group in Russia

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