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Beginnings Collection (page 9)

Background imageBeginnings Collection: Speed Trial

Speed Trial
2nd May 1925: 58 light cars starting the 100 miles high speed reliability trials at Brooklands, Weybridge, Surrey, England. (Photo by MacGregor/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBeginnings Collection: Dover Beach

Dover Beach
9th June 1929: Motorboats at Dover harbour before the start of the cross channel outboard motorboat race to Calais and back. (Photo by Puttnam /Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBeginnings Collection: Brooklands Relay

Brooklands Relay
The start of a relay race at Brooklands racetrack. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBeginnings Collection: Thames Swimmers

Thames Swimmers
7th September 1907: Competitors line up for the start of the Richmond to Blackfriars swimming race. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBeginnings Collection: Motorcycle Meeting

Motorcycle Meeting
4th October 1913: The start of the 17th Short Motorcycle Handicap at the BARC Autumn Meeting at Brooklands. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBeginnings Collection: Brooklands Side-Car

Brooklands Side-Car
18th October 1913: The start of the motorcycle side-car race at the British Motor Cycle Race Club Open Championship Meeting at Brooklands. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBeginnings Collection: Airship Test

Airship Test
April 1925: The R33 airship emerges from its hangar to begin a series of trial flights for research purposes. Its first voyage will be from Cardington in Bedford to Pulham in Norfolk

Background imageBeginnings Collection: Start Of Race

Start Of Race
29th May 1909: The start of the 3rd race at Brooklands racetrack. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBeginnings Collection: Glasgow To Perth

Glasgow To Perth
June 1906: Cars starting up Rest-And-Be-Thankful on the first day of the Glasgow to Perth stretch of the Scottish Reliability Trial. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBeginnings Collection: Motorcycles Line Up

Motorcycles Line Up
11th December 1908: Ready to start racing: three Oxford undergraduates on motorcycles at Brooklands racetrack. From left to right, A K Wilkie, M B MacKenzie and Ds McMinnies

Background imageBeginnings Collection: Race Begins

Race Begins
13th April 1914: The start of the second motorcycle race at the ARA Easter meeting at Brooklands. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBeginnings Collection: Motor Racing

Motor Racing
24th May 1926: Racing cars lined up for the start of the Private Competitors Handicap at Brooklands, Weybridge, Surrey, England

Background imageBeginnings Collection: Start The Race

Start The Race
12th October 1929: The start of the British Racing Drivers Club 500 Mile Race at Brooklands in Weybridge, Surrey. (Photo by S. R. Gaiger/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBeginnings Collection: Lioness with cubs

Lioness with cubs

Background imageBeginnings Collection: Backlit grasses, St Lucia, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Backlit grasses, St Lucia, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Background imageBeginnings Collection: High angle view of a Lesser Yellow Head (Gnidia kraussiana) plant blowing in the wind

High angle view of a Lesser Yellow Head (Gnidia kraussiana) plant blowing in the wind, Isimangaliso Wetland Park
The Gnidia kraussiana is a robust shrublet found in grassland between the Eastern cape in south Africa through to Tropical Africa

Background imageBeginnings Collection: Panoramic view of wooden jetty leading towards lake, Catalina Bay, iSimangaliso Wetland Park

Panoramic view of wooden jetty leading towards lake, Catalina Bay, iSimangaliso Wetland Park, St Lucia, Kwazulu-Natal
Catalina Bay is a large bay area in the southern portion of Lake St Lucia, a large freshwater lake on the Eastern coast of South Africa. The national park around Lake St

Background imageBeginnings Collection: Small coniferous tree in autumn coloured grass

Small coniferous tree in autumn coloured grass
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA, North America

Background imageBeginnings Collection: Starters Orders

Starters Orders
circa 1910: Five riders lined up on their horses before the start of a race. (Photo by Alfred Hind Robinson/A H Robinson/Getty Images)

Background imageBeginnings Collection: Running For Cars

Running For Cars
29th June 1929: Drivers - from five nations - rushing to their cars for the start of the Six Hours Race at Brooklands racetrack in Surrey. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Background imageBeginnings Collection: Blow That Horn

Blow That Horn
circa 1943: A trumpet is sounded to begin the days march of Japanese troops in Burma as they make their way to the Indian Frontier. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Background imageBeginnings Collection: Woman In Bonnet Hoeing In Garden

Woman In Bonnet Hoeing In Garden
UNITED STATES - Circa 1930s: Woman In Bonnet Hoeing In Garden. (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Retrofile/Getty Images)

Background imageBeginnings Collection: Businessman waking up with clothes on

Businessman waking up with clothes on



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