Mode Of Transport Collection (#22)

Breakfast Stop
5th August 1911: A motorcyclist competing in the Herts County AC rally leaves the Aberford breakfast stop. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Motor Car Rally
2nd March 1905: A motor car rally at Ticehurst, Sussex, in 1905. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Boillot In Peugot
12th July 1913: Boillot takes a bend in his Peugot, near Bores, during the 1913 French Grand Prix. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Brooklands
June 1922: Four Motor cars racing at Brooklands, Surrey, England. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Speed Trials
2nd May 1925: Spectators watching the 100 miles high speed reliability trials at Brooklands, Weybridge, Surrey, England, in progress at a hairpin bend

Motor Racing
5th June 1926: 100 miles high speed reliability trials by the Junior Car Club at Brooklands, Weybridge, Surrey, England. A competitor negotiating one of the hairpin bends

Junior Car Club
5th June 1926: Motor car racing at Brooklands, Weybridge, Surrey, England. Competitors running to their cars for the start of 100 mile High Speed Reliability Test by the Junior Car Club

Brooklands
August 1922: Two motor cars racing at Brooklands, Surrey, England. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

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)

Viennese Society
circa 1910: Members of Viennese society gather at the Hauptallee for food, drink and entertainment. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Post Vans
1909: Horse-drawn Postal Vans. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Cross Lane PO
December 1908: A Great Western Railway Motor Van at Cross Lane Post Office, The Lizard, Cornwall. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

St Ives Cottages
30th November 1908: Cottages in St Ives, Cornwall. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

W Petts
February 1908: W Petts at the wheel of a motor car. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Pearly Donkey
1906: Pearly King, Leon Williams, with his Donkey at the Olympia International Horse Show, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

British Tank
18th March 1926: A British tank used in World War I is hoisted aboard the Cunard SS Vardulia at the King George V dock in London. It is to be shipped to Cornell University in New York. (Photo by E)

Postal Vans
June 1911: A row of General Post Office Mail Motor Vans and a steam traction engine. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Earthquake Damage
January 1909: The aftermath of an earthquake at Reggio, in the Catania province of Sicily. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Hairpin Race
September 1925: Small engined racing cars lined up for a motor-obstacle race at Brooklands. They have to navigate 130 hairpin bends in 200 miles at an average of 80mph

The Bourse
circa 1913: Refuse carts outside the Bourse, the French stock exchange, in Paris. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Early Racing Cars
6th June 1907: Racing cars with their drivers at Brooklands racing track before competing in the second heat of the Marcel Renault Plate. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

French Grand Prix
13th July 1913: Morgan MacMinnies passes the grandstand on his last lap in the French Grand Prix. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Tank For America
18th March 1926: A British tank is loaded on board the Cunard SS Vardulia at King George V Dock, bound for its new home at Cornell University in America. (Photo by L)

Trafalgar Square
June 1923: St Martins and Trafalgar Square, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Brooklands Paddock
1926: The paddock at Brooklands racetrack at Weybridge in Surrey. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Speedy Sands
18th June 1922: Drivers attempt to break the world speed record on Saltburn Sands in Yorkshire. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Motor Steamer
1905: A British fire brigade motor steamer. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Meat Vans
28th May 1912: Crowds demonstrating as meat vans leave Connaught Docks for Smithfield meat market, London, during the 1912 transport workers strike. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Point To Point Cars
31st March 1929: The car park at the Berks and Bucks Point to Point Meeting near Reading. (Photo by Puttnam /Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Sunbeam Car
1st December 1913: The driver of a Sunbeam car which has broken 12 hour speed records at the Brooklands race track in England. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Vauxhall Motor Car
22nd August 1913: A Vauxhall motor car which is at Brooklands race track to attempt the 12 hour record. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Isle Of Man
1st May 1907: An entrant in the Tourist Trophy race on the Isle of Man. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Thaw
11th March 1947: Traffic plowing through water on a flooded road, Marlow, Buckinghamshire (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Holborn Street
25th July 1912: A street in Holborn, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Clive Of India
23rd November 1916: Workmen taking down a statue of Lord Robert Clive, the British governor of Bengal who established British rule in India. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Haymarket Traffic
10th August 1911: Traffic in the Haymarket, central London, the day after the Carlton Hotel fire. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Aviation Meet
Motor Car stuck in mud on Aviation Ground at the Lanmark Avaition Meet

Country Drivers
A convoy of cars drive through the mountains at Glenshee during a motor trial. Motor trials have been a popular sport since the invention of the car

Cornish Seaweed
1935: The gathering of seaweed with St Michaels Mount in the background. (Photo by Hudson/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Strikers Protest
1st July 1907: Trollies loaded with paper, upset by the striking Belfast dockers. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Sponge Farm
Loading sponges for transport in Key West, Florida

Charabancs
August 1922: A fleet of charabancs seen from the air. They are lined up past a banner reading Foresters High Court. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Cabs At Charing Cross
Cabs and carriages waiting outside Charing Cross station, London, as seen from Northumberland Avenue

Tree Transplant
1907: A tree is moved in toto on a timber carriage, drawn by a team of five horses, to be transplanted elswhere. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

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