Transportation Collection (#82)

Journeys End
circa 1952: A fireman trains a hose on a crater from which smoke is rising after a plane crash at South Benfleet, Essex. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Solvar Radiant
circa 1952: The Mobil oil tanker Solvar Radiant moored near the coastline. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Diesel Trains
1973: Diesel trains in sidings in an urban setting. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Royal Albert Docks
12th February 1980: A scene from the Royal Albert Docks during the Industrial dispute. (Photo by Chris Ball/Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Tube Station
24th November 1974: A bleak concrete tunnel leading to Tottenham Court Road Underground Station. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Going Where?
18th December 1975: A lorry with headlights on moving through thick fog. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Fog Slows Traffic
2nd January 1973: Thick fog slowing commuters on their way to work through Highgate. (Photo by Graham Wood/Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Colorado Hovercraft
14th June 1977: A hovercraft is seen from the side of a ferry. A warning sign about colorado beetles is in evidence. (Photo by Colin Davey/Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Ban The Juggernauts
11th June 1979: A pekinese dog, in a basket, taking part in a demonstration, against juggernauts, held in Cheyne Walk, London. (Photo by Mike Lawn/Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Checking In
Passengers waiting at the check-in counters at Heathrow Airport, London

Towing The Orion
The Orion Oil Rig being towed

Heavy Fall
4th January 1979: Abandoned cars littering the side of the Eastchurch Road on the Isle of Sheppey after a heavy fall of snow. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Diesel Trains
1973: Diesel trains in sidings in an urban setting. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Rowing Tourists
21st August 1978: Tourists to London rowing a boat on a lake. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Torrey Canyon
People at Lands End, Cornwall, watch the bombing of the stricken oil tanker the Torrey Canyon

MG Sports Car
An MG sports car. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Billingsgate
circa 1952: Billingsgate fish market with lorries on the quayside loaded with crates. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Channel Tunnel
21st January 1975: The view from inside the Channel Tunnel under construction at Shakespeares Cliff. (Photo by Graham Wood/Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Channel Tunnel
1980: The entrance to the Channel Tunnel at Aycliff near Dover while under construction. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Heavy Fall
4th January 1979: Abandoned cars littering the side of the Eastchurch Road on the Isle of Sheppey after a heavy fall of snow. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

River Police
13th October 1976: A police boat at speed on the river Thames in London, with Tower Bridge behind. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Slow Going
12th February 1970: A lorry battling through a snow blizzard. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Speed Trap
1st December 1978: PC Alex McHattie aiming a radar speed gun (VASCA) at a car. (Photo by Roy Chaplin/Evening Standard/Getty Images)

London Bridge Station
8th November 1971: An employee in a control room at London Bridge Station, London. (Photo by John Minihan/Evening Standard/Getty Images)

New Jaguar Cars
2nd September 1972: A line of Jaguar cars covered with brown paper at the Jaguar factory, Coventry. (Photo by Frank Tewkesbury/Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Terraced Housing
19th May 1971: A row of terraced houses between East Croydon and Streatham with the gardens facing the railway track. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

British Ferry
July 1968: The ferry to Holyhead in Wales in the harbour at Dun Laoghaire in the Irish Republic. (Photo by H. J. Allen/Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Sports Car
24th August 1931: An Invicta sports car of the latest model parked in a London street. It is currently on show at Connaught Motors of Berkeley St. (Photo by Sasha/Getty Images)

Annies Van
5th August 1930: The caravan in which Miss Annie Croft is touring the country with her production of The Maid Of The Mountains, which will shortly be seen in the West End

Sunbeam
24th August 1931: A 1932 Sunbeam from the Sunbeam Motor Company of Princes Street, London. (Photo by Sasha/Getty Images)

Wolseley Sports Car
24th August 1931: A Wolseley Hornet Swallow (1932 model) parked in a street. (Photo by Sasha/Getty Images)

Hudson Coupe
24th August 1931: A brand new V8 Hudson coupe with a 119-inch chassis. (Photo by Sasha/Getty Images)

Automobile
24th August 1931: A car. (Photo by Sasha/Getty Images)

Stand At Car Show
22nd October 1931: Cars on display at the Standard Motor Company stand at Olympia exhibition centre, London. (Photo by Sasha/Getty Images)

Hop Picker Sign
A road sign to the Hop Pickers camp in Faversham, Kent

Austin Six
24th August 1931: Austin 12-6 saloon. (Photo by Sasha/Getty Images)

MG Sports Car
24th August 1931: A Morris Garages TT sports car. (Photo by Sasha/Getty Images)

Austin Seven
24th August 1931: A touring version of the Austin Seven. (Photo by Sasha/Getty Images)

Austin Swallow
24th August 1931: An Austin Swallow motor car. (Photo by Sasha/Getty Images)

Standard Saloon
24th August 1931: A standard Big Nine coachbuilt saloon (1932 model) parked in front of town houses in Montagu Square, London. (Photo by Sasha/Getty Images)

Daimler
24th August 1931: A Daimler motor-car (1932 model) complete with fluid flywheel and self-changing 4-speed gear box. (Photo by Sasha/Getty Images)

Ford Saloon
24th August 1931: A 3-window Ford saloon (1931 model) fitted with a 14.9 engine. (Photo by Sasha/Getty Images)

Midget Mark II
24th August 1931: The front of a Midget Mark II car, the latest model to bear the MG marque, parked on the grass verge of a road

Austin Swallow
24th August 1931: An Austin Swallow car (1931 model). (Photo by Sasha/Getty Images)

Front Of Car
24th August 1931: The front of a brand new V8 Hudson coupe with a 119-inch chassis. (Photo by Sasha/Getty Images)

Midget Mark II
24th August 1931: The latest MG Midget Mark II car, currently on show at University Motors, Hertford St, London. It is described as the fastest and finest 750cc car money can buy

Barbaras Glider
circa 1930: Romance novelist Barbara Cartland (1901 - 2000) poses beside the glider in which she made the first long distance towed journey in England, from Hanworth to Reading

Holidaymakers on the beach at Brighton

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