Cycling Collection

Hercules bicycles Coronation advertisement
Advertisement for Hercules Bicycles, founded in 1910 in Birmingham, showing the street of a typical British town decorated with flags, swags and bunting for the 1953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II

Poster Advertising Clement Bicycles and Cars circa 1902

Town Mouse and Country Mouse. From Once Upon a Time 9

Open Air Holidays Abroad, with Cooks
Cover illustration for Open Air Holidays Abroad, Walking, Canoeing and Cycling, with Cooks

Granpop Thinks more Juice is Required by Lawson Wood
Granpop, the orang utan character created by Lawson Wood enjoys a ride in a homemade, ramshackle carriage pulled by a sweltering little monkey on a bicycle

Advertisement for Gladiator Cycles
A French advertisement for Gladiator Cycles, showing a cyclist keeping up with a car on a high Alpine lane. circa 1910s

Five young men on their bicycles, each one with his hand on the next mans shoulder. A photograph from The Netherlands. 1914

Boy cycling over a bridge
A boy cycling over a bridge. circa 1940s

Poster advertising Hercules bicycles
Poster advertising the Hercules bicycle. A tired couple out hiking, and miles from anywhere, wish they had a bicycle to take them home

Raleigh cycle factory, Nottingham
A man at work constructing a bicycle at the Raleigh cycle factory in Nottingham. 1964

Deaf Cyclist
This cyclist is wearing a sandwich board reading beware, I am deaf. Date: early 1930s

Motor Cycle Scramble
A very muddy motor cycle scramble in Sudbury, Suffolk. Date: 1962

Charladys Motorcycle
The motorcycle of the Royal Enfield travelling charlady with its hopeful sign: Stop me for cleaning, no job too small and mop and bucket ready to go ! Date: early 1930s

Female Motor Cyclists
Two jolly young women motor cyclists, dressed rather impractically in knitwear and sensible skirts and without helmets are off for a round of golf with their clubs. Date: early 1930s

Rudges Cycles Poster
Poster advertising bicycles by Rudge and Whitworth of Nottingham, England showing a young lady from around 1940 perched on one of their models. Date: c.1940

Advertisement - Bicycles
A poster advertising Griffon Cycles, Motos and Tricars Date: circa 1910

German Motor Cycle
A German girl from Spreewald rides on the back of a motorcycle in rather impractical tradtional dress! Date: early 1930s

Rockers and their Bikes
Two rocker cyclists and their bikes draw some admiring gazes from their peers in Brixton - London Date: 1963

Edwardian children cycling. Artist: Hilda Dix Sandford. Edwardian children Off For a Spin Date: circa 1908

Poster advertising Wearwell cycles. Date: early 20th century

Poster advertising Terrot bicycles. The company was founded by Charles Terrot in Dijon in 1887. A young couple are depicted on their bicycles, enjoying a healthy cycling holiday

My Birthday Month -- April
Calendar design for My Birthday Month -- April. Showing a little boy riding his bicycle, while his two siblings walk along the pavement in the background. 1912

Riders on penny farthing bicycles, riding round a track. late 19th century

Stopping for a chat at the roadside - Somerset
A man hops off his bicycle to have a chat to a passing motorist in a fine open-top car close to Taunton, Somerset. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts Date: 1922

Sunbeam M. C. C. Run
A muddy scene during the Old Crocks motor cycle run, organised by the Sunbeam M.C.C. one of Britains oldest motorcycle clubs (founded 1924). Date: 1931

German Cycle Catalogue
A cycling hero decorates the cover of this German cycle catalogue, Date: 1908

A German Bicycle Boat
A bicycle boat on a street in Germany. Date: early 1930s

Wet Easter Weather
A man cycling down an English country lane during rather wet Easter weather. Date: 1930s

Penny Farthing Post
A postman on a penny farthing delivers a parcel to a woman dressed in a long coat with fur trim Date: 1930

London to Cape Ride
Mr. C.F. Williams and Captain Hay, shown setting off on their ambitious motorcycle trip from London to Capetown, South Africa. Date: 1930s

Cycling Couple / 167
A couple cycle through the country Date: 1930

Cycling Parts 1957
Two boys inspect the spokes of a bicycle wheel on the street outside in the spare parts section of a bicycle shop on Portobello Road, London. Date: 1957

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