Motoring Collection

Monaco Grand Prix Poster - 1932
Monaco Grand Prix Poster - held on the 17th April 1932. The race was won by Tazio Nuvolari in an Alfa Romeo. 1932

Hautier Progressive Metal Clutches
Poster for Hautier Progressive Metal Clutches circa 1910

Haubourdin shock absorber poster
Poster promoting the French automobile shock absorber brand, Haubourdin

Poster Advertising Clement Bicycles and Cars circa 1902

Monaco Grand Prix Poster - 1931
Poster for the 3rd Monaco Grand Prix - held on the 19th April 1931. The race was won by Louis Chiron in a Bugatti. 1931

De Dion Car Poster
L Elegante Moteurs de Dion Poster. In 1900, de Dion-Bouton was the largest automobile manufacturer in the world, producing 400 cars and 3, 200 engines that year circa 1900

Cover design, The Autocar Magazine
Cover design for The Autocar Magazine, founded 1895, showing a group of people enjoying an outing through the countryside in a Lea-Francis open topped car. March 1928

Man checking his car engine, Sussex
A man checking his car engine during a motoring trip through Sussex, with his dog sitting patiently alongside. Date: 1963

Benzo Moteur Oil Poster - Cheret

The Standard Vanguard Date: circa 1949

Red vintage car at the seaside
A smart red vintage car at the seaside, with people waving to each other, to advertise colour printing by Otto Elsner of Berlin. circa 1920s

Lorry in motoring accident
A lorry (Lewins Lorries for Loads) which has fallen off a low bridge onto a grassy area. People stand around looking fairly helpless. Date: 1926

Autocar Poster -- French Grand Prix
Autocar Poster -- Lautenschlager in a white German Mercedes car during the French Grand Prix, Dieppe circuit. 1908

Autocar Poster -- Targa Florio race, Sicily
Autocar Poster -- Italian champion Felice Nazzaro driving the Fiat car in which he won the Targa Florio race in Sicily. His average speed for the race was around 33 mph on gruelling mountain roads

Autocar Poster -- Circuit des Ardennes race
Autocar Poster -- British driver Charles Jarrott winning the Circuit des Ardennes race in the famous 70 Panhard. His average speed during the race was 54 mph. 1903

Autocar Poster -- first French Grand Prix
Autocar Poster -- Szisz in his red Renault, in which he won the first French Grand Prix. His average speed for the race was 63 mph. The circuit used was near Le Mans. 1906

Autocar Poster -- Voiturette race at Boulogne, France
Autocar Poster -- Bablot driving a 3-litre Delage No.10 (left), chasing Boillots Peugeot, in the Voiturette race (for lightweight cars) at Boulogne, France. 1911

Autocar Poster -- Jenatzy beating speed record
Autocar poster -- Camille Jenatzys Jamais Contente beating the World Speed Record near Acheres in France, averaging just over 65 mph. 1899

Autocar Poster -- Gordon Bennett race
Autocar Poster -- Thery driving a Richard-Brasier car to win the Gordon Bennett race for France. Seen here after overtaking a Wolseley Beetle driven by Cs Rolls for the British team. 1905

Autocar Poster -- race on new Brooklands track, Surrey
Autocar Poster --s F Edge driving a Napier car on the new Brooklands racing track in Surrey. He maintained a speed of 60 mph for 24 hours, setting a new record. 1907

Autocar Poster -- speed record on Saltburn Sands
Autocar Poster -- Sir Algernon Guinness setting a new speed record of 120 mph on Saltburn Sands in a 200 hp Darracq car. 1908

Autocar Poster -- Paris-Berlin race
Autocar Poster -- scene from the Paris-Berlin race, featuring a Mors No.4 car driven by Fournier, beating a Panhard car. Its average speed during the race was around 44 mph. 1901

Autocar Poster -- Paris-Amsterdam race
Autocar Poster -- Charrons white Panhard fitted with wheel steering (instead of a tiller) for the first time in racing history, for the Paris-Amsterdam race. 1898

Advertisement for a Guiet Automobile
French advertisement for a stylist 1899 Guiet Automobile

Follett Trophy for the BRDC 500 Mile Race
The " Follett" Trophy for The British Racing Drivers Clubs 500 Miles Race, won by the Talbot 105 single seater, 1932. The trophy was sold at Bonham s, London in 2008 for 6, 900. Date: 1932

Motor Racing at San Sebastian, Spain Date: circa early 1920s

Advertisement for a Peugeot
Peugeot Revue - a fine advertisement for a Peugeot car. A gentleman tries to hitch a ride with a pretty young lady! Date: circa 1920s

Car interior
Illustration of the interior of a car with blue leather seats, a shiny wooden dashboard and a very long gear stick. Date: c. 1950

Veedol motor oil poster
Poster advertising Veedol motor oil, recommended by Lancia cars. Date: c.1935

French Grand Prix Poster - Dieppe
Poster for the 1908 French Grand Prix, which took place at Dieppe on 7 July 1908. Date: 1908

Benzo-Moteur advertising poster
Advertising poster for Benzo-Moteur petrol for cars, featuring a confident lady driver glancing back at a couple in another motor. Date: c.1900

Italian Grand Prix poster
Poster for the meeting of the first ever Italian Grand Prix, held at Brescia - 4th to the 11th September 1921. The meeting also includes racing for aeroplanes and motorcycles. Date: 1921

Couple in Mercedes
A couple in a magnificent yellow Mercedes drive through a quaint village. Date: 1922

Two Bentley cars
One red Bentley follows another blue Bentley along a winding road in this advertisement for the car brand. 1928

A Happy Party of Little Motorists. Six young children are taken for a spin in an open-top car. They are all wrapped up warm against the elements. Date: circa 1905

Cars at the hunt
A watercolour painting depicting a large early car arriving in a country location, where it appears the local hunt are about to set off. Date: c.1910

Anon. Ever so Fast! 1920
Book cover showing a variety of vehicles zooming along a road, including an open top car, a bus, a removal van, a motorcycle and a motorcyle with a sidecar. Date: 1920

Brooklands Motor Racing Circuit
Double Twelve Race: Frederick Gordon-Lennox, Duke of Richmond and Gordon, and the MG Racing Car 1931

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

Elegant women and their saloon car
Two elegant women stand alongside their saloon car, which they have taken out for a ride in the country. 1929

Leon Thery competing in the Gordon Bennett Cup
Leon Thery, French racing driver, speeds along a country road in his Richard-Brasier car to win the French eliminating contest of the Gordon Bennett Cup

The Triumph Mayflower circa 1949

Motor omnibus and motor car
Traffic passing a bridge in an unidentified town. A shiny blue open top car runs alongside a yellow omnibus emblazoned with advertising. Date: c.1925

Dicing with death
A group out motoring encounter a broken bridge but the daring driver puts his foot on the accelerator and the car jumps the gap. Date: c.1925

Tramway car and motor bicycle with side-car

Car turning a hairpin bend
A motorist negotiates a tight hairpin corner on a rather vertiginous looking road. Date: c.1925

Scooter girl
A policeman shouts out an anxious warning to a little girl who is merrily riding her scooter on the road forcing a chauffeur driven car to slow down. Date: c.1925

Stuck car in South Africa
A landowner or farmer in South Africa has a great deal of trouble crossing a river or wadi and has to enlist the help of several native inhabitants. Date: c.1925

Motor racing
A crowd of spectators watch cars race around the track, probably at Brooklands, home of British motor racing in the 1920s. Date: c.1925

Roadside breakdown
A man stops to help a party of motorists who have suffered from a burst tyre. Date: c.1925

Packard Roadster, 1928 by David Wright
Illustration of a Packard Roadster by the artist David Wright, who would later find fame with his pin-ups in the 1940s. 1928

Ford Car Advertisement
A woman stops in her new Ford Cabriolet convertible by a small provincial theatre to show off her new costume to fellow co-stars. Date: June 1931

Lady and Mercedes-Benz
A lady standing beside a Mercedes-Benz Type 770 limousine, built from 1930 to 1937 and used by many European dignitaries of the period. Date: circa 1935

Engine Trouble
Two fashionable young ladies in cloche hats, one of them with the car bonnet open, trying to work out how to mend the engine! Date: late 1920s

Pensioner Driver
Its never too late, as this Chelsea Pensioner, with a lady instructor or passenger demonstrates, as he learns to drive a car! Date: early 1930s

Mussolinis Son Driving
A little boy, one of Italian dictator Benito Mussolinis sons, at the wheel of a motor car. Date: early 1930s

Peugeot Car Advert 1930S
An advertisement for Peugeot motor cars, depicting one of their racing models at full pelt Date: circa 1930

London Opinion 1936
Illustration showing a bemused motorist driving his car past a SLOW sign and a rather seductive looking hiker busy powdering her nose. April 1936

The all Scotch Spirit
Comic illustration by Lawson Wood showing a miserly Scottish driver filling up his cigarette lighter with petrol from the pump at a filling station. Date: 20th century

Alfa Romeo Tipo 158

Le Mans Poster
A poster for the 1924 24-hour maotor race at Le Mans, France, billed as the Gran Prix D Endurance. Held on the 14 and 15th June. Date: 1924

Touring in Canada
Tourists motoring through a mountainous region of Alberta, Canada. Date: early 1930s

Kids Refuelling a Car
Three children having great fun refuelling a car! Date: early 1930s

Brother and sister in a toy vintage car
A young boy in a sailor suit at the wheel of his fantastic replica model car complete, with running boards, fenders, horn, lanterns and steering wheel

Road, Rail and Sea - Charles Robinson
Cover illustration by Charles Robinson for the Childrens book Rad, Rail and Sea by Clare Jerrold

Two American coup

1906 Tyre Advertisement
An advert for Jenatzy Tyres of Brussels Date: 1906

Bablot in a 1911 motor race
The winning driver Paul Bablot speeding through the countryside in his Delage car during a motor race of 1911, the Coupe des Voitures Legeres (Light Cars Cup), held at Boulogne sur Mer, France

Monkey driving a toy car
A rather surreal photograph of a monkey driving a model vintage car Date: circa 1900

Doggy Driver
" Next stop Barking!" A doggy driver complete with cap and goggles sits in the luxurious surrounds of a particularly fine model toy car. circa 1900

Young girl in model racing car
A happy young girl sits in a beautifully-made model of a vintage racing car Date: circa 1900

Young boy in toy car
A young boy in a toy car poses for his picture in a photographic studio. The miniature vehicle has a slender steering wheel, horn and number plate. Date: circa 1900

Swiss Grand Prix 1934

Vauxhall Cadet Cabriolet
A very smart and new family saloon car (a Vauxhall Cadet Cabriolet)on a country road. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts Date: 1933

Brother and Sister with fine Go-cart
A small boy (driving) and his elder sister (standing) with their fantastic homemade Go-cart, seemingly constructed out of fruit boxes supported on the chassis of a former large upright pram

Two brothers and their Go-cart
Two brothers, one little more than toddler, play in a Go-cart in their suburban garden. Date: circa 1910

Family photo with children in Go-cart
A late Victorian family pose in their backyard, the three children (of decreasing age) sit proudly in their fantastic homemade toy go-cart, entitled Swift. Date: circa 1900

Young boy in an elegant toy car
A young blond boy in a wide-brimmed hat and shorts sits proudly in a shiny new toy car, complete with lamp lights mounted on the bonnet. Date: circa 1900

Pedal car fatigue
A small child with a shock of blond hair, looks a bit fed up as they pose in a pedal car with a woman, possibly mother. Date: circa 1925

Tatler cover 1956
An elegant woman dressed in leopard skin fur coat and hat poses momentarily at the wheel of a car. 1956

A boy and his car
A little boy of about five or six years old looks as pleased as punch as he poses next to his very smart, luxurious and large toy pedal car. Date: circa 1920

Peugeot Advertisement
An interesting advertisement for Peugeot fusing the traditional elements of speed and excitement with Charles Perraults tale of Le Petit Poucet Date: 1920s

Home made car
A young man got up in motoring kit including a balaclava and goggles, poses at the wheel of an evidently home made car with hand-scrawled number plate! Date: circa 1910

A boy, his dog and a car
A boy of about ten or eleven poses in front of a car with his pet dog, a clipped Airedale terrier. Date: c.1920

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