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Tuesday 22 November 2011

Vintage Transport...

A Peugeot motorboat car, 1925





English invention capable of being used as a car, boat and plane



English invention capable of being used as a car, boat and plane





A Fulgar show-model car made by French car manufacturers, Simca





A caterpillar driven ferry with a 24 horsepower engine takes holidaymakers from the mainland at Bigbury in Devon to Burgh Island, a quarter of a mile away





The James Samson Handyman electric cart





A one-man anti-gas ambulance and resuscitator, designed and made for use by the Home Guard





Bugle Buggy, a fibre glass bodyshell mounted on a Volkswagen chassis and engine





Haywire, one of the snowcats used by Dr. Fuch's and his Commonwealth explorers on their journey across the Antarctic continent





Mr. Graham's novel three-wheel car designed to look like an armoured car





Joan Blondell the friendly comedienne is  riding on an American railway truck





Swiss engineer Gerder at Arles, France on his way to Spain in his Motorwheel, a motorcycle with a wheel which runs on a rail placed inside a solid rubber tyre





Salesman has his motorised roller skates refuelled at a petrol station near Hartford, Connecticut





Three trycycles make car for two





Queen Mary with Princess Mary, the Princess Royal being driven across rough ground in a tracked car by Army officers





Amphicar, which can be driven on land or water





A trackless train leaving King George V Dock for London





Customers buying snacks at the bar of a bus, 1933





A Blackpool single decker tram, 1934





A man with his small, runaround cycle, 1921





A submarine motor car, 1937





A three-wheeled car, 1929





Television engineer is the proud holder of the first mobile television licence to be issued in Britain





A miniature truck carrying a party of children in open carriages next to a London and North Eastern railway steam engine on a platform at Ilford railway station





Prototype for a car-about-town, La Quasar, designed by Quasar Kahn, 1967



Two Victorian ladies out for a drive with their chauffeur





Dynasphere



Dynasphere



Dynasphere





Douglas Vespa motorbike balanced on a pair of floats





1959: Clive Talbot Of Chiswick, London, in his car built with the body of a boat





1953: Students at Brooklyn High School in New York learn to handle the controls of a car and experience simulated traffic conditions flashed onto a screen by means of projected film, using the Aetna Drivotrainer





1931:  Captain Malin with an amphibian Riley car going down the Severn





1964:  Urbania, the world's smallest working car





An Adler Diplomat car, built in Germany in 1936, with its carburettor that uses wood instead of petrol, fitted during World War II





1940: Gas-driven taxis in a street in Birmingham





1970: A car of totally new design, the automodul, driven by its designer J. P. Ponthieu





1925: A motor iceboat





1925: Baker has constructed a delivery van with the driver's cab and the van in the shape of loaves of bread





1925: A stunt car being rolled





1935: The newly built one horsepower Rytecraft lorry, believed to be the smallest motor lorry in the world, on the North Circular Road with other traffic





1955: With chains fitted properly on the wheels, the driver is just about ready to race his midget car on the ice at Lily Pond





1955: Model Gay McGregor shows off the latest 1956 model Bond Minicar three-wheeler, at its London preview





1956: Volkswagen travelling along the tracks of the Long Island railroad





1925: Curry-Landskiff, a man-powered vehicle which can reach speed of up to 35 miles per hour





1929: A man and a woman riding in an Auto Red Bug, America's latest electric 2-seater runabout, in a London street





1928: A man cycling a One-Man Car Cycle in a street in the West End of London





1939: Holidaymakers riding the train at Butlin's Holiday Camp, Skegness, Lincolnshire





1911: A motor car at Brooklands race track which has been fitted with a propeller for extra speed





1948: A man examining his electric car

A man examining his electric car. (Photo by Walter Bellamy/Express/Getty Images). 19th August 1948

Vintage Transport. Part III

1926: A vehicle invented by George McLaughlin which was designed to travel on ice and snow





1911: Travelling  to the Derby by chauffeur driven car





1954: A new 'People's Car', with an entirely plastic body, designed to seat three adults and two children and marketed as the cheapest car on the road





1964: The back view of a Renault 4 CV car, parked in the centre of Copenhagen with a large key fitted to the boot giving passers-by the impression of a life-size clockwork car





1960: Lord Brabazon, the pioneer British aviator, demonstrates the hover scooter at Long Ditton in Surrey





1926: The Peugeot motor-boat car, on a river bank





1928: A fruit importer's lorry at Covent Garden, London, with its driver's cabin in the shape of an apple





1964: The 'Urbania', the world's smallest working car, invented by Marquis Piero Bargagli of Poggio Adorno





1937: An old car is used to harvest a field at Sprowston, Norfolk





1952: The Regal four-seater coupe, produced by the Reliant Engineering Co., Tamworth, Staffordshire, on show at the Cycle and Motor Cycle Show at Wasrl's Court in London





1940: Navy recruits riding in car and trailer at the HMS Royal Arthur training centre formerly Butlin's holiday camp, Skegness




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Thanks & Regards

SHYJITH M

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