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Early 20th Century Cars

Antique automobiles from the early 1900s showcasing vintage designs and historical figures, set in various urban locations.

King Edward VII pictured seated in his motorcar with Mr John Scott Montagu, M.P. The King was an enthusiastic motorist, acquiring his first car in 1899 and appointing a Master of the Motors in the royal household to oversee the royal cars. Date: 1902

Police Patrol, Trucks

Strang in Renault car

Vintage Photograph. Old Car in Fiesta Parade at SLC California.

Truck: The Southern Automobile Supply Co. - digital file from original | Library of Congress

OKB Motor Car Bogie

Germany, Berlin, Zeppelin and the Kaiser going to the palace

Constance Miller stands in front of a car , Convertible automobiles. Jack Miller Collection

Gongsters on parade; police cars of the police traffic patrol waiting to have their speedometers tested against a stopwatch, to ensure they drive within the 30 miles and hour speed limit. Speedometers in the 1930s were primitive and inaccurate compared to today. Date: April 13th 1935

Climbing a hill with a gradient of 1in 609, with 9 passengers aboard, each with an average weight of 11st 2lb each, in a Rolls Royce in 1906. Date: 1906

1930S 1940S Packard On Dirt Road With Woman Standing Outside Passenger Side

Wachusett Department, Wachusett-Sudbury power transmission line, 10 laborers pictured around contractor's truck, Southborough, Mass., May 29, 1918 , waterworks, power lines, laborers, trucks

1932. A classic in the Police.

Motor sports, racing car on race track at the start, ca. 1930, 1930s, exact location unknown, USA, North America

Rear view of truck carrying African Americans during the Tulsa, Okla. riot of 1921

First Packard Car, Model A, 1899

Anefo photo collection. Amstedamen taxi at checkpoint. January 26, 1949

Motor plow competition at Hillerod 1920. "June" 20 HKR Motor 3 cutting. It is very difficult to keep the gasket tight. This plow can turn on less radius than anyone else. During one of the test plants, June 10 kg consumed crude oil on the same area as Avance consumed 25 kg.

Self-propelled icebreaker for Walter Wellman's expedition to the North Pole, photograph by C Robert, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXXIII, No 29, July 22, 1906.

DEU, Germany, Dortmund: Personalities from politics, business and culture from the 50s Dortmund.Hist. vehicles of all types in an exhibition ca. 1965, Europe

John Connelly , Automobiles. Leon Abdalian Collection

View of a few refrigerated trucks for the transport of ice bars on the site of the public slaughterhouse (Amsterdamsestraatweg 283) in Utrecht.

Start of W.K. Vanderbilt Jr's "Mercedes" Vanderbilt Cup Auto Race

06/30/1915. The Royal Day at the Farm. HM the King leaving the palace in his Hispano-Suiza car for one of his frequent excursions.

04/01/1918. At the Seville Fair. The Infanta Doña Luisa leaving the Bulls - Approximate date.

Thomas Alva Edison, 1847 - 1931, American inventor, with Detroit Electric automobile, 1913, digitally edited

'Les hasards du service d'etat-major; Une voiture de secours va prendre en remorque la "blessee", don’t la carrosserie est dans un etat precaire', 1917. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 1" L'Illustration, Paris, 1924.

Two men with driver in car outside automobil / cart factory. Probably Gustaf LM Ericsson's Automobil factory.

Truck, the men are unknown. Lastbil, männen är okända.

In his 1912 car, Mr. O'Meagher provides a contrast with a modern car on the road from Kilmore today.Lower: Mr. O'Meagher raises the bonnet of the car to do some oiling.A car which has worn out six speedometers is chugging towards Melbourne today on the last leg of a 600-mile trip from Penrith in NSW.At the wheel is 74-year-old Mr. Lancelot C. O'Meagher, who has owned the car for 22 years.Mr. O'Meagher spent last night in Kilmore at one of Victoria's oldest hotel - the Red Lion.He was up at six this morning and spent three hours polishing his 40-year-old car-a 1912 Renault.The engine is a 9 h.p. two cylinder job. It starts with one turn of the handle. February 29, 1952.

1930S Girl Looking Into Compact Sitting In Her Toy Car With Her Wire Terrier Mother Looking Watching

King Alfonso XIII of Spain in a car, photograph by Chusseau-Flaviens, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXXII, No 7, February 12, 1905.

British Commission to U.S. at Capitol circa 1917.

Sidecar. carrier pigeons. 1915-18.

Ruckstall i.e. Ruckstell

Lord Montagu Of Beaulieu -- Lord Montagu, is seen here with one of the cars which make up the famous collection at his home in Beaulieu. Today Lord Montagu appeared at the Winchester Asaizes on two charges concerning a 14 year old boy scout. Charge No. 1 alleged that he committed a serious offence with the boy in a chalet at Boreham Beach, Beaulieu, on August Bank Holiday Monday. Charge No.2 alleged indecent assault on the boy at the same time and place but before the act alleged in the first charge occurred. December 14, 1953. (Photo by Evening Standard Picture).

Anefo photo collection. The A Ford Club Nederland deflated for Prince Bernhard at Soestdijk Palace. September 30, 1964

Anefo photo collection. Ministry of 1813. service car with driver. 1945. The Hague

Collection Dutch Heidematschappij. Men, trucks, forestry commission. undated

Image of a few buses at the Vredenburg Autobus Station in Utrecht; On the right in the background the roofs of a few houses on the former Rijnstraat (then addressed Vredenburg) and on the left the rear of the Stadsschouwburg.n.b. The houses on the former Rijnstraat were demolished in October 1937 for the expansion of the Jaarbeurs.

Air Raid Precautions: Set of 50 cards issued by WD & H0 Wills, Britain 1938, in preparation for the anticipated coming of World War II. Light Trailer Fire Pump which could be attached to private cars and light commercial vehicles and used to augment the official Fire Brigade.

Terring with tempo tub in Jämtland and Medelpad. 2-motory, four-wheel drive and four-wheel control.

Cars at General Motors Assembly Plant, Petone, circa 1936, Petone, by Ken Niven, Gordon H. Burt Ltd.

Turkish President In Greece -- The Mayor of Athens, Mr. Nicolopoulos welcome the Turkish President, Mr. Celal Bayar as he entered the City accompanied by King Paul at the start of his state visit to Greece. December 01, 1952.

Collection Dutch Heidematschappij. Forestry, forest fire, forest fire motor cars, Sint Anna. undated. Gelderland, Nijmegen, Sint Anna

Barcelona, July 1916. The Vuelta a Catalunya automobile race: the cars that took part ready for the start.

King George V leaving Weymouth, Dorset, by car, 11th March 1912. Artist: Unknown

Front grill, bumpers, and headlights of President Harding's automobile, showing seal, license plates, and American Automobile Association insignia for the Marion County, Ohio chapter, 1922

Poll photo collection. Report photo model. Actress and photo model Cissy van Bennekom with gasoline hose in the hands at gas tank. 1932

Projection picture. Winter sports. Cars on the ice.

Mangahao Hydro-Electric Scheme - 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th visits : 1921, 1921, by Leslie Adkin.

California: 1928 Howard Hughes and stunt flyer Roscoe Turner at an airport in California. Hughes is driving the official car of the Pacific Aero Club.

Vintage photograph. Man driving Allen Offy - Special midget auto racer

Terring with tempo tub in Jämtland and Medelpad. 2-Motorig.fyrhjulshrift and four-wheel control.

Child with car

Car racer

Cycle-cars were fashionable and popular from Edwardian times to the early 1920s, when their light weight, small size, low purchase price and running costs made motoring accessible to the masses. Most were only chain driven, two or three seaters with motorcycle engines and no weather protection. Date: December 14th 1912

Qualifying for the Polish Championship car race in Krzyowa; June 1929 Engineer Henryk Liefeldt in a Daimler car.

1930S Two Women Confront An Automobile Flat Tire

Le Cain in Delage

Piping rock

Anefo photo collection. Opening RAI by Minister De Quay, the Quay in an old car. February 16, 1967. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Siksjö. Car at Nygården. Siksjö. Bil på Nygården.

Poll photo collection. Old cars in Spain. Man with two children next to an oldtimer. 1958. Spain

Portrait of people in automobile, Big Hollow tree, Stanley Park, Vancouver BC Canada, approx 1920s postcard. unidentified photographer

Morris Commercial van, 1931-1940, Wellington, by Ken Niven, Gordon H. Burt Ltd.

Auto racing in or near Washington, D.C. - View of two-man autos rounding curve, circa 1922

Group portrait, two men on a motorcycle with sidecar, two women. Grupporträtt, två män på motorcykel med sidovagn, två kvinnor.

Tank car, service car, Nynäs Petroleum.

An ingeniously constructed side locker for carrying tools inside a spare wheel space; a new fitting in the 40-50h.p. Rolls Royce with Barker body. Date: October 25th 1930

Motor Cycle Ambulance -- Hero Land

Dr. W. Greene, at pilot wheel of aeroplane

Contest motorcycle image.

Couple stands in front of an oldtimer, International Winter Trip Garmisch Partenkirchen 1932, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Vintage photograph. Man driving Allen Offy - Special midget auto racer

Peter DePaolo racing in Car #12, Culver City Speedway, Culver City, California, USA, National Photo Company, July 1925

Historic racing car Era B, built in 1936, driver Paddins Dowling, 9th Grand Prix de Monaco Historique, Principality of Monaco

Alfonso XIII (1886 - 1941) King of Spain from 1886 until the proclamation of the Second Republic in 1931. shown here driving in an automobile

V-8 powered Ford, 4-door touring car, 1932

Mussolini driving an Alfa Romeo racing car. In the center Prospero Gianferrari. 1930.s

Marienbad. Autogarage of the Grand Hotel Pupp

Motorcar with five passengers and a driver black-and-white negatives, group portraits

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