Vintage Transportation Humor

A collection of whimsical illustrations depicting vintage vehicles, including a chauffeured car and an early flying machine, highlighting humor and character.

A man is given a terrifying ride in a sidecar by a female motorcycle rider, zooming away from other vehicles, buses, trams and horses in the street. During World War I, women increasingly took on traditionally male jobs, a fact this humorous picture points out. It is drawn on a postcard by George Ranstead, an amateur artist of the Great War who served in the Army Pay Corps. Ranstead was one of many soldiers of WWI who took up drawing as a hobby. His subjects range from wartime humour to pict
A man is given a terrifying ride in a sidecar by a female motorcycle rider, zooming away from other vehicles, buses, trams and horses in the street. During World War I, women increasingly took on traditionally male jobs, a fact this humorous picture points out. It is drawn on a postcard by George Ranstead, an amateur artist of the Great War who served in the Army Pay Corps. Ranstead was one of many soldiers of WWI who took up drawing as a hobby. His subjects range from wartime humour to pict
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Licence Simca, Automobiles
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K is the Keeper, Alphabet - Railway
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Advertisement for Jack Barclay Ltd, Rolls-Royce and Bentley dealers, 1935. Artist: Unknown
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Auto No. 8, Auto Racing
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MAN Diesel Oldtimer Tipper, Saddle, Platform, Mileage over 1 Millon Kilometres, Muelheim an der Ruhr, Ruhr Area, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe
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Horarios de trenes de Ferrocarriles del Norte. Cataluña. Año 1937.
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Color print by Erwin Puchinger showing K.K. Eisenbahn Vienna-Aspang Schneebergbahn amusement trains in snow and the change area, created in 1900.
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Tour the Famous Pennsylvania Railroad, Trains
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Ottakar Stafl's 1914 color lithograph 'The Bus' depicts a bustling urban scene, capturing the dynamics of city life during the early 20th century.
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Shell oil for cars Date: 1929
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This color print around 1900 by Adolf Hohenstein depicts the turbine steamer Princesse Elisabeth on the Dover-Ostend line, showing the ship, water, and passengers.