Motorised Collection (#5)

German motorised column of the 4th Panzer Division during the cross-country march in France during World War II

Motorised mini cart, 1930s
A woman sitting on a rather strange contraption which appears to be have motorcycle, half wooden cart, presumably engineered for general tasks around a farm

A motor plough
An old farmer in a traditional smock stands forlornly watching a new, motorised plough make quick work of a field. Behind the motor plough is an old hand or horse driven plough

Education, Technical training
Two very lucky schoolboys from Sevenoaks School Technical Centre build a most amazing motorised crane from a mechano kit

Crowded out
A potato coster laments the progress in motorised traffic and predicts the future obsolesence of horse drawn vehicles. The caption reads - Stage Struck coster (to his dark coloured donkey)

Reichsbanner Marchers
A motorised column of German Nationalists provoke Reichsbanner marchers

Motorised Sledge 1925
Motorised sleigh-train used in Yukon territory

Charing X Stn (Aerial)
A pigeons view of the Strand front of the station : most of the traffic is motorised now, the horse buses and hansom cabs are gone but horse drawn carts and wagons remain

Aldgate Congestion
A " traffic block" in Aldgate High street, east London. Note the predominance of horse- drawn over motorised vehicles; Aldgate tube station and the Three Nuns Hotel on the left

Ransomes power mower

Scott / Motorised Sleigh
Scotts last expedition - he was beaten to the South Pole by Roald Amundsen. Scott did not make it back. Motor sleigh tractor used by Scott

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