Gesamtkunstwerk

DIVING SUIT
THIS MECHANIZED AGE No. 1 of a First Series of 50 published by Godfrey Phillips Ltd., 1936

Wonderful Flower-Dust

Hidden Beauties No. 12 in a series of 25 published by John Player & Sons, 1929

“Silent Bells”

Hidden Beauties No. 18, in a series of 25 published by John Player & Sons, 1929

see at a glance … .  Wills for Quality

NO. 8 Riley 1.5
This car is very similar to the Wolseley 1500 but the engine is tuned for higher output.

CARS OF THE WORLD #8 of 60 published by Shell Oil New Zealand Ltd., 1970

my Dad had a Wolseley

Breaching

WHALING
#16  of 25 published by John Player & Sons, 1930

WHALING
#21  of 25 published by John Player & Sons, 1930

The whaler ‘Diana’, a screw steamship, sailed on the 1st February 1866 for Greenland and the Davis Straits under the Command of Captain Gravill.
In Melville Bay the ‘Diana’, became trapped in pack ice and after three days of trying to break out Capt. Gravill decided to drift with the ice.
The “Diana” was trapped for six months, from 21st September 1866 until March 17th, 1867, finally escaping as the pack broke up. Her scurvy-ridden crew then forced her across the Atlantic, reaching Ronas Voe in the Shetlands on April 2nd. The reporter from The Scotsman was appalled:
“Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner might have sailed in such a ghastly ship, battered and ice-crushed, sails and cordage blown away, boats and spars cut up for fuel in the awful Arctic winter, the main deck a charnel house not to be described. The miserable scurvy-stricken, dysentery-worn men who looked over her bulwarks were a spectacle, once seen, never to be forgotten… Most pitiable of all were the ship’s boys, their young faces wearing a strange aged look not easily to be described. “

Thirteen crew, including the captain died during the voyage.

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Ken Russell dies

280 m.p.h at 13,120 ft.

SAVOIA-MARCHETTI S-79 BOMBER
SPEED #14 in a series of 50, published by W.D. & H.O. Wills, 1938

The ‘Normandie’

SPEED
#38 in a series of 50, published by W. D. & H. O. Wills, 1938

the third funnel’s a fake

CYCLING
TRACK TANDEM POSITION
#45 of 50, published by John Player & Sons, 1939

Supermarine “Walrus” Amphibian

AIRCRAFT OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE
#34 of 50, published by John Playeer & Sons, 1938

MODERN ARMOURED CARS

MODERN ARMAMENTS No. 32 (in a series of 50 subjects from actual photographs published by Louis Gerard Ltd., 1938)

CATERPILLAR TRACTOR HAULING GUN

MODERN ARMAMENTS No. 30 (in a series of 50 subjects from actual photographs published by Louis Gerard Ltd., 1938)