Garage Gallery

Stanley Steamer car, 1906

Stanley Steamer car. This is the 1906 model of the steam-powered car produced by the Stanley Motor Carriage Company, a US company that operated from 1902-1917. The steam engine is at the front of the car, in the coffin-shaped bonnet section. In 1906, a Stanley Steamer called the Stanley Rocket set a world land speed record of 205.5 kilometres per hour, and is still (as of 2006) the faster ever steam car. Photograph published in The March of Commerce (1927), volume 4 of The Pageant of America: A Pictorial History of the United States. This was a 15-volume series that commemorated 150 years since the founding of the USA in 1776

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Bishops Road (Bishops Mews), Paddington, 1929

The Great Western Railway acquired this property, containing garages, prior to development in 1930. The street was eventually demolished to make way for the new parcels depot development.
Bishop's Road Bridge can be seen crossing the track in the distance

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1920s, 1929, Bishop, Bishops Road, Bishops Road Bridge, Bridge, Garage, London, Paddington, Paddington Station, Street

Lesley's Fuel is Brand X. Motorists who buy petrol at pretty Lesley Fers'

Lesley's Fuel is Brand X. Motorists who buy petrol at pretty Lesley Fers pump get an unusual extra - a high octane kiss to zoom them on their way. Drivers who don't want to be kissed can have a beer instead. "The older ones usually go for the kiss, "Lesley said, "but quite a few of the younger ones prefer the wallop. I don't know why." Lesley, 19, is one of four bikini-clad girls employed at a filling station in Portsmouth, Hampshire. But the local vicar doesn't approve. As motorists queued for a gallon and a smacker, Canon Jeffrey Maples said: "It's degrading. A kiss is a genuine expression of love and affection. When distributed freely as a publicity gimmick it loses its meaning." And the fact that the garage is offering cut-price contraceptives as well has upset quite a few of the more conservative-minded of the local populace. June 1972 P018788

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