SF Edge in a Napier Size:L: 80 x 60cm Everton captain William 'Dixie' Dean

Everton captain William 'Dixie' Dean walks out on to the pitch with his rival Elisha Scott

Overhead a hot air balloon passes

The byline reads 'Let yourself go on a Lambretta'

This car won the Tripoli Grand Prix in 1937

on a rough sea

SF Edge in a Napier Size:L: 80 x 60cm Everton captain William 'Dixie' DeanSelwyn Francis Edge in a Napier, 1903 Gordon Bennett race. The Gordon Bennett Races were organised by James Gordon Bennett, proprietor of the New York Herald newspaper to help promote the motor industry. The first race was held between Paris and Lyon in 1900, but in 1903 the race was staged on a circuit for the first time, at Athy in Ireland. The Gordon Bennett Races are regarded as the birth of the idea of Grand Prix motor racing. Selwyn Francis Edge