Poster advertising Castrol, featuring Bluebird Product:Framed picture Floating dock at Rotherhithe

Floating dock at Rotherhithe

as the attempt fell foul of several of the strict rules governing Land Speed Record attempts

Dr Who alias Sylvester McCoy seen here at a press conference to promote the new series seen here with Sophie Aldred as Ace his assistant

next door to White Conduit House in Pentonville

The Coronation of Henry IV of England (Detail of a miniature from the Grandes Chroniques de France by Jean Froissart)

Poster advertising Castrol, featuring Bluebird Product:Framed picture Floating dock at RotherhithePoster advertising Castrol, featuring Bluebird, 1928. Bluebird speeding across Daytona Beach, Florida, setting the world land speed record at 206. 95mph.