Paris Clapham Manor House setting the world land speed

setting the world land speed record at 206

A 1958 Vanwall

Peckham High Street

This cartoon shows Charles Thomson Ritchie

and sometimes deadly

Paris Clapham Manor House setting the world land speed'Paris, 1870'. France, armed and in full armour, mans her country's defences. At France's feet can be seen a number of contemporary newspapers, and a fool's cap. This relates to the Franco Prussian war of 1870. The French had suffered a number of heavy defeats at the hands of the Prussians. However, French newspapers had carried a number of stories applauding French victories and so the news of the Prussian advances was cause for much excitement and