Broken Down Collection

The Broken Saucer, Printed 1889-1891. Creator: J. B. B. Wellington
The Broken Saucer, Printed 1889-1891

Landscape with a Removal Cart, 1642-1678. Creator: Willem Schellinks
Landscape with a Removal Cart, 1642-1678

Family between Dallas and Austin, Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Family between Dallas and Austin, Texas. The people have left their home and connections in South Texas, and hope to reach the Arkansas Delta for work in the cotton fields. Penniless people

Migrants, family of Mexicans, on road with tire trouble, looking for work...California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrants, family of Mexicans, on road with tire trouble. Looking for work in the peas. California

Migrants, family of Mexicans, on road with tire trouble, looking for work... CA, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrants, family of Mexicans, on road with tire trouble. Looking for work in the peas. California

Family between Dallas and Austin, Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Family between Dallas and Austin, Texas. The people have left their home and connections in South Texas, and hope to reach the Arkansas Delta for work in the cotton fields. Penniless people

Migrant from Chickasaw, Oklahoma, stalled on the desert in southern California with no money, 1937
Southern California desert. Migrant from Chickasaw, Oklahoma, stalled on the desert in southern California with no money. He and his ten children are facing future in California

Oklahoma drought refugees stalled on highway near Lordsburg, New Mexico, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Oklahoma drought refugees stalled on highway near Lordsburg, New Mexico

Oklahoma sharecropper and family entering California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Oklahoma sharecropper and family entering California. Stalled on the desert near Indio, California

Family between Dallas and Austin, Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Family between Dallas and Austin, Texas. The people have left their home and connections in South Texas, and hope to reach the Arkansas Delta for work in the cotton fields. Penniless people

Family between Dallas and Austin, Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Family between Dallas and Austin, Texas. The people have left their home and connections in South Texas, and hope to reach the Arkansas Delta for work in the cotton fields. Penniless people

Family between Dallas and Austin, Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Family between Dallas and Austin, Texas. The people have left their home and connections in South Texas, and hope to reach the Arkansas Delta for work in the cotton fields. Penniless people

Family between Dallas and Austin, Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Family between Dallas and Austin, Texas. The people have left their home and connections in South Texas, and hope to reach the Arkansas Delta for work in the cotton fields. Penniless people

Car trouble on west side, Highway no33, San Joaquin Valley, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Car trouble on west side, Highway no. 33. In San Joaquin Valley. Formerly a California cowhand and roving laborer, now with wife, he follows the fruit

Flood refugees near Memphis, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Flood refugees near Memphis, Texas. These people, with all their belongings, are bound for the lower Rio Grande Valley, where they hope to pick cotton. They come from Arkansas

Migrant drought refugee family stalled on an Arizona highway, between Yuma and Phoenix, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrant drought refugee family stalled on an Arizona highway, between Yuma and Phoenix, on their way to California to work in the harvests

Missouri family of five, seven months from the drought area, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Missouri family of five, seven months from the drought area. "Broke, baby sick, car trouble." U.S. 99 near Tracy, California

Migratory agricultrual worker family along California highway, U.S. 99, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migratory agricultrual worker family along California highway. U.S. 99

Migratory agricultural worker family along California highway. U.S. 99. 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migratory agricultural worker family along California highway. U.S. 99

Migrant pea workers on the road with tire trouble, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrant pea workers on the road with tire trouble. California

Migrant pea workers on the road, all their worldly possessions in car and trailer, California, 1936
Migrant pea workers on the road. All their worldly possessions in car and trailer. California

Migrant pea pickers on the road, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrant pea pickers on the road. California

Oklahoma sharecropper entering California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Oklahoma sharecropper entering California stalled on desert with his wife and four children

Oklahoma drought refugees stalled on highway near Lordsburg, New Mexico, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Oklahoma drought refugees stalled on highway near Lordsburg, New Mexico

Cottagers Hospitality to Travellers or The Coach Broke Down, published March 27, 1819. Creator: James Pollard
Cottagers Hospitality to Travellers or The Coach Broke Down, published March 27, 1819

Tuk Tuk roadside repairs, India. Creator: Unknown
Tuk Tuk roadside repairs, India

1955 Le Mans, Hawthorns Jaguar D type passes de Portagos stricken Ferrari. Creator: Unknown
1955 Le Mans, Hawthorns Jaguar D type passes de Portagos stricken Ferrari

G. W. K passing Napier on very muddy track circa 1915. Creator: Unknown
G.W.K passing Napier on very muddy track circa 1915

G. W. K. stuck in snowdrifts 1921. Creator: Unknown
G.W.K. stuck in snowdrifts 1921

Broken down British plane, c1914-c1918. Photograph from a series of glass plate stereoview images depicting scenes from World War I (1914-1918)

Broken down heavy artillery, Somme, northern France, c1914-c1918. Photograph from a series of glass plate stereoview images depicting scenes from World War I (1914-1918)

Mrs JW McClintock with her Triumph saloon at the B&HMC Brighton Motor Rally, 1930
Triumph Saloon 832 cc. Vehicle Reg. No. JK805. Event Entry No: 6. Driver: McClintock, Mrs. J.W. B&HMC Brighton Motor Rally. Date: 28.6-1.7.30

Temperino of JS Wood in the pits at the JCC 200 Mile Race, Brooklands, Surrey, 1921
Temperino 1089 cc. Event Entry No: 12 Driver: Wood, J.S. Retired after 30 laps with broken valve. Place: Brooklands. J.C.C. 200-mile Race. Date: 22.10.21

MG PB of K Scales getting a push during the MG Car Club Midland Centre Trial, 1938
MG PB 939S cc. Vehicle Reg. No. BGN444. Event Entry No: 28 Driver: Scales, K. Event programme says MG 847cc PA. Place: M.G.C.C. Midland Centre Trial. Date: 13.2.38

Amilcar C6 of Bill Humphreys in the pits, BRDC 500 Mile Race, Brooklands, 1931. Artist
Amilcar C6 1098S cc. Event Entry No: 28. Driver: Humphreys, W.E. Retired with a broken stub-axle. Place: Brooklands. BRDC 500 Mile Race. Date: 3.10.31

Rubber Duck, works Austin 7 of Charles Goodacre in the pits, BRDC 500 Mile Race
Austin 747S cc. Event Entry No: 6. Driver: Goodacre, C. Retired. The works car, known as Rubber Duck, being restarted from the pits. Place: Brooklands. BRDC 500 Mile Race. Date: 3.10.31

Lombard of HN and E Scholfield at the JCC Double Twelve Race, Brooklands, Surrey, 1929
Lombard 1098 cc. Event Entry No: 84. Drivers: Edwards, H.N./Scholfield, E. Place: Brooklands. J.C.C. Double-Twelve Race. Date: 10/11.5.29

Wolseley Hornet at the B&HMC Brighton Motor Rally, 1930. Artist: Bill Brunell
Wolseley Hornet 1271 cc. Place: B&HMC Brighton Motor Rally. Date: 28.6-1.7.30

Austin GE Cup model of RH Massey at the MCC Exeter Trial, Meerhay, Dorset, 1930. Artist
Austin G.E. Cup model 1938 747 cc. Vehicle Reg. No. YF2745. Event Entry No: 100 Driver: Massey, R.H. Award: Bronze. Place: Meerhay Dorset. M.C.C. Exeter Trial. Date: 26/27.12.30

Austin 747 cc car of Charles Goodacre retired from the BRDC 500 Miles Race, Brooklands, 1931
Austin Works Racer 747S cc. Event Entry No: 6 Driver: Goodacre, C. Retired with radiator trouble after 96 laps. Place: Brooklands. B.R.D.C. 500 Miles Race. Date: 3.10.31

MG C type receiving a push at Brooklands, 1931 Artist: Bill Brunell
MG C 746 cc. Event Entry No: 10. Place: Brooklands. Date: 1931

Two MG M types passing a broken down 1928 Alta Prototype, JCC Members Day, Brooklands, 4 July 1931
Alta Prototype 1928 1074 cc.Reg. No. PK4053. No: 25 Driver: Taylor, G. Centre MG M 847 cc. Vehicle Reg. No. UT6378?. No: 22 Driver: Saunders, P.H.R. Right MG M 847 cc. Vehicle R. Place: Brooklands

Mechanic working on a Lea Francis J type at the JCC Double Twelve race, Brooklands, May 1931
Lea-Francis 1496S cc. Event Entry No: 16 Driver: Oetzmann, E.N. Ivins, F Retired 4.15p.m. first day, engine trouble. Mechanic under car. Place: Brooklands. J.C.C. Double Twelve. Date: 8/9.5.31

The Old Time Sparking Plug is the Best After All. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
The Old Time Sparking Plug is the Best After All. Stereoscopic card detail

A broken down French light tank, Villers-Cotterets, Aisne, France, 1918. Tanks were first deployed in World War I by the British in 1916

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