Unique and Weird-Looking Cars: The Most Eccentric Designs of 1900s-1960s .m

Queen Mary with Princess Mary, the Princess Royal being driven across rough ground in a tracked car by Army officers, 1920s.

English aircraft manufacturer Sir Edwin Alliott Verdon Roe riding his Avro Mobile, which he invented, at Southampton. 1924

Baker Mr. Sillitoe has constructed a delivery van with the driver’s cab and the van in the shape of loaves of bread. 1925.

Dr. Manfred Curry standing beside his invention, the Curry-Landskiff, a man-powered vehicle which can reach speed of up to 35 miles per hour. 1925.

A vehicle invented by George McLaughlin which was designed to travel on ice and snow. 1926.

The Peugeot motor-boat car, on a river bank. The front end is shaped like the bow of a boat, the middle part like a car and it has wheels. 1926.

A fruit importers lorry at Covent Garden, London, with its driver’s cabin in the shape of an apple. 1928.

A man cycling a [One-Man Car Cycle] in a street in the West End of London. 1928.

Back views of an English invention capable of being used as a car, boat and plane. Showing are a tail fin, rudder and propeller. It also has two wings which can fold back and another propeller at the front. 1928.

Two Victorian ladies out for a drive with their chauffeur. 1900s.

Traveling to the Derby by chauffeur driven car. United Kingdom. 1911.

A motor car at Brooklands race track which has been fitted with a propeller for extra speed. 1911.

A demonstration of a vacuum cleaner for the London streets, with representatives of the London Corporation in the car. 1913.

A very early Carden [Lightcar] being driven along the street. 1916.

A man and a woman riding in an [Auto Red Bug], America’s latest electric 2-seater runabout, in a London street. Driven by a 16-volt battery, it is capable of 12 mph. 1929.

A three-wheeled car made by Mr. A. Graham of Kingston, Surrey. The vehicle, designed in a nautical style, reaches a maximum speed of 70 miles an hour with a body made entirely of sheet iron. 1929.

A car driven by gas held in a large balloon on the roof and pulling a gas trailer. 1930.

Captain Malin with an amphibian Riley car going down the Severn. He is taking a convoy of these cars for a London to Cape Town venture. The car is mounted on a portable balloon apparatus and driven by its own power through small paddles on the rear wheels. 1931.

Mr. Grahams’ novel three-wheel car designed to look like an armored car, being used to take himself and his bride on honeymoon after their wedding. 1931.

Swiss engineer M. Gerder at Arles, France on his way to Spain in his [Motorwheel], a motorcycle with a wheel which runs on a rail placed inside a solid rubber tire. 1931.

Three tricycles make car for two. Dr. J. B. Hanson and wife demonstrate their car. 1931.

A view of the motor car that will be display at the Motor Show, which has only three wheels, and sells at £100. It is made by B.S.A. and the annual tax of £4 and running costs are the same as a heavyweight sidecar outfit. 1933.