Leon Serpollet on his first steam tricycle Finish:10-pack Opening of Blackfriars Bridge

Opening of Blackfriars Bridge

Obviously gas masks were no protection against these so a new strategy of sending children to the country as evacuees was developed

and his baby son who had never seen

looking south down Fish Street Hill

Henry Fitzailwin the first Lord Mayor

Leon Serpollet on his first steam tricycle Finish:10-pack Opening of Blackfriars BridgeLeon Serpollet on his first steam tricycle, 1887. In 1890 Serpollet travelled the 286 miles from Paris to Lyon on a steam tricycle, the journey taking 15 days. Serpollet set a world land speed record in 1902, driving along the promenade at Nice at 75. 06 kmh in a steam powered car.