Parking meters on the streets of Zurich, September 1962. (Photo by Terry Chambers/Fox Photos/Getty Images)





Film star Josephine Griffin posing on the new B.S.A Beeze Scooter at the Cycle and Motorcycle Show at Earls Court in London, 11th November 1955. (Photo by L. Blandford/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)





Students at Brooklyn School of Automotive Trades and members of the Automotive Custom Crafters Club are pledged to provide honest service to the motoring public without charge, circa 1956. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images)





A trailer car driving zoo visitors around the grounds of Detroit Zoo, MIchigan, circa 1955. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images)





A busy residential street with an unmetalled road in Cap Hatien, Haiti, circa 1940. (Photo by Herbert C. Lanks/Three Lions/Getty Images)





A tow car for the children's “Grand Prix” races which take place in a parking lot in Livonia, Michigan a suburb of Detroit, circa 1955. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images)





A giant ram is transported along Fleet Street in London, bound for the Glasgow Empire Exhibition for which it was built, 1938. (Photo by London Express/Getty Images)





A lorry parked on the quayside at Le Havre beside a ship to collect passengers' luggage, October 1922. (Photo by Ware/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)





Jean Studer riding a motor-bike on skis on a snow covered pass in the “Cantine de Proz”, circa 1955. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)





A scene from the German cinema production “Der Behexte Neptun”, circa 1925. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)





A motor car equipped with floats making its way along the River Spree in Berlin, Germany, circa 1930. The vehicle is the invention of engineer Herr Grosse, who claims that it enables every motorist to transform a car into a motor boat within a quarter of an hour. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)





London's Carnaby Street, April 1968. The hip hang out for the young and fashionable. (Photo by John White/BIPs/Getty Images)





M R Griegson's racehorse Buck of Berks arrives at King's Cross Station in London for transportation to Lincoln, where he will take part in the Lincolnshire Handicap, 16th March 1937. (Photo by David Savill/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)





Workers on the production line of a Volkswagen factory at work on Beetles, circa 1955. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)





Traffic in a street in Reading, Berkshire, circa 1945. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)