Mercedes-Benz W25 Streamliner car Adelaide of Saxe-Coburg Meiningen Young mother pushing a pram

Young mother pushing a pram outside St Andrews Gardens housing

Princess Anne and Prince Edward at Buckingham Palace

by Robert Smirke

'Undertakers regaling themselves at Death's Door'

Radical petitioners are staggering back from the blast issuing from the Regent's posterior

Mercedes-Benz W25 Streamliner car Adelaide of Saxe-Coburg Meiningen Young mother pushing a pramMercedes Benz W25 Streamliner car, 1934. The car is pictured here in its closed cockpit version. Rudolf Caracciola set a Class C (cars with engines of 3000 5000cc) Land Speed Record of 196. 721 mph in this car in Hungary in October, 1934, thus beginning Mercedes' rivalry with Auto Union in speed record breaking which would continue throughout the 1930s.