This wonderful photograph is taken from the huge archive of images from the National Photograph Archive held by the National Library of Ireland.
This photograph depicts members of O'Gorman Bros. Social Club in a variety of Humber, Austin and Chevrolet cars taken at Tramore Train Station on Saturday 26 June 1920.
However it does look as if the women in the car behind the Humber with registration number HI78 were feeling a little camera shy!
O'Gorman Bros was a motor works factory based in Clonmel at 12 Wellington Street and advertised 'Motor Bodies of every description built on the premises'.
They were special agents for Austin, Humber and Ford cars. Shortly after the First World War, John F. O'Gorman travelled to Germany and secured the first main dealership in Ireland for Mercedes-Benz cars.
One of the unexplored parts of Ireland's heritage is the huge volume of photographs taken in Ireland starting in the mid 19th century when photographic cameras started to become more common and these photographs capture Ireland and many aspects of Irish life that are no longer with us.
The National Photographic Archive held by the National Library of Ireland contains over 5 million photographs and they have been made available online.
To help bring this unique collection to the attention of the public we will be posting some of the most curious or intriguing photographs regularly here on our blog at Civil Certificates.
If you would like to view some of the historical photographs in Ireland's own national collection visit the National Library's flicker stream here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland
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