Fast Facts Christopher Cockerell is best known for his invention of the hovercraft, although before that he believed that his greatest achievements had been while working for Marconi developing radio and radar technology. When Cockerell first…
It is the road car you buy if you really wanted a racing car that you could drive on the road. It’s a car you could drive to the race track, defeat all comers, and then…
At the beginning of the Superman TV shows the question was “Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, its Superman”: and in the case of the Fairy Rotodyne we could ask “Is it a…
The Lamborghini Espada marked a turning point in Ferrucio Lamborghini’s vision for the future of his then new car company. Nowadays it seems paradoxical that Lamborghini was not always aiming to create exotic ultra high performance…
Fast Facts Maserati began as two companies, one making spark plugs, and the other making automobiles. The spark plug company was started by Alfieri Maserati in 1914 and was kept very busy supplying spark plugs for…
Fast Facts The unique Monarch Sno-Motor was designed by the US Forest Service of Portland, Oregon. It was originally intended for carrying wood and was adapted to carry skiers up to the ski slopes of Timberline…
Fast Facts Large bore guns were developed during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries for water-fowling. These were commonly of 8 bore, 6 bore and 4 bore, sizes usable for firing from the shoulder, and even larger…
Fast Facts The Autech Zagato Stelvio AZ1 was made as a joint project between the Autech performance division of Nissan and the Zagato design house of Milan, Italy. The car was based on the Second Generation…
Fast Facts Winnebago’s first effort at a helicopter recreational vehicle was called the Heli-Camper and it was based on the smaller S-55 Sikorsky, whose military designation was the H-19. The Heli-Camper name was dropped in favour…
Fast Facts This 1926 Daimler 45 hp was known as the “Star of India’ and was used by the Maharaja of Rewa for tiger hunting. The car’s custom bodywork by Barker & Company of London is…