Coventry's 'Roll of Honour' of cycle, motor-cycle and motor vehicle manufacturers
Tucked away behind a road-roller and Barbie's XJS - know what it is yet?
A one-off Lea-Francis 30/230, an attempt to bring back the Lea Francis name in the early 2000s, sadly to come to nought.
Thrust SSC. I well remember Tomorrow's World (the 'Crossroads' of science TV) introducing the project in the early 90s with the words "an attempt to regain the World Land Speed Record" at which point Richard Noble leant over and said quietly "I still hold it". Typical of this country, and no different today, I was telling the story to a lad in his 20s and he said "The Americans hold it now, don't they?"!
Rear panels of titanium to take the heat of the engines, well blued.
The simulator, travelling at Mach 1.01
Lotus 25 of the early 60s. Cars of this era are the most beautiful to my mind - minimalist, nothing extraneous (I suspect the roll cage is a much more recent addition) and before they started adding those ugly wings.
One of my heroes - Frank Whittle. Father of the jet engine (OK, maybe not the first to fly, but he was fighting Government bureaucracy as well as technology) and greatly under appreciated in his own country, despite a knighthood.
