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When a director of a British precision engineering company was asked by his nine-year-old son to make him a pedal car, he decided to design and build a go-kart which would not only stand up to hard wear but would also incorporate special safety fe...
Central Office of Information, London
Seventy-six holiday makers had an amazing escape recently, when theis Hermes airliner crashed as it was landing in heavy rain at Southend. The aircraft's brake failed. As the pilot fought for control, it slewed off the runway, ploughed across a fi...
Keystone Press Agency Ltd.
Lieutenant-General Sir Nigel Poett
"Lieutenant-General Sir Nigel Poett, K.C.B., D.S.O." In June 1961, Lieutenant-General Sir Nigel Poett returns to the Far East to succeed General Sir Richard Hall as Commander-in-Chief, Far East Land Forces. General Poett had previously served with...
Central Office of Information, London
Lord McFadzean — Chairman of British Insulated Callender's Cables Ltd.
Lord McFadzean, C. A., Companion I.E.E., J. Dip. M. A. Chairman of British Insulated Callender's Cables Ltd. (Photo issued April 1967)
British Insulated Callender's Cables Ltd.
New President of Federation of British Industries — Cyril Harrison
"New President of Federation of British Industries" Sir William McFadzean (right), retiring President of the Federation of British Industries, congratulates his successor, Mr. Cyril Harrison following his election in London, England recently. For ...
The Times of Ceylon Press
Twenty people were killed when a Royal Air Force Beverley transport plane crashed into a cluster of cottages beside a farm in Drayton, near Abingdon. The plane burst into flames and set fire to the homes. Seventeen of the dead were passengers and ...
Mirrorpic
A test [...] and his assistant were killed when a twin-engined Varsity plane crashed on to a house in Gloucester recently. Three women in the house escaped, as did nearly 1,000 children in the nearby schools as the plane skimmed over the roof of t...
Planet News Ltd.
The jagged ends of the tail-piece and the twisted propeller mark the spot where a luxury Solent flying boat owned by Aquila Airlines crashed, last night, in mist, killing the crew of 8 and 35 passengers; while 15 seriously injured were taken to ho...
United Press Photos
Firemen examining the crumpled nose of a Trans-Canada Airways jet-airliner after a plane had ploughed into a muddy cabage field when it overshot the runway while taking off in thick fog from London airport recently. The 90 passengers and crew of s...
United Press Photos
London Airport: The only piece of recognisable wreckage, of the the British European Airways Vanguard airliner which crashed in thick fog at London Airport, was the pilot's cockpit. All 36 persons aboard the airliner, on a night flight from Edinbu...
Daily Mirror