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1941 Packard Clipper
The Packard Clipper was an American automobile first announced in 1941 by the Packard Motor Car Company, a leading manufacturer of luxury cars since the early 20th Century. By February 1942 some 16,000 '41 Clippers had been produced. When the United States entered WW2, Packard switched production to the war effort producing Packard Merlin aero engines, a licensed copy of one of the best engines of its ti...
LGOC B Type Bus. At the beginning of the twentieth century, at a time when the United Kingdom was the main country of the world and its capital London was the center of political and economic activity on a global scope, due to the rapid pace of urbanization of large cities, the problem of carriage of groups of people became a fundamentally new means of transport, as typical horse-drawn carriages (the so-called "cabs") could no...
Vauxhall D-Type Ambulance The first few months of fighting in 1914 gave rise to the picture we have now, that the war, only recently begun, would not just be long and exhausting - it would be a war of indefinite term and enormous losses, entailing in particular the loss of a large number of human lives. The assessment of losses at the end of 1914 was estimated in the tens of thousands, and the number of injured as a result of ...
BL 8-inch Howitzer Mark VI The First World War is remembered as a new type of war, in which such technological developments as the tank and the aircraft were used for the first time, but also completely dependent on conventional weapons such as, for example, the rifle or the gun. There were no radical changes in the technology of these types of weapons during the four years of the Great War, but they were constantly improved a...
Sopwith 1½ Strutter WWI Fighter, 1916/17
The Sopwith 1½ Strutter biplane was the first Allied fighter equipped with a synchronized machine gun. Designed by the Sopwith Aviation Company, Kingston-on-Thames, and known initially as the Sopwith LCT (Land Clerget Tractor), it was renamed "1½ Strutter" after the cabane struts as the distinctive W form was reminiscent of half-struts.
The 1½ Strutter's first flight was in mid-Decemb...
Douglas C-133B Cargomaster n 1952, procurement of a new type for the Military Air Transport Service was announced in the United States under the SS402L Logistics Carrier Support Program. According to its requirements, the aircraft would have to lift more than 45 tons, including oversized items.
The Douglas Aircraft Company, which has a long history of supplying transport aircraft to the military, proposed two projects, the C...
Vickers Super VC-10/VC10 type 1151 BOAC he VC10 or to use its correct title the Vickers Commercial 10 was a long range British Airliner designed and built by Vickers and first flew in 1962. The Aircraft had a high subsonic speed and was specially designed to use 'Hot & High' Airports such as Nairobi on the African routes.
The fist Super VC10 that is the subject of this model was13ft 0in (3.96 m) longer, had upgraded Conway e...