The Science Museum’s Exploring Space gallery has closed after serving visitors for 39 years and a new gallery, Space has opened in the Museum’s West Hall. The new display brings together iconic objects from the history of space travel with new technologies from the UK space industry, on show for Read more
1964 Ford Mustang In 1964 Ford was to supply a pace car for the Indianapolis 500, this coincided with the company’s launch of the new Ford Mustang so it seemed natural to combine the two as a marketing opportunity. Several prototype Mustangs were sent to Holman Moody, who ran Ford’s Read more
Boats U.S. A guide to boat owners to track down and correct the source of onboard vibration. ITW Performance Polymers A LNG (liquified natural gas) tanker demonstrating the usage of ITW’s products. Submarines & Submersibles From the top: a dive support ship t, a nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine and ballast Read more
Merchant Navy Class Locomotive Thirty of these 4-6-2 Pacific steam locomotives were built at Southern Railway’s Eastleigh Works between 1941 and 1949 and were named after the Merchant Navy shipping lines involved in the Battle of the Atlantic. As originally designed by Oliver Bulleid, the boiler was encased in an air-smoothed sheet steel casing, Read more
B-Type Bus Built by AEC, who would later design the iconic Routemaster, the B-type was the first double-decker bus specifically designed for London’s streets. Designed by Colonel Frank Seattle and Walter Iden, the B-type featured a four-cylinder side-valve engine developing about 25 h.p. at its optimum speed of 800 rpm, Read more
Small arms are weapons designed for individual use, generally at the lower end of range of calibre for weapons of their kind–.50 calibre, or around 12 mm might be considered the upper limit for firearms.
Light weapons are also man-portable such as general purpose or heavy machine guns, or those weapons that shoot explosive projectiles or incendiary devices like grenade launchers, mortars under 100 mm (4 inches) and Man-Portable Air Defence Systems (MANPADS).
The Sinking of the Bismarck Map of Operation Rheinübung–a sortie carried out by the new German battleship Bismarck and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, with the intention of blocking Allied convoys. Thanks to the work of the late Jane Fawcett (a cryptographer at Bletchley Park), decoded Enigma messages revealed the Read more
Heavy weapons are any weapons not considered small arms & light weapons (SALW). These are weapons that are too cumbersome for transportation by foot soldiers, and rely on fixed mountings on wheeled frames/vehicles, ships & submarines, aircraft or fortifications.