During the late-1950s the aircraft manufacturer Saunders-Roe built and tested the first practical hovercraft, the SR-N1, thereby validating designer and inventor Christopher Cockerel’s theories that it was feasible to manufacture fast craft capable of operating over...
Closed on 30 December 1965 after more than 60 years of passenger service, the ovee’ or Dockers’ Umbrella, was officially called “The Liverpool Overhead Railway” (LOR).
195 women at Ford’s Halewood car plant on Merseyside went on strike, helping to make history!
For a few brief months in 1962, the Wirral made history as the location of the world’s first-ever passenger hovercraft service. The Vickers VA3 was a wonder of modern engineering. It weighed 10 tons and could carry 24 passengers at speeds of up to 60 knots. It was...