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National Geographic Documentaries - Britains Greatest Machines: 1930's The Road to War

Seizoen: 18 - Aflevering: 5 / 301 - Eerst uitgezonden: 11 maart 2010 - Episode ID: 476016

Chris Barrie drives an A4 Gresley the world’s fastest steam locomotive and takes a flight in a Dragon Rapide, one of the first airliners, as he seeks out the greatest British machines of the 1930s. This was the dawn of mass production in Britain and an era of fantastic speed machines and in this episode Chris investigates how the great engineering feats of the decade helped Britain prepare for war. Chris also takes the original 1930s driving test in one of Britain’s first mass –produced cars and finds out how the lessons learned by Morris were put to use to mass produce one of the fastest tanks of WWII - the Crusader. He drives a Sentinel steam lorry used for the massive road building programme of the day and finds out how the Schneider Trophy winning Supermarine S6-B laid the groundwork for Britain’s war-winning Spitfire.