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National Geographic Documentaries - Britains Greatest Machines: 1950's A New World Order

Seizoen: 18 - Aflevering: 6 / 302 - Eerst uitgezonden: 11 maart 2010 - Episode ID: 476017

Chris Barrie takes a Routemaster bus down to his local skidpan and fires up a Vulcan bomber as he investigates the stories behind the greatest British Machines of the 1950s. This was an era in which Britain was determined to remain a world leader in engineering and a military power in a new world order dominated by the Cold War superpowers. Chris takes the controls of a Deltic Diesel locomotive as he finds out how wartime technology and materials were used to build groundbreaking new machines. He visits the Lovell Telescope to find out how a peaceful post-war radio telescope became embroiled in the Cold War. He re-visits the superb but ultimately doomed design of the world first jet airliner before taking to the original “Jungle” Test Track with one of the Britain’s greatest international successes, the Land Rover.