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MPX5099221: Riding easily on its cushion of air the Hover Truck a development by Vickers of the Hovercraft is based on the Land Rover. To provide the necessary cushion of air a second engine is mounted behind the cab. This drives a centrifugal fan on each side of the vehicle. Two production vehicles have been converted for Soil Fertility Ltd. and these will be used to provide a contract service for farmers to enable fertilisation to start earlier in the year than would have been otherwise possible. The Hover truck demonstration at Chettisham, near Ely, Cambridgeshire, March 1963 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5099252: Flats Crash at Plaistow: Part of a 23-storey block of flats, collapsed into the street at Butcher's Road, Plaistow, today about 6am. About 80 people were feared to be trapped and early reports said that at least six people were dead. One eye-witness said that there appeared to be an explosion, then a segment of the block collapsed into the road, May 1968 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5099853: Heading into Commissioners' Quay, North Shields, is the Centurion, half-scale model of the 1702 HMS Centurion, on her arrival on the River Tyne from Berwick. The missionary ship which belongs to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel will visit North-East ports, c. 1950 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5099992: The De Havilland "Trident" Britain's newest jet airliner, made her maiden flight this morning. John Cunningham, De Havillands chief test pilot was at the controls on the trip lasting an hour and twenty minutes. At one time he reported "flying at ten thousand feet - all's well". Sir Geoffrey De Havilland watched the take off from a car. It is almost 51 years to the day since the president of the company flew the D.H. 1., which had a top speed of 40 mph. "trident" cruises at about 600 mph, January 1962 / Bridgeman Images