ZUM4948710: Jan. 01, 1955 - Princess Margaret attends gala opera in honour of the Portuguese President. a gala performance was held at the royal opera house, Covent Garden. last night, in honour of the President of Portugal and his wife, who are on a state visit to this county. H. M. the queen, the duke of Edinburgh, the queen mother and princess Margaret also attended. They saw a performance of Smetana “The Bartered Bride” / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4948787: Jan. 01, 1955 - He Comes a Cropper at Amsterdam's First” Anti Skid” School... This driver came a cropper - when he tried to take a bend to fast - at the first Anti Skid School of Amsterdam - which has just been started in the City - to emulate the famous London Transport skid school for transport drivers / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4948946: Jan. 01, 1955 - Helicopter Rescue & Royal Navy Adopts New Apparatus The Royal Navy has developed new apparatus to improve the means of rescue by helicopter. The apparatus is a scoop net capable of lifting a person out of the sea as a helicopter moves overhead at walking pace. It is being supplied to aircraft carriers, to Naval Air Stations at home and abroad, and will be of great value in rescuing injured and unconscious people who might be further injured if lifted by means of a harness strapped round their waist. The new device was invented by the Commanding Officer of the Air/Sea Rescue Unit at Ford, Sussex, (Lieutenant-Commander John Sproule, R.N.). More than 100 successful practice operations have been carried out / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4942175: Oct. 01, 1954 - Italian Speed Boat Ace Attempts To Set New World Record: Mario Verga Italy's speed-boat King jest failed to set up a new world speed record for” No Limit” motor boats - owing to engine trouble in his specially constructed Alfa-Romeo speed which is powered with two 1500 c.m., engine / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4942562: Oct. 10, 1954 - Russian Athletes In Training At The White City. Sixty-nine Russian Athletes, including eight world record-holders, have arrived in London to compete against a London athletics team at a floodlit match at the White City next Wednesday. They went along there today to do some training / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4942835: Oct. 10, 1954 - Chataway beats Kuts in 5,000 meters race at the White City: Britain's Chris Chataway last night won a great 5,000 metre race against Vladimir Kuts, the Russian world and European record-holder, in a match between London and Moscow at the White City. He won by little more than a yard, and to the delight of the 40,000 spectators, he beat the world record by five seconds / Bridgeman Images