Transport Flashcards
Who wrote the 1963 report The Reshaping of British Railways which recommended the closure of 2363 stations?
RICHARD BEECHING
Which airline with a distinctive orange and white livery was founded in 1995 by Stelios Haji-Ioannou and is based at Luton Airport?
EASYJET
The only public rack and pinion railway in the United Kingdom travels 7.6 km from Llanberis to the summit of which mountain?
SNOWDON
What is the name of the monoplane that was flown by Charles Lindbergh on the first solo non-stop transatlantic flight in 1927?
SPIRIT OF ST LOUIS
First produced in 1938 which was the first car to sell 20 million units?
VOLKSWAGEN BEETLE
What name is shared by a flagship of the English fleet in 1588 the first ship in history designed and built as a seaplane carrier and three royal Navy aircraft carriers the last of which was decommissioned in 2011?
ARK ROYAL
The world’s best-selling plug-in electric car in 2015 and 2016 was produced by which American company headed by Elon Musk?
TESLA
What is the surname of the French brothers who demonstrated a hot air balloon publicly in 1783 making an unmanned flight lasting 10 minutes?
MONTGOLFIER
The world’s last manually operated cable car system which opened in 1873 is a tourist attraction in which American city?
SAN FRANCISCO
Which clipper ship built in 1869 is named after the nickname of the witch Nannie Dee in Robert Burns’s poem Tam o’ Shanter?
CUTTY SARK
The vehicle manufacturing plant at Burnaston Derbyshire opened in 1992 to produce cars for which Japanese company?
TOYOTA
What was the name of the cruise ship that was wrecked off the coast of Isola del Giglio in Italy in January 2012?
COSTA CONCORDIA
Who was the first pilot to break the sound barrier in level flight flying a Bell-X1 over the Mojave Desert in 1947?
CHUCK YEAGER
Which steam ship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel laid the first lasting transatlantic telegraph cable in 1866?
GREAT EASTERN
The Trans-Siberian railway has connected Moscow with which city in the Russian Far East since 1916?
VLADIVOSTOK
Which car manufacturer with a trident for its emblem was founded in Bologna in 1914 and now has its headquarters in Modena?
MASERATI
What name was given to the class of cargo ships built in the USA in World War II? Mass-produced on an unprecedented scale 2710 ships were constructed.
LIBERTY SHIPS
Featuring in the Back to the Future films as a time machine which sports car with gull-wing doors was manufactured in Belfast between 1981 and 1983?
DELOREAN (DMC-12)
What was the name of the transatlantic service launched by Laker Airways which was inaugurated between Gatwick and New York JFK in September 1977?
SKYTRAIN
Which helicopter built by Westland is a version of the Sikorsky S-61 and is used by the Royal Navy and the RAF for search and rescue operations?
SEA KING
RMS Lusitania RMS Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth II were all built at which shipyard on the Clyde?
JOHN BROWN
What is the nickname of the Hughes H-4 Hercules flying boat which has the largest wingspan of any aircraft that has ever flown is constructed from wood and only made one flight in 1947?
SPRUCE GOOSE
Donald Campbell was killed in 1967 when his Bluebird K7 hydroplane crashed while attempting to reach 300 mph on which lake in the Lake District?
CONISTON WATER
Mosquito Moth and Venom were models of aircraft developed and manufactured by which British company?
DE HAVILLAND
What is the name of the tram / light rail system in Manchester that began operation in 1992?
METROLINK
Which children’s bike launched by Raleigh in 1969 was named in the list of British design icons in the Great British Design Quest in 2006?
CHOPPER
What is the unofficial accolade given to the passenger liner crossing the Atlantic Ocean in regular service with the record highest speed?
BLUE RIBAND
In 1959 which company became the first to introduce the three-point seat belt (developed by Nils Bohlin) into a production car?
VOLVO
What was the name of the first British jet fighter which commenced operations with the RAF in July 1944?
GLOSTER METEOR
In which English town is the Museum of the Great Western Railway known as STEAM?
SWINDON
Which Ukrainian company produces the An-225 the heaviest aircraft ever built?
ANTONOV
The first powered flight by the Wright Brothers took place at Kill Devil Hills which is four miles south of which town in North Carolina?
KITTY HAWK
What is the name of the figurehead in the form of a woman leaning forwards with her arms outstretched which appears on the bonnet of Rolls-Royce cars?
SPIRIT OF ECSTACY
Cunard Line is owned by which Miami-based company which is the world’s largest cruise ship operator with over 100 vessels?
CARNIVAL (CORPORATION)
Imperial Airways started services in 1924 with daily flights to Paris from which airport in Greater London?
CROYDON
Which car brand was named after a famous Ottawa chief who had also given his name to the city in Michigan where the car was produced?
PONTIAC
Who designed the steam locomotives LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman and LNER Class A4 4468 Mallard?
NIGEL GRESLEY
Which company manufactures the Gold Wing series of touring motorcycles?
HONDA
Who was the first person to reach the South Pole by air? He also claimed to be the first person to reach the North Pole by air in 1926 but this is disputed.
RICHARD BYRD
In which city is the second-oldest electrically operated underground railway in the world predated only by London?
BUDAPEST
Who became the first passenger to be killed by a train when he was run over and fatally wounded by George Stephenson’s Rocket in 1830?
WILLIAM HUSKISSON
The three strategic nuclear strike force aircraft known as the “V bombers” were the Vickers Valiant Avro Vulcan and which plane produced by Handley Page?
VICTOR
In what year did the first test flights of both the Boeing 747 and Concorde take place?
1969
What is the name of the human-powered aircraft built by American aeronautical engineer Paul maccready which completed a successful crossing of the English Channel in 1979?
GOSSAMER ALBATROSS
Since 2007 the US bus carrier Greyhound has been a subsidiary of which British transport company?
FIRSTGROUP
Which passenger train service operates weekly between Adelaide and Darwin taking 54 hours to complete the journey?
THE GHAN
Which class of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers which includes the USS Ronald Reagan is named after a fleet admiral of the US Navy?
NIMITZ
Named after a pioneer of ballooning what type of balloon has separate chambers for a non-heated lifting gas as well as for a heated lifting gas?
ROZIERE
What is the name of the consortium that bought Rover Group from BMW for £10 in April 2000?
PHOENIX
The notation for classifying steam locomotives by wheel arrangement is named after which mechanical engineer who worked for the New York Central railroad?
(FREDERICK) WHYTE
