Visit To Transport

On Thursday 10 November 2011 at 3:30 the BBC News Reporter went to the transport museum and found some great facts.

The facts we found were really interesting and I am going to now share them.

Here is one of them which is called The Phoenix

In 1948 Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) opened a new city square in Broadgate. This was the symbolic beginning of Coventry reconstruction. The city chose as its symbol a phoenix rising from the ashes.

Another one is called Standard vanguard phase II

In February 1954 Standard became the first British car maker to offer a diesel engine as a factory fitted option. The chassis was stiffened to take the weight of the heavier engine and performance suffered with 65 mph (105 km/h) about the top speed. Like the petrol engines, the diesel was a Standard-built "20C" engine developed for the Ferguson tractor. Whilst diesels fitted to the tractor were restricted to 2200 rpm and developed 25 horsepower (19 kW), road-going engines in Vanguards had no limiter and so produced 60 horsepower (45 kW) at 3800 rpm. However, they retained the tractor's "Ki-Gass", de-compressor and over-fuelling systems, all of which had to be manually operated when starting the engine from cold. 1973 diesel Vanguards were made.

And this is all from Monazzam Khan,

Than you