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*** Hmmmmm This list wanders off course a little I guess... from design to concepts that changed things.
Railways:
Steam: The A4 - As an LMS/MR man it pains me greatly to say it but its probably more representative of the heyday of "style and art deco design for the sake of it" than any other loco, and reproduced in photos more often than Pamela Andersons designer created Boobs.
Diesel the General Motors F series - a stylish shape and evolved as the backbone of the transition to diesel in US and other countries. Perhaps the 08 - an LMS design that evolved to become the longest lasting of British diesel shapes....
Civilian Aircraft: The DC3/Dakota - the real start of Passenger travel, the Lockheed constellation as the first real global international airliner... followed by the Comet... the real start to jet travel for the masses, let down not by innovation & technology but by lack of awareness of metallurgy and the stresses of high altitude flight.
Military Aircraft: The Stuka as the first really effective tactical bomber - The Spitfire as the prettiest aircraft ever and the Mosquito as the pinnacle of lateral thinking under wartime materials shortages... The B29 as the father of all modern strategic bombers and the Vulcan as the prettiest of the Cold war warriors.
Cars: The Model T as the grandaddy of transport for the Masses and Rolls Royce for its uncompromising early years.... The Mini for Lateral thinking and the original willys Jeep for pragmatic 4 wheel drive invention.
Buildings: The pyramids - a simple eternal statement.
Ships: The tea clippers and the first refrigerated vessels, globalising trade across the whole agricultural spectrum. The Aircraft Carrier (Thanks to another British invention, the Steam Catapult)
Model Trains: DCC for widening the modelling base to bring in many younger modellers.....and the Chinese - Saviours of several brands and making of many others who could never have evolved without them.
Merry Christmas
Richard
Railways:
Steam: The A4 - As an LMS/MR man it pains me greatly to say it but its probably more representative of the heyday of "style and art deco design for the sake of it" than any other loco, and reproduced in photos more often than Pamela Andersons designer created Boobs.
Diesel the General Motors F series - a stylish shape and evolved as the backbone of the transition to diesel in US and other countries. Perhaps the 08 - an LMS design that evolved to become the longest lasting of British diesel shapes....
Civilian Aircraft: The DC3/Dakota - the real start of Passenger travel, the Lockheed constellation as the first real global international airliner... followed by the Comet... the real start to jet travel for the masses, let down not by innovation & technology but by lack of awareness of metallurgy and the stresses of high altitude flight.
Military Aircraft: The Stuka as the first really effective tactical bomber - The Spitfire as the prettiest aircraft ever and the Mosquito as the pinnacle of lateral thinking under wartime materials shortages... The B29 as the father of all modern strategic bombers and the Vulcan as the prettiest of the Cold war warriors.
Cars: The Model T as the grandaddy of transport for the Masses and Rolls Royce for its uncompromising early years.... The Mini for Lateral thinking and the original willys Jeep for pragmatic 4 wheel drive invention.
Buildings: The pyramids - a simple eternal statement.
Ships: The tea clippers and the first refrigerated vessels, globalising trade across the whole agricultural spectrum. The Aircraft Carrier (Thanks to another British invention, the Steam Catapult)
Model Trains: DCC for widening the modelling base to bring in many younger modellers.....and the Chinese - Saviours of several brands and making of many others who could never have evolved without them.
Merry Christmas
Richard
