Engaging talks for cruises
The British motor industry.
By 1950 half of the world's cars had been manufactured in the UK. As other countries recovered from WWII the importance of UK manufactured vehicles started to decline. Learn of the massive impact the British motor industry made in the early days of motoring and the various mergers and closures down to the much smaller industry we have in Britain today.
The fascinating story of Concorde.
Concorde was an Anglo-French supersonic commercial passenger jet that flew at twice the speed of sound, revolutionising air travel from 1976 to 2003.
Learn how this icon of the skys came about and put France & the UK on the world's stage with the only active commercial supersonic airliner.
The Delorean DMC-12 Dream Car.
The DMC DeLorean is a rear-engined, two-seater sports car manufactured and sold by John DeLorean's DeLorean Motor Company (DMC) based in Belfast for the American market from 1981 until 1983.
Come meet John Zachary DeLorean and share his dream of his DeLorean DMC car made famous by the "Back to the Future" film.
The Channel Islands Occupation.
The Channel Islands just of the French coastline were the only part of the British Empire in Europe to be occupied by Germany from 30 June 1940 until liberation on 9 May 1945.
Learn what life was like during the German occupation of the Channel Isles in WWII.
The Great Train Robbery of 1963.
The Great Train Robbery of 1963 robbed a Royal Mail train travelling from Glasgow to London of £2.61 million. The robbers consisted of a gang of 15.
After 60 years The Great Train Robbery is still vivid in people's minds who can remember the headline news of this audacious robbery.
The Beeching railway
closures of 1964.
Over 2,000 railway stations were closed and 5,000 miles of track lifted due to the Beeching cuts.
Dr. Beeching starting closing all railway lines up and down the UK in the 1960's that were not making a profit. Learn how he decimated the country's railway network
The capture of Ronnie Biggs.
Ronald Biggs helped plan and carry out the Great Train Robbery of 1963. He became notorious for his escape from prison in 1965, living as a fugitive for 36 years, and for his various publicity stunts while abroad. He returned to the United Kingdom and spent several years in prison. He died in December 2013.
Trace the life of Ronnie Biggs and his part in the Great Train Robbery and the lifestyle he lead after the robbery and his capture and brought back to the UK to stand trial.
The Rt. Hon. John Stonehouse MP PC disappearance.
John Stonehouse was a British Labour MP known for his infamous attempt to fake his own death.
Follow the tracks of John Stonehouse after vanishing from a Miami beach in 1974.
Lord Lucan's disappearance.
Richard John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan.
Commonly known as Lord Lucan, a British peer and gambler who vanished after being suspected of killing his children's nanny while attempting to murder his wife.
Follow the journey of Lord Lucan who disappeared on 8th November 1974.
Joy Milne detecting Parkinson's disease.
Joy Milne, a 73-year-old retired nurse from Scotland, had the unique ability to smell Parkinson’s disease long before any clinical tests showed the presence of the disease.
Her incredible sense of smell comes from hereditary hypersomnia, a condition that makes one extremely sensitive to smell.
Citroën DS.
Launched at the Paris Motorshow in 1955.
Known as the Déesse (Goddess). This car revolutionized automotive engineering with its futuristic aerodynamic body, power steering, hydropneumatic self-leveling suspension, and front disc brakes.
Named the most beautiful car of all time by Classic & Sports Car magazine.[
Harry Ferguson.
Harry Ferguson the inventor of the modern tractor and the first person in Ireland to build and fly his own aeroplane and developing the Ferguson P99, the first four-wheel drive Formula One car.
Stretch your legs with
A day ashore in Belfast.
Belfast is a relatively small city but jammed packed with very interesting and historic places to visit.
Contact
Trevor Mitchell
Cruise Speaker
Telephone: 07710 911356
E-mail: trevor@cruise-speaker.com
Address: 38, Ballymaconnell Road, Bangor, County Down, BT20 5PS
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