A new exhibition, Monaco and the Automobile From 1893 to Today will run through the summer in Monaco. The exhibition will feature over 50 historic vehicles that have taken part in or won the Monaco Grand Prix or the Monte-Carlo Rally, together with unique, unpublished photographs and...
The medieval hilltop town of Thiers in the Puy-de-Dôme department of Auvergne*, is known throughout the commercial and domestic kitchens of France as the historic home of the cutlery industry. In particular it’s known for its knives. The town’s craftsmen (& women) have been making knives for...
This [Gen. Richter's HQ] is where the Third Reich first realised what was happening on 5/6th June 1944
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History is to be the new home of American author Robert M. Pirsig’s 1966 Honda Super Hawk motorcycle featured in his book, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values. Pirsig’s book, originally published by William Morrow in...
On a coastline dotted with D-Day museums, it’s easy to assume that the America Gold Beach Museum in Ver-sur-Mer, Normandy, is dedicated to the events on June 6 1944… but it isn’t, exclusively. Musée America Gold Beach reminds us that before the British Army’s XXX Corps landed...
British Airways are looking at ways that 3D printing technology could improve punctuality and reduce carbon emissions by bypassing the need to fly spare parts out to its fleet around the world. The thinking is that 3D printers located at airports around the world, could be used...
The Canadian National Vimy Memorial in dramatic white stone dominates the surrounding landscape from the top of Vimy Ridge. It marks the battlefield on which four divisions of Canadians* managed to dislodge three German divisions from their entrenched and fortified positions on the ridge over three days...
The Old Town Model Railroad Depot, a small model railway museum based in San Diego’s historic Old Town district, will remain open under new ownership. I can’t resist either a model railway or a good news story, so this is a welcome piece of news. The Depot,...
The Steam Dreams Rail Co are operating some trips in the Flying Scotsman timetable for 2020, offering the rare chance of travelling behind this iconic engine in full steam on the mainline at speeds of up to 75 mph. The Flying Scotsman, the last original remaining of...
We sort of know this, but a report published today by the Avis Budget Group, suggests that while car use remains as popular as it ever was, private car ownership looks set to decline over the next decade as consumers move to an access-driven, on-demand model for...
I came across this little ‘factoid’ in the latest edition of the National Museum of the Royal Navy’s in-house magazine, Scuttlebutt*, which is a fascinating publication, well worth the annual museum membership fee on its own! It’s one of those ‘unknown unknowns’ as Donald Rumsfeld would say....
Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg is the world's largest model railway, and its most popular too.
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