The first car produced by Scalextric was the Maserati 250F, made famous by Juan Manuel Fangio driving ... Dover to Calais in 1928. Sir Christopher Cockerell patented the concept of the hovercraft ...
The single-seat dune buggy - named Pegasus - made the 36-mile journey from an abandoned runway in France, landing in Dover, England. The car was fitted with a propeller and parachute which helped ...
REPORTER: Well, the time is just 10.58 and Britain's Hovercraft is just about to reach the beach at Dover harbour now ... 80 million people and 12 million cars have crossed the Channel by Hovercraft.