World War II was firmly in the rearview mirror in 1946, and a British auto manufacturer started working on the world’s first gas turbine-powered car. The company had experience with such engines, having been awarded a contract by the U.K.’s Air Ministry in 1940 to be the primary supplier of the new-fangled jet engine technology (first designed by Frank Whittle) for the British Royal Air Force (RAF). The Rover Company, which first began making bicycles in Warwickshire, England, in 1885 and would drop the first Land Rover-branded vehicle in
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