Motor cars
Father brought a Standard Vanguard, a beetle shaped car; the first British made car to incorporate the headlights within the front wing, and the wings to be an integral part of the bodywork.
Trolley buses
Trolley buses used overhead electric cables like the tramcar principle. They seemed huge double decker's with twin at the back
Aircraft
The world first passenger jet powered aircraft, the De Havilland Comet flew trans-Atlantic flights in record time in the colours of the BOAC. It looked magnificent. Regrettably, there were some terrible air disasters involving these aircraft
Trains
The departure from steam railway engines was heralded by the introduction of diesel electric trains. father took me to a field near Lytham St Anne's to watch 2 black Locos with the numbers 10000 and 10001 on the side in white, flash past each other at enormous speed.
Sport
Roger Bannister was the first man ever to run the 4 minute mile
World events
I remember the Hydrogen Bomb, being tested on Christmas Island, and the demonstration surrounding it
The first space flight; Russia put a dog into orbit
The Suez Canal Crisis. Colonel Nassa, President of Egypt closed the Suez Canal to all shipping, causing the long journey round the Cape of Good Hope. Instead of the short cut from the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean.
The Korean War
I remember newspaper photographs of the Korean war between Communist North Korea and non-Communist south Korea. Britain became involved with the United Nations Peace Keeping Forces (I think)
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