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Leduc 0.21 01, mounted on a S.E.161
Leduc 0.21 01, mounted on its SNCASE SE.161 Languedoc mother-ship, parked next door to the second 0.21, also mounted on a Languedoc mother-ship. The first of two examples built, which completed a very detailed flight test program from 1953 to 1956 to develop automated, operationally viable throttle controls for ramjet engines. This included a total of 284 free flights. Designed for subsonic speeds only, the Leduc 0.21 reached a top speed of Mach 0.95. Date: 1953-1956
© The Peter Butt Aviation Collection / Mary Evans A The Peter Butt Aviation Collection / Mary Evans

Traffic control for pedestrian crossings
Traffic control by light-ray : the first system of its kind. A new method of controlling road traffic by beams of light broken by pedestrian and vehicles : details of the automated system introduced in St Helier Avenue in Morden, Surrey. A broken beam operates the control lights, the top one marked Don't Cross and the lower one Cross Now. Date: 1936
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans