Lancashire Pioneers

Pioneers in the field of:

Transport

The following pioneers were involved in transport

Lawrence (Lawrie) Bond (1907 - 1974),  born in Preston, worked in Longridge; Formula Three racing driver whose design of the first three-wheeled Minicar introduced cheap motoring to post-war Britain.

James Sumner (1860 - 1924),  an important pioneer of British industry, responsible for turning his father's blacksmithing business in Leyland into a major motor-manufacturing industry.

Frank Whittle and Rolls-Royce,  Barnoldswick, developed and pioneered global aerospace since the opening of the site in W.W.2. Rolls Royce has been important locally as a major employer and nationally as the pioneer of national defence and civil aviation.