17 June 1907 |
Opening of Brooklands Motor Course - the World's first purpose-built motor-racing circuit. |
28/29 June 1907 |
S.F. Edge sets up a 1,581 mile 24 hour endurance record. |
8 June 1908 |
A.V. Roe made first powered flight in Britain. |
20 April 1908 |
First official motorcycle race held. |
May 1908 |
First women's motor race. |
29 October 1909 |
Louis Paulban made the first public flight in Britain in a Henry Farman Biplane. |
1910 |
First woman pilots' licence gained by Mrs. Hilda Hewlett. |
1911 |
World's first flight ticket office. |
1911 & 1912 | Marconi's early wireless experiments. |
14 February 1913 |
Percy Lambert, driving a 25 hp, 4.5 litre, Talbot set up a new World Speed Record covering 103.84 miles in an hour. |
25 September 1913 |
Adolph Pegoud became the first man to loop-the-loop in Britain flying a Bleriot monoplane. |
August 1914 |
Brooklands had now issued the highest number of pilots' licences anywhere in Britain. |
18 March 1915 |
Vickers Aviation began aircraft assembly at Brooklands - aircraft production continued on the same site until 1987. |
15 June 1919 |
A Brooklands-built Vickers Vimy flown by Alcock and Brown made the first non-stop Transatlantic flight. |
10 December 1919 |
A Brooklands-built Vickers Vimy made the first flight from England to Australia piloted by Ross and Keith Smith. |
28 April 1921 |
Douglas Davidson became the first rider to exceed 100 mph in Britain, riding a Harley-Davidson. |
17 May 1922 | Kenelm Lee Guinness driving a V12 Sunbeam set the second and last World Land Speed Record established at Brooklands - 137.15 mph over one kilometre. |
8 August 1926 |
First British Grand Prix held at Brookiands. |
1932 |
R.G.J. Nash fastest time ever up Test Hill [7.45 seconds at 32.44mph]. |
1932 |
World aeroplane height record 43,976 ft. in a Brooklands-built Vickers Vespa. |
27 October 1933 |
World Speed Record for a diesel-engined car taken by George Eyston at 104.86mph. |
7 October 1935 |
John Cobb, driving the 24-litre Napier Railton set the ultimate Brooklands Lap Record of 143.44 mph and the highest speed recorded on the Track at 151.97 mph. |
5 November 1935 |
First flight of the prototype Hawker Hurricane fighter from Brooklands. |
1936 |
First aircraft to be fitted with an automatic pilot, a Brooklands-built Vickers Virginia. |
15 June 1936 |
First flight of the Vickers B.9/32 - forerunner of the Wellington bomber. |
7 November 1938 | World long distance record of 7,157.7 miles set by Vickers Wellesley aircraft. |
12 March 1938 | Highest official speed by a motor-cycle at Brooklands; Eric Fernihough, on a 996cc Brough Superior covered one kilometre at 143.39 mph. |
4 July 1939 | Noel Pope made the fastest lap ever achieved by a motorcycle [124.51 mph]. |
22 June 1945 |
First flight of the Brooklands-built prototype Vickers Viking from Wisley airfield - the first postwar British airliner to enter service. |
6 April 1948 |
First flight of the Neme Viking from Wisley - the World's first pure jet transport. |
16 July 1948 |
First flight of the Vickers Viscount from Wisley - World's first turbo-prop airliner. |
18 May 1951 |
First flight of the Vickers Valiant from Wisley - Britain's first four-jet 'V' bomber. |
June 1962 |
First flight of a Vickers VC10 from Brooklands - largest jetliner built solely in the UK. |
1978 | British Aerospace Wind Tunnel tests for Richard Noble's Thrust II Land Speed Record attempt. |