First done in the UK in 1950
Gas turbine car gets road test
Car manufacturers Rover have unveiled the first car powered with a gas turbine engine.
JET1, a two-seater model powered by the same kind of engine used in a jet, will have its first public test drive at the Silverstone racing circuit in Northamptonshire tomorrow.
The model being tested is still only experimental.
But the company hopes production models which will be ready in another three or four years. Best we stop waiting now, one thinks
