A British man’s stunned reaction ... with robotic lorries – first introducing automated trucks to collect rubbish in the 1960s and 1970s. The technology was used in Scottsdale, Arizona ...

How do you make the trains run on time? British Rail adopted TOPS, a computer system born of IBM’s SAGE defense project, along with work from Standford and Southern Pacific Railroad. Before TOPS ...

Mr Eccles, who had worked as a workshop engineer in the UK and was a Leyland trucks expert before the war, chose to stay in Kenya. His mechanical skills earned him a job with one of the wealthiest ...