The History Of The Rover Jet1: The First Ever Car With A Turbine Engine
The History Of The Rover Jet1: The First Ever Car With A Turbine Engine World War II was firmly in the rearview mirror in 1946, and a British auto manufacturer started working on the world’s first gas turbine-powered car. The company had experience with such engines, having been awarded a contract by the U.K.‘s Air Ministry in 1940 to be the primary supplier of the new-fangled jet engine technology (first designed by Frank Whittle) for the British Royal Air Force (RAF)....