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| 1906 |
| | The Cunard company launches the Lusitania on the Clyde as a sister ship to the Mauretania | |
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| 1907 |
| | Charles Stewart Rolls and Henry Royce build their most famous car, the Silver Ghost, in the factory they have set up in Derby | |
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| 1907 |
| | The British liner Lusitania sets a new record for the Atlantic crossing, on the first of four such occasions | |
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| 1908 |
| | The first Model T Ford rolls off the production line at the Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit | |
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| 1909 |
| | Louis Blériot is the first to fly across the English Channel, winning the £1000 prize offered by the Daily Mail | |
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| 1910 |
| | Charles Stewart Rolls becomes the first man to fly non-stop across the English Channel and back | |
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| 1910 |
| | Ferdinand Zeppelin's dirigible Deutschland provides the first commercial air service for passengers | |
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| 1911 |
| | The Titanic is launched at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast | |
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| 1912 |
| | William Morris opens a factory at Cowley, near Oxford, to produce motor cars | |
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| 1913 |
| | The Morris company launches the Morris Oxford, later known as the Bullnose Morris from the shape of its radiator | |
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