They travelled 300 miles up and 1,500 miles over the Atlantic missile range from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The winner of the first race recorded an average speed of 38.21 mph in 1951 the Exhibition of Industrial Power was formally opened by Princess Elizabeth at the Kelvin Hall in Glasgow, part of the Festival of Britain in 1959 two monkeys, Able and Baker, were recovered unharmed after Nasa launched them into space in the nose cone of a Jupiter intermediate-range ballistic missile. In 1907 the International Auto-Cycle Tourist Trophy took place, now known as the Isle of Man TT race.
