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Henry Ford's company "Ford" introduced the very firsrt motor car in 1908 with a removable cylinder head. The vehicle was named "The model T" and was sold in different versions, some with 5 seats, some with only 2 and some with even 7.
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In 1936 Butlins opened their first holiday camp in Skegness from a design sketched by Billy Butlin. The promise was "a weeks holiday for a weeks wages" proving to do this date to be a very cheap and conveinent holiday for families.
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First package tour was organised by
Vladimir Raitz – to Corsica with 32
passengers on a DC3 aeroplane. Horizon holidays was the travel company to launch this trip and inspired 100s of other tour operators around the globe to sell packaged holidays. -
In 1969 after the Boeing 747 was introuduced, its first flight containing 500 passengers made a flight from London to New York.
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In 1979 exchange control restrictions were lifted,
allowing holidaymakers to take more
money out of the country -
In 1994 the channel tunnel opened from England to France, allowing passengers to travel by car or train under the english channel. The Euro star occupied the first journey.
