Donald Campbell was born in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, the son of Malcolm, later Sir Malcolm Campbell, holder of 13 world speed records in the 1920s and 30s in the famous Bluebird cars and boats, and his second wife, Dorothy Evelyn née Whittall.

At the turn of the Industrial Age through the 1920s, families could more often afford things such as electric trains, wind up toys ( typically boats or cars ) and the increasingly valuable tin toy soldiers.

At the same time, the 1920s were known as the " Jazz Age ", and the public showed considerable enthusiasm for cars, air travel, the telephone and other technological advances.

By the 1920s the number of cars had soared to 60, 000.

The " Boyce MotoMeter " radiator cap on a 1913 Car-Nation automobile, used to measure temperature of vapor in 1910s and 1920s cars.

Similarly, through the 1920s and 1930s the roadgoing sports / GT car started to emerge as distinct from fast tourers ( Le Mans had originally been a race for touring cars ) and sports cars, whether descended from primarily roadgoing vehicles or developed from pure-bred racing cars came to dominate races such as Le Mans and the Mille Miglia.

The ferry has been operated by the same family since the 1920s, when it was a chain ferry that could take cars.

Citroën had stopped producing the economy cars that established the company after the First World War by the mid 1920s, when they moved to using Budd type pressed steel bodies.

Production of railroad cars fell off during the 1920s, and the Jeffersonville plant was closed in 1930.

In a time when Indianapolis streets were often the narrow orange brick thoroughfares laid by Alexander Ralston in the 1920s and 1930s, the town had homes with garages for cars.

However, during the 1920s, the rapid adoption of the automobile caused a panic among urban planners, who, based on observation, claimed that speeding cars would eventually kill tens of thousands of small children per year.

In the 1920s the Pullman Company went through a series of restructuring steps, which in the end resulted in a parent company, Pullman Incorporated, controlling the Pullman Company ( which owned and operated sleeping cars ) and the Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Company.

Fleming, better known as the creator of James Bond, took his inspiration for the subject from a series of aero-engined racing cars called " Chitty Bang Bang ", built by Count Louis Zborowski in the early 1920s at Higham Park.

" Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang the car was based on a composite of two cars: Fleming's own Standard Tourer, which he had driven in Switzerland in the late 1920s, and Chitty Bang Bang, a chain-driven customised Mercedes with a 23-litre 6-cylinder Maybach aero-engine.

During the 1920s there were concerns about the long queues of cars and lorries at the Mersey Ferry terminal so once Royal Assent to a Parliamentary Bill was received construction of the first Mersey Road Tunnel started in 1925, to a design by consulting engineer Sir Basil Mott.

The anthropologist Ivor Hugh Norman Evans visited Malaysia in the early 1920s and found that some of the tribes ( especially Negritos ) were still producing cave paintings and had added depictions of modern objects including what are believed to be cars.

* Neoclassic ( automobile ), a car that is made somewhat in the image of the classic cars of the 1920s and 1930s

There have been prototype cars since the 1920s, with compressed air used in torpedo propulsion.

Lancia produced several narrow-angle V4 engines from the 1920s through 1960s for cars like the Lambda, Augusta, Artena, Aprilia, Ardea, Appia, and Fulvia.

In the United States in the 1920s, automobile manufacturers, including Chandler, Gardner, and Auburn, began using straight-eight engines in cars targeted at the middle class.

Bugatti, Duesenberg, Alfa Romeo, Mercedes-Benz and Miller built successful racing cars with high-performance dual overhead camshaft straight-8 engines in the 1920s and 1930s.

Ralph Bagnold, who went on to help found the LRDG, greatly extended the knowledge of the area ( as well as developing techniques still used today for driving cars in sand ) with many journeys in the 1920s and ' 30s using Ford Model Ts.

In the 1920s it was rumored used for both mushroom growing and bootleg whiskey stills even though there was no access into the main portion of the tunnel.

The problem is sometimes known as season cracking after it was first discovered in brass cartridge cases used for rifle ammunition during the 1920s in the Indian Army.

By the 1920s, composers of Tin Pan Alley and Broadway used ballad to signify a slow, sentimental tune or love song, often written in a fairly standardized form ( see below ).

In the early 1920s, " apple " was used in reference to the many racing courses in and around New York City.

He became the most famous film star in the world before the end of World War I. Chaplin used mime, slapstick and other visual comedy routines, and continued well into the era of the talkies, though his films decreased in frequency from the end of the 1920s.

The Thomas-Fermi theory, developed in the 1920s, was used to estimate electronic energy levels by treating the local electron density as a variational parameter.

In the early 1920s the Yugoslav government of Serbian prime minister Nikola Pasic used police pressure over voters and ethnic minorities, confiscation of opposition pamphlets and other measures of election rigging to keep the opposition, and mainly the Croatian Peasant Party and its allies in minority in Yugoslav parliament.

The concept can be traced to at least the Dadaists of the 1920s, but was popularized in the late 1950s and early 1960s by writer William S. Burroughs, and has since been used in a wide variety of contexts.

When the Nazis came to power in 1933 they made the legend an integral part of their official history of the 1920s, portraying the Weimar Republic as the work of the " November criminals " who used the stab in the back to seize power while betraying the nation.

Because an unamplified upright bass is generally the quietest instrument in a jazz band, many players of the 1920s and 1930s used the slap style, slapping and pulling the strings so that they make a rhythmic " slap " sound against the fingerboard.

The early models were used commercially from the early 1920s, and adopted by military and government services of several countries — most notably by Nazi Germany before and during World War II .< ref >

Duddell didn't further develop his invention, but in 1902 Danish physicists Valdemar Poulsen and P. O. Pederson were able to increase the frequency produced into the radio range, inventing the Poulsen arc radio transmitter, the first continuous wave radio transmitter, which was used through the 1920s.

Hobbyists in the 1920s used carbon button microphones attached to the bridge, however these detected vibration from the bridge on top of the instrument, resulting in a weak signal.

A ketogenic diet ( high-fat, low-carbohydrate ) was first tested in the 1920s, but became less used with the advent of effective anticonvulsants.

It had a " golden age " in the United Kingdom in the early 1920s when crowds reached 50, 000 at some matches ; this was stopped on 5 December 1921 when England's Football Association voted to ban the game from grounds used by its member clubs.

A gauge railway, known as the Camber Railway, was built along the north side of Stanley Harbour in 1915-1916 and used until the 1920s.

Although many factors can be used to measure the success of the industry, the number of British films produced each year gives an overview of its development: the industry experienced a boom as it first developed in the 1910s ( see 1910s in film ), but during the 1920s ( see 1920s in film ) experienced a recession caused by US competition and commercial practices.

For example, boric acid was widely used as a food preservative from the 1870s to the 1920s, but was banned after World War I due to its toxicity, as demonstrated in animal and human studies.

In China, Mao Zedong in the 1920s used revolutionary slogans and paintings in public places to galvanise the country's communist revolution.

* Billingham ( in Stockton-on-Tees ) and Wilton ( in present day Redcar and Cleveland ): ICI used the site to manufacture fertilisers in the 1920s and went on to produce plastics at Billingham in 1934.

In Japan, the term rezubian, a Japanese pronunciation of " lesbian ", was used during the 1920s.

To the north, the foreshore used to be around Government Avenue in the 1920s but it shifted to a new road, King Faisal Road, in the early 1930s which became the coastal road.

The author used the title A Moveable Feast for his late-life memoirs of his early life as a struggling writer in Paris in the 1920s.

Many auto camps were used as havens and hide-outs for criminals of the 1920s ; Bonnie and Clyde had a shootout in the infamous Red Crown Tourist Court near Kansas City on July 20, 1933.