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A Visit to Derby Industrial Museum at the Silk Mill 3
1. a) What can I do at the Midland Railway Study Centre?
b) Do you need to make an appointment?
2. What type of train does the train cab come from?
3. a) Where does the train start and what is its final destination?
b) Where does it stop on the way?
c) How long is the journey?
d) What is the maximum ‘mph’ (miles per hour) of the train?
4. Look for the cast iron milepost. How many miles does it show from St. Pancras
Station?
5. What was the millstone used for?
6. How many water-powered corn mills were there in England and Wales in AD 1066?
7. Go into the Power Gallery. When were the first windmills built in Britain?
8. Push the buttons to see the various model engines working.
9. Find the enormous Rolls-Royce jet engine. What is it called?
10. True or false – it was not used for passenger planes.
11. The power of the engine is equal to that produced by _______________ minis.
12. The engine was first manufactured in 19 _______________.
13. What colour are the wires on the outside of the engine?
14. Complete the names: Hon. C _______________ S _______________ Rolls and
Sir F _______________ H _______________ Royce.
15. When Rolls and Royce first met, who was older?
16. When, where and how did Rolls die?
17. How old was he when he died?
18. On what date was Derby Airport officially opened?
19. a) Name the sergeant pilot in the Battle of Britain display.
b) Which secondary school did he attend?
c) Who were the British fighting in the Battle of Britain?
d) When was this pilot killed?

20. Ask a member of the museum staff a question about any of the exhibits. Write down
the answer and their first name.

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City Quiz Series
A Visit to Derby Industrial Museum at the Silk Mill 3
Answers:
1. a) Learn about the history of the Midland Railway, b) Yes.
2. An InterCity 225.
3. a) Derby to York, b) Chesterfield, Sheffield, Wakefield Westgate and Leeds, c) 1½
hours, d) 150 mph.
4. 136½.
5. To grind corn.
6. 5,000.
7. During the 12th Century.
8. Practical activity.
9. It’s a Rolls-Royce RB 211 jet engine.
10. False. It was used for passenger planes by companies such as PAN AM, Qantas and
British Airways.
11. The power of the engine is equal to that produced by 1500 minis.
12. The engine was first produced in 1972.
13. Red, blue, yellow and white.
14. Hon. Charles Stewart Rolls and Sir Frederick Henry Royce.
15. Royce. He was born 14 year before Rolls.
16. He was killed attempting a spot landing in his Wright bi-plane at a flying meeting in
Bournemouth on 12th July 1910. He was the first British person to be killed in an

aircraft accident.
17. He was 32. He lived from 27 August 1877 to 12 July 1910.
18. Saturday 17th June 1939.
19. a) Alan Feary, b) Abbey Street Secondary School, c) the German Air Force, d) 7th
October 1940.
20. Answers will vary.

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