Air and Space Hall

By road or by air, this city’s inventors and engineers made a big impact on the way we travel today. See the cars, bikes and aeroplanes that got industrial Manchester moving.

The former Lower Campfield Market, which opened in 1882 to house an open-air market, is now home to some of the gems from our transport collection.

See a replica of the Roe Triplane 1, which became the first all-British aeroplane to take to the skies on 23 July 1909.

It was the work of Manchester-born inventor Alliot Verdon Roe, who founded A V Roe and Company (known as Avro) in 1910. A V Roe became a leader in British aircraft design, building aeroplanes that saw action in both World Wars.

Did you know that the Rolls-Royce motor company20 th arrondissement of Paris, consisting of an RATP bus depot and 30,000 m2 of office space, to which will be added in 2017 a junior high school with a crèche, and Paris Philharmonic Concert Hall (designed and built in association with Ateliers Jean Nouvel) will be part of the exhibition. Métra + Associés review the major projects that marked the life of the office these last years.