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7 unusual facts about Weybridge


Car-Free Days

17 June 1997, Weybridge, the world's first national Car-Free Day inaugurated by the Environmental Transport Association in Britain.

Erratic ant

Donisthorpe records having found a particularly large colony in Weybridge on July 29, 1913 in which "the deälated females and workers in this nest being the largest I have ever seen".

Formica rufibarbis

In the 1927 edition of British Ants: their life histories and classification, Donisthorpe gives its distribution as being confined to Ripley, Chobham, Reigate and Weybridge.

Newsquest

Newsquest is based in Weybridge, Surrey and employs a total of more than 5,500 people across the UK.

Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

She was buried at the Chapelle royale de Dreux, the Royal basilica of the House of Orléans, in 1979, having been transferred from the Chapel of Saint Charles Borromeo in Weybridge.

Tupperware

Tupperware spread to Europe in 1960 when Mila Pond hosted a Tupperware party in Weybridge, England, and subsequently around the world.

Vickers Viking

The Type 54 Viking IV incorporated further refinements and had a wider cabin above a hull one foot wider, an example being G-EBBZ in which Ross Smith and J.M. Bennett (partners in the 1919 England to Australia flight) died on 13 April 1922 just outside the Brooklands racetrack near Weybridge in Surrey.


Alexander Perepilichny

He moved to the exclusive Saint George's Hill estate in Weybridge, where he lived in a £12,500-a-month luxury home.

Ernest Entwistle Cheesman

Ernest Entwistle Cheesman (21 September 1898 Wood Green - February 1983 Weybridge), was an English botanist noted for his work on the family Musaceae.

Hordern-Richmond

Hordern-Richmond merged with Lang Propellers of Weybridge, and a new factory was built at Haddenham, near Thame, Buckinghamshire.

Mercedes-Benz World

Mercedes-Benz World is a facility at the historic Brooklands motor racing circuit in Weybridge, Surrey, UK, owned and operated by the German car manufacturer Mercedes-Benz.

Reynold Higgins

Reynold Alleyne Higgins (born 26 November 1916 in Weybridge (Surrey); died 18 April 1993 in Dunsfold (Surrey) was a Classical Archaeologist and Keeper of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the British Museum.

Shepperton Ferry

The Shepperton to Weybridge Ferry, a pedestrian and cycle ferry across the River Thames between Shepperton and Weybridge

Stefan Dennis

The team – Stefan Dennis, David Brabham, Russ Malkin, Steve Malkin - set the record of 1664.7 km on a 1.3 km track at Brooklands, Weybridge, Surrey, UK on 24 and 25 February 1995.


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