Q.1264

Tony Benn, who passed away in March 2014, was a highly popular British Labour Party politician, who had also served as a cabinet minister holding portfolios of industry and technology.

In 2003, he was one of the invited guests to mark the final run of a project that he was closely associated with, since its inception in the mid-60s. This project, which made a big noise in the world of transportation, had shut down for being unprofitable. What?

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The Concorde, the supersonic passenger airline. More here on Benn's remarkable career.

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