Quote - @ Antonia...   I know Dr. Who but I can not remeber the kid in the gas tank....  Steam engines!  I love them...   I had a mind to model one...  but I can not wrap my head around all the details it has..  I wish I could find detail skematic drawings along with photographs.. I give it a seriously thought..

The particular Doctor Who episodes are a two-parter from 2005, The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances. Picked up a Hugo Award. The gas mask in that isn't a close copy of any of the WW2 civilian masks, but there are plenty of pictures on the web. Technically, the only all-british satellite launch was by steam engine. Hydrogen peroxide decomposes to steam and oxygen.