The Motor manufacturer which gave the car to the masses today unveiled one of the Dome's last secrets - the Journey Zone. With only the Body and Rest Zones still under wraps, Ford, sponsor of the Journey Zone, opened what will surely be one of the Dome's great success stories.

Journey is breathtaking, in its scale, ingenuity and content. Speaking at its launch Ian McAllister, chairman of Ford Motor Company, said the Zone :tells the entire story of mankind's ingenuity in developing practical ways of travelling freely around planet Earth"

But it is more than that. Visitors enter along gleaming stainless steel walkways, past glass cages of beautiful scale models, some working, of every conceivable method of transport - on land, on water, in the air and in space.

As you proceed you are bombarded with the sounds and images of transport, the story starting on foot and tracing all early developments in movement across land and water.

The sound and pictures increase, a cacophony that both celebrates transport achievements and reminds us of its consequences on the environment.

Dramatic sound effects make you want to dodge speeding cars, roaring trains and aircraft overhead.

And when you feel you can stand it no more you emerge into an empty space with an eerie pale light and messages such as "We are approaching crisis point", "We cannot go on like this" and "Let's look forward to a better future". The reminder of the journey through the zone provides glimpses of transport of the future, from motorised footwear to "greener" cars and even personal submarines.

Much of the Dome was unveiled to invited guests on Sunday but Ford waited until toady to launch Journey, on the second of the Dome's preview days. More than 10,000 people, mainly family and friends of those involved in designing and building the Dome, were there in Greenwich today. Following the launch of Journey the Millennium Show was being staged in full for the first time. This is the performance of dance and trapeze acts which will be staged daily in the central arena when the Dome opens to the public everyday next year from 1 January.