Bargain buy by Lakeland.
Bluebird K4 replica boat now on show.
One of the features of the Goodwood Festival of Speed this year were the three Rolls-Royce powered record breakers, the Schneider Trophy aeroplane, and the Bluebird car which finally took the record in 1935 were both genuine. The K4 Bluebird boat, (
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New Exhibition at Coventry
The Coventry Transport Museum has a reserve collection of vehicles that do not always get the chance of a place in the main exhibition area. M
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Cobra Day
Famous cars, famous people.
The Haynes international Motor Museum is to stage a Cobra Day on Wednesday 1st September. During the day there will be the chance to view famous racing Cobras, with demonstration runs on the Museum’s circuit.
In the evening there will be a reun
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Fire damaged museum to re-open
National Motorcycle Museum rebuilding on schedule.
After last years devastating fire we are pleased to report that rebuilding work on the hall, conference facilities and museum is on schedule. An opening date of December 1st has been announced. The Museum will re-open with some 650 ma
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Brooklands gains a pagoda
Daimler Chrysler donate land and building.
Petrol for cars racing at Brooklands was provided from permanent sites leased by Pratts, (later Esso) Shell and BP. Each had their own little buildings on the site with the p
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Director Of The National Quits.
Andy Lane resigns from Beaulieu.
Andy Lane Director of the National Motor Museum Trust at Beaulieu has resigned his post.
51 year old Andy Lane had returned to Beaulieu as the Director of the Motor Museum Trust on the retirement of Michael Ware in April 2001. He had formerly
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Motoring Memories Revived
The Motoring Memories motor museum that was open in Sidmouth in Devon during 1995,1996 and 1997 has now re-opened. This collection of mainly petroleum, garage and showroom memorabilia is now in a new building alongside the
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Brooklands Gets Its Bird
Concorde G-BBDG arrives (in pieces)
(Photographs by Brooklands Museum and Clive Friend)
Brooklands is the home of British motor sport and, we must not forget, aviation as well. BAC when based on the Brookla
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Transport Trust Annual Awards
Land Rover king gets “ Life Time Achievement” recognition.
John Horne with HRH Prince Michael of Kent and Denis Dunstone
The Transport Trust awards for 2004 were presented by H.R.H. Pr
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Big moves at Brooklands
Aircraft get an uplift and new parking slot.
Brooklands, the home of British motor sport and aviation is moving two of its largest exhibits to make way for the redevelopment by Daimler Chrysler of land adjacent to the Museum’s site.
Prominently displayed across the River Wey n
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“Titch” Allen to receive his OBE at Donington
Vintage Motor Cycle Club Founder to be honoured
The presentation of the Emblem of Officer of the Order of the British Empire to Charles Edmund “Titch” Allen BEM, will be made by Her Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Leicestershire, the Lady Gretton JP. Unusually the presentation will take p
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Rare Aylesbury built car offered to local Museum.
Buckinghamshire County Museum goes fund raising.
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On off, On Off, and Probably Off Again.
TT Museum crashes out!
Enthusiasts for the TT races on the Isle of Man were disappointed to hear that the troubled TT Museum is now likely to be finally shelved. 2007 is the centenary of these world famous motorcycle races and it was hoped that a new leisure development on the Summerla
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Motoring Picture Library web site launched.
National Motor Museum images available on line.
www.motoringpicturelibrary.com is the new website on which you will find just some of the thousands of photographic and other images held by the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu. The web
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Haynes adds “International" to its title.
Claims to be largest international motor museum in United Kingdom.
The Haynes Motor Museum, an independent charitable trust founded n
by John Haynes OBE, has been re-named The Haynes International
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Transport Trust Restoration Awards
Have you an unfinished project stuck for cash?
The annual awards for restoration work organised the Transport Trust have been announced for 2004. Any form of vintage transport may qualify for a cash prize. The main thing to bear in mind is that the project has to be of high quality a
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What Is In A Name?
Welcome to the Museum, Libraries and Archive Council
Re:source or Resource as the lazy ones addressed it is to go. Another silly name like Consignia bites the dust. John Mathews writing on “Art Professional” puts it much better than we could.
“…the news that Re:source was to change i
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Awards for Excellence
A public vote for the nation’s favourite museum – could it be a motor museum?
Awards for Excellence are now part of the annual Museums and Heritage Show (Earls Court 12th and 13th May) This year the public are being given the opportunity to vote for the nation’s favourite museum. Could
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Reprieve for Bentley
Motor Museum to open for 2004 season.
Following our earlier news items that the Motor Museum at Bentley, near Halland in East Sussex might close, we hear slightly better news. The East Sussex County Council
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Blue Bird Boozer
Where was this pub?
Don Sidebottom, owner of the Lakeland Motor Museum at Holker Hall in Cumbria has for many years puzzled over a pub sign. Its for the Blue Bird, a Whitbread pub and we suspect that it woul
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The Lakeland Motor Museum Invites You To A Historic Motoring Weekend.
Extended opening for the 2004 season.
So successful was the 25th Anniversary Rally at the Lakeland Motor Museum, Holker Hall, Cumbria in August 2003, they are planning to make it an annual event. Over the weekend of the 14th and 15th August the Museum will host a “Historic Motoring Wee
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Combe Martin Motorcycle Museum collection for sale
Thirty bikes and much garage memorabilia included.
The Combe Martin Motorcycle Museum in Cross St, Combe Martin, North Devon, closed two years ago, and now the remaining items from the collection are to be sold.
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Sir Len Southward Dies At 98
Possibly Southern Hemisphere’s greatest collector.
Sir Len Southward KB OBE (1906 –2004) started collecting cars in 1956 when he purchased a model T Ford for £40. Gradually his collection grew. In 1972 he formed a char
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Government Urged To Give Tax Breaks On Art Donations.
Why only art?
An article in the Museums Association Journal gives a very good account of the recently published Goodison Report. This is a Treasury sponsored report launched in January proposes that government give tax relief on cultural artefacts donated to Museums. According to the
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Fears That Motor Museum May be Closed
East Sussex County Council cannot afford deficit
Local papers in East Sussex are reporting that “the future of Halland’s Bentley Wildfowl and Motor Museum is in jeopardy due to mounting financial pressure…”
In a statement the Council stressed that “…no decision had yet been tak
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Llangollen Motor Museum shows new Standard
Rare Jubilee model goes on show
The go-ahead Llangollen Motor Museum has added a 1935 Standard 16 Jubilee model to its display. Only 500 of this model were produced and we are told that the Standard Owners
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Treasury U turn on Gift Aid
Some Road Transport Museums will loose considerable revenue.
The recent pre-Budget report included a series of measures to protect tax revenues from fraud, evasion and avoidance. Under the heading of Gift Aid Relief came the following bombshell for some Museums
“Improvements
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Standstill at the Glasgow Museum of Transport
Projected move delayed.
“Glasgow City Council has admitted that its plans for a flagship new Museum of Transport will be delayed for two years because of difficulties in securing HLF funding in time for the
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Legendary Motorcycle Loaned To National Motor Museum
Rare appearance of Lawrence of Arabia’s last Brough Superior
T.E. Lawrence, immortalised as Lawrence of Arabia, literally lived for this motorcycles, and loved the bikes of George Brough. Early in May 1935 L
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Trojan Museum Trust News
Cable cars and the clergy
The Trojan Museum Trust, which is dedicated to setting up a museum either on its own or in conjunction with others, has received some surprising publicity in the Church Times. The Trojan car was one of the very few motor vehicles to be advertised in the Church
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