Classic car museum guide : motor cars, motorcycles and machinery

A new, comprehensive guide to motoring and transport museums offering a fresh conversation on their role and the portrayal of our motoring history. Written by a long-established motoring writer with wide experience of driving and the fettling of old cars all over the world. This new motor museum companion includes: British motoring and transport museums guide via descriptions and photographs. 90 British museums described. Comprehensive world motor museum listing: over 350 global museums cited. Out-takes from visits to selected overseas museums. Provides a glossary of old-car/motorcycle terms and types to assist the museum visitor and old car enthusiast. Discusses the museum culture and its new age. Visits to many museums by the author were self-funded: he paid his own way. Cover Book Title Copyright Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Motoring Museum Essentials 2 The Art of the Visit 3 The Museums Aerospace Bristol Amberley Museum & Heritage Centre Anglesey Transport Museum Anson Engine Museum Aston Martin Heritage Trust Atwell-Wilson Motor Museum Battlesbridge Motorcycle Museum Beamish Museum Bentley (W.O.) Memorial Foundation Betws-Y-Coed Motor Museum Bexhill Museum Bicester Heritage / Bicester Motion Biggar Albion Foundation/Museum Birmingham Science Museum ‘Thinktank’ Bo’ness Motor Museum British Commercial Vehicle Museum British Motor Museum Brooklands Museum Bubble Car Museum Bugatti Trust (The) Caister Castle Museum Canvey Island Transport Museum (Castle Point) Jim Clark Museum Cloverlands Model Car Museum Craven Motorcycle Museum Crich Tramway Museum Cotswold Motoring Museum and Toy Collection Coventry Transport Museum David Brown Tractor Museum David Coulthard Museum David Silver Honda Collection Design Museum London Dover Transport Museum Dundee Transport Museum Ferguson Family Museum Filching Manor Motor Museum (Foulkes Halbard Collection) Ford Heritage Centre Glenluce Motor Museum Gloucester Museum & Archives/Gloucester heritage Grampian Transport Museum Haynes International Motor Museum History on Wheels Museum Ipswich Transport Museum Isle of Man Motor Museum (Cunningham Collection) Jurby Transport Museum Lakeland Motor Museum Llangollen Motor Museum Lanchester Museum, Library & Archive Lincolnshire Road Transport Museum London Bus Preservation Trust (Museum) Maldon Museum of Power Manx Transport Heritage Motor Museum Milestones Museum Moray Motor Museum Murrays Motorcycle Museum Museum of Lincoln Life Museum of Liverpool (Transport) Museum of Transport Manchester (GMTS) Myreton Motor Museum National Motor Museum Beaulieu (The) National Motorcycle Museum National Museum Cardiff National Trust Carriage Museum (The) Northwest Museum of Road Transport North Yorkshire Motor Museum (Matthewsons) Oakham Treasures Tractor & Farm Museum (Bristol) On Your Marques Oxford Bus Museum and Morris Motors Museum Pallot Steam, Motor & General Museum (The) Patrick Collection (The) Riverside Museum of Transport (Glasgow) Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME) Museum Sammy Miller Museum Scaleby Hill Vintage Motorcycle Museum/Mike Barry Museum Science Museum (The) Science Museum Wroughton Scottish Vintage Bus Museum (The) Shuttleworth Collection (The) South Yorkshire Transport Museum Stanford Hall (Motorcycle) Museum Streetlife Museum of Transport Stonehurst Farm Motor Museum Studio434 Swansea Bus Museum Ulster Transport Museum Whitewebbs Museum of Transport Williams F1 Museum/Conference Centre Wirral Transport Museum & Heritage Tramway Wythall Transport Museum 4 Beyond Britain Bibliography Back Cover An enthusiast's guide to motoring and transport museums in Britain and beyond.Written by experienced automotive expert Lance Cole, this companion guide for car and motorcycle enthusiast covers ninety British motoring and transport museums in depth and over 350 museums worldwide. Included are:Descriptions and photographsA comprehensive global museum listingOuttakes on visits to selected overseas museumsA glossary of old car and motorcycle terms and typesA discussion of motoring museum culture and the history these museums portray