Many of you will already have enjoyed browsing the National Motor Museum, but there are plenty more gems hidden away - join Autocar as we go behind the scenes
While celebrating the past, the museum team is focused on securing the future by revealing more of the treasures in the Collections Centre.
With collections director Andrea Bishop leading the way, the first stop on my tour is the Objects Store. It’s home to at least 50,000 motoring items of every conceivable type, including road signs, travel trunks, scarves, 800 costumes , engines, pedal cars, petrol cans… Amazingly, in one corner and still in their original wooden crates are the tyres from Bluebird, which broke the land speed record in 1964.
Research and enquiries officer Patrick Collins has extracted some albums and images from the drawers and hanging files. One particularly splendid album is dedicated to the Automobile Club’s 1000-mile trial of 1900, the aim of which was to promote motoring to the public. The album itself has been expertly conserved and the photos inside are as fresh as the day they were taken.Collins is especially fond of the Goldie Gardner collection, which he shows me next.
“Everything is publicly available,” she explains. “We’re not a lending library, but everything can be viewed in the reading room.”vcm , All too soon, it’s time to leave – but not before I take a last glimpse of a complete BMC A-series engine from a
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