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Brooklands Museum is a motoring and aviation museum occupying part of the former Brooklands Motor Course in Weybridge, Surrey, England.. Formally opened in 1991, the museum is operated by the independent Brooklands Museum Trust Ltd, a private limited company (No.02109945) and a registered UK charity (No.296661); its aim is to conserve, protect and interpret the heritage of the Brooklands site.
Brooklands was a 2.767-mile (4.453 km) motor racing circuit and aerodrome built near Weybridge in Surrey, England, United Kingdom.It opened in 1907 and was the world's first purpose-built 'banked' motor racing circuit [n 1] as well as one of Britain's first airfields, which also became Britain's largest aircraft manufacturing centre by 1918, producing military aircraft such as the Wellington ...
Art, local history, exhibits of science and nature London Bus Museum: Weybridge: Elmbridge: Transportation: Historic London buses and associated vehicles and memorabilia. Now situated in the grounds of Brooklands Museum so you get the Brooklands and the Bus museum for the one entry fee. Formerly the Cobham Bus Museum.
Following negotiations with the new landowners, Gallaghers, the museum was established on thirty acres surrounding the clubhouse including the Members banking and Test Hill. To raise funds and support for the museum two new groups were formed, principally the Friends of Brooklands Museum but also a more prestigious entity the Brooklands Club ...
The Clubhouse at Brooklands today belongs to the Brooklands Museum. Hugh Fortescue Locke King (7 October 1848 – 28 January 1926) [1] (sometimes incorrectly written as Locke-King [2]), was a British entrepreneur who founded and financed the creation of the Brooklands motor racing circuit.
The museum is operated by the London Bus Preservation Trust and exhibits around thirty-five examples (from its forty+ collection) of London buses, coaches and ancillary vehicles covering 100 years of development of the bus in London including Victorian-era horse-buses, 1920s open-top buses, streamlined 1930s designs and through World War II to ...
The adjacent Brooklands Museum has a large collection of early motorcars, motorbikes and aeroplanes associated with Brooklands, including a Concorde, as well as a cafe, a restaurant and a kids' area. Also adjacent is London Bus Museum which displays some 35 historic London buses dating back to the 1870s.
Alcock and Brown taking on mail Statue of Alcock and Brown at London Heathrow Airport (now located at Brooklands Museum). John Alcock and Arthur Brown were British aviators who, in 1919, made the first non-stop transatlantic flight. [1]