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Barber Motorsports Park is an 880 acres (360 ha) racing facility in Birmingham, Alabama.It was built by George W. Barber, and includes the 230,000-square-foot (21,000 m 2) Barber Vintage Motorsport Museum. [1]
The National Motorcycle Museum occupies an 8-acre (32,000 m2) site in Bickenhill, Solihull, England and holds the world's largest collection of British motorcycles. In addition to over 1,000 motorcycles, which cover a century of motorcycle manufacture, the museum developed award-winning conference facilities (The National Conference Centre) in 1985.
This list of museums in the West Midlands, England contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
National Motorcycle Museum (UK) National Tramway Museum; New Mill, Willesborough; Norfolk Tank Museum; S. ... Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum; Thursford Collection;
Norton met Charles Garrard, who worked for the French Clément engine company and in 1902 Norton made his first powered motorcycle called the "Energette" with a single-cylinder 143cc Clément engine made in Belgium. [where?] A fully restored example of the first Norton motorcycle is on display at the National Motorcycle Museum near Birmingham.
Hildebrand & Wolfmuller in Museum UMMC (Russia, Sverdlovsk region, Verkhnyaya Pyshma) 1894 Hildebrand and Wolfmüller motorcycle on display at the Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum, Birmingham, Alabama.
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Mist Green S7 showing shaft-driven rear wheel and balloon tyres captured on highway, central England in 2007 1924 Sunbeam Model 9 on display at the Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum, Birmingham, Alabama. The single-cylinder motorcycle had a displacement of 499cc, weighed 345 pounds, and had a top speed of 75 mph.