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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.
An offshoot of the Brooklands Members has been Brooklands Members.tv (BM.tv) A small group who organise all the Members' live talks at the museum and also record videos of Brooklands life and events which are broadcast on their online channels on Vimeo and YouTube. They are principally produced by Mark Jarman, Tim Morris and Steve Clarke.
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 ...
Brooklands Museum, Weybridge, Surrey; ... Havelock Tourist & Event Center, Havelock [74] Hickory Aviation Museum, Hickory; James Rogers McConnell Air Museum, Carthage;
The front of Mercedes-Benz World. Mercedes-Benz World is a facility open to the public at the historic Brooklands motor racing circuit in Weybridge, Surrey, UK.It is owned and operated by the Mercedes-Benz Group [1] and opened in October 2006; 18 years ago ().
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 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.
In 2011, the museum moved to a newly constructed building on the Brooklands Museum site. [229] Around 30 buses dating from the 1820s to the 1970s are on public display at any one time, [230] around two thirds of which are owned by the London Bus Preservation Trust and the remainder by private individuals. Entry to the museum is via a combined ...