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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 ...
In 1972, the LBPG acquired a former World War II aircraft factory, now demolished, near Cobham, Surrey, where the private Cobham Bus Museum was established, taking its name from the location. Although the museum had in the interim become a Registered Charity and a Registered Museum, by the early 2000s its future was uncertain as the building ...
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. Loseley Park: Compton: Guildford: Historic house: 16th century manor house Mercedes-Benz World: Weybridge: Elmbridge: Automotive: Exhibits of cars, facility at the Brooklands motor racing circuit ...
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.
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 ...
In the centre of Brooklands in September 2012, Brooklands Museum installed the 40% scale model of the iconic Concorde airliner previously displayed near the entrance to London Heathrow Airport's Central Terminal Tunnel. Repainted in authentic 1970s airline colours, the model now sits proudly beside the junction of Wellington Way and Sopwith ...
On display at Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Chantilly, Virginia US 206 G-BOAA [e] 5 November 1975 12 August 2000 22768 On display at National Museum of Flight, East Lothian, Scotland, UK 207 F-BVFB [f] 6 March 1976 24 June 2003 14771 On display at Sinsheim Auto & Technik Museum, Germany 208 G-BOAB [g]