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[Richard]

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[DVee8]

Newburn hall motor museum Newcastle

 

http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g186394-d4747637-Reviews-Newburn_hall_motor_museum-Newcastle_upon_Tyne_Tyne_and_Wear_England.html

[dave21478]

Grampian transport museum - Alford, near Aberdeen.

http://www.gtm.org.uk/

IIRC they even have a wee circuit for time trials.

[Partridge]

What's the one with the SD1 estate? Can't remember the name and can't get a link up because I'm about to leave for work.

[dollywobbler]

Autoshite has already done the thread-winners that are Stondon and Atwell Wilson. They both contain some spectacular shite. Is Stondon still going though? Every Brightwells sale seems to contain ex-Stondon motors.

[Rocket88]

Stondon , if their website is anything to go by, seem to be still in full shite polishing operation.

[plasticvandan]

Trolley Bus museum is a good place to visit http://www.sandtoft.org.uk/

[dugong]

Llangollen Motor Museum is excellent and shite at the same time.

[cort16]

I was at Myreton Motor Museum a couple of years ago and they've got some right shite there. Stuff that's been donated and just left as it was at the point of donation. Well worth a visit.

[chaseracer]

The Cotswold Motor Museum in Bourton-on-the-Water seems to have gone a bit 'corporate' since it was bought by the CSMA, but it has a 1972 Mini Clubman and is the home of...

 

 

[dugong]

Wot, Rex Garrod lives there? WOW!

[NorfolkNWeigh]

What's the one with the SD1 estate? Can't remember the name and can't get a link up because I'm about to leave for work.

I think one is at Gaydon and the other at Haynes, both of which might take exceoption to 'Little' part of the title.

The car exhibit in The Science Museum in London is quite AS and of course it's free

When I was at primary school in Birmingham we seemed to have regular trips to the local Science Museum which must have been full of amazing relics from the birth of science,industry and transport- the highlight for me was the shabby A90 Atlantic with its 2 flying 'A's and centre light- Autoshite at 7 years old.

[Junkman]

What's the one with the SD1 estate? Can't remember the name and can't get a link up because I'm about to leave for work.

 

One of them is in the Haynes Museum in Yeovil.

[scruff]

The old exhibits from Brum museum are in storage but they have open days there every year.

[explosive-cabbage]

Crich Tram Museum in Derbyshire is good.

 

http://www.tramway.co.uk/

[Cavcraft]

Llangollen Motor Museum is excellent and shite at the same time.

Haha, was only thinking about that place the other day. Must have rolled up there half a dozen times or more over the years, yet never actually gone in.

 

I don't think anywhere would ever beat Mouldsworth though, still saddens me to think what they did to Jim.

[Bren]

What do they have on display at Llangollen? I have driven past it many times but never stopped.

[500tops]

Moretonhampstead Motor Museum is worth a gander:

http://moretonmotormuseum.co.uk/

[Micrashed]

Leyland:

http://www.britishcommercialvehiclemuseum.com/

 

And of course

http://www.lakelandmotormuseum.co.uk/

 

That seems to be pretty much it for Lancashire / North West  there are odd bits of tat scattered about at places like the Museum of Lancashire or the Ribble Steam Railway, but not enough to warrant a whole day out for shitters. 

I suppose we could always try asking Gabriel if we can pop round his barn of an evening and lap up some pre-war loveliness...

But its not a museum per-se.

[martc]

The whole of Goathland - randomly distributed rusty Ford Anglias.

[quicksilver]

The Oxford Bus Museum and the Morris Motors Museum on the same site. Lots of bus shite in various states and a collection of BL chod too, including half an Ital estate!

[brownnova]

What do they have on display at Llangollen? I have driven past it many times but never stopped.

A variety of motors, some shiter than others. Think they had an Alfa Montreal last time I was there...

 

My wife describes it as a shed with some cars in. Which sounds like a compliment to me!!!

[Cavcraft]

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A fellow Cestrian with 'Nova' in his username, clearly a winner in life.

[explosive-cabbage]

The Internal Museum of Fire in Aberystwyth was really quite good.

 

 

http://www.internalfire.com/

[trigger]

I'd love to go to Stondon again, i thoroughly enjoyed the last visit.

 

Caister Castle museum is worth a visit but I'm not sure it's worth a full day trip.

 

 

Both Haynes and the Lakeland museums are also good.

 

[barefoot]

Donington Park museum is horribly expensive.

Coventry Transport Museum is free.

[DSdriver]

Not a lot in Kentshire, a three wheeler (morgans etc) museum at Rolvenden and a "Transport Museum" at Dover. I have been to the former and it is suitably shite and shed like. I have not done the other one as Dover is usually a place you are trying to get out of.

 

I think that any museum worth it's salt must contain all of the following:

A Donald Campbell Bluebird

A Land Rover that Winston Churchill once drove

Lady Penelope's FAB Rolls Royce

and Princess Anne's Scimitar (if she's finished with it).

[anonymous user]

http://www.pembsmotormuseum.co.uk/exhibits.htm

 

This one is worth a quick visit if down that way. The one that used to be in Pembroke Dock when I was a child, (sadly it closed years ago) was a lot more random, the highlight for me being the Amphicar that the owner used to drive (sail?) back and forth from Pembroke Dock to Neyland because he didn't trust the Cleddau Bridge. (The bridge collapsed when they were first building it so I can see his point; although second time around it has stayed up)

[Sloth in a bowl]

A few of the places that have interesting motors when you may not expect it:

 

http://www.sandringhamestate.co.uk/ had a load of old tat that has been driven by royals and the stuff they had converted for carrying the shooting parties round the local estates.

 

 

http://www.shuttleworth.org/the-collection/ mainly old planes but with some fine pre-war motor vehicles as well

 

 

http://www.bclm.co.uk/ The Black Country museum doesn't really shout about its cars, but has a few pieces of select chod

 

not forgetting

 

http://pallotmuseum.co.uk/  the finest collection of random chod and engineering stuff in the channel islands.

[Dead_E23]

The Whitewebbs Museum of Transport is worth a visit if you happen to be nearby on a Tuesday, which is the only day it opens.    The museum is in Crews Hill, near J25 of the M25  (Enfield, A10 etc).  Due to the odd opening times I was nearby for over 15 years before I managed to visit.

 

There's a small but varied selection of exhibits, many of which I believe belong to members of the club that runs it.  It also features a bewildering exhibition of random tat, a derelict Landcrab outside and a permanent autojumble-style shop.  

 

If the volunteers manning the place like the cut of your jib they might allow you to you peer into the cavernous dripping well in the basement.  The place was originally built as a water pumping station to supply drinking water to London.  The well is truly enormous - 14 feet in diameter and 200 feet deep.  According to the museum website a couple of horizontal tunnels branch off from the bottom, one of which is 700 foot long.