With lockdown restrictions slowly easing it’s time to look forward to the rest of the summer and the events fortunate enough to go ahead. Tinkers Park Bus Rally and Model Railway Exhibition is set to take place on Sunday 8th August from 10am – 4.30pm. The event will feature a narrow gauge railway, traction engine trailer rides […]
Welcome to the UK’s newest visitor attraction: Great British Car Journey has opened its doors at a former wire works factory on the banks of the River Derwent in Ambergate, Derbyshire. The factory is full of marques and models of cars driven on UK roads for nearly 100 years. From the early 1922 Austin Seven […]
The First World War was directly responsible for the formation of Southdown Motor Services Ltd. As a result of fuel supplies being cut, staff being signed up for military service and their best vehicles being commandeered by the War Department, three competing companies based in Worthing and Brighton were forced, in 1915, to merge in […]
Britain’s great motor bike marques have included: HRD Vincent, Triumph, BSA and Norton, amongst the many manufactured in the UK over the years. In India, an enthusiasm for them has long lived on with the Royal Enfield name still familiar on bikes manufactured by the associated company that was originally set up on the subcontinent, […]
Morris Garages had opened in 1913 and was building cars at Cowley, near Oxford. A young Cecil Kimber joined the company as Sales Manager in 1921. He took over as General Manager in 1924 and later formed the famous MG Car Company. Here began an exciting new venture into designing and building sports cars. The […]
