National Motor Museum Beaulieu Hampshire Vintage Picture Print 1975 CBOH#23

Description: National Motor Museum Beaulieu Hampshire 1975 Vintage Colour Print A colour print from a disbound book about Hampshire from 1975, with unrelated text on the reverse. Suitable for framing, the average page size is approx 7.5" x 8.25" or 19cm x 20.5cm, printed edge to edge with no border. This is a vintage print not a modern copy and can show signs of age or previous use commensurate with the age of the print. Please view the scans as they form part of the description. The date given of 1975 is the printing date, the actual date of creation can be earlier. All pictures will be sent bagged and in a board backed envelope for protection in transit. Please note: That while every care is taken to ensure my scans or photos accurately represent the item offered for sale, due to differences in monitors and internet pages my pictures may not be an exact match in brightness or contrast to the actual item. The text below is for information only and is from the opposite separate page it cannot be supplied with the print - All spelling subject to the OCR program used NATIONAL MOTOR MUSEUM, BEAULIEU Kipling's dictum, 'transportation is civilisation' could well be the philosophy of this stimulating exhibition. For the National Motor Museum is undoubtedly a shrine to one of the moving passions of the twentieth century, which may help to explain the remarkable speed with which its collections have grown. It was only 20 years after Lord Montagu founded the collection in the hall of his home, Palace House, that the present building was opened in 1972. Now it contains one of the most comprehensive assemblages of historic vehicles anywhere, with sections for veteran, vintage and post-vintage, record-breaking, racing and sports cars, commercial vehicles and motorcycles. There is also a comprehensive research library on the history of the motor industry. Behind the Ford GT 40 Mk 3 in the foreground enthusiasts may recognise a pretty 1912 Hispano-Suiza Alfonso XIII (named after a king of Spain who was given one for his birthday in 1909), and in the background the aerodynamic hull of Donald Campbell's ci million Bluebird. The cars in the collection date from 1895 onwards, telling within the lifespan of some visitors a story of astonishing technological progress. Despite its size and striking design the Museum and its facilities have been almost entirely concealed in the natural landscape, a creditable example of how these things can be done.

Price: 3.49 GBP

Location: Dereham

End Time: 2025-01-21T08:29:04.000Z

Shipping Cost: 23.66 GBP