{"id":1282,"date":"2016-11-22T17:36:04","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T01:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agencyveneer.com\/WP\/?p=1282"},"modified":"2023-03-08T21:29:27","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T05:29:27","slug":"brooklands-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agencyveneer.com\/WP\/brooklands-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklands Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"Brooklands<\/a> is a British Motorsport & Aviation Museum.\n\nThanks to Graham Nice (incl. Lynn & Jennifer) for providing me accommodation in Prestwood, picking me up at Gatwick and touring me around. After fetching me from Gatwick airport we made a stop at the Brooklands Museum in Weybridge, Surrey.\n

Click here to meet the Nice family (missing Jonathan who was on British Army maneuvers in Europe) and our stop at Brooklands<\/a><\/p>\nBrooklands is now an multi-purpose museum but historically been:\n1) the world\u2019s first purpose-built motor racing circuit: 1907 \u2013 1914 . A small part of the original auto racing circuit banking is still visible.\n2) Aerodrome with aircraft hangars\n3) aviation design studio \u2014 developed aircraft used in WWI & WWII\n3) research lab (the 617 Squadron \u2018Dambusters\u2019 developed the bombs used to destroy the dams in the Ruhr Valledy in WWII)\n4) produced 18,600 new aircraft of nearly 260 types between 1908 and 1987\n5) Vickers purchased the site in 1946 for \u00a3330,000, which allowed them to produce 444 Vickers Viscount here and Bournemouth\n6) The Vickers Vanguard was test flown from Brooklands\n7) The first UK meeting between Great Britain and France to discuss Concorde took place here and more than 30% of every Concorde airframe, British and French, was manufactured here\n\nSections of the 1937 Campbell Circuit, the 1907 Finishing Straight and Banking still exist.\n\n\"BrooklandsBank\"<\/a>\nRacetrack Banking<\/b>\n\nNow her flying days are over, the Concorde G-BBDG is retired at Brooklands Museum. The first aircraft ever to carry 100 people at twice the speed of sound \u2013 1,350 mph \u2013 she arrived at Brooklands in 2004 and, after a two-year restoration, opened to the public in July, 2006. They have an interesting 35-minute Concorde \u2018flight\u2019 including the sound of the takeoff and reaching mach 1.\n\n\"BrooklandsConcordeMach1\"<\/a>\nAlmost Mach 1<\/b>\n\n\"BrooklandsConcorde\"<\/a>\nConcorde<\/b>\n\n\n\"BrooklandsConcorde1\"<\/a>\nConcorde Interior during the 35-minute Concorde \u2018flight\u2019<\/b>\n\n\n\"Concorde_Cockpit\"<\/a>\nConcorde Cockpit<\/b>\n\n\nThe museum has an interesting collection of motorbikes and cars\n\"Brooklands_Bikes\"<\/a>\nLegendary Motorbikes<\/b>

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