Tag: Brooklands

After 95 years, the winning Delage duo meet again on the legendary banked track at Brooklands. Mike explains how motor vehicles of the years between the two World Wars can still stir the blood...

In the history of motoring there have been many mass-produced cars that have risen about the herd; iconic little vehicles (for most of them I have in mind were little) that exceeded designer’s expectations and soldiered on for decades. The Mini is acclaimed as the second most influential car of the 20th century, and it is stronger than ever in the third decade of the 21st century...

Dress-up events make things easy for the photographer: No need to ask permission, just shoot away. Here at the Brooklands Military Vehicles Day, everyone was happy to be photographed...

The Covid-induced closure of the Brooklands Museum left a hole in the lives of many frequent visitors. Now things are getting back to normal and Mike has been there to record some of the most recent weekend events...

A new ten-part series takes us behind the scenes at one of the world's most unusual transport museums, built on the site of Britain's first purpose-build road-racing circuit at Brooklands...

The locks are off and the prison door is slightly ajar. Time for a first trip in the Jaguar I-Page to two favourite locations and with a strange lens in the bag...

In the space of six weeks, our horizons have shrunk to what they were 200 years ago. We're in danger of becoming too parochial in these days of house arrest.

Fancy a four-seater monowheel car? If this one had taken off (in popularity, that is) we could all have been driving around on one wheel. Brooklands takes us back to the early 1930s and the wacky invention of Dr. J.A.Purves...

A regular haunt, a great source of pleasure and the possibility that I've paid my last visit for many months. Brooklands Museum: Still trying to keep going, but devoid of visitors. It can't last.

Last weekend I was fortunate to see the massive "Lost Bugatti" on display for a short time at Brooklands Museum alongside the equally impressive 24-litre Napier-Railton — a permanent exhibit at the famous race track and museum.

There's a club for everything. And the classic Hillman marque is kept alive by a group of enthusiasts who met last weekend at Brooklands Museum, near London

Monkey business: The Panasonic S1 and 24-105 f/4 in full auto: Lazy photographers of the world unite....