The British Motor Industry Heritage Trust Archive is one of the most fascinating and certainly the most comprehensive archive of an industry which has played such a prominent role in the social and industrial history of the UK in the 20th Century.The motor vehicle has shaped our lives during the Century which has just ended and you will not find a more comprehensive record of Britain's contribution to this revolution anywhere in the world. | |||
Though the Museum Exhibition is the public face of the collections, behind the scenes lies a splendid Archive containing 15,000 cubic feet (and growing) of historic material. The range is wonderfully varied - business records, sales and technical material, magazines and books, production and engineering records, plus a large collection of film, video and negatives which provide a wonderful photographic record of the whole course of the British motor industry from the 1900s right up to the present day. The Companies we cover include Austin, Morris, MG, Standard, Triumph, Riley, Rover (including Land Rover),Vanden Plas and Wolseley. | |||
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also have four 'special' collections of material relating to the lives
of important figures in the British motor industry - Lord Austin (founder
of the Austin Motor Company), Lord Nuffield (founder of Morris Motors
Ltd), Sir Miles Thomas (chairman of Morris Motors Ltd) and Sir Alec
Issigonis (designer of the Morris Minor and the Mini).Our latest initiative
is to begin on a programme to digitise our 1 million photographic images,
many of which exist only in negative form and cannot therefore be directly
viewed by the public for reasons of conservation. We offer a range of
services, but the most important are:
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Reading
Room: Production
Record Certificate: Film
and Picture Library: Historic
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To find out more about these services please contact the following numbers - � Production Record Certificates -�������������������������(01926) 645076 � General and Technical Enquiries - �������������������(01926) 645085 � Photographic Enquiries - ���������������������������������(01926) 645073 - or send us an Email. We look forward to welcoming you to the resources of the British Motor Industry's most precious Archive. |
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