Inside the British Motor Museum

The British Motor Museum holds an incredible collection of cars from the dawn of motoring to the new millennium, Austin to Vauxhall and common folk to royal rides under one roof! Here we take a walk around this amazing collection
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[@crashbox7130]

The original UK Ford factory was in Trafford Park, Manchester.

[@manofthehour6856]

AH! I remember other things have been on my intinerary when I have planned trips to the UK, but now, especially with what seems to be an increased interest in the motorcar, I must make the pilgrimage here! I was just reading how important the survival of ailing Jaguar Land Rover is for the UK car industry, with JLR being one of two (the other being Nissan in Sunderland) mass production manufacturers left in the country actually building their vehicles there. If its next incarnation is unsuccessful, that could lead to the domino effect that befell the Australian Car Industry as Toyota, Ford, and GM Holden all stopped producing vehicles there within a very short time of each other. The importance of this museum conveys the magnificence of British cars of the past, and should provide inspiration to the country that "we did it for over a hundred years, and we will continue marching onwards. Thanks as always, Matt!

[@thedeadstig123]

Royal Mail did use 50 reliant supervans on a trial when the Morris minor van was going to go out of production The British motor museum decided on a replica after nearly all museums have yet another trotter replica...which I think I agree with it's way over done now

[@andrewwillis1712]

Spent many a happy hour at that place. Collections centre is something special.

[@matthawkins6875]

The MG EX-E had a 6r4 engine. Would have been quite something with turbos.

[@TheChill001]

I think that was the coolest about Queen Elizabeth II, she was an absolute petrolhead

[@Parknest]

Matt, the first Ford factory in the UK was set up in Trafford Park, Manchester in 1911. You have mispronounced the late great Giovanni Michelotti's name. It is pronounced "mick-elotti". Don't worry, I did the same for a lot of years myself. I visited Gaydon in 2011 for the 30th anniversay of the Triumph Acclaim. They even brought out the last Acclaim (and last Triumph car) that come off the production line which was in CD trim and had the Triomatic transmssion which was basically the Hondamatic by another name. I still have the photos I took. Maybe I should make a video of them. The interior on that silver Metro looks more like teracotta than orange. A shame there's no MK2 Cavalier in the Vauxhall section. It was the prime example of GM's J-car platform. I've had 5 MK2 Cavs during the 1990s and they're now pretty much all but gone.

[@phil7301]

Metro 6R4 ! Vauxhall lotus Carlton ! Astra mk 1 GTE,, in white ! You needed to put an 18 certificate on this video Matt 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@alastairwilson457]

Great video Matt. I was a volunteer there for a few years and totally loved doing a vehicle survey before the new collection centre was built. Always loved the smell of the place too...oil 😍

[@Pmjs]

Really enjoyed this wee walk around the museum. Looking forward to part 2.

[@davidhall7744]

Absolutely love this museum Matt, not only for the cars but also the architecture - it looks like a spaceship as you approach it up the long drive. I have family in Coventry and have visited it about half a dozen times or so 🇬🇧

[@maxidyne]

Such an interesting car history! And such a shame it's almost gone. Always loved English cars and their inventions/innovations in the automotive industry. Thanks for the walk around Matt.

[@fhwolthuis]

Very nice video! I have been to this museum around 2012 so nice to see an update 😀👍🏻

[@verved1]

I work in Aston Martin next door and pass the Museum on my way in to and out of work. Think I need to pay a visit.

[@rhspek]

Looking forward to Part II. I hope to be able to visit this museum again some time this summer.

[@allanmollison6971]

Thanks for posting Matt, really appreciate it 😊👍

[@jaspal666]

Loved this. One of my 3D Design projects in college was a Space Taxi and used the Blade Runner machine as influence. In the early 90’s I could only find one grainy GIF! Good enough!!

[@BETFRED1981]

Steering wheel controls are very common for not working on the 75s.

[@jeremyfine1464]

The Austin A40 Farina was already being churned out as a hatchback before the Mini 9X concept

[@RichieRouge206]

Great video Matt! I enjoyed going there myself a few years back. The museum is fab but the building next door with the Jags, prototypes and BL stuff was the cherry on top!

[@furiousdriving]

and thats coming soon...

[@jlr1569]

@matt Was excited to see the Jaguar Xj13. BTW not a straight six but the Jaguar XJ13 = 5.0 L 500 hp DOHC V12 + 5-spd ZF manual. The body designed by Malcolm Sayer who also did BOTH the C and D type Jags! Its a one-of-one car that was wreaked in testing and later rebuilt.

[@CortinasAndClassics]

Wow matt. There is so much there that I missed when I visited 2 years ago. Fantastic collection.

[@davidminns9799]

Loved the cars that didn't happen section 👍 great content Matt

[@69Phuket]

Nice walk around...Never been here so very much appreciated.

[@RoverThreeandaHalfLitre]

Excellent and very well presented video of somewhere I really should visit one day. I have got the road review of the prototype P6BS and another that was about the "Wild Rovers". Fascinating stuff when first published and still so.

[@johneisen6341]

Great video Matt 👍 lots to see

[@grahamforbes3243]

Model T Fords were built at Trafford Park, Manchester from 1911 until 1927, not Liverpool.

[@shannonireland9057]

Wow what a great museum.Thanks for sharing the experience with us.

[@brianiswrong]

The triumph mayflower is gorgeous

[@jkk244]

Great tour! The Vauxhall Ampera was a rebadged Chevy Volt, not Chevy Cruze.

[@icascone]

Thanks for doing this, especially for those of us that live overseas! :)

[@jmtubbs1639]

Ford were at Trafford Park, Manchester, then Essex.

[@richardhowlett9424]

I really have to get back there , it must be the best part of 20 years !

[@stevew579]

Hi matt great video keep meaning to go to Gaydon but never get there only live 40 miles away, going to go now after seeing this video

[@scottishcarenthusiastsandtrain]

Great little walkaround of the museum Matt, one day I will make it, perhaps maybe have to pop in when I am down for the Practical Classics show. I admit I went to a Skoda meet back in 2009 at Gaydon but never actually went in the museum or perhaps I was not allowed by the wife!

[@AdventuresinaMorris]

Thank you for giving the pre-war cars the attention they deserve!

[@michaelarcher6278]

Went there on the way home from November's Classic car show at the NEC. Bought stuff off you and Mr Hubnut. I thought it was a very good museum, rivals Haynes in Somerset .

[@TNPTVconnect]

Great video!

[@JohnHonda101]

Quite enjoyable this was.

[@pauljeffries]

Been there a few times, I only live half an hour away from there, there's a classic mini event there every year.

[@admiralalcatraz6080]

Been to the museum today and loved it. I am a huge fan of the P6, though I really wish it had come with the turbine concepts front end.

[@milksheihk]

I swear in the classifieds of Practical Classics I'd seen for sale several examples of a Wolseley badged vehicle very similar to that road rover, two wheel drive only I believe.

[@idatipping2428]

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻thank you, awesome

[@brucemay5409]

Great tour of Gaydon Matt.Better than looking at that beetle you have! Haha

[@OldCarsNewVan]

Very interesting video👍 I own that Silk Cut Jaguar Le Mans racer......... in Scalextric 😂 - but still.

[@Elvis35-77]

My idea of Heaven! Great walk around buddy. Glasgow Riverside Museum has most of the cars up on high plinths which means you can't see inside them now 😭T'was far better years ago when it was at the Kelvin Hall! TCB, Marty D😁

[@pickering746]

Been to a few Volvo meets there over the years. Great to see the SD1 estate is still there, iirc it was used by a managing director

[@allanriches9381]

The MGSA is so beautiful

[@SimpsonsClassics]

Love this place! Great video! I wish they made that rover estate right at the beginning also! So cool!

[@furiousdriving]

It's a great day out, wish it was closer to me. And imagine how good an SD1 wagon would have been, a real W123 beater

[@marklittler784]

It certainly does look brilliant.

[@RobertSmith-di5ll]

Wonderful

[@964tractorboy]

A great video. You've almost shamed me into making the trip there despite not being the biggest domestic car fan. Good job.

[@retrocar7761]

Went there a few years ago, amazing place, got my picture next to the Le Mans winning Jaguar XJR9.

[@alexander1485]

The XJ13 had a V12... not a straight/inline 6

[@JohnHonda101]

I fitted quite a few gas conversions to Princesses back in the 1980's.

[@nealterry5]

I'm hoping they restore the Rover P8 prototype. I remember seeing it in 1989 sitting unloved in one of the courtyards at Studley Castle.

[@marklittler784]

Those Hillman Imps had a 50/50 braking force front and back with that rear engine unlike most modern cars 80% front 20% rear.

[@marklittler784]

Amazing there are cars that never went into production, remember the MGC it took the Downton conversion success to persuade them to build a 3litre

[@neilcobbe3632]

That Triumph TR7 Coupé looks stunning.

[@alastairwilson457]

I think that was the Lynx prototype

[@jr-hr2mw]

Would love to see you add an F to the fleet, I'm going to have a last look at my TF 160 on Thursday, all being well I'll be buying it. Keep up the excellent content Matt!

[@glennmichael1214]

Austin 12/6 Harley, really needs some puppets of the Ant Hill mob placed inside of it......

[@profrumpo]

Terrific tour many thanks indeed. Fascinating and rather depressing at the same time seeing how we have largely thrown our once great motor industry away.

[@stevie007]

As always👌

[@andytalbot6719]

I got a BP badge for requesting the cast on BP in 1980.

[@frankpowell1778]

There are trees planted for the Healey family on site

[@marklittler784]

I think the late 50s Vauxhall Cresta saloon with all that crome was quite possibly the best looking car ever going

[@stephenholland5930]

I enjoy all of your videos, Matt, but would it be possible to reduce the lens distortion you get with your GoPro?

[@marklittler784]

Yeah Rover P4 P5 P6 were all pretty ground breaking cars when you think about it, I drove a 620 diesel turbo a short while roof was low but it didn't half move.

[@ianmax69]

The 9X was canned by George Turnbull as it had a totally new untested engine which was designed to be completely compact and management had already had their fingers burned tooling up whole new factories for the Stag V8 and Maxi E series and the coffers where dry for another... Instead they turned what little funds they had left to the Marina..to get some profit brought in

[@mikestorey6242]

Hi mate just wondering if you know the full length size of the fuel tank straps on your freelander . Thanks again. Mike

[@marklittler784]

A bit deceiving the MGB rubber bumper was heavier and higher yet the chrome bumper makes you think it heavier.

[@teamJJontour]

Good Evening Matt, greeting from Hamburg

[@furiousdriving]

Good evening!

[@CaseyJonesNumber1]

The Austin Seven was built under licence by BMW, but Nissan virtually copied it - without licence!

[@markc1921]

Michael Edwardes SD1 estate?

[@tonys1636]

Sort of lost interest once you got into the 60's and beyond stuff as grew up with that era, the concept and prototypes were brilliant and a shame they never got to production. Dad owned 50's into 70's (BMC and Triumph mostly). Cut my mechanic's teeth on them, my fingers went where his wouldn't fit. Well remember his 1938 Ruby when aged about 2/3 in early 50's and digging out shrapnel from various places after the house was bombed in 41, luckily the garage survived just. Two other homes also got bombed (one a V2 which took almost the whole Street, ground shock) but the Austin survived them all. He told me it only covered less than 100 mile during the duration of the war (3 home leaves in the whole war). Would have been an MOT failure (big time) if still around when they came in. Traded for a 49 MM in 53 (first of 6). The 30's post vintage is the period that I have the most fondness for (Riley) and the late 20's. Great cars to drive as one is connected to them which doesn't happen with modern cars.

[@lesklower7281]

Thanks for a detailed walk around of the British Motor Museum all the makes if cars by the way there were some of these card in Australia but many we did and there many cars that were built in the UK that aren't in this museum but still a maverlouse colection and one of the ugliest cars ever made the Nash Metropolitan but park it next to a Nissan Juke it would look pretty good

[@jasoncornell1579]

Did u use the tea shelf?

[@furiousdriving]

They wouldnt let me...

[@marklittler784]

Sports cars tending to not be as wide or higher as other vehicles and obviously more aerodynamic should be very economical especially with a diesel turbo engine

[@nicklaing656]

If I had won the lottery,that would be my garage (euro lotto obvs)!

[@Mirage8v]

Lovely vid! And it's not 'one of the coolest cars of the nineties' The Calibra is THE coolast car of the nineties ;)

[@mikeymike3240]

12:35 pity the paint didn’t match, the front is lighter than the rear, but it’s stunning and I wouldn’t turn my nose up at it, yummy wee car.😮 Eddie Irvine , he could always talk waaaay better than he could drive, he has skills but doesn’t have the 1% that the greats have.

[@jameswalker7874]

We're planning to go soon. What lens would you recommend for photos please? Wide angle or 24-70?

[@furiousdriving]

A 24-70 would be great for wide and detail pics, if you have a good wine angle Id take that in the bag as well

[@jameswalker7874]

@@furiousdriving Perfect thanks :D

[@lukemallory7832]

Straight 6?! In an XJ13?! Good Lord, sir! Re-dub that immediately and wash your mouth out! And run quickly to the video of Alain de Cadenet driving the XJ13 replica! This instance!

[@sinistercharger]

Is this Gaydon.? Princess Anne was the famous Scimitar owner

[@furiousdriving]

It is, and she was

[@O1Richard]

Pity they didn't look after the Rover P8, another missed opportunity, could have been a 4 litre V8 super saloon, pity it was too much of a rival internally to Jaguar.

[@emmajacobs5575]

Have you seen ‘Intergalactic Binman’s video, Rover: A Prodigy Squandered? It’s an excellent look at the period around the P8 development

[@O1Richard]

@@emmajacobs5575 yes that’s what refreshed my memory of this long lost car, also a great P7 skid test at Mira, real shame the P8 didn’t get produced.

[@emmajacobs5575]

@@O1Richard hopefully the P8 prototype will be looked after a bit better than it has been up to now

[@harleyrobertson6746]

Ever notice how the British were 10years behind the Americans in style back in the 60s and early 70s

[@jindrichstuchlik9167]

Where is the Cortina Mk1,Mk2,Mk3 ?

[@stephenholland5930]

Yep, only counted 4 Fords in the museum.

[@terence2678]

Such a shame we lost all that British Innovation. Some of those prototypes could easily have made it into production.

[@robertsedgwick1629]

the range stormer begat the sport

[@johnc9228]

Suprised there no cavaliers there unless in a different section

[@emmajacobs5575]

I think Gaydon now has a lot of the Vauxhall heritage stuff, so there might be one or two tucked away - there’s an awful lot that they just don’t have space to display. Edit: there was a Mk1 one upstairs in the mezzanine bit.

[@stephenholland5930]

Not many Fords either.

[@billgriffiths1685]

Yipee I'm 197th

[@SimonWebbRCandModellingChannel]

The information boards should be moved out of the way of the exhibits.....it spoils it for me.

[@marklittler784]

Yeah 73 oil crisis was certainly a turning point for big engine car demand, funny petrol and diesel stable but not household gas and electric the mind boggles.

[@glennmichael1214]

Why oh why didn't some of those prototypes see daylight, crying shame.

[@lloyd.8272]

I hate car museums, all I hear is crying and begging from the cars to be released from that eternal prison.

[@settertwo]

The Coventry Museum take their vehicles out and drive them around the town....just how it should be !

[@asa1973100]

Hope you went over to the other side and filmed all the cars not on show in the main Museum