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Description: | The Designated collection related to motoring in Great Britain from 1895 to present and includes 274 vehicles and motorcycles, 21,000 objects, and Europe's largest specialist motoring reference library with 5,000 bound volumes of periodicals, 20,000 unbound, 12,000 books, 50,000 sale catalogues, 16,000 instruction and workshop manuals for commercial vehivles and motorcycles; the photographic library has 630,000 black and white images, 80,000 colour transparencies, 220 photograph albums, 110,000 unprinted negatives; and the film library has 4,550 historic films, 3,600 duplicate copies and 1,800 videos in all formats. In total there are 500,000 items of archives, 150 costume, 2,000 decorative arts, 30 fine art, 65 personalia including several world land speed record breakers, 1 million photographs including Brunel, Lesley G hoose, Charles Dunn, Maxwell Boyd and Daimler and Lanchester.
- | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | John Montagu Building
Beaulieu
Brockenhurst Hampshire United Kingdom,
SO42 7ZN | FAX: | 01590 612655 | Telephone: | 01590 612345 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:4494 | Go to resource |
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