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Description: | The collection includes artefacts relating to most forms of powered transport by road, rail, and air. Sea transport is described under the maritime collection heading.
The land transport collection comprises cars, lorries, coaches, buses and motorcycles which were once produced in Bristol. There is the world's first holiday caravan, the 'Wanderer', 1883; part of a 150-year-old railway coach; the Lord Mayor of Bristol's state coach; and a working Gauge 1 model railway. The Duke of Beaufort's Dormeuse chariot, 1827, although badly War-damaged, is still a very important horse-drawn vehicle and is one of only two of this type know to survive. There is also the Grenville steam carriage, c.1880, an early mechanically propelled private vehicle.
Bristol's aerospace industry is represented by a superb collection of aero engines developed and produced in Bristol by the Bristol Aeroplane Company and Rolls Royce, on loan from Rolls Royce (Bristol), and a helicopter. There are models of most of the famous aircraft made in Bristol including the Blenheim, Britannia and Brabazon. There is also the mockup of Concorde's cockpit used in the factory to design the flight control panel design.
There is a 1930s working steam railway on the dockside, the Bristol Harbour Railway. | Subjects: | Transport | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | Prince's Wharf
Prince Street
Bristol,
BS1 4RN | FAX: | 0117 929 7318 | Telephone: | 0117 925 1470 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:3767 | Go to resource |
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