“Three lorries have collided on the M40 near Warwick causing lane closures and severe delays today (Tuesday, January 10).
The incident took place on the M40 Southbound after Junction 15 at the A46 Warwick By-Pass Warwick / Longbridge Island.”

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The purpose of this building is to allow the public to access all the cars in our joint collections for the first time. It gives visitors a ‘behind the scenes’ insight into how we store and preserve our vehicles and includes the chance to see restoration work underway in the workshop.
It was the ‘Workshop’ that we were visiting. I had been to the car display section of the Collections Centre several times before but I had never undertaken a guided tour of the Workshop. It proved to be a very interesting experience made even more so by the presence of some particularly rare cars. Steve Laing, Head of Collections and his knowledgeable team, introduced the cars to the quests pointing out their salient features.
Presented below, in alphabetical order, are photos of some of the cars that were in the Workshop at the time of our visit –
Alvis

1928 Alvis FWD I.5 Ltr. Supercharged raced at the 1928 Ards TT
Daimler

1950 Daimler DE36 5.5 Ltr, straight eight. DHC
Jaguar

Ian Appleyard’s Jaguar XK 120 in which he won several of Europe’s most prestigious rallies.
Lanchester

1904 Lanchester pre-production 20 HP
Leyland

1927 Leyland Straight Eight (7.3Ltr.) Tourer.
Swift

1931 Swift 10 HP Swallow Saloon

1931 Swift 10 HP Swallow Saloon. Club Badges. The significance of the Bean Car Club badge is that it acknowledges that in 1919, Hadley Bean (who made Bean Cars in Tipton) took a 50% holding in the Swift Motor Company. Swift had its antecedents in the Coventry Sewing Machine Company started by James Starley in 1859.
Vauxhall

1904 Vauxhall 6 HP

1970 Vauxhall SRV (Styling Research Vehicle) Concept Car shown at the 1970 British Motor Show.
That’s all folks!
I hope that you enjoyed sharing our visit to the British Motor Museum’s Collection Centre Workshop, with its wonderful contents, in January 2023.
If you want to do your own research on what cars are held at the British Motor Museum click HERE
Nick
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