Transport

The Transport group was formed in 2017 and is aimed at anyone who has an interest in any form of transport, whether land, air or sea,

Our visits have included the Mid Hants Railway, HMS Belfast,  the De Haviland Aircraft Museum,  Brooklands Car Museum (including a guided tour of Concorde), Alton Bus Rally, the Thames barrier, the Morgan Car factory, and the  Battle of Britain museum near Hendon.

There is no limit to where we go.

Risk Assessments for this group are produced as appropriate to each outing/event
and are available on request from the group coordinator or Groups Support Officer

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Recent Activities


In June, we went to the British Motor Museum in Gaydon, travelling by mini bus, so no-one needed to drive.


We were made to feel welcome from the start, and our first tour leader had lots of stories to tell. He walked us around the main display collection, which showed cars from vintage to modern, concept cars and cars from films.



Did you know . . .
-     that the first car built in Britain was a Daimler?
-    Or that the term ‘dashboard’ originates from horse drawn carriages which had a board in front of the carriage to stop mud from being splashed ('dashed') into the vehicle by the horse's hoofs?

The next tour leader took us to a second, newer building, which houses the Jaguar collection and many other cars that previously there was no space to exhibit. The range of cars here was a real mix, many of them had been bequeathed to the museum and there were quite a few that caused the comment ‘I remember that one’.

We had some free time after the tours, but it was still not enough time to take in the many exhibits on show.


In April the Group visited the FAST (Farnborough Air Sciences Trust) museum and Farnborough centrifuge. The volunteers at both locations gave excellent presentations about the historic significance of the location in the development of military aviation. This started with Samuel Codey and the eventual formation of the RAF. The centrifuge (used to train pilots to work under significant g-forces), is an astonishing example of early 1950 engineering and we had a presentation and tour from people who used to operate the machine, when it was still in use.