Lancashire
- The British Commercial Vehicles Museum
- King Street, Leyland, Preston, Lancashire, PR25 2LE
- Location: King Street, off Towngate in Leyland, junction 28 on M6
- WWW: www.commercialvehiclemuseum.co.uk
- Superb collection of trucks, fire engines, vans, buses and even a
"Popemobile" make this this the largest museum of its type in Europe.
Exhibits regularly changed and regular special displays.
- Bury Transport Museum
- Castlecroft Rd, off Bolton Street, Bury, Lancashire
- Tel: +44-161-764-7790
- Greater Manchester Fire Service Museum
- Maclure Road, Rochdale. OL11 1DN
- Ph: (44) 01706 901227
- WWW: www.manchesterfire.gov.uk
- By appointment only
- Museum of Transport
- Boyle Street, Cheetham, Greater Manchester M8 8UW
- Ph: (0161) 205 2122
- www.gmts.co.uk
- St Helens Transport Museum
- Old Bus Depot, 51 Hall Street, St Helens, Lancashire
- Currently undergoing renovation, to be opened in 2006
- Tameside Transport Collection
- 17 Windsor Rd, Denton, Manchester M34 2HA
Leicestershire
- Abbey Pumping Station Museum
- Corporation Road, Leicestershire LE4 5PX.
- Ph: (44) 0116 299 5111
- WWW: www.leicestermuseums.ac.uk/museums/aps.html
- Displaying Leicester's industrial, technological and scientific heritage
- Snibston Discovery Park
- Ashby Road, Coalville, Leicestershire, LE67 3LN
- WWW: www.leics.gov.uk/index/community/museums/snibston.htm
- Small collection of buses and tramways
- Stanford Hall Museum
- Lutterworth, Leicestershire LE17 6DH
- Tel: +44-1788-860250
- Location: on the B5414, exit 20 M1 motorway
- Open: Easter-Sept 14.30-18.00 Sat, Sun and Bank Holidays
- Primarily a motorcycle museum but including three cars, a 1921 'Garden',
1932 Morgan and 1958 Messerschmitt alongside a fine two-wheeled array
Lincolnshire
- Geeson Bros. Motor Cycle Museum&Workshop
- South Witham, Nr. Grantham, Lincolnshire NG33 5PH
- Tel: +44-1572-767-280
- Lincolnshire Road Transport Museum
- Whisby Road, North Hykeham, Lincoln, LN6 3QT.
London
- Design Museum
- Butlers Wharf, Shad Thames, London SE1 2YD
- Including a good automotive section; regular special exhibitions.
- London Transport Museum
- www.ltmuseum.co.uk
- The National Museum of Science and Industry
- Exhibtion Rd, South Kensington, London, SW7 2DD
- This world-famous technical museum includes a compact transport
collection, part of which is in store and part on display at the associated
museum at Wroughton. The 25 or so cars to be seen in London include 'JET 1',
the Rover Turbine and the 1922 Austin Seven prototype.
- http://www.nmsi.ac.uk
Luton
- Vauxhall Heritage Centre
- Griffin House, Osborne Road, Luton, LU1 3YT
- Factory collection which is open to the public once a year
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