A recent visit to Amberly Museum in West Sussex. For those not familiar Amberly Museum is a vast indoor / outdoor industrial heritage museum located at an old chalk mine. The exhibits are far and wide ranging, from a telecommunications hall to lead molding to woodland crafts and the majority in working condition and demonstrated. Amongst all of it are numerous transportation exhibits, a small selection of which below. A visit falls well within the cliché of being a great day out for all the family. Thoroughly recommended and if you can make it there on one of the special events days so much the better.
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| Side valve BSA Sloper in the pre-war workshop re-creation. |
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| And a Douglas combo in the same place. |
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| Very nice. An original BSA factory produced cutaway of a C12 engine. |
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| The plaque on the plinth of the cutaway Beesa motor. |
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| Outside view of the motor engineers shop. |
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| A Sussex bus station of old. |
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| The bicycle shop. |
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| A peek through the window of the cycle shop. |
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| 1933 600cc BSA Sloper Linesmans combination. A lovely period piece, the sidecar carries a three piece ladder underneath and a comprehensive tool kit on top. Part of the Post Office Engineering Department the combo would have been used for telelphone line installation duties. |
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| An Enfield 8000 electric car from 1976. Not successful in its time but undoubtedly pioneering the little Enfield was developed by Royal Enfield with funding from Greek millionaire Giannis Goulandris. This particular example was one of 66 that were owned by the Electricity Board for evaluation between 1974 and 1984. |
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