A visit to the Brooklands Museum pt2

The second post of images from a visit to the Brooklands Museum in a very drawn out series of three posts starting back in May last year...

Not much more to say more than was said in the first instalment other than props to the Brooklands Museum, it's a great day out and even better to visit on an event day.

'Nanette' - Built as a one off for driver Felix Scriven
Nanette was orignally fitted with a 2 litre 'Sage' engine
and in this form was known as 'Mother Goose' (as it was
stuffed with sage!).

Small side room packed with early cycles.

I loved the care taken with this tag on an 11-50 Brough.

And the full Brough Superior 11-50.

1926 works Norton combination 'LPD1' A very original
period record breaker, LPD1 took 14 Brooklands records
and in 1927 (as a solo) was the first motorcycle to maintain
100mph for an hour at Montlhery.

Lovely F W Evans club racing cycle. I'm a big fan
of pre-war Evans. They were beautifully built and
packed in numerous clever features. Very high quality
cycles built to last a lifetime and beyond.

Indian Powerplus 1917

Full view of the 1917 Indian. It's an unconventional
paint scheme for an Indian and I suspect non-original
but it looks great.

Railton Terraplane 1934. I covet this car!! The Railton
was made at Cobham near Brooklands by Reid Railton
(famous builder of several land speed record cars). The
Railton was essentially an American Hudson clothed in
a British body and with 113 bhp on tap it was one of the
fastest vehicles on the road. A 1935 road test clocked its
0-60 mph performance as 8.8 seconds. And the cherry on
top with this particular example is that the first owner was
a certain Eric Fernihough, motorcycle land speed record
racer. A lovely aside about this particular car is that it was
used during a 1934 250cc 500 mile and 12 hour motorcycle
record attempt as a pace car to light the way through the
hours of darkness and to scare off rabbits from the track.

Another view of the Railton.

1910 Kerry Abingdon 3.5hp.

Close up on the 680cc exhaust over inlet
motor of the Museum's spectacular 1920
Martinside-Newman.

The Club House building.

Replica 1909 Bleriot XI. The XI was
the first plane to fly across the English
channel.

1917 Clerget rotary engine in a Sopwith
Camel replica.

Full view of the Sopwith Camel replica.