New for 2018
The Luxury of Motoring
A stunning collection of 28 Lalique glass car mascots will be on show together for the first time as the glittering centrepiece of The Luxury of Motoring, a new display which opens early in 2018 at the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu.
This brand new gallery showcases a selection of the most luxurious cars ever built and tells the story of their design, the people who owned them and the chauffeurs who drove them.
Spanning the golden age of luxury motoring to today’s aspirational cars, perceptions of taste and class are themes that are explored through a range of fascinating objects, films and rarely seen images from the National Motor Museum Trust’s archives.
Events calendar
An exciting new event and extra feature are part of Beaulieu’s 2018 calendar line-up for motoring enthusiasts and fabulous family entertainment. Building on a record-breaking Simply season in 2017, brand new Simply Audi on April 29th will be added to the rallies where owners of popular marques gather in the grounds of the National Motor Museum. In the 70thanniversary year of the Land Rover in 2018, Beaulieu will also add the new feature of Simply Rummage to its popular Simply Land Rover on June 24th.
Award-winning International Autojumble on September 1st-2nd and Spring Autojumble on May 19th-20th offer thousands of stands selling classic and vintage spares, memorabilia and cars for sale. While Beaulieu Supercar Weekend on August 4th-5th is a high octane two-day showdown of some of the most impressive cars on the planet. For tickets and more information see www.beaulieu.co.uk/events or call 01590 612888.
Beaulieu Spring Lectures:
One of the country’s most knowledgeable aviation speakers, the former Chairman of Aston Martin and previously undiscovered recordings of long lost TV shows make a fascinating programme of spring lectures at the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu.
Starting the season on Saturday January 20th will be Controlling 9/11 with Phil Holt, who has over 40 years’ experience as an air traffic controller and was on duty on September 11th 2001 when the world changed forever with the attacks on New York and Washington. He will examine the most fraught four hours in the history of air traffic control as he tells the story with his unprecedented insight into the shocking events.
Then on Saturday February 24th buckle up for First Gear – The Car and TV before Jeremy for a celebration of some of the long-lost TV motoring shows of the past. Join motoring journalist Chris Goffey, who presented Top Gear for over ten years, as he unveils hidden gems from the National Motor Museum Trust’s collection. A painstaking five-year search by Film and Video Curator Sarah Wyatt and her team of volunteers found previously undiscovered recordings of shows including Drive In, Wheelbase, Motorfair, The Motor Show, Wheels and Wheeltracks.
On Saturday March 10th spend the evening with one of the motorsport industry’s most successful figures, as motoring historian Graham Robson Chats to David Richards CBE, the Chairman of Prodrive, Chairman elect of the Motor Sports Association and former Chairman of Aston Martin.
David will recall some of the highlights from his varied and exciting career, from his time as a rally co-driver – which culminated in victory in the 1981 World Rally Championship with legendary Finnish driver Ari Vatanen – to leading the consortium that purchased Aston Martin from Ford. The founder of world-leading motorsport and technology business Prodrive, David has been awarded a CBE for his services to motorsport and inducted into the Motor Sport Hall of Fame.
On Saturday April 28th Speed Queens will look at the remarkable all-female rally team who took part in the gruelling 1970 World Cup London to Mexico Rally in their Austin Maxi nicknamed Puff the Magic Wagon. Meet two of the original three Speed Queens and hear about their pioneering rally exploits, as they tackled some of the harshest rally routes on the planet.
Each of the evening sessions starts at 7.30pm in the Lecture Theatre of the National Motor Museum’s Collections Centre. The museum will be open from 6pm for a private viewing at no extra charge. A pay bar will be available in the Collections Centre.
Tickets at £10 (or £7.50 for Friends of the National Motor Museum Trust members) are available from Theresa Browning at the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu, SO42 7ZN. Email Theresa at friends@beaulieu.co.uk or call her on 01590 614792. Please provide an email address in any correspondence and if tickets are required by post, please provide a SAE. All profits help to support the National Motor Museum Trust.
For more information about membership of the Friends of the National Motor Museum Trust and for the latest lecture details see www.nationalmotormuseum.org.uk/the_friends.
