Transport Museum Societies
in the United Kingdom.This listing has been compiled by Daniel McIntyre with reference to various internet sites, bus magazines, including ‘Buses’, (website at www.busesmag.com) which is published monthly and ‘Bus Fayre’, (website at www.autobus-review.co.uk) which is published bi-monthly, and various railway and model railway magazines, in order to show the variety of transport museum societies and organisations that currently exist in the United Kingdom.
Links to websites are shown in blue text in the listing below.
The Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Trust
The Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Trust has been developing The Transport Museum, at Wythall for over 25 years. The museum located in Chapel Lane, Wythall, accommodates one of the most significant collections of preserved buses in the country, as well as battery electric road vehicles. The emphasis is on Midlands buses, including the largest collection of Midland Red vehicles, many designed and built by the operator itself and now unique. The museum is a licenced bus operator and rides are an important part of event days. All facets of the museum are staffed by volunteers. Most people have a talent that the museum can use, such as maintaining buses, buildings and grounds, staffing buses, the cafeteria and shop, archive cataloguing; not to forget restoration - you don’t have to be an engineering genius although they are needed too! A bi-monthly newsletter keeps you up-to-date with the latest developments, and you can help with the progress of the museum by joining The Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Trust.
The Black Country Museum Transport Group (at the Black Country Living Museum, Dudley, West Midlands).
The Black Country Museum Transport Group has been in existance for almost 30 years. It was formed when the Wolverhampton Trolleybus Preservation Group moved, with its two trolleybuses, to the Museum, where it proceeded to erect almost one mile of ‘overhead’, thus becoming the world’s only double decker trolleybus service - a title it still holds today. Membership is open to everyone, family membership and life membership rates are also available. The Group meetings are held at the museum during the week for preservation work, and to operate the trolleybuses on Sundays and Bank Holidays. The Group also has a number of motor buses, most of which are in various stages of restoration.
Friends of Aston Manor Road Transport Museum (in Birmingham).
As a friend of the Museum, members have the chance to work on the vehicles, staff the Museum, maintain the building or to help with any other aspects of running the Museum. After paying the annual fee, you could join the Friends of the Museum, which entitles you to free entry to the museum, together with a quarterly newsletter keping you up to date with the goings on in the Museum and a chance to help as already mentioned, or just offer your financial support which is also much needed.
Lincolnshire Vintage Vehicle Society
Founded in 1959, housed at the Lincolnshire Road Transport Museum, in North Hykeham, Lincoln. Home to over 60 cars, commercial vehicles and buses - ranging from a 1927 Leyland Lion to 1980 Bristol VR.
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