Being in the USA, Brooklands must remain on my lottery list for now. But what a legendary place. I’ve read about it for years, pored over photos, watched videos of the Napier-Railton and other legends in action, and mourned its passing as a motor racing venue… although its subsequent aviation history is equally impressive. I’m so glad you gents got to go, and thank you so much for the tour! By the way, thanks for showing the M Type Midgets. I own one of their descendants. ;-)
I visited Brooklands ages ago, its good to see its being actively developed and not decaying as many of the historic sites of the British motor industry are. I must try and get back there again some day! As an aside, Mini Hubnut has hair a 70's rock god would be proud of! Great to see the two of you having some quality time with some old cars!
Brooklands museum has been the best automotive / aeronautical museum I've visited. Gotta love the volunteers, amazing old gentlemen who are enthusiastic about the planes and cars. I loved the old geezer showing us the Vickers Viscount and muttering about Mercedes taking over the premises with their off road training centre. "Don't mention the war they say...."
Really really good...probably exceptional. Brooklands is great. No wonder Mini Hubnut was tired...however he will remember that trip for the rest of his life. Thank you for great content 👍
Lots of history there. My wife’s great grand farthers were at brooklands in the early years. One was Ernst Eldridge who at one time had the land speed record there and the other was A.V. Roe of Avro aircraft fame who had a shed there and was one of the early British aviators
Lucky wife to have such illustrious ancestry. A V Roe is a forgotten hero of British engineering. He also bought Saunders boat yard on the Isle of Wight to form Saunders Roe. They built the first hovercrafts, giving them the model code SRN 1 to 6.
I was slightly disappointed by the lack of typewriters, but having read the comments, it seems there's some present somewhere, so that's good to know! Excellent museum, if it had steam trains too, I'd have all my transportational interests covered in one place! Great video Mr HubNut👍
If you live in the UK, take a minute and appreciate the awesome museums you have over there. Marvelous! If i ever go to the UK, definitely a Museum tour is on the agenda.
The Concorde brings back memories from my trip to Sinsheim Museum, near Stuttgart in Germany. They're absolutely tiny inside. Thanks for the nice tour around Brooklands, Ian and Mini HubNut!👍
Thank you@Hubnut for an enjoyable video, with your little helper! We had a superb time here a few years ago, loved the cars and planes, especially Concorde. It is surprisingly small inside, still an amazing piece of engineering.
Great video Ian very educational, lots of things about Brooklands I think a lot of people would not know about 😂💯 and it was great to meet you at the hubnut social, 👍💯💯
You make such quality videos Mr Seabrook. Thoroughly interesting entertaining and filled with detail, keeping anoraks like me riveted. Thanks for sharing 👍
Wow, having flash backs to my youth and Scaletrix set. That started of with some of those Tinnie Tiny racing cars. And like you said 'Started small then got Bigger and back too small again..!' What would all those Cars be worth..! Millions for sure. Great tour, thanx for your efforts..! Cheers All. 😎
Wonderful place only the British can put together that well. Lovely video! I absolutely loved the tour, the exhibits and Concorde... You 2 are beautiful
Lovely video. The Brits. do these sort of things better than anyone I think. Preserving heritage. So many volunteers make it possible. My Uncle went on a return journey to New York on Concorde in the day. What amazing machines.
Great informative Video Mr Hubnut and Mini Hubnut, really enjoyed the cars and the planes, reminds me when I visited Concorde at our local air museum in Scotland.
Been up there twice this summer with my seven year old son. We both loved it. I think it's one of the best museums I've been too and the staff are so friendly and helpful. Great place.
Aeroplanes on a HubNut video! That was a great video and a great tour. I like cars, planes, ships and trains so it was a great mix. The reactions of Minni Hubnut has convinced me that my grandkids may enjoy a visit. I could see that you were a little out of your comfort zone with the aircraft side although Concorde obviously was enjoyable. It didn't get a chance because the Americans got their knickers in a twist about supersonic travel over their country. Protests and Politics. By the way, that 'Harrier' you saw in the Belmont Hanger was actually a very historic P1127 XP984 Kestrel. It was the predecessor of the Harrier and first flew in 1964 with the swept 'Kestrel' wing. I watched the development of the P1127 with great interest when I was at school in the '60s.
Thank you for this video Mr H. I have lived about 5 miles from Brooklands for the last 36 years and often parked in the Tesco car park by part of the remaining banking but never visited the museum. I feel I now must.
Looks like a two day visit required for brook lands little hub nut did well though I think he needs a hair cut The bus museum sounds very interesting 👍👍
Flew supersonic on Concorde in 1992 - promo flight from Middle East to London. Very small inside but the acceleration on takeoff was incredible. Very smooth in flight. Still one of the best experiences in my life.
I think the "very old" motorcycle is an ABC - Sopwith, a creation of Granville Bradshaw notable (and notorious) engine designer. They were built in the early post ww1 period by the Sopwith aircraft comapny before it's collapse and resurrection as Hawker. They're one of the earliest British flat twins.
Grew up visiting this place practically every other weekend. I’d certainly blame me, five years old, balanced on my grandma’s lap in the passenger seat of a red MGB convertible hooning test hill definitely contributed to my love of cars 😄
Absolutley brilliant place. I really regret not being able to get there while I was still in the UK. Seeing mini HubNut having such a good time remeinded me of a vist I took the the Science Museum with my great uncle when I was about Mini's age.The interactive stuff was something I shall rmember for the rest of my life and had a huge impact on my life. I've been fascinated by engineering and science ever since. The guys that drove those cars around the banking must have had private parts that had to carried around in wheelbarrows! Holy gonads Batman! ! !
Brooklands was local as I grew up, we had a 'secret' way in, before all this restoration and development obv, (early 70's) and used to cycle around, up and down the banked curves, avoiding the wrecks of 'planes in various states of being scrapped. A few years later I went to Brooklands tech, on day release from school, and got some useful qualifications. Its part of my history - and at night I could hear so many types of planes landing and taking off as I went to sleep. Happy memories :-)
Ian, been admiring your content from the very beginning and this is an absolute gem. The Mini Master Hubnut is very fortunate to have your influence. Simply sterling work Sir. My very best wishes to all of you
Ah! Concord. Remember seeing them zipping to and from the UK from New York,all the Big Shots and Movers-N-Shakers zipping here and there,TRUELY a great time in Aviation history. I have a few AMC Concordes myself.Lol.
Brilliant, went there back in the 90's, looks like there's a lot more exibits now, it's good that many of the vehicles are kept in running condition too.
Grew up eight road miles away in East Molesey, my grandfather Reginald J Ashfield was Sopwith's first draughtsman in 1912 then ran the drawing office so his name is on the Pup and Camel drawings among many others before leaving in 1917, my mother worked at Vickers in the offices during the Second World War, cycling the seven miles there and back on a sit up and beg bike every day, and I donated my grandfather's Sopwith notebooks to the museum. I now live 12 road miles away in Guildford but to my shame I've only visited the museum once, some 30 years ago.
Never been to brooklands,visited Beaulieu Motor Museum a few years ago with my wife ,enjoyed that thoroughly,weather was great too,all in all a great day was had..
@@HubNut it does,plus I'm surprised at that because they day I was there I took plenty of photos and the odd short video here and there,maybe they've changed their policy...
Shedgoals indeed, well Brooklands is now on my schedule for next year. Ian I think you've done a brilliant job of boosting their visitor numbers in the future 😁
We managed to visit a couple of years ago (pre-covid!). I was very pleased to look around the VC10 - a remarkable jet airliner which was the last airliner to be build solely in the UK, but was, unfortunately, totally shafted by the air industry and politics. Thank you for the tour :-)
When you see something in a museum that is a piece, you know you are getting old! I quickly spotted their blue RSW MKII that is still there from when I was there a few years ago. I have one exactly the same, which has been in the family 47 years this year. Needs a light restore though.
I always used to love taking the train to Waterloo from Portsmouth Harbour as the railway line goes right past Brooklands and afforded a wonderful view of that amazing banking... Something else that's well worth doing while at Brooklands is keeping your eyes open for the many weird, wonderful and downright strange National Rescue Group recovery vehicles that there are around the site, as National Rescue were based there for many, many years, and not on some tropical island somewhere...
The UK truly have some remarkable motor museums - Oh, how I wish to visit them all! Also, as I lived for some time in Sitges Spain, I used to visit the Terramar racetrack located there, built by king Alfonso in 1922 to show off how cool the Hispano-Suisa cars were - the banks of that track is at such steep gradient, it is impossible to climb them. Those were indedd crazy times in racing history.
Thanks for this nice tour of Brooklands! I recall reading Innes Ireland's Formula I reports in Road & Track magazine, back in the late-1970s-early-80s, and recall when Ayrton Senna was still racing (wish I'd kept those old magazines; good automotive journalism, that was). I've seen videos of that Napier-Railton running up the hill there; that aircraft W-12 has a brutal sound, yet 4-cylinder harmonic to it. Amazing stuff! Good job on the aviation tour as well; the Concorde looks about as small in interior width as a Canadair Regional Jet (4 seats wide; maybe 5'10" headroom). When I worked at The Boeing Company, they had just recently set up an older 747-100 fuselage to be continually cycled thru pressurization/depressurization cycles (this was in 1988, when the issue of aging/high-cycle aircraft was brought to light by the Aloha Airlines 737 which peeled open in flight that year; it had about 90,000 cycles on it). Again, thanks for the tour; looked as if you two had a good time (looked like Young Mr. HubNut was taking a liking to the aircraft...Uh, oh...)!
I remember watching a Robbie Coltrane series (late 90s / early 2000s) in which the Brooklands circuit was featured. He was talking about the "Blower" Bentley and its rival, the supercharged Mercedes that were doing battle around the circuit back in the day. He drove one of the Bentleys around the circuit (as it was at the time) at around 30mph and he thought it was terrifying due to the condition of the track and hoped that one day Brooklands would be recognised for the historical icon that it was and be restored. Cost, I believe was the limiting factor (as it so often is) but in my opinion, the track does indeed have a historical importance - both from a motor racing perspective as well as the aviation and war effort aspects - so I am very pleased to see something in place to hopefully achieve that that wasn't around when he Mr Coltrane filmed there. Many thanks for the tour around, Ian. I will be putting this on my "must do" list for when we visit the UK......if that is ever possible again.
Best get the little man some wellys for surely in the next year he will be tripping over his hair. if he tucks his locks into the top of them it will stop him from tripping up. lol
Only just watching this now Ian. The M-Type Midget was the sports version of the 1928-1934 Morris Minor. The OHC engined Minor had the same engine as the M.G. I have the SV engine in my 1932 Minor, but it lost less than 1bhp from its redesign of the earlier engine. The Wolseley Hornet you mention, with its straight six engine, was pretty much a LWB Minor chassis (to accommodate two extra cylinders) and the engine was pretty much the same as the OHC Minor/Midget engine with two more cylinders. The straight six was also used in the early-1930s Magna and Magnette M.G.s, with one displacing 1071cc and the other 1271cc. The four cylinder cars were 847cc as standard, but there were some Midgets with 747cc engines that were also supercharged.
The propeller demonstration was of a constant speed prop designed to demonstrate how you can vary how much thrust is produced rather than the direction of thrust, without changing RPM much the way a gear box does.
I bet if you owned that 'Bellman Camo Shed' you would Fill it with 'Strange and unusual Cars' in about 6 months. Well maybe 12 months..!? Oh the Joy..!! 😎
While you're there, pop into Mercedes World next door. They have (or did have) quite a few vintage and veteran Mercs. It was free when I did it a few years ago.
Ian and his nod to a certain Stephen King novel. :) Love museums such as these. And that banking at the end reminds me so much of the 1966 movie Grand Prix. If you ever get the chance to watch , I highly recommend it.
The valves for the hydraulics that raised and lowered the nose of Concorde were manufactured by Premier Precision in Bracknell. The avionics were manufactured by Sperry Gyroscope,also based in Bracknell. Neither company exists now. The engines that powered Concorde were originally used in the TSR2, the avionics of which were also manufactured at Sperry as were parts of the ground mapping radar designed to enable the plane to fly at much 1 at ground level (much like the US strike fighterA1=11Aardvark. I have seen the second prototype of Concorde which was based at Filton and have been alongside the runway at Heathrow when Concorde took off.
In '75 when Concorde was doing its proving flights out of Heathrow I had a summer work experience job at Fieldtech repairing avionic kit. It was just outside the perimeter fence with a clear line of sight to the end of 28L as it then was. We always had a VHF radio on test tuned to ground control so if the callsign "Alpha Charlie" was heard it was stop all work and move to the windows.
Being in the USA, Brooklands must remain on my lottery list for now. But what a legendary place. I’ve read about it for years, pored over photos, watched videos of the Napier-Railton and other legends in action, and mourned its passing as a motor racing venue… although its subsequent aviation history is equally impressive. I’m so glad you gents got to go, and thank you so much for the tour! By the way, thanks for showing the M Type Midgets. I own one of their descendants. ;-)
I live a few miles away - it's a lovely place!
I visited Brooklands ages ago, its good to see its being actively developed and not decaying as many of the historic sites of the British motor industry are. I must try and get back there again some day!
As an aside, Mini Hubnut has hair a 70's rock god would be proud of! Great to see the two of you having some quality time with some old cars!
Brooklands museum has been the best automotive / aeronautical museum I've visited. Gotta love the volunteers, amazing old gentlemen who are enthusiastic about the planes and cars. I loved the old geezer showing us the Vickers Viscount and muttering about Mercedes taking over the premises with their off road training centre. "Don't mention the war they say...."
Really really good...probably exceptional. Brooklands is great. No wonder Mini Hubnut was tired...however he will remember that trip for the rest of his life. Thank you for great content 👍
Lots of history there. My wife’s great grand farthers were at brooklands in the early years. One was Ernst Eldridge who at one time had the land speed record there and the other was A.V. Roe of Avro aircraft fame who had a shed there and was one of the early British aviators
Lucky wife to have such illustrious ancestry. A V Roe is a forgotten hero of British engineering. He also bought Saunders boat yard on the Isle of Wight to form Saunders Roe. They built the first hovercrafts, giving them the model code SRN 1 to 6.
@@Bicyclehub Not really forgotten, the Lncaster and Vulcan will live long in many peoples' memories.
Thanks for sharing your special day with your subscribers Mr HubNut, a very interesting place to visit, and very lucky they survived the pandemic.
Lovely video, how nice to see the bomber found in Loch Ness and Little HubNut making his own aluminium airplane model. Fantastic to see all this.
Brilliant video Ian 👍 nice to see concord and the track as well
I was slightly disappointed by the lack of typewriters, but having read the comments, it seems there's some present somewhere, so that's good to know! Excellent museum, if it had steam trains too, I'd have all my transportational interests covered in one place! Great video Mr HubNut👍
If you live in the UK, take a minute and appreciate the awesome museums you have over there. Marvelous! If i ever go to the UK, definitely a Museum tour is on the agenda.
That was amazing, never knew there was so much there, definitely on my list of places to visit. Thanks Ian.
What a fascinating place with so many awesome cars. Thanks for showing us around.
The Concorde brings back memories from my trip to Sinsheim Museum, near Stuttgart in Germany. They're absolutely tiny inside. Thanks for the nice tour around Brooklands, Ian and Mini HubNut!👍
Thank you@Hubnut for an enjoyable video, with your little helper! We had a superb time here a few years ago, loved the cars and planes, especially Concorde. It is surprisingly small inside, still an amazing piece of engineering.
Thank you Ian & Master Hubnut for providing us with a tour of Brooklands Museum + Concorde.
Just to note, the Saab that makes aircraft still exists--the Saab Automobile that went bust in 2012 was spun off as a separate company in 1989.
Great video Ian very educational, lots of things about Brooklands I think a lot of people would not know about 😂💯 and it was great to meet you at the hubnut social, 👍💯💯
Thank you for sharing a wonderful day out. I will certainly visit Brooklands now.
You make such quality videos Mr Seabrook. Thoroughly interesting entertaining and filled with detail, keeping anoraks like me riveted. Thanks for sharing 👍
Great synopsis of a remarkable museum by remarkable volunteers 👍😊
Wow, having flash backs to my youth and Scaletrix set.
That started of with some of those Tinnie Tiny racing cars.
And like you said 'Started small then got Bigger and back too small again..!'
What would all those Cars be worth..! Millions for sure.
Great tour, thanx for your efforts..!
Cheers All. 😎
I have visited Brooklands many times and it is an excellent museum. Well worth the visit, especially on activity days such as the retro day etc......
Wonderful place only the British can put together that well. Lovely video! I absolutely loved the tour, the exhibits and Concorde...
You 2 are beautiful
Excellent. Mini Hubnut will have learnt many amazing things.
I have some old Brooklands Gazettes from my grandpa's interest in all things motor racing. Scary stuff.
15:19 "Get that bus out, Butler!" I could just imagine Reg Varney's ghost behind the wheel of that bus!
Ah, but they didn't have Routemasters at their depot, they had much older Bristol Ks...
@@CaseyJonesNumber1 You can't expect Reg Varney's *ghost* to learn to drive a newer model of bus, now, could you? LOL
Absolutely brilliant thank you very much, may have to give it a visit
Lovely video. The Brits. do these sort of things better than anyone I think. Preserving heritage. So many volunteers make it possible. My Uncle went on a return journey to New York on Concorde in the day. What amazing machines.
Great informative Video Mr Hubnut and Mini Hubnut, really enjoyed the cars and the planes, reminds me when I visited Concorde at our local air museum in Scotland.
Been up there twice this summer with my seven year old son. We both loved it. I think it's one of the best museums I've been too and the staff are so friendly and helpful. Great place.
Aeroplanes on a HubNut video! That was a great video and a great tour. I like cars, planes, ships and trains so it was a great mix. The reactions of Minni Hubnut has convinced me that my grandkids may enjoy a visit. I could see that you were a little out of your comfort zone with the aircraft side although Concorde obviously was enjoyable. It didn't get a chance because the Americans got their knickers in a twist about supersonic travel over their country. Protests and Politics. By the way, that 'Harrier' you saw in the Belmont Hanger was actually a very historic P1127 XP984 Kestrel. It was the predecessor of the Harrier and first flew in 1964 with the swept 'Kestrel' wing. I watched the development of the P1127 with great interest when I was at school in the '60s.
Thank you for this video Mr H. I have lived about 5 miles from Brooklands for the last 36 years and often parked in the Tesco car park by part of the remaining banking but never visited the museum. I feel I now must.
Looks like a two day visit required for brook lands little hub nut did well though I think he needs a hair cut
The bus museum sounds very interesting 👍👍
loved the 'hell no' from mini hubnut. did make me chuckle!
I live reasonably locally so Ive got to go now! Thankyou Mr HubNut
Brilliant video and very interesting thank you Ian and mini HubNut.
Brooklands is now on must do list for when I can one day return to Britain.
I remembered having hair like Mini-HubNut...long time ago now
And the sound of that MG👌
Great vid Mr nut I liked the concorde bit!
I have been on concorde too
(the one at Duxford, a prototype,)
can never afford the time off work to take a trip to visit brooklands so thank you for a brilliant tour.
It's on my bucket list. Thanks Ian. 🙂👍
Flew supersonic on Concorde in 1992 - promo flight from Middle East to London. Very small inside but the acceleration on takeoff was incredible. Very smooth in flight. Still one of the best experiences in my life.
I think the "very old" motorcycle is an ABC - Sopwith, a creation of Granville Bradshaw notable (and notorious) engine designer. They were built in the early post ww1 period by the Sopwith aircraft comapny before it's collapse and resurrection as Hawker. They're one of the earliest British flat twins.
Spot on Stewart it is.
Grew up visiting this place practically every other weekend. I’d certainly blame me, five years old, balanced on my grandma’s lap in the passenger seat of a red MGB convertible hooning test hill definitely contributed to my love of cars 😄
Absolutley brilliant place. I really regret not being able to get there while I was still in the UK. Seeing mini HubNut having such a good time remeinded me of a vist I took the the Science Museum with my great uncle when I was about Mini's age.The interactive stuff was something I shall rmember for the rest of my life and had a huge impact on my life. I've been fascinated by engineering and science ever since.
The guys that drove those cars around the banking must have had private parts that had to carried around in wheelbarrows! Holy gonads Batman! ! !
Brooklands was local as I grew up, we had a 'secret' way in, before all this restoration and development obv, (early 70's) and used to cycle around, up and down the banked curves, avoiding the wrecks of 'planes in various states of being scrapped. A few years later I went to Brooklands tech, on day release from school, and got some useful qualifications. Its part of my history - and at night I could hear so many types of planes landing and taking off as I went to sleep. Happy memories :-)
Ian, been admiring your content from the very beginning and this is an absolute gem. The Mini Master Hubnut is very fortunate to have your influence. Simply sterling work Sir. My very best wishes to all of you
A fascinating insight and look at the venue. Was a pleasure to watch, Thanks Ian!
One of my favorite places in the UK. Hard to do justice in one day.
Voice-over joke caught me off guard, I laughed out loud, thanks mate.
Ah! Concord. Remember seeing them zipping to and from the UK from New York,all the Big Shots and Movers-N-Shakers zipping here and there,TRUELY a great time in Aviation history. I have a few AMC Concordes myself.Lol.
Brilliant. Must visit!
headlight wiper moment, pantograph wiper moment and a knees alert. The big 3
Such jelly... If travel ever happens again, that's on my to-do.
15:37 They actually had a large number of orders from several airlines but they were cancelled due to the fuel crisis and sonic boom issues.
Brilliant, went there back in the 90's, looks like there's a lot more exibits now, it's good that many of the vehicles are kept in running condition too.
I didn't realise how much they have there. Im definitely visiting soon. Great video Hubnut family!.
Great vid, really need to visit at some point. The Daughter seemed to enjoy it and got engaged 👍👍
Love the combination of aircraft and cars 👌
Grew up eight road miles away in East Molesey, my grandfather Reginald J Ashfield was Sopwith's first draughtsman in 1912 then ran the drawing office so his name is on the Pup and Camel drawings among many others before leaving in 1917, my mother worked at Vickers in the offices during the Second World War, cycling the seven miles there and back on a sit up and beg bike every day, and I donated my grandfather's Sopwith notebooks to the museum. I now live 12 road miles away in Guildford but to my shame I've only visited the museum once, some 30 years ago.
Never been to brooklands,visited Beaulieu Motor Museum a few years ago with my wife ,enjoyed that thoroughly,weather was great too,all in all a great day was had..
Sadly, they won't let me film at Beaulieu. Seems a little short-sighted.
@@HubNut it does,plus I'm surprised at that because they day I was there I took plenty of photos and the odd short video here and there,maybe they've changed their policy...
@@HubNut That would explain why I can't remember seeing anything about the inside of the place.
very interesting - thank you for the wonderful tour
Such a fantastic place, so much to see there. Went for a ride on one of the classic busses while we were there too.
My Dad first drove a car (well, a van in fact) on Brooklands racetrack, while working for Vickers during WWII.
I enjoyed that. Ian makes a good guide.
So refreshing to see and free reviews.
I meant add free
Nice 👍 great video love your knowledge and enthusiasm … my favourite museum
Very interesting Ian. It's on my list of places to go.
Shedgoals indeed, well Brooklands is now on my schedule for next year. Ian I think you've done a brilliant job of boosting their visitor numbers in the future 😁
Great day out for the wean and good time to bond with his step-dad. Lucky lad.
What a marvellous place. Plus excellent The Shining based mask action. ✅
What a brilliant tour. Excellent. Brooklands has always been on my list, now it's moved up a few spaces.
I've been on the Concorde prototype at Yeovilton.
We managed to visit a couple of years ago (pre-covid!). I was very pleased to look around the VC10 - a remarkable jet airliner which was the last airliner to be build solely in the UK, but was, unfortunately, totally shafted by the air industry and politics.
Thank you for the tour :-)
Brooklands is most definitely on my bucket list if I ever get back to Old Blighty!
When you see something in a museum that is a piece, you know you are getting old!
I quickly spotted their blue RSW MKII that is still there from when I was there a few years ago.
I have one exactly the same, which has been in the family 47 years this year.
Needs a light restore though.
That is one pilgrimage I am hoping to make one day, and frankly even more so for the aviation heritage part..
Very very interesting thanks Hub Nut not living in the UK anymore would be on my list if I ever go back
Excellent Museum. Went there myself a few years ago. Needs more than a day to do it properly.
Another great video has always Ian and miss hubnut and hublets and dogs
I always used to love taking the train to Waterloo from Portsmouth Harbour as the railway line goes right past Brooklands and afforded a wonderful view of that amazing banking...
Something else that's well worth doing while at Brooklands is keeping your eyes open for the many weird, wonderful and downright strange National Rescue Group recovery vehicles that there are around the site, as National Rescue were based there for many, many years, and not on some tropical island somewhere...
The UK truly have some remarkable motor museums - Oh, how I wish to visit them all! Also, as I lived for some time in Sitges Spain, I used to visit the Terramar racetrack located there, built by king Alfonso in 1922 to show off how cool the Hispano-Suisa cars were - the banks of that track is at such steep gradient, it is impossible to climb them. Those were indedd crazy times in racing history.
The last time I visited Brooklands was many many years ago. Must revisit at some point.
Mini hub nut approves, good day out for all family.
Thanks for this nice tour of Brooklands! I recall reading Innes Ireland's Formula I reports in Road & Track magazine, back in the late-1970s-early-80s, and recall when Ayrton Senna was still racing (wish I'd kept those old magazines; good automotive journalism, that was). I've seen videos of that Napier-Railton running up the hill there; that aircraft W-12 has a brutal sound, yet 4-cylinder harmonic to it. Amazing stuff!
Good job on the aviation tour as well; the Concorde looks about as small in interior width as a Canadair Regional Jet (4 seats wide; maybe 5'10" headroom). When I worked at The Boeing Company, they had just recently set up an older 747-100 fuselage to be continually cycled thru pressurization/depressurization cycles (this was in 1988, when the issue of aging/high-cycle aircraft was brought to light by the Aloha Airlines 737 which peeled open in flight that year; it had about 90,000 cycles on it). Again, thanks for the tour; looked as if you two had a good time (looked like Young Mr. HubNut was taking a liking to the aircraft...Uh, oh...)!
I remember watching a Robbie Coltrane series (late 90s / early 2000s) in which the Brooklands circuit was featured. He was talking about the "Blower" Bentley and its rival, the supercharged Mercedes that were doing battle around the circuit back in the day. He drove one of the Bentleys around the circuit (as it was at the time) at around 30mph and he thought it was terrifying due to the condition of the track and hoped that one day Brooklands would be recognised for the historical icon that it was and be restored. Cost, I believe was the limiting factor (as it so often is) but in my opinion, the track does indeed have a historical importance - both from a motor racing perspective as well as the aviation and war effort aspects - so I am very pleased to see something in place to hopefully achieve that that wasn't around when he Mr Coltrane filmed there. Many thanks for the tour around, Ian. I will be putting this on my "must do" list for when we visit the UK......if that is ever possible again.
Great video Ian. Nice to see what is on offer at Brooklands.
I've been on the Prototype Concorde's at Duxford and Yeovil which are worth a Visit.
Best get the little man some wellys for surely in the next year he will be tripping over his hair. if he tucks his locks into the top of them it will stop him from tripping up. lol
Sweet memories of my visit in 2013, they were preparing the Napier-Railton for Festival of Speed a week later which I also visited.
Thanks for this nice tour !
Concorde 👍. But also many other amazing machines.
Very Nice our of the facility.
Only just watching this now Ian. The M-Type Midget was the sports version of the 1928-1934 Morris Minor. The OHC engined Minor had the same engine as the M.G. I have the SV engine in my 1932 Minor, but it lost less than 1bhp from its redesign of the earlier engine. The Wolseley Hornet you mention, with its straight six engine, was pretty much a LWB Minor chassis (to accommodate two extra cylinders) and the engine was pretty much the same as the OHC Minor/Midget engine with two more cylinders. The straight six was also used in the early-1930s Magna and Magnette M.G.s, with one displacing 1071cc and the other 1271cc. The four cylinder cars were 847cc as standard, but there were some Midgets with 747cc engines that were also supercharged.
A most enjoyable video well done & keep up the good work on your channel top job 👍👍
The propeller demonstration was of a constant speed prop designed to demonstrate how you can vary how much thrust is produced rather than the direction of thrust, without changing RPM much the way a gear box does.
A fantastic place and It’s worth going just for the Lock Ness Wimpy if for nothing else as lest we forget those brave Bomber Command aircrew.
Good tour Concorde Wow + mini hub nut in Jump Jet !! Betty would love to waft around the track !! not to mention Tuc,😀
I bet if you owned that 'Bellman Camo Shed' you would Fill it with 'Strange and unusual Cars' in about 6 months. Well maybe 12 months..!?
Oh the Joy..!! 😎
While you're there, pop into Mercedes World next door. They have (or did have) quite a few vintage and veteran Mercs. It was free when I did it a few years ago.
Ian and his nod to a certain Stephen King novel. :)
Love museums such as these. And that banking at the end reminds me so much of the 1966 movie Grand Prix. If you ever get the chance to watch , I highly recommend it.
The valves for the hydraulics that raised and lowered the nose of Concorde were manufactured by Premier Precision in Bracknell. The avionics were manufactured by Sperry Gyroscope,also based in Bracknell. Neither company exists now. The engines that powered Concorde were originally used in the TSR2, the avionics of which were also manufactured at Sperry as were parts of the ground mapping radar designed to enable the plane to fly at much 1 at ground level (much like the US strike fighterA1=11Aardvark. I have seen the second prototype of Concorde which was based at Filton and have been alongside the runway at Heathrow when Concorde took off.
Used to hear Concorde flying over Bracknell where we live, like clockwork in the mornings. Glad to know the Bracknell connection!
In '75 when Concorde was doing its proving flights out of Heathrow I had a summer work experience job at Fieldtech repairing avionic kit. It was just outside the perimeter fence with a clear line of sight to the end of 28L as it then was. We always had a VHF radio on test tuned to ground control so if the callsign "Alpha Charlie" was heard it was stop all work and move to the windows.