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COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Contact Information and statutory disclaimer.
MEMBERSHIP DETAILS
Membership Information - click
to join online using our secure shopping facility.
WHAT'S
ON AT BROOKLANDS?
WINTER EVENTS
Film nights, Reunion, Goodwood events for
2004/2005.
ANNUAL REUNION 2001
More Bentleys than you can shake a Bug at
ANNUAL REUNION 2000
Aston Martins, Barnato-Hassan, Cars, Bikes
ANNUAL REUNION 1998
M.G., Amilcar, Lagonda, Bentley etc.
ANNUAL REUNION 1997
Maseratis, Motorbikes, and much more.
1998 BROOKLANDS SOCIETY/
VSCC DUDLEY GAHAGAN SPEED TRIALS
GOODWOOD FESTIVAL OF SPEED - 2002
Coming Soon.
GOODWOOD FESTIVAL OF SPEED - 2001
Coming Soon.
GOODWOOD FESTIVAL OF SPEED - 2000
Jaguars, Bugatti, Bentleys, Wacky Racers.
GOODWOOD FESTIVAL OF SPEED - 1999
Even more photos, rare Alfa, McLaren etc
GOODWOOD FESTIVAL OF SPEED - 1998
Hundreds of photographs
GOODWOOD FESTIVAL OF SPEED - 1997
Cars on display in our marquee
GOODWOOD CIRCUIT REVIVAL 1999
430 photographs, comment and race data.
BROOKLANDS AWARDED HERITAGE STATUS
Two years work by our resident experts Tony Hutchings and Tim Heap of our heritage and preservation
sub committee has at last assured the future of all of the remaining Brooklands Track,
the Campbell Circuit, the entire test hill and numerous other features.
Prudential Assurance - Brooklands Heights
How the men from the Pru revived a 13 year old planning permission to build 5
office blocks and a multi-storey car park in the middle of
Brooklands in 2002 against substantial local and global opposition.
Barnato-Hassan Goes On Sale
Keith Schellenberg's 47 year ownership.
Frogeye takes on Monte Carlo Challenge
Alex Postan's blower Sprite giantkiller
Members' Quarterly Newsletter
Archive copy.
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HOW
TO GET TO BROOKLANDS
WHAT DID IT LOOK LIKE?
For the 1938 map click here.
WHEN ALFRED MOSS RACED AT BROOKLANDS
Stirling Moss's Brooklands and Indy roots..
BROOKLANDS CARS, DRIVERS AND RACES
Woolf Barnato, Bira, Tim Birkin, Malcolm Campbell, John Cobb, Sammy Davis, Freddie Dixon,
Kay Don, George Duller, Goldie Gardner, Gwenda Hawkes, Earl Howe, Freddie March, Raymond Mays, Bertie Moir,
Henry Segrave, Dick Seaman, Chris Staniland, Whitney Straight, Kay Petre, Parry Thomas, Alfa, Amilcar, Bentley,
Delage, Duesenberg, Maserati, M.G., Sunbeam, Straker Squire, Napier Railton,
with original photos for the entire track.
DRIVE THE NAPIER RAILTON - ON YOUR PC
Hasbro's Spirit of Speed Game lets you gun it around Brooklands for less than £30.00!
THE
BROOKLANDS STORY
Brooklands was built in 1907 and opened in 1908, how they built the track,
the first records and races, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Sunbeams etc.
Britain's Motoring History - by Lord Montagu of Beaulieu
Stories from Beaulieu previously published in The Times, by Lord Montagu of
Beaulieu at the
National Motor Museum, one of our founder members.
THE BROOKLANDS QUIZ
- DID YOU KNOW? Motor racing history, not all from Brooklands, Barney Oldfield, Indianapolis etc.
HISTORIC PHOTOS TO PRINT ON YOUR LASER
- click on the thumbnails to see the enlargements
VISIT OUR PHOTO ARCHIVES
500 photographs from the archives of The Brooklands Society. This section was first created
in 1995 and is rather rough and ready - we will get around to updating it one of these days with text and better
pictures. The photos cover from the turn of the century to 1939 and include aviation pictures. Sorry about the page
backgrounds! None of these photos are for sale so ignore the $ prices which the package we used put in
for us at no extra cost!
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SECURE
ONLINE
SHOP NOW LIVE.
To enter the shop
click
here.
We have now introduced a range
of warm winter fleeces and a new weatherproof jacket
all at very competitive prices - typically our fleeces
cost £10 less than those of other car clubs because
circumstances have allowed us to cut out the middle
man. Check
out the prices for great Christmas presents.
2005 ANNUAL REUNION.
THE 2005 REUNION will be held on
Sunday 3rd July - one week before the Goodwood
Festival of Speed - see Winter
Events for more event dates.
NOTICE TO MEMBERS. Please note that this year we issued 2004 membership cards with the end January Gazette.
If you have not paid your 2004 subs your membership
card is invalid and can not be used to gain entrance
to Brooklands Museum. All paid up members have
received complimentary entrance tickets.
The dates have now been fixed for the 2005 Goodwood
Festival of Speed which will be held on 8/9/10 July.
Entrance tickets must be bought in advance as
there will be no ticket sales on the gate.
ARCHIVE
NEWS
9th August 2003 . . . . . The Secretary of State has
decided not to call the DaimlerChrysler application in
for his own determination.
GOODWOOD
FESTIVAL OF SPEED 2004
OUR DOWNHILL RACER won again on the Saturday but
Sunday's races were scratched after two accidents due
to high winds. Our soapbox will now be retired and it
looks like we will be building a new one for 2005.
MERCEDES COMES TO BROOKLANDS
News of Daimler Chrysler's planned acquisition
of the central 155 acres of Brooklands with details of their plans
complete with drawings for their proposed flagship UK Heritage and
Technology Centre.
BIRA FILMS RECOVERED FROM AUSTRALIA
In 1936 Prince Bira of Siam gave his White Mouse Racing Team six Bolex cine cameras
and told them to shoot film. 68 years later the films have
been recovered from Australia by The Brooklands Society - see some of
the stills here. Black and white and very early colour !!!
Sound Bites.
Click
here to play or download sound bytes from
Goodwood Festival of Speed - Jackie Ickx,
Murray Walker, the Napier Railton,
Bugattis, Lord March.
What's on at Brooklands Museum?
ANNUAL REUNION Sunday 29th June 2003
Brooklands Museum and race track, Weybridge, Surrey - Featuring "The Best of British" racing cars.
This is the only day of the year when Brooklands becomes
exclusively dedicated to pre 1939 cars and motor bikes. Programme,
how to enter, where to stay, how to buy tickets. Open to everyone. Be sure to buy tickets for
the Chairman's Reception, drink champagne and chat with surviving Brooklands personalities.
Jacques Potherat remembered
- David Burgess-Wise.
Montlhéry gets temporary reprieve
how to get there.
Stirling Moss becomes President
of The Brooklands Society
The Napier Railton returns to Brooklands
£800,000 later, see it at the museum, hear it on this web site!
Previously unseen Count Zborowski
Photograph found in Argentina
Contact the Committee/Legal Information
Committee members, contact details, society information and editorial disclaimer.
Buy Brooklands Greetings Cards
- cars, aircraft, Christmas cards
Floods at Brooklands
Aqua caliente profundo
Brooklands Reopens after the flood
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