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 | Warwickshire and the Automotive Industry |
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Warwickshire and Coventry are home to some of the most distinguished and world-renowned 'British' car brands, who produce a number of respected and desirable car models.
The luxury brands of Jaguar and Land Rover have a large presence in Warwickshire and Aston Martin, one of the world’s most distinguished sports car manufacturers, has it's Head Quarters in the county. See below for details of Coventry and Warwickshire's links and connections with the automotive industry.
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Museums
There are several vehicle museums in Coventry and Warwickshire, all offering a glimpse of historic, exotic and expensive cars. For full details please visit our entries for each museum below;
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|  | | The Coventry Transport Museum, Coventry is the birthplace of the British cycle and motor industry, and the Museum displays the world’s largest collection of British road transport, including 240 cars, commercial vehicles and buses, 100 motorcycles, over 200 cycles and around a million archive and ephemera items. |
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The Heritage Motor Centre in Gaydon, Warwickshire, is home to the world's largest collection of historic British cars. Following a £1.7million make-over, the museum now boasts three new exciting and interactive exhibitions which uncover the story of the British motor industry from the 1890's to the present day. |
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The Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust Museum in Coventry maintains a unique collection of motor cars and artefacts manufactured by Jaguar Cars Limited and the many other renowned marques associated with the company. With around 160 exhibits and an archive containing thousands of images and documents dating back to the very beginnings of the company, there's no better way to see Jaguar's history first hand. |
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The National Motorcycle Museum in Solihull is recognised as the finest and largest motorcycle museum in the world. The Museum records for posterity the engineering achievements of the last century. It is a place where an older generation can once again view with nostalgia the machines they rode in days gone by, and younger generations can study the development of the motorcycle from its earlier days to the golden years of the 1930s-60s, when British motorcycles ‘ruled the world’. |
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