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Brooklands Museum

Brooklands at Weybridge in Surrey was the worlds first purpose built motor racing circuit constructed in 1907 by wealthy landowner Hugh Locke King. The circuit was the birthplace of British Motorsport, the track being 2.75 miles long and was also the location one of Britains first airfields.

The site is now a museum for motorsport and aircraft.

The Brooklands Museum has a large collection of  motoring and aviation exhibits ranging from racing cars, motorcycles and push bikes to of Hawker and Vickers/ BAC-built aircraft, including a Second World War Wellington Bomber, Viking, Varsity, Viscount, Vanguard, VC10, BAC One-Eleven and the first production Concorde to carry 100 passengers at mach 2, the ‘passengers’ being employees testing the air condition system!