For anyone still on the road during the first few weeks of the COVID-19 outbreak, the lack of traffic made it seem as if we had experienced a time shift, back to a bygone age of motoring. The roads were so quiet. Data from the Office of National Statistics confirms that,

In Part 1 of this post, we discussed the environmental trade-offs of retaining or replacing a petrol or diesel car based on the lifetime CO2 (carbon dioxide) emissions incurred during manufacture, use and scrappage of that car. Now it’s time to consider how a battery electric car fares when subjected to

For this post we are, of course, talking about ‘Green’ in the environmental sense – not Emerald Green, Leaf Green or even British Racing Green! According to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), of the 2,311,140 new cars purchased in the UK in 2019, just over 90% were

Following our winter closure, the museum re-opens on Saturday, 15th February, for the 2020 season. The week before re-opening is always a busy one as final preparation of new displays is underway and the “big clean” takes place. This year, on the Wednesday before re-opening, there were at least 16

Anyone browsing the museum website could easily overlook the DOWNLOADS tab on the home page. This could be a mistake! Bear with me, please let me explain why. In 2008 the museum started to publish brief documentation on the website that supported on-going museum displays. One of the very first documents, in