From this area, on various dates in 1907-8, A.V Roe made a series of towing flights and flight trials with an aircraft of his own design and construction, powered, in the later trials, by an 18/24 h.p. Antoinette engine. These trials were made along . . . — — Map (db m118228) HM
BAC/Aerospatiale Concorde G-BBDG ‘Delta Golf’ (1974)Concorde G-BBDG was the second production Concorde and the first British production aircraft. Construction began in early 1970 at Brooklands and Toulouse.
Delta Golf’s first flight was made by . . . — — Map (db m118209) HM
BAC/Hunting Jet Provost T.3A XN586 (1961)
Type History: Designed by Hunting Aircraft Ltd at Luton and derived from the piston-engined Percival P.56 Provost T.1 two-seat military trainer of 1950, the prototype Percival P.84 Jet Provost T.Mk1, . . . — — Map (db m118215) HM
G-AGRU
Built at Brooklands in 1946
by Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd
Type History
The Vickers VC.1 Viking was a British built twin-engine short-range airliner derived from the Wellington bomber and built at Brooklands by Vickers Armstrongs . . . — — Map (db m118221) HM
Milly is an AEC Militant Mk1 Breakdown Recovery Vehicle that was constructed between 14 December 1953 and 24th February 1954, as a six wheel drive general cargo truck for the British Army, with the army registration number 36BM73. Below left (A) . . . — — Map (db m118207) HM
Rolls-Royce/SNECMA Olympus 593
Type History: First test run at Bristol in 1950 (as the 9,140lb static thrust BE.10 Olympus turbojet), this highly successful jet engine entered production in 1955 as the 11,000lb Olympus Mk.101 for the Avro . . . — — Map (db m118211) HM
To the Memory of a Great Sportsman
And Brilliant Driver
Sir Henry Birkin Bt.
Who died on June 22 1933 from injuries after his last road race at Tripoli. Here, on the scene of his many victories this bronze was erected by members of the British . . . — — Map (db m118229) HM
‘Tallboy’ Bomb (1944/45)
Length 21ft (6.6m) Weight 12,000lb (5,443kg)
Designed by Barnes Wallis for Vickers-Armstrong of Brooklands during World War Two, the 12,000lb ‘earthquake’ bomb was used successfully against the German Tirpitz battleship . . . — — Map (db m118208) HM WM
The column was erected by public subscription in 1822 in memory of the Duchess of York who had died in 1820 having spent much of her married life at Oatlands. She was a popular local benefactress following her marriage to the Duke in 1791 and was . . . — — Map (db m235554) HM
Vickers 1103 VC-10 ex: G-ASIX I A40-AB (1964)
Type History: The first VC-10, registration G-ARTA, made its maiden flight from Brooklands on 29 June 1962. The largest all-British production airliner ever built, a further 53 examples (32 . . . — — Map (db m118212) HM
Vickers 806 Viscount G-APIM 1958
Aircraft Type History
The Vickers Viscount – the world’s first turboprop airliner – was one of the few commercially successful aircraft of postwar Britain. First flight of the prototype was at . . . — — Map (db m118219) HM
Vickers Merchantman (Vanguard), 1969
Cruising Speed 435 mph (684.000Km) at 20000 Ft. (6.096km)
This is the only surviving example of the 44 Vickers Vanguard airliners produced. The Vanguard was conceived as a replacement for the Viscount for . . . — — Map (db m118225) HM
This exhibit was manufactured at Brooklands by Vickers-Armstrong Ltd in 1960 and first operated by Austrian Airlines registered OE-LAG.
It was later purchased by the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE) and as XT575 used for test flying. It’s . . . — — Map (db m118218) HM
