How many vehicles for disabled people have you seen on display in museums lately?
Now, here's your chance to take a journey through the history of disabled vehicles as we are staging a unique exhibition of vehicles designed for the disabled from the 19th century to the present and even into the future.
For the first time in the history of British museum, an innovative exhibition is being staged where so many disabled vehicles will be brought together to tell the story of how the disabled transport industry has developed in terms of design and attitutes towards theses vehicles and its users.
The exhibition will be opened by Paralympian Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson on Thursday 1st April and will be open to public from 2nd April.
There will be some fascinating vehicles on display including:
• The ‘Blood Waggon’ – a very early and unusual carriage, purpose built for a Boer War British Colonel
• A WW1 Raleigh Invalid Carriage – a hand-propelled three-wheeler used by British soldiers injured from the Great War
• A Harper Mark 1 – a motorised three-wheeler full-bodied vehicle, thought to be the only remaining type to survive
• A Nelco ‘Solocar’ – an electric powered streamlined part-bodied invalid carriage
• An Invacar Model 70 – the iconic full-bodied three-wheeler once a common sight on our roads. Available in a range of colours as long as it was sky blue!
Bring the family along and spend some quality time together on Good Friday getting to know more about a very important slice of road transport history! See the ‘Highfield Road Wall’ line up, the Invalid carriages of achievement, plus many more vehicles of interest.
What’s more, entry to the exhibition is FREE!!!
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