Classic archive images to view & buy

CTM are proud to lauch a new online facility - www.ctmimages.co.uk

This site demonstrates images from our huge archive, also allowing you to purchase the items as Prints, Canvases or Gifts. The store will continue to grow as we demonstrate the huge array of items from Coventry's long heritage in the transport history.

The site also offers links to our archive enquiry service - here you can make enquiries on various aspects on the archive and collection to our experienced team.

A Collection of a Million items!

Busy working away in our archive and small object store with our group of dedicated volunteers. We are re-organizing the collection held in there – over 1 million items and it is a massive job.

It’s a bit like trying to work out a big, complicated puzzle! Some days it seems like a never ending task but we have a much better understanding of what we have in there now and we can find things much more easily than we could two years ago so it must be working! Priorities at the moment are sorting out duplicate magazines (we have counted, listed and boxed over 10,000 of these now) and clearing space in our holding bay ready for new material coming in.

Still finding boxes of weird and wonderful things I have never seen before. I found a small box of gold leaf that had been used by a former coach builder yesterday, lots of old driving licences and some receipts for bikes dating from the turn of the last century. It’s a very dusty but interesting job right now!

Blitz Exhibition - Joint Project

We have been working on a joint exhibition with London Transport Museum and Dresden Transport Museum all about the blitz / firestorm in each city with the focus on public transport. It’s called ‘Under Attack’ and will initially be held in London from early September until the end of March – check out London Transport Museum’s website for further details.

Spent a few days last week getting images ready so they can be blown up and added to big graphic panels for the exhibition. It took a long time to scan them in and save them as the designers need them to be really huge.

Really excited about seeing the exhibition when it’s all completed - should be really interesting and thought provoking!

Open publication - Free publishing - More vehicles

Convoy to Coventry

David Vincent, driving a Jaguar XK 150 and Craig Gardner in a Jaguar E Type are going to visit every City in Mainland Britain. There are 61 cities to visit. When they arrive in each City they will have a photograph taken at a landmark to prove that they have been there, in most cases you would not be allowed to get a car anywhere near these landmarks. For example College Green, Cambridge and the Precincts of Wells Cathedral. This is all in aid of Cancer Research and the Downs Syndrome Association, David in the XK suffers from Bowel Cancer and Craig has a five year old cousin with Downs Syndrome. Check out www.3000miles.co.uk

On Sunday 13th June the cars will be arriving in convoy, with a selection of Classic Cars here on Millennium Place. Leaving the Jaguar Castle Brom Plant at 11.15 am they will take the Collector Road towards the A45 and Coventry transport Museum. They have been promised some special cars in the display, possibly a Jaguar C type with Le Mans racing pedigree.
A collection will be taken on the day for the named charities, so come along, dig deep and see some spectacular British cars.

Daimler Buses Reunion

This event took place on the 16th May and was an opportunity to bring former staff members of Coventry Transport back together with some of the vehicles that they worked with. Here we see Travel De-Courcey’s Daimler along with 333 CRW from the museum and 334CRW belonging to Roger Burdett. The new bus on the left is in fact the surprisingly old Daimler Fleetline PDU 135M, also in attendance the Metrobus which was painted in Coventry colours whilst in service with WestMidlands Travel.

After posing for pictures in Broadgate the vehicles moved off to follow the old 9 route to Ernesford Grange. Then it was a Journey to Bedworth and Nuneaton for more pictures and a meeting with Ashley Wakelin’s Ex Midland Red D9.

Open publication - Free publishing - More warwickshire

Open publication - Free publishing - More cycling

Well known TV presenter Jason Dawe will be part of the Festival of Motoring event for 2010. Keep up to date with all the information on this years festival
www.festival-of-motoring.co.uk