UNIQUE FINDS at Llangollen Motor Museum in North Wales
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- In 2023 I headed to Wales to visit the Llangollen Motor Museum, a fine collection of pre- and post-war cars and related automobilia that I've visited on numerous occasions before but never with a view to making a video.
There are many good reasons to visit Llangollen, not least the stunning scenery, the famous steam railway, and the town itself which has quite a variety of shops nestled within it, but the car museum - a mile or so out of the town centre - is my favourite destination.
This video is primarily about the Llangollen Motor Museum, although after completing my visit I take a quick look at the town itself and dive into an antiques/collectables centre to see what I might find automobile related ... I wasn't to be disappointed.
Many motor museums are large, light and airy affairs, often housed within a purpose-built air-conditioned building, with everything neatly laid out according to plan. I think it's fair to say that the building housing the Llangollen Motor Museum is none of those things, which actually adds to the experience I think. I'd much rather visit an old building housing a huge mix of classic cars, antique tools, motorcycles, toy cars and memorabilia, with every corner packed with something or other of interest, than a sparsely laid-out display with few actual exhibits. Give me a place like the Llangollen car museum any day.
Thanks to the museum's owners for letting me have a walk and talk amongst their many prized exhibits. I don't think the camera settings were quite 100% (video or audio) but hopefully you'll get the idea.
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Thanks for the fascinating tour!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Good Morning a very interesting Museum i have taken an hour our from your video to be at the Cenotaph 11-11-11, i always feel so privileged to be here enjoying all your videos while millions cannot at 89 years when i now see the children of those recently fallen yes i shed many tears ,Thank you for giving me an escape route this day of such sadness.keep safe loved the video.
Proportionally that is a Lotus Elite right there.
Super little town with so mch to see, including the fascinating Plas Newydd where the 'Ladies of Llangollen' lived. Wonderful little museum; thank you for sharing it. Your Youthful Assistant would have had a paraxysm of delight at all the lubricant-related ephemera!!
Visited in 2005. A lot has changed since then. Great museum. The local area was stunning.
Thanks for showing us.
15 11 23, Captivating ! Most of the exhibits & accessories Made in UK too. Now we make coffee !
Very different
Very cool
📻🙂
I've been to Llangollen a few times but i never knew they had a motor museum until your video so thank you.
Worth a visit, just check the opening times as they vary throughout the year
Looks like a very nice location and a very good museum, and local town. Cheers Bob
Great video. I would take home the 29 Austin 7 and the Standard 8. I love that river in town.
I've been past many times throughout my life but never called in. Many thanks for showing us around.
It's definitely worth a look, just check the opening days beforehand
@@oldclassiccarUK Yes I should, I've always ended up at the Llangollen Railway where I worked as a volunteer during the 70's and 80's. In the video I saw a few bits like the oil filler cans, Champion plug cleaner that I used to use when I started as an apprentice mechanic in 1968. The plug cleaner made a splendid job of the plugs.
Thanks Richard. I could spend hours in this little museum just checking out the stuff around the cars and on the walls! Although the ancestral Days apparently were from Wales, this one will never visit so I appreciate the video and time you spent there.
Thanks, always try and include a bit about where these museums etc are located
Good evening Richard . What a delightful museum ! I have no real interest in motor cycles but these were such a wonderful selection , how could l resist ! That Hartley special really was special . Naturally , an aircraft designer has ideas that are so advanced to the less sophisticated . You only have to look at the Jaguar "C" " D "and "E"type . Penned by the ex-Bristol Areoplane Company employee Malcolm Sayer . There were so many unique choices but for me as a school boy the Alfa Romeo Montreal was a beautiful car . That would be my choice . Thanks Richard
I'm probably one of the very few who will not post a comment about the car and motorcycle collection. Instead I will point out the sign outside a pub at 59:26 announcing that this establishment serves Welsh gin and whisky, and I will say that it's almost certainly from the Penderyn distillery in Aberdare in South Wales, just a few miles southwest of Merthyr Tydfil. I went on the distillery tour a few years ago and was very impressed with both the gin and the whisky. I believe it's the only distillery in Wales so I'm pretty sure it's the one.
That's a great collection/museum. So much better than the sterile over-restored vehicles in some of the more posh establishments. These are cars as we remember them when in daily use. 👍
Very true
It's a great place with so much accessible for a good look and all in delightfully "oily rag" state and I'd even venture delightfully dusty. The books can even be read. It's the epitome of small, local, independent museums.
Many thanks for taking us along with you. I knew the museum existed, but never had the chance to visit, as Llangollen is usually used as a comfort break stop on the way further into Snowdonia for holidays. Next time will have to make time for a full day out .
Thanks for this. I live ten miles away and have popped in a few times. The owner is very friendly, was chatting with him about his personal customised triumph vitesse estate. Not for the purists but hes owned it for 35 years and does long trips with no issue pretty briskly with surprisingly good economy apparently
I envy this car!
I did wonder if it was the owner's Vitesse
Very cool,,I so like the less than formal car museums,,id take the TR 4 home if had a choice
Favourites: #1 Humber Tourer 18:27, #2 Vauxhall LM 14/40 45:55 and #3 Citroën B.12 Woody 44:41. Hats off to Rick bach! 😁👍
A right hand drive Alfa Montreal such as this is a very rare car indeed.
A real Aladdins cave, one could spend a month in there and still not see everything. A wonderful little place.
I used to own the last Gilbern Mk3 Invader, chassis no M30191 though I believe an even later chassis has now been assembled.
Nice car and at the time quite a head turner.
Another collection of moth watering motors (and motor bikes) and as usually expertly curated and explained by you which make you visits and videos so enjoyable. Thank you, as always. Knowledgeable and well edited. Honourable son is snapping at your heels as his review of the GT 6 was an enjoyable effort! You both are educational and entertaining. Trot on!
Rob
Thank you very much!
I have a gilbern invader mk3 so it's great to see the GT in the museum, also got an Austin 10.
A Raleigh Runabout was my first motorised transport, acquired second-hand for my 16th birthday in 1967. It was also the vehicle on which I had my first ever motor accident, courtesy of a pothole which, combined with the bike's lack of suspension, was pretty lethal.
I have a vague recollection of seeing the Douglas Hartley car on Blue Peter but I may be wrong, However I am sure it has been on TV at some time. This is a lovely museum with a good collection of cars and motorbikes. I can see why you would recommend it, thank you Rick. 👍👍
I wouldn't be surprised if it has been on TV at some point, maybe Tomorrow's World!?
I wonder if the buildings use to be used by Deeside Broadhurst (blue & white sign at 36min 55sec) they were Engineers producing items and assemblies for local manufacturing companies. I started my working life with one of them (Jones Bales) in the 1960's and we used to get assemblies and sub-assemblies for our Balers manufactured by Deeside Broadhurst.
Thanks for a first rate video, very interesting.
David Jones
Museum was started by Ted Broadhurst
I owned a 1964 Oxford in the mid seventies.Sky blue with a white roof.
The Douglas special reminded me of my first car, a SAAB sonett III
Yes there's a hint of Sonett about it, there was a smart Sonett at the recent Bicester Scramble meet that we video'd
DH coupe is interesting, especially the NACA ducts on the hood/bonnet. Btw, Rostyle wheels were found on all sorts of cars back in the days as they were aftermarket accessories that were also standard issue on MG Midgets and B's.
That was interesting about the yellow car, hidden in a hay barn. A few years ago I had a smallholding in Hungary. There was a brick built barn that had a cellar. At the back of the cellar there was hay piled up and when I moved that I found a doorway to another room of the cellar. In there I found a very rotten large wine cask and a few other bits and pieces. Apparently it was common practice during WW2 to hide away home made wine and anything else likely to get "confiscated" by German soldiers.
My home ❤
Ger out the HAND
I think you’ve summed up how I feel about Topgear to
Douglas Hartley Special. At first I thought someone had done an home made Spectrum Patrol Car from Captain Scarlet.
Agree with you, that it has lots of elements that would show up in other cars.
Ercole Spada of Zagato's, Alfa Romeo 1600 Junior Z is in their. But that wasn't released until 1969.
Agree about the Lotus Éclat / Elite profile.
Douglas Hartley was indeed a true visionary, an exceptionally talented man!!!!
I have a 1932 ish 1172 cc engine in my shed with a 3 speed gearbox . Was going to rebuild them but age and health issues have got in the way !
What a gem of a museum some great items
The building looks like a vintage garage and service dealership
If they put some camping huts in the yard visitors would stay all week 😮and use pubs local cafes etc
Thank you as usual for a great video😊😊😊
I’ve been in Llangollen several times. This museum is not open very much. Take the advice in this video and check. There’s a Matador in the yard behind it too 🙂🙂
Last time I looked it was open for the first few days of each new month, but it might be different depending on time of year etc
great video, what a splendid museum, I enjoy these smaller museums. That 1930's Standard followed by the AC saloon would be my choices. I was thinking of the Schrader tyre inflator on a modern car, you would have engine light and proberly no start at a minimium. Oh for the simpilar days gone bye.
How this guy can ignore that fabulous Alfa Romeo Montreal is beyond me. 🤯
I wasn't aware of ignoring anything tbh (if Montreals are your thing then check out one or two of the Bicester Scramble uploads)
Good way to use your tire as a fuel tank.
The white shell belongs to an early TVR possible GT or Truscan, I had one many moons ago.
TVR is either 1300/1600 Vixen or 3000 V6 Tuscan being 1970 both in production
The music in the background is lovely! What is it?
I don't remember offhand, it was from the free audio library that UA-cam provides
OK i might be wrong here, BUT if you used the cars plug hole to pump up a flat tyre would it NOT get fuel in it as it's turned over to fill said tyre up as the engine pumps fuel into the chamber ??? 😕
I thought that too (I've not tried the one I have here), but I think I read/heard somewhere that it doesn't happen that way. Maybe the pressure from the combustion chamber draws in outside air and it's that that goes into the tyre. Not sure.
@@oldclassiccarUK Yes that could be right... we need someone to test that theory so we get a 100% confirmed answer one way or the other, great video btw .. thumbs up from me M8 cheers 👍loved the old bikes & cars
Myself and a friend went to see this museum back in May 2024 but it was closed ☹️
I hope it wasn't permanently shut, I'm sure I'd have heard by now if it was
"Historical Birmingham A Trip Down Memory Lane" was the title of the video where I saw many old cars and trucks.
A great looking show in a beautiful area of Wales. DOT, I guessed Dept of Transport? I drove my friend's Cambridge, it was a heavy drive, sluggish in town but better on the open road. As I remember, it was a 3-speed gearbox. My favourite was the Vauxhall on an RU plate, but you didn't comment much on it.
Four speed..............
@@richardsealey3626 Not the one I was driving.
I believe that DOT stood for devoid of trouble .that's what I saw on Henry Coles program on TV. 👍
Correct, Devoid Of Trouble
Inspiration for the Princess?
It was certainly an early adopter of the wedge styling, as on the Princess, various Lotuses etc etc
I stumbled on some UA-cam ca videos yesterday with " Birmingham "in the title.Birmingham 1 and Birmingham 2.Lots of old English cars and trucks made me think of OCC.I suspect you will have already seen these but thought I would mention to you! CHEERS from Westcoast Canada!
Cheers I'll take a look!
@@oldclassiccarUK Birmingham in the 30s 40s and 50s
The newest Morgan ytike features a three cylinder in line Fird engnine.
Notice... you NEVER EVER see any electric cars from the 1880's or their mercury arc chargers....
I had a right hand Montréal ,it had a little sunroof,that one has got the wrong wheels on, can i buy it please please 🥰🥰🥰🥰
I think the original wheels were stacked up on the floor behind it, thanks for watching
I believe the white TVR is a TVR 200 or something like that iirc....
I'd restore it to original. You have 1 of a handful. It would also be real cool.
Think that may be TVR Vixen, or it's big engined brother the Grantura
The spark plug inflator gizmo won’t work suck squeeze bang blow and oil and gas in the air
They were quite widely advertised in the day, I've one here although haven't (yet) tried it
there used to be a similar museam outside denbigh not sue if its still there?
Do you mean the 1950s museum?
Cant remember its name sorry @@garethjones8047
That the place run by Sparrow, that used to have a truck use in the Great Train Robbery?
Move away from the standard 8 your obsessed.😅
Well, an American motorbike museum, the "national" one, was destroyed, the owners simply auctioned everything away. Rude end of an era. Horrible. Please never do such a disaster to this gem, please. Though the owners can retire as billionairs, perhaps, please do not repeat that example.
I think this museum collection is in good hands, thanks for watching
That horrible Leyland brown might be "old speckled hen",a bit older than the beer
Collecting spark plugs⁉️ ‘Get a life,’ is the phrase that comes to mind.
Hobbies, like artwork .... are very subjective
I took a collection of 1930's spark plugs to a car boot sale once and they were the first things to go, people even asked me if I had anymore, which I had, took them along the next week and they all went as well!!!! @@oldclassiccarUK
Sorry if I spoil your day, but I own a Lodge keyring.
Most of what you showed was the back of your hand and your finger pointing to the obvious.......
Nasty
Ok