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     David Gore Moderator Username: david_gore Post Number: 762 Registered: 4-2003 |
The Federation of British Historic Vehicle Clubs are appealing for support for the UK Science Museum in a forthcoming UK National Lottery Competition as below: The UK Science Museum has around quarter of a million exhibits showing the history of man's ingenuity. This includes a substantial collection related to transport including a very early Silver Ghost. Presently, the museum has space to display only a small fraction of these items with the remainder in storage in less than ideal conditions in dilapidated WW2 hangars on a 500 acre site at Wroughton, near Swindon. The Science Museum plans to reconstruct two of these giant hangars and link them with a state-of-the-art atrium to provide acres of exhibition space that will enable it to display the whole collection. This is not an appeal for money, but money does come into it - lottery money, a £50 million lottery jackpot that is to be decided by a public vote following a series of TV programmes that will go out in December. Inspired is one of six projects vying for this 'winner take all' funding. The other projects are all worthy causes, but none is so urgent or so important for our future: as one colleague commented "cycle paths and tree-top walkways can be built tomorrow, endangered artefacts can't wait". More information may be obtained through the following link: http://www.fbhvc.co.uk/news/inspired.htm I believe it is in our interest to support both the Federation of British Historic Vehicle Clubs and the museum to allow the preservation and display of items that are of world heritage significance. |
