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Britain By Car - A Motoring History


Created Date:

28 August 2018

Last Modified:

22 February 2024
Dundee

Dundee Museum of Transport

A lively and active local transport museum with a changing collection of cars, public service, and commercial vehicles.

Location
Dundee Museum of Transport, Unit 10 Market Mews, Market Street, Dundee, DD1 3LA.

Date
April 2014 - present

  • The Museum collection includes an Austin A35 saloon and van, and Morris Minor Traveller, © Tony Thorpe
    The Museum collection includes an Austin A35 saloon and van, and Morris Minor Traveller, © Tony Thorpe
  • Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, alongside the Ford Model T and Standard Little Nine, © Tony Thorpe
    Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, alongside a Ford Model T and Standard Little Nine, © Tony Thorpe

Commentary
Currently in what it is hoped will be temporary premises, the Museum has an interesting and wide-ranging collection of cars and commercial vehicles.  These range from a 1915 Ford Model T and 1933 Standard Little Nine to a Hillman Imp and Scamp electric car, both produced in Scotland in the 1960s.  Also, prominently displayed, is a running recreation of the car used in the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang film.

Plans are already well underway, subject to raising the required funding, to re-open the museum in Dundee’s former Maryfield Tram Depot, thought to be the oldest surviving building of its kind in Scotland.

Further details    
• The Museum website: www.dmoft.co.uk.