Showing posts with label museum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label museum. Show all posts

If you ever get to Belgium, see the Museum of Public Transportation in Liege. Until then you can take the virtual tour online

Sunday, June 21, 2015


On the left is a mobile work station built in 1893. It was used to set up and then repair overhead power lines. After the Second World War, this car was still used to rehabilitate the network Air which had sustained heavy damage following the bombings.






http://full-vision.be/mdtec/  for the virtual tour, or see the museum's website at http://www.musee-transports.be/fr/musee/collection.html

Thanks to John for letting me know about this!

Autoworld in Brussels, one big, cool, incredible museum

Thursday, June 18, 2015


Thanks to the efforts of Ghislain Mahy and his family,
- the irreversible persuasion of the then Crown Prince, later King Albert II,
- plus the coincidence of ministerial responsibilities of Minister Louis Olivier, who was in charge of Public Works
- and Chairman Herman De Croo, for eight years at the head of the Belgian Department of Transport,

....in 1986 in Brussels a wonderful anniversary palace transformed into a treasure trove of automotive history, colorful, pedagogical and evolutionary developed.

This created an impressive collection of cars from all over the world, old, some electric, steam drive or combustion engine.


Ghislain and his sons Hans and Ivan, kept the collection a hobby project, devoid of commercial purpose.

Every year, five cars were restored. The collection includes several Belgian brands:. Minerva, Germain, FN, Imperia, Fondu, Vivinus, Nagant, Belga Rise, Miesse.


The majority of the Autoworld cars on display are from the Mahy collection, with 1,000 cars - one of the largest car collections in the world.




http://www.autoworld.be/het-museum

Today, you can visit the birthplace of the Model T. The Ford Piquette Avenue Plant is again open and evolving into a symbol of

Friday, June 12, 2015



 Walk the plank floors worn smooth by hundreds of workers and thousands of cars. See Henry Ford’s competition, his early successes and false starts. Learn how volunteers saved one of the world’s most significant industrial buildings. And support the ongoing restoration and education projects in the mechanical heart of Detroit.

http://fordpiquetteavenueplant.org/

the Indian timeline, said to be the only collection of Indian models in one place, every year of manufacture from 1901 to 1953 is at the Motorcyclepedia Museum

Tuesday, June 9, 2015

 
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