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The National Motor Museum, formerly also known as The Old Mill and Birdwood Mill after its initial location, is an automobile museum in the Adelaide Hills in the township of Birdwood, South Australia.

Not to be confused with National Motor Museum, Beaulieu.

National Motor Museum,
Australia
Location within South Australia
Established1964; 58 years ago (1964)
Location
  • Shannon Street
  • Birdwood SA 5234
  • Australia
Coordinates34°49′11″S 138°57′16″E
TypeAutomobile museum
DirectorPaul Rees
WebsiteNational Motor Museum

History


The museum was started by Jack Kaines and Len Vigar in 1964, and, as the Birdwood Mill Pioneer, Art and Motor Museum, sold to a private company led by Gavin Sandford-Morgan in 1970.[1] It was purchased by the South Australian Government in 1976,[2][3] and from 1982 came under the auspices of History SA.[1]

In 1980 the Federation of Vintage Car Clubs (SA) approached Donald Chisholm[4] OAM,[5] then general manager of the museum, to participate in the inaugural Bay to Birdwood classic car run. Chisholm agreed to be co-organiser, and suggested and agreed to provide a perpetual trophy for the "Concours d'Elegance", with its design based on the Shearer Steam Car, which would remain on display at (as it was then often called) Birdwood Mill.[4]


Description and uses


The National Motor Museum is Australia's largest motor museum,[3] with close to 400 vehicles on display as of 2009.[6][2] It holds a large and historically important collection of cars, motorcycles and commercial vehicles. It is housed in a modern complex adjacent to its original home, "The Old Mill" on Shannon Street, Birdwood.[2][3]

The museum is the endpoint of the annual Bay to Birdwood run, in which vintage, veteran and classic cars and other road vehicles are driven by their owners from the foreshore area of Adelaide through to the Adelaide Hills to finish at the museum, where a festival is held and trophies awarded.[7]


Exhibits


The following is a non-exhaustive list of motor vehicles on display:[citation needed]

The following is a non-exhaustive list of motorbikes display:


See also



References


  1. "State History Collection". History SA. Archived from the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
  2. "Birdwood". The Sydney Morning Herald. 1 January 2009. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
  3. "National Motor Museum Birdwood". Going Somewhere Pty Ltd. Archived from the original on 28 October 2013. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
  4. "Bay to Birdwood Programs 1980-2020: 1980". Bay to Birdwood. 21 September 2020. p. 3. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
  5. Williams, Kristy (25 January 2021). "OAM honour for former director of Maranatha House, Donald Chisholm". Daily Liberal. Retrieved 23 June 2022.
  6. Williamson, Brett (16 November 2009). "Emotion in motion: The National Motor Museum". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
  7. "Home". Bay to Birdwood. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
  8. Bolognese, Mick (31 March 2015). "Everyone knows the Leyland Brothers, right?". National Motor Museum.
  9. Kelly, Zachariah (5 August 2022). "Behold, the Telstra Phone Car That Time Forgot". Gizmodo.


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