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In the Revs Institute Workshop, technicians provide the extraordinary care and attention needed to preserve the automobiles belonging to Miles Collier Collections. The cars are functioning vehicles exercised on public roads and raced on tracks.
Preservation, conservation, and preventative measures ensure these meticulously-selected rare vestiges of automotive history remain operational and at museum quality.
The technicians carefully check each car before, during, and after it enters the shop, with complete written and photographic documentation. They document work performed on each vehicle, so a complete history is always available. Each car is checked for:
This is a very rare document from 1896. At the time the term automobile had not been coined, you will notice they refer to them as Locomotives.
This document is extraordinarily significant to motoring in Britain. It freed British motorists from having to have a man walking in front to warn of their approach (the Red Flag Man), upped the speed limit from 4 mph to 14 mph - but local councils mostly instantly reduced it to 12 mph - and was the reason why Harry Lawson's Motor Car Club organized the Emancipation Day run to Brighton when the Act came into force on November 14, 1896. Which is why we've been celebrating the freedom of the roads with the Brighton Run in November since 1927.
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