We’re delighted to be supporting the Smallpeice Trust’s week-long automotive engineering course for budding Year 9 students being hosted by Coventry University. During the course students get to design and develop their own project, giving them a taste of the challenges and rewards of automotive engineering including examining mechanical design and electronic systems to noise and vibration perception. As part of the course, students will get to experience some of the finest engineering from Jaguar Landrover, BMW and Aston Martin. …

The Lanchester archive collection will be available for study, as part of the National Heritage Open Days Come and see the original archive items, including Fred Lanchester’s notebooks and sketch-books, or peruse the volumes of correspondence to get a glimpse of a time when the hand-written letter was the only form of communication. We’ll also have hands on activities for all ages.

The Lanchester archive collection will be available for study, as part of the National Heritage Open Days Come and see the original archive items, including Fred Lanchester’s notebooks and sketch-books, or peruse the volumes of correspondence to get a glimpse of a time when the hand-written letter was the only form of communication. We’ll also have hands on activities for all ages.

The Lanchester archive collection will be available for study, as part of the National Heritage Open Days Come and see the original archive items, including Fred Lanchester’s notebooks and sketch-books, or peruse the volumes of correspondence to get a glimpse of a time when the hand-written letter was the only form of communication. We’ll also have hands on activities for all ages.

The Lanchester archive collection will be available for study, as part of the National Heritage Open Days Come and see the original archive items, including Fred Lanchester’s notebooks and sketch-books, or peruse the volumes of correspondence to get a glimpse of a time when the hand-written letter was the only form of communication. We’ll also have hands on activities for all ages.

This exhibition tells the story of Frederick Lanchester and his close links to Olton where he lived and worked testing his theories of flight with gliders that flew spectularly from nearby St Bernards Road. At the same time he was also testing an engine in what became Britain’s first motorboat that was destined to power the first all-British four-wheeled petrol motor car built in 1895. Find out more about Fred and his brothers Frank and George and why they became…

  This talk tells the story of Frederick Lanchester and his close links to Olton where he lived and worked testing his theories of flight with gliders that flew spectularly from nearby St Bernards Road. At the same time he was also testing an engine in what became Britain’s first motorboat that was destined to power the first all-British four-wheeled petrol motor car built in 1895. Find out more about Fred and his brothers Frank and George and why they…