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Mission Statement
The British Museum of Transportation is an educational institution established to collect, preserve, and interpret through exhibits the history of British built transportation vehicles utilized in the United States. The focus here is to foster learning, appreciation, insight and a useful understanding of the role of British transportation vehicles in American life. This involves the collection and preservation of vehicles, parts, photographs, memorabilia, books and any and all articles that illustrate British modes of transportation and presenting such items in an educational mode. This further involves reaching out to the community with historical programming, exhibits, classes, automotive events and other activities for all ages.
Museum Goals
The goal of this endeavor is to establish a self-sustaining organization in the form of a British Museum of Transportation with continuing growth from year to year through increased interest and participation by its members, guests and visitors. The startup strategy is to have thirty British vehicles on static display with appropriate business and physical structure to display these vehicles. This would be backed up with a reserve of display vehicles which could be rotated into the display area on a scheduled basis. The facility would have provision for display of British automotive art, a library of books, manuals and periodicals, meeting rooms for use by local British automotive clubs and organizations, rooms for educational presentations and seminars, and a gift/memorabilia shop. Subsequent goals will be continuing growth and refinement of the museum through increased memberships and working with other automotive museums in the US and England to provide steady draw of new and repeat visitors.
The corporate officers are:
- President: Peter A. Stroble; Minimtrhead@aol.com
- Vice-President: Mike Edgerton; autoedge@sbcglobal.net
- Secretary/Treasurer: Richard Smith; rsmithomo@aol.com
- Member at Large: Michael Smith; smsmith38@insightbb.com
- Educational Coordinator: Amanda Hawker
©2008 The Society for the Preservation of British Transportation in America, Inc.