A HubNut Visit to Brooklands Museum - amazing history! 

Being in the USA, Brooklands must remain on my lottery list for now. But what a legendary place. I’ve read about it for years, pored over photos, watched videos of the Napier-Railton and other legends in action, and mourned its passing as a motor racing venue… although its subsequent aviation history is equally impressive. I’m so glad you gents got to go, and thank you so much for the tour! By the way, thanks for showing the M Type Midgets. I own one of their descendants. ;-)

Best get the little man some wellys for surely in the next year he will be tripping over his hair. if he tucks his locks into the top of them it will stop him from tripping up. lol

Oh my god Ian - your mask is the same as the pattern on the carpet in 'The Shining'!

That is one pilgrimage I am hoping to make one day, and frankly even more so for the aviation heritage part..

The vimmy in the hanger with the harrier is a replica and it also flew the atlantic , and Ian it is powered by two american v8 car engines , the props make so much noise you cant really here the burble of the motors

Thanks nice video

I visited Brooklands ages ago, its good to see its being actively developed and not decaying as many of the historic sites of the British motor industry are. I must try and get back there again some day! As an aside, Mini Hubnut has hair a 70's rock god would be proud of! Great to see the two of you having some quality time with some old cars!

Just to note, the Saab that makes aircraft still exists--the Saab Automobile that went bust in 2012 was spun off as a separate company in 1989.

Really really good...probably exceptional. Brooklands is great. No wonder Mini Hubnut was tired...however he will remember that trip for the rest of his life. Thank you for great content 👍

Lots of history there. My wife’s great grand farthers were at brooklands in the early years. One was Ernst Eldridge who at one time had the land speed record there and the other was A.V. Roe of Avro aircraft fame who had a shed there and was one of the early British aviators

Brilliant video Ian 👍 nice to see concord and the track as well

I was slightly disappointed by the lack of typewriters, but having read the comments, it seems there's some present somewhere, so that's good to know! Excellent museum, if it had steam trains too, I'd have all my transportational interests covered in one place! Great video Mr HubNut👍

I think the "very old" motorcycle is an ABC - Sopwith, a creation of Granville Bradshaw notable (and notorious) engine designer. They were built in the early post ww1 period by the Sopwith aircraft comapny before it's collapse and resurrection as Hawker. They're one of the earliest British flat twins.

That was amazing, never knew there was so much there, definitely on my list of places to visit. Thanks Ian.

Haircut required on mini Hub nut

15:19 "Get that bus out, Butler!" I could just imagine Reg Varney's ghost behind the wheel of that bus!

The Concorde brings back memories from my trip to Sinsheim Museum, near Stuttgart in Germany. They're absolutely tiny inside. Thanks for the nice tour around Brooklands, Ian and Mini HubNut!👍

15:37 They actually had a large number of orders from several airlines but they were cancelled due to the fuel crisis and sonic boom issues.

Aeroplanes on a HubNut video! That was a great video and a great tour. I like cars, planes, ships and trains so it was a great mix. The reactions of Minni Hubnut has convinced me that my grandkids may enjoy a visit. I could see that you were a little out of your comfort zone with the aircraft side although Concorde obviously was enjoyable. It didn't get a chance because the Americans got their knickers in a twist about supersonic travel over their country. Protests and Politics. By the way, that 'Harrier' you saw in the Belmont Hanger was actually a very historic P1127 XP984 Kestrel. It was the predecessor of the Harrier and first flew in 1964 with the swept 'Kestrel' wing. I watched the development of the P1127 with great interest when I was at school in the '60s.

Great vid Mr nut I liked the concorde bit! I have been on concorde too (the one at Duxford, a prototype,)

Brooklands museum has been the best automotive / aeronautical museum I've visited. Gotta love the volunteers, amazing old gentlemen who are enthusiastic about the planes and cars. I loved the old geezer showing us the Vickers Viscount and muttering about Mercedes taking over the premises with their off road training centre. "Don't mention the war they say...."

Great video Ian very educational, lots of things about Brooklands I think a lot of people would not know about 😂💯 and it was great to meet you at the hubnut social, 👍💯💯

If you live in the UK, take a minute and appreciate the awesome museums you have over there. Marvelous! If i ever go to the UK, definitely a Museum tour is on the agenda.

I've been on the Concorde prototype at Yeovilton.

I have some old Brooklands Gazettes from my grandpa's interest in all things motor racing. Scary stuff.

Great informative Video Mr Hubnut and Mini Hubnut, really enjoyed the cars and the planes, reminds me when I visited Concorde at our local air museum in Scotland.

Could have brought my rover up if it wasn't still in a million bits in boxes. Haven't been up there since I had my mini a couple of years ago.

YAY! Concorde is one of the most amazing things ever built, especially given the period. My how things have changed, now we just plonk about in slow double decker cattle trucks.

Thanks for sharing your special day with your subscribers Mr HubNut, a very interesting place to visit, and very lucky they survived the pandemic.

has smol hubnut ever had a no1 haircut lol

Thank you for sharing a wonderful day out. I will certainly visit Brooklands now.

We managed to visit a couple of years ago (pre-covid!). I was very pleased to look around the VC10 - a remarkable jet airliner which was the last airliner to be build solely in the UK, but was, unfortunately, totally shafted by the air industry and politics. Thank you for the tour :-)

Lovely video, how nice to see the bomber found in Loch Ness and Little HubNut making his own aluminium airplane model. Fantastic to see all this.

Looks like a two day visit required for brook lands little hub nut did well though I think he needs a hair cut The bus museum sounds very interesting 👍👍

2:40 "This i a formula E car...." 2 hours ago, I walked past an E car on charge - and that was a first for me. I first rode an EV in probably 1983. Later that year, I moved an EV under its own power - pre-licence days - and got the rear wheel down a drain and it didn't have the poer to drive out - so had to use F/R in quick succession while stamping on the accelearator as keeping it down was guarded against. Drove a Peugeot E 206 in the late 1990s - in a car park, not my car having followed it there on my bicycle for its silence. Technically TWOCking...

You make such quality videos Mr Seabrook. Thoroughly interesting entertaining and filled with detail, keeping anoraks like me riveted. Thanks for sharing 👍

Thank you@Hubnut for an enjoyable video, with your little helper! We had a superb time here a few years ago, loved the cars and planes, especially Concorde. It is surprisingly small inside, still an amazing piece of engineering.

What a fascinating place with so many awesome cars. Thanks for showing us around.

Absolutely brilliant thank you very much, may have to give it a visit

Very interesting Ian. It's on my list of places to go.

What! No mention of the suburb cafeteria they have?

Never been to brooklands,visited Beaulieu Motor Museum a few years ago with my wife ,enjoyed that thoroughly,weather was great too,all in all a great day was had..

The valves for the hydraulics that raised and lowered the nose of Concorde were manufactured by Premier Precision in Bracknell. The avionics were manufactured by Sperry Gyroscope,also based in Bracknell. Neither company exists now. The engines that powered Concorde were originally used in the TSR2, the avionics of which were also manufactured at Sperry as were parts of the ground mapping radar designed to enable the plane to fly at much 1 at ground level (much like the US strike fighterA1=11Aardvark. I have seen the second prototype of Concorde which was based at Filton and have been alongside the runway at Heathrow when Concorde took off.

What a marvellous place. Plus excellent The Shining based mask action. ✅

Shedgoals indeed, well Brooklands is now on my schedule for next year. Ian I think you've done a brilliant job of boosting their visitor numbers in the future 😁

Such a fantastic place, so much to see there. Went for a ride on one of the classic busses while we were there too.

Grew up visiting this place practically every other weekend. I’d certainly blame me, five years old, balanced on my grandma’s lap in the passenger seat of a red MGB convertible hooning test hill definitely contributed to my love of cars 😄

A fascinating insight and look at the venue. Was a pleasure to watch, Thanks Ian!

No typewriters in their museum?

Brooklands was local as I grew up, we had a 'secret' way in, before all this restoration and development obv, (early 70's) and used to cycle around, up and down the banked curves, avoiding the wrecks of 'planes in various states of being scrapped. A few years later I went to Brooklands tech, on day release from school, and got some useful qualifications. Its part of my history - and at night I could hear so many types of planes landing and taking off as I went to sleep. Happy memories :-)

Great synopsis of a remarkable museum by remarkable volunteers 👍😊

Great video Ian. Nice to see what is on offer at Brooklands. I've been on the Prototype Concorde's at Duxford and Yeovil which are worth a Visit.

The other day you posted somewhere a photo of a Range Rover fire engine. Is it an HCB Angus?

Ah! Concord. Remember seeing them zipping to and from the UK from New York,all the Big Shots and Movers-N-Shakers zipping here and there,TRUELY a great time in Aviation history. I have a few AMC Concordes myself.Lol.

How amazing! Isn't that BMW powered F1 car powered by the M10 based turbocharged engine producing over 1500 BHP in qualification trim? Amazing how they got to such figures out of a 4 cylinder during that era. Lovely detail on the Campbell testing mule is Mr Whoppit, his mascotte that was with him during speed record (attempts), seated in it. Cheers from sunny and (finally!) hot Belgium!

Only just watching this now Ian. The M-Type Midget was the sports version of the 1928-1934 Morris Minor. The OHC engined Minor had the same engine as the M.G. I have the SV engine in my 1932 Minor, but it lost less than 1bhp from its redesign of the earlier engine. The Wolseley Hornet you mention, with its straight six engine, was pretty much a LWB Minor chassis (to accommodate two extra cylinders) and the engine was pretty much the same as the OHC Minor/Midget engine with two more cylinders. The straight six was also used in the early-1930s Magna and Magnette M.G.s, with one displacing 1071cc and the other 1271cc. The four cylinder cars were 847cc as standard, but there were some Midgets with 747cc engines that were also supercharged.

went there a couple of months ago and you made it about as far up the banking as I did haha. Great day out and you didn't even make it to Merc World. Highly recommend both places to anyone

Wow, having flash backs to my youth and Scaletrix set. That started of with some of those Tinnie Tiny racing cars. And like you said 'Started small then got Bigger and back too small again..!' What would all those Cars be worth..! Millions for sure. Great tour, thanx for your efforts..! Cheers All. 😎

I bet if you owned that 'Bellman Camo Shed' you would Fill it with 'Strange and unusual Cars' in about 6 months. Well maybe 12 months..!? Oh the Joy..!! 😎

Been up there twice this summer with my seven year old son. We both loved it. I think it's one of the best museums I've been too and the staff are so friendly and helpful. Great place.

Grew up eight road miles away in East Molesey, my grandfather Reginald J Ashfield was Sopwith's first draughtsman in 1912 then ran the drawing office so his name is on the Pup and Camel drawings among many others before leaving in 1917, my mother worked at Vickers in the offices during the Second World War, cycling the seven miles there and back on a sit up and beg bike every day, and I donated my grandfather's Sopwith notebooks to the museum. I now live 12 road miles away in Guildford but to my shame I've only visited the museum once, some 30 years ago.

McLaren Senna, best car name. (Senna is a natural laxative made from the leaves and fruit of the senna plant. It's used to treat constipation (difficulty pooing)NHS) No typewriters?

Flew supersonic on Concorde in 1992 - promo flight from Middle East to London. Very small inside but the acceleration on takeoff was incredible. Very smooth in flight. Still one of the best experiences in my life.

I took my son there @15 years ago enjoyed it until I realised that they charge you AGAIN to walk through Concorde amongst a crowd of People.... We thought it was included in the Entry Fee...have not been back there since.

The propeller demonstration was of a constant speed prop designed to demonstrate how you can vary how much thrust is produced rather than the direction of thrust, without changing RPM much the way a gear box does.

Wonderful place only the British can put together that well. Lovely video! I absolutely loved the tour, the exhibits and Concorde... You 2 are beautiful

That facemask is unexpected and a bit scary at 3:44 - should we be adding up all the numbers to 237? Or just a 237 Hemi engine review, which would at least be less over-analysed by your good self?

Thank you for this video Mr H. I have lived about 5 miles from Brooklands for the last 36 years and often parked in the Tesco car park by part of the remaining banking but never visited the museum. I feel I now must.

Lovely video. The Brits. do these sort of things better than anyone I think. Preserving heritage. So many volunteers make it possible. My Uncle went on a return journey to New York on Concorde in the day. What amazing machines.

Absolutley brilliant place. I really regret not being able to get there while I was still in the UK. Seeing mini HubNut having such a good time remeinded me of a vist I took the the Science Museum with my great uncle when I was about Mini's age.The interactive stuff was something I shall rmember for the rest of my life and had a huge impact on my life. I've been fascinated by engineering and science ever since. The guys that drove those cars around the banking must have had private parts that had to carried around in wheelbarrows! Holy gonads Batman! ! !

Thank you Ian & Master Hubnut for providing us with a tour of Brooklands Museum + Concorde.

BEA=British European Airways one of the companies that merged to become the modern British Airways

My Dad first drove a car (well, a van in fact) on Brooklands racetrack, while working for Vickers during WWII.

Gutted that I could see Raleigh Chopper's but no Grifter.....I'm not visiting until they get one 😂

Ian and his nod to a certain Stephen King novel. :) Love museums such as these. And that banking at the end reminds me so much of the 1966 movie Grand Prix. If you ever get the chance to watch , I highly recommend it.

11:31 I have always wondered; why were exhaust tips shaped that way at one point? It's not the first car from this era which I've seen with exhaust tips like this and I have never found an explanation as to why (not that I have searched thoroughly either, mind you). I'd appreciate any pointers/insights!

My nephew has a Bugatti T37. I haven't got around to seeing it due to Covid lockdowns. I hope to soon!

I visited Mercedes-Benz World there a few years back & did some driving etc. but I didn't realise there was so much more to see🙄 Great video

I have visited Brooklands many times and it is an excellent museum. Well worth the visit, especially on activity days such as the retro day etc......

When you see something in a museum that is a piece, you know you are getting old! I quickly spotted their blue RSW MKII that is still there from when I was there a few years ago. I have one exactly the same, which has been in the family 47 years this year. Needs a light restore though.

Great vid, really need to visit at some point. The Daughter seemed to enjoy it and got engaged 👍👍 Love the combination of aircraft and cars 👌

How about a potential future HubNut social at Cosford museum? It’s a wonderful place.

Nice 👍 great video love your knowledge and enthusiasm … my favourite museum

While you're there, pop into Mercedes World next door. They have (or did have) quite a few vintage and veteran Mercs. It was free when I did it a few years ago.

Brooklands is most definitely on my bucket list if I ever get back to Old Blighty!

Such jelly... If travel ever happens again, that's on my to-do.

I bought my escort convertible off someone from there about 4 years ago , drove back with no indicators to my mot appointment, it didn't pass first time

Mate, you failed to answer one of life’s most important questions, does Concorde have a triangle of doom??

Just seen my very 1st Hubnut sticker .... stuck to a 2CV in Hanley Swan. 😁

Very very interesting thanks Hub Nut not living in the UK anymore would be on my list if I ever go back

Brilliant. Must visit!

Ian can you do Beaulieu Motor Museum and whilst you are at it Haynes too. both not to far from you... See you there with other hub Nut supporters.

I remembered having hair like Mini-HubNut...long time ago now And the sound of that MG👌

The last time I visited Brooklands was many many years ago. Must revisit at some point.

Excellent. Mini Hubnut will have learnt many amazing things.

Brilliant video and very interesting thank you Ian and mini HubNut.

Voice-over joke caught me off guard, I laughed out loud, thanks mate.

Check out the video of the Vickers Merchantman (Vanguard) landing at brooklands !

very interesting - thank you for the wonderful tour

Concorde 👍. But also many other amazing machines.