London Motor Museum, Automobile museum in Hayes, England
The London Motor Museum was an automobile museum in Hayes, a town on the western edge of Greater London, displaying vehicles that spanned several decades of the 20th century. The collection focused mainly on models from the 1960s through the 1980s, showing how car design changed during that period.
The museum opened in 2012, founded by Elo King, and presented cars as objects that reflected the design tastes of the 20th century. It closed in 2018 after a dispute with local authorities over financial matters brought its operation to an end.
The museum displayed cars from well-known films and television series, including a Batmobile and the Ford Gran Torino from Starsky and Hutch. These exhibits drew visitors who wanted to see vehicles they remembered from screens rather than from roads.
The museum was located in Hayes and was easy to reach from central London via Hayes and Harlington station. Since the museum closed in 2018, anyone interested in its former collection should check whether individual vehicles have moved to other institutions nearby.
After the museum closed, its vehicles were sent to different institutions across the United Kingdom rather than staying together as a single collection. Some cars ended up in other museums, while others passed into private hands, scattering what had once been one coherent group.
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