Pendine Museum of Speed

Pendine Museum of Speed
Amgueddfa Cyflymder Pentywyn
A glass-fronted building
View from the beach
Location map and quick summary
Location within Carmarthenshire
Established 1996
Location Pendine, Carmarthenshire, Wales
Coordinates 51°44′33″N 4°33′22″W / 51.7425°N 4.5562°W / 51.7425; -4.5562
Type Transport museum
Visitors 33,522 (2009)
Owner Carmarthenshire County Council
Website

The Museum of Speed

The Pendine Museum of Speed is dedicated to the use of Pendine Sands for land speed record attempts. It was opened in 1996 in the village of Pendine, on the south coast of Wales, and is owned and run by Carmarthenshire County Council. The museum received 33,522 visitors in 2009.[1]

For part of the summer the museum houses Babs, the land speed record car in which J. G. Parry-Thomas was killed in 1927. Babs was excavated in 1969 after 42 years of burial on the beach at Pendine Sands, and restored over the following 16 years by Owen Wyn Owen.[2][3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Visitors to tourist attractions in Wales", StatsWales – Welsh Assembly Government, retrieved 25 July 2012
  2. ↑ "Wales: Old girl with a racy past", Telegraph Media Group, 12 August 2000, retrieved 2 March 2013
  3. ↑ "Former land speed record car on display in driver's hometown", ITV, 5 November 2012, retrieved 2 March 2013
Inside the museum


Coordinates: 51°44′33″N 4°33′22″W / 51.7425°N 4.5562°W / 51.7425; -4.5562


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