Pendine 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]

Pendine Museum of Speed
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View from the beach
Location map and quick summary
Location within Carmarthenshire
Established1996
LocationPendine, Carmarthenshire, Wales
Coordinates51.7425°N 4.5562°W / 51.7425; -4.5562
TypeTransport museum
Visitors33,522 (2009)
OwnerCarmarthenshire County Council
WebsiteThe Museum of Speed

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]

In 2018 it was decided to replace the 1990s museum building with another, at a cost of £7 million.[4] As of the end of 2018, the museum was closed, and is being demolished to be replaced with a new one (no opening date available yet). Babs was on display at Beaulieu Motor Museum until February 2019, but is currently (May 2019) being maintained and is not on display to the public anywhere.

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
  4. "Pendine Sands to get £7m museum of speed". BBC News Online. 26 September 2018.
Inside the museum



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