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Jack Addis and Aston Martin’s First Success
Image of Jack Addis at the wheel of ‘Coal Scuttle’ circa 1919.
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A visit from the Aston Martin concepts team
It was a pleasure to host the Concepts Team from Aston Martin in February. They enjoyed a private tour with our museum host Dom and learnt where, when and how Aston Martin got started and its journey through the years. Their current visions are yet to be created but...
The 2012 Vanquish cutaway now on display!
The 2012 V12 Vanquish cutaway is now on display in the museum for a limited time only. This pre-production cutaway was built for show use and based on Aston Martin’s VH design structure (all bonded aluminium tub) with an especially lightened front end which lowered...
Visit to Vaughtons – The official badge maker of Aston Martin
The AMHT team and volunteers took a trip to the Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham to visit Vaughtons to see first hand, how the iconic Aston Martin "wings" are made. Nick Hobbis, Managing Director showed us around the factory so we could see for ourselves what's...
A service of remembrance and celebration for the life of Count Louis Zborowski
We were thrilled to be part of this very special occasion, which celebrated the life of Louis Zborowski, who died 100 years ago on the same date in 1924. Louis Zborowski was the man behind "Chitty Bang Bang" , a pioneering race driver and a financial saviour of Aston...
Heritage Open Days
We were delighted to join the Heritage Open Days festival for the first time this year. Heritage Opens days or HOD's for short is England's largest festival of history and culture and so we thought there's no better way to share the work of the Trust and let people...
Reuniting DB7 car owners past and present. Dr Bez meets current owner Michael Holyoake at the Aston Martin Heritage Festival
We were delighted to be able to reunite Dr Bez, previous CEO and Chairman of Aston Martin Lagonda with his first ever Aston Martin at our recent heritage festival. Dr Bez was one of our special guests at the David Brown Dinner...
Collections Corner
Object in Focus: Framed T-Shirt, Glamorgan County Cricket Club
Object Number: AMHT-2021-390 Object Type: Clothing Object Description: Framed signed T-Shirt, Glamorgan County Cricket Club No, this isn’t a late April Fools, we really do have a cricket shirt in the collection. You may be as bemused as I was when I found it – why on...
Ladies First: Elsie Wisdom
As we celebrated International Women’s Day on 8 March, this month’s Collections Corner blog is about one of the trailblazing women represented in AMHT’s Collection. May I introduce, Elsie Wisdom. Mort Morris-Goodall and Elsie 'Bill' Wisdom, Le Mans 1933 Known by those...
The Magic of the Motor Show
Last year we were lucky to add some brilliant photographs of Aston Martin’s motor show stands to the collection. They came to us from the collection of the late Tony Nugent who was Sales Director at AML from the late 1970s to the 1980s. We’re working through these...
Object in Focus: ‘Q by Aston Martin’ brochure
Object Number: AMHT-2019-120 Object Type: Marketing brochure Object Description: Large purple leather 'Q by Aston Martin' brochure They say that February is the month of love, and I am certainly loving this recent discovery from my travels around the Collection...
A Sterling (Silver) Effort
January began as it does every year for Bryony and I, with a spot of cleaning. Like many museums, historic sites and heritage organisations, we take the opportunity while closed to the public to do a deep clean, but this year we set ourselves an extra challenge. Our...
Behind the Scenes at Vaughtons
I’d originally planned to round off this year’s Collections Corner with something fun about Christmas cards (we have a few in the Collection!), but they were swiftly replaced after a brilliant team visit to Vaughtons at the end of last month. Vaughtons are Aston...
Trustees’ Talk
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