Automobile Museums.

Museums holding four wheel drive vehicles, military vehicles, or significant vehicle collections.

Australia.

ACT:

Treloar Warfare Technology Centre, corner of Vicars and Callan Streets, Mitchell. (Mostly aircraft and artillery.) tel: (06) 241 8949.
Open: 11am - 4pm Wed' and Sat'

Northern Territory:

Road Transport Hall of Fame, Alice Springs
Open 9am - 5pm 7 days per week, tour group transport to Hall of Fame can be arranged. Tel: 89 527 161

South Australia

National Motor Museum, Birdwood, SA

Victoria:

Fire Services Museum of Victoria
39 Gisborne St., East Melbourne 3002
Cnr. Gisborne St and Victoria Parade, East Melbourne (Melways 2B K12)
Open - Fridays 9am-3pm, Sundays 10am-4pm

Melbourne Tank Museum, 456 Bellgrave Hallam Rd., Victoria 3804, (Melways ref 108 G2)
Open: Sundays 11am - 5pm, except winter, buses and school groups by appointment 9796-8216

National Holden Motor Museum, 7-11 Warren St., Echuca, Victoria 3564; tel/fax:03-5480-2033
Open: 7 days, 9am - 5pm.
No four wheel drives, but plenty of national heritage, including a 1948 Holden 48-215 (Holden FX) and the 1969 Holden Hurricane. [More information]

Royal Australian Armoured Corps (RAAC) Tank Museum, Puckapunyal, Victoria
Open: 10am - 4pm (except Christmas Day and Boxing Day)

Royal Australian Corps of Transport Museum, Puckapunyal, Victoria
Open: 10am - 4pm (except Christmas Day and Boxing Day)

Also see Australian Military Museums.

United Kingdom (UK).

British Motor Industry Heritage Trust
Heritage Motor Centre, Gaydon, Warwickshire CV35 0BJ, England
tel: 01926 641188
The BMIHT museum holds many significant Land-Rover four wheel drive vehicles. It also holds Rover cars, MGs and other Rover group vehicles.
[More information.]

Cultra Ulster Folk and Transport Museum [More information.]

Muckleburgh Collection, Weybourne, North Norfolk NR25 7EG, England. Military memorabilia, 15 tanks, armoured vehicles and wheeled vehicles. [More information.]

Museum of Army Transport, Flemingate, Beverley, Nth Humberside HU17 ONG, England. Open daily 10am-5pm except 24, 25, 26 December. [More information.]
Early 1997: it seems that the museum may have closed down due to the loss of an operating subsidy from the council. But Feb' 1998: we have been told it's back open.

National Motor Museum,
John Montagu Building, Beaulieu, Brockenhurst, Hampshire, SO4 7ZN, England. [More information.]

United States (US)

Pikes Peak Hill Climb and museum
135 Manitou Avenue, Manitou Springs, Colorado 80829.
mail: Pikes Peak Auto Hill Climb Educational Museum,
P.O. Box 6962, Colorado Springs, CO 80934-6962.

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