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

Amgueddfa Cyflymder Pentywyn

View from the beach

Location map and quick summary Location within Carmarthenshire Established 1996 Location Pendine, Carmarthenshire, Wales Coordinates 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

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

• British land speed record

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.

External links

Inside the museum

• Pendine Museum of Speed at the Pendine Community Council website