Lanchester Car Monument

Lanchester Car Monument

The "Lanchester Car Monument" (gbmapping|SP087883) is an open-air galvanized steel sculpture of the "Stanhope Phaeton", or "Lanchester" motor car. It is in Bloomsbury Village Green, a piece of reclaimed land in the Heartlands (Nechells) area of Birmingham, England. It was designed by Tim Tolkien to commemorate the Lanchester cars which were made there.

It is in a park on Bloomsbury Street, near to the junction with Bloomsbury Walk, on the site of the former Forward Gas Engine Company and the adjacent small workshop where the engine for Britain's first four wheel petrol car was made by Frederick Lanchester in 1895.

ources

* [http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/Media/F33.pdf?MEDIA_ID=145438&FILENAME=F33.pdf Article in Birmingham City Council newspaper: "Forward", 3 May 2006. PDF. (page 7)]

External links

* [http://www.bplphoto.co.uk/imagefiles/F23/pages/F23-034.html Photo library picture]


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