For part of each summer the museum housed 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, at a cost of £7 million.[4] In February 2021, the museum was closed and demolished. The new museum building was completed in early 2023 and opened on March 31. [5]
Babs was displayed at the Beaulieu Motor Museum until February 2019 and was returned to Pendine for the reopening back of the Museum of Speed.
pendine, museum, speed, dedicated, pendine, sands, land, speed, record, attempts, opened, 1996, village, pendine, south, coast, wales, owned, carmarthenshire, county, council, museum, received, visitors, 2009, amgueddfa, cyflymder, pentywynview, from, beachloc. The Pendine Museum of Speed was 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 was owned and run by Carmarthenshire County Council The museum received 33 522 visitors in 2009 1 Pendine Museum of SpeedAmgueddfa Cyflymder PentywynView from the beachLocation within CarmarthenshireEstablished1996 1996 LocationPendine Carmarthenshire WalesCoordinates51 44 33 N 4 33 22 W 51 7425 N 4 5562 W 51 7425 4 5562TypeTransport museumVisitors33 522 2009 OwnerCarmarthenshire County CouncilWebsiteThe Museum of Speed Inside the museum For part of each summer the museum housed 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 at a cost of 7 million 4 In February 2021 the museum was closed and demolished The new museum building was completed in early 2023 and opened on March 31 5 Babs was displayed at the Beaulieu Motor Museum until February 2019 and was returned to Pendine for the reopening back of the Museum of Speed See also editBritish land speed recordReferences edit Visitors to tourist attractions in Wales StatsWales Welsh Assembly Government retrieved 25 July 2012 Wales Old girl with a racy past Telegraph Media Group 12 August 2000 retrieved 2 March 2013 Former land speed record car on display in driver s hometown ITV 5 November 2012 retrieved 2 March 2013 Pendine Sands to get 7m museum of speed BBC News Online 26 September 2018 Pendine Tourism Attractor project opens in time for Easter Western Telegraph 5 April 2023 External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Museum of Speed Pendine Pendine Museum of Speed at the Pendine Community Council website as at January 2021 Pendine Museum of Speed at the Pendine Community Council website 2018 archive nbsp This Carmarthenshire location article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte nbsp nbsp This article relating to a museum in the United Kingdom is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Pendine Museum of Speed amp oldid 1216631280, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
