Brooklands
Sign in to saveBrooklands was a motor racing circuit and aerodrome built near Weybridge in Surrey, England, United Kingdom. It opened in 1907 and was the world's first purpose-built 'banked' motor racing circuit as well as one of Britain's first airfields, which also became Britain's largest aircraft manufacturing centre by 1918, producing military aircraft such as the Wellington and civil airliners like the Viscount and VC10.
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24 sectionsContents
- History
- Beginnings
- The Mountain Circuit
- Motoring records
- 24-hour event
- One-hour records
- Distance records
- World War One
- Inter-war years
- Brooklands Aerodrome
- 1909–1914
- World War I
- Inter-war years
- World War II
- Post-1945
- Brooklands Museum
- Centenary
- Legacy
- Notable people
- Gallery
- Footnotes
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Brooklands was a motor racing circuit and aerodrome built near Weybridge in Surrey, England, United Kingdom. It opened in 1907 and was the world's first purpose-built 'banked' motor racing circuit as well as one of Britain's first airfields, which also became Britain's largest aircraft manufacturing centre by 1918, producing military aircraft such as the Wellington and civil airliners like the Viscount and VC10.
The circuit hosted its last race in August 1939 and today part of it forms the Brooklands Museum, a major aviation and motoring museum, as well as a venue for vintage car, motorcycle and other transport-related events.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Brooklands” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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