The Road Ahead exhibition opens in Swansea

Swansea Museum has a new exhibition for motoring enthusiasts entitled “The Road Ahead”. It covers life on four wheels and two from early motoring adventures around Gower by early intrepid drivers such as Alex Moffat and his pioneering colleagues, to the brief but glorious years of top motor racing at the Fairwood circuit on the Common above Killay, now home to the city Airport. Much else is included, such as historic motorcycles and collectors cars large and small, coverage of many local motorclubs, a central display featuring unique motoring artwork from the prestigious “Shell Collection”, kindly on loan from the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu in the New Forest, and a host of fascinating memorabilia from local enthusiasts.
The “Road Ahead” takes the visitor past products from the now departed Ford plant at Jersey Marine, via Formula 1 tyres and glittering motor racing trophies, and the sights and sounds of Grand Prix racing of yesteryear, through the dangerous world of Land Speed records at Pendine Sands, to the prospects of motoring in the future and bio-fuels that may help save the planet.
	The displays feature the former BP Refinery at Llandarcy, that kept our armed forces supplied with fuel through world conflicts, and also provided the bitumen that created many of the roads we drive along, the DVLA that towers on the skyline above Morriston, products from the ‘motoring in miniature’ factory that once produced Corgi cars by the million from that same suburb, and a trio of Austin ‘pedal cars’ made by former Miners in the Rhondda Valley, that were every childs dream in the 1950’s (*left*). Admission is free and the display runs to the end of the year.