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Rick Site Admin

Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22780 Location: UK
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Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 8:32 am Post subject: Science Museum - your TV vote needed! FBHVC |
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This arrived the other day, regarding one of those TV programmes where you vote for a particular 'worthy cause' to receive financial help to complete a project:
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This is not an appeal for money; it is not even an appeal for anything of direct benefit to FBHVC, but it is important. This is being sent to everyone in my e-mail address book - if you have had it before, or receive it more than once, please forgive the duplication.
It is an appeal by FBHVC to you to do something to help save, preserve and display the technological and innovative treasures that are held in the collection at the Science Museum and thus effectively belong to the nation. You can help do this simply by making a phone call or sending a text or an e-mail at the right time. Let me explain.
The Science Museum has around quarter of a million exhibits showing the history of man's ingenuity. This includes a substantial collection related to transport. Presently, the museum has space to display only a small fraction of these items with the remainder in storage in less than ideal conditions in dilapidated WW2 hangars on a 500 acre site at Wroughton, near Swindon.
The Science Museum plans to reconstruct two of these giant hangars and link them with a state-of-the-art atrium to provide acres of exhibition space that will enable it to display the whole collection. The emphasis is very much on using the ingenuity of the past to inspire the developments of the future - and that gives the project its name - Inspired. It is all about stirring the imagination of the young and encouraging the scientists, technologists and engineers of the future. You can see a "flythrough" of the proposed museum on our website, www.fbhvc.co.uk .
I said this was not an appeal for money: it isn't, but money does come into it - lottery money, a £50 million lottery jackpot that is to be decided by a public vote following a series of TV programmes that will go out in December.
The Science Museum Inspired project is one of six projects vying for this 'winner take all' funding. The other projects are all worthy causes, but none is so urgent or so important for our future: as one colleague commented "cycle paths and tree-top walkways can be built tomorrow, endangered artefacts can't wait".
See www.voteinspired.org.uk for more information (that's deliberately not an active link to reduce the risk of this message being eaten by aggressive anti-spam systems!).
You can help secure this essential funding in any, or all, of four ways:-
1. Commit to vote at the appropriate time - good intentions are no help, it needs you to be certain to act. You can register your intention to vote NOW on the website noted above and you will then receive a reminder nearer the time.
2. Tell your friends, spread the word - perhaps by copying this message to everyone in your address book.
3. If you are able to get some information into a club publication, on a website, or distributed through any other kind of network please do - the staff at the Science Museum will be delighted to help with leaflets, text and links to put on websites etc.
e-mail: Susan.Martin@ScienceMuseum.org.uk or phone 01793 846200
4. If you chat on any web forums, get a thread started.
And if you can think of anything else, please let me or the Science Museum know!
Above all, recognise that unless all of us with an interest in science and engineering take the trouble to vote, £50 million of lottery money may go to fund a tourist attraction leaving national treasures (which, having been received by a national collection, cannot be sold) to moulder and decay.
Please do it!
Jim Whyman.
P H J Whyman, Secretary
Federation of British Historic Vehicle Clubs Ltd
Kernshill, Shute Street
Stogumber, Taunton, Somerset TA4 3TU
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Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 9:35 am Post subject: |
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"(which, having been received by a national collection, cannot be sold)"
That's bloody outrageous. |
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buzzy bee Guest
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Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 10:09 am Post subject: |
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why outrageous?
Cheers
Dave |
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Brian M Guest
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Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 10:43 am Post subject: |
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I'll certainly support this when the time comes to vote - too much lottery money goes to preserve some snails or suchlike that could be picked up and moved to a new location.
It would be great to see some funding go to preserve their collection.
JR - I have to agree that surely they could find a way to have the terms of the gift revised to allow sales of items, perhaps where they have duplicates. But the giver would be understandably upset if his/her gift was sold off wholesale.
Any proceeds would have to be used for the preservation of the remaining artefacts. |
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Penman Guest
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Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 1:43 pm Post subject: |
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Hi
While at the Wroughton Classic Car Show back in August I had a look round that part of the museum collection which is currently on show.
It is well worth the visit when you are in the area.
There were:-
Cars
Commercials
Bikes
M/Bikes
Aircraft
Some of the collection can be seen here:-
http://www.voteinspired.org.uk/sitecore/content/Inspired_Home/ourcollections.aspx
and yes, that is an Edsel hiding under the Constellation's Port Inner. |
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Job-Rated Guest
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Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 8:35 am Post subject: |
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buzzy bee wrote: | why outrageous? |
The alternative doesn't bear thinking about, Dave.
I like Brian's comment about any monies raised from the sale of surplus exhibits going back into maintaining/preserving the rest of a collection.
Brian M For Minister Of Transport!!  |
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buzzy bee Guest
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Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 9:12 am Post subject: |
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Hi
I think I am misunderstanding something?
If someone donates a car/exibit to a museum it should stay with the museum, not be sold on to raise a fast buck? They should never have accepted the vehicle if they can't afford to keep them, or do the work to them.
I think it is outrageous they are having to sell them, Is this waht you meant?
They should be donated to others if they can't afford the works if they have recieved them as a donation, they should be donated to other collections and enthusiasts.
Cheers
Dave  |
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Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 10:08 am Post subject: |
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buzzy bee wrote: | If someone donates a car/exibit to a museum it should stay with the museum, not be sold on to raise a fast buck? |
I agree, but I would imagine museums rely on visitors for revenue & if business has been poor, maintenance of the vehicles becomes simply untenable. Selling the odd exhibit could raise revenue to do this, but they are simply not allowed.
buzzy bee wrote: | They should never have accepted the vehicle if they can't afford to keep them, or do the work to them. |
As a museum piece & being for the most part in a static display, the upkeep should really be minimal, but regular. Besides, how many of us on here know not just official bodies like museums, but people, who have done exactly that - took on more than they can chew?
buzzy bee wrote: | I think it is outrageous they are having to sell them, Is this waht you meant?  |
The paragraph is just stating a fact - basically, if enough monies aren't available for the vehicle's upkeep, the museum is forced to scrap them.
buzzy bee wrote: | They should be donated to others if they can't afford the works if they have recieved them as a donation, they should be donated to other collections and enthusiasts. |
Ah, a man after my own heart!  |
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giggles Guest
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Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 12:29 pm Post subject: |
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I might be getting the wrong end of the stick here, so soory if I'm.
Our local transport museum has strict policies on the acquisition and disposal of exhibits. Basically they have a collection policy where all exhibits have to be built or used in the town. That way they don't get over run with things being given to them that they don't want. These rules were put in place when the museum started to collect exhibits back in the mid 1960's.
www.ipswichtransportmuseum.co.uk/adpolicy.htm |
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