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Worcester

Transport and Machinery

Status:Active, open to new members
Leader:
When: Monthly on Thursday afternoons 2:00 pm
Venue: Rushwick Village Hall

The Transport and Machinery Group embraces all aspects of transport and static machinery. There is no restriction on numbers so if you're interested, do come along - the more the merrier! Although I am acting as Group co-ordinator for administrative purposes I am not any kind of expert. As a result I look to members to suggest topics, give presentations on their particular interests if they wish, propose visits and otherwise contribute to the Group.

Below are some of the photographs from past visits.

  • Meetings for 2026- 27 are scheduled for second Thursday of each month. Visits can be arranged for any day that suits group members, hence:
  • Thursday 10th September
  • Thursday 8th October
  • Thursday 12th November
  • Thursday 10th December
  • Thursday 7th January
  • Thursday 11th february
  • Thursday 11th March
  • Thursday 10th April
  • Thursday 13th May

Photos from some of our visits

25/07/2026 Members of the group tour Tyseley Railway Depot
25/07/26 Around the turntable at Tyseley. (They will be nice when they are finished)
17/01/26 Last chance to see Nimrod XV232?
17/1/26 Who put these 2 in charge of the nuclear buttons?
Colin in the Flight-engineer's seat
Nicholson's Visit November 2025; MD Andrew explains how the soundboard for a new organ will work
Explaining voicing the pipes
Steve demonstrates his model of an organ
Last chance to see/hear XV232?
Bristol Aerospace Museum Visit, May 2025
Motor Museum Visit June 2025
Rare Daimler Sports
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Beck Collection
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Beck Collection
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Carl & Triumph Tiger Cub
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Duxford - Concord No1 The Test Bed
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Duxford -Main Space 25/10/22
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Duxford Visit
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Early belt drive - avoid flares!
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Early front wheel drive
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Fortress
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GWRS Visit 16May 2023
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GWRS Visit 16May2023
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GWSR Visit 16May2023
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GWSR Visit 16May2023
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GWSR Visit 16May2023
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GWSR Visit 16May2023
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GWSR Visit 16May2023
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Inside a Mazak Laser cutting machine
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Mazak visit
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Mazak Visit Dec 2023
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Mazak Visit Dec 2023
First and last Jaguar E-types
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Mazak Visit Dec 2023
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QWSR Visit 16May2023
Aerospace Museum - The Last Concorde
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Some of the Wythall buses
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Some of the battery vehicles
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Suitably named Brough Superior
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The F117 'Stealth' Plane
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Trevor with one of his bikes
Aerospace Museum - Bristol 403 car
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Visit to National Motorcycle Museum
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Wythall Transport Museum Visit

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