Lots in store when you visit Ipswich Transport Museum
Ipswich Transport Museum‘s second ‘What’s in Store?’ day takes place on Sunday 12th July.
The special event allows visitors to see items that are not normally on public display, including future restoration projects and current projects.
A special free bus service will operate between the museum’s Priory Heath exhibition hall and the museum’s off-site store building in the north west of the town. The store contains over a dozen rare vehicles, including three priceless pre-war Eastern Counties buses, awaiting their turn in the restoration queue. New to the collection within the store building and now mounted on an original Tilling Stevens chassis, is the body of a 1920s Eastern Counties Roadcar bus, built by Ransomes Sims and Jeffries in Ipswich. An ex-Wyards Removals Bedford lorry will also be on display outside.
Ipswich Transport Museum Chairman Mark Smith explained “This is a unique event to show people what we get up to when the museum in closed, and to show a lot of our exhibits in the often quite poor condition that we restore them from. Cleaning, restoration, building, repairs, maintenance - they’re all jobs undertaken by our volunteers. We thought it would be nice to showcase some of the work we do, and some of the rarely seen objects in our collection”.
In addition, the museum’s exhibition hall will be open as usual, as will the Sunbeam tea room and gift shop. Refreshments will also be available at the museum’s store building.
Full details of museum opening times and prices are on the museum’s website - www.ipswichtransportmuseum.co.uk - and facebook page.
