Concorde

Concorde

Concorde Model unveiled at Brooklands Museum entrance - November 2012

The 80ft long 40% scale model of Concorde has finally been installed as a gate guardian at Brooklands Museum, where it will serve not only as an ongoing advertisement for Brooklands, but as a tribute to the thousands of local people who worked in the BAC factories at Weybridge.
On Saturday September 29th 2012 the model, which is 24m long and 9m wide, was loaded at the museum, then overnight, moved from the main museum site and installed on newly manufactured supports at the main public entrance to the Museum and Mercedes Benz World by Finch of Bookham, supported the museum’s Concorde team.
The model was removed from the Heathrow Airport tunnel roundabout in 2007, when the lease costs for the prime advertising space rocketed to £1.5M per year. The model was donated by the airline where it was full restored and painted into the livery that closely matches that on the museum's full size Concorde, G-BBDG.
Planning is now underway to ensure the model will be floodlight each evening, with its internal lights and exterior landing lights also being re-commissioned.
Allan Winn, Director of Brookland Museum said: " We are thrilled to have the model Concorde now installed as the gate guardian to the whole Brooklands site. "We owe an enormous debt of gratitude to Mercedes-Benz on whose land the model now stands, and Elmbridge Borough Council, and especially Councillor Jan Fuller, for their generous support in getting it on display here, and to the team of volunteers who have worked so hard both to restore the model and plan its repositioning."
The Mayor said : As Mayor of Elmbridge, I feel truly honoured to be part of the unveiling of Concorde. "A huge amount of time and effort has gone into both acquiring this wonderful model and installing it at its present site. "We should all be grateful to those people that have made this possible."