Dangerfield's Motor Museum
The first Motor Museum was set up by Edmund Dangerfield.
See also Contents Displayed
1912 May 31st. First sited at 175-179 Oxford Street, London, the old premises of Waring and Gillow, with over forty vehicles built before 1903 and a range of accessories.
The exhibition closed on 31 July 1912 and reopened on 12 March 1914 at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham.
The collection remained there until the building was required during the WWI and the exhibits were returned to their owners, taken in by Government Museums, or dumped on waste ground near Charing Cross Station.
In 1931 the remaining unplaced vehicles from the 1912 Motor Museum were destroyed.
In 1972, five of the saved cars from the original 1912 Museum were displayed at the newly opened National Motor Museum at Beaulieu.