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Welcome to the website for the British Bubblecar Museum, dedicated only to microcars. The term 'Microcar' means literally a car under 700cc, although most are much smaller. Microcars, or bubble cars as they are more usually known, are a significant part of English motoring history. Lots of small manufacturers in the fifties and sixties were busily making strange little cars all over Britain and the continent.

Prominent English makers were Bond, run by Laurie Bond of Lancashire, who produced deeply strange 'mini cars'. Berkeleys of Biggleswade made amazing vehicles. Others include the Meadows Frisky, the Peel, Reliant, AC Petite and Scootacar. There is even a bubble car maker at Hull in Yorkshire where Alan Evans produced the Bamby one seater car (we have one of these) and went into limited production.

These cars and their European counterparts of Messerschmitt, Isetta, Vespa, Heinkel and many more have a huge following, but in England, at least, no centre for enthusiasts. We have over seventy exhibits on show at present with many more waiting to go in. We also have archives both technical and published, which you can access, memorabilia and much more for you to see.

                          We have plenty of parking, disabled access is easy and we have facilities for disabled visitors.
We have a camping field and rally field with showers, loos and hookups.
Visit our double decker bus tea room too!

We now run regular riding days with Microcars such as the Heinkel/Trojan, Messerschmitt
and Bond, giving 10 minute rides around the countryside.

Watch the website and read the news from the Museum.

For further information, please write to:

or phone: 01400 262637

or e-mail: bubblecarmuseum@btinternet.com

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