Myreton Motor Museum in Aberlady, East Lothian, United Kingdom | Museum | Motor Museum

Myreton Motor Museum in Aberlady, Scotland, is one of the oldest motor transport Museums in the United Kingdom. Myreton Motor Museum first opened its doors in August 1966, and resides in a complex of display rooms next to the farm of the founder, the late Willie Dale. The car park is around the rear of the complex and entry is from the car park.
Once inside you find yourself in the first of a number of display rooms that have the look and feel of workshops, completely appropriate for the display of their superbly restored and maintained contents. The walls of the display rooms are lined with advertising signs, pictures, and other memorabilia, while old signposts, road signs, and other artifacts of more than a century of motoring fill the available space.
There are over 30 cars and other vehicles on display at Myreton Motor Museum in Aberlady, Scotland, plus a large collection of motorcycles, old and new, on loan to the Museum. Overall around half of the vehicles are owned by the Dale family, the rest on loan to a home that provides care and attention, and makes them available to public view.
The exhibits cover all eras of motoring. The oldest is a 1899 General Electric that looks more like a carriage short of a horse than an electric car. It drove into the Museum under its own power in 1994.
Those with an interest in Scotland will be drawn to the 1919 Ford Model TT (a beefed up Model T Ford designed for commercial use) that has been fitted with a 14 seat charabanc (open bus) body. This was used to carry passengers from Lochgilphead to the Crinan Canal in Argyll. All the exhibits have helpful information panels to tell you what you are looking at, and the charabanc's reveals that it could reach 25mph. What its stopping distance was from that speed with a full load of passengers is not revealed. This vehicle's story is typical of many in the Museum. It was put away in a barn in 1930, only being found after the roof of the barn collapsed in 1962. It has since been lovingly restored to what you see today.