Introduction

The Historic Vehicle Research Institute and the University of Brighton in the United Kingdom have come together with  www.motorbase.com to build an international archive of our mobile heritage. This catalogued archive will digitally preserve images of our mobile heritage for everyone to enjoy and study.

Building and using the Archive

Who & What? Submissions to the archive are welcome from everyone. It doesn't matter how old you are or where you live. Submissions are welcome from amateurs and professionals from all nations. You can enter single photographs, portfolios or collections. Single submission can be made on the site. If you wish the team of the Photographic Archive of Transport Heritage (PATH) to upload multiple images for you just contact the PATH administrator.

We would prefer submissions to be accompanied by details in English but this is not essential. Where necessary we will work with experts to provide any translations that are required.

We are building an archive of images before they are lost for ever.

What does the archive contain?

You can upload images yourself from the site or send images in the post that are:

  • Old photographs, transparencies, negatives or plates etc. that are scanned by you or by the PATH team,
  • Modern images old forms of transport transport from our heritage,
  • Modern images of modern forms of transport that you think will become part of our heritage in years to come.

 Jowett Javelin (M.Mckay, 2002)


Categories

Images of vehicles that are land based, water based or airborne are all welcome. For example:

  • Cars & Motorcycles
  • Commercial
  • Bus, tram, trolloy 
  • Cycles
  • Caravan & mobile home

Using the Archive

The archive is open to everyone. There are no restrictions on browsing and searching. However, we will need to ensure that copyright obligations are not breached. Any use of the images outside of the archive will need to be by agreement with the copyright owner.


 39 Seater Leyland Coach1939

(N. Georgano)


We need your help Identifying & cataloguing 

At the moment we have 20,487 images in the digital archive and we anticipate this number to rise as contributors send us their photographs. However, so far we have only managed to identify and catalogue 8326 of the initial 20,000. 

If you are able to help us with the identification of the ones still outstanding it would be wonderful and greatly appreeciated. 

If you have any suggestions for making the site better in any way please let us know. We do our best to look at with fresh eyes everyday but that is not always easy. Your eyes, comments and ideas would be very welcome.


Please email the PATH administrator. 



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Photograph of the day

     Please email if you know what this bus 
     is citing Photograph of the day 
     14th January 2012

Georgano Collection

Nick Georgano, the retired Editor-in-chief, The Beaulieu Encyclopaedia of the Automobile (HMSO, 2000), is working with the team at the Photographic Archive of Transport Heritage (PATH) to load 16,000 plus of his image collection into the archive. The project is due to take several years and involve a lot of detailed work but Nick and everyone at PATH are convinced it will be a tremendously useful to anyone interested in historic vehicles.

If you have a collection you feel able to share with everyone please contact the PATH administrator.

Photograph of the day

If you send us your favourite picture we will do what we can to make it our photograph of the day. Send your picture to PATH administrator 

Sponsors

The organising team are now seeking additional sponsorship for the establishment of the archive. If you think you might be able to help in any please contact 


 
    Last Horse-drawn Tram, Tollcross, 1907
    (Lothian Buses plc)