Date: Saturday 7 September 2019

Time: 10.00 to 3.30

Location: 70 Oxford Street, Manchester M1 5NH

Tickets:  OPEN TO EVERYONE. £20 waged/£10 unwaged, includes buffet lunch. Available here.

For tickets: http://buyonline.mmu.ac.uk/, then search on ‘motorist’

Talks on:

• Overview of the early cycling and motoring industry in the North West
• Motoring in the North West, c1900
• Motoring archives in the North West
• Roads in the North West c1900: experimentation and achievement
• Rothwell: a case study of a north-west car manufacturer
• Manchester and the early bicycle industry

Displays on:

• Manchester and the Thousand Mile Trial of 1900
• Samuel Okell, (probably) Cheshire’s first motorist

£20 waged/£10 unwaged, includes buffet lunch
For tickets: http://buyonline.mmu.ac.uk/, then search on ‘motorist’
Hosted by the:
Manchester Centre for Public History and Heritage
For more information, visit:
The Nineteenth-Century Motorist Project:
facebook.com/19thcenturymotorist