South Africa's premier mile-long Weight For Age horse race was first run in honour of Queen Victoria after she gifted a silver plate and 500 sovereigns to the South African Turf Club. The inaugural contest, staged as The Queen's Plate was held in April 1861...
Both Wayne Harley and Mike Monk were recently invited to the launch of South African sporting legend Peter Lindenberg’s new book, Flat Out and Fearless. The recently retired motor racing great – who is also the man with Shelby connections and is the driving force...
A regular series about the museum’s motoring memorabilia and behind-the-scenes activities, compiled and written by FMM’s Assistant Curator Sian Theron. This month, Sian has buckets of fun fighting fires...
A regular feature by senior workshop technician JP du Plessis outlining the activities of FMM’s workshop personnel who are responsible for repairing, renovating, refurbishing and restoring the museum’s large and varied collection of vehicles. This month, JP reports on two members of the team who...
This month FMM Curator Wayne Harley describes a bike with a mission in life...
A regular feature covering vehicles in the FMM collection that are celebrating an anniversary during 2022. The last one for 2022 is a superb example of a classic British sports car. Mike Monk gives some barefoot impressions...
If ever there was a vehicle that epitomised the adjective ‘utilitarian’, the Citroën Méhari is it. ‘Built for a purpose’ is perhaps too simplistic a phrase to describe what the Méhari represents but its bare-bones persona is, in reality, full of character. Mike Monk goes...
FMM’s Mike Monk was born within a kilometre of the Alvis factory in Coventry, England, and still remembers as a child seeing the new cars and armoured vehicles running around the site. Now, the 103-year-old car company says it is making brand new vehicles using...
A regular look back at old motoring and motor sport items...
A regular series about the museum’s motoring memorabilia and behind-the-scenes activities, compiled and written by FMM’s Assistant Curator Sian Theron. This month, Sian goes picnic chic...
