Heritage Zone
Brand new for 2025, the Heritage Zone presented by The National Motorcycle Museum, will present a celebration on the 80th Anniversary of VE Day, with 10 highly-notable bikes from the last eight decades on display, including a World War 1 Clyno Machine Gun Sidecar & World War 2 Norton 16H. The museum’s Restoration Team will also be on the stand every day, not only showing how they restore some on the oldest bikes in Britain, but talking you through all things mechanical – you might even pick up some tricks of the trade for your own project! They’re also giving you the chance to WIN a classic of your own.
Experts will be on hand to talk about the bikes on display, as well as the rest of the museum’s enviable collection situated just across the road from the NEC. The museum houses the largest collection of British motorcycles in the world with over 1,000 machines from 170 different manufacturers spanning no less than three centuries! Of the 1000 plus machines in the collection there are around 850 on display at any one time throughout the museums five huge display halls.
On display will be:
1914 -1918 Clyno Machine Gun Sidecar Machines 750cc
1939 650cc Norton Big Four Military outfit
1940 Matchless G3W0
1940 350cc Velocette MAC/MDD
1940 350cc Ariel W/NG
1941 350cc Triumph 3SW
1942 500cc BSA M20
1942 500cc Norton 16H
1942 125cc Royal Enfield WD/RE
1961 Triumph T110 650cc Steve McQueen Replica
1967 BSA B40WD
1987 Armstrong MT500