Celebrate Black Country motoring heritage

Start your engines! Join us for a spectacular weekend celebrating the vehicles that put the Black Country on the map. Discover classic cars, motorcycles and vintage vehicles in action, and enjoy a memorable day out for families, history lovers and transport enthusiasts alike.

Festival of Vehicles

13th - 14th Jun 2026

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FREE for Members and UnChained Annual Pass holders.

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Discover Black Country Engineering

Explore displays of vehicles manufactured in the West Midlands, featuring world renowned marques such as Bean, Clyno, Guy, Sunbeam and AJS.

The Museum is home to the largest collection of Black Country manufactured vehicles in the world, including buses, motorbikes and cars.

Recent highlights include:

• A replica Midland Counties dairy milk cart, lovingly built by Museum craftsmen, volunteers and staff

• A 1959 DKR Defiant scooter, a British challenger to Italian giants like Vespa and Lambretta

All vehicles can be seen on display throughout the Museum’s historic town.

What to expect on your visit

Family Activities & Hands On Fun

There’s plenty for younger visitors and families to enjoy throughout the day:

• Family discovery trail

• Weighbridge demonstrations, have a go at guessing the weight of a truck and an elephant

• Stop, Look and Listen! Earn your badge with the policeman and Tufty Club activities

• Sound the horn! Visit Conway Garage to explore land speed records and discover objects at the touch table
Event Highlights

Cavalcade of Vehicles – 1.30pm

Don’t miss this impressive procession of historic vehicles as they take to the streets of the Museum's town.

• Ice cream cycle races, where pedal power meets frozen peril

• Explore replica motor shops and garages that once operated across the region

• Meet historic characters and chat with the Museum’s transport team

• Discover how the Black Country dominated transport manufacturing, producing record breaking motorbikes that conquered TT races and land speed records
Museum Favourites

As well as Festival of Vehicles activities, visitors can enjoy all the Museum’s usual favourites:

• Experience life in one of Britain’s first heavily industrialised landscapes

• Watch live chain and nail making demonstrations

• Enjoy a pint in one of the Museum’s historic pubs

• Treat yourself to the Museum’s famous traditional fish and chip

• Sit back and enjoy a silent movie starring comedy duo Laurel & Hardy at our Limelight Cinema

• Enjoy all the fun at the fair
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Restoring the Electric Age: Reviving the Trolleybus Experience

This project, to restore and relaunch our historic electric trolleybus network, will see three locally built trolleybuses return to operation, running through the Museum’s 1940s–60s High Street, creating a unique visitor experience and celebrating the region’s role in early electric transport.

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