transportautism.org.uk

A Transport Museum For Biggleswade

This project recognises the potential of utilising the special abilities of high-functioning autistic adults and their value in the research of the history of transport, with specific exhibits relating to this area of Britain.

The promise of the project is to employ 100 people with autistic spectrum disorders over the coming decade and to impact thousands of others, by creating a community based charity which runs a transport museum in Biggleswade.

The project recognises a need for mentored employment opportunites to suit autistic adults of all abilities and will provide key services to the town, including a forties styled milk bar and cafe.

Biggleswade was the third town in Bedfordshire to have a mainline station and as such has excellent links to and from London. The line boasts its heritage with trains run by the A1 Steam Locomotive Trust who we plan to offer services in conjunction with in the future.

Biggleswade is made famous by Dan Albone who conceived the first commercially successful designed tractor, naming it after the river Ivel. Biggleswade was also home to Berkeley Sports Cars and Caravans and coach builders Maythorn and Son, whose factory dominated the town centre where they made Rolls Royce bodies in the 1920s.

Our Wiki is a web based project undertaken internationally by autistic adults with a special interest in transport, which provides accurate and factual information about various marques and serves as a free and publicly available portal.