Following our very sucessful forays to the RAF Museum, Hendon and the Imperial War Museum, Lambeth, Keith, Chel and I decided to see something more gentile at the Coventry Transport Museum.
There's a very convenient coach service which arrives 200 yards from the museum entrance. Also, for us seniors the coach is free.
Keith has owned many many vehicles and worked on many more in his career as a mechanic and a garage owner. Most of the cars and motorbikes he has owned seemed to be in the museum!
Here he is dispensing "draft" oil, how it was delivered in the old days
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Some of the vehicles brough back memories for us all. Here is a Triumph Tiger Cub bike, the first motorcycle I owned; great fun days. All those girls on the pillion (not all at once)

Chel we disovered had shook hands with Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery, when he, Chel, was in the RAF Regiment.
This is "Monty's" staff car, which it is said travelled 60,000 miles in one year. (Can't really believe that, however, that's what the sign on it said).

More of mine now, a Triumph Spitfire, my first sports car, which was followed in my ownership by an MGB and a Lotus Elan. Girls again clamouring around, but like the Tiger Cub bike, all the cars only had one passenger seat.

After a pint or two we returned to Leicester and dined at the Bistro Pierre.

Keith hadn't had that much to drink but surprised us when he pointed to the clock tower on the Leicester Town Hall and asked "What's that?" We thought there was a punch-line coming, which in a way there was when he said "I've never seen that before". Considering that he has lived in Leicester for 70 years it was somewhat surprising!
Another great trip. Where next? Keith suggests York.
Pehaps we should use this for transport:

It held the world land speed record from 1983 until 1997 at an average of 633mph. At that speed it would only take 12 minutes to get to York. Not sure about the parking process though.
A bientot.