The Motor Museum was the first large scale addition to Bentley since Mary Askew gave the estate to East Sussex.
It was set up by Hugh Stuart-Roberts who owned many vintage cars and gained enormous pleasure from them until he retired. This is not, however, a private collection as the vehicles are lent by many individual owners who wish them to be more widely seen and enjoyed. They are generally in running order and used on the roads. The Collection is, therefore, liable to change.
Bentley is a fine setting, not only because it shares its name with one of the greatest and most famous of British cars, but also because motoring history has been made in Sussex.


The Collection

Click here for a gallery of pictures of motor vehicles in the museum and on our Vehicle Event Days.

The Chronological Categories of Historic Vehicles

Veteran - constructed before the end of 1904
Edwardian - constructed between 1905 and the end of 1914
Vintage - constructed between 1915 and the end of 1930