Motor Vehicles (Miscellaneous)

Reference code: HOYFM.ACL2025.72
Level of description: Fonds
Title: Motor Vehicles (Miscellaneous)
Scope and content: Miscellaneous items, including official motor vehicle documents such as motor car fuel ration books and coupons, driving licences, Highway Codes, travel identity cards, vehicle test certificates, car tax discs, and guides on customs and the export/import of vehicles. Also included are petrol service station promotional materials like Esso Tiger Tokens, Maxol, and Shell gift vouchers; items related to Tourist Trophy racing in Ulster, including North West 200 wristbands, R.A.C. T.T. driver armbands from the 1920s, an autograph book signed by the Austin Works team at the Ards T.T., and silver (Herdman) shields awarded to competitors in the 1930s. Additional objects feature a series of stamps issued to mark the 50th anniversary of Sir Malcolm Campbell’s death, a PSV metal driver's badge, a MacMillan Cultra Charity DeLorean medal and a motor record diary of distances and times inscribed "A.W. Hamilton, King's Road, Knock, Aug 25th, 1904." Information on individual items can be found by searching under Objects.