Fire! National Motorcycle Museum Birmingham, UK

[OuTpaTienT]

Sad.

BBC NEWS | England | Fire Destroys National Motorcycle Museum

Exhibitor Neil Payne told the BBC: "There are so many unique, priceless, irreplaceable machines that are lost. It is absolutely devastating.

"The museum and indeed the country has lost some unique machines from British motorcycling history."

[Jonty]

This is really terrible all those machines going up in smoke. They may be able to restore some but it won't be the same.

I'm sure they must have had adequate fire precautions, the report I read said that the fire started in the basement, but I would have thought that a sprinkler system would have contained the fire?

[alivin]

So sad, I remember visiting the museum just after it first opened.I really hope the Triumph Trident, 'Slippery sam' and Jupiter, the motorcycle who was ridden around the globe escaped.