The National Motor Museum Trust, Beaulieu, are to explore how the First World War led to a revolution in leisure motoring.
The trust have been given Lottery funding for the sum of £97,200 which will go towards preserving a unique collection of more than 400 historic photographs and postcards of well loved charabancs.
Despite the carnage and devastation experienced during the conflict, the technological advances and greater use of motorised vehicles essentially revolutionised post-war society.
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