NEW HEALEY EXHIBITION

A new exhibition at the Market Hall Museum in Warwick that will run from May 2021 to Spring 2022 and is called Healey: Cars for Speed and Glamour, tells the remarkable story of the Donald Healey Motor Company using rarely seen archives, photographs and artefacts. That is inextricably wound up with the story of Donald Healey himself, from his time competing as a rally driver right through to the consultancy business he ran with his son Geoffrey in the 1980s. Some of the highlights to look out for are a typed letter from Donald Healey to one of the Riley brothers in 1945 right at the dawn of the founding of the company, a Gerry Coker design for the Healey winged badge, a report written by Geoffrey Healey verifying the recently unearthed 1955 Le Mans car, a hand-written chart plotting progress of the participants in the 12 Hours of Sebring race in 1955 and some sketches of potential post-Jensen projects from the late 1970s and 1980s.

Loans of other artefacts to supplement the collection include contributions from Warren Kenned and A-Head 4 Healeys. Look out for a half sized replica of an AH 3000 built by Colin Rule, plus one of Donald Healey’s racing helmets, his original diaries and notebooks from the late 1940s, and the drawing by Max Millar used to present the prototype of the original 2.4 sports car to the motoring press in 1946. The cinema screen in the museum will also feature some extracts from interviews with former Healey employees and associates, and some archive film that includes rare family cinefilm footage of Le Mans in 1952.

We recommend you check the website for details before your visit. You'll find that at https://heritage.warwickshire. gov.uk/about-the-museum-service/ market-hall-planning-your-visit