Heritage Foundation’s new home
The Australian Motor Heritage Foundation recently took possession of its new headquarters at Sydney Motor Sport Park, Eastern Creek.
AMHF is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to preserving Australia’s extensive motor industry and sporting heritage for the enrichment of future generations. The brainchild of Hugh King and Brian Caldersmith, AMHF will be a resource that will be accessible to the public, curated by volunteers from this central location, with its aims to collect, preserve, and exhibit literature of all types. It will liaise with other institutions throughout the world for the sharing and exchange of material and knowledge on all facets of motor transport, including motorcycles. AMHF will also conduct seminars, programs and produce publications to educate the broader community and create a resource for universities, TAFE colleges, schools, clubs academics and historians.
The base is the former Australian Racing Drivers Club offices opposite Turn One at SMSP, a two-level multi-room structure that will house the archives, which are already arriving from donors around the
country. “This is not a library,” said Brian Caldersmith, one of Australia’s greatest automotive artists and a director of AMHF Limited. “It is a resource where anyone interested in our motoring heritage can gain access to more than a century of documents, books, magazines and images. We are under no illusions about the scale of the job ahead; it is a massive project to eventually digitise the material, but we have a team of volunteers who are very keen to assist, plus initial government funding that will allow us to fit out the premises. Already we have substantial donations of materials such as books, magazines, brochures, race programmes, films and videos and other memorabilia, all of which need to be identified and catalogued. ”
The foundation web site is in the process of being updated and will feature information on how to donate material and access resources. Check out... www.australianmotorheritagefoundation.org