ABSTRACT
Museums are one of the most valuable sources of information and material for the teacher dealing with the history of transport. The majority of museums sell postcards and colour transparencies. The Science Museum offers lecture tours of galleries, lecture demonstrations in the theatre and a free slide loan service. The Museum of British Transport, Clapham, London, provides an advisory service to schools, produces a remarkably cheap filmstrip on the history of transport and issues a useful questionnaire. The turnpike period is well represented in the collections of documents in reproduction or transcript produced by local record offices and other bodies. The Museum of British Transport at Clapham will supply a list of postcards and transparencies of its exhibits (locomotives, rolling stock, trams and buses).
