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We support scholarly and instructional work both within our community and the greater community. Our mission honors deep appreciation of automotive history through archival work, as well as preservation, conservation, and restoration of automobiles.
The goal of RevsEd is to help develop a new level of knowledge and respect for the automobile. RevsEd is an advocate of the automobile as an archaeological artifact, technological device, art object, and agent for social and economic change.
RevsEd is a new program offered by Revs Institute®. It supports both virtual and traditional learning, using educational environments.
The programming associated with RevsEd offers substantial new perspectives to a wide range of individuals through exhibitions and educational workshops.
The Library and Archives at Revs Institute holds archival collections containing original diaries, engineering documents, letters, papers, photographs, and scrapbooks from individuals and organizations that have left their marks in automotive history and the pageant of motor sport. Revs Institute grants access to researchers with an interest supported by the collection.
This is a very rare document from 1896. At the time the term automobile had not been coined, you will notice they refer to them as Locomotives.
This document is extraordinarily significant to motoring in Britain. It freed British motorists from having to have a man walking in front to warn of their approach (the Red Flag Man), upped the speed limit from 4 mph to 14 mph - but local councils mostly instantly reduced it to 12 mph - and was the reason why Harry Lawson's Motor Car Club organized the Emancipation Day run to Brighton when the Act came into force on November 14, 1896. Which is why we've been celebrating the freedom of the roads with the Brighton Run in November since 1927.
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