Bunbury-Geographe Motor Museum - March 2025 Visit

In April 2025 our car club drove to Bunbury for the monthly Carbies and Coffee event held in the museum carpark. It was a great weekend adventure and of course we had to pop in and visit the museum. The museum is locally run and hosts rotating displays of vehicles from among the many enthusiasts who live in the region. You can check out the photos from our last visit several years ago in the links at the bottom. https://heinkelscooter.blogspot.com/2025/06/bunbury-geographe-museum-carbies-and.html

Holden Torana, a favourite on the Australian touring car race circuit

A display of sprint cars

Sprint cars

1926 Sunbeam

1930 Rudge Whitworth

1932 BSA

1948 Ford used as a mobile cinema truck and a Ford Escort GT

1949 BSA with sidecar

The original Noddy bike - the uniquely styled Velocette LE

The original 1962 XF Ford Falcon

The museum has an excellent motorcycle display

1970 Brabham BT30/24 race car

The Australian icon - Holden 48/215, better known as the FX. This one has been modified an sports a Chevy V8

1959 Holden FC

Although only a relatively small museum, it has an interesting (and rotating) display of vehicles that's well worth a visit. The motorcycle display is particularly good. 
Visit in 2021 - https://heinkelscooter.blogspot.com/2021/07/bunbury-geographe-motor-museum.html

Barry Markham's 1998 flight from Perth to London by Tiger Moth

My uncle Barry Markham - like his brother John - has had a lifelong love for flying. In 1998 he set out on a real adventure - flying a de Havilland Tiger Moth from Perth to London, solo. The flight was a commemoration of the first solo flight from London to Perth in 1930. The trip proved to be somewhat more challenging than the original flight, as he was flying against the prevailing air currents. Below are two articles from the West Australian newspaper

"Aviation record holder Barry Markham OAM is well known in the international de Havilland world. A member of the Royal Aero Club of WA, Markham holds 10 FAI world records and 10 Australian records set in Tiger Moths. Most remarkable of these was his Perth-Cambridge UK trip immortalised in his 2008 book Solo to England. In May-June 1998, Markham set several city-pair records in his Tiger Moth en route to the UK, most of which are still intact today. The trip was a fundraiser fo the Royal Flying Doctor Service. He was a torch-bearer for the 2000 Sydney Olympics and was honoured with the UK's Geoffrey de Havilland Trophy and in Australia with the Luskintyre Aviation Group Trophy."
https://www.australianflying.com.au/latest/aviators-honoured-in-queen-s-birthday-list



You can hear an interview with Barry recounting his experiences to Royal Aero Club members:


Barry also wrote a book about his adventure, which can be purchased from Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/Solo-England-Barry-Markham/dp/1906050546