Speed and Suburbia

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>We regard London's suburbs as a quiet retreat from its bustling city centre where life is slower and relatively uninspired. </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Speed and Suburbia</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> challenges this lazy stereotype by telling three heritage stories about motorsport and speed originating straight out of the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>It was Surbiton - sometimes dismissively nicknamed 'Suburbiton' - where the 1964 Monte Carlo Rally-winning Mini Cooper was designed. It was Chessington where Bernie Ecclestone chose to base the offices of his multiple World Championship-winning Brabham F1 team. And it was at the Cox Lane industrial estate where Donald Campbell's record-breaking Bluebird K7 hydroplane was tested in the deep water tanks of Siebe Gorman. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This local history includes a contribution from the British Motor Museum with their take on what modern-day revolutionary thinkers - akin to John Cooper Jack Brabham and Donald Campbell - might gift humanity in the new era of the motor car</span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>