Surrey Vintage Vehicle Society caters for veteran cars, vintage cars & classic cars, as well as commercials and motorcycles.

Our Hon Sec Malcolm Bailey and wife Sheena went for the 2016 August Bank Holiday on a group classic tour of Belgium which included a visit to the private Mahymobiles museum in Leuze-en-Hainaut. What a gem! The collection had developed out of the interest of Ghislain Mahy in things mechanical, aided by the surfeit of unwanted old mainly pre WW1 motor vehicles in the years following the WW2. He started acquiring and restoring what most people considered to be useless scrap. By 1970 his restored collection numbered 250 and he opened his first museum in Limbourg, just south of Brussels. At the instigation of the Belgian government, this evolved into the Autoworld Museum, opened in 1986, in a huge hall in Cinqauntanire Park in Brussels that once housed the 1880 Great Exhibition. This collection of around 250 cars and motorcycles is now the Belgian national motor museum and is well worth a visit. The remainder of the now vast Mahy collection was moved to a redundant textile factory in Leuze-en-Hainaut from 1997 by Ivan Mahy, Ghislain's son, and Mahymobiles was opened to public in 2000. Only few cars are shown below!

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