New Lotus museum
From Derek Harling today:
“There are plans to open a Lotus Museum at 7 Tottenham Lane
in Hornsey, where Lotus founder Colin Chapman built his
first cars. The premises are not very large and so there
will be only be around 10 classic cars on display but
former racer John Scott-Davies, who raced Lotuses in the
1960s, hopes that the museum will create some tourism and
an education centre for the area.
Chapman worked at the premises between 1951 and 1959, in
converted stables behind the Railway Arms Hotel, which his
father Stan has been running since Colin was a toddler. It
was there that Lotus was established in 1952 and on the
premises the first 100 Lotus Seven cars were built before
the firm moved to Cheshunt in 1959.”