Facilities at Banbury

This page shows some of the facilities at the new Cherwell Business Village location. In addition to what is shown here, there are toilets, a kitchen, cafe and additional meeting rooms which we can use. (You can click on some of the images to get a larger picture.)

This page now gives you a "virtual tour" of the centre and offers an introduction to the contents of the archive. We will walk through it to see what is available.

The archive is now distributed as follows:

• Plan Room - cabinet storage area, principally the 46 steel drawing chests and smaller filing cabinets. The drawing index and rolls are now also within this single large space, so more easily accessible for study.
• Study Room - houses the former contents of the Des O'Dell and Norman Garrad rooms. This includes the collection of competition oriented items and also an extensive set of photographic negatives. It also now includes all the microfiche, magazines, books, projection and photographic equipment and several book cases. Drawings can easily be moved into this area for study or copying.
• Shop/ Foyer - we use this space to house special exhibits and it acts as the main meeting point and shop area. It also has some framed photographs and the New Devonshire House plaque un-veiled by Lord Rootes at Westcott on 1st July 2005. Exhibits include the cut away Imp engine produced by Rootes apprentices and 1500cc Hunter display engine.
• Board Room - has the board room table and chairs from the original Devonshire House, Picadilly, London. This is reserved for ARCC Club meetings and also houses books, magazines and club information in original book cases. Note that the heating is connected to the rest of the building.
• Loos and kitchen - self explanatory. These are now in the shared space outside the Archive Centre and accessible from the corridor to the right. There are also separate meeting rooms available and a presentation suite within this wing of the building.

Please leave a contribution towards the cost of tea, coffee or biscuits in the box provided. Please leave the loos and kitchen clean and tidy as they are shared facilities.

Our large collection of publications and original factory records.

Display and Shop areas.

Study area with reprographic equipment.

The archive room.

A few special exhibits.