the Auto Archive: Automotive & Motor Sport Library and Research Centre.
Formed in 2010.
the Auto Archive to Relocate
The Auto Archive Motor Sport Library
Led by automotive historian William Taylor, the organization has gathered, organized, and preserved over 85,000 historic books, magazines, photographs, technical manuals, sales literature, and other ephemera. Its mission will continue to be to preserve and document the rich history of the automobile while providing both physical and online resources for the study of the past, present, and future of the automobile. The archive seeks to involve, inspire, and educate future generations of motorheads.
The organization has been a leader in archiving historic automotive and motor- racing research materials as a living collection and was always open to automotive enthusiasts, car clubs, researchers, journalists, historians, and students to view and use. That mission was always hampered by the fact that the collection was split between two locations and with a lot of material also kept in storage. The Auto Archive board has been looking for a single site to house the collection for a number of years.