Lanchester Car Monument
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Lanchester Car Monument (grid reference SP087883) is an open-air galvanized steel sculpture of the Stanhope Phaeton, or Lanchester motor car. It is in Bloomsbury Village Green, a piece of reclaimed land in the Heartlands (Nechells) area of Birmingham, England. It was designed by Tim Tolkien to commemorate the Lanchester cars which were made in the city.
It is in a park on Bloomsbury Street near to the junction with Bloomsbury Walk, on the site of the former Forward Gas Engine Company and the adjacent small workshop where the engine for Britain's first four wheel petrol car was made by Frederick Lanchester in 1895.
