20th August 2024
Frederick Lanchester’s legacy is worldwide. Learn more about our archive, how the Indian Maharajas favoured the Lanchester cars over Rolls Royce & how the Peaky Blinders series took inspiration from the influential members of the Lanchester family. Coventry University’s Lanchester […]
19th October 2021
Today we celebrate the 153rd birthday of the engineer, scientist, inventor, author, poet and possibly the first ‘ingeniator’ – Fred Lanchester. On October 23rd 1868, in Lewisham Octavia and Henry welcomed Fred Lanchester into the world and alongside his brothers […]
6th April 2021
NASA’s Perseverance rover, having survived its own hair-raising landing on Mars, has released a unique machine that is set to become the first vehicle to undertake powered flight on another planet. The Ingenuity helicopter didn’t have far to travel (about […]
8th March 2021
We would like to share with you a story which tells of the life of Edith ‘Biddy’ Lanchester, younger sister of Henry, Frank and Frederick. In the late 1890’s Edith was making the front pages of newspapers from Birmingham to […]
25th November 2020
Welcome to another inspiring Lanchester SketchClub. We’re continuing online as winter approaches, but we hope to be able to resume the SketchClub in our public space soon. As always, you can share images of your creative work on our social […]
18th November 2020
And a mere 103 years since his ‘Petrelect’ powered protoype car was being tested on the streets of Birmingham and Warwickshire! But to tell the story of Fred’s hybrid foresight we must go back to that original patent from 1910 […]
28th October 2020
[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] Not many people know the connection with Fred Lanchester and Hollywood. Although Fred didn’t make an appearance in front of the camera in a blockbuster movie, his niece did. Elsa Lanchester was the […]
Welcome to another inspiring Lanchester Sketch Club. As the clocks go back, we’re continuing online, but we hope to be able to resume soon. Last month’s Sketch Club was about Turning Circles and we look forward to sharing your artwork online […]
23rd October 2020
[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] On October 23rd 1868, Fred Lanchester was born to Octavia and Henry in Lewisham, beginning a lifetime of innovation and invention which still reverberates around the institution that maintains such strong links with […]
