page_title: Thomson & Taylor
section_title: Thomson & Taylor
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caption_attribution_description: The "sheds" at Brooklands motor racing circuit, Surrey, UK. From left to right: the Press Hut (black and white); the Malcolm Campbell Shed (pale blue), where Campbell developed some of the Blue Bird land-speed record breakers; the ERA Shed (pale green).
context_page_description: Thomson & Taylor were a motor-racing engineering and car-building firm, based within the Brooklands race track. They were active between the wars and built several of the famous land speed record breaking cars of the day.
context_section_description: After Parry-Thomas' death whilst driving Babs at Pendine Sands in 1927, Major Ken Thomson carried on, joined by Ken Taylor, under the new name of Thomson & Taylor. Reid Railton, who had previously worked for Parry-Thomas at Leyland joined them as Technical Director and chief designer.
  In 1926 Malcolm Campbell had opened the 'Campbell Shed' at Brooklands, trading in racing sports cars. As the name suggests, this was a simply constructed wooden shed but it grew bigger and bigger, even being used to hold a barn dance in 1931. The famously impetuous Campbell lost interest though and handed it over to Thomson & Taylor. The shed survives today as part of the Brooklands Museum.
caption: Campbell Shed, pale blue, centre
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