There was heavy industry in Elsecar from the early 18th century. Elsecar and the adjacent villages were packed with collieries, ironworks, and other industrial concerns, playing a critical role in the [...] railway station, built for the owner himself, and now, separately, a restored steam railway. When first built (by 1795) the site had an ironworks and furnace drawing on local ironstone mines and other material

the kingdom, of Saxony was home to one of Europe’s most innovative engineering industries in the first half of the twentieth century, and a leading centre for the production of motor vehicles. Under the [...] disrepute because of their role in providing munitions to the Third Reich. Nevertheless the motor industry under the GDR was relatively innovative until it began to stagnate about 1970. Many of the marques [...] prestigious seven-storey building in the International Modern style, built in 1928 when the motor industry in Saxon was at its most prosperous. The museum displays more than 200 motorcycles and cars manufactured