IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 156538 accession number: CM.19-2005 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 26 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: The Institution of Automobile Engineers was established in 1906, with the earliest work on cars burgeoning around it. One of the most notable contributors to this field was Frederick William Lanchester, whose innovations in engine and automobile technology represent even today an under-recognised contribution of immense importance, although his most enduring contributions were nonetheless perhaps in the field of aeronautics to which he slowly gravitated. One way in which his significance is still recognised is by the award of the Crompton-Lanchester Medal by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, into which the Institution of Automobile Engineers was absorbed in 1947. Today this medal is awarded to the winner of one of four other prizes administered from the same funds, but the award goes back to Lanchester himself, who established it with the Automobile Engineers, to be awarded annually for outstanding contributions in motor engineering. The original medal was designed by Allan Gairdner Wyon, and this piece is a bronze proof from his workshop. title: Lanchester Medal NOTES ----- type: history note value: From the estate of the late Mrs Venetia M. Watson, daughter of the artist LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Coins and Medals collection: Wyon Collection STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/156538 CATEGORIES ------ category: medal DATING ------ creation date: 1926 - 1926 creation date earliest: 1926 creation date latest: 1926 CREATORS -------- maker: Wyon, Allan Gairdner maker: Institution of Automobile Engineers maker: Lanchester, Frederick William CITATIONS -------- Frederick William Lanchester. 1868-1946 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm18/CM_19_2005_281_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 352 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm18/CM_19_2005_281_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 352 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm18/CM_19_2005_281_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 352 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm18/preview_CM_19_2005_281_29.jpg height: 259 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm18/CM_19_2005_282_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 357 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm18/CM_19_2005_282_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 357 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm18/CM_19_2005_282_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 357 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm18/preview_CM_19_2005_282_29.jpg height: 256 pixels width: 250 pixels