Sammy Miller MBE Honoured with the Royal Automobile Club’s 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award

The Royal Automobile Club Historic Awards Dinner was held on Thursday, 20 November 2025, at the prestigious Royal Automobile Club, Pall Mall, London.

In addition to announcing the winners across eight award categories, the Royal Automobile Club revealed that the recipient of its 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award was Sammy Miller MBE. Sammy was deeply honoured and delighted to receive this distinguished accolade, recognising his remarkable contributions to motorcycling and engineering excellence.

The evening was expertly hosted by broadcaster Lee McKenzie, widely known for her work in Formula 1, presenting and interviewing drivers for Channel 4 and, previously, the BBC.

Sammy was presented with the trophy at the motorcycle museum in New Milton by Jeremy Vaughan, RAC Head of Motoring. [see photo]

Sammy Miller MBE is a motorcycling legend. 11 times British Trials Champion and winner of over 1400 competition events across various disciplines, all whilst developing and maintaining his own machines.

Throughout his remarkable career spanning 8 decades, he still managed to find the time to restore rare and interesting motorcycles; transforming unrecognisable ‘rust buckets’ into stunning factory condition and perfect working order. Sammy formed the Heritage Trust in 1980 to preserve the history of motorcycling.  Thus, the Sammy Miller Motorcycle Museum was born!

An historical coincidence also came to light during the event: the Royal Automobile Club was founded in 1895 – the very same year the original farm buildings that now house the Sammy Miller Motorcycle Museum were constructed.