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Only a
dozen or so Standards turned up, so that's a shame, but the majority
of you missed the best
day's weather so far this year and a very enjoyable day out at one of
the most interesting venues in the Country.
The
cars started arriving early and by the time Lynda and I arrived in the
Flying 12 a gaggle of Standards were already gathered in our specially
reserved area in the centre of things, right between the Land Warfare
Hall and the American Airforce Memorial Hall, on the grass next the runway.
Of
course we were well outnumbered by Triumphs, I think that by the end
of the day there must have been 600 cars there, all but our dozen of them
Triumph badged.
But
what we lacked in quantity we certainly made up for in quality as the
associated photographs show. 20's and 30's Standards were represented
as were Flying Standards. Postwar we had Vanguard 1 and 1a, and Phase
3 plus a Standard 8 and a Standard 10. The later belonged to Trevor
Walker who would have won the distance award ( if only we had one )
for his round trip of 300 miles. There was no Vanguard II, the most
likely candidate was Ian Leggett, unfortunately his car is being
repainted at the moment so he came in his Triumph Acclaim.....
Twin aerobatic aeroplanes
gave us an impromtu flying demonstration. We have never seen
planes flying so close together. Lynda is convinced they
touched at one point. A section of their show was aerobatics
with one plane the right way up and the other upside down at
each others wingtips, how dangerous is that?
Other displays were from a
B17 bomber, a Spitfire and a Catalina Flying boat, surely one
of the prettiest planes ever built.
At 1pm
there was a presentation of the Harry Webster Award. This is an award
for the person who has done the most to further the aims of the
Standard-Triumph movement during the previous year. As you will
recall, this was won last year by our very own Brian Parkes for his
work with the Pre-48 Standard Spares. This year it was the turn of
Mike Fisher of the Stag Owners Club who has been a stalwart in
arranging Club events and for Project Managing the remanufacture of
cylinder heads for the Triumph Stag.
The
proposed protocol was that the prize would be presented by the
previous winner to this year's recipient. Unfortunately Brian wasn't
able to be present to hand over the trophy, so the honour was
performed by the Club's chairman. You can see him and the new Winner
Mike Fisher in the photograph.
In his
acceptance speech, Mike acknowledged that although he had been an
active member of the Club for many years he had only got really
involved after he had retired. This had given him the time he needed
to concentrate on helping the Stag Owners Club. He encouraged others
in a similar position to do the same for their favourite Club.
The
STMD will be at another interesting venue next year, keep an eye on
these pages to find out where
The
next important event is the Tatton
Park Show
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