| A
Successful Weekend's Gathering for the West Midlands Group
Mr Pollard wins Car
of the Show with his Standard 10 He is flanked by Peter Lockley,
Chairman on the left and Alan Withey, Rally Organiser on the right.
We have forgotten how many West Midlands
Rallies we have been to, but it certainly goes back at least 25 years.
This year's two day event was based on the Craft Centre at Earlswood Lakes
on the southern fringes of Birmingham. We were fortunate to have good
sunny weather on both days.
On
the Saturday morning a picture was taken of all the participants
present along with two 1955 10s flanking Peter Lockley's Doretti, to
celebrate the fact it was 50 years to the day on June 4th that the
Doretti was first registered and sold by the Standard dealers Browetts of
Leicester. If you click on the photograph, a larger version will be
shown:
This was followed by a short
roadrun, our destination being "Cadbury World" the famous
chocolate makers, at Bournville, Arriving there at noon, some used
their extensive restaurant facilities whilst others sampled a local
hosteltry, "the Country Girl", for Lunch.
We all gathered at 2.00pm for the Factory
Tour. Whilst no doubt some of us enjoyed this educational visit, others,
including your webmaster were unfortunately overcome by the lack of
air-conditioning, the large number of bodies and the all pervasive smell
of hundreds of tons of sickly warm chocolate!
As we were in the Drophead, there was
time for a blast of fresh country air, just what we needed, on the
way back to Earlswood. The evening was occupied by a Rally meal at a local
pub, "the Royal Oak". Sunday was a static day at Earlswood
culminating in a prizegiving at 4.00pm.
As is my usual practice, you can click on
any photo to see a larger version. To save the larger photograph to your
machine, right click on it and select the "Save Picture As"..
option
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Standard 8 at
Cadbury World
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Pennant at
Cadbury World
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Lynda in the
Flying 12 DHC
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Ivan and Dot
Hancox's Flying Heavy 12
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Steve O'Hara's
Standard 9
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Phil
Hetherington in a pose that occupied much of Sunday!
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Brian nand
Yvonne Yates in their Standard 8
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The Lewises came up from South
Wales
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Ivan Hancox
wins "Best pre - 48 car" |
Phil
Hetherington emerges from under his bonnet to win "Best post
- 48 car" |
Car of the Show
Story and Photos by Phil
Homer
except Doretti picture,
Steve O'Hara
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