| The
Town and Country Festival, August 2006
The Club stand
before the crowds arrive on Bank Holiday Monday
The club was in a prominent
spot for the three days of the "Town and Country" festival held
at The National Agricultural Centre at Stoneleigh this August Bank
Holiday. Lynda and I attended just one day, the Monday with the Flying 12
Drophead but there was a wide variety of club cars present on each
of the 3 days.
By prominent, I mean we were
exactly opposite the "Dancing Sheep Show" and just up from the
Water Buffalo Burgers and Scrumpy Cider. I think those items probably
demonstrate just some of the variety of things to do, see and eat at this
show.
Amongst the guests who came
to see us was Bill Clarke who worked for Standard and its Leyland
successors from 1940 -1983. In the later part of his career Brian was
Chief Metallurgist and responsible
for the sign-off of all the materials used to make components for our
cars.
Whilst attendance from the
public was up, we felt that the number of traders stalls and stands was
down this year compared to earlier shows. We understand that the new
organisers have raised their prices for traders and this probably is the
cause of it - we hope that the policy is not repeated next year for we
would hate to see the number of traders fall further and the popularity of this show fade away.
As is my usual practice,
each of the thumbprints below can be clicked to bring up an enlarged
version:
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Standard 10
without boot lid.
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The differences
between the rear ends of the Light 12, left, and the Heavy 12
saloons are demonstrated by these 2 photographs.
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The Light12
saloon on the right with a Light 12 Drophead Coupé on the right
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