Some of the Car Rides cars assembled on the Banking before taking the judges on board (Keith Barry).
great and made amends for its bad behaviour during our other operations. There is now a 360-degree video of a car ride,
meaning that you can change the viewing angle in real time as it progresses. Just head to
https://youtu.be/UbasDyKcjsU to see this incred- ible technology, and Chris Cuss, in action. Many of you will remember ‘Number Seven’,
the green Spartan of our erstwhile colleague Fred Davies, whose car is the basis of the team badge. He left us some years ago and lately suffered from Alzheimer's and other health issues to which he
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Rare Standard Brighton Torpedo owned by
Clive Watson (Dr John).
finally succumbed. Fred was never a quiet fellow, so the end of the wake which followed his funeral, as described by Mr Cuss, was entirely in character – just as we were about to leave two huge explosions rang out setting off car alarms. We all felt the blast. This was followed by both heavy machine gun fire and lighter pistol shots. Luckily the bar maid came to clear some plates and informed us that the police firearms team use the former brewery site behind the pub for train- ing! Our pulse rates slowly returned to normal. Fred looking down had had the last laugh. Keith Barry
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rare automobile is strongly believed to be the only survivor of a small batch of cars that sailed on the Titanic prior to her maiden voyage. Clive has paperwork that certainly would seem to prove it. Then, time to pack up the van ready to head
off to Bushy Park for the excellent Hanworth Classic Car Show. The Outreach team put on our excellent roadshow stand and we were kept busy all day. Bob and Kelly Webb called for reinforce- ments and they arrived in the shape of Ian Keen and partner Karen, who then manned the tombola, lolly game and merchandise continually during the afternoon. The rest of us were working hard as well, supplemented with lashings of ice cream. The next time the stand was erected was back
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unshine, sunshine all the way, by jove this is helping the Outreach effort.
The Double Twelve was a game of two halves
as usual, Saturday great, but quiet in the Paddock, Sunday was busy. The star of our stand was the truly glorious 1912 Standard Brighton Torpedo owned by larger than life Clive Watson. This very
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at Brooklands for the Motorcycle Show. Zoe Cano, the BTM Outreach motorcycle envoy, was the centre of attraction, signing copies of her latest book and featuring her truly amazing steed as the centre piece of the display, a Honda Rebel 500cc custom bobber. It was also a joy being able to welcome our new President, Damon Hill, to the stand, he spent some time talking to the team and posing for pictures.
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