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Allan Winn honoured Allan Winn has been named as the winner of the Lifetime
Achievement Award by the Royal Automobile Club at its inaugural Historic Awards. Vice President and former Director and CEO of the Museum, Allan’s outstanding contribution to Brooklands and the wider world of classic motoring earned him this justified recognition.
Among his accolades, Allan was part of the team that raised the funds for the Museum to buy the Napier-Railton. He was also part of the teams that acquired the VC10 and Concorde, while his work to complete the Aircraft Factory and re-open the Finishing Straight have brought pleasure to countless visitors. Jeremy Vaughan, Head of Motoring at the RAC, said: ‘Allan has transformed
Brooklands into what is now a remarkable destination with exhibits and attractions that could only be dreamt of 15 years ago.’ In typically modest fashion, Allan said of his award: ‘I almost feel like a cheat, being rewarded for something I love doing so much.’
Harry Sherrard
G-HAWK engine refitted The Museum’s Hawker Siddeley Hawk G-HAWK/ZA101 was refitted with an Adour 851
engine donated by BAE Systems at Warton in October. After lengthy preparations by the Volunteer team led by Chris Hodson and Dave Cotton, the engine was raised up into the rear fuselage from beneath with help from Milly, the Brooklands AEC mobile crane. The delicate operation was completed despite blustery conditions and takes G-HAWK one step closer to completion. G-HAWK was the eighth Hawk built and the fifth used for the flight test programme. It joined the Museum collection at the beginning of 2019 and was last flown in 2010.
Julian Temple
Message from Members’ Chairman Firstly, let me take this opportunity to wish all of you and
your families a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Although this is may be a quieter time of year at the Museum, for your Committee it is an extremely busy period with the programme of Talks and Events continuing right up to mid- December. During November, we held the Annual Dinner, had a full Committee Meeting and on 30 November held a strategy workshop entitled ‘Fit for the Future’. Although we meet as a Committee six times a year, those
meetings are inevitably structured around a formal agenda, supported with reports and spreadsheets, and tend to concentrate on the day-to-day running of our various activities. This gives little time to consider the longer term strategy, and how we prepare for the future. So, we asked our Committee, all of whom are volunteers, to leave their comfortable cosy homes early on a frosty Saturday morning to come to Brooklands and submit themselves to presentations, sheaves of statistics, hours of discussions and their only reward was a bacon roll and cup of coffee. Lesser mortals might have hidden under the duvet, but we had a full attendance, including Museum Director Tamalie Newbery and Administrator Tim Morris. We proceeded on the assumption that the massive growth in membership during our first decade from less than 1500 to around 6500 would inevitably plateau, and although recruitment was steady, we need to concentrate on retention moving forward. In order to keep members, we must provide the membership with benefits they value and enjoy and that are responsive to changing expectations. The Membership Survey gave an invaluable background to our discussions. At the end of a long day, we had a far better understanding of the nature of the challenges facing us and a clearer idea of how we might confront them.
Bob’s long service Bob French has been honoured as one of
the Museum’s longest-serving volunteers. His contribution goes back to when the Clubhouse was first restored in 1985 and handed over to the yet-to-be founded Museum to put some exhibits in. Before a single car or aeroplane was displayed, Bob negotiated the loan of an important collection of bicycles from the Cyclists’ Touring Club. It included machines an such as an ordinary ‘Penny Farthing’ and Boneshaker. Bob’s unrivalled knowledge and enthusiasm are among Brooklands Museum’s greatest assets. His accomplishments include assessing and transferring the historic RGJ Nash Collection of early cycles from The National Motor Museum and overseeing the display of the Raleigh Cycle Collection. He has represented cycling at numerous museum events and manned stands at Outreach locations, often with his own bicycles. Without Bob, the representation of cycling history at the Museum would be very different. We’d like to express our sincerest gratitude to Bob for the credibility he has given to an important aspect of Brooklands history.
Sue Lewin
All participants were encouraged to think imaginatively and not be constrained by the past - following the epithet of Albert Einstein that ‘Logic will get you from A to B, but imagination will get you everywhere’. Sir Gerald Acher, the Chairman of the Brooklands Museum Trust joined us to close the session. We will prepare a brief summary of the event (in plain English, I promise) which will be available on the website in due course. In order to retain members, at whatever
level, it is of course vitally important that annual membership represents good value for money. I hope that when you read elsewhere in this edition of the modest increases that will take effect next year, you will agree that membership meets that requirement. We have tried to soften the blow of the increase by offering a discount for those renewing by Direct Debit and full details can also be found elsewhere in this edition. At the Surrey Business Awards, Brooklands Museum was voted
2019 Tourist Attraction of the Year, which is a considerable accolade, and congratulations are due to the Director and her management team, all her staff and of course the volunteers who made it possible. The award will help raise the profile of the Museum and perhaps we will hear ‘the best kept secret in Surrey’ rather less often! You will see that our newest and multi-talented Committee
member, Harry Sherrard, was present at the RAC Club when Allan Winn received his Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2019 Historic Awards ceremony and has written a report for this edition. I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Allan on behalf of all of us on the Committee for this thoroughly deserved award.
Neil Bailey JANUARY - FEBRUARY 2020 | BROOKLANDS BULLETIN 5
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