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Welcome - The Editors Comment
When I first started training to become a mechanic, I was given all kinds of ‘words of wisdom’ by the qualified blokes, and one phrase that sticks in my mind is ‘measure twice, cut once’. For some reason, every time I have to cut a piece of metal or wood I can hear these words as clear as if they were being spoken to me now. Of course it also has a wider meaning – basically if you check and make sure of what you’re doing, you can do a job right first time.
Now, everybody makes mistakes – I know I’ve made a few in my time. But at the end of the day the only person who never makes a mistake is the person who does nothing. However, there’s one error I saw that always comes into my mind to prompt me to double check a job before I go through with it.
Inside this issue
- 1937 Albion M540
- Mitchell & Webber Bedford
- Sunter Bros - Kings of the North
- J & E Hall Ltd
- Leyland Lynx
- Cement Tankers
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Competition - WIN TICKETS TO THE KEMBLE STEAM & VINTAGE EXTRAVAGANZA!
3 July 2009
We’ve got 35 pairs of tickets to giveaway to the South-West's largest festival of transport – The Gloucestershire Steam & Vintage Extravaganza. The show returns to Kemble Airfield this year, taking the show in to its 35th year (Friday 31st July to Sunday 2nd August 2009).
The show was originally conceived for steam enthusiasts, but the range of exhibits has grown year on year. It now boasts a huge array of vintage transport, including buses, coaches, motorcycles, military vehicles, classic cars, tractors, aircraft, commercial vehicles, traction engines and historic caravans. Plus a live action arena, interactive demonstrations, rare breeds, shire horses, trade stands, a vintage fun fair and hundreds of curiosity stalls.
1937 Albion M540
“Missing last year’s London to Brighton Run just because I couldn’t get the lorry out of
the shed would have been something of
an embarrassment,” observed Bill Shaw
as I looked over his splendidly restored
1937 Albion.
“After spending 10 years on a restoration, there was something of a mad panic during the week before the Run as it refused to come out of the shed which had been its home for all those years.
“You hear stories of people building boats in their back garden and then being unable to get them out when the work is finished, and here I was with the lorry equivalent of such a disaster...
OB birthday bash!
One of the best-loved British classic vehicles of all-time is celebrating its 70th birthday this year, and to mark the occasion Vauxhall is preparing to welcome as many surviving Bedford OB buses and coaches as possible back to its Bedfordshire base.
The company is throwing open the doors of its Heritage Centre in Park Street, Luton, on Sunday 16 August for a public open day to mark the 70th anniversary of the vehicle.
As well as what’s hoped to be the biggest ever gathering of OB buses – produced between 1939 and 1951...
