Warwick University 50 years
Warwick University (Coventry) reached its 50th anniversary in October 2015 and a range of celebratory events were held over the week-end of 16 – 18 October under the heading of […]
Retro Warwick Classic Car Rally
Retro Warwick 2015 Apparently the Retro Warwick Classic (pre 1990s) Car Rally was first held six years ago and has been held, in Warwick Town Centre,every August since. To my […]
American Car Show, Hatton, Warwickshire 2015
American Cars on show at Hatton Country Park Once again I traveled the six miles from my house to the Hatton Country World venue, this time by bike, to see […]
Car Auctions – Brightwells – Stondon Collection Goes To Auction
The Stondon Collection Auctioned at Brightwells Earlier this year I read that Brightells, the Leominster based Auctioneers, had been retained by the Saunders family to sell the whole contents of […]
Healey Museum NL. – First hand
Healey Museum Nl. My wife and I were in Amsterdam for a few days in April and took the opportunity to visit the Healey Museum in Vreeland. Those of you […]
Car Auctions – Mathewsons, Thornton Le Dale
Matthewson Car Auctions and Museum On Easter Sunday we traveled to Pickering North,Yorkshire to spend a few days touring the area. On Monday our plan was to go to Scarborough […]
Car Auctions – Brightwells – Leominster Auction June 2009
Brightwells Car Auction June 2009 I was looking at my photographic archive recently and came across these photos which were taken at Brightwells car auction, Leominster, in June 2009. There […]
Haynes Motor Museum
Haynes Motor Museum re-launched John Haynes (1938 – 2019) Sad to report that John Haynes, founder of Haynes Publishing and the Motor Museum reported on here, died on 8th February […]
Jensen Motors – The Revivals
Introduction After my ‘The interceptor Years’ post, I thought that was the end of the story as far as I was concerned. I knew that there had been several attempts at resurrecting the Jensen […]
Jensen Motors – The 541 model reaches 60
The car that we now know as the Jensen 541 was first shown at the October 1953 Earls Court, London, Motor Show. That car had aluminium body panels. In the […]