The Queue to get in snaked around the car park

Once inside we found it was quite a big show. Filling the two big inside halls, plus the outside hall and part of the cattle shed! Lots of interesting stuff to see. A lot of clubs had stands, including the Ford Sidevalve Owners and The Ford Y & C Register, both of which I am a member. Two of the Geoff's were manning the Y & C stand and we reminisced about the Tour of Holland when we fist met them.

The Buckler Register had a stand and had a chassis which had been discovered which it was claimed had never been built into a car. Lots of pictures of the cars in use including quite a few trials ones and I recognised Stan Hibberts car which I once towed from the hard shoulder of the M3 down to the comparative safety of the A303

Apparently this Buckler chassis has never been built into a car

Lots of stands in the Autojumble, lots more than Race Retro or Enfield that we usually go to. Actually bought a few things, including a Starrett 1 to 2 inch Mic to go with the Starrett 0 to 1 than I bought in 1963 when I was an apprentice.

All in all a good do and we will go next year.

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Mike Furse Buckler

A nice day, the weather was much kinder than the forecast, good enough for a tail gate picnic and a good look round the park after checking out the cars. SS discount was only for the over 65's, nerveless at £10.50 there is still a lot there for your money, even if there are no cars to see. Click Here for more info on The Cotswold Wildlife Park.

We went in the daily driver as I still don't have the Dellow going. Shame as there were no Dellows there. Lots of Bucklers though, including Mike Furse with his which he uses for hillclimbing these days. Mike has turned his attention towards the tarmac these days and is involved with the Wiscombe Hillclimb.

My old mate Jack Taylor had his Lotus Six with all envelpoping body, there were 2 Leige's, one of which was Mark Endleys, I saw Jim Harvey walking around and later spied David Jackson arriuved with the FPS although we were looking around the park at that time.

Ours is the third one along

Inside there was a Y in an old Garage Setting

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Michel and the Model Y pictured at Moggerhanger Park on the morning run Click Here for More Pictures.

The last few years Chris Mike and I have gone with Neil in one of his old Fords and displayed them in the Y&C Register area. With Neil at the Indy 500 this year we went in a daily driver. The weather was good but both the displays and the autojumble get smaller each year. Although smaller the autojumble was quite good quality, with more old stuff and less CCC (Cheap Chinese Crap).

No beer tent or Fish and Chip van. Apparantly a load of yobs, who were ther as exhibitors,  came out of the beer tent well and truly plastered last year, found the fish and chip van was closing up and set fire to it!

Managed to get a job lot of some nice old tyre levers (that I wanted) and a Stenor (which I didn’t as I have one already so it was up for sale but has gone already).

This Borg Warner Torque Converter took me back a few years. Thats where I served my apprentiship and later they funded my higher education. Click here for More Pictures

A good day out as always, even though the Autojumble gets smaller and smaller each year, as they do everywhere.

2009 will be the last year the Royal Show will be held at Stoneleigh Click Here I wonder what the future of this venue will be.

The Lieges had found a hill to represent their trialling attributes.

The only other Trials Car we saw was this Marlin Roadster. The Midland Automobile Club badges point to it being Jonathan Toulmins. 5 May - Oops just heard thats Mac Taylors Car - thanks Pat

Shame we don’t see ABS Freetyles trialling any more. They look great fun

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There was a University Challenge type quiz. Here Steve Parish is asking questions (written by Michael!) to teams led by Barrie Williams and Russell Brooks.

Enjoyed the day that seemed well attended. Although some of the nice stands from the shows early years have gone, and the autojumble has shrunk, there was plenty to keep Neil and I interested from when it opened at 9.30 until we left just after 4 in the afternoon.

Team Falcon will be there over the weekend running the Rally Stage.

This is relates to this thread on the message board

I am extremely interested in the Cannon article on Classical Gas for a number of reasons:

"original jig on which all genuine Cannon chassis were built"
I was offered the jig some years ago at the time I purchased two Cannons  - albeit in poor condition but road registered with V5C from the former owner. My point is that the jig appears to have been made to facilitate a production run of the more common chassis using the steel nose [made from 100E headlight steel fittings] and the GRP [deep nose cone]. See attached cutaway

There were Cannons made before this production run that were quite different using Ford torque tube rear axles and the Y-Model front with bowden actuated mechanical brakes.

An example of this type of Cannon exists in Cumbria in an advanced state of restoration. Indeed I remember the day the car in question arrived in Cumbria in 1960 owned by Ian Walker formerly of the Maidstone Club. Documented history of this car shows it competed in many events in the mid fifties and early sixties. The frame as you may realise is similar but not made on the jig in question.

A further example albeit an extreme one relating to the statement "original jig on which all genuine Cannon chassis were built" is available for all to see on the www.clasicallcarsforsale.co.uk at this time - is the Cannon Sports Racing Car one of only two believed built [it so happens I was talking to a former owner just last week-end] who recognised the car from pictures supplied by the current vendor. See attachments.

Ian Walker sold the early Cannon in 1961/2 to a friend in Cumbria when he took delivery of one of the cars that the jig refers - the car was yellow and I took pictures of it at a trial in 1962.

I think the main point is to clarify what Cannons actually came off the jig? otherwise others with early and later Cannons may be ex-communicated from documentation.

Some later Cannons were different in many ways - as an example I have a one built with square tubes in the frame - we recently found pictures of the very car on an event in the sixties.

There are a number of people who are interested in classic sporting trials cars and their preservation. One such car recently beautifully restored was Lol Hurt's original championship winner. The car was restored by Stuart Butterfield former BTRDA Gold Star Winner [who sadly passed away two weeks ago] The car actually won a club trial outright against modern machines just two years ago. Interested in a get together?

Another is David Baldock who owns XXB 680 - probably the ultimate Cannon to own originally campaigned by Rex and Rene Chappell and a National Championship winner in the sixties and as pictured in Motor Sport in colour.

I have an example in an advance state of re-construction for the road - the process is not for the faint hearted. The car has been largely re-engineered in its original format and period equipment to pass the MOT fairly and squarely with I may add, an MOT tester who as a motor sport restorer has given valuable advice.

I think the main message is I am impressed that a frame has already been made and another repaired - I am interested in learning more - but let us be careful about what the jig represents.

Regards
Richard Milne

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