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:: [ CORONAVIRUS
HAS BEEN CANCELLING SVVS MEETINGS ] ::
Coronavirus Pandemic has been playing havoc with large
parts of the world and has resulted in the mandatory cessation of
our activities for over a year. However, the successful
Vaccination Programme has resulted in lifting of all restrictions
and reopening of pubs in June, meaning that subject to any unforeseen
further outbreaks, our Summer Events can carry on. Details of our
proposed plans are on our MAP & DATES PAGE and any sudden
changes would be on the CLUB PAGE (URL is published in the SVVS
Magazine). In the meantime we have been providing the 'This Year's
Event Page' with interesting articles before we got back to
showing rows of pristine Historic Cars and happy Members !!
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[ SVVS attend London to Brigton Veteran Run - November
2021] ::
Some SVVS Members who have been spectating on the London to
Brighton Veteran Car Run traditionally meet up later at the Black
Horse in Hookwood, Horley, for a noggin and natter. This year the
weather for the Run was glorious and relatively warm. The sun
shone and the sky was blue. However there seems to be a steadily
decreasing number of general spectators along the route, which was
a great shame. There was a reasonable turnout at the Black Horse
of some 20 SVVS vehicles. |
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:: [ SVVS
Dinner - Reigate Manor Hotel, Reigate - October
2021 ] ::
Coronavisrus scuppered the 2020 SVVS
Dinner, but Reigate Manor Hotel was again the
venue for the 2021 Annual SVVS Dinner. The dinner was attended by
71 people. Not much could be faulted with the quality of the
meal and the efficiency of the service. We were lucky to have Film
and TV actor Nicholas Young as our Guest Speaker who gave a witty
speech of his life on stage and screen. There was no official
raffle due to Covid but we donated £200 to his charity which was
the Royal British Legion. |
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SVVS Lunchtime Meet at Red Barn, Lingfield - October 2021] ::
The Red Barn at Blindley Heath is our last outside
mid-month meeting of the year and signals that Christmas and New
Year are not far away. The season is over, and due to Covid, over
no sooner than it had begun. The weather here can be quite
unpredictable. This year the weather forecast promised nice
and sunny but gave us quite gloomy, cold and drizzly. Despite the
weather and probably as a release from Covid, we had a far better
turnout of 24 proper cars, plus Members in
moderns. |
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SVVS Display at the Reigate Tunnel -
September 2021] ::
The SVVS again displayed our vintage and classic vehicles
in the Reigate Old Tunnel supporting the National Heritage Open
Day Scheme. It seems Reigate is no longer putting great deal
of effort into the event. In the good old days the event had local
stands selling things, loads of bunting, and and music from local
bands playing in the street. The caves not being open, meant we
had the whole of the Tunnel to ourselves, and had a turnout of in
total of 16 proper cars, down from the previous 22. |
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SVVS Lunchtime Meet at the Star, Lingfield -
September 2021] ::
The Star in Lingfield signals that the 'summer season' is
drawing to a close, which is a bit of a shame, especially because
of the Covid enforced shut-down for most of the year. The
weather was great. The sky was blueish and the sun did
shone; no need for jackets. Turnout was some 21 proper vehicles.
The meeting was quite unusual in as much as there was a
preponderance of eleven 'vintage' Vehicles. The oldest was a
veteran 1907 Singer 12/14, followed by vintage 1921 Citroen 5CV,
two-seaters. |
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SVVS at the Outwood Carnival, Outwood -
September 2021] ::
Outwood is a lovely village in Surrey near Gatwick which
has the oldest working windmill in Britain in the middle of the
common. The Carnival was again attended, by Dame Judi Dench, an
Outwood resident. The SVVS was asked to provide a dozen vintage
cars for display as they had done previously. We had a good
selection of 14 cars which was adequate for space allocated to us.
Mr & Mrs Chairman took the opportunity to celebrate with
Members and bucks-fizz their 50th Wedding Anniversary. |
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SVVS Evening Meeting - Fox Revived, Norwood Hill - August 2021] ::
This was a newish venue for our last outside Evening
Meeting of the year. In view that evenings are drawing in, we
advanced the starting time from 8 pm to 6pm. The Fox Revived is a
thriving busy pub and highly popular eatery so that the car park
is normally full. Fortunately they have an overflow paddock a
little away from the building which we knew about because of our
last visit, so we beetled there directly. We had a great turnout
of 39 proper vehicles which included number of potential new
members in American cars, and a couple of hot Anglias. |
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:: [ S V V S Summer Picnic - Lakeside View
- August 2021 } ::
Lakeside View Pub is on a small lake used for fishing
and they had agreed to let us use their adjacent field for our
picnic. Regretfully, the weather was against us, raining heavily for days before and days
after. We were advised only a day beforehand that the field was waterlogged
and would not be usable, - but we could use the car park. Eventually we achieved 15 proper cars and
some moderns, downturn on last year's 21 cars. After a
while a wet shower did execute a rapid exit of the SVVS.
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Aircooled VW Show, August 2021 ]::
The Jolly Farmer
Pub in Horne is our 'winter indoor venue' but during the summer
holds a number of interesting outside shows including Historic Commercial
Vehicle Society meeting this weekend.
But due to rain and wet
ground had to be cancelled. Earlier they had the
AIRCOOLED VW SHOW a multi-day event which included using the
'campers' in vengeance by actually camping overnight in them. The
bulk of the cars on show were air-cooled Volkswagens of the beetle
and camper variety. |
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Bletchingley Arms, July - 2021 ]
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Our first normal "Pub Meeting"
following the prolonged hiccups of the Coronavirus Pandemic was Wednesday 28th July
at Bletchingley Arms which is on the A25 in the village of
Bletchingley and has been one of our most popular venues for many years as an SVVS
evening meeting.
The weather forecast was doom and gloom ut it actually
remained quire nice and dry and warm, Shirt until it started
to rain but never long enough to bother to get a coat. Eventually we had about 27 cars, mostly
classic. |
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:: [ Summer
Saunter, Borde Hill Gardens, July - 2021] ::
The SVVS SUMMER SAUNTER is non-competitive
run into the countryside organised excellently as usual by our Hon
Sec Malcolm Bailey and his wife Sheena. The start was Priory Farm
in Nutfield and was organised by Tony Tester, while Malcolm went
straight to the finish which was at the Borde Hill Estate, just
north of Hayward's Heath, - a 17 miles run which took about a half
an hour along minor roads and through same of the loveliest Surrey
and Surrey countryside. 26 cars parked up at Borde Hill. |
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Restart Church Field Meeting 3 -
June 2021 ) ::
This would have been the night for the first of our 'normal SVVS
evening pub meetings' where tyre-kicking would have returned to
the vintage-car-starved isolating masses of the SVVS. Instead,
Covid regulations, elongated for a further month, continued to
specify maximum 6 people inside and 30 people outside, and no
walk-abouts in pub car parks. So Julie & Bozi Mohacek offererd
their Field again. Due very iffy weather, quite a few 'no-shows'
so we had less than 30 people, and had 17 cars. |
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Restart Church Field Meeting 2 -
June 2021 ) ::
Coronavirus still in force but we are allowed to hold
Closed Field Meetings on private ground open to SVVS members. It
was rather nice to have the hottest day of the year for our second
Meeting at Church Farm. This was to have been in parallel with
Fidlers Field but due to numbers we combined both meetings at
Church Farm. Ther day was glorious and it was a great place for an
impromptu picnic had by most people. We had about 30 people and 25
cars, and about 200 sheep in very long grass. |
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Restart Church Field Meeting 1 - May 2021 ) ::
Finally there is light at the end of
the tunnel. Coronavirus restrictions are slowly being lifted and
small amount of normality is beginning to return to the life
of the Surrey Vintage Vehicle Society. Normal open meetings at at
the pub are scheduled to re-commence on 30th June, but in the
meantime we are holding Closed Field Meetings on private ground
open only to SVVS members socially distanced limited to 30
persons. Eventually 22 cars and 30 people attended fun evening at
Church Farm. |
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Restart BarnField Meeting - May 2021 ) ::
Our gathering at Fidlers Field on the 26th May never
happened ...the field was waterlogged! Instead, members who had
booked were invited to meet at the Red Barn at Blindly Heath, just
a couple of miles away. Thankfully, the rain that had made this
May one of the wettest ever, stopped the day before our gathering.
Martin Lloyd and Chas Moody were ther first to arrive! The
gathering hadn't been fully booked, so we hoped those who had
booked would attend, eventually 13 proper carss. |
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Chas's Chats 2 -
May
2021 ) ::
As SVVS are not allowed to have any
meetings due to Covid Regs, we are keeping our spirits up with a
mixture of interesting different articles in the SVVS Magazine and
on the SVVS Website to keep us amused. In this article Chas Moody,
cyclist and our 'motorcycle correspondent' looks deeper into a
photo received on our Help Pages showing a WW2 Lady Despatch
Rider. Chas looks into what the uniform she was wearing, which
Service she belonged to, and which type of motorcycle she
rode, |
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Escape-aids - April 2021 ) ::
Coronavirus remains the bug which all
international governments are uniting to overcome, and the on
public meetings effectively continues, - nothing much again in
Surrey Vintage Vehicle Society normal official gatherings.
Recently some of our Members have been out and about cautiously
within the limited relaxation of the Coronavirus regulations in
terms of allowed numbers and have sent photos to
us. Popular places have been Penshurst
Place, Red Barn and Wheatshief, Bough Beech. |
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Chas's Chats - April
2021 ) ::
As SVVS are not allowed to have any
meetings due to Covid Regs, we are keeping our spirits up with a
mixture of interesting different articles in the SVVS Magazine and
on the SVVS Website to keep us amused. This is about our Chas
Moody and wife Janet getting the slowest lap at the Goodwood Revival
Meeting in Roger Bishops 1924 Morris Bullnose Traveller's
Car which coincidentally in his youth during the early 1950s
was the bosses work car when his father worked for Grants of
Croydon. |
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:: ( Nearly
a Lenin's Rolls-Royce Kegresse
Mystery - April 2021) ::
As SVVS are not allowed to have any
meetings due to Covid Regs, we are keeping our spirits up with a
mixture of interesting different articles in the SVVS Magazine and
on the SVVS Website to keep us amused. This is Part Three of
an article on 'Lenin's Rolls Royce Kegresse' where we look
into the history of the Silver Ghost, the history of
Vladimir Lenin and the history of four Rolls-Royce Silver
Ghosts used by the Kremlin Special Purpose Garage (GON) during
Lenin's short seven years in office. |
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Russian Silver Ghost Kegresse
Mystery - March 2021) ::
As SVVS are not allowed to have any
meetings due to Covid Regs, we are keeping our spirits up with a
mixture of interesting different articles in the SVVS Magazine and
on the SVVS Website to keep us amused. Last month we
started a three-part article on 'Lenin's Rolls Royce Kegresse' and
determined it was never the Tsar's. This month we have the Part 2
of the study which looks into the history of Charles Rolls, Henry
Royce, Rolls-Royce, and developments of Rolls-Royces up to
the Silver Ghost. |
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::: ( Tsar
Nichols II of Russia Roll-Royce Kegresse ? - February 2021) ::
As SVVS are not allowed to have any
meetings due to Covid Regs, we are keeping our spirits up with a
mixture of interesting different articles in the SVVS Magazine and
on the SVVS Website to keep us amused. Last few months we
had fascinating articles by our 'cycling correspondent. This month
we are having Part One of a three part study of the Rolls Royce
Kegresse claimed by many as being car belonging to Tsar Nichols 11
and confiscated to be given to Lenin as a personal chauffeured
car. |
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[ Steering like a Swiss Watch -
Fischer - January
2021 ] ::
As SVVS are not allowed to have any meetings
due to Covid Regs, we are keeping our spirits up with a mixture of
interesting different articles in the SVVS Magazine and the SVVS
Website to keep us amused. Last few months we had
fascinating articles by our 'cycling correspondent' Chas Moody, of
broken leg fame, on bicycles with extremely uneven sized wheels.
So on the theme of steering, this month we are looking into the history
of a Swiss watchmaker whose 1904 car was steered by the feet!! |
