Published September 2012. 80 pages, 110 b&w illustrations, softbound.  And, for the first time, 8 pages of full colour

Contents:

• The formation and legacy of Britain’s first motor museum, by David Jeremiah 
• Aids to research: the motoring journals, by Michael Worthington-Williams
• Full colour section: Charron automobiles 1912
• Rivington Pike, an early speed hill-climb, by John Warburton
• A local garage, by Malcolm Jeal
• Looking back down the decades, by Jonathan Wood
• Brakes axles and springs, by Malcolm Jeal
• Afterwords

Price £12.50, including U.K. postage and packing, £14.50 to Europe including Ireland, £16.50 overseas. Send a cheque made payable to the Society of Automotive Historians in Britain, and your details, to Aspects of Motoring History, 10 Lodge Park, Whittlebury, Towcester, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom NN12 8XG

SAHB AUTUMN SEMINAR

Sunday 7th October 2012

The Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation, The Hunt House, Paulerspury, Northants NN12 7NA

Members who have  attended previous seminars at The Hunt House will know of its excellent facilities along with its eclectic collection of Rolls-Royce and Bentley artefacts.

Members and their guests are invited to attend this event and also to partake of the dinner at the Best Western Buckingham Hotel, Buckingham, MK18 1RY on the evening of Saturday 6th October. They may wish to stay overnight and, similar to previous years, accommodation has been reserved at the hotel where a special combination B&B and Saturday evening dinner rate of £75 for a single room and £100 for a double has been agreed.  This is a lower figure than last year and represents excellent value for money.

Please book your accommodation and dinner arrangements quoting SAHB10 direct with the Best Western Buckingham Hotel, Buckingham on 01280 822622 or info@buckinghamhotel.co.uk before 17^th September, after which the 18 reserved rooms cannot be guaranteed.

After the success of the Motoring Literature Fair at last year’s Autumn Seminar we have again arranged that the morning period will be similarly assigned. Philip Hall is arranging the tables.

Setting-up time is from 9.30 am and while tables will be provided, it would help if you could provide your own additional tables if you need more than one. Transport literature and photographs will be offered, so come along and sell, swap or buy within a cordial atmosphere. All we would ask is that you give a minimum of a 10% of takings as a donation to SAHB funds.

Paulerspury is approximately four miles south of Towcester and is signposted from the A5. Buckingham is seven miles south of Paulerspury at the junction of the A413 and A422.

 Seminar Programme

7th October 2012

09.30 am                                                     Arrival and Coffee

09.30 am – 11.15 am                              Motoring Literature & Photograph Fair

11.15 am – 12.00 noon                          AGM and the Presentation of the SAHB Michael Sedgwick Award

12.00 noon – 12.45 pm                         Anders Ditlev Clausager –  Sunbeam-Talbot: a history of  the brand and  the book

12.45 pm – 2.00 pm                                Lunch

2.00 pm – 3.00 pm                                  Eddie Berrisford -  The 1914 Grand Prix Mercedes: a riddle solved

3.oo pm – 3.45 pm                                   Malcolm Jeal -  A tangled web: some distortions in motoring history

3.45 pm – 4.15 pm                                   Tea and dispersal

Cost per person £26.50

Information about the hotel and Saturday evening dinner details, together with booking forms for the Seminar, including the Literature and Photograph Fair, will be sent to SAHB members under separate cover or by email.

New Name behind ‘Pride of Longbridge’

The co-organiser of the annual ‘Pride of Longbridge’ event and the Longbridge Centenary Celebration rally in 2005 has a new name, a new logo designed by automotive specialist MPiD Design and a new committee.

Formerly known as ‘The Federation of Austin Clubs Registers and Associations’ it will now simply be ‘Austin & Longbridge Federation’, or ‘ALF’.

The organisation’s web site also has a new domain name: www.austinlongbridgefederation.co.uk

 New Chairman John Baker, a retired Longbridge development engineer, commented, “we want to reflect the fact that we cater for all Longbridge products and although the factory was founded by Herbert Austin in 1905, it has produced cars, commercials, power plants and aeroplanes using a huge variety of badges. Our new name and logo reflects this.” Well known author and staunch enthusiast of Longbridge’s products, the Reverend Colin Corke, is ALF’s Vice Chairman.

As reported at the AGM, the SAHB is instituting the Michael Sedgwick Award for a new book, or article, dealing with an aspect of British motoring history, preferably based on new research. We ask all members to nominate any recent work of this nature for consideration by the panel of judges which is comprised of Jonathan Rishton, Michael Ware, Jonathan Wood, with Anders Clausager as co-ordinator. Nominations should be made by 1 June at the latest.