Austin Ten
Drivers Club

The 2010 National may seem a distant memory for those who attended back in july.
The following pictures may bring it all flooding back.



Rally Check in and a welcome cuppa

Smiles all round Happy to be at the National

It's a wind up, caravan that is.

This is camping in 1930's style


Friday evening was well supported with over 90


members sitting down to a fantastic meal


great company and plenty of Austin chatter.


Smiling faces all gathered together


a good glass of wine or a pint to wash it down.


Members gathered from far and wide

and several from across the water.

Cheers

Everybody.


Bon appetite! Now where is my dinner!!

Tony M's Punch & Judy show. Hilarious.


Mr Plod gets turned into sausages.


Tony Osborne's talk on the 100 years of Longbridge.
Very informative and a great end to the evening

Your Saturday Programme

Saturday is a day of activities both on and off site. A day of fun and games.
We had a Scenic run and Scatter run both well supported as well as the return of the tyre rolling contest.


Scatter clues at the ready, it's all smiles now but just wait till the first question!!

Let the tyre rolling competition begin.

A prize is up for grabs for the ladies too.


Dougal Cawley of Longstone Tyres.
Sponsor of the tyre rolling competition.


Under arm, over arm it's all in the technique?


Mrs M Raffle ticket sales suprimo


Auto jumble stalls for those scarce parts


Demo of Soda Stripping. Great for removing paint.


Explaining the virtue of using Soda

With the day drawing to a close the evening was brought to life by the sound of a steel band and the Caribbean.

This was a fun evening with the majority of members dressing the part and joining in.

The Blackdown Hills Steel Band were fantastic and gave three performances throughout the evening.


Oh what a lot of Happy Chappies


Rolie with Dread-springs


Who says i'm a pi~~ed Parrot


Red Hot Steel. 10 piece band playing
Hot Hot Caribbean Music


Dis am da Mudda an da Missy.
A couple of Caribbean beauties.


Caribbean Buffet Fit for any Rastafarian
"It's tropical Man"


The band played some fantastic tunes
and everybody jiggled about.


Jody was elected to judge the costumes
after a round of applause for the band.


Tim leads the conga of all the contestants around the clubhouse.


the Conga keeps growing


Jody is looking for the best.


I've got another pair just the same!


Is dat u Mr Pugh


Final choices to be made


Jody's final contestants and a fine bunch they are too. Now it is up to the Audiance to decide.


Jody describes the outfit and the audiance all cheer


one by one we work down the line, cheering and clapping for the ones we like best

All good fun


Karan is the last in the line


Is da main man

Guess who won


Winners of the competition. Smiles all round

Your Sunday Programme

Sunday is the main event. With judging for Pride of ownership and the Longbridge Shield.


A splendid turnout of cars with some rare models to be inspected.

We also had a nice line up of cars of interest.

Class 9 7hp to 20hp

Chrome radiator cars of every colour.

Let the judging begin

JR gets the close inspection from Alastair.

Beware of car alarm Squawk Squawk

Judging almost over time to pose.

Last minute inspection.

John Knight ready to battle with the driving tests.

It's car limbo time.

Here goes those tricky highway code questions.

I was only this far away from the cones, honest!

Members relax as they wait for the Ladies fashion show.


The girls reunited and pose for the camera.


And so the boys also have their Kodak moment

During the morning we had several members visit Frome for a splendid tour of the historic parts of the town.
On site we had a demonstration of glass craft work by Elaine Taylor and Ann Moscrop gave a talk on her book.

It was then time for the Ladies 30's - 40's Fashion Show

Our Ladies have turned out in fantastic fashion with fine attention to detail,
but hang on who's the one with hairy legs and flip flops?


Each contestant describes their costume


Robin awards the First Prize. Very well deserved


Second prize goes to our Land Girl Ann Murray


Michelle awards third prize to Tennis star Mrs M.

With the day drawing to a close it was time for the award ceremony.

Oh my goodness, I hope he doesn't burst into song!


A parade of cars included our Land Girl in her war time Lichfield


All the prizes are up for grabs


Ann Mosscrop and Gypsy receive the Chairman's Award


Awards were issued one by one


Good to see the Ladies winning too


One last look at the field of cars to the left


and to the right

The winning team give a final cheer to round off the show, now it's time for the off we go.

2010 National Results

Award
First
Second
Third
Class 1 10/4 Chrome Radiator Stewart Holbeche Bob Herringshaw Mike Collison
Class 2 10/4 Cowled Radiator Peter Malgrin Tony Lampard Monty Mumford
Class 3 10/4 Cambridge Type David Nurse Mike Bartlett Trevor Constable
Class 4 12-28 Chrome Radiator Tim Hilditch Jim Richardson Tony Westhall
Class 5 12-28 Cowled Radiator John Knight David James Rodney Cripps
Class 6 10-16 hp 1939-1948 Graham Thomas    
Class 7 Previous Winners Tony Mealing Richard French  
Class 8 Commercials 1931-1939 No Entries    
Class 9 Other Austins Richard Edmonds    
Fred Pace Memorial Trophy Bob Herringshaw    
Light 12 Shield David James    
Longbridge Shield Geoff Elster Tim Hilditch, Jim Richardson, David James Tony Westhall, Tony Lampard, Mike Bartlett
Regional Shield Tony Sanger    
Everyday Shield David Pedder    
Driving Tests - Mens Award Mike Bartlett Fred Leach John Knight
Driving Tests - Ladies Award Helen Steinlechner Brenda Johnson Connie Robertson
10/4 Challenge Cup Mike Bartlett    
12-28 Challenge Cup John Knight    
Long Distance - Great Britain Charles Flemming    
Long Distance Overseas Ruud Appelman Ewan Cameron (New Zealand)  
Worst Breakdown Sheila Puzey    
Gary Ward Trophy Derek Ball Fred Leach Alastair Murray
Chairmans Award Anne Mosscrop    
Frome Rugby Football Club ~~~ Friday 23rd to Sunday 25th July 2010 ~~~ Somerset BA11 2NA
 
 
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