what a shame the stray is going to be a mud pitch again this year
www.hcvs.co.uk/hcvswelcome.htm
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That'll be a shame.
I'll look forward to seeing pix on here though, in due course:
ccmv.fotopic.net/
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I'm taking part in this in a Seddon Atkinson Borderer,circa 1971 vintage.
Look out for JMU 266K in Hoyer colours.
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Just got back had a real enjoysble day,watched them all drive in and all drive out again,
best showing in years i reckon.
saw your atki, helmet very nice too.
My transits too new bt, but for next year i might just have something old enough as its on a g, its been parked up 3 years now as i havent had a use for it (shtum is the word though )
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An old girlfriend of mine once had briefly a red Trojan van. This thing dated from the forties or fifties, was very solid and slow, and had the weirdest engine I can remember ever seeing... two cylinders of different sizes, side by side, I seem to remember. Perhaps Atkinson or something. Might have been a diesel.
She wouldn't let me drive it, but it was a plodding device. I think now it would be worth a pretty penny to the right geek. Trojan made a quite slow flat-twin-powered open tourer in the twenties whose star turn was its suspension. You were supposed to be able to drive it over anything at top speed without feeling a thing.
I ought to mention it, and how much we need a modern equivalent with the authorities deliberately screwing up all the roads, in that other thread about dream cars, but I can't be bothered.
Edited by Lud on 02/08/2009 at 23:11
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>>An old girlfriend of mine once had briefly a red Trojan van.
You're much older than I thought!
The only Trojans I know turn up for historic trials. They're a sort of twin cylinder two stroke, chain drive to a solid rear axle.
Edwardian I believe!
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Edwardian I believe!
No. This was forties or fifties. Two-stroke may well have been part of the weird recipe though.
I've remembered something else about those twenties go-anywhere Trojan tourers: they were one of the last passenger cars to be offered with solid tyres.
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Yes, they were definitely 1950s - Brooke Bond (tea) had dozens of them. They did indeed - until 1952 apparently - have an odd two-stroke engine that dated back decades, I'm not sure but some may even have had solid tyres.
Wikipaedia has what seems to be an illuminating entry. There is, IIRC, an active owners' club which used to be run by a refreshingly eccentric character called something like Group Captain Scroggs.
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