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Win a ride of a lifetime on the world’s oldest and most celebrated motoring event!
Press release
Here’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to win a memorable passenger seat on the world famous RM Sotheby’s London to Brighton Veteran Car Run—the world’s oldest and most celebrated motoring event. The Veteran Car Club of Great Britain is offering one lucky winner a truly unforgettable ride on this year’s capital-to-coast celebration and it could not be easier to enter the special competition.
Any person aged eighteen or over who joins the Club as an Associate Member after March 16th, 2024, will be entered into the prize ballot, to be drawn on the September 1st, 2024. An additional ballot for a further seat will be held for all current Associate Members aged eighteen or over who joined the club before March 16th, 2024.
The seats are offered on the V.C.C.’s 1902 twin-cylinder 10hp Wolseley, a well-known car, formerly owned by the renowned motoring journalist and author W. Worby Beaumont.
Should the winner or winners be unable to take up the offer, a new draw will be held. The winners will be responsible for getting themselves to the start and away at the end. While every effort will be made to start the run and drive the Wolseley to the finish, this cannot be completely guaranteed given the car is 122 years old.
To join the club, go to vccofgb.co.uk/join.html and download the application form or contact the club secretary by phone on 01462 742818 or email at hq@vccofgb.co.uk
Published:
Friday May 17th, 2024
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Richard Smith
18 May 2024, 09:33
You'd have thought the VCC might have known. But then again, maybe not...
Beaumont's listing in the Motoring Annual and Motorist's Year Book for 1904 described him as:
BEAUMONT, W. Worby, M.I.C.E., M.I.M.E., &c., &c., Outer Temple, 222, Strand, London, W.C.
Car: None at present.
Hobbies: Cycling, orographic geology, and physical and mechanical experiment. Supports motoring for the improvement in the conduct of traffic of all kinds on roads; the development of a great national industry, and the recovery of the premiership of the United Kingdom, in the construction of mechanically-propelled vehicles. Is a practical engineer. Has carried out extensive experiments in steam condensation, and in connection with steam, oil and gas-engines. In 1898 was President of the Society of Engineers. Is the author of "Motor Vehicles and Motors." Is Hon. Consulting Engineer to the A.C.G.B. & I., and has been a judge of motor vehicles at all the important exhibitions and trials from 1896 to the present time.
In 1898 Beaumont was President of the Society of Engineers and was a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and the Institution of Electrical Engineers in addition to many other learned bodies. Beaumont was a member of the Cycle Engineers' Institute and an original Member of Council of the Institution of Automobile Engineers, taking an active role in the Institution for the rest of his life. In 1906 he became a Consulting engineer to Rolls-Royce. His Motor Vehicles and Motors: Their Design, Construction and Working by Steam, Oil and Electricity in two volumes was printed by Archibald Constable & Co. London, comprising Volume 1, 1900 and Volume 2, 1906. Industrial Electric Vehicles and Trucks was published by Griffin in 1920.
Hardly a journalist...