[SEL] British Engine show Rules / now waste of space

[Hugh Stannard]

 Hi Arnie,

These guys usually turn up before an engine steward arrives. They set up and
take up all the room they like. The engine stewards are all volunteers, and
they are there to enjoy the weekend not have confrontations with stroppy 
engine enthusiasts" who dig their heels in when told to move their excess
stuff so 9 times out 10 the engine steward will not bother trying to get
them to move. When the other engine folk arrive there is no room to put
their camping equipment behind the engine so they squeeze in where there is
a gap. The majority of the rallies over here have camping behind your engine


Regards,

Hugh.
 
 
 
-------Original Message-------
 
From: The SEL email discussion list
Date: 06/15/04 19:56:14
To: The SEL email discussion list
Subject: Re: [SEL] British Engine show Rules / now waste of space
 
Hi Hugh,
 
In the states show organizers simply wouldn't allow all that "empty green"
to go to waste. They'd direct later arrivals to setup in that area and
fill it in. Why don't the engine stewards do the same at English rallys?
 
It's also not the norm to have the campers (caravans) setup with the
engines. Some shows do, but most have the campers in a different area.
 
See ya, Arnie
 
Arnie Fero
Pittsburgh, PA
fero_ah at city-net.com
 
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Hugh Stannard wrote:
 
> On a different slant to this post, at English rallies the stationary
engines
> are usually the poor relation and as such, only get a small site on the
> rally field and are usually cramped up in a compound. As a regular rally
> attender I accept this fact and generally help out the engine marshalls by
> keeping close up to the next exhibitor leaving enough space to get all the
> other engine exhibitors into the allowed space. But there seem to be an
> increasing number of so called "engine enthusiasts" who selfishly arrive
> early and set up camp with numerous cars, caravans complete with awning
for
> one small (usually the cheapest) engine on the market and take up massive
> amounts of room and then generally leave it alone all day and not even
> attempt to run it. What we term as ticket engines. A way to get into the
> rally for free!!
>
> See http://community.webshots.com/album/152913114ivvZBy for an example.
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