[SEL] Re(Sel) Rough and Tumble

[Dave Croft]

Hi Kerry, I am no-longer driving so I seldom get to an engine show!
I do remember just before 1959 when I took my Station Engines on my trailer
to the
rally site at Preston Lancashire. The bus & lorry historical firm
were making new vehicles & testing them in the week on a new test track.
They let us use the vehicle test site to a new show site!

We set up the displace engines well but the second part was torrential
rainfall & stationary
Engines running one foot deep in water!
When we needed to leave the site we needed three big tractors pulling our
vehicle & trailer   
Over seas of mud to get them out. Happy Early Days!

See
http://www.madeinpreston.co.uk/Road/leylandinfo.html




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From: sel-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com
[mailto:sel-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com] On Behalf Of Kerry
Sent: 31 August 2014 00:39
To: The SEL email discussion list
Subject: Re: [SEL] Re(Sel) Rough and Tumble

G'Day Tom
Great to hear from you again, was not totally sure of spelling your name 
correct so ???, and thought your wife's name was Millie but too long ago.
Signs of the time we all are lurkers now, very little posts to SEL or ORG,

I don't disagree with anything you say, people go to shows for different 
reasons but as a paying spectator all I am saying FOR ME is that 
vehicles parked alongside displays is distracting.
In Australia no vehicle is allow in the display area and we camp not far 
away, no problems for us

Tractor people have been an issue at a lot of clubs, ours no different, 
only been set up 3 years. totally by engine people now tractor people 
with different needs/wants are controlling the club and a lot of 
arguments have started.

In Australia the lines of lifeless tractors have been fixed by their 
owners new craze, Tractor Trek, go for a convoy drive in the country so 
they put their fat asses in the seat and off they go to leave rows of 
SPACE for the paying public to see

All the best
Kerry



On 31/08/2014 5:05 AM, Germoamer at aol.com wrote:
>   
> I totally enjoyed my time there and met up with Tom Sch??, his wife
> and Bill Lopoulos (are you both still on the list)
>
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> ------------------------------------------
>   
> Yes, Kerry I am still here but mostly a lurker
>
>
> My wife and I attended the R and T show for 5 years in a row and were
there
>   from Wednesday till Sunday morning, met a lot of nice people from around
> the world, and always had a good time.  We traveled about 6 hours to get
> there, had the trailer loaded with a 6 or 7 hp engine on cart.  Our truck
was
> always loaded with clothes, rain coats, umbrellas, food , drinks, gas
cans,
>   Big Red Book, Gas Engine magazines, and other reference stuff, spare
> parts,  tools, extra chairs, etc.
>   
> We watched as engine folks children sleeping in tents beside the  running
> engines grew older.  If it had not been for a motor home allowed in  at
that
> time I would not have had the pleasure to see first hand, take photos,
and
> put my hands on a very rare working salesman sample engine that had been
to
> South America and back.  It was always inside the motor home and was
later
> sold for $40,000+ (Judge Tommy knows where it ended up).
>   
> We watched as the tractor folks and the engine folks had conflicts.   The
> tractor folks lined up their tractors in neat rows and wanted the engine
> folks to do the same.  One morning they even changed the gate lock during
the
> night so the engine folks could not drive their trucks in that morning.
Now
> that was a confrontation to see!  The engine folks cleaned up some of the
> fair grounds and the tractor folks would encroach on it.
>   
> One of the biggest differences was the engine folks with their truck,
motor
>   home, trailer display disarray always had engines running and people
ready
> to  talk about the engines, how they worked, help get others involved in
> the  hobby, etc.  The tractor folks lined up their tractors and then
> disappeared  for the most part.
>   
> Why did I quit going to R&T?  The last time there,  they announced it very
> loudly,  "your motor homes and trucks are not  welcomed inside any more".
> Your vehicle will be parked out in never-never  land -period!
> I kept up with that show and the engine displays went down hill after
> that.  I am glad to hear that it is building up again.
>   
>   I attended  a lot of shows in the Virginia/North Carolina area  and from
> Florida to Pennsylvania, to Indiana.  Most of those allowed  vehicles by
or
> very near the display.  One of the biggest shows I attend is  at Denton,
NC
> that allows motor homes, trucks, everywhere in the engine  area.  Always
> engines running.  The tractors are neatly lined up in  another area doing
> nothing, and  no owners around to discuss them  with the spectator.
>   
> My vote is to allow vehicles inside where space permits or parking very
> nearby the display!
>
> Tom  Schmutz
> Concord,  Va.
> germoamer at aol.com
>
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Kerry Morris
Tangye Engine Registrar
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