19-06-2022, 08:14 AM
The delights of modern technology when it works, allow this picture taken in Hertfordshire to reach the forum via Seattle and a holiday cottage in Yorkshire. Being in Yorkshire, naturally there are frequent road signs informing the passing traveller that Jowett Car Club is the oldest one make car club in the world, indeed probably in the universe. Which makes this gathering in St Albans very interesting. Inevitably a first question is what were they doing? A highly trained team of researchers have immediately searched to see if any cars survive, and if they do they are unknown to Swansea. Acknowledgments to Jayne and Ian Grace, to David Cochrane and to one of the most esteemed editors outside Yorkshire, Mike Tebbett. So it's over to you. I have bought Julian Hunt on holiday, well his famous book, so now I must plan the day's visits to hillclimbs. Generally old chaps leaning over field gates flag you down, and assure the passing historian that their grandad had always said that the 1909 Grindleford Bridge hillclimb was not only the most exciting motor sporting event in the whole of Europe, but that Sheffield Simplex should have continued to make the fastest cars were not the regs changed by cheating Southerners and event organisers in Lancashire.
