To Paint or Not to Paint
A subject thst often comes up these days is whether to paint or not! If you have an engine or some other item be it a mill or pump, the first question may be `do I just mechanically restore and give it the oily rag treatment’, or `do I paint […]
Read more »First Official Event of 2013
The first official event of 2013 will be the Gas-Up and Bring and Buyat the Southdown garden Centre at Hassocks on March 17th. For those that have not been before, this is becominga very popular and interesting event whether you want to buy or sell, exhibit an engine or collection […]
Read more »The Last Event of 2012
The last event of 2012 was held at my place (Hurst Farm) on the 30th December and was well attended by club members and visitors who were interested to find out what was going on. There were not many engines this year but we did manage to run of the […]
Read more »New Subscription Charges
As those of you who attended the AGM will know it has been necessary to increase our subscription to £18.00. This is because the NFU have increased the premium to insure an event from £10.00 to £60.00, this means that our insurance costs have gone up from £335.00 to £980.00!! […]
Read more »Hassocks November Gas-up and Bring and Buy
When I woke up and saw the weather, I thought that no one would show up so I set off in trepidation wondering what was to be was to be. The roads were flooded, the wind was cold and the rain just kept coming, but upon arrival Peter was already […]
Read more »25/6/7th August Rudgwick Steam and Country Show
This show has always been one of my favourites. I arrived early morning on the Thursday before the show to set up the caravan and look at the area we have to make sure we can get all the members in. It was not to long later that morning that […]
Read more »19th August Cranleigh Classic Car Show
Again this year we were invited to put on a display of engines at this show, after a couple of emails to the organizer about the site for displaying in, I arrived on site about 8 30, it was not very long before a few other members arrived. I put […]
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