Classical Gas Christmas Quiz 2011 Question 1

What is the automotive connection between – An old hat factory; Tar Barrels and the man on an Omnibus.

This is a Round Britain Quiz type question. You may have to probe a bit to solve the riddle before you can move on to get the answer to the main question. Have a go, even if you aren't on track my responses may guide you to the final solution.

By all means use Google & Wikipedia.

You can answer on the message board, facebook page or email classictrials@googlemail.com

Robin Howard won Sundays Wattisfield Trial

- Full Results

- Pictures by Mike Hayward

- Pictures by Querth

Coming soon in a Cinema near You(Tube)

Allen Trial Video Playlist

Mike Chatwin won Sundays Exmoor Clouds, beating fellow DP Wasp driver Dean Partington by a slender one mark. Click here for provisional results

Mike Chatwin is pictured restarting on Vinegar Hill, followed by other videos by Jon Way

Congratulations to Duncan Stephens

2009 - MSA Sporting Trials Champion

2010 - MSA PCT Champion

2011 - MCC Triple Winner

Tim Smith urges his sidevalve Cannon to climb one of the steep slopes during Stroud's "Not" The Ebworth Trial last Saturday. Dave Cook was there to record the action and comments - "It was a good days trial, with four rounds of I think 11 or 12 sections.  In the morning there was not much grip on the wet grass, but as the day progressed the grass dried out and was soon ripped of to leave dry stony soil, with lots of grip.  Quite a number of competitors retired with mechanical problems." Click here for more pictures.

Just for fun :-))

Finally pulled more of the Lands End stuff together and added a comment facility

Fortunately Nick Farmer found his way through the undergrowth and went on to win The Ilkley Trial. Click Here for the Report where Facebook users can comment.

Lands End

John Salters Blue Hills Pictures

Dave Cooks Pictures - Plusha, Beggars Roost & Bishops Wood

Buy prints of Dave Cooks Lands End Pictures

Bikes on Blue Hills *

More Blue Hills Pictures*

Popham Start*

Its the Lands End Trial Good Friday & Easter Saturday. Entry List, Spectator Guide  and Timing on the MCC Site.

Nick Farmer won the Torbay Trial on 27 March

- Full (final) Results some differences from prov, on the ACTC Site

Dave Haizelden won Sundays Mechanics Trial

- Full Results

- Dave Cooks Pictures

- Buy Prints of Dave Cooks Pictures

Hope you enjoyed following Tweets (Twitter Reports) from Michael & Josh on The Mechanics Trial. Most of them are still available by Clicking Here. On the day the #mechtrial search didn't pick up all the tweets which was a known Twitter issue as they were experiencing a search overload as a result of the disaster in Japan.

I plan to set up a similar facility for the Lands End and will use #LETrial as the search string. All Twitter users have to do is put #LETrial in any tweet, its that simple. Competitors, Marshals, Spectators, Followers, all are welcome.

Just over two weeks to Falcon's Mile Tree Farm Trial on 27 March. There's the best part of 90 years experience in the organising team of Michael Leete (Clerk of the Course) and David Maitland (Secretary of the Meeting) who hope you will come and enjoy a day with them as a competitor or a marshal. Its a clubsport event so no competition licence is required.

- Regs and Entry Form

- Pictures of last years event

March Hare Stuff:-

Dave Cooks Photo Gallery

Order Prints of Dave Cook's Pictures

Julian Robinsons Pictures

Mike Haywards Pictures

In Car Video with Stephen Page

Draft Report

Dean Partington in typical relaxed mode as he successfully restarts on the last section to gain a clean sheet and win todays March Hare Trial.

Without any rain during the previous weeks the sections were dry and Dean was one of six clean sheets from a full entry of 50, winning the premier award by setting the fastest times on the special tests.

Regs are available for:-

Stroud & DMC Mechanics Trial on 13 March

Eastern Counties MC Broads Explorer Scatter on 17 April

Nigel Moss won Stroud & DMC's Cotswold Clouds Trial on 6 February.

Click Here for the full results

Photo's by Dave Cook

Click Here to buy Dave Cook's Photo's

Regs are published for:-

Launceston Trial on 13 Febuary

The Torbay Trial on 27 March

Regs are now available for Falcon MC's Mile Tree Farm Trial on 27 March.

Michael Leete is Clerk of the Course so it must be good!

- Clubsport event so no competition licence is necessary

- Click Here to Download Regs and Entry Form

Exeter Trial on the Web:-

- Classical Gas Message Board

- John Salters Pictures from Fingle

- Dave Cooks pictures from Sandy Lane (Class 0), Wooston Steep and Slippery Sam

- Dave Cooks PhotoBox Site where you can buy Prints and Posters

- Trollpowersaab's pictures from Haynes

- Mike Archers pictures from Simms

Falcon's March Hare Trial is on 6th March and the regs are now available. This year the  March Hare will start and finish from The Chequers at Redbourn (near J9 on the M1) with Breakfast, Evening Meal and Trailer parking available on site. The sections aren't rough and there will be a new lane and new sections on private land to enjoy.

Click Here to Download Regs

Here is our second question. No clues at the moment! We would like to know

- The Driver

- The Car

- The Event

- The Location

To summarise the answer. The car is a Lotus VI. It was the very first of the type made and unlike the "racers" that were to follow it had a solid beam front axle and a lofty ground clearance. It was built for Sinclair Sweeny although its only when Arthur Hay bought it is much information available. Big thanks to present owner Martyn Halliday for the pictures and information about the car.

Classical Gas Christmas Quiz - Here's the first question. There is a prize of a bottle of wine for the right answer, provided I can deliver it while I am trialling!

This famous car was last trialled in 1964 and hopefully will appear on the hills again after some TLC.

Can you identify the car and say who built it and for who?

We would also like to know about the cars competition history.

ACTC 2011 - As the year draws to a close its time to sign up for the ACTC Championship next year. Its well worthwhile just to get the excellent quarterly magazine. Well written reports and excellent insights into the sport from the top ACTC officials, all of whom are active competitors or organisers. Members get all the event regs and results emailed and are actively consulted about their ideas to improve the sport. At £17 for membership including the magazine or £11 just for the magazine its a bargin.

Paul Bartleman won The Camel Classic, the final trial in the ACTC Championship this year. The premier championship awards were both won my MG J2's in the hands of Dudley Sterry (Wheelspin) and Bill Bennett (Crackington). Click Here for the full Camel Classic Results on the ACTC Site

Carl Talbot is cataloguing the breakages in Ford Pop type axles to ascertain the weakest specific parts in their order of vulnerability, ie not just 'the diff. broke' but more specific , as in: 'the planet gears broke'  or  'seized on pin' or 'pinion teeth broke' or 'half shaft broke'

Carl is looking at improving the standard "Pop" axle for trialling, having done a lot of work on the "English" axle, coming up with a solution using a transit diff that is used successfully by a lot of triallers.