Announcements
NEW American Steamers - Long standing member Tom Dawson is now the SCCGB American Representative and he is encouraging all our American members to get involved further with the club by reporting on events and sending through news from their steam community. Tom has a brand new section on this website which will develop into a great resource for all members of the club. The new section can be accessed from every page by the left-hand menu under the heading New - American Steamers or direct from HERE. Tom can be emailed at tom@steamcar.net
A.G.M. 2012 Announcement
The 2012 AGM will be held at Coventry Transport Museum, CV1 1PN on Saturday 17 March 2012.
It is hoped that many of us will be able to get together for a meal afterwards at The Elms.
More details to follow later.
FBHVC Newsletter - We have just received the latest copy of this very comprehensive newsletter which you can view by clicking HERE
1900 document about Locomobile End 2 End journey - A very interesting document has been sent to us by Dudley Westgate, who is Chairman of the End 2 End Club
and Director of Heritage Attractons Ltd. The document is a handwritten diary entry by Hubert W Egerton of Norwich, who drove a Locomobile from John O'Groats to Land's End on 11 December 1900.
Below the diary entry is a poem written by Mr Egerton's companion on the journey, Mr T Perkins. Click HERE to see the document. Our thanks to
Dudley for sharing this with us.
We now have a further document about this journey! An article was published in the March 1954 edition of Model Engineer (which in those days sold for the princely sum of 9d) To read the full account please Click HERE
More Prescott photographs - We have some more photographs taken at Prescott, available to view HERE
Our thanks to Graham Abbott, Artist and Photographer, for allowing us to use his copyright photographs on our site.
Yorkshire Pudding Tour photographs - Some excellent photographs from the Yorkshire tour can be viewed by clicking HERE. There are quite a number so it may take a moment for them all to load.
Our thanks to Dominic Russell-Price (who owns the copyright) of R P Jeffers (www.rpjeffers.co.uk) who has kindly allowed us to reproduce his photographs on our website. More photographs from other sources will be posted as soon as possible.
De Dion Bouton et Trepardoux 1884 - World's oldest running car fetches $4.6 million at auction. Go to the link HERE to read the full report.
PRESCOTT 2011 - Pictures taken at last weekend's event are available HERE
Eight of our members' cars were taken to Prescott and all were able to join in the calvacade up the hill on Sunday 2 October. Basil Craske in his Model R and
Mark Drake in his 740 Roadster set times under full MSA Hill Climb Competition Rules as a benchmark for future events.
SSCGB Cotswold Tour - Members of The Steam Car Club of Great Britain spent a most enjoyable week in July touring in the Cotswolds. They were based at Chipping Norton and toured several well known beauty spots, including Bourton on the Water. Photos of the tour are now available to view HERE.
Honorary Members - Information on the Honorary Members of the Steam Car Club can now be found easier by clicking the member link on the left side of this page, below the main navigation buttons.
Club Constitution - Following the AGM in February, a copy of the draft Constitution was sent to all members to vote on whether it was to be accepted. We are pleased to say that a unanimous vote of acceptance was received. The Minutes from the AGM are available by clicking HERE
The Steam Car Club Down Under
Following on from the Steam Cars Clubs tour of Australia, we've uploaded a whole host of photographs featuring the cars and some of the wonderful scenery we found along the way. A full report is being compiled and will feature in the next club magazine - don't miss it!
The Steam Car Club is Now on Twitter!
Live updates can be accessed whilst we are on tours. For updates CLICK HERE. For those who need to know a little bit more about Twitter, see HERE for the SCCGB guide to Twittering.
Steam Car Club Regalia
The Steam Car Club of Great Britain in collaboration with YourClubClothing.com are pleased to announce the availability of a whole new range of official Steam Car Club of Great Britain clothing!
The initial range of Steam Car Club of Great Britain clothing includes T-Shirts, polo shirts, fleeces, coats, rugby shirts, body warmers, hats and bags. For more details click HERE
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Welcome to the website - we hope you notice a few changes and improvements.
Firstly the site now needs a couple of requirements from your browser/computer. No need to panic though as it probably has them setup from the previous site to view some of the slideshows. The new site relies on this on every page.
1. The menu/navigation on the left needs Flash to run. If you do not have it you can download and install it from Adobe within a couple of minutes. You'll be asked to download it if you do not have Flash, or if your version of Flash is an older variant.
2. Javascript needs to be enabled, this can be turned on (or off) in your browser settings. The majority of settings have Javascript defaulted as 'on.'
And that's it. Enjoy the site and we look forward to your feedback.
Help with the Website
All the website contents can be found HERE. A full listing of pages on the site, with the first page (index page) having muliple opportunities to go direct to your choice of page/feature.
Join in
If you feel inspired by the site and have a relevant article to submit - get in touch. We'd love to hear from you. You can contact the Steam Car Club HERE
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The online Tribute to Jeff Theobald can be found HERE
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The Steam Car Club of Great Britain would like to inform members.....
* A DVD is being produced called "Insight into Steam Cars" this will be available soon. It is hoped that this will be made in conjunction with the NTET we already have the support of the Federation of British Historic Vehicle Clubs. It is primarily to introduce people of all ages to steam cars to include the basic principles of how they run and importantly the safe operation with regards to maintenance and driving of Steam Cars.
* A list of Boiler Inspectors will be posted on this web site soon.
* The committee have decided to give Honorary Membership to those members around the world who have given years of service to the Steam Car Movement. The first person to be given this award will be announced shortly
Click here for our first Honorary Member.
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