Club Events
The DLOC hosts many events for its members and for the public-at-large. The SP Owners' Club and the Lanchester Register, both closely associated with(in) the DLOC, do the same.
This web page lists events of above-regional interest, where our clubs are the organisers and the single participants. It also lists events where our club has "big presence" with a Club Stand, plus a named coordinator on behalf of the Club.
Another web page DLOC Regional & Participation Events, is available to announce events at the branch level, and events that DLOC members are attending either as a small group or as a collection of individuals.
If you want a club event to be listed on the site, please contact the web master. Note that the club's forum has a separate Event Calendar to announce general events.
The Great Eastern Rally
- DATE: Sunday 20th July 2008
- TIME: 10.00 am to about 5.00 pm
- VENUE: Ingatestone Hall, Ingatestone, Essex, UK
- CONTACT: Adrian Hanwell tel. 01277 227708 (UK)
- COST: Free of Charge
The Daimler and Lanchester Owners' Club would like to invite its website readers to their annual "Great Eastern Rally" which has been held almost every year since 1975. It is open to visitors and owners of all makes of classic car. It is a static event, where the cars are on display for drivers, passengers and other visitors to look at.
The 32nd "Great Eastern Rally" is to be held on Sunday 20th July, at Ingatestone Hall, Hall Lane, Ingatestone near Brentwood, Essex. Ingatestone Hall is only about two miles from the A12 and about seven and a quarter miles from junction 28 of the M25.
The rally opens at 10.00 am and ends at about 5.00 p.m. It is an informal rally, which is free of charge for those that attend. You can visit for a short time, or for longer (as you please). No pre booking is necessary, but those wishing to come are welcome to contact the rally organiser, Mr Adrian Hanwell, in order to obtain more information. His telephone number is Brentwood (01277) 227708 and he is usually available at weekends and weekday evenings any time up until 11.00pm.
July is a busy month and we are sure that you will have other events to attend, but perhaps you might prefer to join us on the rally day.
The Great Western Rally
- DATE: 1st - 3rd August 2008
- TIME: Exibitors to be on site before 10 am
- VENUE: Kemble Airfield nr. Cirencester Glos. UK
- CONTACT: Kevin Bennett, the DM Editor tel. 0117 9562555 (UK)
- COST: Free of Charge (for exhibitors)
The DLOC Great Western Rally is free to enter for exhibitors and takes place at the Kemble Airfield, near Cirencester Glos. over the weekend Friday 1st to Sunday 3rd August 2008. It forms part of the Gloucestershire Steam Extravaganza, and is a family orientated weekend, with arena events, hundreds of classic cars, commercials, motor cycles, autojumble, craft stalls, steam engines, aircraft and much more to see and do.
The DLOC organisers are keen to promote the event as a "Pre-Jaguar Daimler Day". Do not be mislead by this title - we want you to attend in any DLOC car - but what we would like to see are the earlier cars out in force! If you have a pre-Jaguar Car please get it prepared and bring it along to this central location.
The DLOC has invited the BSA FWD club to join us on our display, so there will be plenty of variety for you to enjoy. We already have an exciting line up of pre and early post war motor cars but would like to see more! On occasions we have had over 65 cars on display (over 85 different vehicles over the weekend).
As before you may attend one or more (or all days). Sunday will be the main rally day, although the display site is open each day, and a club presence will be maintained there all weekend. As has become customary at The GWR we will be having a barbecue (free to members). On the Sunday afternoon, a DLOC personality (possibly the Chairman or President) will be donning the DLOC pinny to burn the bangers: it is worth attending just to witness this spectacle.
There are many excellent hotels and B&Bs nearby in the beautiful Cotswolds. It is well worth taking a long weekend break and making The GWR part of your short holiday. Cirencester is a fairly central location, so why not make a short break (or a long one if you prefer). Why not attend the famous Prescott Hill Climb on the Saturday and come to Kemble on the Sunday?
If you would like to come along or require more details
contact The DM Editor, tel 0117 9562555 (answer phone)
or send an SAE to 12 Grove Bank, Frenchay, Bristol BS16 1NY
for an application form, or use this e-mail address:
SP250 50th Anniversary celebrations 2009
The 2009 DLOC International Rally will be based at Ross-on-Wye,
Herefordshire, from Thursday 11th June to Sunday 14th June 2009.
This is the usual annual event for all Daimler, Lanchester and BSA members.
Following this, there will be various simultaneous tours
covering different parts of the UK for SP250s as set out below.
Details will be appearing in The Driving Member.
photo:
Stirling Moss and Graham Hill in the Clerk of the Course's SP250
at Warwick Farm Circuit, Australia, February 1963 (click to enlarge)
| Tour 1 | Scottish tour inc. Loch Lomond, Fort William & Aberdeen (this will entail some 1200 miles motoring) |
| Tour 2 | Lake District, Dumfries-shire and Northumberland tour. |
| Tour 3 | North East of England tour inc. Harrogate, Durham, Yorkshire Dales and North-East coast |
| Tour 4 | South & New Forest Area tour. Day excursions from two bases to sights around the New Forest and further west |
| Tour 5 | West Midlands, Shropshire, Cheshire, mid & north Wales tour |
| Tour 6 | East Anglia tour inc. Cambridge & north Norfolk coast |
These tours are planned to finish at the Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust Museum at Coventry at lunchtime on Friday, 19th June. In the evening of that day, there will be a Celebratory Dinner at the Renaissance Hotel, Solihull, just a few miles from Coventry. We have provisionally booked rooms with the Renaissance Hotel for the Friday night.
To round off the proceedings, on the following day, Saturday, 20th June, there will be an all day gathering at the Heritage Motor Centre at Gaydon, some 20 miles from Solihull.
Obviously, although the formal arrangements will last only a week or so, friends coming from overseas, particularly those bringing their cars, will want to spend more time here and they may well want to take the route(s) of the other planned tours in the following days or to "do their own thing". What ever you want to do, we will give you every possible assistance. For those planning a long stay, there will be a weekend celebration on 18/19 July at Shelsley Walsh, the oldest hillclimb in continuous use in the world. Ernest Instone, driving a 35hp Daimler, achieved the first FTD in 1905!
For those shipping their cars to the U.K., Southampton is probably the logical port of arrival and we can arrange for the cars to be collected from the port and held at Club members' homes pending your arrival. To save weight, pack only minor hand tools. We may also be able to arrange loan cars for SP owners who are unable to bring their own vehicle. We have raised the question of insurance of your vehicle with a firm of brokers and are awaiting details from them. They have said that they can also arrange transit cover but you would probably want to organise that aspect in your own country.
