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I don’t have a vintage car but I’d love to join the annual London to Brighton Rally which is held on the first Sunday of each November.
First held in 1896 to celebrate the Locomotives on the Highway Act, which raised the national speed limit from four miles per hour to fourteen miles an hour (Wow!), the rally attracts entries from all over Europe.
Over 400 cars were entered in yesterday’s rally, which is not strictly a race but more an endurance test to see if cars built before January 1905 can go the distance. If they do, they get a bronze medal.
I wonder how many of today’s cars, many of which require a computer programmer to repair, will be in the race in a hundred years time?
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I don’t have a vintage car but I’d love to join the annual London to Brighton Rally which is held on the first Sunday of each November.
First held in 1896 to celebrate the Locomotives on the Highway Act, which raised the national speed limit from four miles per hour to fourteen miles an hour (Wow!), the rally attracts entries from all over Europe.
Over 400 cars were entered in yesterday’s rally, which is not strictly a race but more an endurance test to see if cars built before January 1905 can go the distance. If they do, they get a bronze medal.
I wonder how many of today’s cars, many of which require a computer programmer to repair, will be in the race in a hundred years time?
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