Letchworth Garden City Classic & Vintage Car Club
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LGCCVCC Drive It Day Sunday, 27th April 2025
Twenty-three LGCCVCC classic car owners decided to 'Drive It' to the Letchworth Arena car park and then to Van Hages garden centre near Hertford. Many friends and family joined in the enterprise.
Well done to all who joined in the morning's adventure
and a big thank you to Mike Hayward for organising the outing.
More details will appear in May's edition of Sparkplug.
A wide selection of Club cars disporting themselves at Van Hage, Great Amwell.
The LGCCVCC AGM 2025
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During the Club's AGM, held on Monday, 7th April 2025, several changes took place. Our Acting Chairman, David Mee, stepped down and Simon Ansell was elected as Chairman. Thanks were given to David for his custody of the Chairman's position for the past several months. As Secretary to the Club John Scott stepped down to be replaced by Richard Hamilton. Thanks were given to John for his tenure of the position. John was given the prestigious Greenhalgh Shield for services rendered. Mike Hayward was awarded the Bent Conrod trophy a few days later, at the Lolleywood Cafe 2nd Saturday meeting, in recognition of his hard work in organising the Club's events in the form of factory tours and Drive It Days, plus many other outings.
Above, David Mee hands over the Chairmanship to Simon Ansell.
Left, John Scott is awarded the Greenhalgh Shield and right, Mike Hayward accepts the Bent Conrod Award.
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'Second Saturday of the Month' meeting Information​
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For those attending the 'Second Saturday of the Month' gathering at Lolleywood Cafe please be aware that they should not park their cars on the grass areas around the Cafe but should use the hardstanding areas. This situation will probably endure until the weather becomes drier.
Mel Holley, Secretary of the FBHVC writes -
'The Federation of British Historic Vehicle Clubs has launched its major five-yearly research to the entire road transport heritage community, and we need your help!
We are contacting you as an individual supporter of the Federation but also ask that you share details of the survey with your friends and colleagues.
Please participate in the crucial National Historic Vehicle Survey and keep transport heritage on our roads.
The survey takes around 10 minutes to complete and is best done in ‘one sitting’
https://fbhvc.co.uk/survey
Why the survey is vital…
The Federation of British Historic Vehicle Clubs will have to argue even more strongly for historic vehicles to retain their current access and freedoms on our roads in the coming years as we navigate the most challenging period in our history.
To defend our freedom to use yesterday's vehicles on tomorrow's roads, we need your help completing this crucial survey.
We conduct this major research every five years and more than 15,000 enthusiasts participated last time around. We want to make this survey the largest and most comprehensive of its kind in the world, so please take part, have your say, and help keep the historic vehicles that we love on the road for the benefit of everyone in the future.
The Federation represents more than 500 clubs, museums, and individual members passionate about historic vehicles older than 30 years, such as cars, motorcycles, buses, coaches, lorries, agricultural, military, or steam vehicles.
Due to changing political and environmental influences, the historic vehicle community, events, the freedom to use the roads, and even the fuel we use are under increasing threats and pressures.
The FBHVC aims to lobby the Government against detrimental legislation and restrictions that could impact the future of historic vehicles. However, to secure a successful outcome, the organisation needs dependable data on the significance and scope of the historic vehicle movement. The responses you provide will help shape the future of historic vehicles in Great Britain over the next five years by providing crucial data.
Our history of authoritative research
The Federation first conducted research in 1997 and has repeated the process at least every five years since then. HM Government values this research for providing a consistent approach that demonstrates accurate traceability and the development of the historic vehicle movement over time. Such transparency fosters trust in the government and ensures that the 1.9 million historic vehicles recorded on the DVLA database are treated fairly and appropriately.
The survey encompasses all historic road vehicles, including cars, bikes, lorries, vans/motorhomes, military vehicles, buses/coaches, tractors/agricultural vehicles, and steam vehicles.
Details of the previous research is at: https://www.fbhvc.co.uk/2020-research-result-headlines
Any questions?
We have tested the survey to ensure that it works on all modern computers, laptops, tablets and smartphones. If you are having problems and are using 'modern' equipment, please let us know.
The survey closes at 2359hrs on 31 May 2025 and the results will be published in the autumn.
For this, and all other questions, in the first instance please contact the Secretary secretary@fbhvc.co.uk
We thank you for your support.'
Access to the FBHVC web site
The LGCCVCC is a paid-up member club of Federation of British Historic Vehicle Clubs (FBHVC).
As such members of the LGCCVCC are able to access various benefits including discounts, a series of essential guides and the FBHVC magazine 'Historic'.
The latest issue of the FBHVC magazine - HISTORIC - is now available online.
Please login to the members’ area to view it: https://www.fbhvc.co.uk/members-area
If you have not registered, please do so here: https://www.fbhvc.co.uk/register
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The Club gets 10 paper copies of each edition of HISTORIC and makes them available to Club members at the following monthly meeting.
