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New Year’s Day Vintage Stony advertising reported that after 10 years, it would be the last one of the series, which was all the more reason to take the Bollée along. B44 Clive hauled his mighty Power Pak at the same time, but even with an earlier getaway than usual the intended unloading spot was found to be already full – clearly others also did not intend to miss it either. Continuing on, space was eventually found, but only when almost there. This left only a derisory distance to go, and desiring a bit of ‘Victorian motoring’ first, but observing that the main roads were already jamming up, the tricycle was taken for a spin around the Stony backstreets.
After arrival at the Market Square, the motorcycle parking area was seen to be fairly full already, but there is always enough space to pack them in on the nominally pedestrian area. Not so for the cars (the Bollée counting as either), although the actual pre-war turnout did still squeeze into the Market Square as it
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