I first came to know Nick Baldwin through others as he was part of the Old Motor team, the UK’s pioneer transport preservation magazine, starting in the mid-Sixties.
In the late Seventies, I first met this cool, knowledgeable character when I was the Kent social secretary for the Southern Counties Historic Vehicle Preservation Trust, which staged the then-big Ardingly July rally and a September working event. I was lucky enough to feature top speakers at these meetings from