The Thames Valley Traction Engine Club

Next Monday’s club meeting is the model evening. Engines will be in steam in the car park and models on display in the social club. Please bring along something no matter how big or small.

This year’s June Visit will be to the FAST Museum at Farnborough

This will take place on Tuesday Evening 10^th June.

We meet for tea and biscuits at 7.00pm in the museum lecture hall after the introductions a presentation will be given about the early years of flying at Farnborough starting with Samuel Cody we are then free to look around the museum.

When you have had your fill the Swan pub adjacent to the museum may beckon you

A charge of £5 per head will cover the museum part of the evening.

The club need to know numbers by 2^nd June ring and leave your details (01276 709994) please.

More details about the museum can be found on their website.

No other single location in the world has contributed so much to the development of aeronautical science over such a long period of time as Farnborough.  From the first airborne cameras and flying clothing to high altitude ‘space suits’, night vision aids, head-up cockpit displays and the first carbon fibre experiments – the list of Farnborough’s aerospace contributions is endless.

Farnborough was originally a small town in England, south west of London with some fine mid-19th Century buildings and, importantly, close to open heath and to Aldershot – the home of the British Army.  It grew into the foremost location for British aviation research and development.  The connection with aviation spanned most of the 20th Century.
By far the most significant era was that of The Royal Aircraft Establishment

The postcode of the museum is GU14 6TF. See map below:

Monday’s film show will consist of two films one steamy (Engines not other sort) and one not so.

The first film is a rather charming look at the Raleigh bicycle factory in 1945, showing the process of manfacture from desing through to testing. This film comes from a recently available archive of British films produced post Word War II it is an interesting and sometimes humorous look back at a manafacturing production of a Great British product.

The second film comes courtsey of British Rail, a 1953 documentary showing Class 5 engine numbered 73020 going ‘on shed’ and shows the proceedures that a locomotive goes through as part of its regular mainenance cycle. A fastinating film giving insight to the everyday workings on the railway when it was still powered by the good stuff.

Hope to see you all there for this interesting and entertaining springtime film show!