The Cornish
Tractor Club was formed in 1987 by a few tractor enthusiasts who sat
down one day and decided they would like to organise events for
the tractor enthusiasts. They pooled some of their own money to get
the Club started. These men were Hedley James, his brother George,
David Cowling, Paul Stephens and Basil Worden. Their first meeting was
held at Quintrell Downs Village Hall near Newquay and their first
Rally was held adjacent to the water works at Quintrell Downs.
Basil
was Chairman for 10 years and is now our president.
We have had
many Rallies, Working Weekends, Road Runs and outings since then.
The Rallies and Working Weekends are our main source of charity money and over the
last few years we have donated a large amount of money to various
Charities. The Club was fortunate enough to have been allowed to host
the 2003 National Vintage Tractor Road Run, basing ourselves at the
Royal Cornwall Showground for the Easter Weekend. From that event we
held a presentation evening at the Lakeview, Lanivet at which we
presented over £5000 each to Motor Neurone Disease and Cancer
UK.
Seven Cornish Tractor Club
members took part in the 2002 National Vintage Tractor run with five
of them, Debbie Delacoe, Tony Mathews, Reg Little, John Fahey and Les
Burrows driving their tractors all the way from Cornwall to the venue
at Sennybridge in the Brecon Beacons in Wales, where they were met by
Peter and Bernard Lobb who had transported their tractors to the venue
by lorry. Their journey was organised by Kathryn Knuckey and Thomas
Andrews and over £2000 was raised for Motor Neurone Disease along the
way.
At present, during the
winter months, our social evenings are held on the second Tuesday of
the month. We would be delighted to see you at any of these meetings.
At the present time we are seeking a new venue.
We
have many events planned throughout the year, New year and Easter Road
Runs ( with perhaps one or two in between ) Working Weekends at Laneast
in May and the Truro area in September, rally in June, various
outings and we have now set up a Holiday Club. In 2004 we went to
Southern Ireland Scotland in 2005 and this year we returned to
another part of Southern Ireland.
For further details of the Holiday Club please ring Sue on 01726 822265.
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