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Coachlines - November 2023

27.11.23 The Clerk

Clerk’s Notes – November 2023

November is the time of remembrance and once again I had the privilege of marching past the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday to pay my respects with some of my former shipmates of the HMS PLYMOUTH Crew of 1982. This year, […]

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27.11.23 Assistant Rakesh Sharma

Meet the Team – the Membership Committee

The Membership Committee, known as MemCom, is the first contact that most candidate Freemen have with the Livery. It serves you, the wider Livery, in finding potential candidates and administering their progress from candidate to Freeman. Without new members to […]

Coachlines - November 2023

27.11.23 The Clerk

Banquet 2024 – Friday 17th May 2024 at the Guildhall

The theme of the Banquet will be Navy Wings, but why? In November 2022 the Coachmakers’ Company presented the Victor Gauntlett Scholarship to a young man called Patryk Nelkowski who at the time was working for the Navy Wings organisation […]

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27.11.23 Freeman Patryk Nelkowski

An engineer through and through, or the story of someone who is good at fixing (most) things

I spent my formative years in Poland, surrounded by a family that upheld the long-standing values of mending, re-using, and re-purposing. I fondly recall a day when my Grandad (also an engineer), in need of a new window frame, took […]

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27.11.23 Assistant Giles Taylor and Benjamin Samuels

Could AI emulate a human driver in Formula One?

Since 2021, the Automotive Charity Sub-Committee, led by Assistant Giles Taylor, has established strong reciprocal relations with the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Brunel University. Each academic year, Liverymen of the Automotive Sub-Committee along with departmental head, Professor […]

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27.11.23 Assistant Eric Wallbank

Science Museum Skills Fair 2023

Some of you may recall that last year, for the first time, The Coachmakers took part in the Science Museum Skills Fair, running a stand where we had groups of school students getting hands-on with practical activities. This year, the […]

Coachlines - November 2023

27.11.23 Assistant Eric Wallbank

The road less travelled – completing The Big Lap

The Australians call it The Big Lap. Highway 1, the road that runs all the way around the country. 9,000 miles, give or take a few. The longest highway within a single country, and some call it the longest continuous […]

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27.11.23 Steward Neil Sheath

A fantastic night for our aerospace engineer award winners

The annual Coachmakers’ Aerospace Industry Dinner was held on 16th November at Vintners’ Hall, where we were entertained by guest speakers Air Marshall Paul Lloyd CBE and Wing Commander Eoin Sands who delivered amusing speeches completely appropriate to our audience […]

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27.11.23 Renter Warden David Barrett

All the fun of the Lord Mayor’s Show

Thirty three Coachmakers, and their families and friends joined the Master and Clerk for this year’s Lord Mayor’s Show, where we were treated to sunshine and blue skies. Our entry in the procession, which leads from Bank to Aldwych, via […]

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27.11.23 Liveryman Andrew Try

Berkshire’s new Lord-Lieutenant is a Coachmaker

Andrew Try reports on his first month as Lord Lieutenant for the county of Berkshire. Lieutenants were first created by Henry VIII in 1545 to muster the county militias for the defence of the realm. They had powers to lead […]

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27.11.23 Past Master Martin Payne

Treat yourself to a Coachmaker card holder

Some may remember this table gift offered at the Banquet in 2017. They were kindly produced by the students at Capel Manor and all were taken by the diners. The card holders reflect the Livery’s colours in Coachmaker blue and gold. […]

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27.11.23 Liveryman David Burgess-Wise

An Adriatic incident in 1809

My great-great-great-grandfather James Wise must have been a man of some education, for he joined the Royal Navy in 1808, three years after the Battle of Trafalgar, as the Purser of HMS BUSTARD, a 16-gun sloop-of-war that had started life […]