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Coachlines - February 2024
28.02.24 The Clerk
Enter the Coachmaker Banquet 2024 Prize Draw
To maximise your opportunity to win one of five fabulous prizes in the Coachmaker Banquet 2024 Prize Draw, tickets are now available to purchase online. For those who are unable to attend the Coachmaker Banquet 2024 to be held on […]
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Coachlines - February 2024
28.02.24 Steward Neil Sheath
Meet the Team – Steward Neil Sheath and the Aerospace Awards Sub-Committee
To start off, a little about me and where I came from, writes Steward Neil Sheath. I joined the Royal Air Force back in 1981, attending the RAF College at Cranwell straight from school and onwards to pilot training, eventually […]
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Coachlines - February 2024
28.02.24 Assistant Giles Taylor
Automotive bursary winners 2024 announced
Each year, the Automotive Charity Sub-Committee, led by Assistant Giles Taylor, awards two bursaries to talented young design students studying at the Royal College of Art in London, and Coventry University. Both the RCA and Coventry offer courses in automotive […]
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Coachlines - February 2024
28.02.24 Freeman Patryk Nelkowski
Freeman Patryk Nelkowski becomes an aviation air-worthiness inspector
Since embarking on my aviation career as a licensed aircraft engineer becoming an under-35 Freeman of the Livery, achieving the status of a Light Aircraft Association (LAA) inspector stands out as a significant achievement in that aviation journey, writes Patryk […]
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Coachlines - February 2024
28.02.24 Honorary Assistant Lesley Upham
The Master’s 350th Charter Anniversary Fundraising Initiative is under way
The 31st May 2027 is the 350th anniversary of the signing of our first Royal Charter. To celebrate, the Master has launched a fundraising drive to put our money where our mouth is when it comes to living up to […]
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Coachlines - February 2024
28.02.24 IPM Julian Leach
The road less travelled: Bucket list holiday – Galapagos ✓
When I was elected Master, I became aware of the number of retiring Masters who went on fantastic holidays soon after they left office, following what can only be described as an intense and exhausting year. So, I thought, why […]
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Coachlines - February 2024
28.02.24 Liveryman Martin Derrick
Coachmakers visit to Retromobile in Paris
Twenty Coachmakers and partners headed to Paris in early February to visit Retromobile – probably Europe’s most important classic car event – and enjoy the best of the French capital city’s culture, writes Liveryman Martin Derrick. Our base was the […]
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Coachlines - February 2024
28.02.24 Assistant Lyn Litchfield
Coachmakers golf fixtures announced for 2024
Captain of Golf, Assistant Graeme Hunt has announced the following Livery golf fixtures in the coming months, and he would be very grateful to see more Coachmakers joining his merry band. The Duchess of Gloucester Cup at The New Zealand […]
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Coachlines - February 2024
28.02.24 Liveryman Mark Jurd
Report from an international coachmen’s dinner
In 1673 it took eight days to travel from London to Exeter and a writer of the time commented: “This kind of journeying is very tedious, so that only women and people of inferior condition travel in this sort.” By […]
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Coachlines - February 2024
28.02.24 Freeman Nolan Newman
The problems with current battery electric vehicles – part two
In part one of my blog, writes Freeman Nolan Newman, I went through the first two major issues I have with Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) – the real CO2 emissions, and weight. In this, part two, I follow up with […]
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Coachlines - January 2024
30.01.24 The Master Bettine Evans
Master’s message January 2024
A happy New Year to you all. I do hope you all enjoyed a wonderful Christmas and New Year celebration, as indeed did I and my family. I have so enjoyed the past three months as your Master Coachmaker, and […]
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Coachlines - January 2024
30.01.24 Liveryman David Barzilay
A letter from the Editor – January 2024
First, a belated happy New Year and I hope that it is a peaceful and prosperous one, although we find ourselves in difficult times around the world. It is times like these when our fellowship and activities become even more […]
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