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Coachlines - January 2024
30.01.24 The Clerk
Clerk’s Notes – January 2024
The Caroline Age came to an abrupt end on 30th January 1649, when the power of the crown was seized by the Commonwealth, and King Charles I was publicly executed in Whitehall. The event was witnessed by a young Samuel […]
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Coachlines - January 2024
30.01.24 The Clerk
In memory – Liveryman John Durdin
Notified to us by his nephew, Liveryman Tim Durdin, former Liveryman John Durdin passed away on the 20th of December 2023, aged 97 years. John joined the Coachmakers’ Company in the mid to late 1970s and was clothed in the […]
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Coachlines - January 2024
30.01.24 Junior Warden Mark Broadbent
Meet the Team – The Coachmaking and Carriage Driving Awards Sub-Committee
The Coachmaking and Carriage Driving Awards Sub-Committee is probably the Livery Company’s closest contact to the roots of its origins. The committee was founded by Past Master David Shalit in 1979, who served as chairman for 25 years. During that […]
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Coachlines - January 2024
30.01.24 Past Master Sarah Sillars
A private visit to Studio 434 – Rodger Dudding’s collection
On 7th March 2024 Past Master Sarah Sillars OBE will be making a visit to Studio 434, Rodger Dudding’s outstanding collection of automobiles in North London. More than 100 years of motoring is represented here, starting with a stately 1911 […]
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Coachlines - January 2024
30.01.24 Steward Neil Sheath and Laila Fadli Dokkali
A ‘fairy tale’ as told by a Sir Sydney Camm Scholarship Winner
Last year Laila Fadli Dokkali was awarded the Coachmakers’ Sir Sydney Camm Aerospace Scholarship to help complete her undergraduate project. The award helped her graduate with a first-class honours in Aeronautical Engineering from Brunel University and has now progressed to […]
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Coachlines - January 2024
30.01.24 Dr Dorothy Thompson-Evans
An evening at the House of Commons
Friends and Liverymen of the Coachmakers enjoyed an interesting and thought provoking evening tour of the Palace of Westminster, guided by the charismatic raconteur and Member of Parliament Assistant Mark Garnier OBE. Mark escorted us from the vast Westminster Hall, […]
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Coachlines - January 2024
30.01.24 Liveryman Adrian Smith
Are you ready for winter driving?
It’s that time of year again – a time of low temperatures. I recall, as a child growing up in north east Scotland, there were snow depths which came up past an adult’s knees and further. One had to be […]
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Coachlines - January 2024
30.01.24 Renter Warden David Barrett
A Christmas coach ride adventure
Christmas is a great time to get away to warmer climates; your Renter Warden David Barrett and his wife Marie Gilberte visited the coral reef island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean where ‘Gil’ was born. Once a French colony, […]
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Coachlines - January 2024
30.01.24 Liveryman Alastair Boyes
Coachmakers are fired up for shooting season
The Coachmakers game shooting day of the 2023 season took place at the Maisemore Court Estate in Gloucestershire on 30th December. The days consisted of five drives shot by a team of eight guns. The team was made up of […]
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Coachlines - January 2024
30.01.24 Assistant Lyn Litchfield
Meet the new members of the Coachmakers’ family
The court meetings at the Aerospace Industry Dinner in November 2023, and Award to Industry dinner in January 2024, saw a number of new Freemen and Liverymen sworn and clothed to the Livery, as follows: Freeman Abbie Carr Abbie and […]
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Coachlines - January 2024
30.01.24 Freeman Nolan Newman
The problems with current Battery Electric Vehicles – part one
My next car is very likely to be electric. Not because it is the best car for my needs, because it is clearly not. Nor because I believe it is truly beneficial environmentally*. In my previous blog, I made a […]
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Coachlines - December 2023
20.12.23 The Master Bettine Evans
Master’s message December 2023
Greetings fellow Coachmakers. I do hope you’re all well and looking forward to Christmas, when we, the fortunate ones, will eat too much, drink too much, make merry, go to parties and have a generally jolly time. We enjoyed a […]
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