Awards and Loans

The Trust offers financial assistance to individuals or groups to carry through restoration or improvement projects to completion. The Trust also invites enquiries about sponsoring one or more Awards.
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Latest Preservationist of the Year and past winners

Preservationist of the Year 2013

Malcolm McKeand - the 2013 Award Winner! The Preservationist of the Year award for 2013 goes to Malcolm McKeand for the 18-year project to restore the 1911 Bristol Pilot Cutter Kindly Light.Malcolm's interest in traditional boats and sailing started very young, and in his twenties he became fascinated by the old ...

Young Preservationist Award

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Latest Young Preservationist of the Year and past winners

Young Preservationist of the Year 2013

 Charlotte and Chelsea Dresser - the joint 2013 Award Winners!  We have two Young Preservationist winners this year. Sisters Charlotte and Chelsea Dresser have spent long hours learning restoration skills working with the Yorkshire Helicopter Preservation Group.The girls first entered the realm of helicopter preservation when they came to help ...

Restoration Awards

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Latest Restoration and Commemorative Awards and past winners

Restoration Awards 2013

Alan Moore Award1916  Ganges class 0-6-0Ts locomotive Hudswell Clarke built about 50 of its Ganges class 0-6-0Ts for use on the War Department light railways in France but this particular example, No.1238, was acquired by the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation in what is now Ghana at its Obuasi mine. (Fig.1) There it ...

Lifetime Achievement Awards

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Lifetime Achievement Award 2013

Max SinclairFor his 50 year campaign to restore the Droitwich canals.Canals in the plural because there is the Barge Canal, opened in 1771, and the Junction Canal opened in 1854. They were built to facilitate the salt trade on which the wealth of Droitwich was founded. The canals were abandoned ...

Lifetime Achievement Award 2012

 Gordon Biddle Gordon Biddle is a retired Surveyor who has devoted his expertise to the subject of transport infrastructure and has made a major contribution to increasing awareness of the importance of this aspect of transport, and of conserving it.Gordon achieved recognition as an expert on our industrial and commercial architectural ...

Lifetime Achievement Award 2011

Vic SmallshireAs a teenager in the late 1950s, Vic persuaded his father to build him a boat to tour the Black Country canals. He found the Government was closing them quicker than he could discover them: so began a 50 year association with the Dudley Canals.From direct action in the ...

Lifetime Achievement Award 2010

  Alan MooreAlan has made an outstanding long-term contribution to transport preservation, especially heritage railways. He has trigger-funded restoration of the quad-art set, many steam locomotives, the rail motor shed at Didcot and the goods shed at Bodmin. He has served as Chairman of the Bodmin & Wenford Railway and Finance ...

Lifetime Achievement Award 2009

  John ReevesJohn Reeves received a lifetime achievement award in recognition of a long career writing about and promoting the restoration of working steam, on the road and on the land. John FasalJohn Fasal was recognised for a lifetime's contribution to the restoration and preservation of Rolls Royce motor cars. John WylsonJohn Wylson's ...

Lifetime Achievement Award 2008

  Michael Oliver MBE and JeanMichael Oliver (MBE) and Jean are the founders of the Great Dorset Steam Fair and its organisers for 40 years. A regular fixture at the end of August each year, The Great Dorset Steam Fair GDSF now covers 600 acres of Dorset at the end of August every ...

Lifetime Achievement Award 2007

 Michael Banfield  Michael has had a lifetime involvement in the restoration of historic commercial vehicles and buses, veteran and classic cars. He was a founding member in 1957 of the Historic Commercial Vehicle Society, which merged with the Vintage Passenger Vehicle Society to become the Historic Commercial Vehicle Club, the largest ...

The National Transport Trust makes loans to groups, associations and individuals at advantageous rates for the restoration of artefacts - whether mobile or part of the infrastructure. Applications must be supported by a simple business plan which demonstrates the financial viability of the project. A sample business plan is available on request from the Treasurer.

The Trust does occasionaly make Awards for schemes which further the preservation movement. Again if you wish further information please contact the Treasurer.

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