Awards and Loans
Preservationist Award
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Preservationist of the Year 2014
Clive Purser lead the preservation of Steam Tug Challenge which is 110 feet long, 27ft wide, and draws over 14 feet. She was built in 1931 for the Thames Estuary, North Sea and English Channel.In 1940 she took part in Operation Dynamo, so she is a Dunkirk Little Ship,albeit one of the ...
Young Preservationist Award
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Young Preservationist of the Year 2014
Micheal Patterson Michael Patterson has been around steam most of his life. He and his father have had a five inch gauge railway lay out in their garden for many years. He has been a member of the Vale of Aylesbury model railway club operating steam engines on their five and seven and quarter inch ...
Restoration Awards
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Restoration Awards 2014
The Ron Wilsdon Award Given in memory of the Transport Trust’s founder1923 DFP (Doriot-Flandrin-Parant) Voiturette Owned by Jeremy Rogers.August Doriot and Ludovic Flandrin had worked for Peugeot and Clement-Bayard before branching out on their own to form DFP in 1906. Their English agent from 1912-1920 was W O Bentley who subsequently ...
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 ...
Restoration Awards 2012
Peter Allen AwardWindermere steam launch OspreyLakeland Arts Trust,now custodian of the vessels at the Windermere Steamboat Museum, for its restoration of the classic Windermere steam launch Osprey (Pic.1). Built by Shepherds of Bowness in 1902 with steam propulsion, she was used privately for 70 years and later converted into a ...
Restoration Awards 2010
Geoff LumbGeoff's Transport Collection at Golcar specialises in the products of the Karrier factory originally sited at nearby Huddersfield. The Peter Allen Award and a cheque for £2000 were awarded for his meticulous restoration of a 1928 Karrier six-wheel bus with English Electric clerestory-roofed single deck bodywork. Timothy LobbRowe Hillmaster lorries ...
Restoration Awards 2009
Pamela PageElegant Edwardian river launch Constance won this year's Peter Allen Award and a cheque for £1500. Once steam powered, the launch now has electric propulsion and a future hosting art lectures and painting classes while cruising the Thames.Yorkshire Helicopter Preservation GroupWestland Whirlwind helicopters were the first successful UK-built design ...
Restoration Awards 2008
National Tramway MuseumThe National Tramway Museum at Crich took the Peter Allen Award and a cheque for £2000. This is for its work to bring back to service Cardiff City Tramways Rail Scrubber No.131. This was the first tram to arrive at Crich in 1959 and completion of its restoration ...
Restoration Awards 2007
Premier AwardsThe MTB 102 Trust took the Peter Allen Award and a cheque for £1500 towards essential work to the hull of the prototype fast patrol boat and Dunkirk veteran.The Brooklands Museum Trust received the Ron Wilsdon Award and £1500 for the return of Hurricane Z2389 to taxiing condition.Cotswold Steam ...
Lifetime Achievement Awards
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Lifetime Achievement Award 2014
Ron Barker After a career in the aircraft industry Steady Barker, as he has been known almost since he left school, joined the staff of The Autocar magazine almost exactly 60 years ago, and began to combine earning a living with his life-long interest in cars. He had attended race meetings here at Brooklands in ...
Awards & Loan
See more information about an Award or LoanThe 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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