August 2019 Scribe Notes

I start my notes with the sad news that Bryan Goodman passed away on 25th May after battling with Parkinson’s disease. Bryan had been a VCC member for 60 years and in that time he had done a huge amount for the Club including being Chairman of the Executive Committee...

De Dion Bouton Company

The Rise and Decline of the De Dion Bouton Company “There is a view that De Dion Bouton was as much an architect of its own demise as it was of its triumphant success some decades earlier.” These words formed part of an introductory paragraph that Bill Boddy wrote for...

Paris to Rouen July 22nd 1894

The vehicles participating in the annual London to Brighton Veteran Car Run represent an impressive array of manufacturers, body types, means of propulsion, and country of origin, and yet I suspect that we would all have marvelled at the entries received for the Paris...