First a message from John Brooksmith for all Australian readers of our Register Blog:

Gooday Boys
Next Sunday is the Historic Commercial Vehicle show again. We are looking for a better than last year’s 7-vehicle show. If we all turn up we will make it – so here is the call to arms!
The show opens 9.00 am, so if we all make it around that time or soon after, and see if we can get the same spot as last year, we can make history: THE BIGGEST J VAN DISPLAY OUTSIDE THE UK…
That should also get us a front page on the J-Register website, so we will be world famous.
It is also the 65th Anniversary of the J Van so it will be a fitting culmination for the year.
Well done for last year – we will get some better pictures of a bigger display this year
See you there, John Brooksmith

And now to the Classic Motor Show…

We had four vans on display; Gary Sumner’s SLO 234, Gordon Wilson’s YLH 449, Ray Herritt’s 495 YUB and show regular – and club ‘office’ on such occasions – 5003 NX. We had also created some photo ind information boards which were well received. We had large photos of the Wythall, Melbourne and Sydney 65th Anniversary displays which many show-goers scrutinised.

Our thanks to those who managed to get their vans to the show, and to those Register members and friends who were able to attend. We were sorry to hear of Ray King’s ill health, his GPO Planning van was missed. Maybe next year. Get well soon Ray.

One man at the show who had talked to us at the 2011 show brought a print of a photo of his father’s Austin 101 milk float, we’ll put it on the blog over the next few days. Bill McMahon brought an interesting J-type clock to show us, which we had not seen before.

Gary (Sumner) brought along a few examples of personalised mugs and keyrings that his wife Heather makes, we will show examples of these in a blog post tomorrow.

It was a great show and we look forward to doing it all again next year.