Torbay Steam Rally 2007

Despite early weather forecasts it was a glorious sunny weekend, there was no sign of rain at all which we were expecting on Sunday.

The Torbay Steam fair was well attended by military vehicles, in total there were 19 or 20 vehicles there although 2 were not in with the rest of us, there was a 1942 Diamond T wrecker in the commercials section & a 1978 can-am Bombardier in the motorcycle section.

Friday (day 1) saw 9 vehicles in the military section which I thought was a good turnout for a working day, we had 14 in on Saturday & 14 on Sunday, it worked out well as the 14 on Sunday were not all the same 14 that attended Saturday, some people were attending another local event over the weekend so they did a day at each event.

On the Saturday evening we took a small convoy of about 12 vehicles down to Brownstone Battery, a costal defense battery set up in WW2 to protect Start bay and the Mouth of the river Dart.

MVWF members in attendance numbered 8 but not all were there for all 3 days, we did get a couple of group photo’s where poor Audrey (fordy) got pounced on by me & Nige.