Page 70 • The HERALD • 14th September 2023 v WE’VE BEEN YOUR LOCAL SINCE 1994 v Long established family business • MOT TESTING • SERVICE & REPAIR FOR ALL MAKES AND MODELS • CLUTCHES • DIAGNOSTICS • CAMBELTS • SERVICE TO MANUFACTURERS SPECIFICATION • FREE COLLECTION & DELIVERY • USED CAR SALES 128-132 Calmore Road, Totton. SO40 8GQ 023 8086 4424 www.calmoreservicestation.co.uk Our knowledgeable staff are on hand to keep your vehicle on the road in a safe manner • We offer all garage services including free collection and delivery from your home • We now offer Dpf cleaning - Injector cleaning - Turbo cleaning and Air intake cleaning to help your car run cleaner improving its performance and economy. • Good Garage Scheme – RMI – Trust my Garage Member MOT’s, TYRES, CLUTCHES, CAMBELTS, SERVICING, WELDING, DIAGNOSTICS, LASER-TRACKING. CARS, VANS UP TO 3.5T, MOTORHOMES UP TO 30’ 023 8001 0029 Badminston Lane, Fawley, SO45 1BX 023 8001 0029 Friday 4th August and the weather was just right for this keenly awaited friendly home match between New Forest Golf Club Seniors and the Southwick Park Golf Club Veterans. e venue for the shield trophy alternates and this year was New Forest’s turn. Southwick Park have held the shield since 2019 which made this year even more special as New Forest cruised in winning it back 4½-1½. With Captain Hugh Marchant unable to attend, Ken Scott held the fort admirably with Vice Captain Harry Maitland organising. e match was conducted in a competitive but friendly fashion. A nearest the pin opportunity on the 14th hole proved rather too much for the 24 players, nobody managing to be on the green with their tee shots, Left to Right: Ken Scott and Harry Maitland holding the Southwick Park GC and New Forest GC Annual Matchplay Shield however the excellent a er match meal and refreshments provided a perfect conclusion to the day. Southwick Park (Shield home) Film Star Veteran Cars arrive at National Motor Museum to Celebrate Anniversary Veteran cars that starred in a classic British movie have arrived at the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu over the summer. e lm star cars, Genevieve and Spyker, are on display to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Genevieve, the much-loved, Ba awinning movie which was rst released in 1953. e comedy lm follows the adventures of two couples participating in the annual London to Brighton event when driving a pair of veteran cars, the 1904 Darracq called Genevieve a er which the lm is named and a 1905 Spyker. In the movie Alan McKim, a young barrister, and his wife Wendy (played by John Gregson and Dinah Sheridan) are aboard a 1904 Darracq called Genevieve. eir friend Ambrose Claverhouse (Kenneth More), a brash advertising salesman, and his latest girlfriend, fashion model Rosalind Peters (Kay Kendall) – plus her pet St Bernard dog – ride in the Spyker. Although timid by today’s standards, their exploits on the way to Brighton and on a return race to Westminster Bridge won millions of admirers right around the globe, and also fuelled unprecedented interest in the veteran car movement. Following their time at Beaulieu the cars will visit the Royal Automobile Club in London and in November participate in the RM Sotheby’s London to Brighton Veteran Car Run. Genevieve has an interesting history. e Darracq was discovered among piles of junk on an estate in East London shortly a er WW2 and purchased for £25. e new owner found an appropriate two-seater body but had neither the time or money to complete a restoration so sold it onto Norman Reeves who oversaw the car’s complete renovation and named it Annie. Film director Henry Cornelius cast the little reborn Darracq for the leading fourwheeled role in the motion picture, rechristening it Genevieve a er the patron saint of Paris where the car had originally been built. Reeves eventually got tired of all the publicity surrounding the celebrity Darracq and sold it to a new owner in Australia. A er 40 years, Genevieve returned to Europe and is now displayed – appropriately alongside the Spyker – at the Louwman Museum in e Hague, Netherlands. However, with such an important anniversary to honour, both lm stars will be back in Britain this summer and autumn. 70 years of Genevieve will also be the subject of a ‘Transport Torque’ lecture by Andrew Roberts at the National Motor Museum Collections Centre on the evening of the 7th October. Genevieve will be in the Collections Centre for the evening of the Transport Torque. For more information, please visit: nationalmotormuseum.org.uk/ events Film star veteran cars arrive at National Motor Museum to celebrate anniversary
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