v INDEPENDENT, LOCAL AND PROUD v 11th May 2023 • The HERALD • Page 67 VAUXTECH LOCAL GARAGE Tel: 023 8086 9496 Unit 5, New Forest Enterprise Centre, Totton, Southampton SO40 9LA LOCAL GARAGE EST 27 YEARS • Servicing & Repairs • MOT’s (arranged) • Brakes • Clutches • Tyres • Air Conditioning • Collection & Delivery Locally Friendly & Reliable Onsite Café Facilities All Makes & Models e Southampton and New Forest Group of the Austin A30/A35 Owners’ Club members are continuing to enjoy the friendly, social atmosphere at their monthly meetings. Every meeting includes a ra e with many members leaving with a prize or two. e club holds regular quizzes, has speakers on various topics and club drive days. Club News On ursday 13th April the club held its rst ‘Collections’ meeting. It was well supported and members brought in examples of the items that they collected, both past and present. Going around the tables, each member explained how and what started them o on their collecting journey. It was informative and entertaining as many items brought back memories of members’ childhoods and later years. e diverse collections made it a very enjoyable and interesting club evening. Shown in the photograph is one member’s American heavy duty, tin-plate toy police car. e car is green and originally had the word ‘police’ on it in yellow. A er many years of play it had a partial re-paint sadly losing the police signage. e owner received the car CLASSIC CAR CLUB – ‘Members Enjoy Collections Evening’ range of classic vehicles such as Bedford, Ford, Land Rover, Mercedes, M.G., Morris, Riley, Triumph and Volkswagen enabling the club to expand the range of vehicle manufacturers to complement their A30/35’s and other Austin models. e May meeting is on Thursday 11th May. is will be a Charity Auction in aid of Minstead Trust. Meetings take place on the second Thursday of each month, starting 7.30pm, at Netley Marsh Community Hall, Woodlands Road, SO40 7GH. Do go along and meet them. You will receive a warm welcome. as a present in 1938. e clockwork-motor, not only propels the car, it produces a sound like a siren. Other collections included advertising 1960’s milk bottles, early radios, a pre-1900 Victorian sewing machine, cigarette and collectors cards, tin-plate toys, Austin parts with paper ephemera, a Morse Code operators equipment and items collected in di erent countries where a member had worked. One member brought a wide range of ephemera, books, jigsaws, badges, bill heads, postcards etc. ursday 20th April, the rst club rally of the year was at Furzey Gardens, Minstead. It was a lovely sunny day. Sunday 23rd April was the club’s own ‘Drive Out Day’. It was the same Sunday as the national ‘Drive It Day’. e club is always happy to welcome new members that are owners of any make of classic car, not forgetting those enthusiasts who appreciate them but don’t have one of their own, to go along and meet the club members with a view to joining. Members have a Music at Beaulieu Music at Beaulieu’s concert on Saturday 27th May will be given by the Korros Ensemble comprising ute, clarinet and harp. e Ensemble was formed in 2001 at the Royal Academy of Music and gave its rst concert on a cruise ship! ere is no original music available for this group of instruments therefore they will be playing well-known orchestral and chamber pieces imaginatively reworked by Nicholas Ellis, their clarinet player. e concert will be held at Beaulieu Abbey Church and starts at 7pm; doors open at 6.30pm. Tickets at £15 each may be bought on-line from: musicatbeaulieu. org.uk, through their box o ce, telephone 07770 859 900 or by post at PO Box 84, Lymington, Hants, SO41 3ZA where cheques will be accepted. Children under 12 are free. Future concerts include classical and jazz clarinettist Emma Johnson on Saturday 10th June and the King’s Men on Saturday 15th July.
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