Advantages: A Truly Historic Event. Fascinating Veteran cars. Low Speed Thrills and Spills! Disadvantages: Weather Can Be Awful. Brighton Sea Front Very Crowded.
...on the calendar is the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run. Brighton has links with the dawning of the motorcar that may well not be widely known. An example of this is the National Speed Trials, held on the sea front on the first Saturday of September each year. This event has taken place since 1905, the year that the Brighton and Hove Motor Club (the oldest motor club in the country) was founded.
However, even that illustrious motoring event pales ... ...the word "Run" - the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run is not, and never has been, a race!
WHAT WAS THE FIRST RUN IN AID OF?
Well, strictly speaking, it was a celebration of the liberation of the motorist from a series of restrictive rules governing the use of their horseless carriages. The most famous of these was the regulation stating that a man carrying a red flag had to walk in front of a motor vehicle in order to warn all other road users ...
RICHADA 10.11.2006
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