Jack

On 8/25/2021 at 6:07 PM, 67burwood said:

 

 

Hi Seamus

New dates for 2022 are provisional and are subject to change under our T&C’s , so as I have said in my numerous responses to you ,no refunds will be issued only deferments as we are in the same position as you and have been deferred by the Hop Farm ,Contractors etc. There is no more I can tell you at this moment .

 

Kind Regards 

Jane Morgan
Accounts Department

I find this absolutely pathetic and a condescending response.  What the T&Cs of Hop Farm (their service provider) is totally irrelevant to you as a customer of the W&PR Show.  That response to me sounds like the policy is a holding strategy to keep hold of other people's money.

They do not help themselves at all - they have lost a lot of goodwill over the years and if this is how little they feel about their customers, the show ever does return it will be size of the original rally as no one will attend. 

On 8/25/2021 at 6:07 PM, 67burwood said:

I tried to get a refund for next years show as I didn’t want to defer anymore, I informed them that I couldn’t make the dates for next year and that I was within my consumer rights to ask for a refund, they refused point blank and stated that next years dates were only proposed dates therefore they didn’t have to give a refund.

 

Hi Seamus

New dates for 2022 are provisional and are subject to change under our T&C’s , so as I have said in my numerous responses to you ,no refunds will be issued only deferments as we are in the same position as you and have been deferred by the Hop Farm ,Contractors etc. There is no more I can tell you at this moment .

 

Kind Regards 

Jane Morgan
Accounts Department

That's very very outrageous - is this actually legal, to refuse a customer a refund?

I would be very surprised to see the show return. It's hay day has been and gone and so much bad feeling between the owners and those who attend.

Yeah sorry guys, had an update and it gave us the badges - I thought I had switched it off by obviously now 🙄

OK thanks guys - keep posting any issues here and we will get on it  but it goes like this:

And just in the nick of time - the forum is fixed!

Thanks for your patience guys and have a great weekend!

16 hours ago, Enigma said:

Are your snaps suitable for all ages?  😵

Over 70's only!!

The tech guys are working on it and the need to install some further software - hopefully not too long now :-)

Cheers!

Jack.

Update - it isn't our end it is with the software providers and I have been in touch with Technical Support and will report back as soon as I have a reply 🙂 

- in the meantime, to keep you occupied - if you give me your email address I would be happy to send you some of my holiday snaps....

Hi all - thanks for not hitting the bottle 🙂

We are on the case and hope to have it fixed ASAP!

Kind regards,

Jack.

Nick it's not speculation if it is printed in black  & white and thanks for making the call, it's a help in clarification 🙂

On 4/28/2020 at 10:45 AM, fv1609 said:

GDSF have taken payments from the public for camping but are offering a carry-over to 2021 or a refund.

WPR still seems to be off line, it will be interesting to see if the same sense of fair play exists at least as far a carry-over to 2021 goes. If it does not it will generate a vast amount of ill feeling & a suspicion that even swallowing your loss for this year, could they ever be trusted again should you decide to pay again for next year if some no refund cancellation occurred again?

A scenario could be a few enthusiastic & trusting exhibitors paying again to enter next year, for the organisers to realise there has been such a breakdown in trust, that they have relatively few entrants that it is no longer viable to run it again next year & those trusting exhibitors get stung a second time?

Such a cycle of mistrust would be the end of the event & nobody wins.

Totally agree with you Clive.  They can only survive so long on those that see it as a cheap weeks holiday, it lost its charm when the 'new' owners took over.

Glad the GDSF have had the sense to make the call now - for me it's the best show in the UK 🙂

On 4/2/2020 at 5:56 PM, polecat paul said:

For those in isolation or at a loose end, might be worth a read through this as the dates are again relevant!

Take care everybody!

Great reminder Paul 🙂

1 minute ago, mike25470 said:

Thanks for all of the unseen work that the administrators put into keeping this forum up and running. It is appreciated by all.

Thanks Mike!

Thanks for your patience while HMVF was 'offline' we were updating the software 🙂

And Happy New Year!

Jack.

Thanks and that's my issue - I can't find the exact variant Joe was in.

Hi all,

Just working on something and need some clarification (life time of free beer to all those that can help....)

1 - what model of Sherman was Joe Ekins Firefly (M4A4?)

2 - his tank was named Velikiye Luki after a  Soviet town - what were the names of the other tanks in his troop (were they named?)

3 - what model Shemans were in the rest of his  squadron?

4 - Wittmanns tank was 007 - what were the numbers of the Tigers knocked out?

5- were all Tigers covered in zimmerit  as standard?

Thanks guys!!

Is there anything you don't know Adrian?!! 😍

Love these tractor units - keep the pics coming 🙂

8 hours ago, Richard Farrant said:

Whilst looking for any news of the event today, I came across a Dutch news site with some sad photos of a Bedford QL well alight. I can see it was an ex-Danish Army one and it would appear to be Dutch owned and on one of the convoys. My thoughts go out to the owner.

Mine too Richard, at first I thought it was a clip from a movie :-( Hope they get to restore her.

I am cross with myself for not actually organising just to get there and watch this - it looks amazing. I seem to spend my life being 'busy' and missing all this stuff 🙄🤐

I know this airfield well. I used to the work the woodlands attached to it that was used as the ammunition and bomb 'storage'. I will post the pictures. RAF Tarrant Rushton was all known as Station X and it also dropped SOE agents into France in Westland Lysanders. Churchill and Ike also visited this base. And many a stricken bomber would 'land' here on the way back from missions from Germany. 

But yes, Major Howard and his men who took Pegasus Bridge left from here and 'started' D-Day (just don't tell Hollywood that....).

On 4/7/2019 at 11:57 AM, ajmac said:

I read that Donnington Park Race Track has either been sold outright or been leased out, thus the museum had to go as that was not required by the new owners / occupiers.  It would seem to have been a good move as Kevin and the team have been getting a lot of vehicles out to companies for restoration over the last year.

That's correct, Kevin has changed management so the T&C's have changed. And expect great news as Kevin has TEN Shermans in restoration as well as TWO Tigers 🙂

So folks, out of 10  - what is the overall score for this years show?

Now this is great news. King Tiger that has been under a road since WW2 is going to be recovered.

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/king-tiger.html

14 hours ago, draganm said:

very good news.

FB is better than nothing but really it sucks , not a true replacement for a dedicated web-site with hi-rez photos and a nice lay-out.

Totally agree - it gets lost in the all the white noise of Facebook. We have already started the back end work of the site. His collection is massive. Will also bring news of the S-130 and......Tigers