Glad you enjoyed it, and thanks to everyone that came. All of the volunteers had a grand day and felt it was one of the best ones yet. The quality of all of the participants really made it, and we saw lots of happy people, and recieved good feedback.
The winning vehicles were gorgeous, but we were lucky to have a good selection of different vehicles this year, so competition was tight. I look forward to seeing more photos if anyone has them, as I was dashing around I didn't get to take many, especially of the second field with our wheeled vehicle lineup.
The Cavalcade was great fun, and the Zil I was driving managed to both start (almost) first time, and make it all the way through:yay:, signalling what we hope is the end to the cavalcade curse (in previous years the girls vehicles always broke down, but both the green Zil 131 and the MJ made it around with no problems:sweat:). I actually managed to get the Zil into 5th gear, althought didnt manage to maintain speed as there are two very heavy generators in the rear shelter.
I was on ground control for the Arena events. It seemed like we had more vehicles running around than in previous years with a very hectic schedule. It was also the debut of our newly restored halftrack, which has been a long term restoration project for the last couple of years (and can be seen in pieces alongside the Centurion in our episode of Tank Overhaul)
The Chieftain fault doesn't look too serious. The hand brake valve appears to have siezed, resulting in things getting very hot and producing lots of smoke. This looked quite dramatic, but once we got inside it looks quite simple to rectify once she's back in the workshop. We've also got a starter fault in the Conq which took it out of the running at the last minute, but should be simple to fix.
Next year's event is scheduled for the weekend of the 7th and 8th of August, and may be a two day event (more on that as and when we get confirmation ). This should hopefully make it our biggest yet.