sloper29 London Douglas Motor Cycle Club

Founder’s Day, 21st July

One of my favourite events of the vintage and classic year, the VMCC’s Taverners Section’s rally, takes place on the 21st of July. The venue is Stanford Hall, near Lutterworth in Leicestershire, as usual.

The London Douglas MCC will have our usual stand there, so please come along, have a chat and admire the machines!

Apart from being a good day out, the Founder’s Day rally also features an excellent auto-jumble – I invariably come home with more ‘stuff’ I didn’t know I needed! Fingers crossed for the weather …

sloper29 Douglas motorcycles, London Douglas Motor Cycle Club

LDMCC at Founders Day 2022

There were some fine machines on display at the VMCC’s Founder’s Day at Stanford Hall this year – but none finer, of course, than those on the Douglas stand. We had a prominent – if noisy! – position beside the main ring which ensured a steady stream of interested visitors throughout the day. Club members had brought a variety of machines from the inter-war years, showing the development from flat tank models of the 1920s to the more modern saddle tank designs of the 1930s, plus a ‘hand-crafted’ replica of a competition machine which drew some admiring glances! I particularly liked the 1929 L29 model in ‘touring trim’, ie: with leather suitcase strapped to the pillion.

Douglas Club Stand at Founders Day 2022
Douglas Club Stand at Founders Day 2022

Well done to the organisers for their hard work.

Douglas Motorcycles at Founders Day 2022
Douglas Motorcycles at Founders Day 2022