Tom Heavey Editor of Irish vintage Scene won another award for his sucess with Irish Vintage Scene.The SCCUL Enterprise award were to honour Entreprenares in Galway, while Tom was a shortliste finalist he did not win his catorgeroy.
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MOYNALTY 2010
The Moynalty Steam Threshing took place in August 2010, and was the 35th running of the event. Each year this draws a huge crowd thanks to its extensive working displays, and the 2010 event was the organisers’ biggest yet, with up to eight threshing mills in action and 400 cars on display; see our March 2011 issue for a full report on the event. The … Read more
WING COMMAND
It’s hard to believe that the Mercedes 300SL ‘Gullwing’ is fifty-five years old; its looks, technology and performance are still pretty sensational stuff to this day, and it is such a design icon that Mercedes-Benz have recently released a modern homage, the SLS. With a massive price tag when new the 300SL was the preserve of the rich and famous, and when you saw one … Read more
SUPER SINGLES
The unmistakeable Field Marshall series have become some of the most desirable and expensive of all collectable tractors. Their massive single-cylinder diesel engines might have been outclassed by the multi-cylinder competition in the fifties, but there’s no denying the Marshall’s character and strength. Built to last with no-nonsense engineering, and with a surprising reserve of power and torque, the Field Marshall also found favour as … Read more
UNIT CONVERSION
The terms ‘unit’ and ‘pre-unit’ are well-used by enthusiasts of classic Triumph motorcycles, as they neatly mark out pre and post-1957 models produced by the company. The decision in that year to combine the gearbox and crankcase, which had previously been separate units, was an inspired one, as it was to lead the way for all other British bike manufacturers in the years that followed. … Read more
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CLASSIC COLLECTION
One of our tractor features this month brings us to Millstreet, Co. Cork to visit father-and-son team John and Dan Barry, who have spent the last twenty years building up a fantastic collection of classic tractors, cars, horse-drawn implements and house-hold items from times past. It’s always a tough task to do justice to such a large collection in a few magazine pages, but Andrew … Read more
D-DAY
This month’s commercial feature brings us the story of not one, but two Ford D-series trucks, a model that was the number 1 choice for hauliers in the late sixties and early seventies. Andrew Pollock meets up with two commercial enthusiasts to discuss their trucks, Seamus Lynch with his 1976 model and Mick Kelly with his later 1980 model. It’s not often we get to … Read more
RAY OF LIGHT
These motorcycle features just keep getting better month after month, and this time we have a rare Sunbeam S8 that becomes all the more rare when you learn that it is an original Irish machine. It also emerges that the bike was very well-known in its area, as it was a landmark in Dublin for many years when it was regularly parked outside Wolfe Cycles … Read more
STAG PARTY
We’ve had Triumphs on the cover before, but this is the first time we have featured a Stag. Personally I have always admired the Stag for its looks, and having had a spin in one I will also remember it for its performance; these must have been one of THE cars to own back in the seventies. The Mimosa Yellow ‘74 we feature this month … Read more
EURO CRUISER
It might seem unbelievable, but the Ford Capri has been with us for forty years this year. Released to an unsuspecting public in 1969, the Capri offered a never-seen-before cocktail of style, sportiness, practicality and, most important of all, affordability, and it wasn’t too shabby on a racetrack either. To celebrate, this month we take a look at two of the rarest Mk1 Capris in … Read more
SINGLE MINDED
Now this is a real tale of reunion. After it was bought brand new by his father in 1955, Jim Kelly waved goodbye to this unusual 13hp Lanz in 1962 when it was traded in for a larger model. In his later life Jim became something of a Lanz collector, and always pined for that little tractor from his youth, but assumed it was long … Read more
BEDFORD’S BEST
The post World War Two range of Bedford lorries were some of the most fondly remembered haulers of all. Benefiting from the overhead-valve straight six engine handed down by their parent company, General Motors, Bedford trucks were a very common sight on Irish roads for decades. The turf-bodied O-Type we feature this month will bring back many memories for those who dwelled in rural Ireland … Read more
MATCH POINT
Visitors to the headquarters of AXA Insurance in Dublin city centre might already have seen this amazing 1923 Matchless motorcycle and sidecar combination, but for those who aren’t familiar with it Andrew Pollock meets up with Maurice Bryan, its previous owner of 48 years, who spent 950 hours restoring it to the amazingly correct condition it is now in. With a 976cc JAP V-twin beneath … Read more