Proposed Tojeiro and Buckland Reunion

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Tojeiro and AC Buckland factory reunion
   
   Barkway and Buckland are adjacent villages in North Herts. near the A10.
   
   Premises in High St, Barkway are where Tojeiro manufactured cars, having moved there from Buckland where they were close to the premises in which AC Buckland tourer bodies were built. The AC Ace was of course developed from a Tojeiro prototype.
   
   Within these villages are still a number of people who worked there or whose fathers worked in these places.
   
   The idea is to bring all of these people and their memories together with the owners of the cars they made, and hopefully with the cars themselves, one Saturday or Sunday in the coming summer with August 17/18/24/25 and Sept 7 as possible dates
   
   The next town, just a few miles away, is Buntingford, the home of Blakeney Motorsport. Patrick has offered to support the idea of a reunion, and to offer a tour of his facilities.
   
   The next village in the other direction is Barley where there operates a high quality vintage body and trim building and restoration company. Motoring history is all around us here.
   
   If you are interested please contact the organiser, Jim Dalton, to let him know and also tell him YOUR PREFERRED DATE - preferably also let him know any dates that are impossible for you.
   
   Jim's email address is JD at beacon-uk dot com

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The date for this is now confirmed as 18 August.
   
   Meeting place is Cokenach Cricket Club, SG8 8DL (plenty of parking) http://www.cokenachcc.co.uk/location/ at 10.00 am to meet each other and ex employees, a trip around the sites, optional to John Foy (2 miles away) who does high class trim etc. restorations on vintage and other cars including ash frames.
   
   Lunch is at West Mill, south of Buntingford, http://www.theswordinnhand.co.uk/index.html followed by a visit to Blakeney Motorsport http://www.blakeneymotorsport.com/ and finish about 16.00
   
   It sounds like a fascinating day and I will attend if possible.
   
   If you want to take lunch at the pub, please contact Jim asap so he can reserve places.