CLUB CONTACT Events The NBVTC are hoisting their first of hopefully many outings. We have booked 50 places to Chairman Malcolm Foster 01908 611160 go on a tour and sit down lunch around the JCB factory on Wednesday 12th March 2014. Vice Chairman Peter Godwin 01869 346831 Due to popular demand we have now filled all the spaces for the trip. So we require your Secretary Ernie Thomas 01908 379748 deposits by no later than the January club meeting and final payment by the end of January. Treasurer/Mem. Secretary Roger Tyerman 01908 376697 We have a reserve list building up and if you have not paid up by these dates your place Events Coordinator Richard Wray 01908 516102 will be offered to the reserves and your deposits returned to you. So please ring Richard Merchandise Karen Singer 01908 615137 Wray if you are unable to make these payment dates or no longer require you place. Website Daniele Casanova 01280 848366 Newsletter Sandi Stockham 01327 830214 Committee Members Steve Anguish 01908 230563 Robert Clarke 07834 705120 Brian Sear 01296 670314 Chris Singer 01908 615137 Roger Stockham 01327 830214 Robin Warner 01234 750068 Notes from the Editor On our recent working trip to the US where we were doing some Trip Details spraying trials with a Boeing 737 at Dothan AL airport. Travelling Wednesday 12th March 2014 the short run form the hotel to the airport every morning we passed Coach from Newport Pagnell football club at around 9am a 10-acre cotton field. This was No under 15’s ready for harvesting, along side was Must be able walking an old International hooked up to Must wear closed toe foot wear a cotton bale trailer (the bales are Return back to Newport around 5:30pm the size of a 40 foot container) and a John Deere cotton harvester £35 each including bus and two course dinner. but they never appeared to move. One day on our way back two rows appeared to have been harvested…on our last day in Dothan at breakfast in the hotel we Club Nights could see from the window fluffy bits all over the car park? Could the farmer have finished the cotton harvesting? We never went back to see as we were driving in the other direction We meet at the NEWPORT PAGNELL FOOTBALL CLUB on the third Wednesday of every on to Atlanta to catch our flight to Houston. It had only taken him two weeks! Nothing month for a prompt 7:30 pm start. really happens too quickly in Alabama but we enjoyed our stay there and the people were most friendly and welcoming. We did managed to get away just in time when the project Dec. 18th Ernie’s Quiz manager kept threatening us with the Thanksgiving “deep fried turkey”, but we did not Jan. 15th The Enigma Machine manage to get away from sampling the “pork butt”! Stories for another time. Feb. 19th Alan Willmott on Transport Films March 19th TBC We have some interesting articles in this issue of your newsletter, courtesy of Nutz, Alleexx, April 16th TBC and Dan, thank you very much for your contributions! I hope you find them enjoyable. All the dates above are confirmed at publishing, however if unforeseen circumstances Have a good Christmas! arise, changes/updates will be posted on our website at: www.nbvtc.org.uk A Note from the Chairman Well here we are in December. Where has the year gone? It was only a few weeks ago that the club had a stand at Newark where we were visited by quite a few club members. Many of the committee, and some family members, spent an enjoyable weekend there. Special thanks go to Ernie for taking his newly restored tractor to display on our stand – it was unfortunate The competition in the Vintage Trailed class was fierce, Richard Wray here on his Model F and Richard Cook on his DA30 4WD Same he broke down on the way back – Moulsoe Ploughing Match luckily not too far from home. Sunday October 6th. We are now approaching a busy time for the club with our road run on the 15th and Ernie’s The ploughing commenced in warm weather quiz on the 18th. I am looking forward to seeing as many of you at these events as possible. on a field suitable for producing good results. Let’s hope for some good weather for the road run at John Starsmore’s where soup and There were 33 ploughmen entered in 5 bacon rolls will be available as usual. classes, Novice, Vintage Mounted, Classic, Trailed and Horticultural. This year has been another successful year for the club and we have once again raised quite a substantial amount of money for our chosen charities. Thank you all for your generosity The club now has some more than competent in helping to raise this money. ploughmen as members and their skills were certainly on display this Sunday. What is As most of you are aware the club is now going into its eleventh year. To commemorate very gratifying to see is how the junior club our first ten years the club has had a book published which is subsidised to club members. members pushed the more experienced Many of you have already purchased these books and we are running out fast so if you older ploughmen and in some cases beat want one – they were on a first come first served basis – I suggest you hurry. I would like them; this bodes well for the future of the to say a very big thank you to Sandi and Daniele for all their hours of hard work in putting club and that of competition ploughing. the book together. They have done a fantastic job and there have been many extremely favourable comments about the book. In the Novice class the two youngest competitors George and Teddy Singer came I am presently working on booking speakers for the New Year and for our first meeting in first and second with very acceptable scores January I have arranged for somebody to come and talk to us about The Enigma Machine for this class. (Both outscored father who - which should be very interesting. As I have said before, if any of you have any ideas or was in the Trailed class by a 10% margin). contacts for speakers I would be very pleased to consider them. In March we have a trip booked to the JCB factory. A great interest has already been shown for this but if you would Perhaps the biggest surprise of the day was like to book or want more information about the trip then you can speak to Richard Wray how close James Cook got to outscoring Max – his number is in this newsletter. Cherry in the Trailed class. This is the first time we have seen young James competing I would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your continued support over the in Trailed Class. (He also beat father into past year. Special thanks goes to our fantastic, hard working committee and our team of third place). ladies who do such a wonderful job selling raffle tickets and keeping us fed. T: In the Novice class young George Singer took first place. It just remains for me to wish you all a very merry Christmas and a M: And younger brother Teddy came second in the same class. prosperous new year. I look forward to your continued support in 2014. B: Competing first time in the Trailed, James Cook came second. In the Vintage Mounted and Classic the NBVTC Official Score Sheet Ploughing Match @ Moulsoe Farm results were true to the form book with Ray Gibbins, Brian Humphrey, Tom Baird and Classes Vintage Mounted Classic Michael Brandon to the fore, Our chairman Plot Nos. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 14 15 16 Malcolm managed a third place on one of his rare (these days) appearances ploughing, Opening 9 6 9 10 3 5 5 8 12 14 13 10 and Evan Cook managed the other third Start 12 11 8 8 7 10 9 11 13 15 10 13 place Seed Bed 12 11 12 12 10 8 8 8 12 12 12 12 Firmness 10 10 10 10 8 8 9 10 12 12 10 12 In the Horticultural class we were treated to a masterclass by one of the countries best Uniformity 14 14 14 15 10 8 10 14 15 15 14 14 horticultural ploughmen, Dave Williams. It Finish 8 9 8 11 4 0 6 11 15 17 14 8 is always a pleasure to see what one of these Ins & Outs 10 8 7 11 4 7 7 11 15 15 14 13 little machines can achieve. The second place went to Paul Gent again with a very General Ap 12 12 12 13 8 8 8 12 15 16 15 12 creditable score. Total 87 81 80 90 54 54 62 85 109 116 102 94 The judges for the day were Clive Winnet, Classes Classic Cont. Vintage Trailed John Bowen-Jones, Peter Godwin and Plot Nos. 17 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 27 28 29 30 Roland Kingham. Opening 16 14 6 12 8 11 10 12 15 15 12 12 All in all a very good days ploughing and our Start 12 8 7 12 12 7 14 12 15 12 11 16 thanks to Chris Singer for allowing us the use T: Ray Gibbins came first in the Vintage Mounted class, Seed Bed 13 10 9 12 11 9 12 12 15 14 13 15 M: Dave Williams was first in the Horticultural class, of the field.