SCAT wins a Transport Trust Award

Alan Fairbrother who lives a few roads away from Michael Ware in Dibden Purlieu in Hampshire was through yet another restoration. A couple of years ago he bought what at first sight was a relatively complete looking 1911 15hp SCAT. This came from Australia and no history at all came with the car. It would appear that whoever “restored” it went to a lot of trouble, but bodged the whole thing. All the workmanship on it was poor. To give one example the steering box had been changed and a large amount of the chassis had been cutaway to fit this box from another car. I could give you a long list of such examples of bodgemanship. Having presumably finished a running chassis a very crude body was built down to even fitting a hood.

Alan and his SCAT recently won a Transport Trust restoration award. The Transport Trust encourages preservation across the transport scene in the United Kingdom and annually gives awards to encourage good restoration. What is unusual about these awards is that they come in the form of a cheque usually given part way through the restoration. A year later a framed certificate is given, this year the presentations were made by His Royal Highness Prince Michael of Kent and took place at the Brooklands Museum. The SCAT was there as a fully repaired rolling chassis, only a lack of time precluded the restored engine being fitted.
Further details on these awards from www.thetransporttrust.co.uk

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