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RNC Rally 2006

This year's Registration Numbers Club Rally was held at Woburn Abbey in Bedfordshire on Sunday 25th June. The Abbey has been home to the Dukes of Bedford for almost 400 years.

With entrants coming from as far afield as Scotland, the rally was a huge success with over 80 cars eventually arriving on the field.

As always, a number of awards were handed out at the rally, as shown below.

Amusing/unusual
1st. Julian Munson - AU51 ROO / PO55 SUM
2nd. Bill & Margaret Lucas - 666 FLY
3rd. David Harold - D1 PLO

Owner's initials - low or neat
1st. Elwyn Evans - EE 8
2nd. Fred Leigh - FL 3
3rd. Stephen Latimer - SL 1000

Owner's initials - other
1st. Paul Evans - 9999 PE
2nd. Kevin Jones - KHJ 888
3rd. Francis T Bailey - 223 FTB

Names
1st. Bill Dewar - A1 WOD
2nd. Alex Leigh - R1 ALX
3rd. John Parsons - 980 JON

Family or trade collections
1st. Roy Drouet - RRD 3 / 3 RRD
2nd. Phylis & Derek Crane - FIL 15 / CRA 1N
3rd. Jeremy Kenward - 2 JDK / 3 JDK

Number 1's
1st. Dean Easterby - 1 DLE
2nd. Colin Richards - T 4
3rd. Ken Davidson - KRD 1

Relevant to vehicle or owner's trade
1st. Neil Ives - LOO 92 (Plumber)
2nd. Mark Dopson - C111 PPY (Joiner)
3rd. Charles Wells - A1 EOL (Essentially Oils Ltd)

Any other cherished number
1st. Colin Cowperthwaite - C12 FEB
2nd. Alison Lomax - NEN 555
3rd. Andrew Hill - 25 AND

Classic car with cherished number
1st. Roy Cuthbert - 500 COS (Ford Sierra Cosworth)
2nd. Malcolm Ward - 4 SOV (1989 Daimler Sovereign)
3rd. Simon Instone - RPN 969 (1960 Mini Minor)

Long haul award
Sam Murray - SAM 323, who drove all the way from Aberdeen to Woburn - a total of 493 miles each way!

Oldest issued registration award
Colin Richards - T 4 - an original January 1904 issue

Special awards at the organiser's disrection
Len Stout from Regtransfers - PEN 15
Manesh Pankhannia - Memorabilia collection
Frank Isaby - *15 ABY numbers
Graham Baskerville - 57 GB
James Manning - MYL 3S
Jonathan Hulse - J20 XJE / C20 ECH