Rally 2015

The Registration Numbers Club has never held a rally in Wales before so for 2015 members hosted their annual event in the North Wales coastal resort of Prestatyn on Sunday 5 July. Our rally site was conveniently situated in the spacious grounds of the Lyons Nant Hall Hotel not far from the beach and town centre. Sun screen was the order of the day on Saturday and Sunday morning but, unfortunately, a heavy rain shower prevailed on Sunday afternoon. The day was saved by the hotel allowing us to use its wedding marquee for the prize giving and raffle.

PRE-RALLY DINNER 2015

The previous evening 23 club members from all parts of the country enjoyed a convivial dinner in the hotel.

CLASS RESULTS - RALLY 2015

Class A - Amusing or unusual

1st - Darren Moore - LAD 1E 2nd - Brian Bates - BO11 OOX

Class B1 - Owner's initials - letters first

1st - Elwyn Evans - EE 8 2nd - Trevor V James - TVJ 2

Class B2 - Owner's initils - numbers first

1st - Darren Bishop - 20 DB 2nd - Colin Cowperthwaite - 7777 CC

Class C - Owner's initials with No 1 or other No 1s

1st - Neil Ives - KNP 1 2nd - Nicholas J Young - NJY 1

Class D - Owner's initials with date letter including current series

1st - Amanda J Leigh - P1 AJL 2nd - AM05 ABM - Amos B Mansell

Class E - Names with or without a date letter including current series

1st - Saul Formstone - SAU 1L 2nd - Geoffrey Dyer - GE03 REY

Class F - Family or company collections

1st - Tony & Helen Taperell - TAP 3 / 3 TAP 2nd - Adrian Hayward-Wills - XFU 1 / 11 XFU / 111 XFU

Class G - Neat registrations not being owner's initials

1st - Colin Richards - T 4 2nd - Maureen Bramley - OVC 1

Class H - Registration relevant to owner or vehicle

1st - Neil Ives (Plumber) - LOO 92

2nd - Karl Formstone (Karl's plate represents the protocol for theatre lighting & sound systems) - DMX 512B

Class J- Any other cherished registration

1st - Roger Evans - PEU 3 2nd - Alison Lomax - NEN 555

Class K - Classic or vintage car with interesting registration

1st - Nicholas Young - NIK 1 - 1955 MG TF 1500 2nd - Alex Leigh - 4477 AL - 1967 Mini Moke

Special awards for interesting displays and presentations

Adrian Hayward-Wills (well presented displays) Bernard Mansell (excellent books of registration photographs)

Darren Moore (very neat registration plate display)

The Noel Woodall trophy was presented to Brian Bates, a long time club member, for 'sheer nerve' in displaying this great plate!

Thanks are due to all helpers both before, during and after the rally. Bernard Mansell and new member Roger Evans helped make sure the cars were neatly displayed around the rally site. Many hands make light work and several of you helped us pack away everything afterwards, despite the heavy rain ... thank you.

Jeremy Portland and family gave us full use of their motorhome as a rally control centre once again and Club Hon.Secretary, Steve Waldenberg (R55 SNW) kept everything in order.

Several excellent prizes were donated by sponsor dealers and club members and thanks are due to all who purchased tickets from our intrepid ticket sellers, Lesley and Alison, who managed to relieve you all of your loose change and raised a significant sum to help with the not inconsiderable expense of running an event such as this. The dealers listed on the left also helped with sponsorship of various areas to cover some of our operating expenses.

Finally thanks are due to Pat Woodall who presented the Noel Woodall trophy in memory of 'Mr Autonumerology' and also presented all the other rally prizes.

SEE YOU ALL IN 2016

2015 SPONSORSHIP

The Registration Numbers Club would like to thank all its valuable rally sponsors who help to make a success of our events

www.numberplateclassifieds.co.uk

Number Plate Classifieds sponsors the rally programme

www.primoregistrations.co.uk

Primo Registrations sponsors the rally trophies

www.regtransfers.co.uk

Regtransfers sponsors the rally motorhome control centre

www.simplyregistrations.co.uk

Simply Registrations sponsors the rally site costs

If you are interested in becoming a rally sponsor, please contact Rod at pr@TheRNC.co.uk

for further details