About Us

The main beneficiary of the Spirit of Dacorum Historic Tour is the Dacorum Community Trust, a charity setup to help those most in need within the Dacorum area. David Furnell is a Trustee and Chairman of the Spirit of Dacorum organising Committee. To find out more about the trust click on DCT. The second beneficiary is Iain Rennie, Hospice at Home, who provide palliative care in the Dacorum and surrounding areas. To find out more about Iain Rennie click on IRHH.

The Steering Committee consists of:-

David Furnell		Chairman	01442 212744	chairman@spiritofdacorum.com
Jim Gregory		Vice-Chairman	07712 792266	vice-chairman@spiritofdacorum.com
Malcolm Dawson		Publicity	01442 212744	publicity@spiritofdacorum.com
Ian Cheese		Entrants	01442 866682	entrants@spiritofdacorum.com
Ann Furnell		Administration	01442 212744	admin@spiritofdacorum.com
Bob Woodman		Web Site	01442 823077	website@spiritofdacorum.com
Anne Mallory		Safety Advisor

Members of the Organising Committee

Margaret Kingston		Dacorum Community Trust		mk@dctrust.org.uk
Andy Watts		Ashridge Chief Marshal
Roger Falcon		Chipperfield Chief Marshal
Mike Edis		Markyate Chief Marshal
Peter Manning		Tring Chief Marshal and Route Organiser
John Robertson		Marlowes Chief Marshal
Dennis Huke		Marlowes Chief Marshal
Barrie Griffin		Musical Coordinator for the Marlowes
Jim Jukes		General liaison
Richard Cockerill		Printing and Publicity
Claire Furnell		Facebook Controller

Accommodation

Call back for links to Hotels and Guest Houses in the area.

Why not make the Spirit of Decorum Historic Vehicle Tour a part of a long weekend here in the Chiltern area The Royal Wedding will be held on the Friday and the tour on the following Sunday.

Entrants

Hello and welcome to the Spirit of Dacorum Historic Vehicle Tour entrant's webpage.

Over 200 vehicles have booked for the tour and there are no places left. However, do not give up, just come as a spectator. You can see all the cars, talk to the drivers and enjoy the entertainment. If you want to enter click on "Entry" on the left menu and ignore the exortation to send in a photograph and a description of your vehicle.

The Spirit of Dacorum Historic Vehicle Tour is open to all pre 1973 vehicles; some later cars of distinction will also be present but these will be sourced by the organisers. The tour is designed for entrants and their passengers to journey through the beautiful Chilterns area enclosed by the Borough of Dacorum and enjoy the scenery, hospitality and camaraderie present at such events, as well as being a part of a magnificent static display at the end of the route.

If you are familiar with the event, have already decided from where you want to start the tour, just click on Entry in the left hand menu.
If you are NOT familiar with the event read on:

From a spectators point of view it allows the public to enjoy the event and see a series of historic vehicles of all ages in motion as well as in a static display. So often historic cars are only seen standing stationary in museums, exhibitions, auctions and as we all know, parked in fields during the summer car/ motorcycle meets.

Vehicles will commence the tour from one of a choice of four start points in attractive locations around Dacorum; Ashridge, Chipperfield, Markyate and Tring. Your start point will be allocated on a first come first served basis by the organisers. At the appropriate time, in accordance with marshal instructions, Entrants will drive "the Route" visiting each of the other start points during their journey and arrive finally at The Marlowes in Hemel Hempstead to form a static display where you can join the other entrants and show your vehicle to the public.

Just as before, The Marlowes will be set up in 'party atmosphere' with bands and attractions. Your vehicle will be a draw but so too will be other visiting ancient and unusual vehicles, a magnificent classic race team and perhaps as last time if available, one of the current seasons Formula 1 cars.

Entrants will receive a commemorative plaque which must be attached to their vehicle during the run as well as various "goodies" typical of such events.

As 2009, the 2011 event will be fully marshalled; we had a great time and no trouble of any kind in 2009 and we all want to keep it that way.

Please remember this event is designed to raise money for the Dacorum Community Trust (DCT) - a charitable organisation with no affiliation to the Dacorum Council. DCT raises money to help people in real trouble; not spongers. A small part of your £25 entry fee will help the charity to raise money while you have lots of fun.

To Enter

Please note, you can only Enter online. If you do not have an email ask your family or friends to process the Entry for you.

Entry consists of four stages and depends on

1. On-line Registration
2. Provision of a Photograph
3. Provision of a description
4. Receipt of a £25 Entry Fee

For On-line Registration

1. Go to the "Routes" page and decide which of the starting points appeals to you, if you do not mind which one, you can leave it up to us to decide.
2. Click on Entry on the left menu, read the rules and carry on to register your vehicle and enter contact information.
3. You may go directly to Entry from the "Routes" page

Thank you for your interest in our event, we look forward to seeing you for a great day out.

Look here on this webpage for your gateway to professional pictures of the Historic Vehicle Tour and the vehicles or go direct to www.PeachyPics.net.

Peachy Pics are the Official Photographers for the Spirit of Dacorum Historic Vehicle Tour. (See the Sponsors Page for more about Peachy Pics).

Andrea Lane has been a member of Falcon Motor Club for longer than she cares to remember and has competed in Production Car Trials and was the lady champion for a couple of years running in the nineties. She loves taking photographs of vehicles especially classic vehicles. She has pulled together a team of photographers to record the 2011 Spirit of Dacorum Historic Vehicle Tour. All the photos will be available to buy from her website www.PeachyPics.net for £5:00 for a high resolution image for you to print yourself. All profits go to the Dacorum Community Trust.

Printed pictures will be also be available at a slightly higher cost to cover the paper/post/packing etc. Peachy Pics will print them for you and send them to your home.

The photographs will be taken on the day from all around the tour area but particularly at each of the start points and The Marlowes.

If you wish at any time to have a professional set of pictures taken of your vehicle quite separately from or during the tour or perhaps a family picture, then why not contact www.PeachyPics.net direct?

History

The first Spirit of Dacorum Historic Vehicle Tour took place on 3rd May 2009.

Two hundred vehicles of ages ranging from 1908 to 1972 spent the morning touring the Chiltern areas of outstanding natural beauty formed by the Dacorum Borough.

The drivers and passengers had all commenced their tour from one of four different start venues scattered around the area, Ashridge, Chipperfield, Markyate and Tring. They departed each venue in batches of 50 and were "flagged" away by Lady Verulam the Lord Lieutenant of Hertfordshire and the Mayors of Dacorum, Berkhamsted and Tring.

In the early afternoon the drivers and passengers arrived at The Marlowes pedestrian precinct in Hemel Hempstead to the sound of a jazz band. The drivers collected their commemorative cup and goodies.

The cars and motorbikes then joined other tour colleagues to show their vehicles to a large and appreciative public. A static display of special vehicles was also on show ranging in age from a 1903 London to Brighton Veteran to a 2003 Supercar but the most modern and certainly the fastest was the 2009 Renault Formula 1 car kindly supplied by the main sponsor; Total UK.

The tour vehicles and special vehicles on display represented every decade in motoring history from 1900 and included a wonderful array of family and competition cars, a superb display of the finest motorbikes, amazing period vans, some very rare lorries and a fully crewed and operational 1930's fire engine.

The party atmosphere continued all through the afternoon and prizes were awarded for various classes including the Mayors choice and a special prize from the Mayor of Dacorum.

The main sponsor was TOTAL UK, the event had the approval from the VSCC and additional support was supplied by Arlon Printers, Frasers and Furnell Transport.

Why was it done?

David Furnell the organiser, a life-long historic car enthusiast is also a trustee of the Dacorum Community Trust (DCT), a Hemel Hempstead-based independent charity set up to help people in need.

Like many charities, DCT struggle with funding and David came up with the idea of the Spirit of Dacorum experience as a fund raising event for the charity. An organization of like minded enthusiasts was soon formed and the Historic Vehicle Tour was launched.

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Welcome to the Mementos page

We will have the 2011 programme, mugs and raffle tickets for sale in April

but did you miss the 2009 event?

We have a number of items left over that may be of interest and remember all money goes to the charity.

Please send your order and cheque (made out to Dacorum Community Trust) to Spirit of Dacorum Mementos, Enterprise House, Maxted Road, Hemel Hempstead, Herts HP2 7BT

The No1 item for sale is the Number 1 drinking vessel.

These exclusive mugs marked No 1 are fast becoming collector's items.

The brilliant design features the commemorative tour plaque on both sides of the cup allowing its use by both left and right handed people.

You never know they may be featured on the Antiques Roadshow or 'flog it' in the future and bring in vast sums of money at auction for your family.

Right now they are a snip at £2.50 + £1.50 P&P

OR

Why not have a 2009 programme, a glossy magazine packed with individual photos and descriptions of the 2009 tour runners. Better value than motoring magazines these days at £2.50 + £1.50 P&P

Or

better still, 'Why not buy the mug and programme for £5.00 including P&P' ?

Finally

Finally we have a few limited edition A4 prints of the 2009 poster produced by David Purvis.

The print is a faithful representation of the original hand drawn watercolour picture.

Price £6.00 including P&P delivered to your door rolled in a robust cardboard tube.(Note:-Frame not included)

Routes

There are four starting points for the Tour of Dacorum shown on the left-hand manu. All the tours follow a similar path, thereby visiting each of the other starting points, before striking out for the Marlowes in the centre of Hemel Hempstead.

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Ashridge

Start Location

The Monument

National Trust Ashridge Estate, Berkhamsted, Herts.

3 miles north of A41 between Tring and Berkhamsted, off B4506 from Northchurch (to Ringshall and Dagnall) See map - 165/979128/128

Ashridge - Timetable

1. The start venue will be open from 8.30am.
2. Please be at your start location by 9.15am to allow time for registration, to receive final route instructions and your information pack, which will include:
   • Route Instructions
   • One copy of the Spotters Programme
   • Fuel Voucher
   • A numbered Tour Plaque
   • Goodie Bag
3. Official start 9.30am
   Cars will be 'flagged off' with the Union Jack at 30 second intervals by Councillor Julie Laws, Mayor of Berkhamsted.
   
   Andy Watts (Events committee) is your Chief Marshal and he will be assisted by Zachary Thole and a team of marshals

The first car to leave Ashridge will be hi-lighted in the Spotters' programme. All other cars will leave in accordance with the Marshals instructions.

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Chipperfield

Start Location

The Royal Oak, Chipperfield. Herts. WD4 9BH

Parking and signing on is at The Royal Oak with the start and additional parking across the road at the Kia Garage, Tower Hill Road. (see map) MR: 166/041081

Chipperfield - Timetable

1. The start venue will be open from 8.30am.
2. Please be at your start location by 9.15am to allow time for registration, to receive final route instructions and your information pack, which will include:
   • Route Instructions
   • One copy of the Spotters Programme
   • Fuel Voucher
   • A numbered Tour Plaque
   • Goodie Bag
3. Official start 9.30am
   Cars will be 'flagged off' with the Union Jack at 30 second intervals.
   
   Roger Falcon (Events committee) is your Chief Marshal and he will be assisted by a team of marshals.

The first car to leave Chipperfield will be hi-lighted in the Spotters' programme. All other cars will leave on in accordance with the Marshals instructions.

A pleasant walk.

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Tring

Start Location

Tring Town Centre, Market Square, Brook Street

The A4251 (the old A41) runs through Tring town Centre.

Tring - Timetable

1. The start venue will be open from 8.30am.
2. Please be at your start location by 9.15am to allow time for registration, to receive final route instructions and your information pack, which will include:
   • Route Instructions
   • One copy of the Spotters Programme
   • Fuel Voucher
   • A numbered Tour Plaque
   • Goodie Bag
3. Official start 9.30am
   Cars will be 'flagged off' with the Union Jack at 30 second intervals.
   
   Peter Manning (Events Committee) is your Chief Marshal and he will be assisted a team of Marshals.

The first car to leave Tring will be hi-lighted in the Spotters' programme. All other cars will leave in accordance with the Marshals instructions.

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Markyate

Start Location

Beechwood Park School

Markyate, St. Albans, Hertfordshire AL3 8AW

Markyate - Timetable

1. The start venue will be open from 8.30am.
2. Please be at your start location by 9.15am to allow time for registration, to receive final route instructions and your information pack, which will include:
   • Route Instructions
   • One copy of the Spotters Programme
   • Fuel Voucher
   • A numbered Tour Plaque
   • Goodie Bag
3. Official start 9.30am
   Cars will be 'flagged off' with the Union Jack at 30 second intervals.
   
   Mike Edis (Events committee) is your Chief Marshal and he will be assisted by a team of Marshals

The first car to leave Markyate will be hi-lighted in the Spotters' programme. All other cars will leave in accordance with the Marshals instructions.

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Marlowes

The Finish Location

Hemel Hempstead Town Centre, The Marlowes

Cars arriving at The Marlowes in 2009 to join in with the arrival of the current 2009 year Formula 1 Renault Team Car.

The Marlowes is the Hemel Hempstead pedestrian precinct location for the static display at the end of the tour.

1. The Static display of historic, racing and interesting Vehicles will be in place from 11am onwards.
2. Vehicles from the tour will arrive from 13:00 and take their place in designated points around the Marlowes precinct.
3. Entertainment will commence at 11am so come early and enjoy your day.
4. John Robertson and Dennis Huke (Events committee) will be the Marlowes Chief Marshals and will be assisted by a team of marshals.
5. Barrie Griffin will be the Musical Coordinator for the Marlowes.
6. Vehicles will leave The Marlowes from 4:00 pm in accordance with the Marshals instructions.

Spectators

Hello and welcome to the Spirit of Dacorum Historic Vehicle Tour and the webpage for spectators.

The second running of the very successful Spirit of Dacorum Historic Vehicle Tour takes place on Sunday 1 May 2011. Approximately 200 cars will start at 9.30am from four points within the Dacorum area. These are Ashridge (the Bridgewater Monument), Tring (Market Square), Chipperfield (The Royal Oak pub) and Markyate (Beechwood Park School). Details of each location can be found in the 'Route' section of this website.

Approximately 50 historic cars will be flagged off from each location by a local dignitary and will follow a prescribed route visiting all the three other points before assembling in The Marlowes at Hemel Hempstead at about 1.00pm. The cars will then be on public display until 4.00pm for you to come and take a closer look and, perhaps, chat to the drivers.

Spectators are welcome to come to all the start points to see the cars set off as well as to watch them pass at points along the route.

Spectating at this event could provide an ideal day out for all the family. You may want to combine seeing these wonderful historic cars with taking a walk in some of our spectacular Chiltern countryside. Perhaps you would like lunch in one of the delightful local pubs in the area or exploit the countless shopping opportunities provided by The Marlowes in Hemel Hempstead. The possibilities are endless and you will be very welcome.

Sponsors

Total UK

Total is one of the world's largest international oil and gas companies. Their operations cover the entire energy chain, including oil exploration and production to trading, shipping and refining and marketing of petroleum products, as well as Chemicals. The Group has operations in over 130 countries and more than 95,000 employees worldwide. They are the main sponsor of the Spirit of Dacorum Historic Vehicle Tour.

Riverside Shopping Centre

Riverside Shopping Centre is at the heart of Hemel Hempstead and provides shoppers with a fantastic array of stores for every occasion. Whether they are looking for top high street fashion from names such as Monsoon, Debenhams, H&M, Next or TK Maxx to music from HMV, a good read from Waterstones or home interiors from The Bathstore and Laura Ashley, there really is something for everyone.
What's more shoppers can even put their feet up and relax in one of Riverside's many cafes and restaurants such as Starbucks, Pizza Express, Aroma or even The Cornish Pasty Company.
The fantastic outdoor shopping experience doesn't even have to be stressful as Riverside has its own car park for over 350 cars. So don't miss out, visit the Riverside Shopping Centre for the best shopping experience in Hemel Hempstead.

Peachy Pics

Our OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHER Andrea Lane has been involved with classic cars for as long as she can remember, has competed in events and been Ladies Champion too. Andrea runs the family photographic studio called PeachyPics.net. It's based in Aylesbury's Friars Square. She works there with her three daughters who all take it in turns to help out. Andrea has been taking photographs of people and cars for a number of years now and just last year opened her very first studio. A photoshoot at her studio costs £20 for a single person/baby or even dog or cat! It's only £35 for a family photoshoot for 4 people and both photoshoots include a mounted 5 x 7 inch photograph worth £25. Why not contact her, you could have a family picture with your vehicle too.

Andrea and her team will be taking all of the official pictures on the day. The pictures will all be available after the event at the Event Pictures link on the “Welcome” page. However if you want a personal portfolio taken of your vehicle then why not contact PeachyPics direct.

Dacorum

Dacorum refers to the Borough of Dacorum which is situated in a part of the Chilterns area of outstanding natural beauty. The Borough includes many picturesque towns and villages such as Aldbury, Ashridge, Berkhamsted, Chipperfield, Flamstead, Long Marston, Little Gaddesden, Markyate and Potton End as well as the popular and historic buildings, boats, and life along the Grand Union Canal. Many of these locations are often used in Cinema and TV films and series.

Arlon Printers

Arlon Printers are based in Arlon House, Wood Lane, Paradise Industrial Estate HP2 4TL in Hemel Hempstead and printed the first much applauded Spirit of Dacorum event catalogue. Arlon are a multi-talented, multi-skilled printer offering a wide range of printing services. Why not contact them on 01442-243-719 or email Richard or David

Marlowes

For great retail therapy look no further than Marlowes Shopping Centre.The Marlowes Shopping Centre is the heart of the retail offer in Hemel Hempstead and is conveniently located for hassle free shopping. We pride ourselves on providing customers with top quality products and service. With 75 stores plus a variety of temporary and permanent promoters to tempt you with, you're sure to discover stylish brands and affordable products. Ideal for all you shopaholics.

VSCC

The Vintage Sports-Car Club was established in 1934 to promote the sport and pastime of motoring, principally for cars built before 1931. That still holds true today for the current membership of 7,500 who either compete, marshal or simply enjoy watching some 35 events a year including racing, hill climbs, road rallies, driving tests, trials and touring.

Mallory Health and Safety Consultants Ltd.

A small, local health and safety consultancy firm established in 2004 with a client based focus. Our aim is to provide the best advice and support to clients in meeting all the legislative health and safety requirements. An integrated approach is used so that we can work with businesses to ensure that health and safety becomes part of the day to day operations without creating additional administrative burdens.

Kodak

Eastman Kodak Company has led the way with an abundance of new products and processes to make photography simpler, more useful and more enjoyable. In fact, today's Kodak is known not only for photography, but also for images used in a variety of leisure, commercial, entertainment and scientific applications. Its reach increasingly involves the use of technology to combine images and information--creating the potential to profoundly change how people and businesses communicate.

Sunday 1^st May 2011

60 mile tour through some of the
loveliest countryside in the Chilterns