Last year’s MMOCYM christmas meet was at the Shuttleworth Collection; a great assortment of very early aircraft on the grounds of Shuttleworth House in Bedfordshire. It was a relatively smaller scale event with a smaller turn-out compared to Beamish in 2023, but it was considerably closer to home for me, which was nice. Unfortunately on the day I didn’t feel very well and it didn’t feel like a whole trip, so I didn’t take many photos and didn’t post about it.
This year’s Christmas Meet on Monday 8th December was a more unusual one, and put a few more miles on the odometer. The focal point being of the trip was an organised tour of the Numatic factory in Chard, Somerset. Numatic of course are most famous for their ‘Henry Hoover’ range.
I left at 2pm on the sunday, and was somewhat indecisive about which route to take, changing my mind several times whilst underway, ultimately making all the worst decisions, leading to a slow and poorly planned journey down to Basingstoke on just A-roads, before following the M3 and A303 down to Yeovil, convoying with Matt after a stop Amesbury, where he caught up to me.
The next day, whilst only three Morris Minors were present for the factory meet-up, at least 10 members of the MMOCYM did make it, be that in modern cars or by train.
Numatic offer tours to those interested and enthusiastic about their products and business. I personally found it fascinating to see such a thriving business, employing so many people locally, that does almost all of it’s design and manufacturing in Britain still, on one main site, which is still innovating and growing, with a new factory facility being constructed on the other side of the road.
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