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The Federation has received very sad news that Tony Beadle died on Saturday 7 January from complications following an eight hour operation to deal with a serious heart condition. He was admitted to Harefield Hospital before Christmas after being told he had suffered a heart attack and needed a triple bypass and new heart valve - news which Read More

FBHVC's survey into the historic vehicle movement's views on the current DfT consultation on a proposal to exempt pre-1960 vehicles from testing closed on 10 January having received more than 4,000 responses. It had to close in order to analyse the data in time to meet the 26 January response deadline. FBHVC is most grateful to all clubs Read More

The FBHVC’s fuel stability additive test programme has been designed to show that additives provide a high level of protection against potential corrosion of fuel systems, including tanks, pipework and fuel metering equipment on historic vehicles using petrol containing ethanol. The test method employs an accelerated aging process which simulates 12 months’ storage of a petrol-ethanol mix, coupled Read More

The results of the third survey of the British historic vehicle movement were presented to an audience of members of the All Party Parliamentary Historic Vehicle Group (APPHVG), the press and specialist traders at a reception in the House of Lords on 6 December.  The reception was hosted by FBHVC President, Lord Montagu of Beaulieu. The research project Read More

The review of exemptions from the MoT test for historic vehicles is our most important story in this edition and once again we are asking for readers’ help. Please do let us have your views on the consultation: we have given the link to the document and then ask for your opinion of it via our website survey. Read More