Steam Power Takes its Place on the World's Longest Running Motoring Event

On Sunday 4 November 528 pre 1905 vehicles are due to cross the start line in London's Hyde Park for the 2007 London to Brighton Veteran Car Run (LBVCR). The vast majority of the entries are petrol driven but 19 of the 528 participants will be in charge of steam driven vehicles, a popular method of propulsion in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries.  

Like the rest of the participating vehicles on the LBVCR, most of the steam driven vehicles are completely unique and range in age from the 1896 Salveson Open Cart owned by Nottinghamshire's John Brydon to the 1904 White Tonneau owned by Arthur Thomson from Salisbury.

Steam Vehicle entries for 2007 LBVCR
1896 Salveson Open Cart   John Brydon  Hawksworth, Nottinghamshire
1896 Whitney Runabout   Brian Kenway  Hook, Hampshire
1899 Locomobile Spindle-seat Runabout Peter Lumsden CBE Dover, Kent
1900 Mobile Runabout   John Blackford  Calne, Wiltshire
1900 Mobile Runabout   Richard Hounslow               Salisbury, Wiltshire
1900 Locomobile Spindle-seat Runabout Tim Schofield  London
1900 Gardner-Serpollet Double Phaeton Robert Dale  Market Rasen, Lincolnshire
1901 Locomobile Spindle-seat Runabout Stephen Ward  Sudbury, Suffolk
1901 American Built Steam Car Runabout Geoff Ironside  Ware, Hertfordshire
1901 Steamobile Two Seater                Loic de L'Arbre  Beersel, Belgium
1901 Toledo Runabout   Tim Watson  Hailsham, West Sussex
1902 Locomobile Spindle-seat runabout Mrs Kerrie Curry  Southall, Middlesex
1902 Toledo Dos-a-dos   Timothy Senior  North Yorkshire
1903 Stanley Runabout   Charles Burnett III Lymington, Hampshire
1903 Stanley Runabout   Robert Ward  Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
1903 Stanley Spindle-seat Runabout               James King  Horsham, West Sussex
1904 Stanley Stanhope   Peter Williams  Chipperfield, Hertfordshire
1904 White Tonneau   Arthur Thomson  Salisbury, Wiltshire
1904 Locomobile Touring   James Boland  Ireland

Last year the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run event attracted in excess of 500,000 spectators to London's Regent Street and along the 60-mile route from London to Brighton, with the official coffee stop in Crawley High Street, outside the George Hotel as featured on the original 1896 Run.  The entire event is completely free of charge to spectators, making it one of the largest free to view events in the UK.

The 528 entries, all built between 1895 and 1904 and collectively worth in excess of £50million, include three electric vehicles built between 1900 and 1903, nineteen steam vehicles and 102 International entries from as far away as Australia, United States of America, Canada, Mexico, South Africa and China. 

Full details of the 2007 London to Brighton Veteran Car Run can be found on the event website at www.lbvcr.com and includes the latest entry list, a downloadable route map and links to tourist information sites.