Kuoni Renews Official Travel Partner Status for 110th Anniversary Run in November

Award winning travel company Kuoni has renewed its partnership with the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run (LBVCR) and will be the official Travel Partner for the 110th Anniversary celebrations this Autumn (3rd to 5th November).

Kuoni Travel is organising special room rates for spectators and participants alike through its volume purchasing agreements with a number of the UK's premier hotel groups.  Whether it is for a weekend in London so you can take in the Bonhams auction on Friday 3rd November, the Regent Street Concours on Saturday and the start of the 2006 LBVCR in Hyde Park on Sunday, or you want to spend the day in Brighton seeing the magnificent array of vehicles cross the line on Madeira Drive, Kuoni will be able to make the necessary travel arrangements.

New for 2006 Kuoni Travel are also offering a behind the scenes look at the LBVCR with a specially organised Motoring Memorabilia Tour which offers an entire cultural, motoring and social events programme.

�Kuoni Travel is proud to continue its support for the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run in this, the 110th anniversary year of the first Run in 1896,� said Martin Cook, General Manager of Kuoni Travel Limited.  �The event has become one of the highlights of the social calendar here in England and people travel from all over the world to take part or just to watch this re enactment of a very important historical event.  Kuoni offers everyone, participants and spectators alike, a travel service that will allow us to make their tour arrangements and allow them to enjoy the event to the full.�

The London to Brighton Veteran Car Run is the world's longest running motoring event, with 500 veteran vehicles, all manufactured before 1905, expected to take part in this special year.  Around 100 will arrive from outside of the UK from as far away as the United States, China, Argentina and Australia.

The LBVCR takes place on the first Sunday of every November (2006 event is on 5th November) and commemorates the Emancipation Run of 14 November 1896 which celebrated the passing into law of the Locomotives on the Highway Act, which raised the speed limit for `light locomotives' from 4 mph to 14 mph and abolished the requirement for these vehicles to be preceded by a man on foot carrying a red flag.