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X-WR-CALDESC:\nHeritage open day - 14th September 2013\nBartons Old Number 1 is a 1911 Daimler. It came to us in the early 1950s from a Leeds scrap yard where it had been found, after a long search by Uncle Peggy (Alfred Barton) and his son Bryan. I was told by my father (Elson Barton) that Peggy was determined the Company had a proper 'charabanc' again for the first time since before the First World War.\nThe claim was made that it would be a good publicity vehicle, and on that subject he was spot on. The vehicle, restored and bodied in the identical manner to our original Beeston vehicle by Chilwell Barton staff, spent more than 30 years from 1953 driving at shows throughout the East Midlands and beyond, featured in television and film dramas, and carried numerous Carnival Queens, Mayors and Santas on parade.\nWhilst our Chilwell site is generally closed to the public during tram construction work, Number 1 is on private display in the Engine Shop, and it is generally only I who can see it, from my desk.\nThis quirky office, the Engine Shop and indeed the oldest parts of Barton House itself date from development exactly 100 years ago, in 1913.\nThe Daimler is currently 'not that well', as in 2008 in the dress rehearsal for our fantastic Centenary Shows, the engine dropped a bearing cap and the resulting collision between con rod and crankshaft did a lot of damage. I believe it can be repaired, and will be if I can in these coming months.\nThere is a good reason for this, which I will explain: We are at another very poignant Centenary.\nFor under our unashamed, flamboyant and well loved red, cream and maroon livery is, I am told, still the khaki paint the Daimler chassis bore as a World War One British Army truck, the body of which it still carried in much decayed form when acquired for restoration. Very many of these ex army vehicles experienced the same fate of being bought for passenger transport use straight after the war, many indeed by Bartons.\nI would suggest that both the physical layout and order of society in Beeston and Chilwell in 1913 would have been almost unrecognisable to us today.\nThis is not the time for wider analysis, save to make a hopefully interesting point in relation to Bartons plc this year.\nRoad transport in 1913 relied mainly on the exertions of the horse, but in the following years (1914-1918) almost a million British horses went to war and heartbreakingly never came back.\nAs it happens, oil had been found in vast quantities in the Middle East 1908, and the combination of surplus vehicles, dead horses and oil gave an unbelievable momentum to the advancement of motor vehicles which had been in truth held wilfully by authorities for decades (it is worth recalling that my family under the leadership of Thomas Henry Barton 1866-1946 had pioneered motorised passenger transport from 1897 or so).\nWith the benefit of the perspective of history, it now seems that with foresight of my great grand father and his family, their dogged perseverance and their good luck, the this old business, incorporated in its first recognisable form exactly 100 years ago stole a justifiable march on a colossal change in human society that became it seems almost inevitable because of\n\nFirst, the finding of oil, then\n\nthe closely following 'war to end all wars', then\n\nthe death of nearly a million British horses, and\n\nthe flooding of the market with ex military motorised vehicles.\n\n\nWhen I take the trouble to contemplate the names on war memorials from The Great War which I often do (the name of another great grandfather of mine is on his grave near Ypres), and when one sees the ages, and comprehend the background of our largely non professional forces in that war, one can see that the order of the world in 1913 has never yet been the same again.\nCome and visit Bartons this Heritage Open Day, the 14th of September 2013, to find out more.
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DESCRIPTION:\nHeritage open day - 14th September 2013\nBartons Old Number 1 is a 1911 Daimler. It came to us in the early 1950s from a Leeds scrap yard where it had been found, after a long search by Uncle Peggy (Alfred Barton) and his son Bryan. I was told by my father (Elson Barton) that Peggy was determined the Company had a proper 'charabanc' again for the first time since before the First World War.\nThe claim was made that it would be a good publicity vehicle, and on that subject he was spot on. The vehicle, restored and bodied in the identical manner to our original Beeston vehicle by Chilwell Barton staff, spent more than 30 years from 1953 driving at shows throughout the East Midlands and beyond, featured in television and film dramas, and carried numerous Carnival Queens, Mayors and Santas on parade.\nWhilst our Chilwell site is generally closed to the public during tram construction work, Number 1 is on private display in the Engine Shop, and it is generally only I who can see it, from my desk.\nThis quirky office, the Engine Shop and indeed the oldest parts of Barton House itself date from development exactly 100 years ago, in 1913.\nThe Daimler is currently 'not that well', as in 2008 in the dress rehearsal for our fantastic Centenary Shows, the engine dropped a bearing cap and the resulting collision between con rod and crankshaft did a lot of damage. I believe it can be repaired, and will be if I can in these coming months.\nThere is a good reason for this, which I will explain: We are at another very poignant Centenary.\nFor under our unashamed, flamboyant and well loved red, cream and maroon livery is, I am told, still the khaki paint the Daimler chassis bore as a World War One British Army truck, the body of which it still carried in much decayed form when acquired for restoration. Very many of these ex army vehicles experienced the same fate of being bought for passenger transport use straight after the war, many indeed by Bartons.\nI would suggest that both the physical layout and order of society in Beeston and Chilwell in 1913 would have been almost unrecognisable to us today.\nThis is not the time for wider analysis, save to make a hopefully interesting point in relation to Bartons plc this year.\nRoad transport in 1913 relied mainly on the exertions of the horse, but in the following years (1914-1918) almost a million British horses went to war and heartbreakingly never came back.\nAs it happens, oil had been found in vast quantities in the Middle East 1908, and the combination of surplus vehicles, dead horses and oil gave an unbelievable momentum to the advancement of motor vehicles which had been in truth held wilfully by authorities for decades (it is worth recalling that my family under the leadership of Thomas Henry Barton 1866-1946 had pioneered motorised passenger transport from 1897 or so).\nWith the benefit of the perspective of history, it now seems that with foresight of my great grand father and his family, their dogged perseverance and their good luck, the this old business, incorporated in its first recognisable form exactly 100 years ago stole a justifiable march on a colossal change in human society that became it seems almost inevitable because of\n\nFirst, the finding of oil, then\n\nthe closely following 'war to end all wars', then\n\nthe death of nearly a million British horses, and\n\nthe flooding of the market with ex military motorised vehicles.\n\n\nWhen I take the trouble to contemplate the names on war memorials from The Great War which I often do (the name of another great grandfather of mine is on his grave near Ypres), and when one sees the ages, and comprehend the background of our largely non professional forces in that war, one can see that the order of the world in 1913 has never yet been the same again.\nCome and visit Bartons this Heritage Open Day, the 14th of September 2013, to find out more.
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