We attended this rally for 25yrs or so - only ever missed one while the Foden was being re-boxed.
In recent years the organisation has been taken over by the Rotary Club, and has been declining every year since.
All the sections have been getting fewer numbers in them.
They are more interested in getting the idiot with motorbike doing stunts in the ring than steam.
We have not been invited for 4 or 5 years now - so no there won't be a Foden there, unless Richard Hesbrook takes his traction.
This rally has also suffered with the weather quite spectacularly some years - think washout and you won't go far wrong.
I will be heading to Cornwall that weekend hopefully, with a certain Welsh New Build.
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