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Midlands Area At Practical Classics Restoration Show

Posted on the 20th April 2018 at 10:06am.

The Midlands Area stand at the Restoration Show at the NEC showed that there are other ways to get noticed apart from displaying highly-polished cars. The club stand was organised by Rob Pinner and featured the very presentable Star Sapphire belonging...

Full Steam Ahead for South Midlands Area

Posted in Events on the 26th March 2018 at 8:51am.

The Swindon Museum of Steam was the super location for our initial rally of 2018 and what a great location to choose. The good display of our cars parked directly outside the main entrance was a great advert for the club...

Sir Malcolm Campbell's Hurricane Available

Posted in General News on the 15th January 2018 at 9:18am.

This important 1946 Armstrong Siddeley Hurricane is unexpectedly available for sale again. The car was originally owned by the famous world land and water speed record holder Sir Malcom Campbell who had it supplied in his special “Bluebird” blue colour. The...

Centenary Plans to Date

Posted in Centenary on the 3rd December 2017 at 11:04am.

                                   2019 will be a great year for Armstrong Siddeley as it will be 100 years since The Armstrong Whitworth Company from Bamborough in Northumbria linked...

2017 National Report

Posted in National on the 22nd August 2017 at 10:45am.

                  Several members have been heard commenting on what a good weekend they had, but perhaps this was down to the very fine weather we had, dry and pleasantly warm, with a good amount of sun – quite a rarity this summer. We...

National Judging Results

Posted in National on the 10th August 2017 at 11:49am.

I would like to thank all those club members who kindly gave of their time and expertise to judge the cars at National Day. With two pre-war classes and three post-war classes, and a good spread of cars over these classes...

Centenery Logo Competition Results

Posted in Centenary on the 30th July 2017 at 3:07pm.

I am delighted to tell you that your board received several excellent submissions to the competitionto develop a celebratory centenary version of our AS logo. I am also delighted that these submissions were wider than just the UK. Your board had...

The Adder Is On The Move

Posted in General News on the 31st March 2017 at 4:02pm.

The same Company that built our wonderful cars also manufactured various aero engines, some of which were very successful including the SAPPHIRE and VIPER pure jet engines as well as the MAMBA turboprop engine and a host of earlier propeller engines...

Don't Forget Drive It Day

Posted in Events on the 28th March 2017 at 11:22am.

Sapphire Anniversary for Sapphires

Posted in Events on the 7th February 2017 at 4:37pm.

It was at the Earls Court motor show in 1952 that the Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire 346 was launched, a model that turned out to be one of the great success stories for the company with 7680 cars produced in the 6-year...