I am not a fan of a table with a creased cloth (if you are lucky!) with a few trucks scattered about
Voyager, first of all my condolences with the loss of your father.
About the table cloth, well I think I'll have to do with less this year :(
Last year this happened (copied from TMW forum):
Hello everybody who were at Gaydon, I have a big question.
And I postponed asking several times because it makes me feel so stupid.
When going to shows I always carry a wooden container with sliding cover. Inside are my table covering materials, i.e. a beachtowel in US flag colors, a flemish flag (yellow with black lion), a flag with a Kenworth W900 and another flag with two long legs and the front of a conventional US truck behind.
In this container there are also some papers from previous model shows (Hannover Germany), a soft brush to take away dust from the models and a small tin with a couple of very little screwdrivers and a plastic photofilmroll container with some tiny screws (to assemble my US lowloader, but this was not in Gaydon this year).
I came home and after a couple of days I started unpacking my models and put them back in the glass cabinet where they are always. But I felt I was missing something.
I didn't know what, but the feeling stayed.
I looked and looked, all the models were there. But something was still missing and I still didn't know what. My head was paining of thinking.............
Then I saw that this wooden container was missing. I searched the car and the whole house: the hobby room, the spare room, the loft, the garagebox (which is one street from my house), but I couldn't find it.
I thought of 2 possibilities:
- or I left it in Gaydon
- or somebody was "helpful" to carry it (to his own car)
I never unpack this container at home, I always leave things inside for the next show, that's why it took a bit longer before it was really missed.
Anyway, the dimensions of the container are: L 68.5cm W 32cm H 13.5cm How I know so exactly? Because I had 3 of them (they were from an old office drawer at work) and only 2 are here now.
I sent an email to Ashley to ask this and he replied: "I do remember seeing the box left behind at the end of the show because it was put by the 'reception' desk, but then someone moved it, later so I guessed it was claimed. I do not remember who moved it. I do not know what happened to it after that. Maybe you can contact Gaydon and send them the e mail with details of the box. Perhaps they still have it in a store room?"So that is what I did, I called/sent email to Heritage Motor Museum, but they didn't find anything.
I guess what happened: while I was arranging things in my car somebody thought the box was left and took it away to the reception desk. When I came back inside the hall to check my place if nothing was forgotten, I found it empty, said goodbye to some people and drove off.
Maybe somebody else has also seen the box and knows what happened with it, I would be very pleased to get it back (I know it was not great value, but it was very useful on shows and so).
I remember some people I saw there: of course Ashley, Peter White and Kim the photographer, also Paul Davis, all of the MMTC team: Dave Hewitt, Peter Reddish, Bob (tractor man) I had a nice weekend with them all, Jack (the Volvo man), Lonewolf from the forum, Ted Taylor, and some others that I forgot their names.........
On the other forum I had some sympathy but not really a good hint about it.
I really do hope that somebody can help me :)