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FORTHCOMING: Walter Hayes Memorial Lecture - 14th January 2009

FORTHCOMING: Dudley Coram Lecture - 13th September 2008

Morris-Goodall Cup

Mortimer Morris-Goodall, whose Monte Carlo Rally exploits featured in “Aston” No.9 was AMOC Member No. 1 from its formation back in 1935. It turns out that there was a Morris-Goodall cup going back a long way which in recent years has been in Australia. Following negotiations with the owner the Trust has been able to agree its purchase and has decided it could be put to best use as a special award given to someone who has contributed outstanding endeavours on behalf of the Trust.

We are pleased to announce that the first recipient is to be Neil Murray who has served the Trust unstintingly since it was founded 10 years ago, taking over the chairmanship after Walter Hayes died. Neil has also devoted untold hours in producing the 5 volume Register in 2000 and the 3 volume edition of 2007/8. His award of this new trophy is most thoroughly deserved.

Aston Martin Heritage Trust Secretary
The trustees are delighted to announce that they have appointed Anne Wright as Secretary of the Trust. Anne has worked temporarily as a member of the Club team a few years ago. She has the great advantage of not only knowing a lot about the Club and the Trust work, but also of living in the village of Drayton St. Leonard.

One of Anne's characteristics is that she is a very friendly and sociable person and she looks forward to helping members and to meeting them when they visit the Barn.

Walter Hayes Memorial Lecture - 16^th January 2008
Some 160 Members of the Club, the Trust and the Royal Automobile Club assembled at the Pall Mall Club House on 16 January for the annual dinner and lecture in memory of the late Walter Hayes Trust Chairman Chris Lendrum welcomed everyone, especially the Club Chairman Michael Urban and Club President The Viscountess Downe, as well as Peter Livanos who continues to be a great benefactor of the Trust’s work. It was also nice to see present Gerry Acher and Neil Murray, both former Trust Chairmen.

After a delicious meal of roast lamb Chris Lendrum introduced our speaker Marek Reichman who is design director at Aston Martin, aged 41 and born in Sheffield. Marek graduated at Teeside University with a first class honours degree in Product/Industrial design, then secured a Masters degree with distinction in Automotive Design from the Royal College of Art. After a wide experience with Land Rover, BMW and Rolls Royce he joined Aston Martin in 2005 becoming responsible for all future products.

His talk was entitled “An Emotional Journey” and his many illustrations began with a very informal picture of his small team who are clearly as passionate about design as he is. Marek explained the fundamentals of design in a very clear way using examples from nature and mathematics. His illustrations allowed us to see the importance not only of shape but proportion, surface, line, material and detail, all going together to make up a satisfactory whole. The finished product must satisfy the eye from every angle, create desire and engage the emotions.

Marek certainly engaged everyone’s attention as he fielded a barrage of questions from the audience for at least 20 minutes. In bringing this to an end Chris Lendrum thanked Marek and presented him with a scale model of A3 the Trust’s Aston Martin of 1921 which should be back on the road later this year.

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