British Lambretta Owners Association 1950's.

(The Club Lambretta of Great Britain) National Club was formed for Lambretta enthusiasts1953, Concessionaires were asked to form a National Club to be known as 'The British Lambretta Owners Association, under the secretaryship of Tony Anthony. It soon happened that I was involved with the Marsh Company on model making projects with my own business and was asked to design the first BLOA blue shield badge. Everyone buying a Lambretta automatically became a member of BLOA and was issued with membership cards and a blue shield club badge. It became more entrenched with Tony and helped organize some early Rallies on the South Coast and at Belle Vue in Manchester. The Marsh connection was not to long to last, as both Mr. A.J. Agg, and his son Peter, were very enthusiastic about the club from its beginning, now decided that the Club should be moved 'In-house' to be run and organized from concessionaires HQ. This move was to give more flexibility, to solve problems when thy occurred amid maintain policy. At the same time, though, to form a committee from members of the National clubs to enable the clubs to 'have their say' and moreover to give the clubs and members what they wanted.

B.L.O.A was now under the secretaryship of Dereck Guy, with his National Management Committee, and by 1956/57 Season 'Blower' was in full swing with regional committees in the North East and West of the Country and Ireland, together with Scotland. Rallies were organized on a massive scale throughout the British Isles, International rallies were attended on the Continent, and events not connected with Lambretta were supported, such as 'Scoot to Scotland' organized by Esso, whilst BLOA had its own insurance schemes and gave advice to members going abroad on their Lambrettas, via other organisations like 'Scooter Tours' with many, many more attractions, for members of this elite Lambretta Club.

The Isle of Man rally was now well established, as was the Annual Southend Rally and BLOA gave these their full support, but more was wanted and Dereck set up Hill Climbs and fuel economy runs. There seemed to be no end to it, from Carnivals to Annual Dinners, but there were no racing events, as we know them today. However, Dereck and I were able to organize the gruelling Snetterton Regularity Trials, which were all but a 12-hour endurance race. Dereck Guy and his two assistant secretaries, Sally and Sylvia, were to be seen everywhere and it really did look as though British Lambretta Owners Association would last forever.
In the early sixties, things changed dramatically, Dereck Guy left Lambretta Concessionaires and a new secretary had been appointed by the name of Bob Wilkinson - in favor of a name similar to the original Club tittle. From now on the club would be known as Lambretta Club of Great Britain, or Lambretta Club (GB) or just L.C.G.B.

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[johnniescarlett]

This is fab!

It shows a Britain that has now long gone, and sadly will never return.

[myScooterchannel]

Those old meetings have something lovingly naive. It would be almost impossible to organise something like that these days.

[VMotorrad]

Now there are some people who know how to party, dress up like an Indian, smoke a cigarette and ride scooters 2 up! Yea baby, bad to the bone!

[goldenspecial]

Love it..thanks for sharing

[Flavio1606]

Great!!!, magic!!!, please visit my Siambretta restauration´s video!!! on my channel; greatings from Bs As, Flavio.

[sergioelwalrus]

great!!!

[Bevoin1970]

Excellent !!!

Love these old film clips.

Love the fashions, clothes people wore back then, definitely more stylish than todays tracky bottom - hoody wearing generation.

Loved the obstacle course around 05:00 Health and safety would have a fit today at that... :-) deemed to dangerous I suppose.. :-)

Loved it all...

Thanks for posting

Paul 5*