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Chalk Pits Museum, which nestles in the South Downs on B2139 from Storrington. Howard Stenning, of the museum, emphasises that it "will be purely a oneoff event and positively not the start of an annual series." One can have enough of a good thing.
Exhibits will run through the gamut of Dennis products from lawnrnowers to fire engines. John Dennis, grandson of the first Guildford vehicle builder and now truck and bus manager of HestairDennis, will bring preserved exhibits from the company's collection.
The museum's friends are again organising the Festival of Yesteryear to be held at Brands Hatch on July 21. It will include vintage commercial vehicles of all kinds and fire engines, as well as steam traction engines and rollers.
A Lansing Bagnall industrial tractor restored for the museum and a Scammell mechanical horse were among the veterans that lapped the course in last year's festival.