News: Operation Matador – 50 years on five former students
Operation Matador: 50 years on Five former students, Tom Hudson, Mike Smith, Mike Savage, Hugh Tansley and John Wilson, who attended Hatfield Technical College fifty years ago, proved the reliability of small powered engines by driving a Ransoms Matador mower from Edinburgh to Hyde Park in London, with a visit to the University en route.
On 6 May the five, now in their sixties and seventies, re-lived their trip by visiting the University with a similar mower, before continuing on to Hyde Park for a reunion sponsored by Ransomes.
Mirroring the original feat, the Vice-Chancellor was presented with a haggis, and the event was covered by a BBC news crew which can be seen at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8036723.stm.
For more information please contact Jeremy Reid: j.l.reid [at] herts.ac.uk.
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