By our Northern Correspondent Eric Strongitharm Oswaldtwistle.
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As the social season gets under way Spagthorpe Motor Company is preparing a unique entrant for Henley—the "SS Impregnable". Long-serving engineering overseer Isaac "Slide-rule" Frazackerley has shoehorned an SMC Saurian engine into an ex-Oswaldhvistle Parks Department pedalo.
Chairman and Life President Sir Jos Spagthorpe and his niece Gracie will be attending Henley as part of Gracie's "coming out" as a debutante.
"Appen we'll find some soft Southern jesse to take lass off our hands before she comes out any farther," said a jocular Sir Jos (pictured on the bridge with 'cabin boy" apprentice Darren Acne, recently returned from his trip to China). "I picked name Impregnable meself—just to remind our Gracie to behave until she's got some toff's ring on her finger."
Pictured in the foreground is SMC security chief Ronald Gribbe t, demonstrating the stealth technology so impressively demonstrated on the Spagthorpe Phantom (which is still missing somewhere on the SMC proving grounds).