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means of transport for guests at London's top people's hotel, the Savoy in the Strand.
However, lorry driver Ilona Richards plans to put them all in the shade. The founder of the Lady Truckers Club and driver agency proprietor will turn up as a guest at the Woman of the Year lunch on 28 October in an American Western Star truck.
Richards, of Burton upon Trent, has fought long and hard for equal rights for female truckers. Her campaigns have included calls for woman's changing rooms at truckstops.
Rumours that Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova and BBC front-line hack Kate Adie will arrive at the Savoy in a Soyuz space capsule and Scud missile respectively are unconfirmed.