Example 1

Treasure Hunt to Suffolk Coast with overnight stay in Lavenham

Itinerary:

Participants will arrive at The Swan Hotel in Lavenham, situated near Bury St Edmunds (90 minutes from London by road and one hour from Stansted airport) for 09:00, and will have the opportunity to settle in. Representatives from The Grand Touring Club will be on hand to provide a welcome and assist with check in. Coffee and refreshments will be provided. An introduction to the day will be given and roadbooks handed out. All our cars will have been delivered to the hotel's special parking area prior to the group's arrival, and our trained mechanics will conduct the briefing sessions there before setting out.

We have our own fleet of Classic Cars and can sometimes supplement these with further extra cars as necessary.

The arrangements for the day include:

• Hire of cars (plus one in reserve), including comprehensive insurance (subject to insurers' acceptance of drivers)
• Fuel required
• Treasure Hunt Route books, one per car
• 1 night's accommodation at Swan Hotel with breakfast (20 ensuite rooms - normally all singles)
• Attendance during the day by GTC representative and trained mechanic
• Full briefing on and assistance with cars
• 3 course Dinner, drinks as extra if wished, private room extra
• Treasure Hunt answers with full marking instructions
• Coffee stop on morning route
• Light lunch (e.g fish & chips plus drink) at Dunwich

(The organiser and his Guests will be responsible for settling their own personal accounts with the hotel direct. )

The above arrangement would fall within a budget of £400 per person, based upon 20 persons in single rooms, with 2 persons sharing a car.

Example 2

General Motors Press Event - February 2004

The Grand Touring Club was contracted to assist General Motors (Detroit) by providing some classic English sports cars as references for the GM engineers to offer to a select group of the top American motoring writers, alongside a secret new GM model, due to be launched 18 months afterwards.

The event commenced at Brooklands where the cars were lined up for first inspection by Dunlop Mac's shed and then the detailed routebook took the group on rural roads through Surrey to West Sussex.

The guests were able to swap during the day between the new car and a Triumph TR3A, MGB roadster and Lotus Elan Sprint drophead with a TR4A in reserve.

The following day the cars were provided at Goodwood Motor circuit which had been reserved for the day in order to photograph and assess the cars in a habitat natural to the British sportscars of the '50's and '60's.

This was a most interesting exercise, because it allowed not only the journalists to comment on a new car in its early pre-production state, but also to test, or otherwise, General Motor's contention that this car "contains the DNA" of the classic cars we supplied.

We were relieved that everything went very well, in particular that the older cars didn't disgrace themselves.

Despite the excellence of the new car even at such a formative moment, we were quietly amused to see how much of the total time the much-pampered pressmen spent at the wheels of the older cars - and their undisguised grins that were evident as they returned, especially after trying the Lotus.