HISTORIC cars, many of them more than 100 years old, rattled and chugged around the leafy lanes of the New Forest at the weekend when the Veteran Car Club staged its popular Forest Foray rally.
More than 40 cars, from the era when the law required a man to walk in front with a red flag, set out from the Balmer Lawn Hotel at Brockenhurst on Saturday for a 28-mile circular tour via Rhinefield, Burley, Holmsley, Wootton and Sway.
Although the red flag was waved off in 1904 - the criterion for veteran car status - all the vehicles were in their original condition, which for many meant tiller steering, wooden wheels, solid tyres, and carriage springs.
On Sunday the cavalcade of venerable vehicles motored down to Bucklers Hard near Beaulieu.
The oldest car in the rally was the 1898 Daimler driven by Peter Golding from Lymington.
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