NAPIER POWER HERITAGE

A message from the NPHT President.

We have arrived at a momentous year in Napier Company history, when it is our pleasure, our privilege and, for NPHT members, our duty to create and organise the celebration of the 200th Anniversary of the Establishment of D.Napier & Sons in London in 1808. To that end, your committee have been planning every detail, so as to ensure a successful series of events to make 2008 a truly memorable year, while recording and rejoicing in this Napier anniversary. Surely there is no other British engineering firm still producing in its own name that can lay claim to such a remarkable longevity achievement that we record this year. We commence on the 28th March with a Grand Bicentenary Dinner at the Royal Automobile Club in Pall Mall, soon to be followed by an historical Napier archive display at our NPHT Annual General Meeting on the 17th April at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, in Birdcage Walk, Westminster. It all peaks over the weekend 21st - 22nd June with a large and live “NAPIER POWEREX 200” Exhibition to be held at the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre’s site at Quainton Road Station near Aylesbury, with lots of action and interest for all the family, set in leafy Buckinghamshire. Finally, my less formal “Presidents Dinner” at Croydon’s fine Airport House on the 11th October. A vital ingredient in the success of all these will be the widest support from our own members so, as this singular event can never be repeated, pause to reflect on all your Napier years and come along and meet your Napier colleagues and become part of this great celebration.

Signed:- Geoff McGarry.