Vintage vehicles have been put to the test once again with an annual rally around the North East and North Yorkshire.

Veteran motorists and their motors took to the region’s rural roads for the 51st Beamish Reliability Run on Sunday.

Lovingly preserved cars, motorcycles and commercial vehicles, all registered before 1956, were entered 139 entrants who set off from Beamish Museum near Chester-le-Street in half-minute and minute intervals from 8.15am to 10am.

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Marshalls and stewards were in post around the 150-mile route during the day, with checkpoints staffed for the usual test of drivers’ knowledge of the Highway Code.

The usual checkpoint in the grounds of Bowes Museum was not in use due to engineering works, nor was the checkpoint stop at The Moorcock Inn, at Waskerley.

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(Image: Northern Echo) Drivers passed Bowes Museum and had the usual hour-long lunch-time stop on Bainbridge Village Green instead. 

The run is a recreation of the safety and reliability trials staged around dales roads in the inter-war years.

It began in 1971 and has only been cancelled in the year of the Covid outbreak and the immediate aftermath of the pandemic.

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