This picture is the tail end of an accident reel, so that the yard would know where to return the film. It shows the front office with the state and all important time off cards.
Picture from John Bayless
One of the classic stories, from the Seventies: Match Salesman proceeding east on the A3, decides to take a box of matches from a pack of them, resting on the back seat. Lights cigarette and returns 'spent' match to box. Then throws the box back on to the back seat, to join another 30 or so unopened packets.
Whoosh! goes the noise from the back seat, as the box ignites ('spent' match, was not quite spent!). Driver turns round to see what the noise was, but forgets to let go of the steering wheel as he spins round. Dave Batt (with not a CB in sight), still laughing half an hour later.
Picture by Andy Lambert
You can laugh now, John! If you don't know the story, private message the web-master.
Picture by Andy Lambert
Carol Baker, Jonah Lomu and Stuart Gould. Taken at Pennyhill Park Hotel on 31/10/1999.
Picture from Stuart Gould
Steffi Graf gets attention at Wimbledon.
Picture from Pete Tussler
"Stop 'faffing' around with the camera and clear the road."
Picture by Andy Lambert
Mark Newman behind the wheel of the genuine Bat-mobile from the '60s TV series. Owned by a wealthy collector who chose to drive it up the M4 without number plates or tax!! It was based on an old Lincoln; it drove like the proverbial barge. People in the picture, left to right: Graham Jenkins, Mark Newman, Paul Byrne & Steve Cox. The unhappy owner is in the shorts.
Picture from Mark Newman
How long is a piece of string?
Picture from Bill Botting
The 'Mumbling Armpit' Ralph Gilbey with 'Oscar Ripple' Howard Spinks(?), reporting an accident involving Ringo Starr's Mercedes, May 1980.
Ringo Starr, with then-girlfriend Barbara Bach (star of the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, amongst others), were driving on the A3 when the car went out of control at the Robin Hood Roundabout. It somersaulted a number of times before coming to rest on the London-bound carriageway. Ringo later said this accident changed his life, and was the reason why he proposed to Barbara. The car was crushed, and today serves as a coffee table in the couple's Ascot home.
Copyright picture by Andy Lambert.
Names on a postcard please?
Picture from Bill Botting
It was said that Traffic Officers just pushed pens around at the scene of an RTA, so Andy and Geoff Lambert set out to capture them working.
Adrian Morris cleaning up, by Andy Lambert
Phew, it don't half hum in here, says Jan Piechocki, with Frank Conlan, Dave Knight and NRG's Sunshine Steve.
Picture by Andy Lambert
Aiden Hegarty being glad he is on a solo.
Picture from Pete Tussler
Frank Haslett (as Father Christmas) up the ladder of Mick Hebbard's fire engine, getting onto the balcony at TDV for a kid's Christmas party.
Picture from Adrian Morris
John Farrow about to do a vehicle exam.
Picture from Pete Tussler
Ralph off duty and competing with Cambridge Coachworks sponsorship in grass-track racing, using a field where the M25 Cobham Services now sits.
Picture from Andy Lambert
Would you trust this lot to move your car?
Picture from Adrian Morris
The 2000 TDV Reunion
Pictures from Pete Winters
An RTA on the A3 between Tolworth and Hook, summer 1992.
From left to right: Steve Norris, Keith Newlands, 'Ned' Kelly and PS Andy Harmer.
Picture from Steve Norris
Sunday breakfast club . . . rooftop TDV, about 1994.
Left to right: Steve Bradwell, Les Brown, Phil Connolly, Mark Newman and Phil Bennett.
The cover of The Police Magazine (with surely the world's weirdest banner font). In the picture is Gordon Barnes, along with Clive Abraham, Steven Oliphant, John Leggett, Alf Kendry and a couple of unknowns. It was taken at Marble Arch, awaiting deployment on a demo.
Picture from Gordon Barnes
Back Row (left to right): Richard Mansfield, Keith Newlands, Pete Tussler, Robin Tutchings, Jeff Lane, Tony Sage, Phil Bennet, Phil Connelly, Tim Davies, Andy Johnson, Tony Monk, Mike Tett, Dave Sweet, Mark Newman, Dave Salter, Dick Buchan, Neil McAlpine.
Second Row: WPC Gail Oxley, Steve Howorth, 'Ned' Kelly, Guy Allen, Mick McGinty, Stuart Gould, Buzz Robert, Steve Norris, Joe Shackel, Vince Bridle, Tom MaCiver, Ernie Bradbury, John Yates, Frank Conlan, WPC Jan Miller.
Front Row: Sgt. Keith Wall, Sgt. Clive Abrahams, Insp. Dave Springle, Sgt. Malcolm Rooke, Sgt. Bob Smith. Picture taken on the roof of TDV.
Not another exam at Cambridge Coachworks.
Picture from Andy Lambert
Look, a policeman in uniform - I wonder what gesture he is about to make?
Picture from Andy Lambert
Put that camera away, I am not with him!
Picture from Andy Lambert
What is going on in that underpass?
Picture from Andy Lambert
Back Row: Len Gooch, Wally Goodman, Ernie Bradbury, John Yates, Paul Stewart, John Haycock, Mick Hebard, Terry Dent, Frank Haslett, Paul Croft, Frank Conlan, Stuart Gould, 'Sailor' Scrivens, Paul Hughes, Pete Richards, Dick Povey, Adrian Morris and Dave Batt.
Centre Row: Tom Singleton, Neil McAlpine, Nick Coggan, Steve Legg, Pete Tussler, Jan Piechocki, Bob Smally, Gill Warby, Ralph Gilbey, Dave Knight, Vince Bridle, Rob Tutchings, David Hogg and Dave Burgoyne.
Front Row: Left Bike - Bob Smith, John Botright, Insp. Ford, Supt. Mac Farlane, Chief Insp. Fleury, ?, Jim Sinnott, John Bayliss. Right Bike - Ken Taylor.
Picture from Ralph Gilbey and Stuart Gould
You can make your own mind up about this one.
Picture from Adrian Morris