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Several issues back,
Dial-a-Cab driver, Worshipful Company of Hackney Carriage
Drivers Upper Warden and soon to be Master, Jim
Rainbird (T25) launched a raffle in Call Sign with
the amazing prize of a personalised tour of Pinewood Studios. The
draw raised much funds for the WCHCD Children’s Magical Taxi Tour
and was the brainchild of Terry Bamber, Production Manager on
the James Bond movies and many other Pinewood productions. The winner was City Airport regular, Dave Fuller, who very kindly donated his prize back "to give to someone less fortunate than himself" the opportunity of an amazing day out. A lovely gesture and a reflection of the licensed taxi trade’s big heart. As the WCHCD has an affiliation with The Royal Docks Community School, it was offered to their GCSE photographic course students as an invaluable experience to enhance their studies. Names were put into a hat and the lucky winners were Megan, Laura and Lakeisha - accompanied by their teacher David Oliver. They were picked up at the school in a Pinewood Studios/Magical Taxi Tour liveried taxi and met at Pinewood by a film |
PINEWOOD STUDIOS RAFFLE School wins after driver donates prize back! |
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 Jim Rainbird drives the taxi alongside the 3 winners and their teacher Pic Christianblack.com crew and stills photographer who recorded the whole day for them. Terry Bamber was the host for the day and used his vast repertoire of new (and old!) jokes to make the girls wince and laugh in equal measure. He gave each of them some film related books and a film crew tee shirt from upcoming movie Gulliver’s Travels starring Jack Black. Terry’s enthusiasm for the film industry is infectious and I’m sure the students came away inspired and amazed at what goes into making movies. A lot of people generously gave up their time and services to make this prize draw the success it was. These included the following: Yellow Dot for design and print of the prize draw tickets free of charge; Geoff Russell and Dennis Knight at Eon Productions for selling lots of tickets; all the guys in |
the cab trade (you know who you
are) for also selling lots of tickets; Terry Bamber,
Production Manager from the James Bond films for selling lots of
tickets and pulling the whole day together; Dave Worrall,
author and James Bond expert + publisher of Cinema Retro
magazine; Julia Hillsdon, Head of Marketing at Pinewood;
Fern Colao, Marketing at Pinewood; Chris Smith of
Technicolor; David Williams for our lunch at the Palm
Suite Restaurant; Dave Shaw Diving Services UK (Pinewood
underwater stage); Graham Anderson of Alpha Grips;
Richard Pryke, Pinewood Sound Re-recording Mixer (and Oscar
winner for Slumdog Millionaire); stills photographer Christian
Black; Saloum N’jie and Tony Chivers of the film
crew, and of course to Dave Fuller who donated the prize
back. A big thank you to everyone who helped out and gave the three girls a great day at Pinewood and especially from the kids who will travel on this year’s Children’s Magical taxi Tour. Jim Rainbird (T25) |
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