Matilda is permitted to retire from Arundel Size:S: 40 x 40cm Leo Villa with the 1964

Leo Villa with the 1964 Bluebird

(his future home - still under construction)

16th October 1970

instead judges awarded marks in various categories including mechanical reliability

Matilda is permitted to retire from Arundel Size:S: 40 x 40cm Leo Villa with the 1964Matilda is permitted to retire from Arundel, Sussex, 1139 (1864). Matilda (1102 1167), the daughter of Henry I of England, is permitted by Stephen of Blois (1096 1154) to leave Arundel castle and escorted, under the safeguard of the legate, to the outposts of the Earl of Gloucester. Stephen usurped the throne when Henry died in 1135, provoking a civil war as he and Matilda fought over the crown.