
Ancestral home to the Marquess of Anglesey, Plas Newydd, overlooking the majestic Menai Straits, was the venue for this year’s Tom Pryce Memorial Trophy and Automotive Achievement Award conferred by Welsh Motoring Writers.
Presented on behalf of WMW by Her Majesty’s Lord Lieutenant for Gwynedd, His Honour Huw Morgan Daniel, the Tom Pryce Trophy went to Nick Reilly CBE, General Motors Europe President. Recipient of the Automotive Achievement Award was fellow-Welshman and chairman of Vauxhall Motors, Bill Parfitt CBE.
Later on Saturday (November 19), at WMW’s annual dinner (back across the Conwy Estuary at Bodysgallen Hall), the awards were commended and recipients congratulated by Her Majesty’s Lord Lieutenant for Clwyd, Trefor Glyn Jones CBE and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Wales, Rt Hon David I Jones MP.