Jawaharlal Nehru’s car, a model of Mr. Bean’s car, several vintage models from the 1930s to the 1960s, a search and rescue craft used by the Navy and a radar antenna used by Aircraft Position Information were among several interesting exhibits at Trale 09, an innovative motor exhibition organised by S. Thomas’ College, Mount Lavinia.
The College grounds turned into a motor enthusiast’s heaven on Friday and Saturday last week, with everything ranging from models to the real McCoy on display of motor cycles, automobiles, trains, planes and fighter jets.
The exhibition was organised by three clubs at STC: The Aeronautical Society, Automobile Club and the Model Railroad Club.
The Railroad Club had taken great pains to come up with some models of railway tracks on and through mountains, caves and tunnels for the toy trains to run on. The displays were manned by a couple of highly enthusiastic fourth graders who had donated the train sets and contributed the time and effort to make the models.
Several students had lent their extensive collection of models for the exhibition, which were displayed behind several glass showcases. Miniatures of real life cars from the oldest to the newest – Ford, Fiat, Jaguar, Triumph, Austin Healey, Mercedes, Cadillac, Chrysler… were all on display. It must be an expensive hobby for whoever is pursuing it.
Three students, Tharindu Walakuluge, C.J.D Fernando and R.J Jeyaraj had an interesting display where they had programmed a toy car to run in whichever direction they wanted, via computer instructions. It was a testament to the skill and ingenuity of the students and had apparently attracted even professional companies who had expressed a desire to buy the software.
Everywhere were dedicated and enthusiastic students who were clearly in their element.
According to Rohantha Jayawardene, one of the main students organizers of the event, they put in a lot of hard work and went without sleep for two consecutive nights to organise the exhibition.
Two Universities had booths to attract students to appropriate courses such as Aeronautical Engineering. Rohantha himself is highly interested in Aeronautics but has decided to become an Electrical Engineer because he wants to invent mobile electricity. “That’s the only thing that isn’t mobile yet,” he says.
The main sponsors for the exhibition were CINEC maritime campus, in collaboration with the Chartered Institute for Logistics and Transport (CILT) and Transport Couriers, Logiventures Pvt Ltd. Channel 1 MTV was the electronic media sponsor for the event, while The Daily Mirror and the Sunday Times were the print media sponsors. |
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