Profile / Job Role
Website Designer - Paul Calland (non commitee post)
I’ve been a TVRCC member since about 1988 and joined when I purchased my first TVR, a 1980 Taimar. This was bought because I was fed up of welding old MG Midgets back together, as these had been my previous passion from the age of 16. A need for more power may also have had something to do with it! The work didn't finish of course, as I ended up doing a complete chassis swop and rebuild of the Taimar some years later.
Subsequent TVRs were a blue S2 which featured as part of a cover story group test in Classic and Sportscar, an ocean haze Griffith 4.3, and a Cerbera 4.5 which scared the living daylights out of me! The latter was replaced with another ocean haze Griffith, this time a 500 which I kept for 12 years. I now have an S4c.
I am married, my wife Sue and I have a son, Rob who is a trainee commis chef. I am a qualified technical illustrator, having done a degree at Blackpool (of all places). I very nearly went to work at TVR on my student placement but was offered a job in Holland instead, which seemed more appealing at the time. I subsequently spent a few years doing cutaway line and airbrush drawings of Challenger tank engines and Warriors before computers took over and I went electronic. I have had my own design, website and exhibition company based in the Lake District since 1995.
Along with Adrian McMullin I was joint Regional Organiser of the Cumbria region for a few years. The pinnacle of my RO 'career' was organising the group of 22 we took to Le Mans in 2003. It was the Cumbria region mega paddling pool that Ben Samuelson from TVR was 'encouraged' into when the factory team visited Houx campsite. I retired as RO when the TVRCC website demanded more of my time.
I originally took over the TVRCC website in 2000 when it had been abandoned for a while and no one else seemed to want to do it. Since then I have spent a good portion of every week working on it to get it to the stage it is currently at. Until the second version of the website everything was done manually by me, which is not good for your homelife - however the site has now been setup so that it can now be updated by various members of the committee and website team, as well as myself which keeps it all more up to date and 'fresher'. We were lucky enough to win 'Best large Car Club website' at the Classic and Sportscar' awards in 2007 and come runner up in 2010, we then won again in 2012 so we feel we must be at least on the right track these days! In late 2015 I started working on the next version of the website to allow it to work better with tablets and smartphones and make it even easier to add content, this was launched in 2017
As well as the main website my company Treble3 also designed and hosts nearly all of the TVRCC regional websites most of which have our 'easy to use' starter website that ROs can use if they do not have website design skills. I also help produce exhibition materials such as stands, banners, flags and displays for the Club as well as designing and printing things like TVRCC leaflets, door stickers and Regional Organisers business cards.
As if I don't have enough to do, I am also Operational Deputy Station Officer of a Search and Rescue Team which covers the very dangerous Morecambe Bay, South Lakes area. Scene of the 'Cockling disaster' where 24 people died in 2004. So I have other vehicles to mess with as well, such as the four all terrain, amphibious Hagglund tracked rescue vehicles we use (picture below). These were originally designed as a military personnel carriers for use in artic conditions and are very 'different' to drive! As a qualified tactical flood advisor I was away from work for a lot of December 2015 and January 2016 when my team was deployed extensively in the Cumbria and Lancashire floods.
For more info see the Bay Search and Rescue website
Subsequent TVRs were a blue S2 which featured as part of a cover story group test in Classic and Sportscar, an ocean haze Griffith 4.3, and a Cerbera 4.5 which scared the living daylights out of me! The latter was replaced with another ocean haze Griffith, this time a 500 which I kept for 12 years. I now have an S4c.
I am married, my wife Sue and I have a son, Rob who is a trainee commis chef. I am a qualified technical illustrator, having done a degree at Blackpool (of all places). I very nearly went to work at TVR on my student placement but was offered a job in Holland instead, which seemed more appealing at the time. I subsequently spent a few years doing cutaway line and airbrush drawings of Challenger tank engines and Warriors before computers took over and I went electronic. I have had my own design, website and exhibition company based in the Lake District since 1995.
Along with Adrian McMullin I was joint Regional Organiser of the Cumbria region for a few years. The pinnacle of my RO 'career' was organising the group of 22 we took to Le Mans in 2003. It was the Cumbria region mega paddling pool that Ben Samuelson from TVR was 'encouraged' into when the factory team visited Houx campsite. I retired as RO when the TVRCC website demanded more of my time.
I originally took over the TVRCC website in 2000 when it had been abandoned for a while and no one else seemed to want to do it. Since then I have spent a good portion of every week working on it to get it to the stage it is currently at. Until the second version of the website everything was done manually by me, which is not good for your homelife - however the site has now been setup so that it can now be updated by various members of the committee and website team, as well as myself which keeps it all more up to date and 'fresher'. We were lucky enough to win 'Best large Car Club website' at the Classic and Sportscar' awards in 2007 and come runner up in 2010, we then won again in 2012 so we feel we must be at least on the right track these days! In late 2015 I started working on the next version of the website to allow it to work better with tablets and smartphones and make it even easier to add content, this was launched in 2017
As well as the main website my company Treble3 also designed and hosts nearly all of the TVRCC regional websites most of which have our 'easy to use' starter website that ROs can use if they do not have website design skills. I also help produce exhibition materials such as stands, banners, flags and displays for the Club as well as designing and printing things like TVRCC leaflets, door stickers and Regional Organisers business cards.
As if I don't have enough to do, I am also Operational Deputy Station Officer of a Search and Rescue Team which covers the very dangerous Morecambe Bay, South Lakes area. Scene of the 'Cockling disaster' where 24 people died in 2004. So I have other vehicles to mess with as well, such as the four all terrain, amphibious Hagglund tracked rescue vehicles we use (picture below). These were originally designed as a military personnel carriers for use in artic conditions and are very 'different' to drive! As a qualified tactical flood advisor I was away from work for a lot of December 2015 and January 2016 when my team was deployed extensively in the Cumbria and Lancashire floods.
For more info see the Bay Search and Rescue website
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