How it all came about
The scheme was set up by Andy Lambert the longest serving volunteer at Brooklands Museum (who luckily owns a vehicle tracking company). He originally set it up for fellow volunteers after a spate of classic cars being stolen and tragically never recovered. Recently however, the service has been opened to ALL classic / vintage vehicle owners. There is just one condition to entitlement: - The unit being tracked is fitted in a Classic, Vintage, Post Vintage or Veteran Vehicle, that does less than 3000 miles a year. The vehicle can be a Car, a Van, a Truck, a Bus, a Motorbike, in fact any form of road vehicle located almost anywhere in the world.
All our units are top quality commercial trackers supplied by MTS (My Tracking Service) and are the same as the ones used by fleet operators and some emergence services. Of course, there is no GPS device you can buy that is totally guaranteed to protect your vehicle, and any salesmen who tells you different is a liar!
However, if the tracker is hidden discreetly away, there is a very good chance it will give you a warning when it is moved without authorisation, along with the ability to see where it is being taken to. Battery drain is around 40ma (status dependent) in standard format, so a long standby is possible. It is also possible to use deep sleep mode where it will drop to some 10ma (@12volts) until someone wakes it up with movement.
The map server has the ability to 'Geo-fence' your home and send you an email when the vehicle leaves the Geo-fenced area. The information including your routes and time at regular points along the way will be stored on our server for around 3 months, or you can download it and keep it forever. If you are in a Car Club or any form of group of more than five vehicles, we can place you all on the same map, so you can see where each other's vehicles are at any time. In the event you take your car abroad, or it is based somewhere else in Europe the system will track it just as it would in the UK