The Road We’re On
Where we’ve come from, and where we’re going
Motor Show Events Ltd is an event organiser based in the South East of England. Created by James Martin & Karl Rushen who are both motoring Enthusiasts and event organisers. Moror Show Events Ltd joined forces with All advertising and between them have created several successful events and festivals. Now puling together their individual skill sets and knowledge, they followed their dreams and did what they loved the most; creating large format entertainment events.
Motorshow events organise both the Essex Motorshow “Motorfest” and the Suffolk Motorshow “Festival of Wheels“. These family entertainment events have live action arenas, entertainment, displays, music and so much more… The shows provide the perfect family days out for people aged 2 to 102. Now also diversifying into other large format events such as the hugely successful “Drive In Firework Show“.
James Martin
Creative Marketer & Expert Memory Maker…
James is a creative individual with a hands-on approach that brings ideas and experiences to life from concept, through development, to the finished product. James makes business connect in a memorable way with consumers through real-life engagement; he creates innovative events and marketing solutions for both public relations and corporate business. James interest in Motors, Events and Marketing, started at an early age. This passion has continued through his life, influencing James career choices, successes and some eventful times. During this duration he has had the pleasure of building events and festivals from the ground up, creating marketing campaigns for both local and National brands. Running alongside his workload, James led on the marketing and events to turn around the failing leisure business Marsh Farm Animal Adventure Park, which has now gone on to win many awards including best large attraction in Essex and a national innovation award for marketing.
Karl Rushen
Company owner and Motorcycle Racer.
Karl has been involved with racing bikes across the country both in Grasstrack and Speedway from the age of 6 up until the age of 36, winning many major titles. 3 years ago, when Karl half hung his racing boots up, it was time for the younger generation in the form of his Son Cooper Joe to take the bars. Now at the age of 12 Cooper has taken over and become 8x British Multi Disciplined Champion over the last 5 seasons.
As a company owner and Founder of StreetLife Driving School, business has been in Karl’s blood since the age of 21, when he started out as the youngest driving instructor in the country. He started working for a local company before going out on his own and building the dream of running his own business, which he called StreetLife Driving School. After 13 years in business he now has 40 members of staff-but really, there a second family. During his time, Karl has also been a retained fire fighter for 10 years where he lives and having seen some horrendous scenes his thoughts turned to the future and the next generation of drivers. With his job in mind, ideas were created, a plan was formed and in 2011 S.L.Y.D.E Streetlife Young Driver Education was born. S.L.Y.D.E educates 14-17-year olds from all walks of life, allowing them to experience the reality of being on the roads and the thrill of driving a car, but in a safe environment. S.L.Y.D.E works alongside the Fire Service, Air Ambulance, Police and local organisations both in Essex and Kent screening educational presentations showing real life consequences of bad driving. The driving sessions take place once a month both at the Essex and Kent venues.
After spending many years making parts for his racing bikes and building custom motorcycles, Karl decided to organise a little vehicle show in 2012 which was named Roadzsta. In September 2012 tickets sold out at the first ever show which was amazing, but also meant a monster had been created. Moving forward the venue needed to double in size, so the show moved to a new home from 2013-2016 welcoming sell out numbers every year. The public, traders and motor enthusiasts wanted more from the 1 day shows so Roadzsta was rebranded to Festival of Wheels which has enabled it to become the ultimate weekend.