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CADAM (Chelmsford and District Advanced Motorcyclists)

A Registered Charity affiliated to the Institute of Advanced Motorists.

Chelmsford and District Advanced Motorcyclists 'Cadam' are an established charitable motorcycle Group. Our aim is to meet the needs of motorcyclists throughout the whole of Essex to develop riding skills and safety. We are staffed solely by volunteers who's lives, personally or professionally, revolve around motorcycling.

So, What is Advanced Motorcycling?

"Advanced Motorcycling" is the ability to control the position and speed of the machine safely, systematically and smoothly, using all relevant road scene information to make reasonable progress unobtrusively, with skill and responsibility. This skill requires a positive but courteous attitude and a high standard of riding competence based on concentration, effective all round observation, anticipation and planning. All this must be coordinated with good handling skills. The vehicle will always be in the right place on the road, traveling at the right speed, with the correct gear engaged and the rider will always be able to stop safely within the distance that can be seen to be clear.

The Observers

The training section of the group is run purely by volunteers, who are wholly dedicated to promote approved advanced riding techniques. They have made the effort to continue their training at their own expense. Additional training for them includes many on-road sessions and classroom studies, which culminate with written exams to become, qualified I.A.M. Observers. This qualification is reinforced by a retest every three years. All Observers give of their time freely, except for a contribution from the Associate (amount decided by committee) towards their 'Petrol' expenses. (currently £9.00 per observed ride)

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CADAM (Computer Augmented Design And Manufacturing) is a CAD related product that was developed by Lockheed. CADAM is/was software originally written for IBM mainframes and later ported to UNIX workstations. A variant of CADAM called MicroCADAM was also developed, which also ran on PCs under DOS.

CADAM History

1977

IBM agrees to sell CADAM to aerospace companies

1981

CADAM Release 18.3 Released.

Provided support for IBM mainframes running VM/CMS.

1983

CADAM INC is formed as a subsidiary of Lockheed Corp.

1985

CADAM, Inc v. Adage, Inc.

CADAM INC successfully sues Adage over the CADAM look-and-feel. One of the first look-and-feel court cases.

1987

CADAM INC and SDRC win massive GM C4 benchmark.

:CADAM agrees to port Professional CADAM to Sun, Apollo and HP

1989

CADAM INC is sold to IBM. CADAM INC an IBM Company is formed.

1990