FINAL preparations are falling into place for the Liverpool Pageant of Power next month along The Strand, on the city’s waterfront.

Full details will be revealed in a few days’ time, but a taster was offered yesterday when a parade of supercars drove from Manchester to Chester to launch both the Liverpool Pageant and the two-day Pageant of Power at Cholmondeley Castle in Cheshire, in July.

The Cholmondeley event has become a fixture in the north-western motorsport calendar in the two years since it launched in 2008, but the free Liverpool event has been put together in a matter of weeks.

Yesterday, Pageant director James Hall paid tribute to the way in which it had been possible to plan the Liverpool event in such a short time.

He said: “We have support from the city with a can-do approach.

“There are tried and tested systems in Liverpool for projects like the La Machine in Capital of Culture year, the Liverpool Boat Show next year, the Tall Ships. It’s a blueprint that we’ve been able to use.”

The evening event on May 25 will see vehicles from Army Challenger tanks to supercars and vintage motorcycles parading up The Strand.

Mr Hall said: “It’s a fabulous place. I’ve been to a lot of European capitals and I don't think Liverpool is second to any of them.

“The more time I spend looking at the docks, the Three Graces, Liverpool One, the Hilton Hotel, I realise that you just do not have that combination anywhere else.”