Summer Rally, 31st July to 2nd August 2009 - Details Here
The entry form for our Summer Rally is now available for download Here
VSCC 75th Anniversary Celebration Week, 3rd to 8th August - Details Here
Congratulations
to Toby Sears, who, after successfully bidding for this extremely rare
1931 (1932
season) Morris Minor UX 9251 four-seater tourer, collected it from Guildford
this week,
together
with some fascinating memorabilia which indicate that this car undertook
a long-distance
continental tour in the early sixties.
The photo
shows helpers Simon Hodgins, the late owner's friend Howard Thompson and
Brian Finch
helping to extricate the Minor.
(Photo: Toby Sears)
The Latest News from the Register
1/7/09 The electric newsletter for July was launched into the ether this evening and is also available for download in the Members' Area.
29/6/09 Congratulations
to Laura Hamilton-Gould and navigator Clive for achieving only one of two
First Class awards in yesterday's
VSCCC Light Car Section's
Summer Rally. Other entrants were Robin Harcourt-Smith in his CMS
Special, and Brian Maeers
also entered the Touring
Assembly on one of his tourers.
The full results may be
viewed here.
Photos here.
29/6/09 By pure
coincidence, the ex-George Bryne Hundred Pound Minor featured
on the front cover of M
133 (below) is to be auctioned on 19th July by Charterhouse Auctions in
Dorset.
Here
is the link.
28/6/09 Magazine
M 133 is now available for download in the Members' Area.
Printed copies will be on
their way to members shortly.
28/6/09 Today we welcome M Type owner Garry Waiting to the Register.
23/6/09 We heard
today via Chris Lambert from a John Richardson who lives in Thirsk, North
Yorkshire.
He has a friend, the Reverend
Ted Spiller who owns a 1932 two seater.
John says that Ted doesn't
have long to live as he has kidney cancer
and wants to attend the
VMR Summer Rally in his car.
BUT his car is missing a
hood frame and the purpose of the contact from John Richardson
was to establish if we could
help find one or provide him with a set of drawings.
He would then make up a
frame for Ted (John is a retired coachbuilder) prior to the Rally.
So, can anyone help with
a detailed drawing or even better - could an original frame
be borrowed temporarily
to use as a pattern? Or even better still,
has anyone got a spare frame
and/or sidescreens?
If so, please contact
the Register immediately. Thanks in advance.
22/6/09 We extend
a warm welcome to Bruce Sharman of Western Australia who joins the Register
as he is about to acquire
the remains of three OHC Minors in his locality.
All three were previously
unknown to the Register - two were export chassis, and the third was a
saloon.
Also in the haul is an Australian
roadster body. We look forward to learning more once Bruce has
recovered these these cars.
21/6/09 Our
online Midsummer Auction concluded successfully this evening.
In particular, congratulations
to Toby Sears for successfully bidding on the 1932 tourer!
Sincere thanks to all who
offered lots and to those who bidded for them.
Sellers and winning bidders
will be contacted shortly by e-mail
with instructions for concluding
their transactions.
Thanks again everyone.
15/6/09 The Register received this invitation today from the MG Car Club:
The Gold Cup Center's
Summer Concours d'Elegance
Petwood Hotel, Woodhall
Spa, Lincolnshire - Sunday 16th August
The Chairman and Committee
would like to invite the Vintage Minor Register to take part in this annual
event
in the delightful grounds
of the Petworth Hotel; and we have arranged for "After the Break" to play
for us on the terrace overlooking the cars.
We do hope that you will
be able to accept this invitation on behalf of your members,and ask you
to publicize it in your Club magazine.
A copy of the invite and
entry form are enclosed, and further copies are available here.
It would be appreciated
if you would confirm your Club's acceptance of this invitation by 17th
July.
Yours sincerely,
Mike Hewson
Competitions Secretary &
Secretary of the Meeting
http://www.mgcclincolnshire.co.uk
Mike is a longtime VMR member,
owning the ex-Captain McCloud MG Q Type-engined Morris Minor fabric saloon.
So let's see if we can give
Mike and the MGCC some support - right?
Please let
the Register know if you intend to enter.
13/6/09 Congratulations
to Ewan Lambess of Lochinvar, New South Wales, who has just returned from
a 1,900-mile
round trip to collect a
1929 Minor project, chassis Y329 - one of only 14 known surviving
Y-chassis Australian export
Minors in captivity. The car will join Y581 - Ewan's other Minor.
12/6/09 Today
we welcome Melvyn Tubb of Sutcombe in Devon to the Register. Melvyn owns
a very special Hundred Pound Minor.
He bought the car for fifteen
Pounds in the mid sixties and rebuilt it himself. It was used as
his only car until about the early seventies.
Unfortunately, it has been
unused since and since then its condition has deteriorated markedly.
However, Melvyn has recently
been fired with enthusiasm and, as he is now retired and has more time
on his hands,
and has started to rebuild
her again. Welscome Melvyn and we look forward to helping you with
the rebuild.
11/6/09 A reminder
to get your Summer Rally entry form in as soon as possible so that a host
of planning issues can be completed
including catering numbers,
group tickets, etc.
Download the entry form
here.
11/6/09 Four
more lots have been added to the Midsummer
Auction today, and more are in the pipeline.
If you have any items to
sell, simply e-mail details to
the Register.
10/6/09 The June Newsletter
is now downloadable in pdf format from the Members' Area.
Any member who has an e-mail
address and who has NOT already received an e-mailed copy, please contact
the Regsiter.
10/6/09 Today
we warmly welcome Nigel Hawkins to the Register. Nigel recently acquired
this 1929 coachbuilt saloon, M12504
that was recently been imported
from New Zealand. It was offered for sale there in February as part
of an estate clearance
and imported by Andrew Booth
at Orchid Cars. Now it lives a starting handle's throw from Ken Martin.
The car is interesting,
in that it appears to have originated as a fabric saloon and has subsequently
been paneled.
The production of coachbuilt
saloons commenced in September 1929 with chassis M12739,
so this lends weight to
the argument. The Genome also confirms that M12504 was bodied
at Cowley - not in New Zealand.
9/6/09 A quick
update on two social events being planned for VSCC 75.
First, the VMR has been
cordially invited to join with the Morris Specials Group at The
Slip, Inn, Watery Lane, Much Marcle
on Friday evening, 7th August.
In return, the VMR is hosting an Early Morris/MG evening at The
Farmers Arms, Birtsmorton
on Tuesday 4th August, to
which the Early MG Society, the MSG, the MMM Register and the Bullnose
Morris Club have all been invited.
Mark your diaries!
8/6/09 Halbe
Tjepkema, who has worked hard to organize our first meet in Holland has
reluctantly decided
to cancel the meeting in
its present form. However, as he noted, doing nothing doesn’t seem
right.
So he has decided to hold
a smaller Rally on the Saturday only.
Would our Dutch members
therefore please contact Halbe if
they would like to
commit to such a one-day
gathering - you have been e-mailed!
7/6/09 The VSCC
Light Car Section's Summer Rally and Tour takes place in Rutland on 28th
June.
If you have not yet entered,
now would be a great time to do so!
Download the regs and entry
form here.
Edited to add - only TWO
Minor entries received - from Laura Hamilton-Gould and Brian Maeers.
In fact, they are outnumbered
at the moment by the Cowleys (Richard Marsh, Ian Beardsley, and Andrew
Staples).
So come on chaps!
We can do better than this!
7/6/09 Today
we welcome John Penistan to the Register. John Lives in Nottinghamshire
and owns an OHC Minor engine,
so is on the lookout for
a suitable chassis in which to mount it!
6/6/09 The Register's
online Midsummer Auction is coming up with bidding ending on 21st June.
There are currently 19 varied
Minor items on offer, and more would be welcomed.
Just send in details, and
a picture if you have one and let us know what reserve you would like to
place.
Also, it would be useful
to indicate where the item is located if it is heavy.
Those interested in bidding
should also e-mail the Register with their offer.
The Auction, together with
full details may be found here.
6/6/09 And still
they turn up. This is a 1932 season FOUR-seater tourer that has just
surfaced near Guildford.
And what is more, a good
home is being sought for it.
If interested, contact
the Register for further details.
2/6/09 This
week we welcome Andrew Batey to the Register. Andrew owns a very
nice 1934 Minor 2-seater.
BPB 357 was 95% restored
25 years ago when the then owener died. His wife sold the car to
Andrew
who is busy attending to
the other 5%! Welcome Andrew!
24/5/09 The
ex-Jeremy Evans 1930 saloon (M15596) is for sale again - this time in Northern
Ireland.
View the advert here.
22/5/09 News
from one of our Japanese members, Kenji Matsuoka, who sent across this
great photo of a recent Kobe MGCC meet.
That is Kenji's M on the
right - 2M866, ex-WH 2424. Six MMM's attended, including two K3's.
20/5/09 New
Zealand VMR member Harry Green passed away in 2006, and his 1930 OHC Minor
roadster is now for sale.
View it here.
Thanks to Peter Field for spotting this one.
18/5/09 The
1932 SV Minor 2-seater is currently being offered on eBay. Ends 26th
May.
Buy it Now price is £3,495,
or you can make an offer. View it here.
Thanks to Mike Tebbett form
spotting this one.
16/5/09 Just
the thing for the coming motoring season, this nice, VERY early scuttle-tank
1931 SV Minor saloon has come on the market
- in the Netherlands.
Chassis SV1784, engine 2422. SV engine newly rebuilt. Price
is £6,500. E-mail Michael
Thung
of call him on (+31) 2975-32232
in the Netherlands for more details.
4/5/09 Now that
the Register's e-mail address has changed, the huge task begins to update
it on virtually every page of the website!
The address
is now vintageminor@gmail.com.
Please be patient while
this task is completed!
2/5/09 The May
Newsletter may now be found in the Members' Area.
We are having problems with
iBuilder at present, so it cannot be launched,
so it has not been e-mailed
to subscribers yet.
Hopefully iBuilder Tech
Support will be able to sort their software early next week.
Don't you LOVE computers?!
Update 5 pm - finally got
it to launch, but the two embedded links were deleted!
29/4/09 These
two Minors were sold at auction by Stags in Devon at the weekend.
The saloon went for £3,200,
and the 2-seater for a creditable £5,000.
We hope to make contact
with the new owners in due course.
An eclectic selection of
early machinery featured in the sale, as can be seen here.
The sale results may be
viewed here.
Thanks to James Ashford
for the photographs.
18/4/09 Congratulations
to Walter Watson who has just re-acquired 1930 tourer VA 9714 (M23264)
which he sold last September.
Walter re-joins the Register today.
We wish him all the very
best with the completion of the rebuild.
17/4/09 One
more pub meet to mention - THIS SUNDAY.
Venue is the delightful
Four
Horseshoes, Thornham Magna in Suffolk.
A map can be found here.
Greene King ales. All welcome.
16/4/09 A reminder
that our Spring pub meets are drawing close.
Three on Sunday 26th April
(details here),
and one on 3rd May (details here).
16/4/09 Forum fixed!
15/4/09 Forum
problems! In the last few weeks we have received increasing numbers
of forum applications
via e-mail to approve -
about half a dozen a day right now. All have either .ru (Russia), .cn (Canada)
or @gmail.com e-mail addresses
and I reject all of them.
However, I went into the user control panel yesterday to try to force reactivation
of some members
(and I'm not sure if that
is any use, and didn't seem to help), but while in there I noticed that
there are three or four 'inactive'
new bogus members signing
on every day which I don't get approval e-mails for, and I am working down
the list to ban them.
So we are under attack!
I am attempting to contact
tech support for the forum to resolve the issue.
Watch this space for further
updates.
In the meantime, if you
are having trouble accessing the forum, because you get a message telling
you that
you have been permanently
banned, please let us know.
3/4/09 The April Newsletter has just been launched, and a copy placed in the Members' Area.
3/4/09 The Light
Car Welsh results are now available here.
Congratulatrions to all who entered.
There were nine Minors and
one M Type entered in all - an excellent turnout.
31/3/09 Today
we welcome John Dowsett of Collingbourne Ducis near Marlborough to the
Register.
John acquired the 2-seater
KJ 9306 (SV 22692) at the recent Brightwells auction - see entry for 4/3/09
below.
30/3/09 This
Hundred Pound Minor restoration project is to be auctioned by Keys of Norwich
on 4th April.
View it here
(lot 209).
16/3/09 This Hundred Pound Minor YD 2497 is for sale and is to be auctioned shortly. More details soon.
4/3/09 We now
have details of our Inagural Dutch Rally, to be held 11th to 13th September.
Rally Headquarters will
be based at the Orion Hotel on the little Kaager Island situated between
the cities of Leiden and Amsterdam.
UK members will be made
particularly welcome. Do enter and support our very enthusiastic
Dutch members.
And thanks to Halbe Tjepkema
for masterminding the event.
Full details including accommodation,
ferries and entry form may be downloaded here.
4/3/09 This
1932 (1933 season) SV Minor, KJ 9306, chassis SV22692, first registered
13/10/32 is being auctioned
by Brightwells of Leominester
on Wednesday 18th March.
Check it out here
(Lot 79 in the catalogue).
3/3/09 This
M Type body is currently being offered on eBay. Just the body, not
the chassis.
View it here.
Thanks to Ian Hancock for this alert.
2/3/09 And stilll
they turn up. This Ruskin-bodied 1929 2-seater (M7489) has just surfaced
in Melbourne,
where it has been stored
away for up to sixty years. A full restoration is planned.
24/2/09 We extend
a warm welcome to Barry Henderson of Surrey who owns
this tidy 1931 (1932 season)
2-seater.
24/2/09 VMR
HQ has a new PC - after the old one crashed.
Luckily, everything was
backed up on an external solid state drive - phew!
11/2/09 Today
we welcome Jon Yeeles to the Register. Jon is looking for a vintage
Minor in good running order
for VSCC Light Car events.
8/2/09 At this
time our thoughts and prayers are with our members, their families and
everyone else in Victoria, Southern Australia.
Chris Rumble in Vermont,
Victoria reports that temperatures have soared to 46 degrees Centigrade,
and the death toll from
bush fires is rising fast.
Stay safe and sound, everyone.
5/2/09 The Members'
Area of the website now contains a growing collection of high resolution
scans of the most significant
period magazine articles
relating to the Minor. This major undertaking will take some time
to complete,
and will eventually include
articles relating to the SV Minor and M Type.
These article scans complement
the period magazine covers and Morris sales brochures
already downloadable from
the Members' Area.
4/2/09 A couple
of additions have been made to the VMR
2009 calendar of events.
The new spring pub meet
at the Windmill Inn, Four Marks, Hampshire has been added, as has the evening
Morris/MG meet,
hosted by the VMR, at the
Farmers Arms, Birtsmorton, Worcestershire during the VSCC 75 celebrations.
Also note the addition of
the LCES Autumn Tour and Driving Tests on Sunday 13th September
and the VMR Dutch Rally
at Leiden 11th to 14th September, details coming soon.
3/2/09 Today
we welcome Parthsarthi Mehd from Ahmedabad (try saying that three times
quickly!), India to the Register.
Parth recently unearthed
this rare but somewhat modified 1934 4-seater tourer near his home.
Among other items, Parth
is particularly looking for a stadard SV Minor SU carburetter for the car
- can anyone help?
3/2/09 We are
delighted to report that Peter Plant is the proud new owner of the 1932
McEvoy Special Morris Minor prototype.
Originally registered RC
300, this vehicle was stripped of its number some time ago and is now registered
7360 TU.
Peter will be collecting
the car from France next month and then completing a protracted rebuild.
Congratulations to Peter
for returning this historic car to the UK.
Here is the car at the start
of the 1932 Torquay Rally, driven by the one-legged Squillario
who is seen here exchanging
banter with Col. McEvoy:
2/2/09 The entry
form for our Summer Rally is now available for download here.
Full Rally details may be
found here.
31/1/09 A new
spring pub meet is being organized at The
Windmill Inn, Four Marks,
between Winchester and Alton,
Hants. The date for your diaries is Sunday 3rd May.
There will be lunch, followed
by a possible afternoon run to the nearby Watercress
Line if we have sufficient interest.
To gauge numbers, please
contact
the Register if you would like to attend.
30/1/09 The
February Newsletter was launched into the ether last night.
If you did not receive a
copy, let the Register know.
Copies of this and all monthly
Newsletters are also archived in the Members' Area.
29/1/09 We are
receiving reports that accommodation near Prescott for the Summer Rally
is becoming
INCREDIBLY difficult to
find - due to the thousands of VMR members who have already booked, no
doubt!
So, this is another reminder
that, if you are planning to attend, we STRONGLY urge you to make your
accommodation arrangements
WITHOUT DELAY.
We would not want to see
any member prevented from attending due to lack of accommodation.
It may be better to look
in the Broadway area, where there are apparently more possibilities,
than try to get something
close to Prescott. Or, if you are planning to also attend VSCC 75,
then something
towards Malvern would clearly
be good.
28/1/09 Magazine
M 132 was posted today by Bev Hicks to all UK and European members.
Should be with everyone
in a few days.
28/1/09 Today
we welcome Jim Kilborn of Queensland, Australia back to the Register.
Jim owns this stylish Properts-bodied
1928 Roadster, chassis MM1152,
making it the seventh oldest
surviving Minor on record.
26/1/09 To date,
Brian Maeers is the ONLY Minor entrant booked for the Light Car Welsh!
(Although Colin Lee is also
known to be intending to enter.)
If you are intending to
enter, get your entries in ASAP!
Entry forms can be downloaded
here,
and full details of the weekend may be found here.
Incidentally, the LCES now
has a date for their Autumn Driving Tests - Saturday 13th September, but
venue is still TBA.
26/1/09 Congratulations
to Paul Rogers and Tim Brown for scooping the Jeddere-Fisher Trophy on
the
VSCC's Measham at the weekend.
This Trophy is awarded for the best performance by a Light Car Section-eligible
car.
A full and fascinating report
will be included in M 133.
24/1/09 Great
news regarding the Register's Midsummer Auction. All new members
joining or who have already joined since 1/1/09
will receive a FIVE
POUND DISCOUNT on their auction purchases.
Just one more good reason
to come aboard!
23/1/09 Mike
Pomfret's Hundred Pound Minor (see below) did sell, but to dealer Richard
White in Leicester. View it here.
So you have another chance
to pick up this car for the coming motoring season.
23/1/09 Pumped
by his success at Brooklands two weeks ago, Paul Rogers is entering UX
in the
VSCC's Measham Night Rally
this weekend down in deepest, darkest, coldest Hampshire.
This grueling 160-mile event,
run under horrific conditions last year, will start once again on Saturday
evening (the 24th)
from the Holiday Inn, Basingstoke
(OS 185/643509 - directions here),
with the cars gathering from around 6 pm.
Local members are strongly
encouraged to turn up to see Paul and his navigator Tim Brown on their
way
and to wish them luck and
a safe and uneventful night.
For background reading,
check out the
2002 Measham report in the Daily Telegraph.
Also, check out Paul's vintage
engineering enterprise here.
22/1/09 The official
results are out for the VSCC's Brooklands Driving Tests held on 11th January.
Congratulations to the Minorists
who put up an excellent showing. Geraint Owen was the overall victor
in his JAP-engined Minor
special ‘Jemima’, gaining a First with 591 points, a Second went to Clive
Hamilton-Gould (641 points),
scoring the best score of
the day in no less than 7 of the 14 tests in the Touring Class and a Third
went to Paul Rogers
(715 points - an excellent
driving test score for a saloon). Nicholas Cooksey completed all
the tests with a creditable 746 points
in the family Duple Minor
tourer.
View the full results here.
21/1/09 Welcome
to new member Tom Cantle of Bristol with his 1932 SV 2-seater which he
has owned since 1961.
It was his first car.
Just needs finishing touches to take to the road again.
We look forward to seeing
it out and about, Tom.
The Four Winds mill, Monster
17/1/09 The
Dutch contingent of the Register are holding a meet on 14th March at the
MG
workshop in Monster,
Holland.
Time: between 14.00 and
17.00. Place: Havenstraat 44a, 2681LC Monster.
Everyone welcome - members
or otherwise, but please let Halbe
Tjepkema know.
(STOP PRESS 28/1/09 - meet cancelled!)
13/1/09 Today
we welcome Flemming Hansen to the Register. Flemming lives in Denmark
and owns a 1934 Minor 2-seater.
We also warmly welcome Hugh
Barnes with his M Type MG.
13/1/09 Recent
new member Mike Pomfret is having to sell his newly-acquired Hundred Pound
Minor due to ill health.
Genuine original £100
Model. EX 2908 (SV5065, registered 30/6/31).
Restored approximately 15
years ago in fine working order.
Purchased car approx 8 months
ago whilst in good health, situation has changed.
Presently live in Southern
Ireland but will deliver car to Holyhead.
The car has some history
and previous keeper had for 35 years, only two previous owners.
Phone Mike on 00 353 504
54870 or email freedomdogs2002@yahoo.co.uk
The car is also being offered
on eBay here.
(STOP PRESS 22/1/09 - car now sold!)
Richard and Sue Woodward
on the 2004 Light Car Welsh Trial.
Sue has now acquired
the ex-Rosemary Burke 2-seater from Martin Shaw.
(Photo: Phil Jones)
10/1/09 The
Regulations and Entry Form for the VSCC Light Car Section's Welsh Weekend
March 28th/29th are now
available and can be downloaded here.
Full details of the weekend
may be found here.
Let us see if we can field
a strong Minor contingent once again!
6/1/09 We extend
a warm welcome today to Paul Brown of Ramona, California who joins the
Register
with his 1929 M Type GJ
5795 (2M/1281), exported to the States in the fifties
before being stored for
the past 50 years!
4/1/09 Toby
Sears has recently moved to the New Forest and is planning to inaugurate
a local
VMR pub meet in the area
- possibley one evening in the summer. If anyone would like to come
along,
please e-mail
Toby and let him know, so that he can plan a date and location to best
suit everyone.
Full details will be published
here when arrangements are finalized.
Please give Toby your support.
4/1/09 Welcome
to Jim Reader of Kirbymoorside who joins the Register today with his
Stewart & Ardern-registered
1934 Saloon MU 9144.
1/1/09 The January
2009 Newsletter was published today and we are still having issues with
the addressee list.
If you did not receive your
copy via e-mail, you can find it in the Members' Area.
1/1/098 Today
we welcome Stephen Hunton to the Register.
Stephen lives in Devon and
owns a Stewart & Ardern-registered 1932 LWB saloon.
1/1/09 A Happy
New Year to all! David Whittle took his 1929 tourer out today to
the
VSCC's New Year's Day pub
meet at the White Hart at Harwell Village, Oxfordshire.
Here
is his inspiring video of the return journey.
29/12/08 Another
eBay offering - rare little piece of Minor automobilia - a 14-page
booklet from 1929,
detailing a publicity trip
in a Minor from Oxford to Monte Carlo.
Also, Dave Manning has a
few useful Minor items on eBay at present - steering wheel, front bumper,
brake shoes, shock absorbers.
Here's
the wheel - check 'seller's other items' for the ... other items!
28/12/08 Still
searching for that elusive Christmas gift?
This 1932 saloon is currently
being offered here
on eBay and elsewhere.
Current bid is just GBP
300, but reserve not met.
Thanks to Mike Tebbett for
spotting this one.
27/12/08 Welcome
to new member Howard Dixon from Fixby, Huddersfield, who has a 1931 SV
Minor.
The chassis is currently
without body, but interestingly, the continuation logbook quotes 'Utility'.
Howard is primarily a Riley
man, but has a soft spot for Minors - his first car was a '32/'33 2-seater
GG 8533.
Clive Hamilton-Gould storms the Brooklands Test Hill in his 1930 tourer - January 2007.
27/12/08
The traditional VSCC Driving Tests at Brooklands will open the 2009 motoring
season on
Saturday 10th January.
In 2008, Paul Rogers gained a First Class Award in his 1930 saloon, but
Colin Lee non-started - as he will this time,
as he is searching for an
early parallel type rear crankshaft/flywheel flange for his 1929 saloon.
If you can help Colin,
contact him at colin@shobizsalons.com.
Here
are the 2008 results, and here
is a map, should anyone not know the way to Brooklands.
This makes a great day out,
whether you are competing or just spectating.
Spectator tickets will be
available on the day - Adult £8, OAP and Student £6,
Child under 16 £5,
Family (2 adults and up to 3 children) £20. Entries close tomorrow!
11/12/08 If
you are not yet a member of the Vintage Minor Register, now is a great
time to join
because you will receive
the Winter 2008 Magazine plus all four 2009 quarterly Magazines for one
annual membership fee.
New members joining before
the end of the year will also receive a free copy of the 2009 Register
Calendar - see below.
Full membership is open
to all, but particularly to owners of both OHC and SV Minors and M Type
MGs.
Consider giving the gift
of membership to the one you love for Christmas – or even the wife!
Join here today.
(Note also that the VMR Forum is FREE to all - anyone can join in and contribute.)
7/12/08 The
Members' Area now contains a compendium of technical articles which were
originally published in
the Register Magazine. Eleven articles so far - more to follow shortly.
4/12/08 The 2009 Register calendar is now available in the Members' Area for download.
30/11/08 The
December Newsletter has just been launched into the ether. In the
process, 32 e-mail addresses were rejected
by iBuilder because previous
Newletters bounced to these addresses. If you did not receive the
Newsletter,
please let the Register
know. The list of 32 previously-bounced addresses can be checked
here.
Also let us know if your
e-mail address has changed.
27/11/08 The
Winter Magazine has now been published in the Members' Area.
Hard copies should be with
all members before Christmas.
25/11/08 More
website updates. The Members' Area now has a section dedicated
to period motoring magazine
covers featuring Minors and M Types, and images from our 2007
Summer Rally have been added
here.
2008 to follow shortly.
24/11/08 David
and Claire Rolfe on the VSCC Cotswold Trial this weekend. Another
superb trial,
now in its third year, and
containing a wonderful variety of hills.
And superby managed and
marshaled, as are all VSCC trials.
Thanks to David 'Wiggy'
Whittle for this delightful image.
More images here.
23/11/08 Today
six Dutch Minor owners gathered for their first meet in Holland,
Halbe Tjepkema reports,
"Over here the weather is pretty bad snow and winds so I'm glad people
made the effort to come."
That's Frank van Voorst
(third from left) with his '32 2-seater to the fore, plus spare engine.
22/11/08 A beaming
John Nagle with his new acquisition. 1934 2-seater OW 4224.
John last owned this car
when he was 17!
21/11/08 We
extend a warm welcome to three more new memebrs who have joined recently.
First, Simon Hyslop has
acquired the lovely 2-seater AYF 22 pictured below.
We also welcome Bob Worthington
who owns a very rare 1934 4-seater tourer,
as well as Mike Houston
who has just acquired an OHC saloon on eBay from Bill Tuckey.
And congratulations are
in order for Clive Hall who has also recently acquired a 1929 saloon project
(see above) - this one from
Godfrey Cross.
13/11/08 The
Membership List has just undergone a thorough update and has been posted
in the Members' Area.
Perhaps this would be a
good time for everyone to check that their details, and those of their
cars, are correct.
Please let
the Register know if you spot eny errors or omissions.
I also just added the October
and November Newsletters in .pdf format to the Members' Area.
13/11/08 What
in h*ll is happening here?! Answers on the back of a five Pound note
please.
(All will be revealed in
M 132!)
22/8/08 This
particularly smart '34 2-seater is currently being offered for sale by
Nicky Paul-Barron.
Details here.
Thanks to EMS member Tim Barnard for spotting this one.
22/8/08 And
welcome to another new member, George Ball of Flintshire, whose first car
was a '34 Minor, KY 9999.
Sadly, the car has not survived
- unless someone knows more?
19/8/08 Today
we welcome Bob Zwart of Irvine, California to the Register. Bob owns
this very smart 1930 M Type
which was sold new in Pasadena,
California by Murphy Motor Car Co.
This delightful shot shows
the M in Long Beach with the Queen Mary looking on.
Welcome to the Register,
Bob!
18/7/08 The
Maeers contingent at our Summer Rally last weekend.
I am delighted to announce
that Brian Maeers (second left) was awarded the coveted
Sports & Vintage Trophy
for his unstinting support of the Register since its inception.
This year, once again, he
entered no less than three Minors.
11/7/08 First
image from our Summer Rally taking place this weekend. This shot
was taken at the Swan Inn, Hoxne this evening
as the first cars arrived.
In all, seven Minors were present, including Eric Groot with his 1932 tourer
who has traveled across
from Holland - one of three
Dutch entries for the weekend. Photo - Chris Lambert.
2/7/08 After
a delay due to unforeseen circumstances, the tickets for our Summer Rally
have been posted today
and should be with everyone
next week. If not, don't worry, we have plenty of spares - and we
know who has entered what!
Late entries are still being
received and more would be welcome!
26/6/08 Magazine
M 131 has now shipped from VMR HQ and the downloadable version has been
placed in the Members' Area.
No, that's not a period
shot on the front cover, but Jeremy Evans' saloon captured last year somewhere
in deepest Wales.
17/6/08 Members
are respectfully reminded that the Summer Rally Stars and Stripes party
at Thorpe Abbotts is a Bring
Your Own Bottle affair. On the other hand, delightful female company
will be plentiful...
13/6/08 The
ex-Roy Hogg OHC 5 cwt. van will be auctioned by Dorset
Vintage Classic Auctions on Thursday 26th June.
This is an extremely rare
commercial with significant Register history and we sincerely hope that
it finds a good home.
Nevertheless, we feel that
the estimate of £9,700 to £10,700 is somewhat optimistic...
13/6/08 This
extremely original 1934 saloon is currently being offered on eBay at a
Classic Ad price of £7,500.
Listewd 12th June on a 28-day
listing. Location is Uckfield, Sussex. View it here.
13/6/08 Tis
sizeable haul of SV Minor engine spares is currently being auctioned on
eBay. Check it out here.
Ends 15th June. Thanks
to Ian Judd for spotting this one.
By the way, welcome to the
Register Ian!
12/6/08 This just in from Andy Tongue - the Comp. Sec. of the Light Car Section:
"Hi Ian, I think we have
a record of recent times on our hands - as of this evening,
we have NO Minors at all
on the rally/tour entry list! We know of one or
two in the pipeline, have
a pile of envelopes to be processed in our
in-tray, and know of one
or two Morris-owners who will be otherwise-mounted
for the weekend (the Rogers
for example), but beyond that, where have they
all gone? Unfortunately,
we have unavoidably clashed with the big event at
Brooklands again, which
removes some of our usual Southern contingent.
As entries close on Friday,
scope for virtual cheerleading at this stage is
somewhat limited I'm afraid,
but you are welcome to have a go nonetheless! Best wishes, Andrew."
Wot - NO entries at all for the LC Summer Rally?! Come on chaps - The Peak District isn't quite the North Pole!
11/6/08 Summer
Rally update. For those of you who have entered but NOT yet ordered
your Vintage Picnics (Saturday at Horham),
please download the order
form here
and send it in without delay. Likewise, if anyone has not yet ordered
the Register's 2008 Yearbook.
This year's Yearbook will
be distributed with M 132 in early August. Due to the relatively
limited number of entries for this year's Rally,
it has been decided not
to publish a combined Yearbook/Rally handbook this year. This will enable
more of the Yearbook to be allocated
to new articles, and to
compensate, the Tour Handbook will be expanded into a full Rally Handbook.
All Rally entrants will receive
a complementary copy of
the Rally Handbook at the Rally. As for the Yearbook, this year's will
be the first with colour content,
many pages being reproduced
with high-definition LaserJet printing. If you have not already done
so, please download your order form here.
If you have any suitable
material for the Yearbook, please send it in without delay.
Finally, if you have not
yet entered the Rally, but are thinking of coming along
(and we would encourage
you to do so!), download the entry form here.
11/6/08 No less
than ten new members have joined the Register in the last two months -
and all own SV Minors.
Here is Tony Payne's 1932
(1933 season) 2-seater progressing very nicely with new body and wings.
Two years ago, it was not
much more than a pile of bits languishing in deepest Cornwall.
We look forward to seeing
it out and about again before long.
Welcome one and all!
11/6/08 News
from the Register's Advance Warning Department! The 2009 Register
Summer Rally will take place
over the weekend of 1st/2nd
of August and we will be returning to the Cotswolds. This weekend
coincides with
the Vintage Sports-car Club's
Prescott weekend. We will hold our usual welcome gathering on Friday
evening,
a combined navigation rally/scenic
tour on Saturday, our annual social on Saturday evening - plans currently
TBA,
but may well involve eating,
drinking and a steam train! On Sunday we will hold a Vintage Picnic
at Prescott
and watch the hillclimb
before wending our way to a farewell pub run on Sunday evening.
But that will not be the
end of the event for our VSCC members, since Monday morning will see the
start of the VSCC's
75th Anniversary celebrations
in nearby Malvern which will run through to the following Saturday.
As is usual with the VSCC's
five-yearly Jubilee weeks, there will be a mouthwatering selection of events
throughout the week in the
local area. The provisional schedule may be found here.
We are in the early stages
of planning Morris/MG evening at some point during the week.
Due to the pressure of numbers
at both Prescott and Malvern, we STRONGLY advise you to arrange accommodation
for either or both of these
events at your earliest convenience. Watch for further details as
they emerge.
