Website Membership List and Chassis Register
Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2025 5:31 pm
I have just uploaded the latest versions of these two documents to the Members' Area.
As always, I would welcome any updates, corrections, omissions, etc.
I also recently uploaded the last few month's Newsletters to the Members' Area - I had fallen behind. They are all in there now, including the February issue, and all the way back to our first issue in August 2001.
And here is that very first Newsletter in its entirety:
Vintage Minor Register - Update 20th August 2001
No less than ten OHV and one SV Minor gathered at Old Warden for the VMR Inaugural Rally 11th/12th August. This represents easily the largest gathering of vintage Minors in living memory. The number would have been even greater had it not been for the awful (but not entirely unexpected) English weather. In addition many other members turned out to spectate and/or to marshal at the driving tests. A full photo report has now been posted on the VMR website.
To all who attended, grateful thanks for your enthusiastic support, particularly those who volunteered to marshal at the Sunday driving tests in very trying conditions. Thanks are also due to Peter Glover and the VSCC for hosting the VMR over the weekend at the RAF Henlow driving tests and the Shuttleworth dinner, and to the staff of the Shuttleworth Trust for accommodating us at Old Warden. Finally, thanks go out to Jack Blyth who lugged 36 kg of vital spares all the way from New Zealand for various members.
During my visit to the England, I spent a couple of days in the archive department of the British Motor Industries Heritage Museum at Gaydon, where the original Morris Minor production Progress Books are held. I now have full production details, dates, etc. for every Minor chassis known to have survived (about 260 to date), and these will be available on the website as soon as I have had time to transcribe my hand-scribbled notes. In addition, I also managed to record the body types fitted to every chassis produced (all 34,599!), and this data will also be assembled into a spreadsheet in due course, but will take a little longer!
David Brown reports that the 24 Hour Endurance Run in aid of the Royal British Legion is to take place over the midsummer weekend of 22nd/23rd June 2002, and the ex-RAF airfield of East Kirkby has already been booked for the occasion. This event replaces the similar event which was cancelled this year due to the foot and mouth epidemic. More details will follow as plans progress.
Finally, magazine M 105 is on the stocks, but will be a little late due to the necessity to include a full Old Warden report, as well as much fascinating research data extracted from the Gaydon Progress Books. I hope to have it published by the end of September, while M 106 will arrive in time for Christmas.
Happy motoring,
Ian
As always, I would welcome any updates, corrections, omissions, etc.
I also recently uploaded the last few month's Newsletters to the Members' Area - I had fallen behind. They are all in there now, including the February issue, and all the way back to our first issue in August 2001.
And here is that very first Newsletter in its entirety:
Vintage Minor Register - Update 20th August 2001
No less than ten OHV and one SV Minor gathered at Old Warden for the VMR Inaugural Rally 11th/12th August. This represents easily the largest gathering of vintage Minors in living memory. The number would have been even greater had it not been for the awful (but not entirely unexpected) English weather. In addition many other members turned out to spectate and/or to marshal at the driving tests. A full photo report has now been posted on the VMR website.
To all who attended, grateful thanks for your enthusiastic support, particularly those who volunteered to marshal at the Sunday driving tests in very trying conditions. Thanks are also due to Peter Glover and the VSCC for hosting the VMR over the weekend at the RAF Henlow driving tests and the Shuttleworth dinner, and to the staff of the Shuttleworth Trust for accommodating us at Old Warden. Finally, thanks go out to Jack Blyth who lugged 36 kg of vital spares all the way from New Zealand for various members.
During my visit to the England, I spent a couple of days in the archive department of the British Motor Industries Heritage Museum at Gaydon, where the original Morris Minor production Progress Books are held. I now have full production details, dates, etc. for every Minor chassis known to have survived (about 260 to date), and these will be available on the website as soon as I have had time to transcribe my hand-scribbled notes. In addition, I also managed to record the body types fitted to every chassis produced (all 34,599!), and this data will also be assembled into a spreadsheet in due course, but will take a little longer!
David Brown reports that the 24 Hour Endurance Run in aid of the Royal British Legion is to take place over the midsummer weekend of 22nd/23rd June 2002, and the ex-RAF airfield of East Kirkby has already been booked for the occasion. This event replaces the similar event which was cancelled this year due to the foot and mouth epidemic. More details will follow as plans progress.
Finally, magazine M 105 is on the stocks, but will be a little late due to the necessity to include a full Old Warden report, as well as much fascinating research data extracted from the Gaydon Progress Books. I hope to have it published by the end of September, while M 106 will arrive in time for Christmas.
Happy motoring,
Ian