T Register News
This year’s T Party
For the last few years the T Register has held its annual T Party at the Wheels and Wings event at the Shuttleworth Collection at Old Warden near Biggleswade. And we have been blessed with continual great weather. This year Wheels and Wings event is being held on the same weekend as the T Register’s Autumn Tour – the first weekend in September. Shuttleworth do hold other events which we could attend but the trouble is, the Wings and Wheels event is the only one for which they give concessionary entrance prices to classic cars and their passengers. Entry to these other events will cost £22.50 per head (advance price).
So we are in a quandary. Prior to our attendance at Shuttleworth we have been to VSCC meetings at Shelsley Walsh and to Prescott and there is an event at the former on 3rd July. It sounds like a teleconferencing call for the committee to discuss, but we would like to know your views. Email david.wardell@tiscali.co.uk and let him know.
We need a new chair …
At the Annual General Meeting in the previous news item Geoff Matthews will be entering his 6th year as our chairman and he’s only doing that as a dispensation from the MGCC Board. The term for being chair is fixed at 5 years.
He writes, ‘We desperately need a new face to step in by this time in 2017 when I will be stepping down. If you have any interest in joining your merry band of volunteers it would be a great time to make yourself known to us and you would then have a year to familiarise yourself with the way the Register works. I look forward to a call on 01840 214972’.
You can read more on his thoughts in the January issue of T Register News.
T Register Annual General Meeting
The T Register Annual General Meeting will take place on Saturday 19th March 2016 at the British Motor Museum (formerly the Heritage Motor Museum), Banbury Road, Gaydon CV35 0BJ at approx 4.00 pm, immediately after the close of the Rebuild Seminars.
Agenda
- Apologies for absence
- Minutes of last AGM
- Chairman’s Report
- Treasurer’s Report
- Competition Secretary’s Report
- Election of Officers
- Election of Committee members
- Appointment of Council representative
- AOB
Nominations (forms are available on the T Register website or from the address below) and topics for AOB should be sent in writing by 4 March 2016 to:
The Secretary, MGCC T Register, 29 Church Street, Ampthill, Bedfordshire MK45 2PL.
The New T Register email Newsletter
The T Register has started a monthly email newsletter for MG Car Club members who own or who have an interest in T Types. It’s readable on smart phones and tablets as well as laptop and desktop computers.
You may have read our Chairman’s words in the latest issues of the T Register News about improving communication within the Register. Well, this newsletter is part of that improvement.
Email is a tried and tested means of communication and the majority of our members have an email address. The problem with providing a website or a Facebook Page is that you have deliberately to go to an Internet site to view information; with email, it arrives with all your other emails in a form (we hope) that is easy and quick to scan and digest.
There is a full description and information on how to get it on a separate post.
TB wins Meguiar’s Club Showcase
Congratulations all round to Alexander Louden from County Antrim who won the Meguiar’s Club Showcase competition at the NEC Classic Motor Show in November with his fabulous TB.
This is a showcase of the ‘best of the best’ coming from a large number of classic car clubs throughout the UK, making Alexander’s win even more special.
You can see more on his win including more photos on Meguiar’s website.
Stewart Penfound wins prestigious award
T Register Specials Registrar, Stewart Penfound’s book, ‘Harry Lester, his cars and The Monkey Stable’ has been voted book of the year by The Society of Automotive Historians, and he was presented with the prestigious Michael Sedgwick Award at their recent AGM and Autumn Seminar.
The book has had superb reviews (from the BRDC bulletin – ‘a truly excellent book… as an insight into racing as it was in the decade after World War 2 it cannot be recommended too highly’) Harry Lester was an expert tuner of the XPAG engine, and his and The Monkey Stable’s exploits with T Types and Harry’s Lester MGs are a significant slice of MG history.
You can read what Stewart says about how he got into writing the book on the book’s website. It does seem to be a common story of how one thing led to another – but with great results in his case.
So, if you are still wondering what to get for Christmas, look no further. See www.lester-mg.co.uk for details.
Our congratulations go out to him!
http://thesahb.com/the-2015-michael-sedgwick-award-winner/