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Freeman 169 Creek Road. March. Cambs. and Charles Newall in the background net PE15 8RY 01354 656 569 dvla@bmwclubuk. at the Stafford Classic Bike Show. See net page 25 for more about the weekend June 2015 The BMW Club Journal 3 From The Editor’s Desk Please note continue as an in-house production, with all the cost savings and flexibility that this Two things: firstly, the Yorkshire Section gives, my successor needs to come forward lunch meets are now so well-attended very soon to give him or her the time Hammerite, which was the nearest I had to that pre-booking is required to make sure to become familiar with the publishing the original colour. So far, so good. Putting you get the lunch you were hoping for. software we use. Unless you’ve used it back together was not easy. The return Secondly, can I please remind members something very similar it’s unlikely to be a spring is close-wound and needs extending that if your Journal fails to appear it’s your five-minute exercise to get used to it. a long way. Getting at it with the traditional section Membership Secretary who will There are of course alternatives to the tool (essentially a tent-peg extractor) sort out a replacement copy. not me as thay Editor doing everything. I’ve declined wasn’t possible whilst lying under the bike have spare copies for this reason. offers from commercial organisations and fitting the spring before fitting the to design and print The Journal because mounting bolts didn’t work either as the More on the AGM I didn’t want to spends a lot of money spring was too strong to extend by levering turning our unique magazine into a generic on the stand. Bill Smithson suggested Last month I delayed The Journal by a glossy brochure. The best compromise I the old tip of putting coins between the couple of days so we could have something can suggest, which seems to work for other coils but the spring runs so close the parts relatively up-to-date about the AGM. clubs, is for the elected Editor to choose around it that there wasn’t space for it. In I wrote then about the business of the the content of each edition before sending the end I used a technique described to me meeting: now it’s time for the rather more it off to a design company to have it laid years ago as a means of fitting car anti-roll interesting social aspects. It had been too out on the pages. This keeps the content bars. With the nearside pivot bolt loosely many years since I last met Brian Price, strictly under control without requiring in place I tied a loop of nylon rope round who has supported the Vintage Register the Editor to be able to do it himself. At the the stand and through a spoke of the rear for more years than I’ve been a member.