MTWC Opening Run 2015 Sunday 12Th May Combe Mill, Blenheim Palace Sawmills, Oxfordshire
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MTWC Group Events are listed after the GO’s report Those of you who attended the recent AGM may have seen the crystal bowl presented to Rose Hoar during the weekend in recognition of her years of hard work on behalf of the club. For those who didn’t see it, I have attached a couple of photos. Although the glass is no longer made in Stourbridge, once the centre of English lead crystal glass manufacture, the bowl was cut and engraved by an ex-designer for Stuart Crystal, one of the famous local firms. This has not been an easy year for Rose but I am sure you will all agree that this award was richly deserved for all the effort Rose has put into our club over many years . Dave Anscombe Dates for your 2015 diary Sunday 12th May 2015 MTWC OPENING RUN 4th 5th 6th September 2015 23rd German Dreirad Treffen Inverary Argyll 2015 Lots more to come Contents: 15 Treffen Run 38 Grindelwald 3 Editorial Piffle 16 YND Run 40 Registry Enquiries Adrian M-L’s conrod 20 Rewminations 42 Editor life history OPENING Run 2015 21 Regalia Notes 43 GH 8 6 That Gearbox 22 Mogspares 44 New Members 9 John Foster’s funeral 23 DIY Little End Bush 45 Exactin Trial Wormwheel bolts 24 Purple Chaise longue 46 Floggery 10 Competition report Dash Badges 47 Rudolf Häusserman 11 Touring Section 25 W.I. Baton Round Membership Lists Facebook?? 27 STANDING ORDER 48 Morganalia 12 D-F-F Fairytale Aero FORM 49 Mrs Trellis cont/... 14 Letters/First 4wheeler 30 Group Reports Cover Photo: Grahame Joseph …. With much effort. 2 23 WI Baton Round VOL 69 December 2014 No 12 THE BULLETIN THE MONTHLY MAGAZINE OF THE MORGAN THREE- WHEELER CLUB AFFILIATED TO THE ACU: NON - TERRITORIAL CLUB WEBSITE: www.mtwc.co.uk Editorial Welcome to the final issue of 2015 and I the pilgrimage to the battlefields and war hope that by now, you have sent off your cemeteries and memorials in honour of ed renewal form. If you haven’t then this is your Albert famously seated in his 1917 Grand Prix, last chance and this will be your last copy of shortly before his death. the Bulletin - Unthinkable!! 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Albert Ball as this is the centennial Anniversary year of the start of the Great War and for this reason some members have made Rowland Festive felicitations Do NOT throw away the plastic wrapper without reading the notice ….. IT CONTAINS YOUR FINAL RENEWAL FORM 3 Connecting Rod Adrian Murray-Leslie Firstly may I thank everyone for their and the workings of the Club. Although I encouragement and support as I start as have been a member for 47 years, I have Chairman. As I have said before, it was not been more than a little hampered by having something I had even considered let alone to work on 47 out of 52 Sundays a year so looked for, still, as Shakespeare said in many of you are just names as yet. Twelfth Night, “….some have greatness I am aware too, that many members may thrust upon them”. I will endeavour to serve have no idea about the officers who run the you well even if the idea of greatness doesn’t club or the organisers of groups other than cross your mind. their own - or even their own GO for that Secondly, may I thank Michael Joseph for matter. Nick Taylor our Editor has agreed to the huge amount of energy, vision and publishing a monthly profile – provided, of creativity that went into his all-too-short term course, that his victims step up and deliver in the Chair. Also, I would like to thank the photos and information to make it Brian Clutterbuck for the very many years in possible. … which he has served the club and its individual members and hope that he will be able to contribute positively to the life of the Club in the future. My priority as Chairman is to build bridges and learn more about the members Enjoy your Christmas ... Chairman Adrian seen here with his beautiful Blackburne Super Aero, which he used to visit his parishioners of Edale in Derbyshire. 4 MTWC Opening Run 2015 Sunday 12th May Combe Mill, Blenheim Palace Sawmills, Oxfordshire next year’s opening run will be at Combe Mill which was the workshop for the Blenheim Palace Estate http://www.combemill.org/ . It is now run by volunteers and they have agreed to run a steam day especially for us. They will have the mill beam engine, smaller stationary steam engines and the forge running. Other interests include, mill buildings, foreman’s office with a social history of people who worked at the mill, running water wheel, and a clock collection which includes working clocks from Henry VIII reign. The volunteers are very enthusiastic and love to talk about their exhibits; you can even have a go at making something in the forge. For those attending who are not interested in steam, Blenheim Palace is less than 5 miles away by car. There you can see the splendid baroque house, the ‘Capability’ Brown gardens and the Churchill family exhibitions while the rest of us get our engineering and steam fix. More details of the event will be in future copies of the Bulletin and on the website. The Gearbox Terry Green “Almost finished”, he thought to himself as eventually curiosity and a lifetime in he checked (for the umpteenth time) that engineering got the better of him. “Might as everything was where it should be, and all well have a look, I suppose”, he mused, properly tightened down. All, that is, except “Can’t be much harm in that”. for the gearbox – but more of that later. He’d Having decided to have a go at getting the never meant to get involved in a vintage car car back on the road, he joined the MTWC, restoration, and certainly not one as quirky as but since he’d only managed to make it to a 1934 Morgan Super Sports three wheeler. one meeting, he didn’t really know any of the However, like so many local members, and was things in life, what therefore on his own happens doesn’t regarding work on the car. necessarily have much to This didn’t bother him, as do with what you’d he said, “It’s only an old planned. His plan had three wheeler – how hard been a simple one – after can it be?” a working life in precision His engineering back- engineering, he would ground helped, of course, retire to his dream cottage, as did the discovery that visit the local pub as often the car seemed pretty as could decently be complete, and mostly in arranged, and potter about good if somewhat in the garden and its neglected condition. inevitable companion, the Everything was present, garden shed. and mostly in the right The agent had told him place …. all except the that the place was ripe for gearbox and rear a bit of a spruce up, suspension, which he especially the shed, which unearthed from a couple of was full of goodness knows what, and looked large boxes under the bench at the back of as if it hadn’t been used for years (which it the shed. hadn’t, as the previous (old lady) owner said The rebuild was progressing well, mostly that since her husband passed away some comprising dismantling, cleaning and years ago she’d not liked to go near the place reassembling (it was obvious that the where he had spent so much time “messing previous owner had known what he was about with oily bits of junk”, as she put it.) doing, and had refurbished or replaced “Make a good workshop” said the agent, so anything that looked a bit iffy.) with some misgivings, a sealed bid had been He was so pleased with his progress, that put in, and he now found himself the he felt confident enough to enter the car in somewhat smug new owner of what he had the local group’s Boxing Day run, which was always wanted – a secluded cottage with a only a couple of months away.