The Trunnion the Trunnion TR Register Lea Valley Group 2014 Issue 2 (Mar/Apr)
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The TRunnion The TRunnion TR Register Lea Valley Group 2014 Issue 2 (Mar/Apr) LVG COMMITTEE 2014 2014 EVENTS CALENDAR Group Leader: (subject to change) JULIAN HENSMAN 07818-060101 Email: [email protected] Events with an ‘official’ Lea Valley Group presence are shown in bold type. Please let me Deputy Group Leader: know of any other events that may be of interest JON MARSHALL 01462-673956 to members and I will include them, plus others Email: [email protected] that I hear about, as well as 'official' LVG events. Treasurer: However, we are promoting the following GRAHAM WADE 01582-609823 Email: [email protected] Events Co-ordinator: PAUL RICHARDSON 01908-610098 BIG-4 Email: [email protected] events which we hope will be supported by as Technical: many LVG members as possible, so please DAVID DAWSON 07785-502830 make a note of these dates in your diary. Email: [email protected] New Members/Buddy System: May.11: LVG 'Baldock–Broom–Bury Tour' DAVID RANDALL 01234-302033 Jun.22: STMD (Brooklands) Email: [email protected] 07528 164723 Editor/Membership: Sep.7: LVG 'The King's Run Tour' BRIAN CHIDWICK 01462-730676 Sep.21: Kop Hillclimb Email: [email protected] ~o0o~ MEETINGS VENUE Other Events Unless otherwise specified, all Group Lunchtime 2014 Meetings are on the first Sunday of the month at The Cock Inn, 23 High Street, Broom, Mar.24: TSSC Meeting - The Rising Sun, Halls Biggleswade SG18 9NA (Tel: 01767 314 411), Green, Weston commencing 12:00. Apr.5: RevingtonTR Open Day (Plenty of parking space behind pub). Apr.6: LVG Monthly Lunchtime Meeting N.B. This is a ‘lunchtime meeting’, not specifically Apr.16: LVG Mid-monthly Evening Meeting a ‘lunch meeting’ – food is optional and you don’t Apr.20: Classic Rally & Autojumble, Old Warden need to book. Apr.27: MK Classic Tour (Drive It Day) Apr.28: TSSC Meeting - The Rising Sun, Halls WEB SITES Green, Weston TR Register: www.tr-register.co.uk May.2: CACCC 'Springing-Up Tour' TR Forum: www.tr-register.co.uk/forums May.3: Nostalgia Forum Film Show, Albury LVG: www.groups.tr-register.co.uk/lea-valley & CACCC 'Springing-Up Tour' May.4: LVG Monthly Lunchtime Meeting REMEMBER: All recent TRunnions are available & CACCC 'Springing-Up Tour' on the website, but if you are not already receiving & Bedfordshire Classic Motor Show, them directly, it’s probably because I don’t have Woburn Abbey your current email address. To keep in touch via May.5: Bedfordshire Classic Motor Show, TRunnion (or to contribute letters, articles or Woburn Abbey photos), email [email protected]. May.9: SBMC 'Northern Gambol Tour' May.10: SBMC 'Northern Gambol Tour' 2 The TRunnion May.11: TRR SGM/EGM (Provisional new date) Aug.9: TRR IWE Harrogate May.11: LVG 'Baldock–Broom–Bury Tour' Aug.10: TRR IWE Harrogate [BIG-4] - Pete Muncer's tour (B2B2B) to Aug.16: LVG Committee Meeting St. Paul's Walden Gardens Open Day Aug.17: Hampshire Classic Motor Show, & SBMC 'Northern Gambol Tour' Breamore Countryside Museum, Nr. May.17: LVG Committee Meeting Fordingbridge, Hants May.18: Chiltern Hills Rally/Road Run. Meet up Aug.20: LVG Mid-monthly Evening Meeting with Chiltern Group (general event) Aug.22: Car Fest South, Laverstoke Park Farm, May.21: LVG Mid-monthly Evening Meeting Basingstoke, Hants May.25: Ragley Hall Aug.23: Car Fest South, Laverstoke Park Farm, May.26: TSSC Meeting - The Rising Sun, Halls Basingstoke, Hants Green, Weston Aug.24: Car Fest South, Laverstoke Park Farm, Jun.1: LVG Monthly Lunchtime Meeting Basingstoke, Hants & Brighton Beach Classic Motor Show & Annual Knebworth Classic Motor Show Jun.7: Letchworth Garden City Classic & & Blenheim Vintage Car Club Transport Picnic, Halls Aug.25: Annual Knebworth Classic Motor Show Green & Brill Show Jun.8: Luton Festival of Transport, Stockwood & TSSC Meeting - The Rising Sun, Halls Park (general event) Group stand? Green, Weston & Stony Stratford Sep.6: Brighton Speed Trials Jun.15: Fathers’ Classic Day Out, Woburn Abbey Sep.7: LVG Monthly Lunchtime Meeting Toddington Railway Classics Day. & LVG 'The King's Run Tour' [BIG-4] - Steam trains running thro Cotswolds Chris & Pat Glasbey's tour into Suffolk towards Cheltenham.Group run thro Sep.12: Goodwood Revival lovely countryside & super roads!!!! Sep.13: Goodwood Revival Jun.18: LVG Mid-monthly Evening Meeting Sep.14: Goodwood Revival Jun.22: STMD (Brooklands) [BIG-4] Sep.17: LVG Mid-monthly Evening Meeting http://www.standardmotorclub.org.uk/sta Sep.19: CACCC 'Falling Down Tour' ndard-triumph-marque-day.html Sep.20: Kop Hillclimb Jun.23: TSSC Meeting - The Rising Sun, Halls & CACCC 'Falling Down Tour' Green, Weston Sep.21: Kop Hillclimb [BIG-4] Jun.29: CACCC 'Tibbles Tour' (Group run.meet up with Chiltern Group Jul.2: Classics in the Walled Garden, Luton who usually have stand) Hoo (from 4pm) & CACCC 'Falling Down Tour' Jul.6: LVG Monthly Lunchtime Meeting Sep.22: TSSC Meeting - The Rising Sun, Halls & Santa Pod Retro ? Green, Weston Jul.13: Chilford Hall Vineyard.Group run. We Sep.28: Sywell Pistons and Props could organise a route from The Cock? Oct.5: LVG Monthly Lunchtime Meeting & SBMC Kimbolton Fayre Oct.12: Westonbirt Arboritum. Group run/scenic Jul.16: LVG Mid-monthly Evening Meeting route to see the autumn colours? Jul.20: Shelsey Walsh Oct.26: Restoration Show, Stoneleigh Jul.25: Silverstone Classic Oct.27: TSSC Meeting - The Rising Sun, Halls Jul.26: Silverstone Classic Green, Weston Jul.27: Silverstone Classic Nov.2: LVG Monthly Lunchtime Meeting Jul.28: TSSC Meeting - The Rising Sun, Halls Nov.15: LVG Committee Meeting Green, Weston Nov.24: TSSC Meeting - The Rising Sun, Halls Aug.3: LVG Monthly Lunchtime Meeting Green, Weston Aug.7: 2nd RNLI Vintage & Classic Car Event Dec.7: LVG Monthly Lunchtime Meeting/AGM (The 2nd Pirton Vintage & Classic Dec.22: TSSC Meeting - The Rising Sun, Halls Charity Car Event, with all proceeds Green, Weston going to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, will be held at the Recreation 2015 Ground in Pirton, Herts on Thursday 7 Jan.4: LVG Monthly Lunchtime Meeting August 2014). Feb.1: LVG Monthly Lunchtime Meeting Aug.8: TRR IWE Harrogate (Paul: Scenic route/group run on Friday stopping for This calendar will be regularly updated in lunch halfway? I don't think we need any TRunnion and also on the website, so please other events in August because of check there for latest information. holidays!!!) 3 The TRunnion EDITORIAL before a date and location of the Special General Meeting are announced. Boring as Well, this is a first for me - Page 3 (but no much of this may seem to many ordinary pin-up photo!). I've been fortunate in having members (and it really is pretty boring!), it is a lot of contributions, especially from other important that we all contribute now to ensure members of the committee, so I can keep this that the new Articles will guarantee that the editorial brief. club (and business) is run as we would wish. Since our LVG AGM in December, a great deal of progress has been made as you will read in Julian's Group Leader's Report and the group's future is looking good. BrianC In case you missed the announcements in the February TRaction #272, the draft TR Register AGM minutes are available from the In case you missed my appeal in previous office (although not, as far as I am aware, on issues of TRunnion to encourage more of you the website as stated). The Articles of to contribute, I will be pleased to hear from Association are still undergoing revision rebuilders, racers, rallyists, tourists, concours (currently on about Draft 10) and not yet specialists and especially partners and new or available to members. Doubtless, there will even prospective TR owners be a further period of comment and feedback Group Leader's Report – 3rd March 2014 What a tremendous and exciting start to join just for the second half. We will cover 2014. We set out this year to increase some of the most picturesque countryside in interest in the group and so far, so good! our area finishing up at a very impressive 2014 is going to be all about getting garden open day in the middle of organised and we started at the January Hertfordshire. Please contact us or see our Committee meeting by co-opting two new group website for an application form if you members, David Dawson and Dave Randall are interested in joining us; all proceeds go to (thanks guys for picking up the batons) and charity. establishing the concept of our BIG-4 events The February social meeting was very well for the year. This is an effort to focus the attended with some new faces coming along group on a subset of events which our to see what was going on. We were graced membership will know has major group with the company of Graham Wallis’s support. There seems to be a plethora of excellent, rare TR7 Automatic as well as a events available each year and whilst most good selection of the more usual suspects. are excellent, we found we could not see the wood for the trees. So, although there are many other events which we will attend throughout the year, after analysing the results of our Gaining TRaction 2013 survey, the committee decided on these BIG-4 events, offering the most popular themes: • LVG B2B2B Tour – 11th May • STMD Brooklands – 22nd June • LVG The Kings Run Tour – 7th September • Kop Hillclimb – 21st September The first of these, the “B2B2B Tour”, will be a Half of Graham and his TR7! Tulip run, designed by Pete Muncer, of This meeting was preceded by our second approximately 2.5 hours with a break for Route-To-Lunch hosted by Paul Richardson.