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Journal of the Traditional Car Club July 2013 Journal of the Traditional Car Club July 2013 1 Contents Front Cover picture:- Edwin Heath’s 1923 Packard at Cusworth Page 1 Your Committee and new members 2 Contents 3 Editorial 4 Crows Nest Park, Dewsbury 5-6 Book Reviews 7-11 The Goggomobil Story 12-19 Ryedale Folk Museum 20 Restoration of MGYA Part 4 21-26 Club Concours Cusworth Hall 27– 31 Adverts 32-36 Forthcoming Rallies for 2013 37-38 Club Concours winners 2013 39 Dates for your diary Future club meetings 40 Please can the Editor have material for the September Tradsheet by the end of August Articles. Rally reports , For Sale and Wanted etc. Hagerty’s the Club Insurer Dear Stuart I am delighted to say your form has arrived today! Please thank Non for this. Your introducer code is CCTCC however, your members need only mention that they are a member of the Traditional Car Club of Doncaster in order to prompt the team here to put in the introducer code which will result in the commission coming to you. Could you please circulate to all your members that we are now in partnership with each other and, if pos- sible, where you have the link to our site on your website – could you make mention of the code CCTCC by saying ‘Offer a discount to the Traditional Car Club – please mention the code CCTCC when you call’. 3 EDITORIAL Dear Members, First of all apologies for not producing the Tradsheet on time for earlier this month. I have had a new ceiling put up in the study which has necessitated everything being moved out into the dining room and disconnection from the printer. I am still in the midst of decorating but that may take a little longer to complete. A very warm welcome to all new members. It is good to know that we are still attracting new people and new cars and also good to see one or two younger members joining. Please make all our members feel welcome and do initiate conversations. It’s al- ways very difficult to meet new people at first so it is up to us all to make these new members feel welcomed and valued. A big THANKYOU to all who helped at the Deaf College in any way. To those who helped promote the rally by handing out leaflets at the Frenchgate Centre on the two Saturdays before, for those who helped mark out on the Saturday before the event, for Barry collecting and returning our Club caravan, for those who helped put things away and tidy up after the event and for those who promoted the event in other ways. It was good to see such a big attendance on the day and I hope you all enjoyed the event. Sorry if I missed talking to you but I did value your attendance even if I didn’t get chance to thank you personally. I did hear that several people parked a little inconsider- ately which slowed things down as room had to be made for other entrants but the majority parked with little fuss and helped by ensuring their picnic tables and chairs were situated behind their vehicles and not at the side, it does help when allotting spac- es. Mark Wells organised a promotional run on the Saturday evening and three vehi- cles turned up. Mark was in his Austin 18 Norfolk, new member Richard Eaton fol- lowed in his very nice Triumph Acclaim which has only 29,000 on the clock from new, and I brought up the rear with my Jaguar XK8. A lovely run but poorly attended. Perhaps if we do this next year we will notify people earlier. Thanks to all members who attended the Concours and prize-giving at Cusworth Hall on June 30th, a rally held in conjunction with the Doncaster Motorcycle Club. It was a shame that some trophies were absent as they hadn’t been returned from the previ- ous year. If you know of any one who won trophies last year please let the committee know so that we can chase things up. If anyone knows any engravers who will engrave our trophies (cheaply) please let us know. I wonder if any of our members have facili- ties for such a task ?? Please let the committee know so we can keep the trophies winners up-to-date. This year I was considering letting someone else take over as Chairman / editor of the magazine. However I have decided to continue for another year. I do feel that others should have the opportunity to take on board offices of the Club and that one person should not hold on to an office year after year. If you would like to know what is en- tailed in being Chairman/ editor, then please ask. It is not an onerous task. I am sure this present hot weather is helping us give a better airing to our cars and I can’t see many rallies being cancelled through flooding like last year. Enjoy your Rally season, Happy and Safe Motoring Stuart Carey 4 Crows Nest Park, Dewsbury, West Yorks. 6 May 2013 An eclectic mix of vehicles were lured out of their homes by the extraordinarily good weather on the May Bank Holiday and captivated the many visitors who at- tended the event. A couple of Traditional Car Club members were exhibitors including David Millea with his 1960s Jaguar Mk2. The long footpath from the gate to the café was lined with cars, light commercials and buses from the 1920s to the modern day. Leyland Tiger, Jowetts 5 Crows Nest is a large park with a walled garden & small lake situated on the west side of Dewsbury. Whilst the facilities are limited (only 2 loos), the bacon sand- wiches make up for any disappointments. The event was organised by the York- shire Thoroughbred Car Club and the prizes were presented by a bloke of Emmerdale fame. Not being a soap fan I couldn’t elucidate further. All in all a very good event which I can recommend. There will be another show here later in the year. Sunbeam Rapier, Daimler SP250 6 7 “The DeLorean Story – the car, the people, the scandal” by Nick Sutton. 256 pages. 38 photographs Price £17.99. Published by Haynes (www.haynes.co.uk) ISBN 978-0-85733-314-8 Review no 27 by Michael E Ware “Not another book on this subject” I hear some of you saying. I for one have not read any books on DeLorean, but have seen many magazine articles. This is possibly the first time that a book has been written by someone who was in on the DeLorean project from the very beginning in 1978 (employee no.16) until the end in January 1983, “… when only ten employees remained…a few weeks after I left the company the gates were padlocked and the liquidators moved in”. Nick Sutton tells it all “…an account which covers every angle of an extraordinary saga, including fraud, sectarian violence and drug trafficking”. It is not a sensational book, but the author tries to describe all that was going on. “Delorean employed some of the most talented managers in the automotive business, but many arrived with three pieces of baggage…The first was a kind of ego that is often found in successful people, the second was a previous company procedure manual, and the third was a preconception on how to run a car company and develop a new product – which by industry standards of time was taking five years or more”. That sums up the main problem coupled with J.D.’s infrequent visits. Time was something Delorean did not have. The British Gov- ernment had initially invested £53 million (more later) and they had demanded a royalty on each car produced. The factory was built on the outskirts of Dunmurry close to housing estates, where up to 50% of adults were out of work. It was a Godsend for the local population, as the wages offered were good as were the working conditions. The failure of the company threw all of these people out of work again, many never working for the remainder of their lives, Even so, many did not blame John DeLorean. The book covers the tie up with Colin Chapman and Lotus, and goes into detail on pay- ments, “..Lotus made it clear that they were only responsible for the design and durabil- ity of the car and not for the quality or production engineering….” Later the author writes, “…Colin Chapman was openly contemptuous of the prototype and used the re- port to demand that the design of the car should start afresh. This time Lotus Engineer- ing would carry out the design work”. A good read and a good price but the book is let down by an old fashioned layout with pictures grouped together on glossy paper in sections, and the fact that there are three errata slips at the front drawing attention to chunks which are actually missing from the text. I note that it was not printed by Haynes of Sparkford but in the USA, which may be the reason. 8 9 “The 16 and 24hp Sunbeam 1915 -1924” (also covering the Edwardian 20 and 30hp) by Bruce Dowell and Alan Richens. 267 pages. 600+ photographs and drawings. Price £40 plus £5 UK p&p. Published by Professor Alan Richens Publishing. e.mail: [email protected] ISBN 978-0-9574208-0-9 Review No 26 by Michael E Ware Bruce Dowell is no stranger to the followers of Sunbeam.
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