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MTWC Group Events are also listed after the GO’s report BROOKLANDS SOUTH EAST Next meeting 2nd June at the New Inn, Send, Surrey Sat 6th June - The Swan, Horndon-on-the-Hill. GU23 7EN Wednesdays 3rd June & 17th June - informal midweek EAST ANGLIA – WOOLPIT meetings Wednesday 1st July - informal midweek meeting First Tues, every month. The Bull, Woolpit, 12 noon. th EAST ANGLIA Sat. 4 July - The Swan, Horndon-on-the-Hill Sunday 7th June VSCC racing at Cadwell, come and SOUTH WEST support the racers. Sat 6th June - Lunchtime meeting, Hare & Hounds, Worstead weekend. Date, weekend of 13/14 June. Putts Corner, Sidbury near Honiton. Prescott Hill, 24th May, 'La vie en Bleu' Wed 24th June - Drive the B3227. Meet at Monkton Manea Gala weekend in July Elm Garden Centre, A38, West Monkton. 10.00 meet Next group meet, Tues 16th June, Hare Arms, Stowe for coffee. Depart 1100 am to South Molton ( market Bardolph. 8pm. day) Stop off at Black Cat Garage for photo EAST MIDLANDS shoot. Then on to Bickleigh Mill for lunch and th Next Group Meeting Wed. 17 June, 6pm till late shopping. Group BBQ Saturday 15th August, hosted by Jenny Sat 4th July - Lunchtime meeting, Bell Inn, Frampton- and Mick Harris On– Severn FAR FAR SOUTH WEST WEST MIDLANDS 5th June. Black &White breakfast meet, 10.00am, Saturday, 6th June, HFS Memorial Run, Lunch Venue Fox & Hounds, Scorrier. TBA 12:00 7th June. VMCC, Lands End Run, 9.30am, Bodmin Sunday, 14th June, Parade of Classic Cars, Coventry Railway. Y. N. D. 10th June VSCC, Lunch meet,12.00pm, Hawkins Next meeting - 9th June and 14th July - The Bay Horse, Arms, Zelah. Scholes. M1, J35, A629 Rotherham, 3rd left 18th June. MTWC. Group meeting, 7.30pm, Fox Scholes, Sat Nav S61 2RQ. & Hounds, Scorrier. Future events. For your delight there are 2 currently 27th June. St Merryn steam rally. in the pipeline. FAR SOUTH WEST Wednesday 12th August we will be welcomed at Tom Cowley's restoration workshop near HERTS, BEDS AND BUCKS. Ashbourne. I was lucky enough to have a rd 3 Wednesday, Every month, Noon. The Swan, sneak preview last year, it was like visiting Northall, Beds. LU6 2EY. Aladdin's Cave (if Aladdin was a Morgan LAKES and LANCS man), there were 2 and 3 Speeders, F Types, th Thursday 18 June – group meeting at the Royal Oak, in fact everything to make your eyes water. Garstang (eating from 6.30 pm) More details next month and by email. th Sunday 5 July – Summer run to Leighton Hall, Wednesday Sept 23rd a trip to Bradford Industrial Carnforth for Classic car show Museum. Bradford is the home of Scott NORTH WEST Motorcycles, Jowett Cars and has its origins June - Wednesday Lunch – any suggestions see report as a town at the centre of textile th 26 June - Friday meeting, The Whipping Stocks, manufacturing. The museum has good A50, Over Peover displays of all the above and much more and OXFORD as an added bonus Wednesday is their th Tuesday 30 May, Oxford Group Meeting, The Abingdon working demonstration day. Arms, Beckley,7.30pm Those arriving in Morgans will have access SCANDINAVIAN to covered parking within the museum courtyard whilst tin tops will be sent to loiter SOUTH COAST in the general car park. Wednesday, 17th June, 8.00 pm. Six Bells, Chiddingly. Come in a Morgan + Concours! Contents: 3 Alan Roy Lazenbury 17 Historic Donington 40 More on LJ 9381 Adrian M-L’s conrod 20 A Busy Weekend 42 I Drove the Tiger 5 Goggles & Gauntletts 21 About in “Nipper” 43 CCM Resumé 6 Night Trial 23 Mogspares 45 Floggery Competition report 24 Transmission Spares 45 Prototype F4 FHC 12 Training Day 25 Ripping Cake 14 Letters/postcards/emails 26 Gerald/Regalia Page 48 Pictures 16 History 30 Group Reports 2 Vol. 70 June 2015 No. 6 THE BULLETIN THE MONTHLY MAGAZINE OF THE MORGAN THREE-WHEELER CLUB AFFILIATED TO THE ACU: NON - TERRITORIAL CLUB WEBSITE: www.mtwc.co.uk Alan Roy Lazenbury 1932 - 2015 Alan was an only child, born in Worcester In 2004 Alan was unanimously voted in as and educated at the Royal Grammar School President of the Club. Worcester and the LSE London. He has Alan had a great love of Scotland and all recently been the recipient of an Honorary things Scottish thanks to his wife Sheena. Degree from Worcester They had a second home there University. where they had many happy His career as a Geography holidays. Alan enjoyed sailing Teacher began in London and fishing and cut quite a followed by posts in dash in his kilt. Coventry and Birmingham. In recent years Alan and In his youth, he gained a Sheena have enjoyed long love of the countryside from holidays in the Far East to his father and was never escape the British weather. happier than when hedging Alan was a long serving and ditching or perhaps up a member of his local church tree, thinning out branches or where he regularly read the with soil on his hands. lesson. Both Alan and Sheena were active members of the Worcester Caledonian Club. played the piano in concerts. Over the years Alan has He was owned numerous Morgan Alan at the celebration of his 80th birthday three wheelers and his last major project was to finish the restoration of a Super Aero for his son Adam which he Alan joined the Club in achieved with considerable February 1955, membership help from his many friends in number 1616 and whilst the Midland Group. working and living in Despite these other London he attended activities he devoted a M.T.W.C. group meetings considerable amount of time and became friends with to Club business and has been Ernie Woods, then Club a wise council. He has played Chairman. a major part in creating the Ernie was very supportive Alan and Sheena on the HFS Run Club we have today. when Alan took over as He will be greatly missed Chairman in 1957 a post he held until 1995 by his many friends but especially by when he stood down from that office and Sheena, Adam and his family to whom became a Vice President. we send our deepest sympathies. Tribute by Alan and Sheena’s long-standing friend, Laurie Weeks, Vice President. 3 Connecting Rod Adrian Murray-Leslie I have just heard about Alan Lazenbury's In the same vein, he would emphasise death and have been reflecting on the person the necessity for officers and members that the Club has lost. You will find an always to act in the best interests if the Club obituary elsewhere in The Bulletin so what I and not to pursue personal agendas. am writing isn't intended to duplicate what I believe that he saw himself as a guardian others who knew Alan better than I did will of those values and worked to promote them have contributed. whenever and wherever he could. I think that My first contact with Alan was when, as a he saw himself as a peacemaker and found callow 21 year old, I joined the Club and internal conflicts particularly distressing. I turned up at a Midlands group meeting. Alan, hope that he died feeling that the Club had in his typically avuncular way, made me feel turned a corner and was living by the values most welcome - despite the fact that he was that he held so dear. hardly old enough for the uncle role. He had I know that he was much heartened by the by that time, by my reckoning been good wishes that so many communicated to Chairman for about twelve years and was him (and here is a point: it can be appropriate well on his way to becoming an institution. to take your courage in both hands and tell someone who knows that they are terminally what you would afterwards regret having failed to tell them). Sheena and the family will be much This had the effect, at least for me, of making comforted by knowing how much you me feel included, and to the very end Alan appreciated Alan, so don't be shy about took every opportunity to impress upon me telling them. Adrian the vital importance of safeguarding the Please send any reminiscences you may have inclusiveness of the Club. or letters of appreciation for publication … Ed Elsewhere in this month’s magazine* you As a result of dipping into my hoard of will read that Nick Taylor is not standing for chunks of metal to facilitate the rebuild, I re-election as Editor at this year’s AGM. wondered if there might be a case for a I’m gutted because I have greatly enjoyed Mogspares department dealing in the kind of materials that the individual can’t buy in understand his reasons for passing the job on small quantities or that are plain hard to and can only thank him for all he has done. source. I had a very brief chat with Charles On another matter, well, one thing led to Smith about the idea and we noted that another . I started by thinking that all the examples might be cast iron of a suitable Blackburne needed was valves and guides grade for valve guides, bronze bar or tube to (I’d had new Velocette Venom valves and make slider bushes or small ends, alloy some cast iron for some time) and so it went steel for stub axles, track rods or tie rods, on. Rebore, new BSA Gold Star pistons, big nylon for re-bushing trunnions, copper pipe, ends, mains, re-bushed rockers and new pins imperial hex stock in mild and high and a few mods like a reworked rear main bearing housing and shorter rear mainshaft.