Happenings in January … BROOKLANDS OXFORD Next meeting 2nd February followed by 2nd March Next Meeting: Monday 29th February, The Talk at the New Inn, Send, Surrey GU23 7EN House, Stanton St. John, 7.30pm. Brooklands Group Christmas dinner 0n 27th February at the Canadian Pavilion, Bisley SCANDINAVIAN Viking Run in Horsens is a positive alternative if EAST ANGLIA – WOOLPIT travel and weather are impossible. First Tuesday, every month. The Bull, Woolpit, 12 noon.. SOUTH COAST Wednesday, 17th February, 8.00 pm. Six Bells, EAST MIDLANDS Chiddingly. Next meeting Wednesday Feb 17th, 6pm till late, come and join us. SOUTH EAST Future meetings FAR FAR SOUTH WEST Saturday 6th February – The Swan, Horndon-on- Feb 5th Black & White breakfast meet, Fox & The-Hill Hounds, Scorrier, 10.00am Wednesday 3rd February – Wednesday Irregulars Feb 9th. VSCC Group meeting, Hawkins Arms, Wednesday 17th February – Wednesday Irregulars Zelah, 7.30pm Wednesday 2nd March – Wednesday Irregulars Feb 18th MTWC Group meeting, Fox & Hounds, Saturday 5th March – The Swan, Horndon-on-The- Scorrier, 7.30pm. Hill Feb 21st. VMCC Run, Tesco, Wadebridge, 10.30am. SOUTH WEST FAR SOUTH WEST Meetings Summary Feb - March 2016 Next meeting:-The Westward Inn, Lee Mill, Third Sat 6th Feb 12:00 hrs, The Park Hotel GL12 8DR Tuesday of the month. lunch Tue 16th Feb 12:00 hrs, New Mill, GL12 8DR lunch HERTS, BEDS AND BUCKS. Sat 1st Mar 12:00 hrs, Hare and Hounds, EX10 3rd Wednesday, every month: Noon, The Swan, 0QQ lunch Northall, Beds. LU6 2EY. Next meeting Wednesday 17th February. WEST MIDLANDS Wednesday 27th January, Monthly Meeting. The LANCS and LAKES Clent Club 20:00 Thursday 18th February – group meeting at The Royal Wednesday, 10th February, Mid-month Meeting. Oak, Garstang 8pm (eating from 6.30) Fruiterer’s Arms, Ombersley 20:00 Sat / Sun 7th & 8th May – opening run weekend visiting Wednesday, 24th February, Monthly Meeting. The the Yorkshire Dales Clent Club 20:00 Wednesday, 9th March, Mid-month Meeting. NORTH WEST Fruiterer’s Arms, Ombersley 20:00 10 February, Wednesday lunch, 12.30 at the Crown Inn, Goostrey. YORKS, NOTTS and DERBY 26 February - Friday meeting at The Whipping Next meeting Stocks, A 50, Lower Peover. Again, should we 9th February - The Bay Horse, Scholes. M1, J35, consider alternating with The Windmill? A629 Rotherham, 3rd left Scholes, Sat Nav S61 2RQ. Cover Photo: Grahame Joseph Contents: 3 Editorial Pontification 18 39 Scandinavian Run Adrian M-L’s Conrod 20 NEW MORGAN 40 CCM Resume /Big nuts (holes) 41 Nev’s Index and 5 Competition report 22 Gearbox Lug Answer 7 Nice Photos 23 42 New Members / F-Type 8 Drive Chains 24 Mogspares Corrections 25 S Coast Holly Run 44 Floggery/GPRLPND 10 OPENING RUN 26 UPE/Valence School 48 Page 48 14 Letters/postcards/emails Hillclimb 16 Exeter Trial Morgan 30 Group Reports 49 only visible to the ardent followers of Mrs Trellis 2 Vol. 71 February 2016 No. 2 THE BULLETIN AFFILIATED TO THE ACU: NON - TERRITORIAL CLUB WEBSITE: www.mtwc.co.uk Editorial Welcome to the February magazine of the Its not often that the other Morgan gets a Best Single Marque Three Wheeler Club look in … Yes I know there are those focusing entirely on Morgans. “purists” who detest the four wheeled Plenty inside this month to enthuse you for cousins (I don’t .. I have three - so there) the forthcoming season … The Opening Run and many of the threewheeler members also for starters .. plus trips abroad, camping have a four wheeler in their garage. weekends for the real outdoor enthusiast, and On page 21 is a review of a new book by a smattering of articles to tempt you into the Andreas Hensing and Dagmar Otte This is garage beforehand. not the ordinary car On page 10, Eric Eadon history but a tour of has written an paean of the factory with the praise of the White Peaks, car being made, over the area of the Opening a period of seventeen Run - the prime event in days and profiling the the start of the season. factory staff Set in glorious country- intimately involved in side, the Opening Run now the process. There is provides an excellent the usual history at the opportunity to make a beginning with a fair weekend of the event. slice of threewheelers. Eric has certainly done Inevitably there is the area justice and must the odd error (who am encourage a record attend- I to offer criticism!). ance - DO NOT MISS!! For those of you who ‘It was a mistake to ask Dave* and content is superb enjoy European adventure, if he could . ‘turn me up a bit?’ and a thoroughly there are notices of the He turned me down!’ enjoyable read and a Dutch and Scandinavian very worthy addition events and in UK a Vintage Rally and to the Morgan connoisseur’s library. Hillclimb “demonstration” at the Valence Dave Anscombe has written an article on School near Westerham in Kent and the a Morgan that entered the Exeter Trial, Ford second running of the Chateau Impney hill Expert Tony Birks describes Ford cylinder climb where Morgan ThreeWheelers feature. heads and Paul Jowitt relates his return to …. and don’t forget the 20th Grand Prix three wheeler driving. Retro at Le Puy Notre Dame - huge fun. Finally - *Late News* the Morgan Factory Instead of a the usual style of competition has announced a twelve million pound invest report this month, Pete Clews gives an intro- -ment in the production of electric Morgans duction to the sporting side of the Club - - a brave step into the future. This is fact and what to do to acquire a racing licence and not mole-searching rumour-mongering….see how to prepare your Morgan. This should the new M3W on page 20! Nick inspire more onto the track. * A reference to Dave Pittuck, Turner in Chief to the South Coast Group - allegedly 3 Connecting Rod Adrian Murray-Leslie It sounds like there has been a lot of the He has brought exceptional skills to the usual seasonal activity despite the rain, PR side, developing and nurturing relation- floods, coughs and colds. Thanks go to GOs ships with the Factory, with dealers and with and others who have made it all happen. I many individuals besides. He has brought a hope too that there is rebuilding activity level of professionalism to the presentation despite cold garages and workshops. Gary of the AGM that is unprecedented and above Caroline told me that he got so cold plotting all he has been an unfailingly warm and opening and closing times on various 60deg smiling presence wherever he has been. JAP camshafts that he had to give up because Thank you Richard, enjoy your break and I he was writing down some very strange hope that you will be back soon. things. Hypothermia is well known for I am hoping that on 7th February, the producing mental derangement. He was Committee will approve the development of claiming hypothermia anyway . a database on which to store and access In relation to cold garages, I have to previous AGM, EGM and Committee confess to a bit of what might be thought to decisions. This should go a long way to be decadence in that I have installed a central preventing us re-inventing the wheel by heating radiator in my mine. My excuse going back over old ground and worse, for being that I am doing a paint job on the example, unwittingly making decisions in Super Aero (or should it be Aero Super Committee that seek to change AGM Sports?) and I am told I need 20deg C for the decisions. paint to go off. The trouble with doing the Also I have asked Steve Uprichard to look paint is that everything has to come off and into setting up a Google Calendar on the the car has to come to pieces (well, I think it website. The idea is that Committee does) and that means no more excuses about members (including GOs of course) will sorting the difficult-to-reach bits. Anyway, I have permissions to insert events and the rest have the deadline of the Opening Run and of the Club will be able to see what is going new style Night Trial to meet so I aim to get on both on a local and national level. I realise it done well before that. that it may be a challenge for some As to Club business, Richard Atherton is Committee members and GOs who don’t use taking a break from Club activities due to computers, but it should be possible for them other pressures in his life, so we will need to find another member who will do it for someone to organise the AGM weekend this them (Eric, Heather, YND, please note!) year. Volunteers? However, the AGM weekend is far from all that Richard has done Adrian for the Club. Enlarged 3-Speed wheel nut holes Jim Taylor Goby Gobalian of New Jersey found Jim Taylor of California (and Panama) loose lug nuts on his rear Dunlop Magna mentioned that one could buy pre-shaped wheel and brought it up for discussion on inserts from a Ford Model T stockist. Late the Morgan Yahoo discussion group, Model Ts with welded wire wheels suffer the whereupon the common problem of same problem, and these inserts have been wallowed-out bolt holes came up. available for many years. “The bolt hole is Solutions ranged from welding formed correct for our Magna wheels and the inserts washers to the wheels to placing a machined seem to self-center and swage themselves plate over the hub to distribute the load into place when the wheel nuts are gradually across the wheel center.