Volume 56 ORRIS Number 6 June MONTHLONTHLYY 2016 MAGAZINE OF THE MORRIS REGISTER The Club for Morris vehicles designed before 1940 www.morrisregister.co.uk Volume 56 ORRIS Number 6 Jnue ONTHLY 2016 MAGAZINEM OF THE MORRIS REGISTER CONTENTS CHAIRMAN John Ford writes: ell, I am back up and running after my bout of illness, 2 Chairman Walthough not sure which I am, chairman or president! Our editor can’t make up his mind either! 3 Editor I hope you are all enjoying this bout of good summer weather while it lasts. Judging by the amount of Morris 4 Membership Meanderings vehicles at an event I attended recently this seems to be the case. There certainly appears to be quite a few more classic cars about than of late What’s it Worth? which is good news. 5 Warm Welcome Our membership still seems to be on the increase, well up on the same time last year which can only be a good thing. Welcome to the club all 67 Forum Files those new members. I have also noticed that prices for our cars have seemed to have reached 8-11 Member's Morris their peak although some are still somewhat optimistic with their asking prices. This seems to be the situation with several other clubs, Has the 12-17 Exactly Eighty bubble burst? Let's wait and see. I hope to see many of you at next month's MMOC rally combined with 18/19 Minor Musings the 2nd MVA Rally 3rd and 4th July at Catton Hall, Derbyshire. We are offering a discount rate for our club members of £10 for the whole 20-39 Regional Round Up weekend per car. Please give it your support. Our own National Rally in August is shaping up with several new 40 Member's Morris attractions for the weekend. A full programme for the weekend will be published shortly and we expect a good turnout again after last year's 41 Fitton's Files great event. Looking even further ahead, we have again secured another stand at 42 Morris Mail this years prestigious NEC Classic Car Show on the second weekend in November. I will be looking for several cars for the stand and if you 43 Morris Mart would like your car to be considered for display at the show then please 44 Foto Finish let me know asap with a photograph and details via email if possible. Your car will be on display to at least 70,000 people over the weekend, and you will have free tickets for the whole three days if required. Cover picture: Graham Sinagola's Eight tourer nicely colour co-ordinated with its surroundings on the "Beeston or Bust" run around Cheshire villages which he organised for his local church last June. [Photo: Graham Sinagola] The Morris Register Spares Service he Register’s Spares Service aims to provide a basic service that will help members keep their Morris Tin good fettle and suitable for safe and enjoyable motoring. We stock a range of spares needed for the maintenance and overhaul of the most popular models.These stock items mainly comprise engine, transmission, electrical and brake parts for the Morris 8, 10 and Minor models with a limited stock of similar parts for other Morris models. ON-LINE SHOP (www.morrisregisterspares.co.uk) The new on-line mail order shop enables members to shop for Morris Spares in a secure on-line environment. The Shop includes a full description, a photo, and details of which Morris models each part will fit. Each product in the shop has a unique “part number” with 2 letters and 3 numbers, and is a unique reference system for our Spares Service. The shop is linked to a secure PayPal payment system; you don’t have to have a PayPal account to use this, you can use your credit or debit card. Please go to the Club’s web site and click on Services/Benefits – Spares Service. The information given in the descriptions in the on-line shop should be sufficient to identify the parts you need. We cannot answer questions from members as to which is the correct part for their car, or about parts suitability or application. 2 The views and opinions expressed by the Editor and contributors to this magazine are CHAIRMAN: SECRETARY: theirs alone and do not necessarily reflect the John Ford 01386 832 447 Jim Riglar 01225 754 981 views of The Pre 1940 Morris Register Limited. [email protected] [email protected] Any advice provided is not intended to be advice on which you should rely. You must MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY: obtain professional or specialist advice before Office hours: 9 am - 5 pm, Monday to Friday taking or refraining from any action based Jane Nathan, 1 Fallowfield, Shoeburyness, Essex SS3 8DF on the content of this magazine. No liability 01702 589 643 [email protected] is accepted for the consequences of following any advice provided in the magazine. EDITOR: EDITOR Rob Symonds writes: Rob Symonds, 49 Gorsy Road, irst of all, a big thank you to the Chairman for pointing Quinton, Birmingham B32 2SJ Fout the first of several glitches that popped up in last [email protected] month's edition. I don't suppose everyone spotted that I has 0121 682 0640 promoted him, but now that he has drawn attention to it, we can all note that this month I have relegated him back to his DEADLINE rightful position in the organisation! Notwithstanding all this it is good to 14th of the month prior to publication hear that he is back to full health and, we hope, raring to go for the new season. MAGAZINE NON-ARRIVAL: Please contact the Membership Secretary There was a good response to my requests for Drive-it-Day reports and Contact details above photographs, so many thanks to all those who have contributed this month. For my own part, I did not get the impression that the day was BACK ISSUES: may be purchased terribly well supported, but it may just have been that I was in the wrong from the Club Shop part of the country! The Chairman makes a reference to the MVA event at Catton Hall, and WEBSITE: www.morrisregister.co.uk an entry form for this did go out in last month's edition, albeit with the Contact: Mike Rose, Webmaster cost per car missing. Despite this omission, the form can still be used, and [email protected] with the appropriate £10 per car entry fee, sent to the MMOC address at SMALL ADS: Post/email to: the bottom. A corrected version of the form has been available on the The Editor (see above) website for some weeks. Free for members (max 1 car per month) In conclusion, now that the season is well under way, I hope members Non-members: please contact for charges. will continue to send items to the magazine. I have noticed a tendency for some material to go only to the website and I hope the more computer COMPLAINTS: Any complaints literate of you will not forget that we have a significant number of members against any officer of the club, or about who do not have computer access and therefore will not see their items. the way the club is being administered should be referred to the Secretary It is a simple matter to send content to both the website and the magazine at one stroke, so please don't forget your lone;ly old editor! THE PRE 1940 MORRIS REGISTER LTD DVLA Authentication Service: Members needing access to Registered Office: the Club’s scheme for registration number retention should get 70 Alderton Way, Trowbridge, in touch on 07507 264 980 or [email protected] Wiltshire BA14 0UH ©Morris Register and various authors and photographers 2015. PRINTED BY Material published in Morris Monthly may not be published LAVENHAM PRESS elsewhere without the permission of the Editor. 01787 247 436 The Morris Register Spares Service POSTAL SALES If you know the part number of the parts you need, but don’t want to use the on-line shop, please get in touch with David and Lindsay Smith, email: [email protected] or by post at Morris Spares, Units 5 & 6 Priory Farm Industrial Estate, Station Road, Portbury, BRISTOL, BS20 7TN. We cannot take orders by phone. • Please state clearly the part number (the unique 2-letter, 3-number code as shown in the on- line shop), the description of the item you need, and the quantity • Please quote the model and chassis number of your car – take the chassis number from the brass plate under the bonnet, and include the letters as well as the numbers • Please quote your name, address and membership number in all communications • We can accept payments by cheque, but prefer payments by card using PayPal. Instructions for payment will be given when you order • Please remember the Service is run by members for the benefit of other members in their own time amidst many other family and personal priorities • If you are not sure what the correct part is, please put a request for help onto the Forum. There will always be members “on line” who will be able to share their knowledge with you. 3 MEMBERSHIP SEC Membership Meanderings Jane Nathan cannot believe that by the time you get this magazine we will be nearly half way through 2016! IThank you to the many who sent in their renewals in good time. If points were being awarded you would get gold stars! We are still seeing late renewals creeping back, but this year, as mentioned on the run up to April 1st, they are having to re-apply for their membership.