Contents 3 Editorial nonsense 18 A Period Photo 38 Used Parts Exchange 4 Chairman's 19 A Fiery Warning Wheel Alignment Steering Column 21 NW Group Jaunt 39 Regalia MTWC Training Day 22 Round Up 41 F4 Hand Throttle 23 Mogspares 42 Gerald/VSCC Cadwell 6 Where Are They Now? 24 Cholmondley Pageant 43 Visit to Pat Davy 7 100 Year Old Cars New Members 44 Waddesden/Yvois GP 9 Alan Crouch Obituary 25 German Opening Run 45 Period Pics 10 Letters and emails 28 Me and My Morgan Oreste Bianche’s Cup 29 Goggles and Gauntlets 46 FLOGGERY 13 Competition Report 30 Group Reports 48 Happy People 17 Young Drivers 31 Training Day 49 Letters continued ..no! Dates for your 2014 diary Saturday September 12 MMC Thrill On The Hill, Shelsley Walsh see page 5 Saturday September 6 MTWC Training Day see page 4 MTWC AGM …. More details next month 2 VOL 69 July 2014 No 7 THE BULLETIN THE MONTHLY MAGAZINE OF THE MORGAN THREE- WHEELER CLUB AFFILIATED TO THE ACU: NON - TERRITORIAL CLUB WEBSITE: www.mtwc.co.uk Editorial Welcome to a different Bulletin! …. As I commenced editing at the beginning this month coming to you with 3 extra pages of the month, there was hardly anything to of news and in colour throughout. print. Approaching the deadline, still only How has this been achieved you might ask? enough for perhaps half the issue … then a A number of pages in previous issues contain sudden influx, sufficient to fill the usual information that is repeated every month and format and more, hence the foregoing have been deemed to take up vital space . decisions. This month has seen a particularly The three pages of Club officers and contact active period with several races, two cartoons information has been two hill-climbs, two omitted this month. This jaunts and a surfeit of information is available worthy submissions. on the website, most I have endeavoured to often the first point of present as much up-to- contact for new members. Also deleted is the list of Next month - who knows. group events on page 2. What I have learnt is, that The latter is always the stating what is to come most awkward and final next month rarely comes piece of the editing task, to , some proposals one that can cause the must give way to items editor most anguish. that would be of lesser It is a duplication of interest if carried forward. the events that appear at But haven’t I just done the end of the group that? I might as well state reports. I would prefer to see a generic format that in “Letters and Emails” states say for example: are simply those of the “SE Group - first Saturday of the month with writers and in no way have the agreement of the venue and time. GOs please comment. the Editor (see page 10) or represent … you What else is in store … more news on the know what I mean. rules for young drivers, tales of trips, both in Finally, why haven’t you seen me at any of UK and Europe, prize winning Morgans, the Club events so far? Suffice to say that it history, “Where are they Now?” , thought- is not through lack of enthusiasm, merely provoking letters, tales of woe and a new because … no, if you need an explanation, series “Me and my Morgan”, the first being email me. Swiss member Andreas Gähwiler . Next Finally again … I hope the Twisty Sprint month’s candidate will be Lyn Evans from went well and the weather was fair. Hertfordshire. After that …. It could be you! Finally .. enjoy your Threewheelers MTWC Training Day, Saturday September 6th, Gaydon, Warks. See page 4 3 Hon. Chairman — Steering Column Michael Joseph We have all help and come to Morgan encouragement of three wheelers via fellow members, different routes. I the ability to buy can well spares and the remember my first incentive to attend experience driving Club events. one. It didn’t help My situation that the brakes was, and is, not were non-existent unique. If we do and unknown to not use our cars, me at the time that we do not need to one cylinder barrel join a club. My was cracked and role as the going up and Chairman is to down with the help ease and piston. It was all a facilitate the use bit daunting but of Morgan three the car I had just wheelers on the bought did get me road and track home. Immediately I was faced with solving through a team of specialist Officers. issues and problems. For this reason I have instigated the first This is where the Club was invaluable and Club Training Day. I would not have kept the car without the MTWC Training Day, Saturday September 6th, Gaydon, Warks. If you wish to sit, please bring a folding chair. Michael Joseph, Woodlands Farm Cottage Adversane, Billingshurst, W Sussex. RH14 9LG 4 Morgan Thrill-on-the-Hill 2014 Saturday 12th July Shelsley Walsh Hill-Climb, Worcestershire, WR6 6RP Following the success of last year’s ‘Thrill’, the 2014 Thrill-on- the-Hill promises to be even better. For full details of this ex- citing event visit: http://www.morgan-motor.co.uk/mmc/shop/index.php/morgan-products/ events/the-morgan-thrill-on-the-hill-festival-2014.html th Factory Centenary Celebration Party, Sunday 13 July Pickersleigh Road, Malvern, Worcestershire, WR14 2LL The Morgan factory is 100 years old this year, join us for a free celebration party at the famous Malvern Link Works. For details visit: http://www.morgan-motor.co.uk/ Spitfire Flypast (TBC)● Free Factory Tours Fairground Rides Centenary display featuring a Morgan from every year of production. To To be part of this historic line-up, with commemorative gifts, contact: [email protected] JAP magneto bevel-drive gear sets, £80.00 pr; twin mag set, £115.00 Plus postage £2 UK, £2 Europe, £3 overseas. Square ML magneto pick-up & brush; £10. each incl p&p anywhere. JAP D shaped bevel-gear covers £25. incl p&p anywhere JAP half-round bevel-gear covers for late KT series engines with mechanical oil pumps: £25. incl p&p anywhere. (must be finish-bored in timing cover ) 50°/60° JAP engine plate sets £40. plus p&p £8. UK, £32 Europe. If you are not entirely satisfied with goods supplied, please do not hesitate to return them for a refund. David Browne, Gorse farm, Fulletby, Horncastle, Lincolnshire LN9 6LA Tel/fax 01507 534315 MTWC Training Day, Saturday September 6th, Gaydon, Warks. See page 4 5 Where Are They Now? The Registrar As so often happens, the relative of a past owner enquires of the website: No. 1: Sheila Robus asks … “My brother owned a three wheeled Morgan in 1962 the registration number was CNH 111I was wondering if anyone has restored it and if it is still on the road? I have found an old black and white photo - The car was dark green as far as I can recall”. To which Registrar, Steve Lister replied: We do have a note of CNH 111 in the Registry but unfortunately the last recorded owner is an M. Wachet in 1961 – nothing since. He lived in the southeast at the time. I can tell you that the Morgan was an F-Super model and was registered in Northampton in March 1951 - so was one of the last three wheeler Morgans to be made. I have made a note of your interest and if she turns up I shall get back to you. They do still “turn up” – we have had about six in the last year. Thank you for the photo, now added to our files. Best wishes, Steve Lister (MTWC Registrar) No.2: This time, Steve writes: We’ve had an enquiry through the website from Sue Edgecombe asking if the F-Type owned by her parents in the 1950’s is still around. It’s an F2 (or perhaps Super Sports!), registered CLU 81 – that’s a February 1936 London registration. Unfortunately, the last record in the Registry is from 1967 when the Morgan was owned by a C. Jacobs in the Midlands. The attached (fantastic) photo shows Peter and Doreen Tutton about to set off on their honeymoon to Bournemouth from Banbury. Looks like they have packed for a month! It was taken on the 2nd March 1956. Sue mentioned that Peter and Doreen attended many rallies in CLU 81 in the 50s – indeed Pete Thompson has several photos of the car in the Club Library. See the MTWC badge on the radiator. Does anyone have any information about the car? 6 100 Year Old Morgans - a series Dennis Plater MC 7722: 1913 Morgan - Sporting Model This is the early three-wheeled Morgan owned by the Science Museum, London, whose Collections Information Officer, Rory Cook, provided much of the information used in this article: Date of first registration: 31st December 1913 Car/body number: 387 (on the engine timing case cover) Chassis number: LVLO399CV 1703 Engine: JAP air-cooled side-valve no. 30829 Magneto: Bosch ZEV, no.1394811 Model: Sporting Nothing is known about this Morgan’s Land Transport Gallery until the Gallery was history until 1938. The DVLA Registration closed in 1996. Since then it appears to have Document does not record any former owners; languished in the Museum’s Reserve collection however, it does show the date of registration at Wroughton. as 31st December 1913. Another mystery is that On the Registration Document, no car or body the MC series of registration marks was issued by Middlesex County Council between August 1917 and August 1920.