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John James Tel: 0117 986 4224
jj@octagon.fsbusiness.co.uk www.tregister.org
The Autumn Tour 2009
After a very successful 2008 Autumn Tour based at Copdock near
Ipswich, planning is well advanced for the 2009 event. The 2009
Tour will be based at the Moorland Links Hotel, Yelverton,
Devon (www.moorlandlinkshotel.co.uk) on the southern
edge of Dartmoor National Park and will take place from
September 11–13 2009. This is one week later than normal
so please make sure you check your diary dates carefully.
The location of the hotel is ideal for two varied runs of around
100 miles on the Saturday and the Sunday. The first day will tour
Dartmoor with some stunning views and moorland scenery, and T Register Scribe
Sunday will see us travelling further to the South, although the Looking back, I see that I took over the job of T Register
details of that day have yet to be planned. If there is sufficient Safety Fast! scribe from Paddy Willmer in January 2003. Prior to this,
interest shown we may also add an extension on Monday with a I was also scribe for the Triple-M Register and in fact for a period of
short tour of Bodmin Moor. time I scribed concurrently for both Registers. Next month you will
Demand for this Tour is expected to be very high and it is going have a new scribe (he will introduce himself to you) although we will
to be a challenge to accommodate everybody as the hotel only has run in parallel for a while with me doing the January Newsletter.
45 bedrooms. Therefore, we are inviting applications on a first come, I will of course continue to nurture ‘my baby’ Totally T-Type
first served basis which should be accompanied by a cheque for £45 until Issue 50 (due in March 2011 – if I last that long!) at which point
made payable to ‘MGCC T Register’ for the entry fee. Please contact we will take a ‘rain check’.
the organisers Geoff & Annie Matthews 01840 214972 Talking of rain, this month’s photo is of Brian & Rosie Rainbow
geoff.matthews@yahoo.co.uk for an application form. in their amphibious TA on this year’s Autumn Tour.
Y TYPE
Neil Cairns Tel: 01525 217394 (answerphone)
scribe@mgytypes.org www.mgytypes.org
I hope the phone number given above will king pin is still there.
still reach me as due to a huge mess by BT Our engine was lifted from
after trying to get some initials changed on the Morris Ten series ‘M’
the bill heading, we may have lost it! I have after boring out to 1250cc
had quite a few replies to my letter in the from 1140cc. The gearbox
September SF! over semaphores and hand and rear axle came from the
signals on older vehicles. I might add that same Morris. So the little Y
many failed to see that the majority of ‘older Series uses quite a few bits
vehicles fitted with black and white number from the Nuffield corporate
plates’ are vintage and veteran motorcycles, parts bin, not to mention its
and ancient commercial vehicles. Not only Y Morris Eight series ‘E’ body.
Types have semaphores. Some of you know Everyone loves the Y Type,
that I also run an old motorcycle but no one loves that other
combination. No way can this vehicle have MG Saloon that used bits
‘flashing indicators’ fitted, so I rely on hand from the BMC corporate
signals that few seem to take any notice of. parts bin; mostly from the Austin Cambridge days, take the current BMW Mini. It is
No one has noticed the passing of the A55. The Farinas were of course huge family anything but ‘mini’ when parked next to a Y.
50th Anniversary of the Farina Magnette Saloon cars. The Y Type however is a very Finally, does anyone else suffer ‘American
either. That MG saloon was introduced in small, low built car. Just how small it is, is Gangster Movie Tyre Squeal’ on this new
November 1958, eleven years after our Y soon realised if you have an ample-sized ‘quieter’ road surfacing (the one where they
Type. Looking at the picture you could be passenger get in with you. Shoulders touch warn you of slippery surfaces until it is run-
forgiven if you assumed it is of a Y Type. It is and the gear lever becomes a bit of an in). I have cross-ply tyres fitted, and anything
not, and in fact is of a MGA 1600 MK2. But embarrassment if you grab the other’s thigh over 15mph on sharp corners and it sounds
just look at the mechanics, they are lifted instead! I often speed through narrow gaps as if I am doing 90 on two wheels. Heads
straight from the first 1947 YA saloon. A that have the following 4x4 or MPV skidding spin round to stare at me only to see what
closer study will show up disc brakes and to a halt as they are far too wide to get appears to be a 1930s Saloon car negotiating
spoked wheels, but that Morris threaded through. Even ‘small’ cars are huge these the corner at quite a low speed.
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