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TR Action 255

Our November meeting at the Kings Head was well attended by a total of 24 members with a good selection of TRs in the car park on a fine sunny autumn day. This included a new member, James Barker, who travelled from Old Colwyn in his recently acquired TR6. I took the opportunity of using my own TR6 to check for leaks following the fitting of a new heater matrix. Fortunately everything seems fine, although re-fitting the heater was a fiddly job.

Our Group Leader Graham Edwards and his wife Jane had not long returned from a short break in the Cotswolds during which they had taken the opportunity to attend the Cotswold Vale monthly meet at The Fleece Inn at Bretforton. They both wish to thank Andy Canning and the Cotswold Vale members for the warm welcome they received.

On the subject of the Cotswolds we have decided that our next annual weekend away will once again be centred on Broadway. Unfortunately we will miss the local group’s meeting as we will not be travelling down until Friday 25 May 2012. The weekend will extend to Monday 28 May and some of us are intending to stay over for the whole week. This event has been brought forward as a number of our members are intending to travel to Classic Le Mans in early July. Anyone wishing to go to this event should contact out Deputy Group Leader Phil Griffiths for further information.

Before this however we will be having our annual dinner on Friday 20 January 2012 at the Plas Hafod Hotel Gwernymynydd near Mold Flintshire. Last year’s dinner was very well attended and we hope that this year’s will also be well attended.

Our meeting on 5 February 2012 will also be our annual general meeting when we will attend to group business and also discuss other events for the forthcoming year.

During a recent visit to Malta I took the opportunity to visit the car museum in Bugibba which has a good selection of vehicles including a Triumph TR3, Spitfire, GT6 and 2000 saloon. It is well worth a visit if you are in the area and this month’s photo features a rather nicely restored Wolseley Hornet Special parked outside the entrance.
Hopefully everyone has had an enjoyable Christmas and is looking forward to the Spring and Summer and a new season of Club events.

As always all Register members in North Wales and beyond are welcome to join with us, so please make contact if you would like to get the best out of your TR.

TR Action 254

This final week in September has produced incredibly warm weather for the time of the year during which my own TR6 has been out every day. Unfortunately the wall to wall sunshine did not carry over to Sunday 2 October, our normal meeting day, for which Phil Griffiths had arranged a visit to the Mouldsworth Motor Museum in the Cheshire countryside.

Even though it was overcast twelve TRs and a GT6 met up at the Stamford Bridge Inn near Chester before setting off in convoy to the motor museum. The proprietor Jim Peacop welcomed us and gave a very interesting talk on the history of the museum and some of the fascinating exhibits. Jim was for many years a well-respected cartoonist for a number of national publications and latterly a lecturer in art at a Cheshire college. His interest in art combined with his long standing passion for all kinds of vehicles has produced a very wide range of exhibits which are well worth viewing. One particularly interesting exhibit which is this month’s featured photograph is a 1932 Morris Minor McEvoy Special with a Jensen sports body. Of the sixty cars built in 1932 onlyfour remain and this is the only one to be seen in the UK. Following the museum a number of cars went on to Peckforton Castle for afternoon refreshments.

Planning is already taking place for a group trip to Classic Le Mans next year courtesy of Peter McIlveen, and Graham our group leader is asking those members who would like to go on next year’s weekend away to the Cotswolds from 25 to 27/28 May 2012 to email him as soon as possible.

Our next group event of note will be our annual dinner which normally takes place at the end of January and no doubt we will be discussing the venue for this at our next meeting in November.

As always all Register members in North Wales and beyond are welcome to join with us, so please make contact if you would like to get the best out of your TR.

TR Action 253

Eighteen members of the North Wales Group (approximately 50% of our total membership) attended this year’s International Weekend in Harrogate. The general consensus was that it was a very successful event combined with excellent weather. Thanks go to all those involved in organising the Weekend which as with all such events requires a great deal of planning and hard work behind the scenes.

Our meeting on 7 August combined a run out organised by Phil and Janet Griffiths. We all met on the A5 near Chirk and set off for Lake Vyrnwy in Powys. Our North West co-ordinator Mike Sloan and his wife joined us having set off a couple of hours earlier from their home in Yorkshire. The weather was generally dry if a bit cloudy as seven TRs and an MGB set off in convoy arriving at Lake Vyrnwy for lunch. This was followed by a run (in the cars) around the Lake eventually taking one of the mountain passes over to Bala where we stopped briefly by Bala Lake before following our separate routes home. Thanks go to Phil and Janet for a most enjoyable day out through some stunning countryside.

The August bank holiday week end saw a number of our members display their cars at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park motor racing circuit in Cheshire. This is one of the bigger events at the circuit which over the Sunday and Monday held a total of eighteen races featuring a whole range of historic and classic racing, sports and saloon cars. Several hundred classic cars were on display including a good selection of TRs. This is always an event worth attending for those who have any interest in motor sport.

The event also celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the launch of the E Type Jaguar and interestingly parked immediately behind our stand was prototype series 1 roadster 77 RW. This is the oldest surviving roadster which in the hands of Norman Dewis made a high speed journey from Coventry to Geneva in March 1961 at the behest of Sir William Lyons.

The meeting at the Kings Head Llanrhaeadr on 4 September attracted fourteen TRs and a GT6 with two new members attending, Matt from Hope in Flintshire and John from Bodfari in Denbighshire, both in yellow TR6s. As the weather was so fine the meeting was followed by a run to Llyn Brenig up on the Denbigh moors.

For our October meeting we intend to visit the Mouldsworth Motor Museum in nearby Cheshire. As always all Register members in North Wales and beyond are welcome to join with us, so please make contact if you would like to get the best out of your TR.


Last Updated: 17/01/2012 13:37:29	Social Scene TR Action 255 Our November meeting at the Kings Head was well attended by a total of 24 members with a good selection of TRs in the car park on a fine sunny autumn day. This included a new member, James Barker, who travelled from Old Colwyn in his recently acquired TR6. I took the opportunity of using my own TR6 to check for leaks following the fitting of a new heater matrix. Fortunately everything seems fine, although re-fitting the heater was a fiddly job. Our Group Leader Graham Edwards and his wife Jane had not long returned from a short break in the Cotswolds during which they had taken the opportunity to attend the Cotswold Vale monthly meet at The Fleece Inn at Bretforton. They both wish to thank Andy Canning and the Cotswold Vale members for the warm welcome they received. On the subject of the Cotswolds we have decided that our next annual weekend away will once again be centred on Broadway. Unfortunately we will miss the local group’s meeting as we will not be travelling down until Friday 25 May 2012. The weekend will extend to Monday 28 May and some of us are intending to stay over for the whole week. This event has been brought forward as a number of our members are intending to travel to Classic Le Mans in early July. Anyone wishing to go to this event should contact out Deputy Group Leader Phil Griffiths for further information. Before this however we will be having our annual dinner on Friday 20 January 2012 at the Plas Hafod Hotel Gwernymynydd near Mold Flintshire. Last year’s dinner was very well attended and we hope that this year’s will also be well attended. Our meeting on 5 February 2012 will also be our annual general meeting when we will attend to group business and also discuss other events for the forthcoming year. During a recent visit to Malta I took the opportunity to visit the car museum in Bugibba which has a good selection of vehicles including a Triumph TR3, Spitfire, GT6 and 2000 saloon. It is well worth a visit if you are in the area and this month’s photo features a rather nicely restored Wolseley Hornet Special parked outside the entrance. Hopefully everyone has had an enjoyable Christmas and is looking forward to the Spring and Summer and a new season of Club events. As always all Register members in North Wales and beyond are welcome to join with us, so please make contact if you would like to get the best out of your TR. TR Action 254 This final week in September has produced incredibly warm weather for the time of the year during which my own TR6 has been out every day. Unfortunately the wall to wall sunshine did not carry over to Sunday 2 October, our normal meeting day, for which Phil Griffiths had arranged a visit to the Mouldsworth Motor Museum in the Cheshire countryside. Even though it was overcast twelve TRs and a GT6 met up at the Stamford Bridge Inn near Chester before setting off in convoy to the motor museum. The proprietor Jim Peacop welcomed us and gave a very interesting talk on the history of the museum and some of the fascinating exhibits. Jim was for many years a well-respected cartoonist for a number of national publications and latterly a lecturer in art at a Cheshire college. His interest in art combined with his long standing passion for all kinds of vehicles has produced a very wide range of exhibits which are well worth viewing. One particularly interesting exhibit which is this month’s featured photograph is a 1932 Morris Minor McEvoy Special with a Jensen sports body. Of the sixty cars built in 1932 onlyfour remain and this is the only one to be seen in the UK. Following the museum a number of cars went on to Peckforton Castle for afternoon refreshments. Planning is already taking place for a group trip to Classic Le Mans next year courtesy of Peter McIlveen, and Graham our group leader is asking those members who would like to go on next year’s weekend away to the Cotswolds from 25 to 27/28 May 2012 to email him as soon as possible. Our next group event of note will be our annual dinner which normally takes place at the end of January and no doubt we will be discussing the venue for this at our next meeting in November. As always all Register members in North Wales and beyond are welcome to join with us, so please make contact if you would like to get the best out of your TR. TR Action 253 Eighteen members of the North Wales Group (approximately 50% of our total membership) attended this year’s International Weekend in Harrogate. The general consensus was that it was a very successful event combined with excellent weather. Thanks go to all those involved in organising the Weekend which as with all such events requires a great deal of planning and hard work behind the scenes. Our meeting on 7 August combined a run out organised by Phil and Janet Griffiths. We all met on the A5 near Chirk and set off for Lake Vyrnwy in Powys. Our North West co-ordinator Mike Sloan and his wife joined us having set off a couple of hours earlier from their home in Yorkshire. The weather was generally dry if a bit cloudy as seven TRs and an MGB set off in convoy arriving at Lake Vyrnwy for lunch. This was followed by a run (in the cars) around the Lake eventually taking one of the mountain passes over to Bala where we stopped briefly by Bala Lake before following our separate routes home. Thanks go to Phil and Janet for a most enjoyable day out through some stunning countryside. The August bank holiday week end saw a number of our members display their cars at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park motor racing circuit in Cheshire. This is one of the bigger events at the circuit which over the Sunday and Monday held a total of eighteen races featuring a whole range of historic and classic racing, sports and saloon cars. Several hundred classic cars were on display including a good selection of TRs. This is always an event worth attending for those who have any interest in motor sport. The event also celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the launch of the E Type Jaguar and interestingly parked immediately behind our stand was prototype series 1 roadster 77 RW. This is the oldest surviving roadster which in the hands of Norman Dewis made a high speed journey from Coventry to Geneva in March 1961 at the behest of Sir William Lyons. The meeting at the Kings Head Llanrhaeadr on 4 September attracted fourteen TRs and a GT6 with two new members attending, Matt from Hope in Flintshire and John from Bodfari in Denbighshire, both in yellow TR6s. As the weather was so fine the meeting was followed by a run to Llyn Brenig up on the Denbigh moors. For our October meeting we intend to visit the Mouldsworth Motor Museum in nearby Cheshire. As always all Register members in North Wales and beyond are welcome to join with us, so please make contact if you would like to get the best out of your TR.
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