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| 20/01/2012 : Annual Dinner and Prize Giving |
This year’s Annual Dinner and Prize Giving will again be held at the Ship Hotel in Weybridge and will be on Saturday, 21st April.
The cost of the three course dinner is £32 per person and nearer to the date a menu selection form will be sent to everyone attending.
For those wishing to stay overnight, special bed and breakfast rates of £75.00 for a double room and £65.00 for a single room have been negotiated with the hotel. Room reservations should be made directly with the hotel (Tel. 01932 848364) quoting Booking Reference ‘MG2104’. For those of you wanting some Triple-M activity before the dinner, there will be an informal light lunch at Peter Green’s home in Farnham Royal followed by a scenic run of approximately 35 miles to the Ship Hotel. There will be a nominal charge of £5 per person to cover the cost of the lunch and route map.
This year our dinner will not coincide with the MG Day at Brooklands (which is taking place on Easter Sunday, 8th April). Following consultation with those members who have attended the Annual Dinner over the past five years the general consensus was that holding the dinner over the Easter weekend would not be the preferred date. Therefore, the Committee has decided not to combine the two events this year. Instead, we have arranged a visit to Polesden Lacey, a National Trust property in Great Bookham, Surrey on Sunday, 22nd April. Polesden Lacey is a beautiful country house and gardens which was bought by Mrs. Grenville, an Edwardian hostess, in 1906 and re-modelled to be the perfect setting for her famous weekend parties where she entertained royalty, politicians and the best of society. You will be able to enjoy the estate with its many walks and stunning views across the Surrey hills and marvel at the lavishly decorated rooms in the house. You can also enjoy the impressive formal gardens, including the famous Rose Garden. There is also a restaurant and a coffee shop where you can have anything from a cup of coffee to a home cooked lunch. Polesden Lacey has kindly agreed that everyone visiting with a Triple-M car can park outside the house and not in the general pay and display car park. Entry into Polesden Lacey (house and gardens) costs £10.40 per person, unless you are a National Trust member in which case it is free.
If you wish to attend the dinner and/or visit Polesden Lacey, please complete the booking form which can be downloaded from the ‘Document Downloads’ page of this website and return to Elizabeth Taylor as soon as possible. Elizabeth’s contact details are:- Oakend, Hazelhurst Road, Burnham, Buckinghamshire, SL1 8EE. Tel: 01628 665055. E-mail: e.taylor@oakend.net.
PG
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| 13/01/2012 : Free offer from the Library |
Following the end of year stock take, the Library has a surplus of 50th Anniversary "tax disc" holders which were previously priced at £2 each. These will now be distributed free to all Library customers, one per order placed after 15th January 2012, courtesy of the Triple M Register Committee following a highly successful 50th Anniversary Year.
Peter Hemmings, (Hon. Librarian) |
| 19/09/2011 : 50th Anniversary Car Badge. |
The first run of 50th Anniversary Car Badges sold out very quickly, so we have produced another batch which are now available for £24 each including worldwide postage. This is a quality item, enamel on chrome with standard badge bar clip two hole fixing. It is illustrated on the "Library Sales" pages.
Be quick, they probably will not be around for long and this is definitely the last batch!
Peter Hemmings (Hon. Librarian) |
| 13/04/2011 : Library News |
I am pleased to report that the Register Library has obtained further stock of Mike Hawke's popular book "75 Years of the MG J2 Midget". Copies are once more available at £25 each , plus postage. Full ordering details are on the Library Sales section of this website.
Peter Hemmings, Hon. Librarian |
| 04/12/2010 : Mike Hawke |
Mike Hawke
1934 - 2010
It is with heavy heart that I report the passing of Mike Hawke, following a fall at his home.
I first met Mike at an MG Car Club meeting on the old Heston aerodrome in 1958 or 1959, when he was driving his well known J2, and I my F Magna. He was enthusiastic and encouraging of my participation, swelling the number of pre-war MG’s at the meeting to two! He stressed that there were quite a number of us, and that we should not be backwards in taking part in events. He was shortly to move from South London to the West Country, but I still met him at meetings occasionally, even visiting him during the start up of the Triple-M Register.
Following the formation of the Triple-M Register, in 1961, he was one of the first to join, and his J2 bears number three. When we arranged the following year for a race for Triple-M cars, his was one of the first entries, and of course he won the race, which was pre Mary Harris Trophy, but started a tradition which continues to this day as a feature of the MGCC Silverstone meeting.
Mike had, in fact, owned the J2 since 1953 when a student at the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth. He later went to the Royal Naval Engineering College at Manadon, eventually graduating, and working for the MOD, Naval Department, his first posting being to Corsham. However, his work on submarine design took him up to Barrow-in-Furness. He then went on a secondment to the Far East, and went out of circulation, so far as the MGCC was concerned, but quickly got involved with the local Singapore Car Club! It was there that he found some of the remains of a K3 which had gone there with Mick Jennings pre-war, and then been spread around the area with the arrival of a surprisingly unsympathetic Japanese Army. From these remains, he reconstructed the car, which had been R.T.Horton’s when new.
On return from Singapore he returned to Barrow-in-Furness, then transferred to Scotland, and of course, became involved with the MGCC in those areas, competing in events in the faithful J2. Eventually he returned to the Bath area, and became Secretary of the Triple-M Register, for a period of some ten years, enlivening our committee meetings.
His retirement came in 1993, which proved the right time to take up Chairmanship of the MGCC for three years, and was created a Vice President when he retired from that office. Mike was very good at meeting members, and was as enthusiastic to new members as he had been with me all those years previously.
In the meantime, he has written four books, the “K3 Dossier“, the official history of the MGCC, and two books regarding the J2, somehow finding time for these tasks in a full and busy life.
Although Triple-M cars filled a lot of his time, Mike also owned other models, including a Midget for over thirty years, He has also owned an MGC, and recently has used an MGF for more important journeys.
He also managed a family life, and was always supported by Ann, who was seen at his side at most meetings. They had met, and married in 1960. His sons Marcus and Jeremy were also often seen with them, and Jeremy is an enthusiastic and regular competitor like his father, as is one of his grand-daughters.
A man of strong Christian faith, he was a lay preacher at his church, but never sought to impose his beliefs on others.
Mike and I were always friends, and although we met more seldom these days, we would always pick up where we left off. His reply to my inevitable query as to how he was, was an unvarying: “Pretty fit, Old Boy!“ Mike fought cancer and last time I saw him was pleased to tell me he was now in full remission, so it came as a shock to learn of his accident and subsequent demise.
We will all miss Mike, his enthusiasm, and above all his friendship. However our sympathy is to Ann, Marcus and Jeremy, and to their families, of whom Mike was justly proud.
MFLA
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| 27/06/2003 : How do I contribute? |
Hi
My name is Nick Feakes and I am the webmaster for this site. If you would like to make a contribution (items for a forum you may enter yourself after registering and logging on. See FAQ for help), send it to me at nfeakes@hotmail.com and I will add it to the appropriate page. You may attach pictures in almost any format but .jpg is easiest for me.
You may also send pictures to Peter Green (p.green@mgk3.co.uk)
Nick |
| 27/06/2003 : Welcome to the Triple-M website! |
Please browse these pages, digest the information, give us your comments, and most important of all, send us items that you think will be of interest to other Triple-M owners. Remember this is your site.
This News Page will let you know of important changes or updates to the site as well as highlighting news of other Triple-M activity.
Tell us of events in your area which you think would attract Triple-M owners. Send us the details, including organisers contact details, and we will add them to the Events Page. And don’t forget a few lines for the Event Reports Page, to tell others what happened or remind people what they missed!
If you have any Triple-M related pictures you would like to share with other Triple-M owners just send them to us and we will fill a library that others can enjoy. Include the approximate date taken (the library is structured in Monthly blocks) and a brief description. If you already have a web site that stores photos you have taken and you would like to share them with a wider audience, advise our Webmaster and a direct link can be arranged.
The latest Car Of The Year, Speed Championship and Slade Trophy tables are listed along with the Rules for each competition. You can send your COTY claims to the Competition Secretary by e-mail or post.
A Retro page is included which will reproduce a selected number of old MG Magazine articles.
Register your Triple-M car, or update the details we hold on your Triple-M car by using our on-line service. Updates will be sent direct to our Registrar.
If there is a topic, technical or otherwise, you wish to discuss with a wider audience, check out the Forum page. You can view the content of any Forum but you will have to Register and Login to add to the discussion or raise your own topic. Registration is simple but essential. Please follow the instructions from the relevant pull-down menus. The area is under the overall control of the Webmaster. Please do not add inappropriate or offensive comment which, in any case, is liable to be removed and may result in your Registration being withdrawn.
If you want to buy or sell a Triple-M car please use this site, it's free. Supply a description of your car and an optional photograph. Please indicate if the picture is not of the actual car for sale and, most important, please indicate if it is a private or trade sale.
It's now up to you! Please help to keep this site topical, it is for your benefit. Don't delay, do it NOW! |
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