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| 23/02/2010 : Flat Cap & Whippet Weekend - increased entry capacity |
The original maximum entry of 80 people was dictated by the dining room capacity at Appleby Manor, the base hotel, and was filled within two weeks of entry details being announced.
However, after recent negotiations, the organisers are now able to offer entry to another 20 people (10 – 12 cars) on a slightly altered dining arrangement. These ‘additional’ entrants would be seated in a smaller dining room adjacent to the one occupied by the original entrants, all other event features will be exactly the same.
If you are interested in entering, and agree to the above condition, please complete and submit your entry form as soon as possible. See Document Downloads page for full event details. Accommodation at the base hotel is also full but local B&B facilities are plentiful.
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| 31/01/2010 : 3rd Flat Cap and Whippet Weekend |
As mentioned in an earlier posting, the Register’s main touring event in 2010 will be another Flat Cap and Whippet Weekend in the north of England. Based in Appleby-in-Westmorland, we will tour the Lake District and North Pennine area between 12th and 15th August.
On the earlier announcement members were invited to contact the organisers so their name could be put on a provisional interest list. As an incentive, it was agreed that entry details would be sent to members on this list two weeks prior to general release. This has been a popular decision as we have already reached the entry maximum of 80 people.
If you have not already entered but would like to, the organisers will be happy to put your entry on a reserve list should an existing one drop out. This would be on a first-come-first-served basis. We are also looking into the possibility of expanding capacity, and again any potential new entrants will be informed in due course. Please contact Terry Hartley: t.hartley555@ntlworld.com if you are interested.
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| 09/01/2010 : Triple-M Register Annual Dinner. NEW DATE - NEW VENUE - NEW FORMAT |
As previously mentioned in Safety Fast and the Bulletin, the date and venue of our annual dinner have been changed to take into consideration the results of the questionnaire that was sent out last year.
This year’s date, Saturday 10th April, has been chosen to coincide with the ‘MG Day’ at Brooklands on Sunday 11th April and the venue for the dinner is The Ship Hotel in Weybridge, a former coaching inn dating back to 1729 which is situated close to Brooklands.
The cost of the three course dinner is £30 per person and nearer to the date a menu selection form will be sent to those who will be attending.
For those wishing to stay overnight, special bed and breakfast rates of £63 for a double room and £56 for a single room have been negotiated with the hotel. Room reservations should be made directly with the hotel (Tel. 01932 848364) quoting ‘Triple-M reference 108931’.
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 40 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.
Finally, a discounted entry fee to the ‘MG Day’ at Brooklands on Sunday 11th April is available for those attending the dinner. For those of you who have never been to this event there is always a good turnout of pre-war MGs and during the course of the morning there is a Pride of Ownership competition. In the afternoon there are runs up the test hill and on the banking for those that wish to do so in their Triple-M car. You will of course have unlimited access to the museum all day.
We do hope that by changing the date and format of our annual dinner and prize giving it will encourage more people to attend.
If you wish to attend the dinner 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.
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| 14/09/2009 : Triple-M Register |
For 2010, the Register’s main touring event will, once again, be a Flat Cap & Whippet weekend in the North of England. This, the 3rd FC&W event, will be based in the Lake District/North Pennine area, thereby ensuring we continue our traditional combination of ‘energetic’ touring with stunning scenery.
To make it a more advantageous stay, especially for entrants who have travelled a long distance, the 2010 event will extend over 4 days, from Thursday 12th to Sunday 15th of August.
Favorable terms have been negotiated with a top-class Country House Hotel and a programme of events is currently being put together for a thoroughly enjoyable time. Once again we are aiming for an all-inclusive entry cost covering meals, coffee stops and entertainments etc.
Full entry details and costs will be published later on in Safety Fast!, The Bulletin and on this website. Meanwhile, please feel free to contact the joint organisers, Terry Hartley 0113 2941329 t.hartley555@ntlworld.com and Bob Walker 01423 322293 aldboroughforge@btinternet.com , without obligation, to be put on a list of members interested in joining us. This event will be limited to a maximum of 40 cars (80 people).
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| 15/07/2009 : 2008 Yearbook and 2009 Register |
Published on 10th July in time for MG Live! at Silverstone the latest Triple-M register Yearbook is now available at a cost of £12 plus postage from the Triple M Library. Contents include:
- A Tale of Two C types
- MG Rallying in the 1930s
- A Trialing C Type
- Rebuilding Triple-M engines
- A J2 my Father owned in the 60s
Plus all the usual round up of events in the "Competition Year" of 2008, superbly illustrated and including 16 pages in colour.
Also now available from the Library is the latest listing of all cars known to the Register at a cost of £8 plus postage. Only 100 copies of the 2009 Register have been printed, so order yours soon.
Full ordering details are available on the Library sales pages of the website
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| 26/03/2009 : Triple-M Bulletin On The Web |
The Triple-M Bulletin is now available for you to read and download from this web site. This is an additional facility to complement the Bulletin subscription service, which continues – see Bulletin Subscription for details of how you can receive the publication through the post.
The current Bulletin will be posted on the web on the last day of the month of publication to ensure that all those who subscribe to the service will have received their copies first.
There is also a simple index to view covering the recent Bulletin publications and this will continue to be updated.
Earlier editions of the Bulletin will be posted on the web as time allows.
The Register is very grateful to all those who have helped, in their various ways, in bringing this service to fruition.
The web Bulletin files are less than 2Mb in size but due allowance must be made for the speed of your internet access when performing a file download. |
| 22/02/2009 : Triple-M Speed Championship Events for 2009 |
The events that make up the Speed Championship for 2009 are the same mix of sprints and hill climbs as in previous years with, as always, the addition of the 'Mary Harris' Silverstone race. You will find the events marked with ** on the Events page of this site.
In addition to the events shown, other, non-MGCC sprint and hill climb events can be included provided they are matched by entry in the same number of MGCC events.
In all cases, results from your best five events will count toward the Championship. |
| 06/02/2009 : New website facility for the News and Cars For Sale pages |
| You should be able to see a (new) symbol appear against the ‘News’ and ‘Cars For Sale’ sections when you open the web site at the Home page, indicating that something has been added to these pages since you last logged on. If this does not show on your PC it is probable that the way your machine handles cookies needs to be altered. A procedure has been written to allow you to check and adjust your cookie profile and is available as a Document Download on this web site, in the Technical section. |
| 05/02/2009 : MG Live |
| The date for MG Live (the new name for the annual MGCC Silverstone meeting) has been confirmed as 10th 11th and 12th July 2009. Full details will be available shortly on its dedicated website www.mglive.com |
| 02/02/2009 : Pictures on the Triple-M Forum |
The forum section of the website has been enhanced; pictures can now be incorporated in a posting. The pictures do however have to come from a third party’s website for security reasons; an automatic link to the picture is created within the forum posting. There are many photo hosting websites and for those members who do not use one at present we are recommending that you use Flickr (www.flickr.com).
Instructions on how to attach a picture to a posting from Flickr can be downloaded from the technical page of the ‘Document Downloads’ section of this website. These instructions are for PC users, Mac users might find the process slightly different. |
| 23/01/2009 : On-line auction |
“The Vintage Minor Register is holding an online Midsummer Auction of vintage and pre-war Morris and MG spares, automobilia, etc. and have invited us to participate by selling and/or bidding for items. The auction website can be found by following the Midsummer Auction link on their website home page at www.vintageminor.co.uk.
Also on the Register’s home page is a link to their Summer Rally website and, as usual, all MMM members are warmly invited to join in any or all of the weekend’s activities and socializing. The Rally will take place in and around Prescott and the Cotswolds over the VSCC Prescott weekend, and, will provide a navigation rally and scenic tour on Saturday as a more active alternative to watching the practice.”
Cheers and best regards,
Ian Grace
VMR |
| 21/01/2009 : Triple-M Profile web page |
A new feature, now available on the web site, is a section devoted to profiles of the various cars making up the Triple-M family.
These are intentionally brief descriptions as there are many excellent books available, which you are recommended to read and digest, that explain in greater detail the background and genesis of the many models of MG produced between 1929 and 1936.
The profiles will also help the casual MG visitor to our web site gain an insight to these fascinating and sometimes frustrating cars that we enjoy.
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| 09/01/2009 : Bob Hudson: 1934-2008 - an appreciaton by Mike Allison |
As one gets older, it is inevitable that we should lose friends and relations, especially contemporaries. However, when one leaves as Bob did, it comes very hard indeed for those who are left to accept the fact. He was crossing the road, and hit by a motor vehicle, the driver of which did not stop, leaving Bob in the road, with serious head injuries. Despite all the best efforts of the staff at John Radcliff Hospital Oxford, Bob succumbed on 16 December. I understand that the Police have now charged a person believed to have been responsible.
Bob was one of my large circle of Triple-M friends, one of those who joined in the first year of the Register, and who became a good and close friend.
In a previous life he had, as befits someone brought up literally by the Thames, become a keen rower, and had silverware to prove that he had been successful. About three years ago the five who made up a onetime successful crew (coxed fours) met, and took part in the veterans race at Henley… although it was admitted that the former Cox was not with them, having grown a little in the intervening years! Bob was in his customary No 2 place, and the crew still put up a creditable show, and Bob had the video to prove it.
Bob took up motor racing, in a Ford Special which he had built himself, the sort of thing we did back in the late 1950’s, but since his everyday car was an 18/80 saloon, he hankered after a suitable vintage MG to race. In this he was encouraged by Mel Jones, and other MG enthusiasts. He bought an M-type, but this got stolen before he could undertake any serious work on it, and was recovered from the Thames just as the Triple-M Register was forming.
His reply to my letter of invitation to join the Register was that he thought he was on the trail of a C-type, which he subsequently bought and rebuilt and then raced with some success for a number of years, until his work took him to firstly to Scotland, and then to Ireland.
Bob was an electrical engineer by training, and spent most of his working life designing large scale electrical equipment. When he retired from the Company, he and Sandra returned to London, and then moved out to Reading, to be near their daughter, who had settled there. He was involved doing peripatetic electrical work for various car restorers in the area.
On his return he got the C-type out again, and had it restored, and then started using it for a wide variety of events, including the second MMM Raid to New England a couple of years ago, of which he was a prime organiser.
Always a keen Register man, he joined the committee, and was “Safety Fast!” Register Scribe for two or three years. He certainly enjoyed the past few years with the MG and in the Club and Register activities. Just recently he was rebuilding himself a PB Midget, which sadly is not yet finished, just as his life itself was not really finished.
Bob was a devoted husband, father and grandfather, for whom the family was always first in his considerations. He was a gentle man, in the literal sense of the term, as well as being a thoroughly nice friend to have. He will be sadly missed by all, not least by Sandra, and their children, Nick, John and Elizabeth with their respective partners, and their granddaughter Mya, with whom our thoughts are at this difficult time.
MFLA
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| 30/12/2008 : Library update |
New for the New Year on the Library sales pages are thumbnail pictures of the various reproductions of original sales leaflets that are available from the Library. These are intended to not only help with choosing but to whet your appetite with the very high standards that they have been produced to. What is more prices of items have not been increased for many years and they now represent outstanding value compared to the current cost of production - not to mention the cost of originals! Be sure to be quick if you are interested as a few items are now in very short supply and can no longer be cost effectively reprinted.
More illustrations of Library goods will be appearing over the next few weeks. |
| 25/11/2008 : Picture section of website |
I am pleased to announce that the picture pages have been improved. The main improvement is the addition of a section where historical pictures are displayed. At present any picture more than twenty years old is being classified as historical, you will notice that there are pictures going back to the 1930’s.
I am indebted to Chris Baughan for supplying us with many of the pictures he took at Club events in the 1970’s, and to Oliver Richardson who has let us copy many of the pre-war pictures he has collected over the years, these pictures have enabled us to start this section. If anyone has any historical Triple-M pictures that they would like to have displayed in this section please get in touch with me.
Another improvement is that it is now possible to scroll through pictures, by using your keyboard arrow keys or the on screen control panel, without having to return to the thumbnails and it is now also possible to display more than one picture on the screen at a time. The size of the pictures has also been increased but unfortunately this does not apply to pictures that have already been uploaded.
It has been necessary to disable the right mouse button copy facility on the historical picture page so as to protect the picture copyright.
Peter Green
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| 19/11/2008 : Annual Dinner Questionnaire |
Unfortunately there has been an intermittent fault with the security code feature of the questionnaire (see 'News' item 17/11/2008 below) which has resulted in some people not being able to submit their completed questionnaire. I am pleased to say that the fault has now been rectified. If anyone has any difficulty in submitting the questionnaire in the future please could you let me know via e-mail p.green@mgk3.co.uk
Peter Green |
| 19/11/2008 : The Exmoor Rut |
Our main Triple-M weekend will take place over the weekend of 29th-31st May next year, based in the heart of Exmoor. The format is similar to previous Triple-M weekends, which people seem to like. So signing-on begins on Friday afternoon/evening at the hotel, with dinner and entertainment. The Saturday has runs through amazing scenery, visits to famous trials hills such as Beggars Roost and Cloutsham, with a morning coffee stop and a buffet lunch. In the evening there will be another dinner in the hotel with more entertainment. The Sunday tour takes you through further beautiful Exmoor scenery finishing with a buffet lunch, after which the rally ends to allow people to get home that day. More details of the weekend will be brought to you in the next Bulletin.
The cost of the rally, which includes all the meals and coffee stops, will be £100 for the driver and car, and £85 for each passenger. A £25 deposit is initially required for each entry, with the balance payable by April 30th. Your entry will be confirmed by e-mail or telephone, and the details of the hotel then given for entrants to book their accommodation. The hotel has 28 rooms, all of which have been reserved by the organisers, which is why they want to have confirmed entries in before allocating the hotel. A good rate of £110 for 2 night’s bed and breakfast has been negotiated. Once this hotel is full there is another hotel and B&B virtually next door.
Full details and entry forms will be available shortly on the website or by contacting the joint organisers Derek Richards (e-mail derek.richards@virgin.net Tel.01935 862180), or Alan Grassam (Tel. 01935 863673), who will also be happy to answer any queries you have.
Entry form available in "Document Downloads"
Nick |
| 17/11/2008 : Annual Dinner Questionnaire |
The Triple-M Register Committee would like to know the members’ views regarding the Register’s Annual Dinner before the date and venue are set for the 2009 event. A simple questionnaire has been compiled and we would be very grateful if you could spare a few moments to complete it, your help would be very much appreciated.
Please click here to access the questionnaire.
Peter Green.
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| 09/11/2008 : J3 Booklet now again available |
The Triple M Library has secured a further small supply of Ed Taylor's book "The MG Midget(Supercharged)J3" from Australia. Matching the Yearbook in size and quality this contains " a collection of historical snippets on the status of the 22 cars" and is well illustrated throughout in black and white with multi-coloured covers. A must for J3 and 1930's motor sport fans and a good addition to any Triple M Library.
This sold out quickly at Silverstone 2007 so order your copy now.
See the Library Sales pages for ordering information. |
| 23/08/2008 : The Royal Windsor MG Heritage Festival - April 2009 |
The Rotary Club of Windsor and Eton, in conjunction with the main MG car clubs, are organising in April 2009 a fund raising event in Windsor for The Prince Philip Trust Fund (the date has not been finally agreed with Her Majesty The Queen and Prince Philip but it will be either the 18th or 25th April). It is the organisers intention that there will be a total of 300 cars which will cover all the models and their variants ever produced by MG.
The cars that are selected by the organisers will take part in a parade on the Saturday through the streets of Windsor, which will finish with a Royal review in the inner quadrangle at Windsor Castle. Following the Royal review the cars will leave the inner quadrangle of Windsor Castle through the private gate into the Frogmore Parade Ground area of Windsor Great Park, where they will assemble for viewing by the public who will gain entry by buying a souvenir programme, the proceeds of which will go to The Prince Philip Trust Fund. There will be other linked events taking place over the weekend, all of which will be optional, the proceeds from these events will also go to The Prince Philip Trust Fund.
The MG Car Club in conjunction with the Triple-M Register have been asked by the organisers to produce a list of all known examples of Triple-M models and their variants, together with a list of owners of fine original examples of these cars that would like to take part.
If you believe your Triple-M car is suitable for this display and you wish to take part in this ‘once in a life time’ event and are prepared to make a donation of £75 to The Prince Philip Trust Fund, please e-mail me ( p.green@mgk3.co.uk ) full details of your car and your contact details so that I can forward them to the organisers. Later this year the organisers will send out letters with full details of the event to all the people who have shown an interest in taking part, it will be at this time that owners will be asked for their commitment to take part in whatever parts of the event they wish. By showing interest in the event now you will not be committing yourself to any part of it. For security reasons it has been stipulated that all cars must be UK registered and all owners must hold a UK passport, so unfortunately this precludes any European cars taking part.
Peter Green
Chairman, Triple-M Register
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| 11/08/2008 : Use PayPal |
| You may now use PayPal to pay for Bulletin subscriptions. See Bulletin subscription section. |
| 03/05/2008 : September Road Run to Rodmarton Manor |
| Download the details and entry form from the "Documents Download" section |
| 13/01/2005 : MGs On Track |
Just over 12 months ago, the MGCC formed a new branch called MGs On Track. The formal announcement was made in January 2004 “Safety Fast”. The object is to encourage owners to experience driving their cars uninterrupted on smooth tarmac, no road junctions, no speed cameras and no one coming the other way (hopefully!). It should be stressed that it is NOT racing but simply an opportunity to take your car out on a track and have fun – safely.
If you are interested in learning more, log on to the MGOT web site at www.mgs-on-track.com where you will also be able to register. Alternatively, you can e-mail Dave Livingston on dave@mgs-on-track.com . Dave Livingstone and Steve Hill were instrumental in supporting the Club with the first Silverstone track day and they head up a very active group of regular MG Track Day drivers.
Mike Linward
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| 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! |
| 27/06/2003 : How do I contribute? |
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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 |
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