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leafrancis14
United Kingdom
323 Posts |
 Posted - 24/08/2015 : 21:58:38
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Got back last night from Lincolnshire via Mallory via Madresfield (on a trailer). Soundly beaten in the driving tests by Ian Goddard who had done all the same things but had driven! Well done Ian.
Anyway, very many thanks to the organisers for a great couple of days at Woodhall Spa. The Lincolnshire Wolds were very beautiful and the quiet little roads were perfect for our cars.
Loved the Triple M Race at Mallory 
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JMH
United Kingdom
911 Posts |
Posted - 25/08/2015 : 08:16:44
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We have one of our "big" spread coming up in SF - all photos greatly received at mgk3007@btinternet.com & a "volunteer" to do some words would be even better (first hand accounts are always the best).
JH |
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DickMorbey
United Kingdom
3677 Posts |
Posted - 25/08/2015 : 08:50:19
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Jeremy
I do know that Mike Hewson is doing a write up for the bulletin. I'll be circularising all the participants in a day or so and will ask for a volunteer for you.
In the meantime here's an aerial picture at one of our halts taken from a fortuitously positioned cherry picker!
Dick Morbey
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Frieth, Oxon, UK |
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Colin McLachlan
United Kingdom
991 Posts |
Posted - 25/08/2015 : 09:35:32
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Great tour, very enjoyable with lots of lovely roads to drive. The Lancaster was magnificent! Thanks to all the organisers for a great job. My thanks also to my impromptu navigator Nikki, and to Terry for lending her!
Colin
Markinch, Fife.
PA 0613
MG3242
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Terry Hartley
United Kingdom
279 Posts |
Posted - 25/08/2015 : 12:53:31
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I totally agree with Colin, the Lincolnshire tour was a cracking do. Keep these events coming, and keep them moving around the UK!
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L2Magna
United Kingdom
27 Posts |
Posted - 25/08/2015 : 17:11:51
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What impressed me was that the organisers had even ensured good weather when driving around the wolds. I took a few photographs while on tour, as suggested by JMH I will send the better ones on to mgk3007@btinternet.com. Mind you I am no photographer.
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Ray Masters
United Kingdom
568 Posts |
Posted - 25/08/2015 : 20:00:00
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On behalf of Barbara & I can I also express our thanks to the organizers of this fantastic tour. The weather , the roads , the places visited, the Petwood hotel were all greatly enjoyed. It is hard to imagine the amount of work put in by a handful of people to produce such an enjoyable few days.
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Oz34
United Kingdom
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Posted - 25/08/2015 : 21:05:18
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Claire and I would also like to send our thanks for a wonderfully organised event. A shame that Peter and Elizabeth after all their hard work, were not able to enjoy the fruits of their labours; at least Mike and Dick could.
Talking of our intrepid duo, don't worry those of you unable to go. They didn't waste Register funds on a helicopter for that marvellous shot:
Above and beyond the call of duty methinks!
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Nick Feakes
USA
3374 Posts |
Posted - 26/08/2015 : 12:59:30
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Great pictures, you certainly wouldn't get me up there!
Do we know anyone with a drone and camera for future events?
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ags
United Kingdom
275 Posts |
Posted - 26/08/2015 : 22:03:02
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Hi Dick, Elizabeth, Mike and Peter,
Both of us, Andrew and Lynne, would like to add our thanks and congratulations for the Lincoln-shire event. We did complete the event with no mechanical problems at all. To prove the latter we are actually hiding away in the darkest shadow next but one to the far end of the back row of the "cherry picked" photograph.
Things did not go quite perfectly though as the petrol pump stopped doing its job about half an hour into our homeward journey. Diagnosis was utterly simple, when you stop with all the symptoms of fuel starvation, open the bonnet and find the pump gently smoking it is all a bit obvious. The problem was an elderly capacitor that instead of protecting the points from sparking had gone short circuit and was bridging across them. Hence no pump action and no fuel.
My thanks are also due to Tony Margel who very kindly stopped, complete with hazard flashers to protect my back at just about the time that I had reached the above conclusion. After about an hour's total delay I had removed the smouldering capacitor and with it the short circuit, found that points and pump were operational and we proceeded on our way again. The original design of the pump (c. 1930 - 1931) did not have any anti-sparking protection for the points so that I was reasonably confident that they would last the two hundred miles or so to get us home. And they did. Better still the rest of the electrical system seems unharmed and no fuses seem to have blown, but a new condenser is now in place so that I do not have to rely any further on good luck.
(I know that I was able to rejoin the traffic before you could, Tony with your towed M, but I did keep an eye on the mirror until I knew that you would have turned northwards towards the A1 and Leeds). But thank you anyway for the invisible reassurance that you provided by following in my wheel tracks. Alls Well etc.
More Ramblings from Andrew Smith,
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tonym
United Kingdom
653 Posts |
Posted - 27/08/2015 : 15:46:56
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No problem, Andrew.
Glad you got home OK
Your nimble MMM soon disappeared after the first roundabout !
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Richard Hinton
United Kingdom
131 Posts |
Posted - 27/08/2015 : 18:08:16
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Looks like good fun. Anything planned in the future in the home counties, East Anglia or Hertfordshire ?
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George Eagle
United Kingdom
3240 Posts |
Posted - 27/08/2015 : 19:15:55
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Those three guys on the cherry picker have a good head for heights!
I note one is our esteemed Chairman and the man behind the camera looks like our Comp Sec.
George
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Oz34
United Kingdom
2539 Posts |
Posted - 27/08/2015 : 19:33:25
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Well spotted George!
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Simon Johnston
United Kingdom
6131 Posts |
Posted - 30/08/2015 : 16:32:44
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quote:
Originally posted by Richard Hinton
Looks like good fun. Anything planned in the future in the home counties, East Anglia or Hertfordshire ?
Richard,
You and your beautiful J1 Salonette would be most welcome on the Ulster Tour next year. Not quite the Home Counties, but far better Triple-M territory!
Simon J
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Richard Hinton
United Kingdom
131 Posts |
Posted - 30/08/2015 : 20:26:03
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The itinerary does sound amazing and I am told by international rally co-driver Fred Gallagher who comes from Belfast that the hotel in lovely.
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