MG Car Club of South Australia
PRE-WAR & T - REGISTER
From..John Bray,
Y
7 March 2019
Rollin to the river,
Brian & Kath Golding ‘s
register meeting.
es, quite a number rolled up at
Crafers Park n Ride for the trip to
Murray Bridge again this year as is the
custom in march when the trip home is
not so freezing cold with the hood down.
Apologies. Numerous this year for a
number of reasons but the enthusiasm
was not dampened at all and a good
number smoothed their way into Goldy’s
yard. Those who love to see their name
in print include: L Foody,J Tamke, M
Stephenson, R Harris, B Forth, J &L
Schiller, G & J Glasson, C Whyatt, P
Wallace, I Hobbs, P Auld, D Fairbrother,
P Lancaster, J Davies, N Proferes, D
McNabb, R Bazzica and finally the Phil-
lip Island asylum seekers : A Willington,
B Schapel, T Wright, T Driver, A Pear-
son & A Ruediger .
David Fairbrother celebrated his 75 th
birthday elsewhere with family, Peter
Auld supervised his garage makeover at
Torrens Park , TD McNabb in the land of
the long white cloud attending the Pre
56 MG rally of sorts. Those were the
most interesting apologies really apart
from those at Phillip Island which will be
dealt with later in this report.
The stats: We had 36 signatures in the
book excluding Curly’s second inclusion,
more than 44 were present including
guests and the A Series Register folk. 1
Prewar NA, 1 Y Type Saloon, 6 T Types
and 3 A Types.
In the A’s were Sandra & Alan Cardnell,
Jasmine & Geoff Goode and Anne &
Dean Hosking.
Thankyou to Kath & Brian for preparing
the garage and providing the after sup-
per platters of fruit, certainly it is a real
pleasure to roll up at their home for our
meeting under a red sky at dusk.
Julie and Brian McIver brought guests
Don Moyse and Rosa Stanton , Don a
club member presented a turned red
gum pen for the raffle that he made, a
fine piece of work indeed.
Down to business: First was a “show
n tell “ item presented by Gordon Brice.
A large piece of machinery was dis-
played for those with enquiring minds
and knowledge to determine its use and
origin. Where it came from was also a
mystery to be solved. Dean Hosking
scored the points for a correct assess-
ment (guess) , an aircraft carburettor of
sorts.
Gordon explained that it was off a
Beaufort WW2 bomber of which
170,000 were built to fuel the Pratt &
Whitney engines on the aircraft.
Looks like Reg O’Malley will need to
come up with something pretty damm
interesting to hold his place as king of
show and tell at the register in future,
hard to top Gordon’s effort here.
Photos for the meeting provided by
Thane Martin in the absence of Terry
wright and TD McNabb, thanks Thane, I
know that the distractions from Phillip
Island hampered your efforts.
Russell Garth has organised wind-
screen stickers for historic registration
vehicles now that rego labels are out
the window, a good initiative Russ.
Don Walker collected a few bits for his
TC restoration project but the back rest
seat swab springs are proving difficult .
Plenty of advice was offered hope he
can take it all in.
The red TC from Victor Harbor that is
for sale was mentioned by Mike Green-
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