I would like to thank Trudie Jacobs, from Brighton Centre, for her kind invitation to the Dunsfold Aerodrome "Wings and Wheels" event back in August. I am told the airshow was quite spectacular. A colleague of mine who was there independently told me that the show was at least as good as the Farnborough Airshow, this year. Unfortunately, the recently restored Vulcan bomber was unable to attend due to an undercarriage problem, I believe. Although it did fly at Farnborough this year, taking off and landing in front of an enthralled crowd, I know I was there. It is remarkable

I am sure you will be pleased to learn that Ian Sollen is at home now after his recent time in hospital. He is unable to drive at the moment but hopefully in a couple of months he will be back behind the wheel. On behalf of the Centre Ian, I would like to wish you a speedy recovery and we all look forward to seeing you back with us feeling your old self again soon. Best wishes to you. Rather belatedly, I would like to thank Peter Johnson MSCC Chairman and his good wife for attending our beer and

This month brings us the ever exciting Brighton Speed Trials weekend. I would like to congratulate Mike Hughes for finishing his rebuild of his special Morgan that has an interesting race pedigree. Mike and his son Harvey have just returned from Classic Le Mans where they put their newly refurbished Morgan through its paces: Roadsters look out! We hope to have a full report in a future edition of our newsletter, presently. I mention this as soon Mike will be giving me a run for my money at the tremendous Brighton Speed Trials event. I shall have to think about

On behalf of the Centre I would like to thank the Cornwall Centre and their associates for all their hard work in providing a wonderful event that was MOG 2008. I thoroughly enjoyed myself, particularly meeting up with some old lost friends from the region. It was a terrific weekend. Also, I would like to thank everyone for helping me with my broken down camper van as I was leaving MOG 2008. Unfortunately I held up quite a queue of Morgans, as we desperately tried to get me out of my predicament. I apologise for the inconvenience. My final rescue

 I was deeply saddened to learn of the recent passing of Glenn Davies. Glenn had been an active member of our Centre, as well as our neighbouring Oxmog, for many years. He worked closely with his wife Jane, our very own Regalia Officer, helping her to produce our popular Thames Valley garments and car badges. Glenn had many friends in the club and he will be sorely missed. I was proud to have known him and that I had been able to call him my friend. Glenn had many interests, along with his love of Morgan cars; he also had

 We have been lucky with our noggin pubs over the years: with the colourful Greek Chef from the Hampden Arms; the puppet television show Thunderbirds loving Landlord from the Poacher; and to the glamorous, sophisticated lady owner of the Bird In Hand. Well, we now have a new Land Lord and Lady for our newest noggin pub the Cross: Mark and Tanya are quite cultured with their love of music and the arts in general. Within days of being installed at the Cross, they had a full octave piano/electric organ in place. They also want to encourage classic cars and