On behalf of the Centre I would like to thank the outgoing Committee at our recent AGM for all their hard work and achievements, and great teamwork, over the last twelve months. Moreover, I am pleased to announce that at our AGM, the meeting unanimously approved the election of the following committee members for 2019/2020: Centre Secretary - Roger Bluff; Centre Treasurer – David Williams; Centre Membership Secretary – Dave Cleveland; Communications Officer - Steve Bridge; Regalia Officer – David Mansfield; Website Officer & Data Controller - Dave Vodden; Additional Member - Tim Jones; Additional Member - Chris Nickless. I

The news that by 2022, all new cars in the EU, and the UK, whether we are in or out, will be automatically governed to the speed limit or something like that, brought me to mind of the late great James Hunt. I remember him saying, when he was retired from Formula 1, that he drove around in an old baker’s van so he could drive on the limit without losing his licence. To me this is the point, how our Morgan sports drive and handle is what it’s all about. I wonder what will happen as you go from

Please don’t forget our ‘1st Thursday of the Month Noggins’ held at the ‘The Bell and Bottle’ - hope you can make it along. With this in mind, I am pleased to announce that we will be holding our AGM on May 2nd at The Bell and Bottle during our normal First Thursday Noggin evening. Calling notices will be going out soon. This year we are collecting together photographs of our past events to put together a show. If you have any photos you would like us to include please contact Steve Bridge by email This email address is being

We were lucky for our ThamesMOG New Year’s Dinner, it was cold but the road conditions were okay, however, in the following weeks we got our fair share of snow. This of course would have suited Dennis Woods, our guest speaker for the Dinner evening, admirably. I would like to thank David and Sheila Williams and their team very much indeed for a wonderful evening. We held our second annual dinner at the Castle Royle Country Club, Knowl Hill this January. This is a superb venue, and as last year, the food was quite delicious. A cosy setting that allows

Browsing the internet based car magazines over the recent holiday season, I noticed the following headline: ‘Morgan to reveal new sports car on fresh platform in 2019.’ I think it’s going to be faster than anything that’s gone before; we will be in for an exciting year. I note that Land Rover are unveiling the new Defender this year, and have developed a modular architecture that can support, a diesel engine, or a hybrid setup, or a full electric layout. I understand this development has been one of the reasons why the new Defender has been so long coming. Given

I would like to welcome you all to the New Year; I hope you will have a prosperous 2019 with good cheer and above all, good health. I find it astonishing to think it is 2019. How can that be? I ask myself. At the end of last year I had a job that took me back to my old college from thirty odd years ago. Everything had changed, the décor, the people, the departments, everything. I didn’t know a soul. It felt like I had been in suspended animation, only to be revived hundreds of years into the future,