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,

At the time of writing I had just got back from the Richard Thorne Breakfast meeting for November. It was an enjoyable morning, and I would like to thank Helen and all at Richard Thorne Classic Cars for their kind invitation for us to talk a little about the Morgan Sports Car Club. Pulling things together for the session, Steve Bridge worked out, to his and my surprise, that we have held 44 social events this year. I think this may be a record and long may it continue. Once again, thank you Helen. A few days before our visit

Stop press: monsoon conditions at Westgreen House. I would like to congratulate everyone that made it along to this fine classic car meet up. I understand we were the largest or at least one of the largest groups that turned up. Brave souls I think. It reminds me of when I bought my old Morgan from Phoenix Motors (that was) The proprietor told me, as I was about to drive off, that I would learn to look out for road bridges to shelter under while trying to put the hood up. Last month, our trip to The Trenchard Museum and