50th Anniversary Run
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50th Anniversary Celebration Run
Sunday 5th November 1995
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Land Rover Factory & BMIHT Studley Visit
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LAND ROVER / BRITISH HOTOR INDUSTRY HERITAGE TRUST VISIT.
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Marcos club night/History
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JEM MARSH CLUB NIGHT
MARCOS CARS HISTORY
The October Club Night saw the visit of Jem Marsh Founder
of the Marcos Company. Those of you who were unfortunate enough
to miss out on Jem's excellent talk may find some consolation
in the history of the company reprinted below.
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Penske Factory Visit
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Penske Factory Visit
By Mark Niblett
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Ilmor Factory Visit
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ILMOR ENGINEERING
6th March 1993
A group of around 20 club members made the early start to arrive
at Northampton factory of Indy car & F1 engine manufacturer
Ilmor engineering. On arriving at the factory we were greeted
by Paul Morgan from Ilmor.
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Cosworth Engine Talk
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Cosworth Engines Talk
Tuesday 5th October 1993
By Andy Moss
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BMIHT Gaydon Museum Visit
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BMIHT Gaydon Museum visit
Following the club visit to the British Motor Industry Heritage
trust at Studley, we have been looking forward to visiting the
newly opened Heritage Motor Museum at Gaydon. The impressive semi-circular
Art Deco style building was a long way from the ramshackle collection
of huts that we had visited at Studley.
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Jordan F1 Team Factory Visit
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McLaren F1 Road Car Visit
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McLaren F1 Club Night
Tuesday 5th September 1995
Reprinted from BAWA News October 1995
(McLaren F1 Road Car outside the club night venue Photo: BAWA News)
Members and guests visiting the Leisure Centre on the evening
of 5th September may have wondered if the black car parked by
the sports entrance was for the winner of the next prize draw
or perhaps one of our members had won the national lottery. Unfortunately
not, the car was the transport of Derek Wealand, the Production
Director of McLaren Cars who had been invited by the BAC Motor Club
to give a talk at their September club night. Derek arrived in
a McLaren F1, three seat, 230 mph, Ł1/2 million sports car
produced by McLaren Cars, the sister company of McLaren International
who produce the Grand Prix cars.
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TVR Factory Trip
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TVR Trip - 16th May 96 - By Andy Moss
TVR Body in the fibreglass mold
A minibus and two cars full of BAC club members made the long trip to the
Blackpool factory of TVR cars. On arrival we were taken to the Chassis
build area where sections of tubular steel were welded into the space frame
chassis that would form the backbone of a Cerbera, Chimmera or Griffith
500 sports car. The completed chassis was then taken to the factories powder
coating area to be protected from the dreaded rust bug. Next to be fitted
were brake and suspension components - Suspension consisting of independent
front and rear wishbones with coil springs over gas shock absorbers and
brakes of discs all round with four pot calipers on the front.
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Reynard/Lotus Factory Visit
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The Australian National Motor Museum
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NATIONAL MOTOR MUSEUM
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Le Mans - How to Survive It!
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Pilgrimage To Le Mans (and how to survive it!)
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Circuit of Ireland
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Ramblings Retro - The Circuit of Ireland
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RAC Control Centre Visit
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RAC SuperCentre Visit
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Rolls-Royce Motors Visit
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Rolls Royce Cars Visit - Report By Alan Spencer
'Roller sir what is a Roller" Oh sorry was the reply
'Pride of Britain - Envy of the world'
Six BAC members took the trip to 'Crewe to view', Rob Maggs, Tim Murry,
Bill Farrow myself and my elder son Jeffery. Up the motor way in Robs car,
passing the brum-bum turning ( M6/M5 junction) with out any hold-up, to
arrive at the Rolls Royce plant for 10am.
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RAC Rally Marshalling
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RAC RALLY MARSHALLING - MARGAM
25th November 1997 - By Andy Moss
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Jaguar Factory Visit
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Jaguar Cars Visit
Thursday 4th December 97 - By Andy Moss
(Jaguar factory reception. Photo: Andy Moss)
Seventeen club members made the trip to Coventry to visit the home of
Jaguar cars. We arrived at the Browns Lane plant and were directed to
the reception area where we were provided with coffee. This area was
usually a museum of Jaguar cars, but many of them had been removed to
allow a long service presentation for Jaguar employees to be held in
the building the next day. Two exhibits that did remain were a 1988 Le
Mans car and an XJ220. There were also many display cases with various
trophies won by Jaguar over the years, as well as displays of some of
the parts used in the cars. There was also an impressive collection of
Jaguar related paintings around the walls.
Having been joined by some other visitors to the factory, many of whom
were lucky enough to be purchasing cars, we were divided into four
groups. Each group would be taken around the factory by a tour guide
who was a retired Jaguar employee. Our group started off on the XJ
series production line. The factory itself was very impressive, the
Ford influence being apparent in the very slick production line. We
were shown the engines, which are now produced in Ford's Bridgend
facility, we were told that it was now more economic to buy in many
components.
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Museum of British Road Transport
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1998 Bristol Classic Car Show
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The Bristol Classic Car Show
7th / 8th February 1998 By Andy Moss
The 1998 Bristol Classic Car show was held once again at the Bath & West show ground in Shepton Mallet.
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1998 RAC Classic
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The 1998 Guardian Insurance RAC Classic
Sunday the 31st of May - By Andy Moss
Sunday the 31st of May, saw over 1300 classic cars gather at start
points at Bath, Brooklands, Cheltenham, Chester, Ipswich, Nottingham
and Silverstone for the 13th RAC Classic.
Our route would start in the Royal Victoria Park, in the shadow of
the Royal Crescent in Bath. We arrived about an hour before our
designated start time, and having signed on we had plenty of time to
look around.
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Sydney Motor Museum
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SYDNEY MOTOR MUSEUM
By Kieron Winter
During a recent Business Trip to Australia, I was lucky enough to have
a free weekend in Sydney. My immediate thoughts fumed to Babe Watching
at Bondi, however it was spicing clown' with rain, so a trip to the
beach was out. The guidebooks showed that there was a Motor Museum near
Darling Harbour so I headed Of to find it. The signs sent me into an
old dockside building converted into a multistory Car Park, the Museum
being on the first floor with the sounds d squealing tyres coming from
above !. There must have been about a hundred cars ranging from a few
vintage cars up to some modem sports cars from Ferrari and Porsche with
the obligatory DeLorean (is there a motor museum without a DeLorean!)
Because it was a car park, the cars were laid out in rows and it looked
rather dull, rather like British Museums of 20 years ago. Infommation
on some of the cars was sparse and many had 'For Sale' signs larger
than the information sheet. I got the impression that many of the cars
were privately owned but kept in the Museum. The quality of the cars
was also very varied, there was an immaculate 1 920's RollsRoyce which
had not been restored to a Hillman Imp which made Alan Spencer's Mini
look like a Concours winner.
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Le 2CV Weekend
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Le 2CV Weekend
Following on from last years HSCC meeting the Thoroughbred Grand Prix
organisation on behalf of the British Motor Racing Marshals Club
organised a 2 Day race meeting at the excellent Croix en Ternois
circuit in Northern France. The meeting was to feature rounds of the
CGE Energie German open Championship, Firestone / Andyspares 2CV
Championship and the FISC International Spridget Challenge and 2CV
Endurance Races.
Having seen 2CV's race before in this country at Pembrey I knew that
close racing could be expected but not to the degree seen at Croix.
With 32 cars entered and a circuit 1 Mile long it was going to be busy
and so practice confirmed with 2 & 3 & 4 abreast cars leaning
through the tight corners.
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Bristol Motor Club Castle Combe Sprint
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Bristol Motor Club Castle Combe Sprint
Saturday 13th July 1998
When Bob Hart asked us if we could help out on the start line at the
Bristol Motor Club Sprint at Castle Combe, it seemed an ideal opportunity
to see how the event compared with our own Pegasus event at Combe.
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Goodwood Revival Meeting
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Motorsport Ramblings - November 1998
by Martin Emsley
I have heard many references to glorious Goodwood over the years and never
really discovered the context of the remark. I don't have any affection
for nag racing and though it has been applied to the Festival of Speed
most times I have been it has rained and the weather has made it far from
glorious.
On September 18th I am sure I found a little bit of comprehension, I
began to understand a bit better. Glorious means illustrious, conferring
glory, honourable, splendid and excellent. That's what the dictionary says
all we needed was for this to become real, the day certainly achieved that,
and more. It was I who on more than a few occasions said no, I would not
be going to the Revival meeting. However a chance conversation with Andy
Moss the Monday before changed all that and boy was I thankful that it
did.
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The Morris Marina
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Austin or Morris - It's a Marina
(or is it an Ital?)
By Andy Moss
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The Lakeland Motor Museum
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Lakeland Motor Museum
By Andy Moss
Situated at the Southern end of the Lake District, the Lakeland Motor Museum
is based at Holker Hall, a stately home surrounded by impressive grounds
and including other attractions such as a toy museum.
The most striking thing about this museum is the massive collection
of motoring related items on display around the cars. Among these some
great amusement arcade machines, a large number of petrol globes, model
vehicles, car mascots and badges, enamel signs and pedal cars.
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The Cars of The Stars Motor Museum
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The Cars of the Stars Motor Museum
Keswick - Lake District
One of the more unusual motor museums can be found in Keswick, at the heart
of the Lake District National Park. This museum features cars which have
featured in film or television. Created by a Keswick dentist (there must
be money in teeth!), Peter Nelson, who was inspired by a request to borrow
his MG TC for the 80's TV series the Spoils of War.
The Museum is based in a former early 1900's garage, which itself has
been the subject of much restoration. The cars are each displayed in an
individual setting which reflects the film or TV series in which they appeared.
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Electric Cars
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Electric Dreams
Next time you get stuck behind a milk float consider that in the future
we may all be driving electric vehicles. Ever tighter emission controls
and environmental pressure means that the good old internal combustion
engine may not last much longer.
But does an electric vehicle have to be as slow as those run by Unigate
?
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2005 Edinburgh Trial
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The Edinburgh Trial 2005
This years event took place on the last week of October as usual.
With a new Clerk of course and a different route to follow most of
the hills turned out to be the usual ones used for many years along
with the regular classics for the Peak District. We all started from
M42 services “Tamworth”. This has now become the format for the
trial (with no Touring Assembly 90 mile route like the other events).
The trip to the start being the unofficial Touring Assembly entered
in Class “O” we had to follow the main route and miss out the
very competitive Rough Hills that the main event tackle.
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2005 Kimber Trial
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MG CAR CLUB KIMBER
TRIAL
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Assistant Clerk
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Assistant
Clerk – The First Frontier
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How Much Power Does Your Car Deliver ?
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So
how much power does your car deliver ?
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Martin US
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2069 Miles and 900
Photos
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Merryfield Sprint 2005
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Motor Sport Arrives in Bristol
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MOTORSPORT
ARRIVES IN BRISTOL
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Mustang
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Well
it seemed like a good idea
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Prescott Hillclimb School
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Driving a Traction Engine
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What’s the
at-traction?
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Two Wessex Sprints and In Between
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Two
Wessex Sprints
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