August 2002

President's Prattle

•  Impressive display outside the Martlesham Control Tower
•  Impressive sight of sixty club member entries at Easton Farm Park
•  Gazebo, Union Jack (sic) and club banners make an impressive sight
•   Last month's "Guess What"
•  Soggy village fete, including one fresh vehicle
•  1938 Chenard et Walcker didn't show

Secretary's Scribble

•  President was "spuffling his incredulance"
•  Stondon date correction, after finding this year's diary!
•  Response to last month's request for origin of a witty poem - none right
•  Request for more anoraks to sign the Guest Book (do it now!)
•  Comments about this web site invited - some already given
•  Gavin Hodge Theory under scrutiny
•  A barking fox and fish A barking fox and fish &
•  Henham dates and Elmswell contact both amended

Other items

•  Using our classics
  • Standard Motor Club, centered on Clacton
  • surprised Wivenhoe member
  • convoy to the village used to launch 1947/8 Vanguard
  • railway museum, tea shop, secret bunker, hotel
  • Walton, museum, crane, tour, inn, cake, tower, P47, castle, Cambridge, Madingley
  • 500 mile weekend with few hitches
•  Age Related Ramblings
  • general agreement
  • cuttings on a bedroom wall
  • anomalies in any theory
  • request for more response
•  Asbestos
  • seller's assurance of 'no asbestos'
  • problems for older vehicles
  • Europe-wide law in 2005
  • chrysolite and crocidolite are different; 
•  Did you know?
  • A road in Ipswich shares its name with a 1920's Austin limousine

Two cars for sale

•  '84 Capri
• ' 80 Allegro

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