club meets

[davetaylor]

Hi all,
I have only been using this site for past few months to get help and advice on rebuilding my cars. This is fine. However, as a grumpy old man I must make the following comments about MMC. I joined last year having bought my first moggy and thought that it would give me the opportunity to meet other owners. Sadly it appears that Gloucester is the forgotten city. Does MMC organise anything for this area, seems not. I understand there are no MMC meetings as the club appears to have amalgamated with another local club.Your web site still shows details of monthly meet at pub near Cheltenham on first Sunday. This has been changed but noone has told me. Perhaps someone could explain, does MMC exist in Glos and if so should members be notified (just an email would have been good)

[Troutrunner]

Hi Dave,

I'm not much help as I am in Lincolnshire but a suggestion, I have various vehicles from SII Land Rover, Wolseley Hornet and a few Austin A30/A35's as well as MM's. What I found in my area with the A35 lot was not satisfactory to me so I enquired through the club and started my own group, which has now been going since Christmas and has had over 30 members and 15 diferent A30/A35's, we always get 10-12 folk in attendance.
We just have it on a casual basis where as some run as separate clubs within a club, well that gets too political so we keep to technical help and general chat, the emphasis mainly on fun and enjoyment.
Consequently it has become in its short existance one of the more successful within the club.

Paul.

[davetaylor]

Thanks for the suggestion, you are right seems perhaps I should try it here Thanks

[Troutrunner]

Good luck Dave, let me know how you get on, Paul

[Kevin]

Hi all,
I have only been using this site for past few months to get help and advice on rebuilding my cars. This is fine. However, as a grumpy old man I must make the following comments about MMC. I joined last year having bought my first moggy and thought that it would give me the opportunity to meet other owners. Sadly it appears that Gloucester is the forgotten city. Does MMC organise anything for this area, seems not. I understand there are no MMC meetings as the club appears to have amalgamated with another local club.Your web site still shows details of monthly meet at pub near Cheltenham on first Sunday. This has been changed but noone has told me. Perhaps someone could explain, does MMC exist in Glos and if so should members be notified (just an email would have been good)

Hi Dave I assume you mean the MMOC which is the umbrella so to speak with the local branches spanning out from there.
Each region has a liason officer who is the link to the local branches and the local branches run themselves.
Did you actually join the local branch otherwise if they have amalgamated with another they would only inform their current membership and liason contact, as for the email unfortunately most branch members dont know how to use it.
As Paul has suggested you can always start your own branch by contacting Rosie Hamilton, which I would suggest first as the reason for a branch folding may be due to lack of interest and members with no one wanting to take responsibility for running a committee etc, and unfortunately only a small number of the membership actually go to branch meetings which is generally why they are County based rather that town based.

That's why many website members in the more remote areas or without a branch that interests them regard the website as their branch.