Morris Minor Owners Club

I'm sure there's someone in the Minor fraternity whose aim is to give ppl restoring PO vans crap advice....

Fleet owned commercials without battle scars never look "right" imho.

there is quite a good club on the IOW with an enviable following and an excellent newsletter. Any restored vehicle is unlikely to have battle scars. However there is a commercial opportunity for peel off scratches and dent decals........

No Moggies around Kidderminster this week, but today ***HUY, a locally registered dark blue 1962 Ford 307E Thames (Anglia 105E) van, with added side-windows.

Black two-door in Kidderminster today. VVS***.
Sounded modified. Looked vaguely familiar. Perhaps a Malvern Hills Branch member...?

Another Moggie in Kidderminster today - parked in the retail park. Nice-looking 4-door in Clarendon Grey. Nicely patinated interior, with maroon carpets and draught excluders, but unusual light beige seats and door-cards. Staffordshire reg. no. dating from between August and November 1957. Had the first type of combined trafficator/horn stalk on the steering column, and a club sticker on a rear quarter-light.

Very nice ! wonder what happened to the overriders and there are strange front sidelights.

firedrake1942 wrote:Very nice ! wonder what happened to the overriders and there are strange front sidelights.

Overriders - non-deluxe I presume (I didn't look close enough to verify presence of heater or parcel shelf).

Sidelights - Early 'export' Mini white lenses for some reason.

Had a gold coach-line too.

Thought you'd comment as representative of the '57 Clarendon grey club!!

Tee hee. It is so nicely proportioned it is odd that the little details are wrong

spotted a black split-screen saloon on the M1 yesterday,with a bicycle strapped to the boot.(on a rack i presume!)

firedrake1942 wrote:Very nice ! wonder what happened to the overriders and there are strange front sidelights.

I'd guess the later lights take a twin filament bulb to combine sidelights and indicators. Can't see what he uses at the back though.

ianmack wrote:I'd guess the later lights take a twin filament bulb to combine sidelights and indicators. Can't see what he uses at the back though.

I presumed the same. Perhaps the 1961/62 'flashing brake light' set-up at the back?

There was a black Traveller behind me when I was turning to go to Bovingdon this afternoon.

Spotted (probably not for the first time) on ITV this evening, in a Midsomer Murders re-run:
Green Moggie van RRV531J signwritten for 'Dutta's Pharmacy & Dispensary'.

Excellent - I will watch out for that when it is shown here in about 12 months time, dubbed into German of course but they do the voices very very well.

I wonder as an afterthought, when was the last time anyone in England saw an original German Programme on TV that had nothing to do with WWII ?

Found a couple episodes of 'Alarm fur Cobra 11' (sorry about the missing umlaut) on an internet tv source. Even this was dubbed into French and entitled 'Alerte Cobra'

Seriously?

You want an appreciation of German culture from the little englander, brexit-voting, Daily Mail / Sun reading splendid isolation loving, vacuous British, with their very narrow backward looking weltanschauung? There are some good modern German films very late at night on Channel 4 but that's about it! It seems that we are destined forever to re-run the WW2 staples all the while chanting 'one world cup and two world wars' whilst not appreciating that the ties that bind the EU have made the possibility of such conflicts, fuelled by petty nationalism, all but unthinkable.

Sorry just afflicted and thoroughly depressed by the hideous modern brand of Weltschmerz.

Chin up, What!

World war two casts a long shadow, including in this century a disastrous sense of entitlement and perhaps even obligation to invade countries with bad governments. We are then miffed when the locals don't appreciate our efforts.

Actually I don't mind being British.

Me neither,especially when you consider some of the alternatives.

I very much like being British, it's just a pity about our foreign policy.