Location: Great Malvern and Malvern Link, Worcestershire: 18th – 20th September
Friday
Social gathering at The Abbey Hotel, Great Malvern. For guests this included a buffet supper.
Saturday
A great Spares Fair and Photo Shoot at the factory. The Spares Fair was packed with traders and buyers. A busy morning all round and a place to sit, relax and have a cuppa too. Mogspares sales topped well over £9,000.00.
There was a photo shoot outside the factory to reproduce the look and feel of that first meeting. No fewer than 7 of the 14 surviving Morgans from that meeting lined up outside the factory. Photos from Steve Uprichard and Richard Atherton.
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- A busy day… towards the end of the spares fair.
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- The original line up outside the factory 70 years ago.
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- Finally assembling the line up in 2015. Steve Lister, the organiser, described this as “Herding Cats”.
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- The re-creation 70 years on. The line-up: Phillippe Menier GXW 330 from France, Colin Tatlow OC 9821, Lars Doren OJ 2213, Brian Clutterbuck FK 2113 & FK 2334, Jim Baker & Steve Lister AOP 9 and John & Louise Wills JY 1118
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- John and Louise Wills came down from Leicestershire
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- Brian Clutterbuck setting up a smoke screen.
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- Brian’s 2 speeder Family
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- Lars Doren (Left) brought his 3 speeder Aero from Sweden. Here he is with Lennart Nilsson.
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- Our Chairman checks to see if there’s a spare bottle of bubbly left as Louise slips hers quietly onto the rear seat.
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- Philippe Menier leaving the factory.
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- A busy car park at the factory.
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- Martyn Webb’s re-creation of an early single seater Morgan with tiller steering.
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- Post AGM at The Swan. “Cheers!”.
In the evening we had a crowded Elgar Suite for the AGM Dinner. Decent food, great company and singing waiters. The last of the party goers got to bed around 2:00am.
Sunday
Early morning. Some drowsy revellers were woken by the sound of V-Twins as members arrived for the AGM.
10:30am: Annual General Meeting at The Abbey Hotel. A good constructive meeting but a couple of offices were left vacant. Volunteers please!
Later at The Swan Inn,
Lots of Morganists went from the AGM to The Swan Inn, Newland. Why? Well, 70 years ago, our forefathers decamped there after the very first ‘General Meeting’. We thought it would be a good idea to raise a glass to them with a toast.
Lars Doren’s Morgan was at the inaugural meeting and he brought it all the way from Sweden to help recreate the line up outside the factory. Here’s his car outside The Swan in 1945…. Click on the photo to see it now.
