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HUGE CROWDS TURNED UP BOTH DAYS TO SEE THE ROYAL IRISH AUTOMOBILE CLUB NATIONAL SHOW AT THE RDS THERE WAS SOME GREAT DISPLAYS FROM ALL CLUBS INVOLVED .
THIS SHOW HAS GREAT POTENTIAL AND CAN WELL BE A MATCH FOR SIMILAR SHOWS HELD IN THE NEC IN BIRMINGHAM. WELL DONE TO ALL INVOLVED WHO TOOK THE GAMBLE TO TRY IT AND HOPE YE WILL BE HOLDING IT AGAIN NEXT YEAR.
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WE HAVE RECEIVED A EMAIL TO LET US KNOW OUR FRIENDS AT TULLOW VINTAGE CLUB HAVE A STAND AT THE NATIONAL SHOW IN THE RDS , MAKE SURE YOU GIVE THEM A CALL IF YOU ARE THERE OVER THE WEEKEND
THERE STAND IS G50
Tullow Vintage Club are invited to display cars at the RIAC Classic Car Show on the 9th and 10th of February.This is a great opportunity for the club to promote our club thanks to Bob Montgomery.Club members will be notified about the area the stand will be located closer to the event.Three cars will be picked by the show committee for display.For more information go to www.classiccarshow.ie for up to date news.
MORE INFO AT www.tullowvintageclub.com
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A timewarp Aston Martin DB5 has been rediscovered more than three decades after it was tucked away – but it’s less Skyfall and more windfall for the owner of this ‘barn find’ Aston Martin DB5 which has been sat in a garage since 1980.
After 30 years of inactivity and following a little light preparation, the DB5 fired into life at the first time of asking. Proving that like Mr Bond himself, the DB5 has aged very well indeed
There are just 47,226 miles on the Aston Martin DB5, which was last used in 1980.
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CLUBS THAT ARE ATTENDING THE SHOW THIS WEEKEND
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CLUB NAME
|
STAND NO
|
WEB
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|---|---|---|
| Alfa Romeo Owners Club Ireland Section | F20 | http://www.aroc-uk.com/ireland |
| AOVC | A26 | http://www.aovc.co.uk |
| Blessington Vintage Car & Motorcycle Club | D50 | |
| Celtic Old Vehicle Owners Club | E30 | http://www.covoc.ie |
| Citroen Car Club | E45 | http://www.citroencarclub.org.uk |
| Classic Super Cars | C20 | |
| Clonmel Veteran Vintage & Classic Car Club | F10 | |
| Connacht Pre-war Enthusiasts | E4 | |
| Cortina Owners Club of Ireland | F45 | http://www.coci.ie |
| Dunboyne Motor Club | B50 | http://www.dunboynemotorclub.com |
| Ferrari Owners Club | F40 | |
| FORD | D4 | http://www.cullencommunications.ie |
| Frank Keane Collection | B40 | |
| Historic Racing Car Association | G30 | |
| Historic Raciong Cars | C10 | |
| Irish Escort Club | G20 | http://www.irishescortclub.com |
| Irish Jaguar & Daimler Club | D10 | http://www.irishjagclub.ie |
| Irish Kit Car Club | E10 | http://www.ikcc.ie |
| Irish Mini Owners Club | A20 | |
| Irish Veteran & Vintage Car Club | B4 CLUB SPONSOR | http://www.ivvcc.ie |
| Jim Boland Collections | B10 | |
| Lancia Motor Club Ireland | E20 | http://www.lanciaireland.com |
| Mercedes Benz Club | F30 | http://www.mercedes-benz-club.co.uk |
| MG Enthusiasts Club | D20 | |
| Midland American Auto Club | D60 | http://www.maac-ireland.com |
| Motor Sport Ireland | E50 | |
| MSL / VW | D30 | |
| Munster Vintage Motor Cycle & Car Club Ltd | B20 | http://www.munstervintage.com |
| North East Vintage Car Club | F4 | |
| Retro Classics | A40 | |
| RIAC | C50 | http://www.riac.ie |
| The Imp Club in Ireland | G4 | |
| The Mercedes Collection | D40 | |
| West Cork Vintage Club | E40 | |
| X1/9 Owners of Ireland | A4 |
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AS PART OF THE 50 YEAR CELEBRATIONS OF THE FORD CORTINA MK 1 TG4 MADE A PROGRAM ABOUT THE CORTINA AND THE CELEBRATIONS BY THE CORTINA OWNERS CLUB OF IRELAND THAT TOOK PLACE IN CORK TO MARK THIS EVENT.
THIS PROGRAMME WAS AIRED ON TG4 A FEW TIME BUT CAN ALSO BE SEEN ON LINE , JUST CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW
ITS WELL WORTH A LOOK
WELL DONE TO SIMON WALTON WHO IS ALSO A MEMBER OF OUR CLUB
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THANKS TO DOM BOLGER FOR THESE PHOTOS BELOW
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OUR AGM WAS HELD TODAY WITH A HUGE CROWD ATTENDED .. OUR COMMITTEE HAS STAYED THE SAME WITH EAMON FOLEY STILL OUR CHAIRMAN AND DAN KENNEDY STILL AS TREASURER . DUE TO A CAREER CHANGE MR SEAN DOHENY WILL REMAIN AS MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY BUT HIS OTHER ROLE AS CLUB SECRETARY HAS NOW BECOME VACANT. THIS POSITION WAS PUT TO THE FLOOR WITH NO ONE VOLUNTEERING . SO IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN HELPING THE CLUB AND THE COMMITTEE AND HAVE THE TIME, PLEASE CONTACT EAMON, DAN OR SEAN
WELL DONE TO ALL THAT ARRANGED THE HALL FOR THE TEA AND BUNS , THERE WAS A GREAT SPREAD WORTHY OF A SCENE FROM “DON’T TELL THE BRIDE”
SPEAKING OF NOT TELLING SOME ONE SOMETHING, CLUB MEMBER PADDY COSTIGAN GOT A GREAT SURPRISE WHEN IT WAS REVEALED THAT TODAY WAS HIS 80th BIRTHDAY AND A SURPRISE CAKE AND MEMBERS OF HIS FAMILY CAME TO CELEBRATE THIS MOMENTOUS OCCASION
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WATERFORD TRUCK AND MOTOR SHOW
Sponsorship card and money must be handed in on arrival at entrance to show. Entrance Fee per vehicle is €20 or whatever you can raise on a sponsorship card.
Larry Power m: 086-3835498 –
John Burke m: 087-2020032
Mark Lonergan m: 087-2538345
Pat Kerley m: 087-2681141 –
Jim Brawders m: 087-2517679
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FURTHER UPDATES ON TRUCK & MOTOR SHOW,
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WATERFORD TRUCK AND MOTOR SHOW
18th and 19th May 2013
Waterford Truck and Motor Show is being run in aid of S.E.R.T. (The South East Radiotherapy Trust) a charity set up to bring cancer patients to & from their radiotherapy treatments and hospital appointments.
This service is run by volunteers for free with over 140 drivers taking it in turns to drive cancer patients to and from the hospitals on a daily basis.
Mark Loneragan of Mark Lonergan Transport, is one of the organisers of Waterford Truck and Motor Show and became involved when Mark and his wife were approached and asked to help organise a truck run to raise funds for S.E.R.T. in 2012. As with many families in Ireland theirs had also been touched by cancer and they were very happy to help and lead a convoy of 81 trucks which ran from Waterford to Dungarvan. This event raised €8,500 for S.E.R.T.
The event proved to be very popular and following alot of positive feed back it was decided that a 2 day show should be held the following year. Along with Mark Lonergan, Larry Power and John Burke they secured Waterford Airport Business Park for May 18th & 19th 2013.
There will also be something for all the family with a fun filled childrens play area with bouncy castles etc. As well as plenty of live music throughout the weekend.
There will be an indoor model exhibition and ‘Discover Waterford Hot Air Balloon’ will be on site Sunday for all to see, short balloon flights can be taken if it takes your fancy.
The highlight of our weekend is to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the 3 series Scania with plenty of these wonderful trucks promised from around the country.
We look forward to seeing you there in 2013 and enjoying what promises to be a wonderful event as well as raising much needed funds for the South East Radiotherapy Trust.
All Welcome!
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Morris Motors began in 1912 when bicycle manufacturer William Morris moved on from the sale, hire, and repair of cars to car manufacturing. He planned a new light car assembled from bought-in components. In this way he was able to retain ownership by keeping within the bounds of his own capital resources.
A factory was opened in 1913 at former Oxford Military College at Cowley, Oxford, United Kingdom where Morris’s first car, the 2-seat Morris Oxford “Bullnose” was assembled.[1] Nearly all the major components were bought-in.
In 1914 a coupé and van were added to the line-up but the Bullnose chassis was too short and the 1018 cc engine too small to make a much-needed 4-seat version of the car. White and Poppe, who made the engine, wanted more money than Morris was prepared to pay for a larger version, so Morris turned to Continental of Detroit, Michigan for the supply of a 1548 cc engine.[1] Gearboxes and axles were also sourced in the US.
In spite of the outbreak of the First World War the orders were maintained and, from mid-1915 a new larger car, the 2-seat and 4-seat Morris Cowley was introduced.
After the war the Continental engine was no longer available so Morris arranged for Hotchkiss of France to make a near-copy in their Coventry factory. This was used to power new versions of the basic Cowley and more up-market Morris Oxford cars.
With a reputation for producing high-quality cars and a policy of cutting prices, Morris’s business continued to grow and increase its share of the British market overtaking Ford to become in 1924 the UK’s biggest car manufacturer, holding a 51% share of the home market and remaining enormously profitable.
Possessed of a very large cash income Morris had a policy of personally buying up suppliers’ businesses. For example, in 1923 he bought Hotchkiss’s Coventry business which later became Morris Engines branch. He also bought F G Woollard which became Morris Commercial Cars to lead the re-organization of their engine production from batch to flow, thus increasing output from less than 300 units per week to 1200. By 1924 the factory was making 2000 units a week with only a small increase in work space and labour force.[2]
Cecil Kimber, head of Morris’s own original 1909-founded Morris Garage sales hire and repair operation in Oxford, began building sporting versions of Morris cars in 1924 labelling them MG. They were so successful a separate MG factory was soon established south of Oxford in Abingdon, Oxfordshire.
Having admired Budd’s all-steel bodies Morris founded The Pressed Steel Company of Great Britain Limited in 1926 as a joint venture with Edward G Budd Manufacturing Company – Budd International of Philadelphia, USA.[3] Pressed Steel’s factory was located over the road from Morris’s factory at Cowley and supplied Morris and many other motor manufacturers. Morris withdrew from the venture in mid-1930. Budd sold their share to British interests at the beginning of 1936.[4]
An array of Morris cars on the forecourt of Mr J. Kelly’s garage at Catherine Street, Waterford, Ireland, 1928
The small car market was entered in 1928 with the Leonard Lord-designed Morris Minor using an 847 cc engine from Morris’s newly acquired Wolseley Motors. Lord had been sent there to modernise the works and Wolseley’s products. The Minor was to provide the base for the MG Midgets. This timely spread into the small car market helped Morris through the economic depression of the 1930s. At the 1934 London Motor Show the Minor was replaced by the Morris Eight, a direct response to the Ford Model Y and, though Leonard Lord’s handiwork, heavily based on it.
In 1932 W R Morris appointed Lord Managing Director of Morris Motors Limited and Lord swept through the Morris works, updating the production methods, introducing a proper moving assembly line and creating Europe’s largest integrated car plant.[5] But Morris and Lord fell out, and after 15 years Lord left in 1936 – threatening to “take Cowley apart brick by brick”.[6] Lord moved to Austin and they were to meet again in BMC —Morris, as Lord Nuffield, its first chairman. Lord succeeded him.
As of 1 July 1935 Morris Motors acquired from W R Morris, now Lord Nuffield, in exchange for a further issue of ordinary shares to him, the car manufacturing businesses of Wolseley Motors Limited and The MG Car Company Limited. A separate private company, Wolseley Aero Engines Limited, was then formed to continue the development of his aviation interests.[7]
In 1936 Lord Nuffield sold Morris Commercial Cars Limited, his commercial vehicle enterprise, to Morris Motors.[8] In 1938 William Morris, Baron Nuffield, became Viscount Nuffield, and the same year he transferred his newly acquired[9] Riley car business to Morris Motors Limited for £100.[10]
In the summer of 1938 Morris agreed to build equip and manage a huge new factory at Castle Bromwich, which was built specifically to manufacture Supermarine Spitfires.[11] After a major air raid damaged the Morris Bodies factory, the premises switched to the production of jerry cans, producing millions of these versatile containers for use during the rest of the war and following the ending of hostilities.[12] The Cowley plant was turned over to aircraft repair and production of Tiger Moth pilot trainers, as well as “mine sinkers” based on a design produced at the same plant during the First World War.[12]
Production restarted after World War II, with the pre-war Eight and Ten designs. In 1948 the Eight was replaced by what is probably the most famous Morris car, the Morris Minor designed by Alec Issigonis (who later went on to design the Mini) and reusing the small car name from 1928. The Ten was replaced by a new 1948 Morris Oxford, styled like a larger version of the Minor. A later Morris Oxford (the 1956 Morris Oxford III) was the basis for the design of India’s famous Hindustan Ambassador, which continues in production to the present day.
In 1952 the Nuffield Organisation merged with its old rival the Austin Motor Company to form the British Motor Corporation (BMC). Nuffield brought the Morris, MG, Riley and Wolseley marques into the merger. Leonard Lord was in charge, which led to Austin’s domination of the organisation. Badge-engineering was important to BMC and for many years the several marques would be seen on several families of similar vehicles.
In 1968, in further rationalisations of the British motor industry, BMC became part of the newly formed British Leyland Motor Corporation (BLMC), and subsequently, in 1975, the nationalised British Leyland Limited (BL).
The Morris marque continued to be used until the early 1980s on cars such as the Morris Marina. The Morris Ital (essentially a facelifted Marina) was the last Morris-badged passenger car, with production ending in the summer of 1984. The last Morris of all was a van variant of the Austin Metro.
In the early 1980s, the former Morris plant at Cowley and its sister site the former Pressed Steel plant, were turned over to the production of Austin and Rover badged vehicles. They continued to be used by BL’s Austin Rover Group and its successor the Rover Group, which was eventually bought by BMW, and then by a management consortium, leading to the creation of MG Rover. None of the former Morris buildings now exist, British Aerospace sold the site in 1992, it was than demolished and replaced with the Oxford Business Park. The adjacent former Pressed Steel site (now known as “Plant Oxford”) is owned and operated by BMW, who use it to assemble the new MINI.
The rights to the Morris marque are currently owned by Nanjing Automobile (Group) Corporation.
The history of William Morris’s business is commemorated in the Morris Motors Museum at the Oxford Bus Museum.
Post-Morris cars to have been built at Cowley include the Austin/MG Maestro, Austin/MG Montego, Rover 600, Rover 800 and (for a short time) the Rover 75.
The Morris badge shows an ox fording the River Isis, the traditional emblem of William Morris’s home town of Oxford.
Part of the former Morris Engines works
The William Morris Building
Coventry University. (photo 2007)
A bullnose Morris. The car that made Morris’s name and fortune
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