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Vol.42 No.5 SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2021
Editor John Carroll minormatters@mmoc.org.uk
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Deadlines for Nov/Dec
Branch News: September 24 Everything Else: 2pm October 1
MINOR MATTERS is the official magazine of the Morris Minors Owners Club and is published six times a year, at the beginning of January, March, May, July, September and November. © Morris Minors Owners Club 2021. Material published in Minor Matters may not be published elsewhere without the permission of the Editor.
Minor Matters is printed on well-managed FSC paper using vegetable-based inks. Printing plates are aluminium and are recycled, as are any surplus/ old inks while printing blankets are shredded and used for rubberised play areas and footpaths. The wrapping it comes in is degradable and will break down in the soil.
from the editor in this issue
If I said that this has issue feels a bit ‘wooden’, I would hopefully
be referring to its content rather than
its use of English. In order to mark the 50th anniversary of the end of Morris Minor Traveller production, Bryan Gostling, early Traveller
enthusiast and owner, has compiled a feature about the oldest Travellers known to be in existence. Also included in the feature are a couple of interesting snapshots of what is believed to have been the Traveller prototype. The other big lump of wood in this issue is a pick-up owned by John and Nina Jones that has had its load bed replaced with a wooden item. That might not sound like anything special until you see that the lines of an original steel pick-up
bed have been replicated exactly in hardwood through painstaking effort and modern adhesives. It took my breath away when I went to photograph it.
Wrapped around these two major features are all the regular items including an interesting archive photo in the centrespread as well as a selection of postcards – mostly from overseas destinations – that include Minors in their pictures from member Alan Yates. It’s fair to say that Viewpoint, Technical Tips, the aforementioned features, Branch News, Members’ Cars and much of Noticeboard depend on contributions from members so please keep that correspondence coming in.
Looking ahead, there’s an end of season event at Kelmarsh and the return of the NEC Classic Car Show to look forward to. Both these events are advertised on the reverse of this issue’s carrier sheet.
John Carroll
FEATURES
Wood Is Good 18 Package Holidays 24 Wooden It Be Good? 32 Members’ Cars 36 Branch Events 42 Tech Tips 44
REGULARS
Noticeboard 5 Club Spares 9 Viewpoint 10 Diary 17 Merchandise 28 Centrespread 30 Branch News 47 Membership Benefits 54 Classifieds 55 Restoration Advice 58
Cover: The innovative wooden-bodied Minor pick-up belonging to John and Nina Jones of the North Wales branch of the MMOC. Photo John Carroll
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