Morris Minor Owners Club

The Morris and the 1275 Midget have those but the others all have the red (Motorsport derived) cut out keys, since the batteries are either in the back (Switch under boot floor) or don't have standard terminals. In the case of the Midget 1500, it works out that I can remove the key from the driving ...

Not strictly relevant but having seen how wiring can burn, when there is a serious short, I think a battery isolator is very important. I was lucky that I happened to be there, when it happened with my mother's car and I cut the offending wire before much damage was done. The cut out is bypassed wit...

I've organised it that my cars are all taxed from the anniversary of when they were registered new and aside from the Minor (Which has the MMOC reminder disc), all have repro tax discs from http://poplargreg.com/ . I know when all the cars were first registered but this reminds me. I usually get the...

Id be more inclined to something like this - https://www.machinemart.co.uk/c/sheds/ .

So far as I know, it is still illegal to refuse legal tender, in settlement of a debt. In terms of coinage, that means up to a full bank bag of said denomination, so the council could refuse your monthly council tax in bronze. Alas many large organisations seem to act is if they are above the law or...

Some of my best friends are dogs and cats. It's over 30 years since I've kept a dog but I hope to have one more dog and one more cat after I retire. The brown with white dog is Storm (1976 - 89), a Staffordshire bull terrier. The other two belonged to a farmer I know and both are no longer with us. ...

I passed my test in my mother's VW Polo but I still own the car I bought just over 18 months later; 39 years and counting (Not quite 20 years for the Morris but I am now not far off being it's longest keeper). I was in the Daily Mail, with my Morris, not long ago (It was an item on electric cars; so...

I remember when the zig zag lines came in and how that works but I can't remember what the rules were before the zig zags came in. Does anyone remember? This all came about as my mother recalls someone she knew was killed on a zebra crossing but in the days before zig zags. It seems he walked out wi...

I had some made, by Quaife, for my Midget 1500. I had previously had a pair of "Heat shrunk" shafts, that didn't last more than a few months and that was without any quick starts. The Quaife ones are splined together and have lasted over thirty years, with numerous hillclimb starts to thei...

I wouldn't have recommended Wares but ESM did some good repair work to the floor of my car and their mechanical work seems sound (It was this aspect that I feel was most lacking at Wares).

I've always had the impression that he thought sports cars a bit pointless, though of course he built his "Lightweight" racing car. I have just read a book about Austin Healey 100/4s and it says he was an enthusiastic owner of a 100/4. I have a biography of Issigonis but it makes no mentio...

My mother's aunt had a new Minor 1000 sometime in the late 1950s. The attached photo came to light when the last of my mother's aunts and uncles died in 2020, aged 97. It was the only car she had but when she got married, her husband had a newer Minor (I remember that one) and they sold the older ca...

Sounds good to me. For various reasons, I've not been to a car event since 2017. My Traveller has been mothballed for quite a few years, waiting my having time to fix one or two things, like Ware's shoddy five speed conversion :roll: . Anyway, it's making progress. I have a some MGs besides and wher...

My Traveller has a 1275 Midget engine, with the 1 3/4" single SU. Like my late father's 1275 Midget, it has a Peter Burgess "Econotune" head, which is basically just gasflowed. The Midget has the standard twin HS2 carbs. Both have LCB exhaust manifolds, straight through exhausts and K...

Are late model front seats the same both sides? My Traveller came with odd seats (One NC Suffolk and one standard) and the passenger seat is good. I am looking to fit one of the folding passenger seats (That can be folded into the footwell) and to move the existing seat to the driver's side. I have ...

What we have done in the UK in many cases is paint a white line down the pavement and indicate that pedestrians can use one side, and cyclists the other. In other cases, there are just blue plaques showing pedestrians and cyclists together. Both are less than ideal, and lead some cyclists and scoot...

I see https://uk.news.yahoo.com/anger-irresponsible-christmas-sales-e-140438567.html?.tsrc=fp_deeplink and note Tom McNeil, West Midlands assistant police and crime commissioner, said: “It’s irresponsible that retailers are selling these e-scooters, which they know cannot be used on public roads. Th...

"Sometimes the most vulnerable are so because they are the most stupid," Really Blaketon? This thread has been about sensible pedestrians, just going about their lives, who have to encounter offence committing wrong -doers. The 'activity' of cycling/scooting on the pavement has been allow...

I doubt many people who knock someone out, get away with it. Especially if the police know and it’s not denied. :o Self defense is not a crime and if you are in fear, as I was, of an illegal and violent assault , on my person, your are entitled to act. Having struck the would be assailant, that's w...

Maybe many cops are fed up with all the PC claptrap. A few months ago I was rocketing around a bend (Not in the Moggie) near the foot of Box Hill & pulled up for speeding by a cop with a speed gun. He was quite young & looked exactly like Matt Hancock. Anyways he started asking me all these...