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Re: Morgan +4 New Year Lunch 2015 - Leathern Bottle?

Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2014 7:43 pm
by Andy Downes
Hello everybody,

I would like to join you please, no date preferences - just good company required :lol:

Many Thanks

Andy

Re: Morgan +4 New Year Lunch 2015 - Leathern Bottle?

Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2014 5:38 pm
by Mark Shears
That goes without saying Andy!

Good company is always assured...

So why can't you come Greg?

Cheers

Mark

Re: Morgan +4 New Year Lunch 2015 - Leathern Bottle?

Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2014 7:34 pm
by Bob Bull
Mark Shears wrote:That goes without saying Andy!

Good company is always assured...

So why can't you come Greg?

Cheers

Mark

He lives in Wogga Wogga, or some such part of the outback, and his bicycle has a puncture.

Re: Morgan +4 New Year Lunch 2015 - Leathern Bottle?

Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2014 8:45 pm
by Mary Lindsay
I hate to be pedantic Bob ( :wink: ) but it is actually Wagga Wagga [-X

Re: Morgan +4 New Year Lunch 2015 - Leathern Bottle?

Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2014 8:52 pm
by Bob Bull
Mary Lindsay wrote:I hate to be pedantic Bob ( :wink: ) but it is actually Wagga Wagga [-X
Wogga you know? :roll:

Re: Morgan +4 New Year Lunch 2015 - Leathern Bottle?

Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2014 10:56 pm
by Alan House
Hi All

I'd like to join in also if that's OK; no date preference.

Alan

Re: Morgan +4 New Year Lunch 2015 - Leathern Bottle?

Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2014 9:26 am
by Bob Bull
Alan House wrote:Hi All

I'd like to join in also if that's OK; no date preference.

Alan
They let me in Alan, so I can't see you having a problem. :)

Bob. (Recently described as 'Famous' by a Morgan driver. #-o )

Re: Morgan +4 New Year Lunch 2015 - Leathern Bottle?

Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2014 9:51 am
by Greg Mackie
Mary Lindsay wrote:I hate to be pedantic Bob ( :wink: ) but it is actually Wagga Wagga [-X
I hate to even pedanticer #-o ...it's actually Burradoo.

My bicycle tyre has healed, however one of my floaties has a puncture, and I keep swimming in circles. :roll:

G.M. [Genetically Modified]

Re: Morgan +4 New Year Lunch 2015 - Leathern Bottle?

Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2014 2:36 pm
by Mary Lindsay
...it's actually Burradoo.
That's interesting, I have a cousin who lives there and he never told me that!

Re: Morgan +4 New Year Lunch 2015 - Leathern Bottle?

Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2014 3:43 pm
by Bob Bull
No doubt Burradoo is the Australian equivalent of Inworth. Both a long way from the Leathern Bottle.


Anyway Greg, you don't have time for all this nonsense you should be nailing that old Morgan back together. 8-[

Re: Morgan +4 New Year Lunch 2015 - Leathern Bottle?

Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2014 8:04 pm
by Greg Mackie
OK children, gather 'round. Burradoo [Aboriginal word for 'Place of many brigalow trees'] is about 200 miles N/E of Wagga Wagga [Aboriginal for 'Place of many crows']. Must never be called 'Wagga'.

After finding my box of monel nails, I have nailed the rear 1/4 panels on.....don't rush me, Bob !

Re: Morgan +4 New Year Lunch 2015 - Leathern Bottle?

Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2014 8:15 pm
by Bob Bull
Well tie me kangaroo down ................... who'd of thought it?
Maybe Greg will e-mail me pictures of his restoration that I can show around at the Bottle in January.

Re: Morgan +4 New Year Lunch 2015 - Leathern Bottle?

Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2014 10:08 pm
by Greg Mackie
Bob, I tried sending some photos, however the email 'bounced'...old address, perhaps ?

If you email gregatkirrapakdotcom I will try again.

Re: Morgan +4 New Year Lunch 2015 - Leathern Bottle?

Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2014 11:39 pm
by simon king
machiel kalf wrote:Dear +4 fanatics,

At the moment I am still reading "The Book". For me the most important "news" was to see on page 102! The one and only +4 Super Sports are +4's, low line body (just one with a Serie III, Serie IV and Serie V), two seaters, and ofcourse Lawrence Tune engine, exhaust, LT- inlet, and 42mm Webers. I have to count the numbers of this type in my factory lis!!. But, I have the feeling that the total will be around 50 or 60. The rest are +4's with a Lawrence Tune engine. So, it's not a +4 DHC Super Sports............... or a +4 4 seater Super Sports. Interesting "news" isn't it?
Hi Machiel,
an interesting observation. Just because it says this in this particular book does it make it fact? What if a car's owner was not that stated in the book, would that mean that the correct/real owner in period was not in fact the owner after all? What if an original log book for a car states the model as "Super Sports', from when the factory first registered the car would that make it more definitive? And would it be the case that if the car had a high-line body then the factory must have got confused with the model designations when it was being manufactured and registered? Was it perhaps a mistake made on just one car, or a serial mistake being made on a number of cars registered up to March '62 at least?

Something to discuss further in Jan perhaps?

Regards,
Simon
[Defender of the high-line +4 Super Sports! :lol: ]

Re: Morgan +4 New Year Lunch 2015 - Leathern Bottle?

Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2014 6:40 pm
by Mark Shears
With all this digression I have forgotten which Saturday in January 2015 we are all going to the Leathern bottle?!

Is it Saturday 17th January...

If so we would have:

Simon King
Leigh Sebba
Mark Hoble
Richard Plant
Philip Tisdall
Bob Bull
Machiel Kalf?
Mary Lindsay?
Andy Green?
Me!

but not:
Simon Gurney (in USA)
Greg Mackie (in Oz)

Cheers

Mark