Re: Digest Number 725

[Benson]

Hi All, R.e. The Cecil Kimber run that some of you more hardy souls indulged in, do any of you MG historians know if Cecil Kimber had a holiday cottage in Runswick Bay, North Yorkshire? I joined the US contingent on their tour of the UK some years ago albeit in my brothers Morgan +8 as the TB was not yet finished, and they came across from York to Runswick Bay and I seem to think there was some connection. Had the TB out today after great difficulty trying to solve an intermittant charging problem, turned out not to be the dynamo but the cut-out assy. Behind the resistance coils the varios contacts are joined by brass strips rivetted to the terminals. One of these had broken almost invisible and was only found by continuity testing whilst moving the strip/s. Now soldered and appears to be OK. Whilst having a brew got talking to a guy who imports old motorbikes from South Africa and is bringing in a 1948 TC with allegedly only 5000 miles on the clock, looks very good from the photo if anybodies interested he,s ringing me up on Wednesday prior to going back to S.A. Car will be in the U.K. in May. PS Never met this guy before in my life, I was just parked up in Helmsley! Regards Ron Benson TB

> Clive > ============================================== > Clive > > In keeping with the date, Norman Ewing popped round this evening to share > some of his Cecil Kimber memorabilia with me. And what a lot he has, > including a copy of a letter Kimber wrote (on a Specialloid Piston Company > letterhead) to one David L. Gandhi of Stockport (UK). Two interesting > aspects are manifested in this letter, the first being that he wrote to > accept an invitation to be Honorary President of the Enthusiast Car Club > (not a specialist MG club which perhaps indicates a degree of tolerance

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> always shared by other MG enthusiasts!), the second being that the letter > is > dated 3rd February 1945 - perhaps the last he wrote before the fateful > accident on the following day. Would be interesting to know were the > original of this letter is. > > We then did a lap of honour in his memory in TC8675, also in the rain! > > Joe Gates > TC8675 > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > ________________________________________________________________________ > >