DerekG

Having a huge deactivated gun collection im worried (my future pension) ive done a little research and the proposed wording for the ban is 'machine gun' not assult weapons this woul cover a lot of weapons from .30 cals, brens and vickers tonstens and other smg,s so please all sign up. the only people exempt would be museums What makes a museum..............? could be a lot of new small ones opening

Hi Colin I live in Upper Clatford, Where about's in Andover are you? regards Derek

Hi Richard yes that was me in the 1980's with the Morris i believe you came to our small South Sea castle show on your bike before the big D-Day events of 1984 hope your keeping well Derek

Hi Added an album to my profile containing sets of black and white factory pictures of the C8 Range which are very interesting. C8GS timber Body, C8GS steel Body, C8 Compressor (no canvas and the tool box and spare wheel reversed to allow the drive shaft to go from the PTO into the back body), C8 wireless soft top you can see the extended legs for the tilt frame and the communications tube to the cab as well as windows in the canvas and lastly the C8 Wireless hard bodied which has to be the best of the bunch never seen one before, but it uses the standard 15cwt wireless body. as you can see with all these they left the factory with the registration numbers but it looks like the Tyre for the spare wheel was down to the unit to supply! just a taster attached Derek

Hi Ian Have attached some more pictures of the Morris when i did her up in the winter of 1983/4 and also the day for the off to France in 1984. I also did the 40th Jersey trip in 1985 with the Morris, which was fun as the roads were so narrow, she never let me down in all the miles that i drove around the south coast to shows from Brighton to Yeovil right up to Cobham, i used to do between 3-4 thousand a year........... petrol was cheaper then, 70p a gallon! Round about the year i sold the vehicle the new legislation came in about free road tax and MOT exemption but you had to have the age related number on the vehicle, so the new owner must have re-registered the vehicle. Up until that point it was a case of going to the local garage and the MOT tester would sit in the vehicle press the break pedal and turn the lights no and say "I drove one of these in Korea" and a certificate would be issued. Have you got used to the Morris dancing at 30-35? i found that loosely holding the wheel and letting it wobble in your hands stopped the vehicle starting to sway, until you drove through it to about 38-40. My friend Gerry who had a wooden bodied C8GS would hang on to his wheel for grim death with the whole vehicle moving all over the road, until the wobble stopped about 40. I have some of the Factory Photos from 1944 which i will also scan and post I hope to see the old girl around at some shows in the near future, as you are only a little way up the road, and next year funds permitting i am looking to get another 15cwt myself Regards Derek

Hi Just to let you know i owned and restored this Morris in the early 80's (reg originally BMR 795B) i bought it from a chap at Pangbourne. It was militarized, as in having green paint put over its civilian pain and very little else had been done to it. I ran it for about a year then restored it for the 1984 D-Day MVT trip. Stripped it down to bear metal and re painted and also had to re-build the engine as all the valves were burnt. could not get new valves so had to have them re manufactured arrived back, 3 weeks before the trip. sold the vehicle to a welsh chap in about 1988-9 the year i got married. The truck is still going the marriage not!

Hi Thanks for letting me join - been into MV's all my life currently have a Triumph 3SW, owned ferret, Morris Commercial and Marmon Herrington Armored car in the past. maybe looking to get another British 15cwt next year Derek