Was in BHM the other day and they had some old Miscellanies in their waiting room '50s I think - I found them really interesting and to me a better read than the current issues that I just flick through. Not everyone would agree though I am sure Richard M800RGN+8
________________________________ From: Bob Allen <[email protected]> To: mogtalk2 <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, 9 May 2012, 19:09 Subject: [mogtalk2] What happened to Miscellany? Colin and Robert Jones, you sum up my feelings exactly! I bought my car nearly 4 years ago and knew little about Morgans except that I wanted one. After buying, I needed to acquire the knowledge: where best? The club magazine of course! Wrong. Too full of:- 1. Where we went for our holidays 2. Who we saw when we got there 3. What we did then 4. What we ate whilst doing it 5. With many thanks to…………. Very few technical articles (if any), very few “How to’s…..” The lost opportunity is quite staggering when you consider you can’t nip out and buy a Haynes Manual for these things. The quantity of requests on this forum for help on just basic maintenance shows the void and this sort of coverage would have helped me back then. Not everyone is born with the knowledge – some of us have to acquire it and I had wrongly expected the club magazine to be a mine of information. I ran my MSCC membership for 2 years and decided it just wasn’t worth the 30 quid a year or whatever it was. There are some outstanding contributors here and on TM. If the mix in the magazine was more of an equal split I’d gladly still be a member. Has the content changed or does my money stay in my pocket? Bob From:e-mail colin.jones5857 [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 09 May 2012 16:36 To: mogtalk2 Subject: Re: [mogtalk2] 1953 +4 FLAT RAD 4 SEATER Maybe that's because many of us who used to send in technical articles, road tests etc., and get them published, found they were being ignored by the editor, letters, emails all went unanswered. I have stopped sending anything in to the magazine and I know I am not alone. No objection to the editor making the decision what to publish of course but when articles are submitted and when asked why they are not published no answer is forthcoming eventually you just give up. BR Colin On 9 May 2012 15:16, Robert Jones <[email protected]> wrote: I know how you feel. I have been a member of the Morgan Sports Car Club for about a year and one-half. There monthly mag., Miscellany, is, regretfully, nothing but a social scene journal with only a couple of technical articles in that time and really nothing about the cars except the latest from the factory which ends up being like press releases. Even the ads, which it has plenty of, are for mostly newer cars and hardly ever change. Bob View posts on The Mail Archive http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Modify Your Subscription ------------------------------------------- View posts on The Mail Archive http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ [http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/] Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=22459785&id_secret=22459785-4a39ddf8 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
