MG Car Club of South Australia
MGA / MAGNETTE REGISTER
From.. Sandra Cardnelklk
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MGA/MAGNETTE REGISTER
MEETING HELD AT THE
CLUBROOMS 20 JULY 2017
irstly, I must apologise for not send-
ing a reminder to everyone. I had
my email suspended by Telstra four
days into our holiday. In spite of an
online chat (or two) nothing could be
done until we were home, and even that
took 8 days and a long time on the
phone (and on hold).
So, along with the weather, that may
have been the reason for the slightly
lower attendance. In fact, apologies
nearly outnumbered attendance. Pre-
sent were Karen and Murray Stephen-
son, Nick Micklem and Geoff Goode.
Apologies from Dee and Ian Denny and
Dennise Micklem.
We had a chat, some supper and Alan
put his photos from the Goodwood Fes-
tival of Speed on the big screen. Don’t
worry if you missed this exciting presen-
tation – another opportunity presents at
the Monthly General Meeting – or, he
can be convinced to present a private
screening, any time, any place.
new house. His comment was that he
had moved two hundred yards and that
was it. Apparently he did not leave the
property – life was obviously simpler
then. The cottage was interesting, lots
of lovely old furniture and there was an
organ with sheet music for hymms and
other songs. Music was obviously a big
part of life in the 1850’s. There was
what looked like a crystal radio set with
the speaker attached to an old gramo-
phone “ear”. I think the Wicks family
were very inventive.
On the way to the shed to look at the car
collection, we passed an annexe to the
cottage which contained an old tractor,
Spraying equipment for the nursery
trees and I think the very first IKEA
shelving system – about thirty or so
wooden crates stacked on each other
and filled with old car lights, car parts
and a lot of other items collected over
the years. Under the bench was an en-
gine and the head seemed to be part of
the block – interesting.
We eventually made our way to the
shed and more surprises inside. Mr
Wicks collected unusual vehicles – and
Next meeting will again be at the Club- they were. He started off with one vin-
tage car because a mate had one. One
rooms on September 21. See you there
of his vehicles was on its way to the
ALL MGA RUN TO BALHANNAH
dump and the owner gladly handed it
13 TH AUGUST 2017
over to him.
He did not stop there.
This run was not limited to MGA’s so we 1920’s Yellow cabs, Singers, a Besst,
had three MGB’s and MGF and a VW DKW, a Gordon, Model T delivery truck,
join the 13 MGA’s who travelled to visit a 1924 Turcat Mery (from France), four
the car collection of David and Di Wicks’ motor bikes (1920’s) and of course
father at Balhannah. The original cot- David Wick’s black MGA. I think I
tage from the 1850’s has been turned missed a couple, but David and Di are
into a museum with the excess furniture happy to welcome visitors to their prop-
from the property. Another house was erty. Perhaps another time. Di usually
built as the family increased and Mr has a gold coin donation collection for
Wicks moved from the cottage to the visitors but forgot this time. I am happy
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