Motor Enthusiasts' Club

debate in which heated and well informed points of view were displayed on and off the floor and from which D. 0. Jenkins emerged the sole survivor more by Celtic influence than by power of oratory.

At the next meeting on February 13th, we were privileged to have Professor John Roach of the University of Sheffield who spoke to us on the subject of "Historical Novels" with special reference to Prescott's "A Man on a Donkey", an historical novel about the dissolution of the monasteries and the Pilgrimage of Grace in 1536. This was an extremely interesting and enlightening talk on a rather vague topic of English literature. It was a pity so many of the younger members of the Society did not attend.

The last assembly of the Society for the Easter term took the form of a trip to Temple Newsam House and Kirkstall Abbey, both in Leeds. J.R.Y.

The term began with two new Committee Members being appointed: J. N. Town was made School House representative and J. H. W. Sharpe was elected Deputy-Secretary. At the first Committee Meeting a full programme of meetings was planned for the term, but unfortunately due to a variety of reasons beyond the control of the Club it was not possible to hold more than one meeting in the term.

The term's sole meeting was held on Thursday, February 6th when Mr. N. R. Seaton, an Old Peterite, and Sales Manager of Unwin's of York came to the School to speak about and show the new Ford Capri to our members. The car had been officially announced the previous day and Mr. Seaton arrived in the 1600 GT XLR model. When the members of the Club had closely examined the car they listened to Mr. Seaton speaking about Ford's role in the British motor industry, and he also answered many questions.

The Easter term is probably the most difficult term in which to arrange our meetings as we have to rely on mainly indoor meetings involving guest speakers, and in the world of the motor industry and motor sport the potential speakers are very busy people who have much travelling to do which makes it extremely difficult for them to accept invitations to speak to our members.

The Club did, however, arrange two outings for the end of term: one to Croft and another to Harewood, but again fate was against our arrangements • as both of these sporting events were cancelled because of the extremely bad weather conditions.

Next term we hope to be back on form again with our programme of meetings, and we hope to be able to include several outings in our calendar.