Motor Enthusiasts Club

The Easter term had three meetings with a wide range of speakers. Mr. Richard Sharpe of the School spoke on Primitive Religions. He covered a vast subject, providing the archeological and anthropological bases for a series of religious beliefs. For the next meeting an outside speaker, the Revd. Geoffrey Lawn, came to speak on the Re-Union of the Churches. Mr. John Mitchell in the final meeting spoke on Christianity and the Supernatural. This was generally considered the best of the season and provoked much thought.

The society would like to thank all the speakers, and the Chaplain for his help in arranging the meetings.

I.T.W,

Once again the club has had a successful term. The first meeting was on April 27th, when a film evening was held in the Lecture Theatre. We were fortunate to have three very good films from the Castrol Film Library, probably the best we have ever had. The following Thursday we received a visit from Ron Sissons of J.C.T. 600 Ltd., who brought along a Saab rally car and a Porsche 911S. The rally car, which had taken part in rallies all over Europe, was due to enter for the Welsh Rally the following week, driven by Jack Tordoff, winner of the York 1900 National Rally in 1971. We were provided with several rides in the car, an extremely good talk and a "look under the bonnet."

On May 7th an outing to Croft Aerodrome was most worthwhile as the meeting was a national one. We saw a car "flip" on Railway Straight and Gerry Marshall, driving his Firenza, was in superb form. On May 21st another outing took place, this time to Harewood Hill Climb, and the outing was enjoyed by all. On June 1st Mr. Daniel was due to bring his Dragster to us, but unfortunately it was involved in a nasty accident the Sunday before it was due to come and no meeting was held. It is to be hoped that Mr. Daniel will be able to bring his Dragster and talk about it in the future. One other outing took place during the term to some auto tests at Scarborough.

On June 18th we were due to receive a visit from Rowleys of Bradford, who are distributors of Jensen, Lotus and B.M.W., but an extraordinary meeting of the shareholders the very morning of their proposed visit led to cancellation due to sacking of leading people in the garage! Timothy Wood, who is the sales manager, has agreed to come over in the future and his visit should prove most worthwhile. The final meeting of the term was held on the last Thursday when Tony Raylor, an Old Peterite, brought his V-12 Jaguar, gave a talk and gave rides. We are most grateful to him for giving up his time to come and see us.

Not only this term but also this year has been an extremely successful one for the club. My thanks must go to the committee, for all their hard work. Charles Hodge will be in charge from September and I hope that he will give the club what it wants and needs. Finally I would like to thank everyone for the help and consideration they have shown, particularly Paul Newdick, who has worked extremely hard during the year.