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NOSTALGIA
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'A BIT OF THIS & THAT' (2)
This page is designed to give you information
that just doesn’t fit into any of the other categories.
For example, Ann Thomson was awarded a Life
Membership of CAMS this year and, while her citation was
published in the Octagon, it should be more generally and
permanently available to our members so that they can appreciate
her service to the Club and to motorsport.
We also had our members competing in
significant events (event if not put on by the MGCCQ) such as
the hillclimbs at Burleigh, Whites Hill, Toowoomba and Warwick
and this provides a place for these events to be acknowledged.
There have also been a whole range of
excellent articles of historical interest published in the
Octagon. Members who join the Club after the publication of
these rarely get the chance to read them. Here on the website
they can be accessed at any time. Amongst these are the
well-researched articles by Malcolm Spiden on the history of
motorsport in Queensland.
There is also a collection of snippets of
intriguing information gleaned whilst the archiving of all
articles in all Octagons was being undertaken. As a play
on words to indicate that these were from the past, they were
aptly named ‘Octagone’.
Early Club member, Ken Ebeling, was a diarist
and keeper of records with the result that his memoirs of his
motoring days provide an accurate account of his pursuit of
motorsport while a member of the Club. These were written
primarily for his family along with his complete life story but
he has made the motoring sections available to the Club. |
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LAND OF THE CLUBROOMS IN 1974 –
Photo supplied by Pat
Collins whose family farmed the area where the Clubrooms
now stand (thus the name of Collinsvale St) |
They have been serialized in the Octagon and are still
available on the Octagon page of the website but are
available here as well. They make fascinating reading of his
life with his MGs as well as giving us insight into early Club
events.
Some photos of the building of the hillclimb
were made available when the book ‘History of the Hill’ was
being compiled in 2007. They are reproduced here along with a
number of candid photos of Club members at working bees.
There are also individual stories such as
those written by Lionel Ayers about racing his TC and Bruce
McMillan about the early days of the Club.
These have been organized into two major
sections:
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Photos of general interest (click here) -
Octagon articles of enduring interest
(below
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