"IF YOU HAVE TAKEN your Moggy for an MOT in the last year or so then you will no-doubt be aware that the whole process has now been computerised. This now means that you can tax your car without even having to leave home as the insurance companies have also got a data base of all cars insured so the DVLA can check your car is legal and supply the necessary tax disc without you having to produce your paper documents down at the Post Office. I recently had a call from Sam Cooke who is both a reader of Minor Monthly and an MOT tester and he has recently been on a course at VOSA with regards to the new computer software being used by all testers. He told us that if a car now fails you can only input the failure if it tallies with the options on screen, which funnily enough does not include rotten woodwork? Sam queried this with the people at VOSA with regards to the Traveller and was simply told that if the option isn’t there then its not a failure, so where does that leave owners of our beloved Traveller? Does it mean that they can no longer fail due to rotten wood, an interesting thought. So does anyone out there have the answer?

Jon Betts - Minor Monthly Editor

Table of Contents

Regulars

5 Staff List & Ed Speak

6 News and Products

10 Your Views

28 Club Profile: This month we travel down under to meet the Morris Car Group of Ipswich.

34 Minor Tech: Cylinder Head - part three. The penultimate installment in the fascinating Rene Flameng’s series.

38 Company Spotlight: Interior specialists Newton Commercial come under the spotlight this month.

46 Racing Minors: Classic shots of a truly classic motor car.

Features

12 Tin Traveller Transformed: Mike Foster brings us up to date with one of the tin Travellers from last months issue.

16 Under Construction: James Ayres shares with us his Rover V8 powered Minor.

18 Paint Your Wagon Red: Russ Harvey’s story of one of the oldest LCV’s currently residing in Australia.

22 Timeless Classics: Bill Stewardson has been collecting Morris Minors for more years than he cares to remember, these are his latest offerings.

30 Beginners Guide to the Morris Minor: Everything you ever wanted to know about them but were afraid to ask.