T Register AGM

19 March 2016, British Motor Museum, Gaydon
The T Register AGM was held immediately after the close of Rebuild at the British Motor Museum. About a third of the Rebuild attendees stayed on for it.
Geoff Matthews was elected unopposed as chairman, whilst making it absolutely plain that it would be his last year. Bill Silcock was elected to the committee.
The Register is in good financial health with moderate funds as a reserve. It does make a loss on the more commercial events it attends – notably Stoneleigh – but the committee think this is worth while to promote the Register. On its own organised events it breaks even.
Where the Register does make a profit is in its DVLA services – liaising with the DVLA in getting original Registration Numbers restored and acquiring age-related ones for new T Type imports. Our thanks go to Robin Hasledine for this extremely valuable service.
The T Register tours are fully booked up; the one which we need members to book for is the T Party in July at the Flywheel event at Bicester Heritage. This is a self-booking event so make sure to read the about how to do this. You can find it all on the Events page.
There was a short discussion at the end of the meeting on the Register’s new initiatives of its Facebook Page and this Newsletter. More members signed up to the Newsletter but not everyone at the meeting was a fan of Facebook; however there have been over 1000 hits on our Facebook post on the Rebuild event.
The other topic discussed was a report on the IT initiatives from Kimber House as reported in the item above on MGCC Council. One Registrar wanted the next step of being able to store all car records on the KH database …