MG 100 Cavalcade – John O’Groats to Lands End
SOUTH EAST CENTRE LEG
The MG 100 Cavalcade came to the South East on Friday 17th May. The token “Cecil” had come down from John O’Groats via Northern Ireland and back over the sea, through the north of England, down through the Midlands into Thames Valley and across to Anglia before crossing the Thames and stopping off at the MG Motor dealership, Ancaster MG, in Dartford.
There the cavalcade was met by South East members and collected ready for a drive into The Fairmile at Cobham for a summer party on the Fairmile Lawns. His chauffeurs were Susan and Trevor Osborne and their lovely MG Magnette and they took good care of him all weekend.
The Saturday drive, with Cecil as back seat passenger, began at Spadeworks in Offham, Kent and wound its way through to Cobham, Surrey to join the other four road runs at The Fairmile.
After an afternoon relaxing in the sunshine it was back to Kent and then returning the next morning to Surrey and the Brooklands MG Centenary Show. At 10.30am the show officially opened with MGCCSE Chairman Tim Morris welcoming Oz, Susan and Cecil to Brooklands where he spent the rest of the day sitting on a chair in The Paddock enjoying the sight of hundreds of the cars that he instigated in the 1920s. It was home from home, of course, as Brooklands was a place that he came to frequently when M.G. were entering works teams to race here.
At the end of an exhausting day it was time to move on and Cecil descended the Clubhouse steps to take a seat in Ian Wright’s MGBGT ready for the next leg of his journey with the Abingdon Works Centre to Beaulieu the next day.
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