Historically, MGCC became independent from MG Company from 1968, and has been drifting for more than 20 years. Is this also for the club? House has been fighting for 20 years.
From 65438 to 0980, thornley ceased to be the chairman of MGCC for health reasons. He is called "Mr. MG". He regards MG as his life and takes MG as a sports car manufacturer to be the first in the world. Because of the appearance of BLMC and the crowding out of Triumph, the closure of MG factory hit him hard.
1983, due to the continuous decline in the number of members, "Safe? Kuai magazine became more and more unable to make ends meet, and the monthly magazine became bimonthly, which led to the contradiction between MGCC and two advertising operators.
Meanwhile, Boston (67? Wide? Baguette? Boston's lease has expired, and MGCC is going to wander again.
The new chairman, Bill? Wallis traveled around and saw many places, including an abandoned bar of Moran Brewing Company.
Moran Brewing Company 1880 came to abington, which, like MG, is the pride of abington. 1979, Moran Brewing Company introduced an old hen beer (old? Special? HEN), celebrating the 50th anniversary of MG's founding in abington. However, the beer is still bubbling and the factory is gone.
Another alternative is the Austin Morris Company (also BLMC) training school in Warwickshire, which has beautiful scenery, but it is not easy to organize classrooms into club offices.
After repeated weighing, they chose the most economical plan and accepted Anders? Kraussag suggested that he rent a temporary mobile home near Studley's home as MGCC's office. A few days later, he rented it again. A mobile room was built to store MGCC materials and souvenirs.
1985 April 12, the club office in the mobile home officially opened, Bill? Wallis applied for the mailbox PO? Box? 25 1,? Stulli, this number is the email address of abington Club.
MGCC wants to return to abington. 1in August, 987, they wrote a plan to raise 654.38 million pounds in the mobile home and return to the holy land in abington.
A month later, real estate agent and club member Jeff Redford (Geoff? Radford)? He told Ron Gamosron, then president of the club? Gammons suggested buying an ordinary house on York Street in abington.
At this moment, Austin Rover invited MGCC to rent a semi-independent villa in Studley. What's its name? Lucri? Villa, provided to MGCC as the headquarters.
This caused a fierce conflict within the club. Some people think that we should accept the kindness of Austin Rover, and this view is supported by thornley. He wrote to the club and said, "We should return to abington with dignity, not find a corner in a beautiful city". He even threatened the current club president that if he continued to consider York Street real estate, he would not hesitate to take charge of the club with his morbid weight.
After a heated debate, the club no longer considered York Street, accepted the invitation of Austin Rover and switched to Studley? Lucri? The cottage, at the same time, officially launched a fund to buy real estate for the club.
Facts have proved that non-profit organizations think that businessmen are often wrong. Austin rover put forward some unacceptable conditions for MGCC, and MGCC failed to move into Luke? Shanzhai, lived in a trailer for a while and moved again.
Fortunately, the fund-raising activity has already started. Since the summer of 1988, donations from all over the world have come to the club one after another, and the club has also held various forms of auctions to raise funds.
At the same time, the club began to get in close contact with all political and business circles in abington to discuss various plans, including building a museum to buy a house in abington. In particular, I discussed with two owners of the MG factory plot. The current owner is standard life company (standard? Life? Promise? Company), former boss Pavlova Leather Company (? Pavlova? Leather? Pavlova Leather Co., Ltd. sold the original factory building to MG Company in 1929, and MG Company produced MG cars on this plot for 60 years.
I got good news from Pavlova Leather Company. A property they own is being sold in the market as a development site for eight apartments. The property is adjacent to the former administrative building of MG Motor Company (now Lakhill Building). Among them, 1 1 is the smallest semi-detached house, which is still occupied by Jeff Branch, an employee of Pavlova Company, and his wife Renee. 12 is uninhabited.
In this way, MGCC decided.
Thornley is also very satisfied. He said, buy it.
But what about the money?
Raise money? 65,730? What can the club get? 15,000? The total price of these two houses? 180,000 short 100. What should we do?
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