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Motors Reunion Joint natter leaders at the Fairmile Natter near Cobham in Surrey, Ian Ailes and Jon Glover, together with Peter Beadle, held a wonderful evening which brought together former members of the team at University Motors in Epsom. Their recollections were recorded which is now available. Video Ian and Jon say "we are planning to repeat it next year hopefully with even more people from UM and some more tales from the workshop!" Fairmile Natter They can trace their meetings back to July 1939 when the then Southern Centre organised the Surrey Master Run starting at the Talbot Inn in Ripley. The natter met there on and off until 2008 when it moved to the Fairmile. The Fairmile is famous as the home of Invicta Cars set up in 1925 in the back garden of Noel Macklin’s home at Fairmile Cottage. After selling the business in 1933, he then formed Railton Cars, built there up to 1939. The Fairmile is also famous as being the spot where the first speeding fine was issued in 1889. Cobham Parish Council was complaining of excessive motor car speeds and the following year the Chief Constable of Surrey, Captain Sant, issued a caution to road users. Fairmile history Posted: 220308 |
The recollections of former members of the team at University Motors in Epsom were a wonderful return to the 1960s and early 1970s when the MGB and its derivatives were the MGs of the moment seen as an attractive sportscars for many enthusiasts. Thank heavens the Fairmile Natter team arranged the meeting and the more so that it was recorded so it is available as an authoritative record of memories of University Motors at Epson at a time when it was a leading MG distributor and provider of MG servicing and replacement parts. UM Looking Back |
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