In my last Chairman's comments I noted that following the AGM the MGB Register committee would be two members short and asked anybody interested to phone me. Result, NOT ONE PHONE CALL.

In her first Register notes Janine Pratt asked for help to marshal the Register car park at the Silverstone MGCC meeting, result, NOT ONE PHONE CALL.

As a result of the above the MGB Register committee consists of just 11 people (with one resigning in August due to relocation to France) who between them have to: maintain the Register; plan and organise events including the Cotswold run, the Register weekend and the Focus day, write, produce and edit the Register newsletters and the monthly news of the register, answer technical queries from members, manage regalia sales, run the website and carry out basic committee activities of chairing meetings, answering correspondence, producing minutes and accounting for all the financial transactions associated with regalia sales and running events. In addition the members of the committee aim to fully support the MGCC by helping to set up and run the Silverstone event, man the Register stand at events and marshal the car parking areas. (They also like to drive their cars from

time to time, take holidays and attend other MG events).

Most of the committee members have served for over 10 years and many have been committee members for well over 20 years.

I regret having to focus so directly on this one issue but it appears that we have reached a situation whereby either nobody cares about the future of the Register or there is a general but mistaken impression that somebody else will always put in the necessary work and they can just come along to events or seek other services from the Register as and when they wish. Ladies and Gentlemen the situation is serious and unless I get some volunteers quickly to bring our numbers up to strength the MGB Register committee will be forced to pull back on some activities. We meet about four times a year at Kimber House but increasingly are using email to communicate and plan events, please think about what I have said and either phone me or 01858 431271 to volunteer your services or email me on renggerbj@tiscali.co.uk

Happy MGB motoring.

Bernard Rengger