Alan's car(86K) 
The head
gasket on return home. (77K) This is a page describing the WhSc events that I attended in 1999.
The pictures and text date from Dec 1999 but the page was reformatted in Oct 2003.
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On Sunday June 13th I took Tessa to the Annual General Meeting of the
Wolseley Hornet Special Club. This is held in the Bell Inn at Beauchampton, a
small village just north of Princes Risborough. On the way, with about 5 miles
to go the Hornet suffered from a common ailment of early Hornets, a blown head
gasket. I continued to the meeting where spares secretary Jim Bounden had very
conveniently brought a supply of recently manufactured gaskets. After taking
much advice on how to cure the fault for the future I wired out the two central
spark plugs and returned home on four cylinders. (there's nothing like having a
few spare!!). Here are a couple of pictures from the event.
Alan's car(86K)
The head
gasket on return home. (77K)
Three weeks later with the head gasket now repaired I attended an event to
reenact the Kop hill climbs of the past. This was organised by the Bean Car club
and there was a goodly contingent of Hornets present. For me it was a test to
ensure the head gasket was secure before going to france in early August.
The
morning was a bit dull with some showers passing through and due a problem on
the hill the procedings had become delayed. So off to a good lunch at a local
pub and back for some runs up the hill in somewhat brighter weather in the
afternoon. Here are some pictures.
Geoff awaiting his turn (67K)
In early August Ann and I and the girls joined the Wolseley Hornet Special
Club for their annual rally to Normandy. This year Tony Mead had arranged it as
an Eclipse Viewing Spectacular .
(35K)