National Events
The Morris Register organises, or participates in, a number of national events throughout the year. The regular events are the:
South Coast Run (Box Hill, Surrey to Newhaven Sussex,
via Brighton) - May
- Bristol Classic Car Show - May
- Ardingly Vintage & Classic Vehicle Show, West Sussex (organised jointly with Horsham Historics)
- July
- National Rally held at Thoresby Park, Nr Ollerton,
Nottinghamshire - August
- International Auto-jumble, Beaulieu Hampshire - September
-
Classic Car Show at the NEC, Birmingham - November
In addition to the regular events, other occasional national events are also organised.
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Morris Register in
2010, a number of special events are also being organised, these
include:
- Oxford Bus Museum (incl Morris Motors Museum) - June
- Crich Tramway Museum - running weekend - June
Further details of events are available in the Members' Area.
National Rally - Thoresby Park
Ardingly Vintage & Classic Vehicle Show
Saturday & Sunday - 11th & 12th
July 2009The Ardingly Vintage & Classic Vehicle Show
website gives a flavour of this event.
South Coast Run - Dorking to Newhaven
Sunday - 10th May 2009
The 47th running of the annual run to the south coast (the
third
running in the guise of the Morris Register "South Coast Run") again started at the foot of Box
Hill, Surrey (just north of Dorking on the A24). The 60 mile
route ran south to the coast at Shoreham and then east via Brighton
to a finish at Newhaven.
This run started as the Morris
8 Tourer Club's "London to Brighton Run". In it's early
years, it started in Central London
and finished on Brighton seafront. Difficulties with both start
and finish locations saw the start move from central London to Battersea Park and subsequently to Merton
Abbey Mills and the finish move to the Greyhound
Stadium at Hove and subsequently the University
of Sussex - Falmer Campus, on the downs north east of Brighton.
As with other start locations, continued use
of the Merton Abbey Mills site became untenable, so the decision
was taken to move the start for the 2007 run further along the
established route to its current location beneath Box Hill and extend the finish along the coast to Newhaven.
Having moved the start outside the ring of the M25, renaming the run as the "South Coast Run" seemed appropriate.
For 2009, the date was moved from March to May, in the
hope of providing better weather conditions than recent
years.
A flavour of the first running as
the "South Coast Run" in 2007:
|
 |
 |
 |
| Sunday 3rd March 2007 - 09:45 Ready for the
start (and a dry day!)
(Photos - Jim Riglar)
|
 |
 |
 |
| On the road. Coffee stop - Duke's Head, Beare Green
(Photos - Jim Riglar)
|
 |
 |
 |
| Along the coast ...........................to the finish at Newhaven
Fort
(Photos - Jim Riglar)
|
|
