Octagon November, 2017

T-TYPE RUN -2017
By Lynn Jones; photos by Terry Jones and Elaine Hamilton
Rumblings of reforming
a T-Type
Register began
earlier this year
when Don Webster
and Terry Jones
discovered they both
shared the same
interest in providing
excursions for the
older club members,
T-Types that is! (Don
& Terry’s T-Type
ownership and friendship began in the late
1960s when the MG Car Club rooms were in
Wickham Street, The Valley).
To test the waters the call was made to all
interested T-Type owners to lift those dust
covers off and venture out together with the
promise of a comfortable speed, minimal
highway travel and the reward of a morning
tea/lunch stop at an historic bakery.
So, on Thursday 21st September a happy
and enthusiastic group assembled at
the club house eager and ready to travel
those “country lanes” in order to reach
our destination at the historic Fernvale
Bakery. There we would be joined by Helen
Goodfellow and her grandson Noah and
Brian Phillips - all from Toowoomba - and
Barry & Lorraine Bauman from Somerset
Dam.
By 9.30 a.m. seven cars were fired up
ready to enjoy the morning drive. We left
the Centenary Highway and headed to
Kholo Crossing via Mt. Crosby. A short
unavoidable stretch of the Warrego Highway
led us to the solitude of Pine Mountain Road
which joins the Brisbane Valley Highway
just 6 km short of our final destination. The
Bakery car park provided ample room for
the cars to pose for their customary photo
shoot; the line up was most impressive!
The bakery courtyard proved just the right
Preparation for the photo shoot, Roll call, Ross’s MG gets
admired, right turn to Mt Crosby, and (page 19)
enjoying the delights of the bakery.
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