Newsletter 15

22nd February 2019

A very busy 2019 already!!

We have started 2019 at a hectic pace, with club meetings being held in the boardroom of the Archive Centre virtually every weekend.

We also now have clear plans for our Open Days on the 1st Sunday of every month; three of these events will be themed. The idea is that whilst everyone is still very welcome, we hope to attract the relevant club members who will bring their vehicles along to create a fantastic display and fully utilise our great location. We will organise drinks and have the BBQ in operation so you can buy refreshments during the day, with the funds raised helping the building fund. A day to get your vehicle out and meet up with friends, share stories with other enthusiasts and generally enjoy having a classic Rootes car (or van, or lorry…). Do come along!

More details on the next few page, so save the date to make sure you don’t miss these fantastic Rootes events. Those of you who came to the official opening will remember what a great venue the archive is: lots of space, hard standing for the cars and vintage memorabilia to browse.

Also, if you are coming to the NEC Restoration Show you only have till the end of February to get the benefit of our ticket discount code!!

Archive Centre Meetings Diary

March

• 3rd: 10am-3pm: Open and Cataloguing Day • 22-24th: Restoration Show at NEC • 31st: ARCC Committee Meeting

April

• 7th: 10am-3pm: Commer Karrier Open Day • 13th: ASCO Committee Meeting • 14th: PVHCC Committee Meeting • 28th: Centre open for Drive It Day visitors

May

• 5th: 10am-3pm: Open and Cataloguing Day • 12th: Sunbeam Alpine OC Spares Day TBC • 18th: “Old Rooters” visit

To book a meeting in the boardroom, please contact:

jamesspencer@rootesarchivecentre.org.uk

Funding Update

One of our generous USA supporters has once again initiated a fantastic

matched-funding programme whereby any North American donations

made in the first part of this year will be matched up to $5,000. We are

very grateful for this wonderful show of support, which helps us towards

our outstanding building fund deficit of £51,112.

Thank you for all your efforts so far - come along to our special events in

2019 to help us meet our fundraising targets. Donations can be made at

any time by contacting: matthewollman@rootesarchivecentre.org.uk

Practical Classics Restoration Show — NEC

Don’t forget that we will be exhibiting at this show from

22nd –24th March on Stand 435 in Hall 3

next to all the Rootes car clubs.

We have arranged a discount ticket code for you to use

if you want to buy Saturday or Sunday tickets.

Please make your purchase before the end of February

and quote our unique code of C5353RS19

Full details of how to get the offer are on the next page

mailto:matthewollman@rootesarchivecentre.org.uk

Volunteers Needed

Now that the Archive Centre is starting to hold more events we have a need for more assistance from volunteers. We also want to turbo-charge cataloguing the contents of the archive and this again needs extra resource. We normally work in the centre every Friday and over many weekends so if you have some time available and would like to help preserve and promote Britain's motoring heritage then get in touch.

Contact: andybye@rootesarchivecentre.org.uk or call +44(0)7771943988

We are collecting brochures & need your help

Alan, one of our volunteers, has been cataloguing our brochure collection to

determine what we hold and to make retrieval easier. Whilst we have a good

collection we are aware there must be many brochures out there which we don’t

have and so we are appealing to you to donate any relevant material you have

so that we can build up the most complete collection of Rootes, Chrysler and

Talbot brochures. If you have some which you would like to donate then you can

either post them to the Archive Centre or better still pay us a visit, and bring them

with you, so we can show you the work we are doing. Recently, we have supplied

brochure images to a number of publishers and for commercial reproduction.

Equipment Appeal

We are in urgent need of an A3 Flatbed scanner to help with our

digitising project. If you or your company have one or any other

computer equipment you could donate we would love to hear

from you.