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The Morris Eight Tourer Club
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Hi Peter,

Photo and advert. received OK.  TIFF files are fine with me.  After I  convert them to jpg for the website they use a lot less memory, with no  reduction in quality.

I have had a report from someone who has not been able to view the  website.  I have not been able to figure out why yet.  I have uploaded the browser called Opera and tried to view it with it.  Apparently, if a page works OK on Opera , it will be OK on any other browser.  Opera doesn't display the index or the classifieds.  The tricky part is, that Opera will view them from my hard drive, but not from the website.  Until I get it sorted, some people will not be able to see our site.

This does not mean that Opera is a bad browser.  Opera is smaller and faster that Netscape and Internet Explorer and I am sure that, once I get used to it, I will make a lot of use of it. http://www.opera.com/

Regards

Chris

Hi Alec

I went to your Morris 8 site and clicked on your link to make sure you had
the correct URL.  You did.

I then reloaded the page and got an endless wait.  I hit reload again an
got it OK.

I don't know what is going on. I can only hope that it is not going to be
a repetition of the debacle at Crosswinds.  I still have not been able to
get the URL back and I am not pushing it as they are still having trouble.
 http://www.crosswinds.net/updates.shtml

I had my own site with them and I gave up and moved it to my son's
website www.mooloo.com

I tried to email you from Crosswinds and, even though they are re-directing
the mail OK, I can't even get the "Log On" page.  Roll on 2000.

Could you please let me know what happens on your next attempt.

Regards

Chris

Hi Chris

I was very pleased to see that your website was mentioned in the issue of
the Morris Register newsletter received today.

I immediately tried to log on to you but after five minutes received an
error message. Maybe a server was down or something - I'll try again
later. I thought I'd let you know as the previous URL was easy to access,
and it would be a pity if all those trying to find you now were disappointed.

Regards

Alec

My internet message format is MIME  and I have never had trouble opening
attached files except for the one I received from Trevor Stewart - 24th
November the very day I had trouble trying to login to my server. I rang
their help desk and was told the South Island was experiencing line
problems and when I did eventually get connected a sign popped up to say 2
messages were incomplete so I am picking Trevor's was one. I have since
had an e-mail with attached file (notepad) from Chris Clarke and have had
no problems opening it.

There is no harm done, it's been a learning curve for me. in fact I think
I have mastered sending photos by e-mail and we now have a Readers Forum
and a nice clear photo of Trevor Stewarts M8 sports.

Trevor, is there a soft top to go with your  car?

Regards
Peter McAuley

If you can't open an attachment someone has emailed you, try this.
Open a Hotmail account (If you haven't already got one).
Forward the email to your hotmail address.
If you are in luck you will be able to open it there.
If you are out of luck Hotmail will only offer to ftp it to you.

Chris

I received an e-mail from Trevor Stewart on the 24th Nov., the e-mail was
ok but I had no luck opening the attached document. I tried open, save to
my files and save to disk with no success (wrong file path) Trevor
indicated the document was an advertisement for the newsletter classified
to sell his M8 Sports so I e-mailed it to our Webmaster because all our
classifieds will feature in the Newsletter and web site. As luck would
have it Chris was able to open it.

Trevor also owns a fully restored 1935 Morris 8 four door sedan with a lot
of history, he indicated they only wanted to keep one Morris and the Boss
wants the 35 (not so cold in winter)

Readers Forum is proving great for discussing problems, issues and selling
a M8 Sports. I have taken on board what Chris said (on the web site) about
sending text by e-mail or attached to doc, txt or html. I have uprated to
internet explorer 5 so all my e-mails will be html.

Trev,  Chris Coomber
        594 SH7
        Dobson
        West Coast      had a M.M wellside, from memory I think he had 2,
        one restored and one unrestored, this is going back 2 years, you
        could try him.

Regards
Peter McAuley

Chris,
Nice to hear from you and keep up the good work on the net site, excellent.

File I sent Peter did have a photo in it.

Details of the sports: It is a complete car that was under cover 12 years
prior to Sally and I buying it. It came from the Masterton, Greytown area
and it had a tow bar on it which was set up very high so it seems to
suggest it was used in a fruit or veggie area pulling a trailer between
rows. That's what I suggest anyway.
 Before going further I should explain that we have totally restored a
 1935 4 door right down to every nut and bolt and intend to keep it. I have
completed an apprenticeship as a diesel mechanic so the work done so far
on the sports is done with that knowledge gathered over the years. I work
in the gas and oil industry at the Maui gas field south of New Plymouth.
At the site we have all the workshop facilities an blasting equipment. The
35 we are driving has been stripped to bare metal and rebuilt from there.

I took the same approach with the sports so it has been stripped of
everything and the rebuild has gone like this. The chassis was stripped
and painted and a couple of small repairs carried out, spring hangers
slightly egg shaped where redrilled and new pins machined. Diff stripped
cleaned check, painted and reassembled. Front end stripped new kingpin
bushes fitted and assembled to give rolling chassis. Brake cylinders
machine and new cups fitted, all bearings cleaned and checked. (Need to
fit cork seals in the rear axles). Currently have got my spare set of 17"
wheels on the car as the 16" pressed steel wheels are getting blasted and
painted and 16" Tyres are 40/60.

The motor/gear box: In our 35 I fitted a 4 speed box and bent the gear
shift to the same shape as the three speed so that there is no visual
difference, and what a difference it makes to the car. So with that in
mine I have done the same with the sports. Drive shaft shortened and ready
to go. The motor is a series "E" block which was stripped and the bottom
end looked quite clean so I replaced the rings and a valve grind carried
out. The head is not bolted down so inspection of the internals is
possible.

Above the rolling chassis the firewall is blasted and painted and is in
place. The front guards, lights, bonnet and running boards are all in place
and have all been blasted and carry a coat of PA10.

The 4 Door 34-35: It's a series one and currently stored at a friendly
neighbours shed. The body is still restorable although the chassis may not
be. (but I have a spare chassis I got with the first car) Someone has
started restoration but some time back I think. The only thing I know on
the motor is that we I got it home I did turn it over with a 12 volt
battery on it's own starter motor so it is still free. Has a three speed
box (and I have two other spares) and the seats have never used red
leather upholstery.

Apart from what i have mentioned we go a load of parts when we got the
first car so they are in as well. The whole lot I think is fairly good
valve for money!

My plan now is to restore a MM well deck ute so please keep the eyes open
for me. I have just arranged a video camera from work so will pull every
thing out of the shed and give it the once over and then forward it on
(Please forward address)

Better go and do some real work so will advise on Monday if I did the
video.

Attached is a photo of the sports before I stripped it down.
Cheers
Trevor

>   Hi Trevor,
> 1938 Sports.  I want one!!!
> What condition is the motor in?
>
> 4 door
> What model is it SI/SII?
> What condition is the motor in?
>
> Are there any tyres?
>
> I couldn't read most of the .dat file you sent Peter.
> Peter couldn't open it at all.  I am wondering if there was a photo
> imbedded in it.  If there is you could send it separately to me.
>
> Your ad has been posted on our website.
>
> Regards
>
> Chris