Alan Chatterton wrote:Kev,
It's all good ideas, but who is going to do them?
How did the SOC find a person to run their limited company spares operation?
We are struggling as we don't have enough volunteers to run the club with the posts we have vacant, without trying to do more, we just don't have the manpower.
This is all down to a smaller pool of vehicle ownership. The SOC has more members than the Register from a lower number of car availability. They have a higher ratio of vehicle surviveability simply due to the fact that you can re-panel a Stag after the Tooling Fund enabled projects. The Tooling Fund is a limited company. No house is involved. And by the way, they also have difficulty at times to fill a post.
As for limited company structure this was done to protect the members running the club. I love the register but was not prepared to take the risk of being sued for my house incase something went wrong, hence the need to be limited by guarantee as we are now.
It's disappointing that a comment made 20 years ago by someone has prevented you from supporting our club, I'm sure you'll find things have changed in the intervening years.
From the posts I read on this forum it appears nothing has changed. Chris Witor does all the spares and the club is uninterested in helping with anything in this area. Why, even your posting (which I am replying to) falls into the very category of what some of us are raising and that is "let's not do anything."
Perhaps you would like to put a proposal together for funding such an operation and then volunteer to come and run it for us, this is what we need.
Re-read or read the many posts on the subject of proposals. Such is the frustration of those who know we need to come up with action plans on certain aspects which are vitally important in ensuring more than a handful of saloons survive we get the "Let's not do anything now as all is rosey in the garden. One man will see to it all."
However, being as we are still at zero interest for a new regalia officer that we have advertised twice for, this will get an equal null reaction?
Sorry, not being negative bit realistic. As a club run by volunteers in their spare time and at usually great personal financial cost, I don't see how we could do such a thing.
It's a good job that the volunteers of the SOC and many other such clubs didn't behave in such a negative manner. Think of the parts we rely on from the TR Register. At the very least we should have done co-operative mechanical projects, though probably the unique panel supply would be down to one's own club.
As previously stated - no wonder break-away clubs are formed and no spares = no roadworthy cars = no members = no club needed.
Kev