The Peerless & Warwick Discussion Forum

Dean, wow, what can I say  

 

Firstly......not only have you, yet again, produced some serious sterling work, but all for the greater good!

secondly....I have never even thought about these tags. My car never had one when I got it (including the two I owned before...and the three I have now!) and never thought that I should try to obtain one...

thirdly....please sir, can I have one!

fourthly (is that a word?) thank you so much for thinking of raising revenue for the site. Jon built this site all on his own (something I could not even contemplate) and, during house/job/life moves has tried to keep it up to date-ish. He has

been in touch lately (and made the International this year) saying that he will find time to carry on this work and has also taken on board scanning the start of our archive. The running of this site and most other things was covered by Jon, and now me.

I have to say (and Jon will agree) it can be a lonely job sometimes trying to keep this stuff going and when someone just jumps in and runs with an idea, its really heart warming.....sorry guys, I'm welling up here 

seriously, I appreciate the individual support and to see a community developing on here is really fantastic. just think what it was like 27 years ago when I bought my first Peerless. I was lucky to have the P&W registrar living 15 miles away

for help (although, by then, he didn't even own a car!) three home phone numbers for people I had never met before (all around the country) and a handful of  photocopied articles. Look at me now ma, top of the world, ma, top of the world!

Dean, we need to talk about what we can do with "your" revenue. how you think we can develop what we have on-line and perhaps what you would like to  develop over there (my little west-coast co-ordinator)

I took Pops (Mr Cluley senior) our good friend, Will (who help build our award winning exhibition stand) to the Birmingham Classic Car Show today. had a chat with Gary (another serious helper for the greater good) and the automotive glass manufacturer and we are  this close to a deal on the costs for the screens.

So, to recap on our little club here. we have the following to offer:

new chassis'

new bodies

new glass (and heated!)

wiring looms

roll cages

rear acrylic screens for racing

side acrylic windows with vents

hand Brake cables

speedo cables

up rated ali front hubs

steering rack conversions

original steering box refurbishment

differential rebuilding

teflon coated half shaft supply 

door handles

in development we have:

our own personnel archive

head lamp rims (phase 1)

badges 

Up rated De Dion Tubes

Steering wheels

Steering wheel boss'

2" clocks (along with TR members)

Alfin drums

and all this along with individual members with ideas and tips on how to modify/develop/repair pretty much everything else. AND the TR Register willing to support us (through the New Spares Fund) hats of guys, we all done good!

so with tear ducts seriously flushed my friends, I will sign off

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

-- Edited by nigel c on Saturday 16th of November 2013 02:37:28 AM

Nigel - I am speechless. Thank you for all the kind words. I am glad to be of help. But, unfortunately, I do have some bad news as I can't comply with your "thirdly" request above....as I need your address:) Please PM me. - Dean

All,

Today I mailed tags to Jaylee, Frieman, Erik, Maserich, Gary S, Greg and MikeF. Please do let me know when they arrive.

I have a few more to finish up before sending tags to Jon and Nigel.

Hope you enjoy the tags.

Thanks again. - Dean

PS: We can add aluminum fuel tanks and aluminum radiators to the list.

What can I say, I need to update the website and bring back the shop, there's so much more 'stuff' to buy than I realised. I can only apologise for not keeping on top of the website, life.... 

I WILL TRY TO GET ON TOP OF IT As soon as possible. Please start sending me your best peerless pics with a paragraph about each car so I can populate the gallery with fresh pictures. Email to guidestar3(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)uk

Thankyou Dean, Nigel and everyone else that has worked so hard to make this club flourish.

 

 

Hi Dean
The body tag is fabulous.
Real nice work.
Thank you
Rich 182

Dean,

The tag arrived today... WOW!!!

What else can be said, many thanks,

John

#145

Far away destination the Netherlands is found, the tag arrived today!

It is absolutely beautifull, many thanks!

Makes me want to work on my car again.

Cheers,

Erik

Hello Dean,a huge thank you for the superb brass plaque I received today. I look forward to fitting it and featuring your skill and dedication in the magazine.

All the best,

Gary

Hi Dean

The body tag arrived in the wilds of the Scottish Highlands today. Many thanks. It is superb. All I need to do now is keep it in a safe place in the hope that Santa is going to bring me a new body shell.

Hi Dean,

so sorry for not replying to any of your emails, my computer has failed (badly) and I have lost (at the moment anyway) all my contacts/email files etc!

I have finally got a new one up and running thanks to my Ph1 son, Adam. but whether he can do anything with the old hard drive we will have to wait and see 

soooo, a word of warning. I have a solid state external hard drive that backs up every week BUT it does not back up any Outlook files! bollocks!

Anywho, back to the thread.......thank you so much again for helping out other owners by producing and sending out these great little badges AND then you go and collect up the money to support the site. you are a star!

thanks again and drop me a pm and we can sort things out.

 

happy new year one and all

DaveC wrote:

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Dean - the pic of your tag in the new copy of classics Monthly looks great. What a piece of artistry.

Thanks for highlighting it, Gary

dave

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 Ohhh.... very cool.   Can't wait for my issue to arrive!!

Dean

aaaar that would be the third design then! This has only just come to light thanks (mainly) to Alan House, former registrar and owner of the Warwick GT prototype.

it seems that Mr Whittit had at least three different badges for his business.

The first badges have the address of Sipson road which was on the corner with Bath road.

Due to the requisition of the land (including his factory) for London Airport he finally moved to High Street, Yiewsley in 1952.

As for which is the correct one for your car....I don't know!

I suspect that they had a large box of these and carried on using them after they moved factories and for the oversea's market it didn't really matter as they were never going to call round!

The only badge that I have seen that can be verified to being on a Peerless with the right address is Tom Wardley's which car no 94.

this proves the point that new badges were around with old ones as yours is no 123!