NOSTALGIA (6)

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'A BIT OF THIS & THAT' (1)

This page is designed to give you information that just doesn't fit into any of the other categories. For example, available here are two pages of a magazine 'The Steering Wheel' detailing a hillclimb held by the Riley Car Club at Mt Cotton in 1933 - but not at our venue! [Page 1] [Page 2]

Also, Ann Thomson was awarded a Life Membership of CAMS this year and, while her citation was published in the Octagon, it should be more generally and permanently available to our members so that they can appreciate her service to the Club and to motorsport.

 

We also had our members competing in significant events (event if not put on by the MGCCQ) such as the hillclimbs at Burleigh, Whites Hill, Toowoomba and Warwick and this provides a place for these events to be acknowledged.

There have also been a whole range of excellent articles of historical interest published in the Octagon. Members who join the Club after the publication of these rarely get the chance to read them. Here on the website they can be accessed at any time. Amongst these are the well-researched articles by Malcolm Spiden on the history of motorsport in Queensland. 
 

There is also a collection of snippets of intriguing information gleaned whilst the archiving of all articles in all Octagons was being undertaken. As a play on words to indicate that these were from the past, they were aptly named ‘Octagone’.
 

Early Club member, Ken Ebeling, was a diarist and keeper of records with the result that his memoirs of his motoring days provide an accurate account of his pursuit of motorsport while a member of the Club.