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This is what the letter looks like when a company fires a family member... you know, your grandfather started it, and your name is on every car?
as one of only 5 car companies with a family member still with the company, (Porsche, Toyota, Peugeot, Ford, and Morgan are the only companies I know of... Bill Ford, Akio Toyoda, Ferdinand Piech and Robert Peugeot ) Charles Morgan was not the director of the company, he was strategy manager, and in 2011 the last two family members resigned. So now a family owned company is being run by a remuneration committee. Who knows, maybe the other family members that are majority shareholders have hired better managers. But isn't it a shame that of all the car companies that put the family name on the line by making cars and selling them worldwide, one of the very few still with family running the business has slipped out of that rare position of making the car with their name. Now Smiths and Andersons are running the Morgan Company. There is something depressing about that. Morgan is the oldest family owned, and only independant car company in England
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/car-manufacturers/morgan/10396147/Morgan-whats-going-on.html
as Andrew writes at the Telegraph:
“From rags to riches to rags in three generations,” is a British version of a Chinese saying that states a company, founded with vision and drive, gets conservative by the second generation and goes into decline by the third.
Charles Morgan, was dismissed on October 14 as an employee and director of holding company Morgan Technologies and then his identical positions at subsidiaries Morgan Motor Co, Morgan 3 Wheeler and Aero Racing.
Sochiro Honda, observed that in future there would be just half a dozen car companies worldwide: “...and Morgan”.
From Wikipedia:
The Morgan Motor Company is a family-owned company founded in 1910 by Henry Morgan, and was run by him until he died at age 77 in 1959.
HFS Morgan set up business to attended to the needs of the Edwardian motorists and became a dealer for Darracq, Wolseley, Siddeley and Rover cars in 1905
Peter Morgan, son of Henry, ran the company until a few years before his death in 2003. He was replaced as Chairman by Alan Garnett, a non family director, from 2003 to 2006. On his departure, a 4-man management team was set up consisting of Matthew Parkin, Tim Whitworth, Steve Morris and Charles Morgan, (Peter Morgan's son).
In 2010, Mr. Parkin left the Company and Charles Morgan was named Managing Director. In October 2013, Mr. Morgan was removed.
The shareholders also appointed the first Chairman of the Board since 2006 in naming Andrew Duncan, a local solicitor and friend of the Late Peter Morgan.
Since 2011, the Morgan Motor Company and its related companies, (Aero Racing Limited and Morgan 3 Wheeler Ltd) have been wholly owned divisions of Morgan Technologies, a company incorporated in late 2010. Morgan is based in Malvern Link, an area of Malvern, Worcestershire and employs 163 people.
Morgan produced 640 cars in 2007.
(The Morgan Motor Company website states 177 employees and 1300 cars a year made http://www.morgan-motor.co.uk/mmc/aboutus.html)
All the cars are assembled by hand. The waiting list for a car is approximately one to two years, although it has been as high as ten years in the past.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_Motor_Company
For part of the 1950s and 1960s, the USA provided the company with its largest market worldwide, taking up to 85% of all production. This ended with the first wave of US safety and emission regulations in 1971.
In 2005, its right to import its classic models ceased when supplies of its necessary airbag were exhausted and no replacement was developed.
In May 2012. Charles Morgan's Superdry edition Morgan 3 Wheeler was prepared it for its first major American trial. This vehicle was driven across the States, from New York to Los Angeles by Charles Morgan and his wife,covering 3000 miles, in the Gumball 3000 Rally. At the end of the 7 day drive, the Morgan 3 Wheeler was awarded the "Spirit of Gumball" prize.
I can't tell you a thing about this car, just share my marvel at the engine
the balloon tires indicate early 1910's? The wire wheels were very rare before the 1930s though. Pretty strange all the way around.
Steve found out what it was though, the Maxwell Briscoe 12 made for the 1906 Vanderbilt Cup, and a good write up (of course) at http://theoldmotor.com/?p=891 who also had the below image
The Maxwell-Briscoe Company from New York decided to enter the 1906 Vanderbilt Cup by building two cars, one with eight cylinders and the other with twelve. The latter employed and engine of boxer layout with radiators attatched to the cylinder head and extending upwards.
1913 Wagenhals electric
Steve (most astounding researcher I've ever had the delightful priveledge to meet) was writing up about a call for bids for a contract to supply the Post Office with delivery vehicles, http://www.shorpy.com/node/12927#comment-136306 and one of the companies that respoonded was Wagenhals of Detroit, which made this electric, and a gas powered version.
The Post Office also ordered 21 Wagenhals Motor Car Company three-wheeled vehicles that had 800 pounds capacity. Powered by a 20 hp water-cooled four-cylinder engine, they cost $625 each (visually similar to the less expensive electric version below). Located in Detroit, the Wagenhals Motor Car Company would reorganize just a month later as simply the Wagenhals Motor Company. Both the Whites and the Wagenhals had to be delivered to Cleveland, Ohio within sixty days.
A year later the Post Office was advertising for bids for spare parts for these vehicles, which included: "Transmission and cup grease, horn bulbs, cylinder and heavy oil, blow out and tube patches, pressure gauges, cushion and pneumatic tires, inner tubes, tire tape, valve parts and tools, vulcanizing rubber, etc."
The winner of the bid had to supply each individual post office named in the contract, and the parts just couldn't be dumped in front—the bid proposal stipulated that "All the supplies must be delivered at and within the doors of the post offices."
The bid proposal noted that the Wagenhals had been dispersed as follows:
Columbia, S. C, 1 Wagenhals; Columbus, O., 2 Wagenhals; Detroit, 2 Wagenhals; Memphis, 3 Wagenhals; Nashville, 3 Wagenhals; Norfolk, Va., 2 Wagenhals; Richmond, Va., 2 Wagenhals.
More examples of Steve's incredible detective work are on his blog http://serviside.blogspot.com/
1911 Hispano Suiza "King Alfonso XIII" Double Berline
the horse drawn carriage look is prevalent here, and having such a double image style is strange to look at
the write up from the auction listing mentions how sophisticated and race ready the Hispano Suiza's were, proof of this is the other 1911 Hispano at the Mullins museum http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/12/1911-hispano-suiza-alphonso-xiii-45-cr.html
Young Alfonso XIII, King of Spain, took a great liking to the Hispano-Suiza marque early on; a pioneering and enthusiastic motorist, he bought the first of many Hispano-Suizas that he would own in 1905 and would ultimately have over 30 examples in his fleet, which led to the naming of the model after the marque’s biggest patron.
photos from http://www.rmauctions.com/lots/lot.cfm?lot_id=1049849 from the always great source of cool stuff, http://stipistop.com/
railroad station Magnolia Massachusetts
I don't know where I got the photo from
Style, beauty, elegance, grace and design... photos from the 2013 LaJolla Concours
above: 53 Corvette
above: great auxiliary lights
not often you can find 2 Cords or two cars with flex tube exhaust pipes next to each other
Genevieve, the movie about the London to Brighton run
the movie is about a guy with a wonderful wife, and she has been putting up with his annual run in the London to Brighton event, and this time, he bets the family savings that he will beat his old pal, the guy in the yellow 1904 Spyker, that his 1905 Darraq will finish first between the two of them
this red car giving a tow? It's actually an Allard
How cool is the 3 wheeler with the red dress wearing passenger in front?
and how cool is this little kids 3 wheeler? Looks like a compartment on the step area I'm familiar with
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