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Re: Cambs/Beds Spits

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Subject: Re: Cambs/Beds Spits
From: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 19:25:49 +0000
In article <"017373A9E2A3800D*/c=us/admd=  /prmd=Cat/o=NOTES/s=Gosling/g
=Richard/i=B/"@MHS>, Richard B Gosling <Gosling_Richard_B@perkins.com>
writes
>
>SNIP
>....Mind you, if it looks as though the snow is over for the year, I might not
> fit it until
>October...
>SNIP
>
>Mike, don't go saying things like that, look what you went and did!!!!!

Many apologies.   Here's me deliberately carrying an umbrella in my
Spit, in order to prevent it raining on her, and then I go and do a
stupid thing like that.   I really should know better...

>Jeff's Totally Triumph Garage - well, the best thing to do is go and have a
> look.  It's a bit like this list with lots of people sharing ideas and help,
> but messages are entered and displayed on his web-site, and everything is
> divided up into helpful categories.  Address is -
> www.ohms.com/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?conf=conference.

Thanks.   I shall have a proper look around later on this evening - at
first glance it looks very comprehensive.
>
>TRGB is a Triumph specialist in Somersham - large village to the north of
> Cambridge.  They sell pretty much the full range of new parts, although some
> unusual parts they source from the big dealers (Rimmers and Moss), so you have
> to wait a few days.  I usually find them to be a little cheaper than the list
> prices from Rimmers & Moss.

So far, I have bought spares from the TSSC, SixSpares and T. D.
Fitchett.   I have no idea how their prices compare with TRGB, but I'm
sure it would be worth finding out.

>  They also dismantle scrap vehicles so they have a
> large supply of second-hand parts.

That might be my only possible source for replacement sun visors - I can
see that I shall have to visit them soon.

>  They have a workshop which can handle
> anything up to a full restoration, and at a pretty reasonable hourly rate.
> You can definitely go there and spend hours browsing and chatting about
> Triumphs...  Only problem is they close lunch-time on Saturdays, so you can
> only spend half the day there!  It takes me about 20 mins to Bedford and 20
> mins to TRGB, so I guess its about 40 minutes from you.  I actually just
> checked on one of these route-planner things, and the correct route takes you
> about 100 yards from my door, so you have no excuse not to pop in and see me!

I wasn't actually looking for excuses!   I'm not sure what my plans are
for this Saturday, but will drop you an e-mail tomorrow if it looks as
though I'm going to be passing.

> Have a look at their web-site on www.trgb.co.uk.

Will do.

ATB
Mike
-- 
Michael Hargreave Mawson, author of "Eyewitness in the Crimea,"
to be published by Greenhill Books on 28th March, 2001:
http://www.greenhillbooks.com/booksheets/eyewitness_in_the_crimea.html

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