Found this whilst sorting out some old paper to print stuff on (I use old A4 sheets with printing on one side, to save costs!!). It's actually a copy of the original letter that I have stashed away somewhere in the vaults!! I reckon the date would be 1961/2 as the Mr Peddle concerned was John Bennett's partner in Spa Engineering (Ted Peddle, his sister's husband at the time) & obviously JB wasn't yet involved at this time with the BHRA. He joined just after the meeting mentioned in the letter & became chairman & founded Santa Pod 3 years later.
The writer was Vic Outen who became secretary & who I became very good friends with later on & who supplied me with most of his BHRA memorabilia shortly before he passed away.
30 years after this letter, JB & I formed the BHRA Pioneers club (for people involved in the sport/hobby in the 60s) & held a reunion meeting near to where the meeting mentioned took place, the original cafe had gone by then & the replacement didn't open at weekends, so we met at a nearby pub where some of the original members attended. Sadly, a few here have now passed away.
L to R: John Greenwood, Geoff Jago, Sally Greenwood, Vic Outen, Brian Sparrow, unknown friend of Clive Linguard, who's standing next to him, John Bennett & Rick Goodale. Seated are Ann Bennett & Dick Lawrence, & me behind the camera!!
I have been asked when the Pioneers are going to reform but to be honest, I don't know where I found the time to edit a monthly newsletter that I had to print & post (no t'internet then!) to members (approx 50 at the time!). If I did do it again it would probably have to be online in Facebook or something, but who knows when!