Coming soon visit to Coventry motor museum

1/8/2013

The Encmcc has been invited to join our friends from the AJS and Matchless Heart of England club on a visit to the Coventry Motor Museum.
We shall meet at Jacks Hill Cafe near Towcester. on Wednesday 14th, leaving for Coventry at around 10am.
Hope to see you there.

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Matt

7/9/2013 10:06:12 am

Rod, Trevor, Short Legs and Phil Short joined me on the jaunt to Coventry Motor Museum using old A and B roads as I normally do - all was fine until we entered Rugby where the intention was to continue to follow the old A428 into Coventry - problem is Rugby Centre has a large rectangle roundabout (sic) with four different sets of Traffic Lights and of course when I got through the first set I was unable to stop until I exited the last turning onto the A428 as intended. Of course Short Legs and the others got caught entering the square and just to add to the confusion although the four roads leading off the square all headed in different directions each was signed Coventry. I waited...and waited and then retraced each of the other roads in turn eventually getting bac to the A428 turn off about fifteen minutes later and ended up making my own way to the Museum, having confidence that with Phil Short in the group he would lead them to the museum.

To my surprise I was the very first to arrive, after about ten minutes Lawrence and three others from the Heart of England arrived but none of our group - another 10 -15 mins later and all but Phil Short, who did lead them to the museum arrived with Phil apparently missing the turn and doing another couple of circuits of Coventry ( They had already been round trhe ring road three times!)

As we prepared to enter the Museum who should show his face but Bill Wright who had a quick word with some of the guys and then disappeared into the museum.

The Museum itself is really worth goiing to and far bigger than I remeber - how it is free entry etc I really don't know but hopefully everyone made a suitable upkeep donation. We stayed till about 4pm and therefore started our homeward journey at the beginning of rush hour and as nobody wanted to lead the way home I again found myself in pole position, although taken Phils suggestion tried to head out to pick up the A45? Daventry route home.....big mistake as it meant leaving a flyover where two majoer roads intersect with oncoming traffic doing 60 + mph needless to say Short legs gave into the thretening juggernaut and was off on his way to Birmingham, and as we waited on the junction below we looked up and there went Derrick again still on the flyover - you get the drift or what happened and to cut a long story short we eventually ( by pur luck) found him and then had to work out another route which eventually saw us sirting Leicester and coming back via Daventry and Flore etc.

Lesson for next time everyone needs a route and a good idea as to where they are going as trying to keep together in Rush hour traffic round City Centres is virtually impossible............would I go again definetly......but can someone else lead?

Matt

Coming soon visit to Coventry motor museum

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