Rugbyref

[tr8]

Christopher, I am sorry for the disagreement we had. I believe that your contributions here and especially on the facebook pages were terrific and were really helping to invigorate the wedge community. The depth of your research and amount of work that you did on behalf of these cars deserves special thanks.
All of these cars are getting quite old and each one has it faults, weaknesses and merits. I only try to help preserve the history of the individual cars in my small way by offering information that I too have collected over the years.
Your disappearance from the facebook pages is truly a big loss and I hope that you might once again rejoin the discussion, as imperfect as it may seem from time to time.

Paul

[rugbyref1]

Thank you for your words Paul - i will PM you on a few 'issues' as they don't need airing on a public forum.

I am old enough, ugly enough and wise enough to recognise an olive branch when it is offered - there are too few of us wrinklies left who care for these cars to have any in-fighting.

As already mentioned, your work on the TR8 early car database must be unique for any marque and an assest to mine and other databases.

I will smoke a peace-pipe when we eventually meet.

As for the forum - my contributions will remain limited until it becomes public again.

<b> Christopher </b>

A respectable collection.

[jclay (RIP 2018)]

I have seen many instances where a wrong word or action splits old friendships and both sides lose years holding on to a grudge. Communications and compromise is the only real way to put hard feeling aside and keep ours friendships.

I think that it is wonderful that you two are showing us how it is done!

Clay

[url="http://www.jclay.me/"]My Triumph Site[/url], [url="http://www.triumphtechnical.me"]Technical Stuff[/url], [url="https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0B8MWEvqOpX3udEF4SmFQUW9RS09hbU5uNW5Wd0xrUQ/edit"]My Public Folder[/url],

[sydney.wedgehead]

I am glad I missed this disagreement and hope the relevant parties sort it out privately.

I am enjoying following the community dialog on Facebook and finding that I am spending an increasing amount of time doing this. Facebook seems to be unifying the separate online communities and drawing in new users.

What I miss in the FB traffic is the more structured conversations around particular topics that comes from the forum-topic convention.

I concur with Christoper's comment that this forum needs to become public again. (I fully understand that with the current forum version this would create an unacceptable spam burden on the moderators and that upgrading is outside of the current moderators' control.)