Like all MGs, the MGF and MGTF can be found taking part in all sorts of competition, from competitive motorsport, with both the MG Car Club and MG Owners Club race series, through to Sprinting and Rallies. Many F/TFs can also be found around the country taking part in anything from Autotests and Auto Gymkhanas to Naviscats and Treasure Hunts and sometimes even Hill Climbs. There are plenty of trophies being won in these sports around the country by MGF Register members.

Many MGF/TFs have immensely proud owners and they can often be found detailing the finer points of the cars during the summer at the numerous Concours and Pride of Ownership events. Most MGCC Centres hold such events and the Register holds its own major Pride of Ownership competition each year at MGFest along with Fun Driving Tests and several other competitions from treasure Hunts to Photo Contests. You can find out the winners of these on our special MGFest subsite. Several of these trophies are perpetual in nature and winners of those can be found at the bottom of this page.

The Register has two trophies awarded annually, these being the Tanswell Trophy and the Priests of Chesham Trophy. They where both presented by the respective MG Rover dealers to the MGF Register in 1997. They were handed out to the first two recipients at the MGCC International Silverstone Meeting. Following this the trophies were temporarily lost and stayed with the 1997 winners until 2000. Committee Member Phillip Prout was then asked to trace them and return them to the Register in 2000 so they could be awarded on an annual basis. The trophies are now awarded at the Christmas MGF register Awards Lunch in December each year. In fact Phillip himself was Member of the Year in 2000.

We also have two further perpetual trophies in the form of The Brian Griffin Competition Trophy awarded to the person best representing competition use in an MGF/TF and the FasTForward Trophy awarded to the writer of the best article published in the MGF Register magazine during the year.

The past winners of the trophies are as follows:

Priests of Chesham Trophy Award for significant contribution to the MGF Register    (a crystal glass bowl mounted on a wooden plinth showing the recipients names on brass plaques). This trophy is awarded to the person (or persons) who has made a significant contribution to the MGF Register over the preceding year. This can be won by any person including Committee, Regional Reps or other volunteers and ordinary members.

The Tanswell Trophy Member of the year award   (a silver goblet mounted on a marble base with the recipients names engraved on a silver plaque). This trophy is awarded to "the member of the year," this being the person (or persons) who has either supported the greatest number of events organised by the MGF Register or has been nominated for other reasons by members as being deserving of the accolade. The award can be won by ordinary members or Regional Reps but is not now open to members of the MGF Register committee.

1997 John Thomas N/k 2000 Martin Woods N/k 2001 Paul Starr N/k 2002 Steve & Margaret Terry N/k 2003 Jan Ward For Event Organisation 2004 Richard Martin For leadership in role of Chairman of MGF Register 2005 Tim Morris For instigation and organisation of MGF10 2006 Adrian Clifford For development in International Liaison 2007 Jonathan Tully For developing a new financial accounting system 2008  Stewart Griffiths For services to Events & MGCC Directorship 2009 Victoria Bond (MGF Centre) For help given to Register over the years and specifically the Star Car Project 2009

1997 Julia Marshall     2000 Phillip Prout     2001 Bob Foster     2002 John & Sue Greenhaulgh     2003 Chris & Mavis Parker     2004 Tim Morris     2005 Dave Morris     2006 Simon Young     2007 Sean Rankin     2008 Keith Williams     2009 Dave & Carol Walker

 

OTHER PERPETUAL TROPHIES AWARDED AT MGFest