Dear Owners/Operators

RMOOA Dirty Spares open day plus mini RM real ale and rock festival

We now have collected all the dirty spares that we hold around the country and plan to sort them out in the next coming weeks, to see what parts the association will keep hold of for the membership for the long term. We then plan to hold an open day were we store all our spares for the membership.

The idea is that the membership can come and look at what we have in respect to the dirty spares and buy any items if they so wish. These will be items that the association has sufficient stock of or deemed uneconomical for the association to keep or recondition. Also we will have full inventory of normal spares that we hold out to view so that will also be available. This is an opportunity to see exactly what we hold and a chance to buy from our full inventory, rather than the few items we normally take to bus events.

The planned date for this open sale day for the membership will be on Saturday 22nd September 2012. All the spares are stored just south of Reading at a farm. Once we have get closer to the time we will be putting out more details of timings and location.

If this event is successful, then further events will be held again in the future. This event is designed for the membership to help them maintain and restore their buses, not for traders to collect/stash parts to sell in the future. Therefore please do not expect to be able to buy multiples of the same items. These items were originally attained for the membership, so we will try to ensure that is where it will go where we can.

Please don’t be tempted to come down to view the items unannounced, as I am only at the stores a couple of times a week max and the 3 guard dogs the farm have are not the most welcoming to strangers plus the Albanian farm labourers working the farm can have the same welcome as the dogs!

Also in conjunction to the RMOOA spares open day, one of the guys has a RML converted into a catering/restaurant/bar bus stored at the same location and is holding a mini real ale and rock festival that evening (150 – 200 people) in the field next to our stores. Starting mid afternoon going through the night and even to the next morning, with his RML doing the catering and bar for the event. He has asked us to announce an open invite for any RM owners who wish to bring their bus down for that day/night. The entry will be FOC for the buses but there will be a small charge per person for the event.

So there is an opportunity to see what spares we have and bring your bus if you so wish, for an overnight stay with a bit of music and a pint or two. As the details of this event are finalised we will put more details out to everyone

Many thanks
Mitch
RMOOA Spares Officer

My bus number (if any): RMC1462