It's my understanding that the MGCC Centre in Sydney has a membership of
some 1300 folks. Including Sir Jack Brabham. Hell, I'm impressed!
Bill
----- Original Message -----
From: "Barney Gaylord" <barneymg@ntsource.com>
To: "Eric" <eric@erickson.on.net>; <mgs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2001 6:15 PM
Subject: Re: Club Membership (was Re: Very Interesting)
> At 08:19 PM 4/14/2001 +0000, Eric wrote:
> >....
> >.... my local MG Car Club has over 600 members. Now remember that this
is
> the club for the WHOLE State of South Australia (.... a population of just
> 1.5 million).
> >
> >.... would this size club be considered LARGE by standards elsewhere?
> >....
>
> Yup, that's a pretty large "local" club by anyone's standards. Just that
> it doesn't sound exactly "local".
>
> Here in the Chicago, Illinois, USA area we have a bit larger population
> base that can be considered "local". The city of Chicago alone is nearly
> 2.8 million people, with about that many more people residing in the
> surrounding counties within 50 miles or so. The Chicagoland MG Club
> currently has a membership a little short of 400, but we are not the only
> club around. There are at least two dozen single mark British car clubs
in
> the Chicago area. Additionally there are several other MG clubs dedicated
> to single models. Some folks prefer a smaller club and attention more
> directly to their particular model, and we do have that type of diversity
> here.
>
> This used to be the Chicagoland MGB Club, a single model focus group.
> About five years ago the club officially removed the "B" from the name and
> is now actively soliciting the participation of all MG enthusiasts as a
> single mark club. Since then the club has been growing by leaps and
> bounds, more than doubling in size and still growing rapidly. Given a few
> more years, I suspect it will exceed the membership of your "local" club.
> Still, given your ratio of membership number to the population, I suppose
> our local club would need four or five thousand members to be comparable
to
> yours, which is not likely to ever happen, so I take my hat off to the
> enthusiasm of your "local" group.
>
> Barney Gaylord
> Editor and Webmaster
> Chicagoland MG Club
> http://www.chicagolandmgclub.com
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