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All rooms at Lake Lawn Resort come with a refrigerator and microwave. We encourage participants to bring their own beer, soda, wine, bottled water and snacks.
Due to Wisconsin liability law, we cannot provide drinks in the hospitality room unless a bartender is present, and the cost of that is prohibitive. We have thus renamed the hospitality room the “GOF Central Headquarters,” where people can sit and converse. Beer, soda, water and snacks are available for purchase at the resort in several places. You can purchase them and bring them to the headquarters. The photography, craft exhibit and vendor spaces will be located at the headquarters as well as silent and live auction items.
Hotel registration is by telephone only to the Lake Lawn Resort. The telephone number is 800-338-5253. We have negotiated discounted room rates as follows: King Room - $113, Queen room (two beds) - $123, luxury two-bathroom suite – $239, and loft suite - $299/night. These rates are in effect until May 26, 2018. Anyone registering after that time will be charged the full rate. There is a resort fee of $12.00 per room per night. Details can be found on the LLR website, https://www.lakelawnresort.com/. Reserve your rooms as early as possible. As of April 26, 2018, 63 rooms per night have been reserved, so we are expecting a good turnout.
If you want to purchase a shirt or a hat please register by May 15, 2018 so that we can order them and get them in time for the event. All T shirts, with and without pockets, and all sport shirts have embroidered logos. We have a limited number of hats available that do not need to be reserved. They have the Vintage MG Car Club of Chicago logo and are white. Reserve your shirts when you register.
We are looking forward to an unforgettable event with fun events for the whole family.
- The Vintage MG Car Club of Chicago  Call Ray Costa, 217-390-5300 with questions
DID - U - KNOW
by Facia Nearside
 Historians generally consider the “Industrial Revolution” as having taken place between 1760 and 1840. This huge leap forward from human and animal power was primarily the result of the steam engine, but while steam power was the best at the time it is very ineficient. Thermal eficiency is the ratio of fuel turned into power versus the amount lost to heat and the steam engine was only 10% eficient. By 1880 the petrol engine had been invented, and while it doubled the efficiency of steam this still amounted to an 80% loss as heat. A man whose name is virtually a household word had a better idea, and his success story and untimely death is both mysterious and intriguing.
Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel was born in Paris in 1858. His parents, Bavarian immigrants, were forced to leave France when the Franco-Prussian War erupted in 1870. The family moved to London but Rudolf soon went on to Germany to live with relatives. He studied engineering and upon graduation worked in the field of refrigeration. It was through this discipline he gained knowledge in the field of thermodynamics. Diesel realized better results could be obtained from an internal combustion engine by increasing its compression. Research and experimentation led to what he called a “compression ignition internal combustion engine” around 1890. This engine was almost twice as efficient as the petrol engine and ultimately became known as the diesel engine. He worked tirelessly to refine his invention and bring it to market, eventually leading to a nervous breakdown.
On 29 September 1913 Diesel boarded a steam ship bound for London. There he was to meet with representatives of the Royal Navy who were interested in powering British submarines with diesel engines. After dinner he retired to his cabin leaving word to be called at 6:15 for breakfast but he was never seen alive again. In the morning his hat and coat were found neatly folded beneath the aft deck railing and his bed had not been slept in. Ten days later his body was found floating in the North Sea. Circumstances of his death remain a mystery.
Reprinted from British Boots & Bonnets Chronicle — May 2018 issue.
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