Way back in 1995 a member, Barry Parsons, wrote an open letter in 'Viva Lancia' to all Dedra owners, to feel out the reaction to setting up a Dedra Consortium, in fact what Barry meant, as someone more interested in semantics than we were pointed out; was a register. It was never intended at the time to be involved in supplying parts for Dedra, with the model only being 5 years old there wasn't a parts problem. In retrospect perhaps Barry was right.
This was one year on from Lancia pulling out of the RHD Market so from this point one there would be a finite amount of parts peculiar to RHD available, & in fact for the past few years since joining with the Thema Consortium to become TDC (Thema Dedra Consortium), the Consortium has become mainly a source of spares and information rather than having a strong social side as was the case in the beginning.
Such as Dedra's in Derbyshire organised by Mike Costigan, Dedra's on the Severn, when courtesy of David Muirhead who arranged the trip, we had tea on the Severn Valley Railway while relaxing on the train between Bridgenorth & Bewdley
http://www.svr.co.uk/.
Just two of the many social trips that were organised by volunteer members.
I offered to help Barry set up the Consortium as I thought the Consortium was a good idea, at the time we owned a 2.0iese, the first of the five Dedra's we owned over the next 12 years.
In 1996 we held the Inaugural meeting near Oxford with 15 owners attending with their Dedras who showed a lot of interest, as well as many letters of support from those who were interested in a Consortium, but were unable to attend.
Here are I photos I took on the day, unfortunately time hasn't been kind to the colour even though the photos have always been stored in an album.
Can anyone who was there identify their car? can a present owner identify their car? Does any original owner still own that car?
My Dedra is the white 2.0iese H851 WMR.
David Muirhead owned the White Turbo J603 DGN, up until 2 years ago David still owned his Dedra but it was off the road for work and I'm not sure if it made it back onto the road.
G105 XTC a 1.8Ie ,belonged to Simon Davis who sold it in 1997 & in it's place personally imported new, the first Delta HPE HF Turbo from Italy, which he still owns.
88 Roy belonged to Roy Winrow,who with myself ran the Consortium for a number of years, when he & I picked up the banner after Barry suddenly disappeared of off the scene never to be seen again after the first meeting.
A20 HF belonged to Alan Cooper, until last year this personal
numberplate adorned Alan's 1999 Delta HPE HF Turbo.
I know John White was there but can't recall the details or registration number of his Dedra.
Brian Hilton
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