A MINOR CONFLICT OF INTEREST...

As ordinary members will know, the May 2011 issue of MPH, the VOC's monthly journal, carried the following snippet: "The Honourable Secretary reported on the details of a minor conflict of interest with regards to the registration of the Club's trademarked name Vincent H.R.D. Owners Club. The Honourable Secretary was however able to report that our other solicitors had just two days previously reported that a resolution looked likely as the other party had offered to pass the conflicting registration over to the Club". The "other party" in question is of course former VOC Treasurer Roy Huxley. According to sources close to the Executive Committee of the Vincent HRD Owners Club, as opposed to the Board of Directors of The Vincent H.R.D. Owners Club Ltd, members of the VOC EC spent more than £1,000 on solicitors who bullied Roy Huxley into handing over what minutes of the 130th GCM meeting described as the "dormant" company. According to sources close to Mr Huxley, he had made his purpose in setting up the company known to a number of people, as well as his eventual intention to gift the company to the Vincent HRD Owners Club because, as the record shows, the current VOC management had clearly not thought of taking this step themselves, despite taking steps to trademark the club logo and badge in 2006. Like other former VOC officials and officers and a number of members, Mr Huxley's sense of loyalty to the club he had served - or tried to serve - to the best of his ability did not include the slavish, unquestioning devotion demanded by the power-crazed members of the current management regime. So why involve the solicitors, when a simple dialogue with Mr Huxley would have sufficed? According to a source close to the VOC EC, disgusted by the way in which The John Lumley Scandal was managed, the reason is simple: no member of the Executive Committee of the VOC is on speaking terms with Mr Huxley. Roy and Diane Huxley remained on the Board of Directors of The Vincent H.R.D. Owners Club Ltd for over a fortnight after the appointment of Tim Kirker and Andrew Everett to the Board, before being "terminated" on 8.4.2011. 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TIMOTHY!

Vincent HRD Owners Club Chairman Tim Kirker got a nice present for his 56th birthday on 21.3.2011: he became Director of The Vincent H.R.D. Owners Club Ltd. And the cherry on the icing was the appointment of his faithful collaborator Andrew Everett as Company Secretary. The only cloud in view was the continued tenure of existing directors Roy and Diane Huxley, who had formed the new company six months previously on 17.9.2010. 

Laughing: VOC Ltd MD Tim Kirker

Of Mr Kirker, Mr Huxley had written publicly: "Since resigning from the VOC Executive Committee, (due to major problems in trying to work with an obstructive bullying Chairman), I have tried to distance myself from anything to do with the running of the Club and Club politics as the Chairman made my tenure as Treasurer so traumatic that my health suffered and I was obliged to pull right away from anything to do with the VOC." 

Trademark applications in International Classes 21, 25, 26 and 41 were made through Potter Clarkson LLP of Nottingham by The Vincent H.R.D. Owners Club Ltd under number 009626441 on 24.12.2010 when the company was still based in Longfield, Kent, under the directorship of Roy and Diane Huxley. The directorships of Roy and Diane Huxley were "terminated" on 8.4.2011 and the registered address of The Vincent H.R.D. Owners Club changed to 50d Kingswood Road, London E11 1SF, which is the address of Mr Everett. Roy Huxley remains listed as the director of The Vincent HRD Co Ltd in Longfield, Kent. 

The May 2011 issue of MPH, the VOC's monthly journal, carried the following snippet: "The Honourable Secretary reported on the details of a minor conflict of interest with regards to the registration of the Club's trademarked name Vincent H.R.D. Owners Club. The Honourable Secretary was however able to report that our other solicitors had just two days previously reported that a resolution looked likely as the other party had offered to pass the conflicting registration over to the Club".