It seems that in spite of the announcement which Tony Jeffree posted back in December, ( see below) Magelica aren't bothering to reinstate the original subscription renewal date unless a complaint is made. I just received my renewal form which shows one issue deducted. If there any subscribers out there who haven't complained yet then it looks you will lose an issue unless you do complain. I suspect that it is deliberate policy by Magelica in the knowledge that many subscribers will be oblivious and just renew the subsciption when asked.
Archie
{ I have been sent the following by Magicalia, along with a request to distribute it as I see fit (so please feel free to forward this wherever you consider the information would be read by other MEW subscribers):
" Free Issue from Magicalia
An organisational problem arose with the Engineering Plans handbook, republished recently and sold under the Model Engineers' Workshop banner between issues 119 and 120, giving details of sets of drawings for many of the designs published in Model Engineer over the years.
The original intention was to release this for sale only through newstrade outlets however it was also sent out to all subscribers. To clear up any misunderstanding, Magicalia Publishing is happy to confirm that the plans special has been supplied free of charge to MEW subscribers. We hope that many readers will find the information on plans availability helpful, and that it will form the basis of a wide variety of interesting future projects. "
I note that this will deal with any problems that subscribers may have had with paying for the plans issue, but it doesn't fix the problem for those that bought it over the counter.
Regards, Tony }