OWNERS CLUB BULLETIN September / October 2020
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OWNERS CLUB BULLETIN September / October 2020 LIMITED BY GUARANTEE LIMITEDRegistered BY GUARANTEE Office: Abberley Cottage, 7 DowlesRegistered Road, Office:Bewdley, Worcs., DY12 2EJ AbberleyCompany Cottage, Registration 7 Dowles No. 574562Road, Bewdley, FoundedWorcs., DY12 June 19562EJ CompanyPresident Registration : Sally Railton No. Joslin 574562 Vice President Founded : John June Dyson 1956 President : Timothy Railton Vice President : John Dyson HONORARY DIRECTORS HONORARY DIRECTORS Chairman : PETERMICK JARVIS PHIPPS The Barn, Boulters Lane, Maidenhead, Berkshire, SL6 8TJ ChairmanArbour Grange, : PETER Sandy PHIPPS Holt, Fairmile Avenue, Cobham, Surrey, KT11 2TT Telephone: 01628 674116 E-mail: [email protected] ArbourTelephone: Grange, 01932 Sandy 867090 Holt, E Fairmile-mail: [email protected] Avenue, Cobham, Surrey, KT11 2TT Telephone: 01932 867090 E-mail: [email protected] Secretary : MAX HUNT Secretary : MAX HUNT Abberley Cottage, 7 Dowles Road, Bewdley, Worcs., DY12 2EJ SecretaryAbberley Cottage, : MAX HUNT7 Dowles Road, Bewdley, Worcs., DY12 2EJ Telephone: 01299 401135 E-mail: [email protected]. AbberleyTelephone: Cottage, 01299 7401135 Dowles E Road,-mail: Bewdley,[email protected] Worcs., DY12 2EJ Telephone:Spares Registrar 01299 401135: GEOFF E MOORE-mail: [email protected] Moorhays,Technical Rhosgoch,Advisor : GEOFFBuilth Wells, MOORE Powys, LD2 3JY TechnicalTelephone:Moorhays, Rhosgoch, Advisor01497-851296 : GEOFF Builth E -Wells,mail: MOORE [email protected] Powys, LD2 3JY Moorhays,Telephone: Rhosgoch, 01497-851296 Builth E -Wells,mail: [email protected], LD2 3JY Telephone: 01497-851296 E-mail: [email protected] COMMITTEE MEMBERS COMMITTEE MEMBERS Treasurer : ROGER MAYNE Treasurer : Woodside Cottage, 11 Stanford Road,COMMITTEE Great Witley, MEMBERSWorcs., WR6 6JG Financial enquiries should be sent via E-mail: [email protected] Telephone: 01299-896457 E-mail: [email protected] Treasurer : ROGER MAYNE Bulletin Editor : NEIL THORP 7 Greenbank, Polruan, Fowey, Cornwall, PL23 1QP Ridgewood Grange, Chilton Road, Upton, Didcot, Oxon., OX11 9JL Telephone: 01726 870943 E-mail: [email protected] Telephone: 01235 850756 E-mail: [email protected] BulletinRegistrar Editor : MIKE : NEIL STENHOUSE THORP Spares Registrar : MIKE STENHOUSE Ridgewood17 Peasehill Grange,Close, Rawdon, Chilton Road,Leeds, Upton, LS19 6EF Didcot, Oxon., OX11 9JL 17 Peasehill Close, Rawdon, Leeds, LS19 6EF Telephone: 012350113-2504896 850756 E--mail:mail: [email protected]@railton.org Telephone: 0113-2504896 E-mail: [email protected] Publicity/Website: BRYAN TYRRELL Spares Registrar : MIKE STENHOUSE Claremont,Registrar of The Cars Meads, : TOBY Stanstead, SHARP Essex, CM24 8QA 17 Peasehill Close, Rawdon, Leeds, LS19 6EF Telephone:Hele Cottage, 01279 Hele 812113 Cross, Ashburton,E-mail: [email protected] Newton Abbot, Devon, TQ13 7QX Telephone: 0113-2504896 E-mail: [email protected] Telephone: 01364 652948 E-mail: [email protected] Registrar of Cars : TOBY SHARP Hele Cottage, Hele Cross, Ashburton, Newton Abbot, Devon, TQ13 7QX Telephone: 01364 652948 E-mail: [email protected] Material appearing in the Bulletin is copyright and must not be used without the written permission of the copyright holders. The views and opinions expressed (including advertisers) are not necessarily shared by the Editor or by the Railton Owners Club. The Club accepts no responsibility for the following of contributors’ advice, nor does it necessarily endorse the services or products offered by advertisers, which are published in good faith. 2 RAILTON OWNERS CLUB The premier British club for enthusiasts of all Brough Superior, Railton, Hudson, Essex and Terraplane motor vehicles. List of contents: September / October 2020 Editorial .............................................................................................................................4 Secretary’s Notes ...............................................................................................................4 The 1970 Rhodesian International Vintage Car Rally ................................................6 Renovation of Brough Superior AYU 658 ................................................................ 11 A Naval Occasion .......................................................................................................... 16 The Chairman’s Column .............................................................................................. 19 Hybridity – concluded ................................................................................................... 20 Shelsley Walsh Vintage Meeting ................................................................................. 25 Correspondence ............................................................................................................ 26 Membership News ......................................................................................................... 29 Calendar 2020/21 .......................................................................................................... 29 The Hyde-East Special ................................................................................................. 30 Photo Discoveries .......................................................................................................... 31 Technical Tips ............................................................................................................... 32 Market Place .................................................................................................... 34 The front cover photograph is of Brough Superior AUY 657, the first production Six Cylinder DHC Chassis No 6134071/51. It is accompanied by Brough Superior SS100 TO1891, the first production Alpine Grand Sport No 803. David Bingham writes about the car’s restoration in this issue. The rear cover from The Autocar , 27th December 1935, is the fifth and final T&T advert showing a Railton Ranalah Sports Saloon. This advert has a new image and depicts a car with front quarter lights, internal vents to the scuttle louvres and a blank section in the 100% rear- facing bonnet louvres. There is no mascot nor any visible sunroof drains. For the first time the artwork is signed (Green(?) ’35). Reid Railton’s rôle as T&T’s Chief Engineer is again referenced (see correspondence on page 26). R.O.C. Website: www.railton.org User name and password for the Members’ area are advised at renewal time. Please e-mail the Editor, the Chairman or the Secretary if a reminder is required. PrintedPrinted by by Hertfordshire Spinnaker Print Display Ltd Plc https://www.spinnakerprint.co.uk/ http://www.hdprint.co.uk/ 3 EDITORIAL Eagle-eyed readers will have noticed a change to the Railton logo on the Bulletin cover and in the page footer. We are indebted to Graeme Wilkins for the artwork which made this possible. Many years ago I used to read Design magazine which frequently reported changes to well known company logos. These were always rigorously controlled with a manual dictating where they could occur on a company’s products and literature. This was to ensure that the corporate identity was not diluted in any way – a discipline lacking with Railton Cars. Prompted by Graeme I looked at the Railton offerings in the 1930s and there is a huge variety of logos. Normally these had fairly minor differences to the font, serifs, the letter spacings and the graphic surrounding the text. However in one year there was even a complete change of font in the brochures in an attempt to appear more modern. Graeme’s version is an amalgam of contemporary logos informed by his long experience in graphic design. Notable is the spacing of the L & T where the horizontals now overlap. By virtue of the letter shapes, period versions which do not overlap appear to have an abnormally large gap between these letters. Neil Thorp CLOSING DATE FOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE OCT / DEC BULLETIN IS 8TH NOVEMBER. SECRETARY’S NOTES Well at least the V.S.C.C. made it to Shelsley Walsh, albeit somewhat later in the season than originally billed. Motorsport “behind closed doors” turned out to involve a competitors’ “bubble” with temperature checks on arrival, social distancing in the paddock, and no spectators in sight. Nevertheless, August 8th turned out to be a lovely sunny day in the Teme valley to welcome both our Editor, in the Spikins Singer Bantam, and John Fack, exercising the L.S.T. (see report on page 25). Among the Shelsley Specials the famous “Spider” inevitably stole the limelight, achieving a time some six seconds quicker than that of its creator Basil Davenport when he had set a new hill record 94 years previously. The track surface in the twenties was, of course, very different from today’s carefully maintained tarmac. More valid is comparison of how the L.S.T. performs on its visits to Shelsley these days with the time set by Charles Follett in taking the Sports Challenge Trophy in 1938. On this August afternoon John Fack’s 43.6 seconds bettered the 1938 time by just under one second. The comparison led me back to the occasion when, in the October 1972 Motor Sport, Bill Boddy wrote of Charles Follett:- 4 “He quite liked the Railton and took on the agency. His black 1935 Light Sports Railton became a very famous car indeed. As first used in competition it went well, Oats having hastily revised the exhaust pattern and later, with a special head, it was one of the most versatile cars ever. Its achievements have been well documented elsewhere: