BBADBD IIEBLS N.Z. VETERAN AND VINTAGE MOTORING

MARCH, 1963

", "H0 RSELESS CARRIAGE"

In 1893 the first su ccessful gasoline pow ered motorcar in th e United S tates cr uised down the main s t reets of Spring-field, Ma ss., a t a s pee d of five mil es a n hour ! This car was mad e by two brother s, Cha rl es E. and J, Frank Duryea.

In 1896 Hen r y F ord drove his first ca r out of the machine sho p in De troit. Lat er , his syste m of ma chine-mad e, interchangeable parts, an d assembly line pr o­ duction , put mo tor cars within the pri ce mnge of th e man-in-the-street.

By th e beginning of th e 20th cen tury, 8,000 mot orcars wer e re gist er ed 111 the United States. Th ese we re powered by s team, gasoline or electric ity, a nd even th en they did not look much lik e the original " Horseless Ca rria ge."

Some of th e laws passed in the ea rl y days of th e moto rca r make us chuckle tod a y. F or ins ta nce, on e community rul ed th at if a hor se refused to pa ss a motor­ ca r th e driver of th e ca r must " ta ke th e machine a part ... a nd conceal th e parts in th e grass." In so me pla ces motorcars were banned entirely, and an g r y fa rmers guarded th eir livestock with shotguns agai ns t th ese "con traptions of th e devil."

It is easy to see th at ea rl y mot ori st s were indeed br a ve pion eers, often r un­ nin g risk s that would be hard to im a gine toda y, for th ey al so had to contend with the discomfort of rough ro ad s, open drivin g sea ts and temperamental eng ines . T imes have changed a nd those first motorin g enthus iasts would be th e firs t to appreciate th e ad vances made both in car a nd tyre desi gn since th e exciting, st imula t ing days of th e " Horseless Ca rriag-e."

FIRESTONE Tyres since the earliest days of motoring, have set the sta ndard of reliability, economy a nd safety. Today's motorist, like his fa ther and gra ndfa ther before him , looks to Fires tone fo r EXTRA mileage and EXTRA reli ability. Bead ed Wheels is the voice of th e Vi ntag e Car Movement in N ew Z ealand and of the Clubs whose efforts are fostering and eve r wide ning th e int erest in this m ovem ent and form rallying points for that ev er increas­ ing band of enthusiasts. The [ascination of age itself or reuulsion fro m the flashy m ed iocrit y of our present day is drawing a7l increasing number of m otor ists b ack to the individuality, solid worth, and fun ctional elegance tha t was demanded by a m ore discriminatin g generation and it is to th ese that we ded icate- BEADED WHEELS VOL. IX, No. 33 I\[ARCH, 1963

Beaded Wh eels IS Published " BEADED WHEELS" DIRECTORY T O THE Quarter ly by the VI NTAGE CA R CLUB'S OFFICERS VINT AGE CAR CLUB O F N.Z. INC. Na tiona l Execut ive: Pr esid en t, R. B. Sha ud , C hris tchurc h, 20 H ACKT HORNEROAD CHRISTC H URC H, S.2, NEW ZEALAND . C lub Ca p tai n, L. G. J. Wittc, T eddi ngton; Vice-C lub Capt ain and " Beaded Wh eels" Edi tor, Mollie Anderson, Yea rly Subscr ipti on 10/ - post free. Christchurch; H on. Secreta ry, A. A. And crson, Ch rist­ Individu al copies 2/ 6 eac h. church; Co mmi ttee, L. R. Southwa rd ( Wellington ), R. Editor : Mrs M . J. ANDERSO N. Port er (Cart erton) , H. B. Foster (C hristchurch ) , N. C. A ssista nt E ditor: R. PO RTER. Ada rns (Auckland ) . Andersons Lin e, Ca rterton. All correspondence to C lub Secreta ry, E. A. Bai ley, 1'.0 . Co py must be typed on onc side of paper Box 2546 , C hristchurch. and sent to the Editor, 20 Hackthorn e Auckland Branch: C hairma n, H. Robinson ; Secreta ry, G. Road, C hris tch urch. Wright, 9 Maid ston e Street, G rey L ynn, Auck land. - * - Ba y of Plen ty Bran ch : C hairman, L. Co upe, Secreta ry, M rs COpy FOR JUNE CLOSES D. Ca merson, 9i Chu rchill R oad , T a ura nga . MA Y 15th Wan ganui Bran ch : C hai rma n, B.A. T asker : Secreuuy, R. Lee, 4i Mt. View Road , Wan ganui. IN THIS ISSUE Hawkes Bay Bran ch : C hairma n, K . Riepcr; Secreta ry, Mrs Page O . Kilbey, " Chilton Road, Na picr. The H eavy Me tal . 2 T arana ki Bran ch : C ha irman, N. B. Co liins;Secreta ry, K . K irch er, Box 504, New Pl ym out h. Ea rl )' Mot or Bikes . 5 Manawatu Branch: C hai rman, K. V. T ownshend; Secreta ry, Early M otoring in H awkes Bay 7 D. O 'f\eill, 3 Ilford P lace, Palmcrst on North. An Int er estin g Find I1 Wellington Bran ch : Cha irma n, R. Ivin; Secretary, J. Enfield M otor Cars 13 Elworthy, G Pcmpscy Str eet , Silvcrs trea m, Wellington. Re stor ati on Hints . 15 Marlbor ough Bran ch : C hairman , L. C . G ilford; Secr eta ry , J. D. Fi nnie, 114 M uller Road, Blcnheim . Camera R eview III & 17 Ca n terbury Bran ch: Chairman, E. J. S. Wa lker; Secreta ry , R estor ation of a Humber III J. S. P. Pa lmer, 10 T orquay Place, Brv ndwr, Christ­ Vintag e Motor cycle No tes 20 chu rch. Lett ers to the Editor 24 Sou th Canter bury Bran ch: Chairma n, G. W. Pid din gton ; Northern No tes 26 Secr etary, B. C . Good ma n, c/ - Post O ffice, Washd yke, T imaru. North O tago No tes - 27 North O tago Bran ch: Chairman, R . Murray: Sec retary, J. Waikat o No tes 27 O'Bricn, 18C R.D ., Oama r u. Canterbury No tes 21l Otago Branch: Cha irma n, R. E. N. Oakley; Secr eta ry, P. Genera l Not es 29 M. Sanders, Agncs Street, Du nedi n. Poem 30 Southland Bran ch: Cha irman, R. Lind say: Secretary , J. Barn cs, 206 Bluff Road , Invercargill. So uthland No tes 31 The Ve teran and Vintage Car Club (Waikato Inc.}: Sccr ('­ C lassified Advertisements - 32 tary, NIl's J. Robcrt s, r.o. Box 924, H amilton. Northla nd Branch: C ha irman, P. V. M cCread y; Secreta ry, W. J. Voycc, 13 Kowh a i Avenue, Kaik oh e.

COVER - Nort hern entry - from Masrcrt on ca me th is very nicely res­ COMING EVENTS tor ed "T rusty" owned by G len nie Bull. So uth Isla nd Rallv at O am aru. Organi sed by :\'ort h (Sec motor cycl e not es.) Otago Branch. Entn: forms obta ina ble from your loca l B r a ~ ch Secreta ry . . PAGE TWO ~(AR CH , I!)(i:l

THE HEAVY METAL By W. Ca ppe r-Starr A survey of the Motor Racing on Muriwai Beach, 1921-1928. Marc h 3, 1923 Australia, and this is a sure sign of th e im­ Part Four portan ce with whi ch the motor trad e was regarding the event. At a procession held By March, 1923, the Muriwai meeting in Auckland three days prior to th e meeting, staged by the Au ckland Aut omobile Associa­ the ca r, dri ven by C. F. Sa nderson, was tion was becoming something of an annual given a rousing welcom e by the bystanders event to be looked forward to by the motor­ who had turned out to wat ch . It might even ing enthusiasts of the da y. Now, forty be concluded that the presence of the Vaux­ yea rs on, it is customary to see advertisem ents hall, and the fact that it had been imp ort ed calling for passengers to big sports meetings for th e races, contributed to the grea ter throughou t the country, and we can take att rac tion of the third meetin g. This is, of these as signs of a sport or annual fixture course, pure conjecture. Cert ain it is, how­ hav ing gained favour am ong its cognoscenti. ever, that when Saturday, M ar ch 5, 1923, Forty years ago , the same thing could be dawned, nearly five thousand people up ped applied to th e Muriwai races. and took themselves bv one way or another W hile ground en tra nce and parking cost to Muriwai. And if ' the V au~ h a ll helped the spectator only a single shilling eac h, get­ that along, then it serves to give an indi ca tion ting to the bea ch present ed something of a of the esteem in which th e marque was held . problem for those who did not own some One ca n only hope that this was the case. form of tran sport. For those un lucky folk, The da y itself was one of those magni­ and there must have been man y, transport ficentl y, alm ost eth erall y still da ys. And, was, of course, available - but only at a because of this, the beach retain ed its surface pr ice. Advertisements appearing only a few moisture after the tid e's ebb. Had a breeze days before the races were to be held offered sprung up in th e latter part of the morning, sea ts in va rious sizes and makes of ca rs, all at the speeds returned during the eight-race varying prices with an ave rage working out programme would quite definitely have been at something like £ 1 a head. It needs only faster. H owever, th e committee, afte r exa m­ a little calc ulation for the observer now to inin g the qu estion of the turns during the realise that un less somethin g drastic went previous year's races, had decided to shorten wrong with the ca r, the driver of, say, a the laps and have five turns in order to make Hudson Super Six stood to make several the races more interesting for both specta tors pounds from the full compliment of six and dri vers, and th is to some extent made up passengers. for the decreased speeds. The races had quite definitely taken on an .air of attra ction , and man y people were First arrivals at Muriwai, at 7.30 a.m ., arranging to camp at the beach for a few present ed something of a fresh appearance, days befo rehand, in order to get a good posi­ but by 9 a.m. the arrivals were beginning to tion on the day of the races. For those who show the usual dust smeared faces that so had no wish to suffer the unique rigours of many motorists of the period sported. By a West Coast weather break, the newly erect­ 10 a.m. nearl y 200 cars had arrived, and by ed boa rding house at th e end of the Domain noon there was a string of parked veh icles road served a useful purpose. half a mile along the beach. In all, 520 As well, dri vers and mechanics who had ca rs were checked th rough the ga tes, and the taken adva ntage of the cha nce, used the access roa ds, well graded and in good condi­ boarding house as a centre for preparation tion during the morning, were cut up int o work on their cars. pot-holes nine and twelve inches deep. Am ong th e competitors, too, the races In the racing, there were no serious were becoming more of an accepted thing, acc idents, and possibly th e unluckiest man of and contests were getting keener. For this the day was Bill Mill er. Dri ving his Hudson third meet ing at Muriwai, Seabrook Fowlds in the T ax i Dri vers' H andicap Race, he broke and Company had imported a Vauxhall from a stub axle and it, togeth er with his left ( 1) Taxi Drivers' Handicap race. (2) The 30/98 Vauxhall winning the N.Z. Motor Cup. (3) Start of N.Z.M .C. (4) K. H. Wilson (Eric Campbell ) durin'Sand crson and Fowlds in Vauxhall. (7) W. Bradfor Sanderson and Fowlds' in Vauxhall. (7) W. Bradford winning Taxi Race. (8) Crowds around winning Vauxhall. (9) Scene at turn. ( 10) Ford and Vauxhall. (11 ) Hudson in N.Z.M.C. PAGE FOUR ~IAR CH . 1 9 ti ~ front wheel, got itself lost somewhere, leaving Over four and a half miles, and three turns, Mr Miller and the ca r tearing up the sand it provided spectators with a very close con­ with his springs. Fortunately, no-one was test, some excellent corne ring, and an on-the­ hurt, but the Hudson's radiator was in a very post win. From a field of nin e starters, W . sad state . C. Coldicutt's Essex, F. B. Cadrnan's Buick For the day's big race, th e Ne w Zealand and the Campbell M otors' Durant ca me in Motor Cup event, there were five starters. for first, second and third in that order, with Thev were: A Shorter, Cadiliac ; Seabrook th e first three cars within three seconds of Fowlds, Vauxhall (driven by C. F. Sander­ each other and only two fifths of a second son ); Seabrook Fowlds, J ewett; J W . dividing th e first and second cars. Time Andrews, Ford ; E. C. Johnston, Hudson. for th e race was 6 minutes 13 3/5 seconds. The Taxi Drivers' Race, over six miles At the start, and for a short whil e after and with only on e turn, could have had a they had been flagged on th eir way for the different result had the course only been a 50-mile race, the starters were bunched little longer. J W. Bradford, in ; Dodge, together. When th ey did sta rt to open out, won the event from M. S. R amsa y's Hudson , it was th e Ford th at caused all th e excite­ with R . A. Listers Lexington third. But ment. Pulling out in front of the rest of the from th e manner in which R amsay was field, it was hurtling along at 80 miles an ac celerating away at the finish, it was obvi ous hour for the greater part of th e race. Sande r­ that he could quite easily have won if the son, in the Vauxhall, was not, of course, distance had been only a littl e longer. I greatly troubled by this impertinence, and was suppose som e of th e best sto ries ever told holding his own a stead y hundred yards conce rn th e " might-have-beens" of motoring. behind. A quarter of a mile away, Shorter's The programme this year also included Cadillac and j ohnston's Huddy were neck an event called a Slow Race - a contra dic­ and neck, with th e Jewett tailing th e field. tion in terms if ever there was one. Seven By the fourth turn, with th e competitors driv ers sta rted, but since th ey were faced still in th e same positions, Sanderson started with th e task of bringing th eir cars over th e to make use of th at great motor he had under line in top gear with th e clutch fully engage d, the V auxhall's bonnet, and at 93 mil es an and since five of them stalled their engin es, hour he came storming hom e in fine style. it was left to F. B. C adrnan's Buick and G . The Ford, perhaps a little crestfallen, dropped \V. Hutchinson 's Buick to tak e th e honours. right out of th e race, and 29Y2 seconds after The 200 yards Acceleration Test rat ed Sanderson had crossed th e line Shorter's a close second to the T ouring Car Handicap Cadillac took second place, with th e Hudson in excitem ent, and all the nin e starters were third. The J ewett, last for most of th e way, within four seconds of each othe r at th e finish. hung on grimly to make fourth place, in This tim e, too, the Ramsay Hudson lorded it spite of th e fact that its brakes had siezed, over th e Coldicutt Essex for first place, and and th at any hungry spectat or could have G. S. Levick, in a J ewett, ca me third. fried bacon and g rilled a couple of chops on The Sprint R ace, over a straight one the drums before thev cooled. Time for the and a half miles, onc e again saw th e Sea­ ~ ace was 39 minutes' 55 1/ 5 seconds. brook Fowlds' V auxhall, th e J ohnston Hud­ The minor events again drew a large son and the S. F. J ewett on th e sand, crossing number of com petitors, and they all con­ the line in that orde r, but with the Vauxhall tributed to making th e day an occasion to a ridi culousl y easy winner. rem ember. In th e Light Car Handicap, The last rac e of the day, the 16 miles K. H. Wilson's Eric Campbell romped home Open H andicap, was won easily by Harry over th e 4% mil es course to win easily from Mildon in the Swift, but one observer of th e Gill et M otors' Buick, and H. T. Mildori's day noted that in his opinion the Swift had Sw ift. The winner's tim e was 6 minutes been allowed too mu ch headway in the 5 1 'seconds, with 14 seconds between second handicapping. Campbell M otors' Durant and third. and th e Seabrook Fowlds' J ewett were second The T ouring Car Race was perhaps th e and third. best race of th e day in terms of a close finish. (to be cont inued. ) ~I ARCH . 1963 PAGE- FIVE

Early Motor Bikes By ROD Osgood PART ONE were on the left side. The exhaust went into the front bar which was a muffler, and the We all knovv when the first motor ca r came oil pump and tank were under the right foot­ here, but the first motor bike is some wha t board. T he engine was started by a crank obscure. I feel quite safe in saying, however, handle on the rear axle. There is a photo that the first motor bike was owned by Mr. of this model in Mr. Rowan's article in Fred Birch of Huchenson St, who ran a wood " Beaded Wh eels," December 1961. I recog­ turning and bicycle repair business. (M r. nised this bike the moment I saw it. Unfortu­ Birch was incidentally no relation to the Bill natel y I doubt if any of these models exist of my previous articles.) This bike was a today. T his bike finished up ab out 1915. I " M inerva" and had a tank about 12 inches was trying to sta rt it by pushing an d the cylin­ deep, with a compartment in the centre for der blew off the crankcase leavin g the lugs th e acc umulator and coil. The make and behind. I was running on kerosene at th e break was on the ca msha ft pinion, th e inlet tim e. I sold it for 5/ - the new owner fitted valve was automatic. It was imp ort ed about a new cylinde r and piston (Triumph), 1903. Whi le I owned it the back axle broke and it In those days all motor bikes were known had to be conve rted to a fixed engine. as fixed engine, that is there were no gears The Mo tosacoc he was a Swiss mad e eng ine, and starting was by pushing till the engine it was mad e in onc and two cylinders . The started then hopping aboard, compression Mountain eer being a twin cylinder job. O ne was lifted by lifting th e exha ust valve with a feature of these eng ines I have never seen since lever on the handles and dropped when the was the valve gear, a groove was cut double engine had enough revs up. in the flywheel and a roller worked in same It is just fifty years ago th is year since I giving the fou r cycle principle, no gears rode my first motor bike. T his was at the being used. Abou t this time most mak es were Elevati on near Picton where I was on school called after their abbreviations, such as A.J. S., holidays at the brick kiln. T he bike was a all jolts and sha kes; F.N., flaming nu isan ce ; Motosacoche owned bv M r. K . G. Thoms N.S.U. , none so useless; B.S.A., were bone the father of Mr. H. G .'T homs of Wellington sha kers; while Alldays and Onions is unprint­ one of our members. T he Motosacoche was able. a un it for conve rting a pushbike to a moto r bike. I remember my disappointment as 1 Among the earliest bikes were Indian. rode it flat out. I could still see the telegraph T he first were known as the Hedstron. M y poles on the side of the road , and had to use friend who lived next door had the first the pedals on the slightest rise, then the casc model to ar rive here ; it was chain dr ive, no came off and the gea rs fell out. I replaced gea rs or d utch, automatic inlet valve, it also them but it would not start; this was the first had pedals for sta rting. Mr Dave Elsmore, I knew abou t timing. There were different who is still living, was agent for the Indian makes fitted with the same uni t. T he N.S.U. here. T here was the red and blue models. was one . Later models came out with clutches. Abo ut 1905 D r. Walker bought a Beeston Most bikes at this tim e were belt driven. Humber, this was the first geared bike to T hen the free engine was becoming popular. come here. I bought i t later, so I can give Ariel had a model with an expa nding pulley full details. T he gea rs were in the rea r hub ope rated by bow den cable from th e handles ; and were known as " Roe" gea rs, the hub it was a bit tough on belts. N.S.U. had a being about 12 inches in diam eter , the axle special two-speed pulley; th ese pulleys were revolved in ball races, there were large bands being fitted to other makes as well. Some similar to Model TFord. Gears were cha nged of the makes prior to 1914 were, as 'I re­ by putting inside ped al down for low gear and memb er them : B.A.T. Rex, Arn o, Premier, outside for top . By pushing a sma ll pedal Lincoln Elk, Chater Lee, Alldays, Brown below top put it int o free engine; the pedals V ictoria, Governo r, etc. PAGE SIX ~1ARCH . 1% :1

The first sid eca I' was built by a local above the pulley. The pulley was vari able, coachbu ilder. It resembled a small dogcart, being ope ra ted with a lever a nd ca m with a push bike wheel wa s used. It was fitted a bowde n cable from the handl e bars. This to Mr Arthur Mill's F .N. I go t hold of it bike, with a wicker sid ecar, was still running later and co upled it to the Humber , w ith round here till a bo ut 12 yea rs ago. half a sack of spuds for ballast. I fini shed One event 1 ca n recall. O ne of our prom­ up throu gh a barbed wire fen ce at Ri ver­ inent citizens riding down Hi gh Street hell lands a lmost tearin g three fingers off m y left bent for leather with his pants on fire ! And hand. It was <1 lon g time before I tri ed talking about fires. No on e wo uld d rea m side-cars aga in. of doing such a thing these days, but in the M y personal ex perience w ith mot or bikes ea rly days it some times happen ed when a t this time was that throttles were p ra cti­ things we n t wron g a mot ori st would strike cally useless as the en gin e raced flat out and a match to see how much benzine was in shoo k eve ry th ing to pieces, and while tr avel­ th e tank with disastro us results, several bikes ling th e throttle had to be wide open to get and some cars were dest ro yed thi s way. along, a small breeze or pat ch of gravel About 191 3 the N a irn brothers, Norman would pull yo u up ; as for hills, I've for got­ a nd Gera ld, raced each other down the ten how many ga llons of sweat I have lost main Nelson road into Blenheim leaving pushing bikes up hill s. How I used to envy huge vo lumes of dust in th eir wake, there my co usi n G eorgc who used to ride his King were co m plai nts from farmers abou t stock Dick up th e Elevation w ithout pushing . H ere jumping fen ces and disturbances in fowl­ is an exa m ple. I used to push the H umber hou ses, etc . Both m en wer e sum monse d and with th e clutch slipping in low gea r up the in co urt on e farmer estim ate d their speed at rise by th e m althou se in Pict on. T o-d a y I over 40 miles a n hour though over this he ca n d rive m y oid bomb Austi n 12 / 4 up th e was sev erely c ross exami ned . sa me g ra de in top gear at a walking pace; These boys co u ld co nt rol their bikes stand­ this g ra de ha s never been altered . ing up on the ca rrier, ride no hands over About 191 0 new models were com ing out th e old Opa wa bridge between th e railway with the new 3-s peed hubs: T riumph, Hum­ lin es, and also rode their machines ove r th e ber, R over, a nd others were some to men­ Zig-Zag track between Rarangi to Whites tion . There were two makes, Armstrong Bay (apo log ies Norman a nd Gerald if yo u and Sturrney Arch er, th e latter being th e read thi s ). most popular. All th e bikes a t this period still ret ained the push bik e style pedals , About 1914 Nairn Br others opene d a new though some models wer e fitted with fo ot sho wroo m wher e the D epa rtment of Agri­ boards, mostly American. culture no w is in C harles Stree t. On dis­ play were th e latest models of Royal Enfield The yea r 1911 was an eventful one In my life, although I was still a boy at scho ol. 3 a nd 6 h.p. twins with double chain sec ­ The G a rr ison Band had a bazaar in the ondary drive for th e tw o speeds . Sing le Town H all and one of the two main att rac­ cylinder H arlev D avidson with clutc hes. tion s was th e latest Pathe home cine mato­ .A. lso a verv popular machine the " Hobart" gra ph ( movie project or) . It used the new th ese bik es had mostly precision engines with 28m .m . film, a dynamo built in and driven squa re fins on th e cylinder. O ne bik e, a from the crank handle furnish ed the ligh t. T.T. model H obart, was imported. T his was It sh owed a picture abo ut th e size of a mod­ fitt ed with a ra cin g eng ine o.h .v. made by ern te levisio n set. The pri ce wa s £20 but th e Swiss engine er, Fritz M oser. T his ma­ non e wer e so ld as people co uld not afford chine was eventua lly sm ashed up in a cr ash. th em in those days. U p to this time a ll th e bikes her e wer e The othe r was th e latest model " ARIEL " English and Co n tine ntal wi th exception of mot or bik e which was on display to be th e I ndian . Then after N ai rn s imported the raffled . It crea ted a lot of interes t. The H arlevs ot he r Ameri can machines sta rte d to seat post was sus pended on ex pa nsion springs, a rrive: So me I ca n bring to mind are : Tho r, it had no pedals but had heavy cas t alu­ D ayton, Reading Standard, Flying' Merkel, minium foot boards with ru bber studs just H en derson,Cleveland, Excelsior and Eagle. ~!ARCH . 196J PAGE SEVEN

This bike was a twin but would only run on two cylinders when flat out. V\Then the cylinders were taken off the twins, the m­ duction pipe unions generally leaked air through not being packed properly. It was a long time before this was found out. Magneto's were also weak in the old days. If you could get the spark to jump .125 inches you had a good mag. Most mags. had bronze bushes, ball bearings came out later. Popular makes besides Bosch were U .H ., E.I.C., Fein, Simms. Of course the very early machines used a commutator trembler coil and accumulator also surface feed ca rbs. As for tyres these were usually canvas and the mileages were only a fraction of what you get out of a tyre to-day. The tubes had One of the first motorcycles in Marlborough. 1907 push bike valves. In the old days you could Hedstrom Blue Indian 3 h.p, single cylinder. This pick up the very old models very cheap and model has a clutch. some of the boys with a bit of knowledge would drop the frames, make new shallow, One bike I had a fair bit of expenence wide tanks and take the pedals off and fit with was rhe F.N. I had three of these alto­ footboards, thus bringing them up to date gether, although they were not very power­ with the new models, although you still had ful they were beautifully made, just like a to run to start and then hop on. I had one car on two wheel s. The clutches were of these bikes, it was a Peugeot with very leather lined and th e transmission was shaft heavv flywheels and a short stroke. It had driven through universal joints and ball and an ~uto~atic inlet valve and a Fein mag­ trunion to crownwheel and pinion. These neto, it was a good hill climber and had a were the only machines I know that had reasonable turn of speed; it would pop along brass tanks which were copper riveted at the at a walking pace. I bought it for £4 and seams, they were fitted with 2-speed gear­ sold it for £ 12. Humber made a very small boxes. engine in one of their bikes. I should think A neighbour across the road came over the engine would not be more than 1 h.p. and told mother her husband had brought a This bike had a Armstrong 3-speed hub. It motorcycle. Of course we boys were inter­ was a well made machine with a good finish ested at once and I asked her what make but could hardly pull in top gear as the it was. She did not know, but she thought engin e was too small, especially for the roads it was an Indian runner. She mu st have in thos e days. been thinking of ducks or beans. (T o be continued. ) E.ARLY MOTORING IN HAWKE.'S BAY Part II By "Bcrfiet" Mr William Nelson, who founded the Hawke's Bay Spring Show in this car in 1909. Tomoana Freezing V\T orks, had several cars, The car remained with the Nelson family early models being a 1906 Mors, 1907 Cadil­ until 1926 when it was sold to G. D. \Volfe lacs, single and four-cylinder, and a 1908 of Napicr and joined Giltraps' museum a few Gregoire single. The 1907 Cadiliac single years ago and was shipped to Queensland in was given to his son, Mr Harry Nelson of 1958. It is still capable of 30 miles per hour Woodville, and my father travelled to the and long trips. ~ L\I{ CH : I Yli:l

Hawkins and Roma Garage in Karamu Road , Ha stings, ar ound 1909. Cars (left to right ): Cadillac one Luga, 4 cyl. Humber, Darracy I cyl., De Dion twin and Humber 4. No te: H.B. Automobile Club next door.

M r v\'. Nelson lat er had a fine 191 8 Lan­ motor age came along was ready, willing and chester with under-floor eng ine and an ea rly mo re able th an most of his fellow eng inee rs to Ca dillac seda n. Stea me rs were also prom in­ tackle wh at was then considered a worthless ent. Mr Hugh Cha mbers of M okapeka Sta­ enterprise. tion , Havelock North , impo rted a White in Mr \Vaite stay ed with D aim ler until 1904 1908 and Mr Eri c Na irn from Pourere had when he came to New Zealan d and booked a hu ge White stea me r of th e same year. Five steamer passage from Au cklan d to Chr ist­ peopl e could sit in the front seat with an­ church. At Napier he stretched his legs other five in the rear with a large boiler pro­ ashore., It was only to be a stro ll, but the truding th rou gh the floor between the two young Englishman reckoned it was "the sea ts. prettiest place I ever saw," and could not get T he H awkc's Bay Motor Co . imp orted two his bags asho re qu ickly enoug h. Straker Squire stea m busesin the ea rly 1900s for th e Napier-Tara da le run , but passengers What really decid ed M r W ait e on Napier complained so mu ch of soot th at they sold was O at es and Lou ry's ga rage on Emerson them to Amners Lime Works for lim e trans­ Street, where Simmonds' seed sho p is tod ay. port around Napier. The firm was gett ing more and more motor Ern ie Waite has been potteri ng around repair work and the man ager offered the with automobiles longer th an most men. In Englishma n a job just -as soon as he cared to fact, if he had a mind to, he could cla im the roll up his sleeves. title of H awke's Bav's oldest motorist. For 11 months M r W ait e serviced the big No t th at the f o r~ e r Tikokin a farmer is by Frenc h Darracqs then making ligh t work of any .means an old man , but as far back as the Rotorua-Nap ier roa d passenger run. Be­ 1899, when the lads of his day were cutting twee n tim es he kept Mr A. S. Carlyon's a dash in their horse-buggies, Ernie Waite Daiml er tuned and roa d-worthy. The owner was assem bling and test-d riving Daimler of Gwavas Station at Tik ok i~ o , NII' A. S. automobiles in En gland. Ca riyon, was impressed with the skill of th e Born in Richmond,Surrey, he served his young immigra nt and offered him a position tim e as a turner and fitter and when the as chauffeur and mech ani cal han dyman . MARCH . 1% :1

Mr W ait e had a steam ticket and was a tember 30 th, 1905, and still has his ind enture wizard with any piece of farm rep a ir work. papers. Hi s father paid a £20 pr emium for But it was th e Daimler th at worried him. H e him to learn motor engineering and young thought it had outlived its usefulness and Estaugh received four shillings a week with onl y accepted the Gwavas position when Mr one shilling a week extra eac h year till his Carlyon offere d to purchase a replacement fifth yea r earne d him eight shillings per week. of M r Waitc's choosing . T he Darracqs had impressed Mr W ait e as bein g of " pretty good H e emigra ted to H awke's Bay in 1910 to stuff" and he recommended his employer to work at the late Alien M cL ean's ga rage at purch ase a machine of this type.T hey were Duart, H avelock North. Cars came from far only 15 h .p. and had steer ing-colum n gea r­ afield to be repaired th ere, some being change, but th ey could go an ywh ere and were shipped to Napier from W ai roa and towed to used exclusivelv for a number of veal'S on th e th e ga rage. Hermitage tri p. ' M I' Ern est White Imm Por an gah au sent word th at his shepherd had fitted a new In 1927 th e Auckland agents for Darracqs cra nkshaft to his 1907 Humber a nd all was heard about Mr Wait c's feats on H awkc's Bay well bu t the engine woul d not turn over. tr acks and pr esent ed him with a shiny gold Esta ugh spent 10 days at th e sta tion rem oving wat ch complete with eng rav ing which let fou r separate cylinde r blocks and th en split­ people know th at Mr E. A. V . W ait e had ting th e crankcase midw ay and moving eac h driven a Darrac q automobile for 30,000 miles section fore and aft. No mean job for a " without an involuntary stop." This was Mr mech ani c, let alone a 1910 she phe rd ! Carlyons secon d D arracq , a big h.p. tourer. Sid Estaugh was employed by the T ourist Ano ther veteran still in th e field is M r S. A. Motor Co . in 191 1 as th e first Studeba ker Esta ugh of Ha vclock No rth. Sid. Esta ugh in New Zea land with elect ric lights an d self­ sta rted his apprenticeship in England on Scp- sta rter a rr ived for N immo ns, wh o still run th e

Mr E. White's Humber of I ~I 07 at Por angnhau - probabl y before the Shepherd 's ministrations! Pt\GE T EN ~ ' t\R CH . 1%1 bus service between Hastin gs and Havclock Zealand. The initials (A.A .R .D .) stood for North. " Always Alert, Ready to Drive" and hours meant nothing to th e ea rly drivers until an­ Starting his own garage in H avelock North othe r company had a very serious accid ent he sold th e first four Vauxhalls in Hawkc's whi ch proved the driver had been 22 hours Bay in 191 3 four-cylinder tourers similar to at th e wheel, and Government restri ctions the Prince Hemv. ' After th e 1914-18 war were imposed on hours and meal rests for he continued his 'garage business until 1961 , drivers. completing 56 yea rs at the ben ch. We respect these ea rly pioneers wh o mad e The 1920s saw th e hey-day of service cars motoring possible in H awkc's Bay so that to­ in Hawke's Bay with H~ds Ol; Super Six and day we operate one motor vehicle to every Cadillac tourers and sed ans with large canvas three peopl e over roads wh ere stepncy wheels, bags on the running board and carrier to and Prestolites are not even remembered by carry luggage and mails. Keen competition the sync hrorneshers. pre vail ed and th e dri vers were the elite of motorists, famous for their cour tesy, efficienc y Like Mrs E. S. Kin g who wrote 111 1959 and ingenuity. at the age of 83: " 1906 we bought thi s De Dion Bouton H.B. M otor Co., Aard, Whitficlds and one-cylinder motor car second-hand for others all travelled in fierce competition over £ 175. It had some sort of oil lamps, no the lon g, tough routes from Napier to Roto­ spare wh eels those days, if we had a punc­ rua, Wairoa and T aihape. Aard sta rted dur­ ture wc would have to tak e off th e tvrc a nd ing th e 1917 railway strike using 7-passenger mend it, same as we did a bike tyre. ' Hudson tourers, and their ca rs, with an arrow extending the full length of each side "Went to N ew Plymouth once, no bridge of th e ca r, became fam ous throughout New in th e gorge, so had to go to Pahiatua and over the track to Palmcrston and a goo d thing th ere were no side doors as one of us often had to hop out and push on steep bits. There is no "WAITING LIST" if I think it took 3 hours or more to get to Pal­ you have Overseas Funds. Let merston at 9 a.m., br eakfast with friends New Zealand's oldest Ford Dealers there, on to Patea, a night there, reach ed help you to get your new New Plymouth next day. We thought it ANGLIA CONSUL 315 wonderful if it did take 3 days, considering CONSUL CORTINA the roads those days especially in the coun­ ZEPHYR 4 ZEPHYR 6 try, wh ere the horses would shy at the car, ZODIAC often scared us a bit and a onc cylinde r ca r or one of those attractive special could hardly be had up for speedi ng an yway . models like the stylish Consul Capri, or the Zeph yr Convertible. " We ll, we had that ca r two vcars, went to New Plymouth ag ain and th ere' exchange d FALCON SEDAN it for anothe r De Dion Bouton, a two cylinder FALCON STATION WAGON and larger car, we had that for years. PHONE 8099 P.O. BOX 48 CARTERTON "1 91 3 we went to En gland, left the car in Licen sed Mot or Vehicle Deal ers the shed, wh en we arrived back in ten months we just put in petrol, wound her up and GORDON HUGHAN away she went. I am sure th ose two ca rs LTD. never cost much on repairs. .. . P.O. BOX 48, CARTERTON " I think if som e of th e young folks now PHONE 8099 had to put up with ca rs like our old De Dion (After hours, R. Porter, 8452) the re would be less accid ent s and we certainly got a lot of fun out of that ca r." \L\RC ll. 1%:\ Pf\GE ELEVEN

A. S. G. Carlyon of Gwavas Sta tion in the front of his 1902 Daimler, besid e his chauffeur.

An Interesting Find By Rex Porter

If you should come up beh ind a tiny ca r mounted on to a big aluminium ho using some day and be face d by a cou ple of finned through whi ch passes th e live and visible axle cylinde rs sticking out of the back of the di ff, shaf t. The pressed channel steel frame is it's likely to be a Carden light car of th e long, light an d very narrow . T he re are a early 1920s. You 'd be wro ng, thou gh, abou t pair of (sort of ) quarter cliptics at rear and the d iff. T he Carden hasn 't got one. a daint y littl e transverse leaf spring a t front. R ecently a fri end phoned me and dramati­ A. plat e on th e engine bears the legend cally an nounced, " I've go t one at last. " "Got Carden L ight Car, but th e Carden ha s no wh a t?" "A. vetera n car. A.t least I think it's cardan-shafts ( pardon the pun ) , for there a vete ra n, it's qu eer enoug h, anyway . T wo is no diff , and both back wh eels are cottered cylin de r, air-cooled, two-stroke , ctc ., etc., and on to the one-piece Il4in. diameter axle lots more." shaft. There are no un iversal join ts an d no So th e first cha nce I go t, I went and had drive-shaft. In fa ct th ere seems very little a look at th e " heap." It is an intriguing and of anything. T his utter sim plicity i ~ intri­ amazingly sim ple little bit of mach inery, in gu ing but on c wonders wh at it will corner the cycle -ca r class. Badly rusted after 20 or like. Dry bitumen will be a bit tou gh on 30 yea rs in a scra p-heap, but quite rcstorable. tyres and axle keys ! Perhaps it was OK on (Sorry, no na me or address just yet, but my th e dust roads of th e 1920s. friend ha s always sa id he would join the club The frame is 9ft 9in lon g by 28in at rear whe n he found the car he wanted- som e­ and only 15 Y2 in wide at front. The wh eel­ thing reall y old and different. ) ba se is 84 in and tr ack 37in . The RE. rim s It sure is diff eren t. T wo ai r-cooled hori­ of the disc wheels are stam ped 650 x 65. zonta l cylin de rs sticking out the back and (T hat would take 26 x 2Y2 tyres ). T his ~L\RC II. 1% :1

"A couple of finned cylinders sticking out the back." mark ing of tyre size on the rim is a splendid right -hand rea r wheel, with int ernal shoes idea whi ch cou ld with advantage have been connected to footbrake and an external band uni versally adopted . Some bod y pan els an d for the handb rake. Both wheels are rotting fram ework indica te a very sma ll two­ " braked," though , via the axlesha ft. seater with a long boot and hin ged boot-lid, The front axle is a light pressed-steel affair. but the front sha pe was not indi cated . It looks as if a Ford T planetary steering box The cylinders are about 3in x 3in b. and s. has been used, but as an improvement on and are of sta ndard two-stroke design. The Hen rv's layout, it is mounted on the right ca pac ity would be a bit under 700cc. The front ' corner of the chassis instead of just flywheel, between the two cra nk chambers, is under the stee ring wheel. inside the mai n housing, and carr ies a multi­ The engi ne unit is suspended by a pa ir of plat e clutc h and small spur gear meshing bushes on the rear cross member which is a with a large gear loose-m ou nt ed on the ax le­ piece of inch shafting. sha ft. A dog-clutch locks the gea r to the Decarbonising woul d be a very simple job. sha ft for top gea r, and through a layshaft for The heads are held on by a beam and only low gea r. Just two speeds and no reverse. two nuts. The carbure ttor would have been betwe en Restorati on will be a long job, but many the cylinders (it's missing ) , magneto on a cars in th e clu b were found in even worse bracket at left side cra nk cha mber, and two con dition. At least the engine in this one is long flexible exhaust tubes (still qu ite sound ) quite free and appears reaso nably sound. carry the exhaust forward to a long m uffler. " Lig ht Cars," by C. F. Caunter, mentions a That' s it. It m ust surely be impossible to Carden cyclecar very like this one, priced at design a car with less. £ 100 and weighing only 3Y2CW t. There are conventiona l clutch and brake The full legend on the na me-plate reads: pedals. An other large ped al seems to ha ve The New Carden Light Car Co. Ltd., been a kick-starter with a long rod going 22 H yth e Rd., Willesden, N.W. 10. ba ck towards the engine, but the rack or pa wl Unit No. NC230 Car No. 4/ 206 or wh atever th at engaged the teeth of the M anufactured by large reduction-gea r, is missing. Arno t & H arrison Ltd., T here is only the one 8in brake dru m on Willesden, Londo n, N \V 10. ~ I "R C H , 1963 PAGE T HIRTEEN

Lubricat e with W akefield Castrol CW. discourage anyo ne putting in gea r oil to ( O n the back of th e plat e is engraved qu ieten the gears- it would have gu mmed-up " W 122." ) the multi-plat e clutch. The engine housing cover bears the words, This litt le rarity can be assured of a grand " Use light oil only." No doubt this was to welcome when and if it joins our ranks. ENFIELD MOTOR CARS Cop y of article in " Bicycling News", 1J th January, 1905.

IMPOR T ANT DEVE LOPMENTS AT American, who has had a very wide experi­ REDDI T CH ence of the a utomobile industry, and appa r­ Many firms who have atte mpted to jump ently knows what he is talkin g about, we were into the motor manufacturing business before conveyed to the works in one of the com­ having acq uired a thoroughl y pr actical know­ pan y's new motor vans, just to give us an ledge of constructiona l details and the re­ opportunity of seeing what th ey are doing in quirements of the tim es have come to grief this dir ection . Only a few days previously and large sums of invested capital have been this identi cal vehicle had made run s to Lon­ swallowed up as a conseq uence of being over­ don an d back, with goods for the Stanley a nxious to get to the front. T his erro r of Show, the journeys being acco mplished dur ­ j udgment, however, cannot be laid to the ing the night without a single stoppage. It cha rge of the directors of the Enfield Cycle is a well-desig ned vehicle, fitted with a double Co., who, ado pting th e very wise motto of cylinder 10-h .p. engine, with three speeds and making haste slowly, have not attem pted to reverse , exceptiona lly powerful brakes, 32-in. force the motor car branch of their business wheels with solid tyres, and is capable of unt il they had got beyond the expe rimen tal carrying 15cwt. One of its great features is stages , and satisfied the mselves that thev were its prop erly prepared to meet the publ ic d~ma n d SPLENDID HILL-CLIMBING CAPABILITIES for a th oroughl y reliab le vehicle at a popular price. They have now arr ived at this stage, for while it will give a speed of nearl y 25 and from our own personal observations, sup­ miles an hour on the flat , it travelled up Pros­ ported by the opinion of expert judges, we pect H ill, which is a very stiff " pimple" be­ are sat isfied th at the new models which the tween Redditch and Hunt End, on the sec­ Enfield Co. are now preparing to tu rn out for ond speed, with five passengers aboard, at next season are as goo d as money ca n bu y, fully fifteen miles an hour. As a trade car it and a long way in adva nce of th e cars turned is onc of the best we have seen, and will, we out by some of the firms wh o have been understand, be listed at about 300 guineas . longer in the business. On th e occas ion of a It is th e intention of the Enfield Co . to place recent visit to Redditch wc were afforded the two high- grad e pleasure cars on th e mark et, opportunity of an inspection of the Enfield the popular line being a double cylinde r Co.'s new motor works at Hunt End, whi ch 10-h.p. two-seater car to sell at 200 guineas, adjoin the cycle factory, and were ag reea bly or with detachab le tonn eau body, to carry surprised to find how well prepared th ey are fou r or five passengers, at 225 guineas, while for the development of this bran ch of the the larger and more luxuriously appointed business. Without going into minute de tails model will be a four cylinde r 20-h. p. ca r to we can say that the Enfield 1905 pattern ca rs sell at 400 guineas. I n the construction of arc these two models every possible effort has been made to produce the most reliable vchi­ FULL Of GOOD PO INTS des, on the simplest constructional lines, and and are designed on lines which we feel con ­ the compa ny have wisely wai ted befo re fident will prove correct in princi ple and launching thoroughly into the business until satisfac tory in practice. U nder the guidance they had satisfied themselves by the severest of the motor man ager , Mr \ "1. M . J enkins, an tests that they had overcome th e defects ~ : '\RC II. 196:\ which ma y ha ve existed in the earli er types we have no hesitation in saying that the lines and were prepar ed to go right ah ead with on whi ch the Enfield Co. are pro ceeding in the m an ufacture of sound, serv icea ble, and the manufacture of motor ca rs ar e laid in a trustw orthy ca rs that would worthily uphold direction which ca nnot fail to ac hieve succ ess. the world-wide reputation which the com­ The Enfield ca rs embody many important im­ pany had attained for Enfield cycles. The pro vements in constructiona l det ails which 200 guinea ca r has nothing of the chea p ap­ we int end to fully deal with in a subsequent pearan ce abo ut it, but it is design ed and fin­ issue, when we hope to accompa ny our ished in a stvle which entitles it to rank in descriptions with illustra tion of the motors the very high est class. It is fitted with the as they will be sold to the pu blic. compa ny's own make of eng ine, two cylin­ ders, 4in . x Sin, developing 10 h.p. at 900 Royal Enfield Motor Car, 10 h.p.-Spe ci­ revolutions. ficati on: Four-seat er tonneau bod y, beauti­ full y finished and upholstered ; Royal Enfield ONE SPEC IALLY GOOD FEATU RE double cylinder engine, 3Ysin. diameter , Sin. is the easy manner in wh ich all the working stroke, 3 speeds a nd reverse ; artillery wheels, parts and controlling mech ani sm arc "get-a t­ 30 in., fitted with 3 y.{ in. tyres ; Longu emare able." The electric ignition, accumulator carbure ttor ; two brakes, opera ted by one coil, switch, lubricat ors, and tool boxes a rc all lever, ac ting on back wheels and one foot fitted on the dashboard within sight and bra ke; hon eycomb radi ator with fan for air reach of the dri ver. The fram ework is mad e circulation ; irreversible steering, ignition , gas of cast steel instead of on the tubular princi­ and air controlled by levers on steering ple as is the case with most of the popular­ column. pr iced cars, which of course gives increased U pholstered in real leather , and M odel e streng th and fl exibil ity. It is fitted with a Riche finish. Ne t cash pri ce £32S. flexible sha ft dri ve, an entirely new principl e Upholstered in Pegamoid, and usual finish , wh ich ensures irnrnunitv from shocks and ex­ £300. cessive vibrati on , and i ~ provid ed with a side brake controlled by lever, acting on both NOTES ON THE EARLY HISTORY OF wh eels, a nd also with a foot pedal ope rating THE ENFIELD CAR a metal-t o-metal brake in th e gear-box . As The Enfield Co . Ltd. manufactured quad­ a two-seat ed ca r it is fitted with a neatl v de­ ricvclcs of various models from 1898 until signed wooden cove r over the rear part ~f the 196s , in which th ey fitted an eng ine of car whi ch ca n be detached in a few seconds, French ma nufacture . T his quadricycle was the tonneau bod v lifted on and attach ed in designed by a Frenchma n nam ed Gobier, a less th an three minutes bv mean s of two bolts, sample of which is in the M ontagu Motor and when fixed up , th e 'fittin g together is so M uscurn at Beaulieu. neatly ar ra nge d th at it is almost impossible In 1905 th e manufactu re of Enfield ca rs to tell th at the ca r is fitted with a detachable was com mence d, the man ager being an bod y. It has a rtillery 30in. wheels and 3 y.{ in. American named ] enk ins a nd in 1906 the pneumati c tyres, and is in every respect a Enfield Autocar Co. was form ed to take over handsom e-lookin g, high-class ca r, th e uphol­ the manufacture of ca rs fra m the Enfield stery being of the very best, wh ile Cycles Co . Ltd. O ur old factor y at Hunt T HE DETACH ABLE TONNEAU BODY End, about three miles from Redditch , was is so roomy th at there is ample acco mmoda ­ sold to th e Autocar Co mpa ny, and Enfield tion for three passengers in the ba ck part of Cycle Co . moved int o the present plant, the car. In the designing of this model every which we still occ upy here in the town. precaution has been taken to ensure lightness The first man ager of the Enfield Auto­ as far as possible without sac rificing strength car Co. Ltd. was E. H . Lan caster, who had and sta bility. All th e mech ani cal movem ents been an importer and retailer of Fren ch cars. a rc so beautifully mad e and arra nge d th at the The fortunes of the Autocar Co. va ried ca r when either running at full speed or and they went int o liqu idation about 190 8 ascending hills creates sca rcely any noise, and and the assets were sold to M cssrs Alldays is in every respect an ideal pleasure vehicl e and Onions of Birmingham , wh o aft erwards - extraordina rily good value for mon ey-and trad ed as Enfield Alld ay Motors Ltd. The MARCH . I96:J PAGE FIFTEEN

Enfield Cycle Co . repurch ased th e Hunt End France, a nd two or three months later th e factory in 191 2 and manufacture of Enfield Enfield Cycle Co. Ltd. imported three of mot or ca rs was moved to the works of Alldays th ese cars and entered one under the name and Onion s in Birmingham. "RaYAL ENFIELD" in the Gl asgow R elia­ After W orld W ar IM cssrs Alldays and bility Trial in September , 1901. The ca r did Onion s produced an Enfield ca r with a three well on the first day , but brok e down a nd cylinde r radial eng ine, which although it re­ retired on the second. ceived a great deal of publicit y, never went During th e period 1901 to 1903 some ex­ into producti on and eve ntually the produc­ perimental ca rs were m ade, and in th e latter tion of Enfield ca rs ceased . year th e Enfield Cy cle Co. cxhibtcd ca rs for the first time at a sho w in London . One was \Ve repurchased th e goodwill of th e Enfield a 10 h.p. and used a twin ve rtica l cylin de r Autocar Co., and the trade mark "Royal eng ine and was water coo led, a nd th e othe r E nfield " wa s applied to motor ca rs in 1924. was a 6 h.p. using a sing le cylinde r D e Di on T o go back a little, in May, 1901 , a ca r Bouton eng ine. It is believed that this ca r wa s introduced on th e British m arket called wa s not made by Enfield but was of foreign th e ADER, which was produced in Paris, OrIgIn .

Restoration Hints By R.P. Rusty Rims. In the December, 1958 fairly fast co rnerIng and a t spee ds of up to "Beaded Wheels" th ere appeared an article 40 m .p.h. There has been no trouble a nd dealing with th e restoration of rusty beaded­ not the sligh test sign of a ny movem ent of th e edge rims. Sin ce th en we have had a good copper. It would a ppea r to be th e perman­ chance to test th e effect iveness of th e m ethod ent cu re, and, for th e want of a better one , suggested . One front rim on a veteran car ca rries th e recommendation of " Bea ded was dressed labori ou sly with grinde r and file, \Vheels." a nd th e othe r one , originally in worse condi­ The method: The local plumber can cut a tion , wa s treated with the welding torch. The straight strip of sheet co ppe r up to 6ft lon g. tyres were new 28 x 3 B.E. motorcycle typ e, This is ju st th e right length for a wh eel whi ch deputisin g for th e correct 760 x 90 metric, takes 28 x 3 tyre ( 22% in outside rim di a­ and after 1000 mil es' use the one on the filed meter ) . The strip is % in wide a nd of 24 rim wa s ru ined , th e bead being cut half S\,\TG ( .02 1in ) thiekness. T he strip is made th rough in seve ra l places for anything up to into a rin g by joining th e ends with a butt­ a foo t in len gth. It has had to be replaced. join made with " Easyflow " silv ersolder or The othe r tyr e was ju st starting to show signs "Eutictic 1800" ( do not use " Silfoss,' it is of a brasion in th e groo ve of th e bead. The too brittle, and do not ovcrla p th e ends .) tread on both wa s quite unworn, and neither This rin g will be found too sm all to fit ove r had been driven under-inflat ed (45 1b sq. in ). the rim so it is a nnealed by heating to almos t From this test it would a p pear that th e red hot, allowed to coo l, and th en stre tche d welding torch technique is a big improvement until it can , with difficulty, be work ed on to on dressing down th e sharp co rrode d edge but th e rim edge.T o stretch it, loop over a bit is still not th e full a nswe r. Nil desperadurn, of old water pipe or round wood held in th e we h ave a no the r tri ck up the Editorial sleeve, vice, and use a len gth of pi pe as a lever. It and it gives eve ry a ppea ra nce of being th e stretches readily so don 't ove rdo it. If th e ultimat e cure for this bugbear of vetera n wh eel is some othe r size, cu t th e strip to a mot oring. Before fitting th e new ( and ex­ length about Y2 in too sho rt for th e ends to pen sive ) repl acement tyre, the rim-bead s meet wh en held round th e largest (edge ) dia­ were cove red with sheet co pper strips wh ich met er of th e rim. If larger th an 22%in out­ m ade a beautifully smooth rounded surface side di amet er , th er e will have to be tw o joins to engage in th e groove on the tyre. To be in th e cop pe r rin g as th e plumber 's sheets are on th e safe side th e othe r wh eel was sim ilarly only 6ft lon g . treated . The ca r has since done a hundred W ork th e rin g on to th e rim so th at abo ut miles on both sealed and un sealed roads, one-th ird of its width proj ects over th e inn er ( F

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O pera tion Deepfreeze Comma nder, Rear-Admiral Reedy and Mrs R eed y sa mple Mr Eunson's vVolseley-Siddley. ( " ho' o by Ken Llovd. )

In tru ely Int crnational spirit the Admiral flags off Moores 1912 Cleme nt Bayard. [ Pho to hl' Ken Ll ovd. ) 1era . rew

YAT IN­ GHTON Otago Chairman Bob Oakley "getting down to the business of cog swapping on Regal prior to tak e 63 off up Caversham Hill. ( PllOln by Kc u U nyd.)

Judges Gib Pinfold and Gord on Sharpe hav e difficulty in finding imperf ections in the Newell Wol seley- Siddley. (Jack again collected the honours. ) ( Photo by Kcn Llovd. ) PAGE EI G~IT E E .' ~ 1 "R CII . 1% :1 edge. Bend this overha ng ing portion down a for use with HT. magn eto. Lat ely th ere little, all the way round, using two pairs of have been numerous eomplaints, particul arl y pliers, one holding the portion on the rim and from users of two-stroke eng ines in scooters, the other bending. Bend only a little at a outboard motors, etc., regarding plug foul­ tim e to avoid stretching metal. By the third ing, not by ca rbo n on the insulator, but by tim e round, the copper will be fairly well a tiny speck of grey substa nce betw een the " hooked over" the offending sha rp edge of points of the ga p. This has been conce rn ­ the rim . No w work round a couple of tim es ing the oil com pa nies as the tetra-ethyl-lead crimping it firml y into place with the pliers. additive in the fuel has been blamed . All Your forea rm mu scles sho uld be sta rting to brands of fuel at present marketed in New complain now , so give them a spell by using a Zealand at present ar e equally at fault, and light hammer to gently form the outer part of the onl y rem edy is to use a wid er plug gap. the strip snugly again st the rim. Again, don 't The recommendati on now is .025i n for mag­ overdo it for fea r of expa nding and loosening neto ignition , and this sett ing sho uld prove the ring. It will be found preferabl e to do satisfac tory with most of our veteran and the job with th e wheel still on the ca r and the vintage eng ines, provid ed the magn eto is in axle ja cked up . Co nside rable ca re will be reasonably good condition. There is a n needed in fittin g a new tyre to avoid damag­ alt ernativ e sho uld a finer ga p be necessary, ing the copper, but a used one can readily and that is to use " white spirit," the 73 oct­ be removed or fitted without takin g precau­ ane, untreat ed petrol, such as Shellite sold for tions. use in lamps and stoves. It runs sa tisfac tor ily Spark Plugs. In the past it has been sta nd­ in a low compression eng ine, but is more ex­ ar d practic e to set spa rk plugs at .0 18 ga p pen sive than the usual pump petrol.

Restoration of a Twin Cylinder Humber by D. Warren Jordan At long last we hav e a Dunedin - Brigh­ steel with 14 inch rod rolled into the edges. ton run and our own Riv ert on run in sight M ost antique vehicl es when restored use a nd I hop e a vehicle which will be able to mudgu ards which are too light and soon take part. I suppose though , now it is "com­ cra ck the paintwork so I th ought it wise to pleted" it will give me mor e tim e to restore have the heavie r on es made for me. T he all those odd bits a nd pieces which always mudgu ards were profession ally painted ( light seem to crop up ! blu e ) and gold lined finally being fitted with No w som e details of work accomplished niekel plated step bolts. Running boards since the last essay . Co ntrol rods to both arc wood covered with rubber and finished th e twin ignition system and the ca rburettor with aluminium trim strips. T he floorboards were made out of three sixteenth rod the arc finished in a sim i'ar manner. I made ends being threaded for adjustme nt. A foot the bonnet out of sheet aluminium it being throttle was also fitt ed. The coils and a small fitted with continuous hinges. As of the pre­ dr y battery a rc fitted under th e bonnet at th e sent it has not been painted . It looks rather front of the dash . On the other side of the sporting but I may paint it lat er. The petrol dash facing the chauffeur (o r is it Pilot ?) tank was made up using the ends out of a n there is an oil sight feed wh ich sho ws old tank and soldering in a new centre section. whether the oil pump is working or not. The tank sits behind the twin sea ts it bcing Mr Geo . Brooks in Australia kindly supplied held in place by two plated straps. Both this fittin g. There is also ano ther oil ga uge the tank and sca t backs ar e painted pastel which shows whether the sum p level is grey the same colour as th e chassis. " da nge r" or "safe". Dash fitt ings a re com­ Wood work for the bod y is first qu alit y pleted with tw o small switches controlling beech except for the dash whi ch is Afri can the ignition systems. mah ogan y ply. The bod y has deta ch able Front mudgu ard brackets, sidclamp fl oorboards and a det at ch abl c lid at the rear. br ackets, a horn br acket and a rea r lamp There is quite a la rge storage space under bracket were mad e up .(T he flat topped the sea ts. All woodwork is lightly sta ined mudguards were mad e from English panel and finished with marine spar va rn ish some MA RCH , 1903

twelve coats in all. There is a fair amount talk abou t a privat e blue fog. After reassur­ of work in maki ng a vetera n ca r bod y but I ing the neighbours and d rai ning some oil the ma naged q uite well with only hand tools. motor ran beau tifully although I had to do All joints a re screwed and glued with " Acro­ some carburettor adjustmen ts to ensure slow lite" . The bod y is held on th e chassis by running. Now it can run qu ite slowly with six bolts and is separate from th e dash pan el the unusual chug, ch ug, of a twin cylinde r 30 removal is quite sim ple.T he seat frames motor a noise one can a pprecia te bett er with were made of wood the curves being cut th e cutou t open. I also had to make up and with a veteran bowsaw . It is also screwed an d fit a dutch br ak e in order to cha nge gea r glued . T he seat ba cks a re metal covered pro perly. The clutch brak e is a ferodo lined with aluminium trim a round it. They are disc fixed to the gearbox driven sha ft and br ush pa inted. T he upholstery in br own when th e clu tch is depressed a flat disc comes lcatherett c was pr ofession all y done th e scat in contac t with th e d riven disc thus stopping ba cks being pleated while th e sq uabs arc gea rbox rota tion . Sim ple ? Very little roa d buttoned. testing has been attempted owing to th e Humbers ve ry recent ( No vembe r) com ple­ The horn remains were dismantled, re­ tion. I have however ru n it along at twen ty pai red and rcsoldercd . A flexible tube was five to thirty miles an hour at which speed obtained from an old speedo ca ble with it runs along nicely, although th e br aking is some pieces of br ass tubeing comp leting th e somewhat lackin g by modern sta nda rds. assembly all of whi ch was pla ted . The single After almost two yea rs of work it is headlamp is a Lu cas Duplex self contained nice to finish restoration and have a road ­ and of course th e only onc of thi s type I have. worthy veh icle. T he cost has been mu ch Acetylen e sidelamps are Reimann s and th e higher th an anticipated but I doubt if thi s ta il lamp is of Lucas manufacture. mu ch work cou ld be done cheaply. N ow It is now ab out three months since th e being able to dri ve th e Humber along the motor was first started . As I recall it went roa d in th e manner of 1910 makes up for on the second pull up a nd in fact I have the man y worries and I hope som e trouble­ always found sta rting easy. The only mistake free veteran motorin g can be enjoyed for I made was overfilling th e su m p a nd wow! the next while . MARCH, 1963

by GeofT Vintage and Veteran Motorcycle Notes Hockley

AN Y LI NG ERING DOUBTS as to th e took off in brilliant sunshine and on rapidly­ place of the motorcycle in the V . & V . move­ drying roa ds, A route of a little ove r twenty­ ment mu st have been finally dispelled (in th ree miles, includi ng both paved and shingle Christchurch, anyway) whe n on th e morning roa ds, term ina ted at T ai T apu Domain, all of Sa tur day, February 9, twenty-nine enthu­ competitors reac hing the venue under their siasts on as man y immacul at e vetera n and own stea m with th e exception of Sid Camp­ vintage model s, rep resenting fou rteen diff er­ bell, who had th e extremely hard luck to have ent makes, ga the red at th e local club rooms his mount develop some expensive noises en for th e sta rt of the second annua l Nati onal route, finally arr iving per truck. ] ud gin g of V. & V. M otorcycle Rally. They ca me fro m the mach ines for concours aw ards, ably and as far north as M asterton and from as far pain stakingly ca rr ied out by ] ud ges M cFed ­ sout h as Invercargill, a nd from lots of points ries and Thornson, occupied th e rest of the in between , and a happier bunch of ride rs morning until lun ch tim e. In th e afte rnoon and a more attractive collection of mounts a programme of gym kha na events was super­ we have never seen. Showe rs in th e ea rly vised by rally organiser No rm King, whi ch pa rt of th e morning, plu s a dism al weather terminat ed slightly before schedule owing to forecast, damped tb e spirits of competitors th e weather again becoming threat en ing and and officia ls alike, but th e weather gods ca using spec ta tors and competitors to make relented, as if they too were an xious to do a move back to the city. The evening th eir share tow ards making th e event a sue­ fun ction in the club roo ms - a dinner, cess, and by sta rt ing tim e the first com petitor presentati on of trophies, and a social and dance - was well a tt ende d , a nd was unani­ award . Gavin Paterson again sho we d tha t mously voted one of the most enjoyable yet on the basis of all-round perfor m ance, he's held. th e man anyone has to beat - his riding R esults : ability, co upled with a mach ine w hic h is OVERALL W I NN ER ( F rank V . inva riably in th e front rank in an y concours Thomas Trophy ), G a vin Pate rson (Ch rist­ con test, has brought Gavin many ~ ell-deserv­ church ) 1922 D ougl as. ed rally successes in rece nt yea rs. It was VINTAGE CONC OURS ( M inia tur e good to see severa l neat exam ples of th at Trophy ) , Al a n Breh aut (T ima ru ) 1920 once- po p ula r vehicle , th e sidecar o utfit, and D ou gl as. Ge orge H olstcin 's sparkling A.J.S. turnout V ET ERANC O NCOU RS ( M iniature was of sp ecial interest to us, as we well re­ Trophy ), Jim La wry ( Inverca rgill) , 1910 mem ber un packing and assemblin g thi s F .N. machine for the original owner, Mr G . Butter­ M O ST POINTS I NG YMK HANA field, in 1920...... O f th e half-dozen EVE NTS (VI NTAG E ) , Eri c Tomes ( D un­ T rium phs on display, th e rare and bea utifull y­ sa ndcl ), 1931, B.S.A. a nd s.c. resto red 1915 mod el ow ne d by M asterto ns MOST POINTS I NG YMKH ANA Glennie Bull ca used m uch ad m iring com­ EVENTS (VET E R A N) , Ian Barnes (T im­ men t. G len nie was accom panied by brother a ru ), 1910 King Dick . K en, of Excelsior fame, but we' re so rry th at R ALLY R AMBLINGS - T he makes K en didn't b ring his fabulou s 1920 Ex with represented com prised Triu mph (6) , D ou glas hi m . Next time, PLEASE, K en ! . .... (3) , B.S.A. ( 3 ) , I ndian (3 ), R over (2) , D ouglas fans had three beautiful exa m ples of Humber ( 2 ), H arl cy-Da vid son (2), Scott th e m a rque to feast their eyes on, for in (2) , a nd Zenith, King D ick, A.lS., Vi nclee, addition to th e Brch aut beauty there was F .N. a nd Dufaux o ne each . . .. . Cong ra tula­ Gavin Pat erson 's 1922 model, if any thing tio ns to Alan Breh aut on his successfu l rally more im maculat e th a n ever, and a pa rt icu­ debut. Hi s 1920 Douglas was one of th e larly spa rkling 1925 m odel brought all the most exq u isitely prep ared jobs w e have ever way from Lower Hutt by enthus iast D al e seeIii--n a nd fully ea rned its vintage conco u rs Conlon~ W e'd like to beat Alan Bak er...

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DON 'T DE LAY • • PAG E TWEJ"TY-TWO M ARCH . 196:\ for that lovely 1929 " 10 I " Scout sideca r gyrations on th e dan ce Aoor. Seemed as if outfit of his ]im Lawry again took th e his steering damper wanted screwing down . vet eran conco urs award back to In vercargill. ( We 're only jealous, Dave - we only wish Hi s spo tless little F.N. one-lunge r mu st be we were half as good) Fin all y, a big on e of the rarest ma chines in th e country. bouquet to orga niser Norm K ing. We a re . . .. .Accompan ying ] im on th e long trek certai n th at we are expressing the sentiments was Neil M cMillan, wh ose beautiful 1914 of all rally-ites in cong ratula ting him on a Rover would hold its ow n in the most exclu­ good job well done. See you all ag ain at the sive compa ny both for appearance and run- 1964 rally. nin g 'Ne were thrilled to at last ha ve RALLY AFTERMATH -W e have the pleasure of meeting Andy Thornson, that alrea dy mention ed the welcome a ppea ra nce doyen of V . & V . motorcycle collecto rs, whose at the ra.lv of the North Island contingent, fabulous collec tion of ma're th an 60 machines M essrs Thornson , Co nlon, and th e Bull is one of th e largest in th e world (it'll be br others, Ken and Glennie. It occasion ed larger still by th e tim e And y gets hom e from no surprise to us, th eref ore, when on the his South Island trip ) . We also had the following morning, our butler announced the pleasure of a visit from Andy on th e da y arrival of four ca llers. "S ho w th e ge ntleme n aftcr th e rall y, accom panied by fellow­ into th e morning-room , Fotheringay," we northcrn crs Dale Conion and th e Bull orde red, "and serve suita ble refreshment." brothers. M ore about th ese charac ters later , " Beg pardon , sir," he confide d, in a ton e of if space permits Norm King's ability hu shed disapproval, "but I hard y think th at as a rally orga niser is only eq ualled by his these persons are gentlemen - if I may be agi lity - his leap wh en he saw R ay Shear­ permitted to ha zard a guess, I sho uld say they man 's Indian bearing down on him, tem ­ are antique motorcycle collecto rs. I ha ve poraril y out of control after an unrehearsed th erefore taken the liberty of sho wing th em hop ofT the see-saw, would have put a ballet into th e ga rage." " I mbecile !" we shrieked. dan cer to shame . . ... Am ong th e olde r " Do vou rea lise th at you have turned th ese mod els on view, perhaps the Zenith received c h a r a ~ t e r s loose amo ng thousands of price­ most a ttention - the Graclua gea r operated less Big X parts! " Leaping out of beel in by the "coffee-grinder" leve r seemed to fas­ one panic-stri cken bound, we were abo ut to cina te man y spec ta tors. . . . . Wh at did we rin g for our valet when we rem embered th at tell you abo ut Ian Barnes in th e previous ea rlier on we had sent him out with instruc­ issue of " B.W."? Aft er his performan ces in tions to burgle Andy Thomsen's hot el room the gymkha na events, we reckon that he' s in the hope of coming across some addresses clinc hed his title of king of th e single-gear of people with vintage motorcycles for dis­ brigade We'cl like to express our sin- posal. By the time we had strugg led int o cere thanks to our old friends, th e Torran ce our clothes, it was too lat e - a brisk traffic brothers of R an giora, whose gen erosity in was in progress betw een our ga rag e a nd th e loaning us some items which so far we've been Bull broth ers' long-suffering Va uxha ll, un able to pro cure to complete our Peashooter alrea dy down on th e springs and coming H arl ey, made it possible for us to have the a part at th e sea ms, and groaning- in protest little bik e at th e rally. T ha nks, Ar chie and as cra nkcases, cylinders, clutches and wh at­ Erni e! . . .. .We hereby award the celluloid have-vou were heaved int o th e boot, on to th e belt fast ener for the best bit of repo rting to sea ts ~ n d anvwhc rc else whi ch co uld ac corn­ the local evening paper, whi ch informed its moderat e as 'much as a split-pin, whi le Andy read ers th at twenty-nine an cient motorcycles T ho mso n leered fiendishly in the background. " cla nked, hissed and ro ared th eir way ou t to R esigning ourself to our fat e, and also being Tai T apu D omain." At least this was a cur ious to see how mu ch junk could be load­ cha nge from the usual " chuggin g" and ed on befor e th e ca r disappeared th rou gh the " wheezing " which hithert o has been the surface of our drive, we hinted tha t a littl e­ reporter 's stock description of the progress of frequent ed portion of our esta te, whi ch for V. & V . vehicles at past rallies At th e yea rs had served as a rep ository for surplus evening " do " we noticed club captain Dave parts, might be a fruitful field for sea rch. Bowm an giving out with some rem arkable Shrieks of ecstacy rent th e air as the sea rche rs :VIARCH . isss PAGE T WENTY-T HR EE disinterred from th e dense unde rg row th ers, as heat win ners received no p rize mon ey, frames, forks, guards and dozens of othe r only the place-getters in the finals collecting items, all of wh ich were avidly seized and the mazu ma . Piece de resistance in th e eleven­ hung on or cra m med into th e Vaux ha ll, th e race programme was th e 15-mile Australas ian last straw, which should have broken the H eavyweigh t Championship for m achines camel's back but didn' t, being a la rge sid ecar over 600 c.c. and a battle royal was antici­ bod y which th e Bull boys decid ed was a pat ed between th ose deadly rivals, M an gh am "must". But how to tr ansport it ? Well, you (Harley-D avidson ) and Colem an ( In dian ), don't kn ow th ese characters if you imagine a especially as M an gh am was a t the top of h is litt.e problem like th at wo uld worry th em . for m and had almost succeeded in low ering Up on to th e roof-carrier it went, secured Col ernan's colours at th e Dannevirke mecting by a few yards of rope, and hey presto ! th ere a few weeks previously. H owever, th e duel was th e Bull s' mob ile penthouse ! We hop e was not as hecti c as expected, owing to Cole­ tha t th e photo we obtained of th e contr ap­ man's usu all y rip-sno rti ri' eight-valve being tion is suitable for reproduct ion in " B.W." , afflicted by a persistent misfire which pu t but no ph oto co uld do justice to th e express­ paid to his chances of heading off M angham, ion s on th e faces of some of our neigh bours even th ou gh through ou t th e entire fifteen la ps at the sigh t ! in a neck-or-nothing en deavour to bri dge FORTY-SIX YEARS AGO THIS the gap, he hurled his mount in to th e bends M ONTH th e Pion eer M otor Clu b of C hrist­ with a n abandon whi ch th reaten ed to ma ke ch urch staged its secon d ann ual motorcycle some of the less case-hardened spectators sp eed carnival in aid of th e Patrioti c Funds, expire with heart-failure. Ray C rawley, th e a nd a ll roa ds led to Canterbury Pa rk ra ce previous yea r's title winner, finished th ird on track at Soc kburn , wh ere 15,000 cash custom­ an Ex celsior. (An autopsy condu cted on th e ers packed th e g randstands and enclosures to Monday morning, by th e way, reveale d a wa tch th e crea m of th e mile grass tr ack talen t crac ked front cylin der head on Co leman's bat tle for fa me and p rize-money. Compe ti­ machine). The oth er events provided plenty tors came from bo th islands a nd th eir names of th rills also. Alan W oodman , th e one­ read like a " Who's W ho " of th e Giants of legged marvel, took th e S.l. Middleweigh t th e G rass at th at period - Pe rcy Coleman, C hampionship on a n ext remely swift B.S.A., Len M an gh am, Ray C ra wley, Jim D awber, and ano ther C hristc hurch rider to figure in J oe Bou ch er , R ub e J on es, Stan Osgood , the pri ze list was Ernie H inds on his Indian, E rni e Hinds, Alan W oodman - to mention who pr ovided one of th e day's sensations by onl y a few . In fact, so many were they, th at beating our M an gh am in a hair-raisin g finish tw o of th e op en handicap races h ad to be in his heat of the Open H andicap and collect­ split up into heat s and finals, a move which ing th e final also . Sta n O sgood collec ted a wasn't greeted with much enthusiasm by th e first and a second, and was unlucky to have boys, especially th e hard-riding back ma rk- his scream ing Dou glas brea k a valve wh en lead ing in th e S.l. Lightweight Cha mpion­ sh ip, whi ch let Rube J ones and his little o.h.v. V-twin N. U .T. into first place. (Inci ­ dentally, when we refe r to Stan's D ouglas as "sc reaming" , we mean just tha t - th e o.h.v, dirt-t rackers of fift een yea rs later we re pu rr­ ing pu ssies as compared with th e bell ow of his litt le side-valve T.T. model, wh ich legend averred could be hea rd from as far away as T imaru ) . Jim D awbcr collected con sider­ ably more th an expenses on his always-im ­ m acul ate fou r-val ve sing le Indian , and a Teams Rel ay Rac e, N.l. v.S.!. , was won by th e N orthern team com prised of J on es, D aw­ Co ncours Winner - A close up of Alan Breh aut's bel' and M an gham. A four-lap handicap super · immaculate Douglas. for lad y riders brought three starters, a nd M iss Effie Hinds on her Indian 2-stroke crossed vided a feast of thrills and excitement on th at the line a winner, with Timaru's Miss F. M . day in 191 7 arc still with us, and even old Beck in seco nd place aft er a valiant effort Canterbury Park has long been obliterated . from th e scra tch mark. Not an accident Air Fo rce planes tak e off and land on the marred the day, except that Joe Bou cher and grassy acres where so man y thrilling speed his Rudge dissolved partnership in th e course duel s once were fought, but of those wh o of some Iast and furi ous practice laps in the wer e lucky enough to be present on those morning's tryouts and Joe was an involun­ exciting occasions, few will forget the th rills tary boarder at th e Christchurch H ospit al for of the old C hris tchureh Motorcycle Speed a few days. Well, few of the riders wh o pro- Ca rnivals.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR principal body cha nges to recognise. Those .[ () me Editor, were the brass F ord 1908-1 916 (w hich I feel usually gets all the limelight ), the "T in Lizzy" Dea r M ad am,- Sin ce the m ajority of the 1917-1 925, and the "Beauty" 1926-27. In ca rs in our club a rc Fords and because mil­ my ign orance, I could not see an other import ­ lions of people all over th e world have had ant division in my wid e "T in Lizzi e" range. som ething to do with them some tim e in thei r As my interest increased along with my collec­ lives, I wonde r if it would be possible to tion of spa re parts for m y '24 ca r, I began to have a "Fo rd Page" or " Section" in the realise that man y of th ese parts whi ch I had " Beaded Wheels." I am certa in th at once glibly termed " Lizzy" did not remo tely com­ this was esta blished all those enthusiasts with pare with the parts on my model. Then th e Ford " bug" would keep the page alive realization dawned, I had enoug h parts to with articles on Ford lor e for of all the ca rs build up a '22 Lizzie, I found th e following ever mad e I feel conv ince d that the Ford with differences, the "T " in particul ar , must have been one of the most unique and temperam ental of ca rs. The radiat or is not mu ch high er than a I think th at Fordology ca n be divided into brass radiat or, altho ugh th e sha pe is sim ila r three main classes: ( 1) Ford mechani cs, (2) to the typical " Lizzie" design . The bottom Ford op erat ion , (3) Ford mod el kn owledge. of th e shell, th ough , conta ins a thin bar of steel which joins both sides. In other words Alth ough we all spend our lives learning and practising all th ese aspects, we usually find it is a four-sided shell compared with th e '24, th at most enthusiasts tend to spec ialise in one '25 shell which is on lv three sided, the bot­ pa rticular class. Some of us reach "profes­ tom being mad e up wit h a sepa rate apron of sor" standa rd in their understanding of these steel. Don 't think th at this a pron will fit cars and I don't think that Phil J ones of th e " Beautv." It won't. The core is abo ut two inches 'lower than the '24 model and this Papatoetoe would mind my mentioning his name in this ca pacity. But most of us are is the most obvious difference to the eye. onlv students. 1 feci th at I fall int o this last The bonnets of these groups are not int er­ changeable. T he low bonnet is turned at a ca t~go ry, but never theless I urge that all of right angle along the two bott om " clip" us contribute to this page in publishin g wh a t we know or have learnt. T ha t we may be edges. The lat er bonnet just has a round bottom edge. inaccurate is a certa inty, as we would be in any subject whi ch is as unpred ictab le and un­ The cowls arc naturally different. That of orthodox as that of the Ford. the ea rlier "Lizzic' swoo ps steeply down to Mv first a rticle will deal with diff erences meet the bonnet. A wooden bulkhead is not ;0 apparent which ena bles one to distin­ bolted to the front of this and represents the guish th e 1921-1 923 ca rs from those of 1924­ last link with the antiq ue Ford s. The '2 4-'25 1925. model has a steel bulkh ead with all the sepa r­ O nce again before I begin may I beg that ate cha nnellings and bonnet slots int egr al. if I am wrong, and I expect I will be, please These were all separate bits on the older cars. write in and correc t me. The dashboard seems to have first appeared Wh en I first began to be fascin ated with on open cars in these years and r have seen Fo rd T 's I thought that there were only three several different exa mp les, ranging from ver- MARCH . 1963

tical wood en boards to raked metal ones . hoods you will reme mber were connec ted to These earlier boards had no stee ring column the mid-screen bosses by straps. The "High suppo rt on th e dashboard although most have Lizzy" had a more efficient connection in th e ' had amaturish holes bor ed into them to carry form of a fou r-in ch tube of steel, near the end home-mad e wire or metal suppo rts for the of which was locat ed a large hole to fit over column which was never rigid on any previ­ the pillar and a bigger thumb-screw. When ous Ford s because of the det eriorating in position the thumb-screw which had a tap­ wooden bulkhead s whi ch were the only sup­ ered inn er point was screwed into a hole in port .for th e length of the column. The the top of the pillar. I think thes e connec­ '24-'25 has a special sta m ped steel fitting to tions will fit the "B eauty." support the steering column on the dash. This The pedals in the " Low Lizzy" are ribbed, again is not suitabl e for the "Bea uty ." wh ile in the " H igh Lizzy" th ey are smooth The "Low Lizzy" as I sha ll henceforth faced , although still diam ond-shaped, where­ call th e '21-'23 model also ha s a grea t varia­ as in the "Beauty" only the reverse pedal re­ tion in its windscreen. T his incidentally is mains this sha pe and . the two outside pedals the obvious distinguishin g feature that identi­ arc rectan gul ar a nd point outwards. fies it from the ' 17-'20 models all of wh ch The engines can be most easily identified have the verti cal .brass Ford ' styled . wind­ by the valve covers. The older ca rs having screens. This windscreen is narrower in two sma ll covers and the later models onl y length by abo ut one and a half inches th an one long cove r. The steering wheel diameters the "High Lizzy" and also th e frames ar c of are the same for all the 1920 models except flattened section tube, whil e the "High the "Beauty" which is mu ch lar ger. Lizzy' has rounded section fram es. The only other difference I ca n think of at The windscreen pillars are also different. present is that th e olde r ca rs used a lot of The tops of them have little knobs inserted wooden braces behind and under the ba ck in the tube beneath whi ch is a sha llow groove. scat. In the '25 ca rs and on, these were re­ Attached to the front bow of the hood are pla ced with pressed steel. two ' cheap pressed steel units containing en­ ROBINE BRICKELL. circling rings and thumb screws. When in position, and th e screw is tighten ed, the encir­ P.S.-I hope someo ne ca n give me details cling ring tightens in the groove thus secur ing on conve rting my oid tran smission to take the hood. This was only a n experiment and the detachab le band modifi cation of 1926.­ was not very satisfac tory. The olde r ca rs' R.E.B.

At the Auckl and " Res toration Picnic" - Oldfields 1923 Harley David son: Woods, 1914 Triumph; Miells, 1924 A.].S.; Woodwards, 1926 Harley Davidson; Woods, 1922 Harl ey David son. PAGE T WENTY-SI X )'IAR CH . 19li:1

NORTHERN NATIER by Ausbent. co mple te in every little detail. The co mfort ably slow and reassuring noises th at quietly ema na te A notable Even t in th e Auckland Area this from the motors of th ese veteran s such as the U nic, vcar was the Picnic and Gy mk hana organised by seem to me most fascinating. I a lways wish th a t our Papatoctoc Sect ion . This was ju st a happy they had a window in the sides of the cra nkcases, and informal famil y a fternoo n held in a charming so that I could peer at the ir internals, rumbling picni c spot, with as its them e " Res tora tions" . All leisur ely round, busily splashing here and there the mem bers who possessed unrcstorcd or partiall y odd spot of vita l lubricat ion . restored veh icles wer e invited to bring th em along 1963 must ever rem ain a notabl e year in the for members to sec. This was a most sensible annals of N ew Ze aland Motoring H istory, for here idea and proved a major a tt rac tion of the day. let it be noted for th e record th at on the 5th Wc saw an ea rly Hupmobil e, an early Dodg e, sev­ J anua ry th e New Zealand Gr and Prix was hel d for eral brass Radiator Ford T 's, a cleverly fabrica ted th e first occasion on the associati on' s own Grand replica Ford Body and mu ch else besid es, indi cating Prix T rack at PUKEKOHE. This tr ack proved that up here in the North of New Zea land th e both fast and good , so good in fact, that only a spirit of cra ftsma nship still prevails stro ngly. Indeed very few minor alte rations will have to be mad e th ere a re still a few cra ftsman left amo ngst our before next yea r's race. A splend id tr ibute to 'professiona ls' and th ese arc not necessarily vener­ Auckland motor spo rt enthusiasts, who contributed a ble and bea rded types. One noti ces some vigorous so mu ch to the planning, building costs and run­ and youthful persons, who havc not only acco m­ nin g of this histori c occasion. A Vintage GY2 Litr e plished some very fine work on their own vehicles, Bent ley, together with a 4Y2 Litre Bentl ey and 2 but have gone out of their way to help also other litr e Crosslcy, wor th ily representative of th e best members of our C lub. I refcr particularly to of the Commonw ea lth 's vintage sporting ma chinery, pan elbcatcrs, coppe rsmiths (such as rad iator men ), were invited to carry the winner and place ge tte rs woodw ork ers, pa inters and upholsterers, wh ose on th eir Lap of Honou r. How nice it is to see skills rem ain ever mu ch of a mystery to the ama teur dem onstrat ed in thi s manner the fact th at the late engineer. It is here in Auckland th at one find s Sir Henry Birki n's stout hea rted drive to second the amateur boatbuildcr at his most prolific and place in th e French G rand Prix at Pau in 1930, best. Our suburba n landscape is well dott ed with at the wheel of a lar ge brown 4 Y2 litre Bentley those qu aint looking leantos, loosely constructed of touring car, remains still unforgott en . a mixture of corrugated iron and ca nvas, in wh ich T his brings the writer to this year's An nua l lurk the most bea utifully mad e sailing yacht s. Often Tauranga R all y, at whi ch the practice was ado p ted have I stoo d beneath partly finished hulls, admiring of hav ing th e previous yea r's winner plan th e who le th eir clea n flowing lines, the cu rves of their strong affair. This rather 'bac k handed ' honou r fell to timbers an d th e long stra ight gra in of finely fitted Barry R obert's practi sed brain and hand and many kauri planking. Here also we hav e th e lar gest were th e simple little traps into whi ch compe titors bran ch of th e Societ y of M odel Engin eers, who fell. The initial 30 mil es led th em over th e du sty pain stakingly build the ir wonderful working mod els ranges of th e Hunu a Hills, unt il th ey joined those of every thing from ships 'T riple Expansion' steam conco urs minded typ es who were willin g to forfeit engines, to vint age ca rs and vint age steam locomo­ 100 poi nts by missing out the rougher parts and tives six feet long. Again th ere is th e Musucm of sta rt ing at Ngatea. From Ngat ea the rout e lay T echnology and Tran sport , whose enthusiasts have through the Waik ino Go rge to Waih i and ended already tackled th e task of restoring th e old stea m at the Wh arcp ai Grounds at T auran ga, where 40 Beam Engine at Aucklands first Wat erwork s Pump­ odd vehi cles th en assembled for our hosts, The ing sta tion and for whom a lso awa it th e most Bav of Plcntv Branch. Favoured bv beautiful fant astic arra y of tr ams, old locos, tractors, ae ro­ we;lth er, thi s event dr ew a most int er ~st cd crowd planes, horse vehi cles and good ness knows what else of onlookers. Our hosts are to be congra tulated besid es. on the success of th eir effo rts to mak e the pro­ Yes, as we sta nd at our fam ily picnic out ing gramme interesting for both aud ience and pa rti ­ and survey the exhibition of talent ed effort around cipants a like. The Du o made a public a ppearance us, it is pleasant to pause and reflect that we vint age and appea red to be running extremely well, so fast ca r types arc, thank heav ens, not the only ones to in fact that peopl e were hard put to ca tch sa me in try and pr eserv e th e workman ship and even endea­ th e lens of their ca me ras! vour to emulate th e skills of a more grac eful and The usual socia l function followed in the even­ (surely?) mor e sa tisfying, th ough less remunerative ing. Wh o one wond ers were th e bold souls who earl ier age. sac rificed their centrally heat ed bod ies to the On thi s occasion Ron Jacob afforded us a chilly waters of Tauranga ha rbour at 2 a.m. in the view of som e most breathtaking tria l run s on what morning ? Communica nt s per haps; members of is more probably the world's onc and only existing some rem ot e and wooll y vinta ge religion ? A fea­ Du o cycle ca r. Wh at a hairy chested litt le monster tur e of the evening was th e pr esentation to the thi s is?C rude it may be, but at least its weirdly Auckland Bran ch by the B.O .1'. branch of a hand­ unu sual th em e work s, as wit ness its acce leratio n some tr ophy, to be known as the " C ra nkha nd le and some wha t peculi ar corne ring ability! It was T roph y", whi ch is to be compe ted for annually by good to see two more newl y restored motor cycles a series of events ca lling for a high degree of dext er­ make their appearance as well and then th ere was ity, but com pletely unrelated to V. & V. moto ring. the circa 19 10 U nic Tourer, tidy and so wonderfu lly (Such as wa lking on the ceiling? Editor. ). • ~IARCH . 1963 PAGE T WENTY-SEVE :"

Oh yes and there was a concours too, held in Nieholson (C itroen) . In the touring ca r section the delightful surroundi ngs of M r H endrickson 's Barry Robert ( Lagonda 11.9 ) came first, followed orcha rd. T o pick the winn ers out of so man y by R. Hi cks (Austin 7) and J. Cat chpole (Stutz) . splend id pieces must have been an exac ting task. The rall y was won by R. Welch in a Dodge, Joint winners of the Sa loon Car class were Me ssrs thu s neatly collec ting a "double", follow ed by G. R. Welch (Dodge 4 ) and T . J am cs (Rolls Roy cc Woodward ( Harley Davidson m/ c ) and R. Moses P.I II ). Next was R. Goffin (Fort T ) and then G. ( Riley) .

Wha t would not a cont empora ry "T oad" have done for this ? Bern ie MeGinns beau tifully restor ed 6Y2. ( Photo by B. McG in n)

NORTH OTAGO NOT ES By R. M urray ca rs head ed bv Alcx Shadbolts' 1901 Northern frum Christ church, pa rti cipated in the Nort h Otago Pcnnzoil 1963 Easter Vintage Car Ra lly Cent ennia l "Cavalcade of Transport" procession . On Sunday, 10th February our Annual picnic run Steady progress is being made with arrange­ was held to Ge mmcls crossing, where the usual ment s for this rally. Rall y headquart ers and venue ga mc of cri cket was he ld, and in which Mi ss W. of the public display will be the O am aru Race­ Spite and Miss D. Clark showed remarkab le ability course where dormitory accommodation complete as batsmen. with meals, a limited number of hir ed cara vans and tent sites arc available. The programme will follow along the lines of previous Easter ralli es but an " BAY BANT ER" By H aven. innovat ion thi s year will be th e int roduction of an J, " Inter Branch Even t" . This will be open to Real Tauranga weat her and a very good nominated teams from all branches throughout attendance from Auckland and Waikato C lubs New Zea lan d. The tea ms to comprise of the help ed to mak e the Ann ua l Auckland - Tauranga following :- I Vintage ur Vetera n M/C, I Ve teran Rally a rea l success. Ca r and I Vintage Car. The teams nominated Cars started from Papakura at 7.30 a. m, and will compete for the Pennzoil N.Z. Cha mpionship began pouring into the Wharepai Domain a t 12.30 T eam Trophy, which will bc compe ted for annually and by 1.30 p.m. well over 40 ca rs and motor and will be held by the winning bran ch. A rep lica cycles had ga thered. will be given to the driver of each winning veh icle. AGymkhana was started at 2 p.m. and kept Entries for this event will be received from branches ca rs and d rivers busy till 3 o'clock watched by an as selec ted by the branch exec utive. This event appreciative audience . will be judged on the followin g eve nts; Concours At 3 p.m . all ca rs lined up in a circle for in­ de Elegan ce and one team test. A £5/ -/ - bonus spec tion by the public. Two crowd-gathe rers were will be paid to North Island competito rs for the 1912 Duo cycle car owned by R. J aeob of assista nce in ferrying vehicles. Entry forms and Auckland and a 1928 Stutz immaculately restored by furt her information on the rally, is available from Bruce Catchpole of Matarnata. all branch secretaries. A social was held on Saturday night and it Alth ough preparati ons for the rall y are keep­ was ap parent that through the years a close friend­ ing us all busy, members have still found time for ship between the clubs has been crea ted, it was all occasional outing and on December 22nd, 20 just one big happy fami ly. T he highli ght of the I',\( ;!:: TWJ:::"TY-EI GIIT ~ L\RCH. 196:1 evening was a co rnpeu uo n between Auckl and and MANAWATU BRANCH NOTES Taura nga for th e cr ank handle trophy whi ch was proudly tak en hom e by Au ckl and. T he Bran ch has had a fairly qu iet lime dur­ The nex t mo rning a C on cours D'Elegance was ing th e C hr istmas period man y of our me mbers held on th e p roperty of Dcr ck H enriksen wh o ver y being away 0 11 holiday, bu t prior to C hristmas on kindly lent us his o rchard for thi s eve nt. T his place the last Sunday in November we had a most was ideall y suite d for th is purpose and it mad e a successful co mb ined picnic at Otaki, which is wonderful picture to see all th ese lovely ca rs, spa ced half -way be twee n Palm erston North an d Well ingt on out and flanked by young citrus trees. A buffet an d proved to be a ideal meet ing place. Wc had lunch was sup plied by the T auranga Bran ch and th e use of part of th e grounds of th e Wellington th ere was a choice of tea or gra pefru it juice, and Ci ty M ission H ol iday Cam p, a large pa rt ly sha de d it m ay be int eresting to know th at some iV, ga llo ns paddock in whi ch th e ha y had ju st been m own. of th e la tter was co nsume d. Wan ganui, Well ingt on and Man aw atu bra nc hes As we look back we ca n sa fely say th at it was we re represented with an exce llent muster of ab out a great success, and we are quite co nfide nt th at we twenty vintage cars and mot or bik es and a sim ila r will sec the m all an da Iew m ore aga in next year. number of mod ems. It was a most enjoyable da y wit h perfect weather. Rally resu lts arc as foll ows: Run: Some co ntroversy has bccn stir red up ill our I. R.Welch . bran ch wh en on c of our local mol or deal ers adver­ 2. G . Wo odward. tised a 191i Bu ick tourer for sale. This ca r on : ~ . R. Moses. clo ser insp ect ion a ppeared to need com plete res­ 4. S. Seccombe ( M iss) . tor ati on although it was still motoring, original co ndition aft er forty-six yea rs of co ntinuo us m oto r­ Gy m ka na: ing was so mewha t sha bby bot h mech anicall y and Slow Race-D. H enrikscn . bodily. It was the " mo dest" figure of some where Placing Event-R. Hi cks. nea r £3iS which mad e us wonder and a fte r six Car Horus-D. Lane. m onths th ey still ha ve it. " O nce bitten twice shy" Co ncours D'El eganee- T ourer C lass : we hop e so. I. B. R oberts, La gonda. We were vcr v SOIT" to lose in Fcbru arv our R ~ 2. Hicks, Au st in t. hard working an'd m o~ t efficient secreta ry' Des 3. B. Catc hpo le, Stutz , O'Neil who has suc cumb ed to th e att ractions of Concours D 'Elegance- Sa loon C lass: H awk es Bay. Those wh o met D es at th e No rt h I. R. Welch , Dodge and T. J ames, Rolls Islan d rall y at Palrncrston No rt h last Eas te r will R oycc. reali se how m uch he will be m issed and we a ll 2. R C offin, Mod el T . Ford . wish him well in his new business venture. We 3. G. Nicho lson, C itrocn, arc a lso losing onc of our com m ittee members J onathan Dran sfield wh o has been tran sferred to CANTERBURY NOTES Wellington . H appy New Year to all members. W ell I A number of restor at ion s a re in prog ress and hope everyone has recovered from th e new yea r we arc awa iting with int erest to sec wh en we will holid ays, etc. Since ou r last ramblings w e have be re presented in th e vet er an class, hoping th a t had a trial and ra lly to Darfi cld whi ch was a grea t Easter will act as an added incentive. suc cess eve n if some of the ca rs managed to let a litt le wat er course beat th em . "Vc did not have a C h ristma s dance thi s vear but still had the usual child ren's party. OUl: first event in th e new year GENERAL COMMENTS was the second motorcycle rall y ·in whi ch some 29 mot orcycl es co m pe ted but th er e will be mor e Welc:ome to newly formed Northland Branch. ab out:this elsew her e. Wc wish th em ha ppy and tr ouble free motoring and tru st th at they will , th rou gh the coloum ns of Sump Rumblings: th eir ma gazine, keep us in tou ch with th eir activi­ Three of our local s mot or ed to Dunedin to ties. Brigh ton event and from all rep orts brou ght back G en er al No tes in D ecember issue should hav e th eir fair sha re of th e trophies. read - "our a po logies to th ose wh ose work has George Wri ght has ju st done ano the r set -of NOT been published." Whilst usuall y fairly skc w gea rs in -his ' R o u Hasell has just had his 4V, ja undiced prior to C hristma s your Ed ito r had 110 new set install ed and at present keeping his fingers int en tions of bein g faceti ous. To add to th e list crossed. of a po logies ( usually made a fte r C hristmas activi­ .. Robin Beardslcy of Va uxha ll fame has ju st tics ) ...:.... th e article on the London -Bri gh ton run, purcha sed th e 2 lit re Ansa ldo, Andy is still look­ me ntio ned an a rti cle in th e programme co nce rn ing ing a t th e Na pier and Bentl ey (don't forget the Len So uthward. We wer e a pparent ly com plete ly cnd of M arch ) . mi s-in for m ed . This article was not wr itt en by Davc Morl cys M od el T has go ne to its new Co lin Dray, but one Colin Bray an officia l of th e owne r. R.A.C. ~I ARCH . 1963 PAGE T WENTY-NINE

one cylinder, so instead of tea, Len did a General Notes qui ck job on th e engine. Ca rbon under an (Extracts fro m a letter from W ellington m em­ exha ust valve was th e trouble, probabl y due to over-generous adj ustment of one of the ber A llan D ray. Writt en fr om a Motor many drip-feed oilers. Anyway, Len had the Ca m p at Badkissengen, 'Western Germany. ) valve out, cleaned, and refitted in 20 min­ On September II we went to Ashwell, utes, and completed the trial in good time some 50 miles north of Lo ndon, for a Vet­ with no more troub le. The Concours was era n Ca r Rally, arriv ing at lun ch tim e in per­ held Sunday morning, so while Mr and Mrs fect weather. As noth ing in En gland ever Southwa rd att ended a cockta il party Satur­ seems to sta rt before lun ch, but goes on till da y evening, we boys put in a couple of 5 or 6 p.m., we were in plenty of time for hours cleaning and polishing. Next morn ­ the event . H alf of the 40 competing cars ing we went up to H arrogate Park and were sent off on a time trial while the others watched the cars arriving. Each drove on did dr iving tests, and then vice versa, so we to its allotted site, indicated by numbered were able to inspect them all during the markers stuck in the ground. It was a pub­ afternoon. We rode round the ring in the lic affair and consequently you couldn't move 1913 Sunbeam th at featured in th e Peter for people . The judges worked methodically Sellars film "The M ouse th at Roared" . Fin­ from one end to the other, and then the ca rs ally th ey all assembled and cups and priz es all moved off. We load ed Wolseley on to its were presented on the spot. Sandwiches and trailer and then attended th e lun cheon where beer at th e local and we all headed for home. the usual speeches were made and prizes pre­ There was a good vari ety of ca rs with De sented. The Wolseley won th e Conco urs, Dions and Renaul ts predominating. A 60 which pleased us all, especially Mr South­ h.p. Napier was in very good condition after wa rd. just having had a fortune spent on it. We 'vVe have also attended an Inter-R egister met a Mr Dermis who was driving a 1902 Picnic, organised by th e Austin Register, at Den nis built by his gra ndfather. It was which there were Austin , Alvis, Humber Sun­ qu ite unusual in some of its features and ran beam , Talbot, Darracq and a few- oth ers, very well. ( We would like to hear about about 50 in all. T he event consisted of lun ch, those feat ures.-Ed.) There was one stea m a scenic drive of 25 or 30 miles, afternoo n car, a Ga rdner-Ser pollet, which attracted tea at Wycombe House, a good old "natter" considerable atte ntion, especially when th e and head for hom e by 6.30 p.m. burner blew out and th e car was enveloped One Sunday we went to th e Vintage in a dense cloud of kerosene fum es. Gener­ Sports Car Club's hill-climb meetin g at ally spea king, the y were all very good, but Prescot . T he course was fairly tough with in the concourse only one or two would be some very sha rp corn ers and it was just sheer fit for fina l judging; whereas in N.Z. it is butchery to see the cars being flogged up often five or six th at qu alify. The South­ the hill. Cars of interest were th e big Fiat ward Wolseley had been uncrat ed only two " Me phistop heles" with its 21 litre engine, days before and th ere had not been time to 1908 Itala, 1913 Lancia 4Y2 L , 1913 RR prepare it for this event. H ad it been read y "Edinburgh", and the usual Bentleys, Bugat­ I'm sure it would have won the Con cours. tis, Aston M artins, etc. Most of th e more A week or two later we atte nded the interestin g cars were to be seen in the car H arrogate Rally, a hundred miles north of park where we inspected RR, Bentley, Mor­ London , and Len had entered his 1904 Wol­ ga n, Alvis,T win-cam Sunbea m, Invicta, seley. T wo hours of hard work on the Satur­ Aston Martin, and man y other vintage mar ­ day morning and we had it looking very qu es. nice. The assembly point was H arewood Last Thursday (September 2, we ar­ House at noon-one point penalty for every rived at Bad Kissengen (Germany) for the min ute late. After a picnic lun ch we ha d 1962 International Vet eran Ca r Rally, and a look round the 40 or so cars and about contacting th e Southwards; arranged to 2.30 p.m. the Wolseley set off on the trial. travel with them to Lohr next day in readi­ Ju st before the tea-break it began to ru n on ness for the rally start on th e Saturday . Fri- PAGE T H IRT Y MARC H, 196:1 day aft ern oon was spent polishin g the Wolse­ esting. I felt as if I were at the U nited lev, The rallv route on Saturdav was 73k . Nati ons Assembly. (about 46 miles ), ending at Bad' Kissengen where all cars were parked in a paddock at the airport and gua rded overn ight. I fol­ VERSE AND WORSE DEPT. lowed th e rally cars dri ving Len' s modern "IF" car with th e trailer on behind. That night (V. & V. version-with apologies to we put Wolseley into the tr ailer to keep the Rudyard Kipling. ) dew off it, and we all went to a dinner party at Sach and Fichel M otors at Swinefur t. I F you can chase for miles around the This was a very good sho w ind eed and was country, attended by about 55 0 people. Sunday H ot on the trai1 of some exciting "clue," morning we reported for duty at 7.15 and And when at last you run to earth the the first ca r was away bv 7.40 . The Wol­ owner, seley left at 7.48 and 'we 'followed later with You find he scra pped it back in '42. the tr ailer. The 87k . (55 mile ) route was If you can turn for home still undis­ mostly through villages where th e road was couraged, lined both sides by peopl e. M any children And next week-end finds you on the had bunches of flowers whi ch they handed to, trail once more, or th rew into, the cars for good luck as they Running down every hunch and tip and passed. Some had flags, and everyone waved rumou r, madlv. A few miles of tim ed section ca used And meeting disappointments by the a hold-up at beginning and end. The Wol­ score. seley ran well apa rt from one oiled-up plug. IF when you 've run to earth some an­ M rs Southwa rd said it was very cold in spite cient model, of all th e extra clothing she had on, and up You coyly ask the own er, if he'll sell, on a mountain section it was quite misty. And he tells you that it' s "easily worth She said her eyelashes iced up! The rally fifty," ended at Swinefurt where driving tests wer e And you curb that urge to bid him go to held. Then followed a procession through If you can argue, wheedle, coax, and town and in front of th e T own H all eac h haggle, car had to halt wh ile it was described over U ntil you wear the bloke's resistance the PA system. All this slow running caused down, the Wolseley to overhea t, and just after pull­ T hen quickly toss the booty on your ing awa y from the Town Hall, it seized up trailer, and had to wait quite a while to cool down. And beat it very sma rtly back to town. H owever, it re-started OK and was driv en back to the parking area where we load ed it IF you can drag hom e loads of bits and on to the trailer and towed it through to pieces, Bad Kissengen . That night we all attended Enc rusted with the rust and grime of another dinner from 8 to 10.30. The Wol­ yea rs, seley received two awards; th ird in its class, And sta rt on th at long job of restoration, and special prize for coming the greatest Enta iling months of blood and sweat distan ce. Wc are quite disappointed there and tears. was no Concours. There were 190 entries If you can rub and scr ub and buff and and about 140 actual starters. polish, And every evening burn the midn ight oil, We were asked by Phillip M ann , Secre­ Until you ereep int o the sac k exha usted, tary of the Intern ational Federati on of Vint­ Yet coun t it all as pleasure, not as toil. age Ca r Clubs, to represent N.Z. at the An­ nu al Meeting on the Monday morning, and I F you ca n view the fruit of months of it was agreed tha t Mr Southwa rd would be lab our, the official rep. and we others would "sit Immaculate in paint and nickel-plate, in" . Fortunately for us, the meeting was And excitedly prepare at last to start her, held in English and we found it most inter- Quite unaware of your impending fate. ~t AR CH . 1963 P,\GE THIRTY-O NE

If wh en you gaily twirl a round th e pedals the 41'2 to a nearby ditch-a little mistake She stutt ers, coughs, then settles down th at was quickly rectified . to run, A few of the results: Until-wham! th e pot blows neatl y off Over all Winner: A. D. Casey an d J. E.K en yon , the cra nkcase, 1925 Ford T. But you still regard it all as good clean Ve teran Conco urs: D. W. J ordan , 1910 Hum­ fun . ber Vintage Concours: F. L. Co llett, 1922 Fo rd T . IF you ha ve felt the sense of high M ot or cycle Overall Winner: N.A. M cMillan, achievem ent, 1914 Rover. When the mount on which you ga ze with Mot or cycl e con cours: J. N. Law r y, 1910 F. N. prideful th rill cups for th e best Ford, the best So uthland W as transfigured from a battered , rusty car, and vintage field tests. Alex attributed rUin, th eir success to th e fact th at "we were look­ By enthusiasm, patien ce, toil, and skill. ing for them" and J ohn cla ime d " we could If you can fill with pleasure every minute, never have done it without Alex' s chea ting." At rally, hill-climb, trial, or picnic run, The evening "do" was quite up to th e usual You rs is th e sport and everything th at 's in sta ndard. Eleven northern competitors were it, present a nd seven of th em qualified for th e And you' re a vintage fan for true, my special plaques for those vehicles dri ven ove r son ! 100 miles to th e event. Special mention must be mad e of the meritorious drive by Mrs E. (A pologies, readers, for inflicting th e above M cI vor (and he r navigat or Mrs E. Barnes ) on you-we can only put it down to the in th e 1907 De Dion , following up th eir approach of winter. We promise th at it won 't similar effor t last year. It is hoped that happen ag:li n.) th ese ladies have paved the way for a few more all lady crews in future even ts. Their run was managed without incident exce pt for SOUTHLAND NOTES B. J. Ba rn es the exha ust pipe detaching itself from th e Riverton Rally: An other R iver ton is flan ge and manifold. With the conseq uent over, and was possibly th e biggest and the racket from the lusty one-lunger, th e shee p in best yet. The weather man looked dourly th e pastures near Ri verton departed hastily on proceedings at th e start and all crews ca me for the furthest point possible. T wo motor­ prep a red for a soa king . The lucky ones with cycle riders also distingu ished th emselves by wa terproo f roofs over th eir heads looked to coming off thei r machines in a most appro­ be mu ch happier th an th e motorcyclists and pri ate spot- by th e ou tpa tients department at th ose wh ose vehicles did not sport a lid . H ow­ Kew H ospital. Neith er needed treatm en t. ever , th e aforesaid gent relented, and eased off th e wat erworks. There was a bit of rain during th e run out, but none at all at Ri ver­ Classified Advertiselnents ton, and for a conside rable period it was CLASSIFIED ADV ERTISEMENTS R ATES ac tua lly very hot. O f th e 44 sta rters only M EMBERS OF V INTAGE CAR CLUB O FN .Z. Ala n Bryce and Aero M organ fail ed to arrive, I NC. : Free for first three lines (a pprox. 25 du e to minor derangem ent in th e oil system. words); thereafter 1/- per line (8 wo rds). This was a great pity, because we were all NON-MEMBERS: 5/- for first three lines or less; looking forward to seeing it in action. T he th er eafter 1/- per lin e. Field tests were conducted by the A.A . To be accepted all advertise me nts mu st be typed and be accompa nied by th e necessary remittan ce (Southland) with their custo mary rapidity and mu st be in th e hands of th e Edi tor no t lat er and precision . Co nside ring th e diverse types th an the 15th day of th e month bef or e pub lica tio n of cars ente red, ran gin g from M erv Winter's date. 1900 Wolseley to th e P.V.T. R olls-R oyces of Specia l d isplay ad ver tisem ents of cars for sale complete with ph ot os may be inse rte d at specia l Willi s Brown and Ken Macmillan. The tests a nd very reasonable rates, for det ail s of whic h ser­ were very fair to all comers-some thing th at vice write to th e Ed itor. is very hard to ac hieve. Due to a slight m is­ WANTED TO BU Y.- Vet eran M al ar- cycl e in calc ula tion in th e blindfold wiggle-woggle, our restor ed or res torablc condi tion. - R . senior Bentley driver, J oh n Robbie, consigned Mur ray, I.H.R. D., Oam aru. !':\l;E T HIRTY-TWO ~I AR CIl , 196:\

WANTED : For 191 2 Triumph - . Front Wheel , WANTED: 700 m m. x 80 mm. or 7 10 mm. x Petrol T ank, Car bu re ttor, M agn et o, T oolbox es, a lso 90 mm. B. E. Sa nkey o r Dunlop wheels. Nu m ber Carb ide H eadlight and Generator. J ohn King, 5 of stud ho les immateria l. Con tact N . Findlav, Bru ce S tree t, M astcrton . M eean ee, Napier. . WA NT ED: Pai r of rock er s, or inlet rocker only, FOR SA LE : Buick + Roadster-1923- m ech an­ for 350 o.h.v, H arley sing le, or wo uld purch ase ical ly sou nd- bo dy restored a nd painte d-req uires com p lete cylinde r head or com p lete engi ne . Urgent­ only final tri mmings-en tirely origina l. P rice £200. ly re q uired 10 complete res toration job.G .H ock ­ o.n.o. For inspec tio n ring 2 1-5 11 Christc hurch or Icy, 308 K cyes Road , N ew Brigh ton, C hristc hurch. write D. R. Br ucc , R .D. -1- , Blen heim. FOR SA LE : 1920 D od ge, me cha ni ca l work all done. 3 spa re motors. 2 spare gea r-boxes. Lots FOR SALE : Fo ur C .19 19 S tro m berg typ e LF re­ o f othe r spa res. £50. o.n .o, D. W . Sha nd, Box pla cem ent ca rburett ors for Fo rd M od el T . These 55 7 T au ranga. ca r bu rettors, which are un used , arc pack ed in th eir WANTED: G en era tor a nd Sta rting M ot or ( De lco orig ina l bo xes a nd a re co m p lete with a ll fittings fiv ) for 1923 C hev. Agn ew, 155 Espl an ade, Pet on c. a nd insta lla tion instructi on s. O rigina l D.S.A. Price Ph on e 65 -72 8. 24-.00 doll ars. H ow would £7/ 10/ - ea ch sound ! FOR SALE : Sunbeam 20 h.p. T ourer. Offer s Con tac t R . E . C . H arding, M otor Assemblies wanted . Warner M au ger, 304 Travis Road, C h rist­ Limited , 1'.0. Box 136 1, C h ris tc hurc h. ch urch 7. vVANTED for 1915-1 91 9 16 h.p . S/V Sunbeam WANTED TO BUY: 5 or 6, 2 1 inch dis c wheels 12/1 6. Parts for chassis, bod y, engine; a lso wheel s to fit 1924 Oakla nd. A. C . H oll and, N o. 2 R .D ., 820 x 120 or 815 x 105, a p p rox. 23 il1 .; any othe r Pareora W est , T irnaru, or Ph on e 82 -6 13 Timaru parts or a ccessor ies ( no m atter how small) . Also ( co llect ) . to borrow or buy, illu strations, phot os, handbooks, FIAT 50 1- 1920 It a lian bod v, M ot or gea rbox m anual s and information to help with co m p lete a nd diff re condition ed . 4 new tyr es and tubes. rebuild. Eve ry ca re tak en a nd prompt return of I. M ortimer, Mcl.au ch lan S treet, Blenheim. borrow ed items gua ra nteed . W . R . j a nes , Church GENUINE Ameri can KW M od el T Coils. Li mited S tr eet , Tauranga, N.I. supplies arc again availa b le. M a il order enquiries SELL : T wo unused 81 0 x 90 B.E. tyr es, 18 m onths a re welcome a nd recei ve p ro m p t a ttention. Con­ old . Ap ply ]. E. Lcu gh a n, 24- C rey ke Road , C hrist­ ta ct Pa rt s M anager, Armstrong M ot ors Li mi te d , chur ch. Au th orised Ford Deal ers, Box 30G, H amilt on. \V ANT ED : Radiat ors for M orri s Cow ley 1922 -25 W ANT ED : For 192G 8.3 1-1. 1'. Ren ault, a crow n a nd Au stin 7 1929-30 ( IGin.) . C . Gcary, 24 W ood­ wh eel and pinio n (52 x 18 ) . Also a ny spares or lands R oad,G len Ed en . in for mation. A. M . Bielcsk i, 35 Ngaiwi S treet, Ora kei , Auckland E.I . FOR DISPOSAL: 19 23 M orris bu llnose radia tor, chassis, axles, w indscr een parts a nd 4 Sa nkcy WANT ED : For 1925 Au stin 12/+, four 6 stud wh eels to su it 4.25 x 19 tyres, T oken offers 20 ins. Sa nkey stee l wh eel s, onc only C .A. V. he ad­ m entioning Legi on of Fron tiers men to Ian Logan, lamp. W .]. Nis be t, 10 Tui St reet, K aik oh e. Spo rts D eal er, T aup o, FOR SALE: V auxhall 20/60, ge ne ra lly in sound \V ANTE)) : Acet ylen e tai l lamp, control lev ers, orde r but some panel work need ed . G ood range cha in cove r, handbook. For 19 15 4- H .P. Triumph of spa re parts included . This is th e 1929 ca r with motor cyc le. W. B. Card iff, 18 C ha rle mont Street , 20i n. w ire wh eels. C ha rles M arMurray, 23 Mar­ Hamilton . dal e S tree t, Duncd in . "VANT ED T O BUY or bo rrow handbook for 1926 M orris Cow Icy roadst er or book s, maga zines with WANTED : Fo r 19 11-1 2 B.S.A. m ot or cycl e m ot or in form a tion on thi s ca r. Conta ct Ian H owcll, c/o in any condition, comp lete or othe rwise. A lso a ny Duncan and Da vics, N ew Plymouth. other parts whatsoev er. G . M. Ba in, 12 Bevcrle y WANTED: Lu cas Duplex se lf co nta ine d Acety­ Street , Christch ur rh. lene H eadlamp. "T w in Cy linde r m od el " , to fit WANTED : For 1908 15 H.P. Humber gearbo x a nd my 191 0 Humber. W ill bu y or swa p ( but not my front axle, a lso any othe r bit s a nd pi eces no matter ca r) if one is ava ila ble. D. W arren J ordan, 4 1 how small, or informat ion regard ing wh ercabout of Venus S treet, Invercargi li. suc h parts. G. M. Rain, 12 Hcverl cy Stree t, C h rist­ GRAHMvI PAIGE 1928: Comp lete m ech anicall y ch urch. hut cut down to truc k. Suitable spare p arts. Very BEADEDEDG E T YRES: W c hav e j us t la nd ed a good m ot or -I- speed bo x. Two beauti ful head small sh ip m ent including th e foll ow ing sizes: 26 x lights. £ 15. D. Lan g, Main Road , Bay Vi ew , x 2 y.1 B.E. tyres and tub es - 8 15 x 105 B.E. Napier, 2Y2 tyres a nd tubes - 32 x 4- Y2 S.S. tyr es a nd tubes. WANT ED T O BUY : One I lY2 inch T w ilight H ampton T yre Co. Ltd., 12GO xfo rd T erra ce, headlamp len s o r matchi ng pa ir o f 11 in ch len ses. Y2 C h ristc hurch. Must be America n. ]. Bayly, R.D. 2, Tirau. FOR SALE: 1929 M orris Oxford , bo dy sound , ·'RETREADI0." G , REC :\PING , R EPAIRING " : paint and trim in good co nd it ion, m ot or noisy but All m ak es of ne w tyres sup p lied in cl uding M ich elin re lia ble, need s only a ge nera l clean up . £80. " X " . Apex T yr e R etreading Co. ( 19G3 ) Ltd., Cnr. Apply Bob I'enfold, ~ 7 Pat crson S treet, Ararnoho , Durham and Pet erb o rough Street - Gavin Pater- Wan ganui. son ( m a nager ) . ~ .. ------.

THE 1912 SNUB-NOSED MORRIS OXFORD

Not Much In Common?

Not muc h in com mon with the M orris ca rs of today? Cer tainly not at first gla nce, alth ough these ea rly :-l or ris ca rs were just as famous as today's for th eir "qu ality first" construc tion, finish and reliab ility.

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