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2 Your Committee • In this issue:

• 2 Index, Your Committee, Club Calendar, About the Club PRESIDENT & John Mallia* & Sandra (03) 9744 1797 REGALIA [email protected]

• 3 Reports - Treasurer - David Morris VICE PRESIDENT Neil Whiffin & Trish (03) 9801 0448 Regalia - John Mallia [email protected] Editor - John Gray HON VICE PRESIDENT Graham Keys* & Sharon MEMBERSHIP & [email protected] • 4 Spare Parts & Technical Advice - Peter McIntosh AOMC DELEGATE (03)9798 1172 • 5 Have we got Oil Filters - Graham Keys 3 Denbigh Court, Keysborough, Vic. 3173 SECRETARY & Richard Graham & Marion (03) 5944 3206 • 6/7 Reports - Events Co-ordinator - Jean Denning PUBLIC OFFICER [email protected] Membership - Graham Keys AOMC DELEGATE David Morris* & Kathy (03) 9432 5038 Librarian - Pauline Hunter & TREASURER [email protected]

• 8/9/10 Count Peter Schilovsky, Genius of the Gyrocar EVENTS Jean Denning & Geoff 0427 490629 CO-ORDINATOR [email protected] • 11 Trafficators - Brian Allison/Bob Francis SPEAKER Geoff Denning & Jean 0433 677017 CO-ORDINATOR [email protected] • 12-15 The Pursuit of Power - John Gray SPARE PARTS Peter McIntosh* (03) 9386 3918 • 16 Letter to the Editor - Warrick Hansted CO-ORDINATOR 68 Devon Avenue, West Coburg Vic. 3058 [email protected] • 17 WA British Car Day 2021 - Phillip Winn WOLSHED Clyde Wilson & Diane (03) 9309 5256 MANAGER [email protected] • 18/19/20 Salsbury Bleriot, the first successful automobile REGISTRAR Andrew Whalen & Tania (03) 9787 8868 headlamp - Gordon Berg & WEBMASTER [email protected] • 21 Wolseley Car Club Gippsland Hills Tour-Peter Watson EDITOR & John Gray & Bev 0423763474 CATERING [email protected] • 22 Where did it all start - Jeff Schaefer LIBRARIAN Pauline Hunter 0403690353 [email protected] • 23 Leon August Antoin Bollee - Jeff Schaefer NON - COMMITTEE POSITIONS: • 24 Classifieds - 24/80 anyone? ARCHIVIST Max Shayler 0412 220 379 [email protected] OVERSEAS REP Cliff Skinner* (03) 9598 1186 [email protected] FACEBOOK Rob Bothwell* & Jan (03) 5962 1823 CO-ORDINATOR [email protected] ABOUT THE CLUB POSTAL ADDRESS-: PO Box 25 Briar Hill, Victoria, 3088 WEBSITE-: www.wolseleycarclub.com Club Calendar (subject to MEETINGS-: Horrie Watson Pavilion, Deepdene Park, changes in COVID rules) 120 Whitehorse Road, Deepdene. (Melways 46 A7) 1st Tuesday of the month (except January and July 6th General Meeting November)….. 8pm start. 10th Working Bee (Wolshed) sausage sizzle OFFICIAL MAGAZINE-: The WOLSELEY HORNET is published each 18th Christmas in July (see page 6) 20th Committee Meeting month except January. Submissions for publication 24th Working Bee (Wolshed) are to be with the editor at the beginning of the month prior August 3rd General Meeting (AGM) 7th Working Bee (Wolshed) sausage sizzle CLUB COLOURS-: Red—Green—Cream 17th Committee Meeting 21st Working Bee (Wolshed) CLUB OUTINGS-: Usually once a month although additional outings Sept 3rd - 7th State Rally Hamilton may be planned, check the website & Club TBA General Meeting Calendar. 11th Working Bee (Wolshed) sausage sizzle 21st Committee Meeting A.O.M.C-: The Wolseley Car Club played a guiding role in the 25th Working Bee (Wolshed) Formation of this Association and has Hornet deadlines for August edition -: delegates who attend AOMC meetings & seminars. 2nd July (articles, ads) 9th July (Reports) CLUB FOUNDERS-: Joy & Peter Richardson State Rally (Hamilton) -: 3rd to 7th September 2021 The Club has a small number of Honorary Life Members, a status bestowed (further details TBA) upon them by the Committee in recognition of outstanding services to the Club. Those that still have a Committee/Non Committee office bearer’s position with the Club are identified by an asterisk (*) next to their name in the Club Committee listing. 2

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Note : Includes Wolshed donations funds donations Wolshed Includes : Note $6,070.61

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3 4 PETER TECHNICAL ADVICE

1500, 6/110 Graham Keys [email protected] McINTOSH & 4/44 (03) 9798 1172 15/60, 24/80 Fred Holmes [email protected] (03) 9728 1747 6/80 & Pre War John Mallia [email protected]. SPARE PARTS (03) 9744 1797 6/90 Dave Clark [email protected] ABN 44786842280 TFN 782491222 REG NO A0001245T (03) 9744 1149

“Due to the almost complete unavailability of 24/80 engine sump gaskets, the WCC have taken the initiative and tooled up for a small production run using high quality material from very accurate samples. These gaskets have since been tested on a sample sump, and found to be a perfect fit. They are available through our normal parts system, and are realistically priced at $30.00 each”

POA There are no new parts stored at the Wolshed, if members want new parts they contact the Spare Parts Co-Ordinator on 03 9386 3918, or my email as per the Committee listing in this Hornet. Parts for 6/80 :- complete sets of dash knobs for the 6/80, comprising of 6 instrument knobs, $100 per set, 2 glove box knobs,$25 per set,1 windscreen wiper knob $30 each, and 8 Wilmot Breeden car key cutting service door handles escutcheons, $50 per set. Reconditioned water pumps for 6/80 $250 each ( with exchange unit.) Parts for 4/44 :- we now have a set of six 4/44 dash knobs, I can supply replacement keys for your English car, cut from the key $100 per set number. Parts for 24/80 :-reconditioned water pumps (with exchange You are getting a brand new key cut* to the original pattern, rather than unit.) POA a bad copy from your existing worn key. I just need the key number or a good couple of photos of your key. Reconditioned front and rear shockers *Typically on a Silca or Ilco key blank @ $250 each (with exchange unit). Key type Key number range Brake and clutch master cylinders @ $50. MRN 1-50 Reconditioned Brake Boosters $250 each (with exchange unit) FA 501-600 Reconditioned heads with hardened seats @ $400 each and Rocker cover gaskets @ $20 each and FP 626-750 Reconditioned heads for 1500,15/60 & 16/60 $350 each. FS 876-955 New stock for 24/80 :- 24/80 heater taps complete with gasket $50 each. FT 101-225 air filters@ $20 each , oil filters @ $15 each. Rocker Cover & side cover gasket set $20. I also have uncut “Dalson” FX blanks available – for 6/90 Series 3 We have front end bushes in stock & equivalent Riley 2.6 Front brake hoses @ $40 each. Accelerator Bushes @ $12 Cost $15.00 per key posted to your door (priority postage) each. Oil filter Conversion Nipple @ $25 ea. Change-over Indicator Switches for Your Wolseley- Parts for 6/110 :- We have : New DG sump gaskets for MK1 available to order gear box @ $8 each Wolseley 15/60; 24/80 & 1500 We have front End bushes for all Wolseley models. Reconditioned indicator switch assemblies – to suit Wolseley Oil filters for:- 6/80, 4/44,1500,15/60, 6/99, 6/110, 24/80, 3L & 4L 1500; 15/60 and 24/80. Vanden Plas. Wolseley 6/110 Mk 2 & Vanden Plas 4 Litre – with headlight flasher Car Horns @ $35 per pair and Molybond grease cartridges Reconditioned – incl new plastic “W” spring & rivet @$24 each. $140 each + postage change-over** S/H parts are stored at the Wolshed for sale to members (not New Genuine Lucas Green Lens plus Lucas globe for stalk tip- the general public). $15.00 a set The Working Bees for July will be two Saturdays, the 10th & Festoon globes (3 watt) [#256] for semaphore indicators - the 24th. The Wolshed is at 494 Fullerton Rd, Airport West. $3.00 each When paying into our bank account for parts please specify **change-over : You send me your old unit in due course, after you your name and the invoice number. have fitted the reconditioned one Peter. Enquiries Contact David Morris [email protected] or (AH) 0429 019 132

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5 6 EVENTS CO-ORDINATOR — JEAN DENNING

Our highly successful trip to Gippsland on Sunday 23rd May was very well attended and what a beautiful day it was! The weather was magic! We met at the quaint township of Loch for coffee, cake and a walk around the vil- lage shops. We then headed off in convoy through the hills for the Telstra Tower with Jeff Shawcroft leading the way in his Wolseley 1500.The view from the top was breathtaking- San Remo Bridge, Western Port Bay, French Island, the rugged Bass coastline and Wonthaggi just to name a few of the vista points. The sixteen cars made a spectacular sight weaving their way along the twisting roads of the Gippsland Hills. Our next stop was Jeff’s Shed (excuse the pun!) at Bass. Jeff has an eclectic collection of cars and trucks in various stages of restoration. Here we were greeted with a magnificent morning tea of homecooked slices, scones and cakes, which were thoroughly enjoyed and ap- preciated by all our members. A special thank you to Jeff and Jackie for their hospitality and for showing us around. We were also grateful to a group of friends that Jeff had coopted from the Newhaven Yacht Club. They kindly gave of their time in providing morning tea and sharing their love and knowledge of vintage vehicles. San Remo was our final destination for lunch where fish and chips at the local San Remo Co-op seemed a popular choice! Our members were also invited for a drink and nibblies at the Newhaven Yacht Club afterwards. Again, can I thank Jeff and Jackie who played a key role in the organization of the outing, and judging from the positive feedback, a very memorable day enjoyed by all. An interesting poem of the day’s outing written by Peter Watson, who joined us for the day, is included in this edition of The Hornet. Many thanks Peter! “Christmas in July” is on Sunday 18th July at 12-00pm at The Victoria Hotel Yarraville. Details of registration and up- front payment have been sent out on Mailchimp to all members as the cut off date is Wednesday 7th July 2021. LIBRARIAN - PAULINE HUNTER.

Hi Everyone, The unpacking and sorting of the library books continues. Peter Reid has been doing most of work unpacking everything and it would have taken me 4 times longer if he wasn’t helping, thank you Peter. We are getting down to the last lot of crates and the shelves are groaning under the weight of everything. Once everything is unpacked into rough categories, the work of fully cataloguing all the books can commence. As I have said, it is a big job and will take time. We have just lost one Saturday due to lockdown so let’s hope we don’t lose any more. I had a lovely day on the recent outing to Loch and then Jeff Shawcroft’s shed near San Remo where brunch was enjoyed. Fantastic roads with spectacular views and my Austin went flawlessly, as did all the other cars in attendance. Brilliant day. Till next time, take care everyone. Pauline Hunter

Notice to Members - : The Club has a comprehensive collection of Wolseley Publications including Workshop Manuals which are available for loan. Contact -: Pauline Hunter 0403690353

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into organising our delightful Sunday drive through the hills to Western Port Bay and beyond. We thoroughly enjoyed the love the enjoyed thoroughly We beyond. and Bay Port Western to hills the through drive Sunday delightful our organising into morning morning ly

s report, I must pass on my congratulations for the terrific effort that she and Jeff Shawcroft put put Shawcroft Jeff and she that effort terrific the for congratulations my on pass must I report, s ’ Jean in covered be to sure is this Although

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purchased my 6/110 MK I, it had been stored under a carport for the same period, so don so period, same the for carport a under stored been had it I, MK 6/110 my purchased t give up hope Gerard. These are terrific cars cars terrific are These Gerard. hope up give t ’

to receive additional information from Gerard regarding his 6/110 MK II, which has been in undercover storage for over 23 yea 23 over for storage undercover in been has which II, MK 6/110 his regarding Gerard from information additional receive to When I I When rs.

Glenn has emailed me photos and details of his 4/44, which could be one of the oldest existing examples of this model in Aust in model this of examples existing oldest the of one be could which 4/44, his of details and photos me emailed has Glenn ia. I hope hope I ia. ral

their red and white 24/80 at a WCC outing in the near future. near the in outing WCC a at 24/80 white and red their

mutual friends of the period. I know that Ron will be a great future asset to the club, and we are looking forward to seeing to forward looking are we and club, the to asset future great a be will Ron that know I period. the of friends mutual and Lorna in in Lorna and he

at the same period at the same school, and known other chaps who had worked at Neals, it was great to compare notes and discu and notes compare to great was it Neals, at worked had who chaps other known and school, same the at period same the at ss ss

s, and completed his apprenticeship training at Richmond Tech. Having done my own apprentice training training apprentice own my done Having Tech. Richmond at training apprenticeship his completed and s, 60’ late the in Melbourne South

Ron attended our recent Wolshed meeting, and told us that in a past life he had been a motor mechanic at Neals Motors in Stur in Motors Neals at mechanic motor a been had he life past a in that us told and meeting, Wolshed recent our attended Ron treet treet S t

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ago. On behalf of the Committee and all WCC members, we pass on our sincerest condolences to Rosemary, Andrew and their fami their and Andrew Rosemary, to condolences sincerest our on pass we members, WCC all and Committee the of behalf On ago. s. lie

outings in his little 1500, he and wife Rosemary maintained a club presence until their retirement to the Mornington Peninsul Mornington the to retirement their until presence club a maintained Rosemary wife and he 1500, little his in outings ome years years ome s a

Grahame Daws, who passed away in the early hours on Sun 23 May. Long remembered by many members for his regular attendance a attendance regular his for members many by remembered Long May. 23 Sun on hours early the in away passed who Daws, Grahame t t

Late last month we were contacted by member Andrew Daws to inform us of the sad news that of his father and previous WCC memb WCC previous and father his of that news sad the of us inform to Daws Andrew member by contacted were we month last Late er er

Members: of News

payments. subs their us sent already have

facilities have not taken a back seat. On behalf of the Treasurer and Committee, I pass on sincere thanks to all the kind me kind the all to thanks sincere on pass I Committee, and Treasurer the of behalf On seat. back a taken not have facilities rs who who rs mbe

curtailed our spares activities, and while the loss of revenue from both new and used parts is an obvious effect, the rent on rent the effect, obvious an is parts used and new both from revenue of loss the while and activities, spares our curtailed r storage storage r ou

19 has denied us the use of our beautiful cars and the pleasure of driving them, irregular visits to the Wolshed have been have Wolshed the to visits irregular them, driving of pleasure the and cars beautiful our of use the us denied has 19 - COVID severely severely

members now have their annual subs notice, and this year more than ever we really do need your payment before the due date. date. due the before payment your need do really we ever than more year this and notice, subs annual their have now members le le Whi

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The experiment ended in a costly disaster. On its maiden voyage in Count Peter Schilovsky: 1875, Bessemer's ship sailed from Dover and crossed the Channel. In a calm sea in broad daylight, the out-of-control ship demolished a dock at the French port of Calais. After repairs, another attempt was Forgotten Genius of the made. Despite being in the hands of an experienced captain, Bessemer's ship again did not respond to the helm and smashed into the Calais dock. Bessemer wisely decided to abandon his plan Gyrocar for a fleet of gyroscopically balanced ships. This ingenious two-wheeled gyroscopically balanced motorcar was invented almost a century ago by Count Peter Schilovsky (in bowler The first proposal to apply gyroscopic stabilization to a land vehicle hat), shown taking it for a trial run. After it was built and ran was made in 1903 by Louis Brennan in his application for a British successfully, it was buried. Then, many years later, it was patent. Brennan had already made a fortune from his invention of disinterred. Even without the distinction of an entombment and a the Brennan torpedo directed by wires from the shore and widely subsequent resurrection, the car would have attracted attention used for harbor defense. By 1907, he displayed a large working anywhere. And so would its inventor, Count Peter Schilovsky, a tall, model of a monorail at a meeting of the Royal Society. In November aristocratic Russian. Early in 1912, Schilovsky appeared at the of the following year, Brennan exhibited at his Brennan Torpedo offices of the Wolseley Tool and Motor Car Company on Victoria Works a 22-ton, 40-foot-long gyroscopic car that successfully Street in London with an unusual proposal. He would pay the traveled on a specially built monorail line. This car could carry 40 Wolseley Company to build a gyroscopically balanced two-wheeled standing passengers. car of his design. Wolseley was then the largest automobile maker in Britain. Its plant at Addersley Park in Birmingham covered several acres and produced some 50 cars a week. Part of the giant Vickers By coincidence, a German, Richard Scherl, was simultaneously empire, the Wolseley company had more than 1,400 machine tools demonstrating a smaller gyroscopic rail car capable of carrying six in its factory. It was ideally equipped to handle the job the Russian persons. Both monorails were supported by a single traditional rail inventor proposed. and ballasted roadbed, as contrasted with suspended monorails that depend solely on gravity to keep them in balance.

Early Attempts Schilovsky's Gyrocar Ever since mankind got itself into mechanically propelled motion in Count Schilovsky explained to Wolseley's engineers that his one the three-and four-wheeled vehicles that were early motorcars, passion in life was an all-consuming interest in the gyroscope. inventors have dreamed of conquering the problems of balance to Although he was a lawyer, he was no stranger to mechanics or produce a two-wheeled motorcar. In 1908, a 20-year-old Detroit mathematics, being the product of the system of higher education of artist and self-taught engineer, James Scripps Booth, constructed Czarist Russia. Estimable in quality, it was a far cry from universal such a car. Powered by a V-8 engine of his own design and public education, being highly selective and limited to the wealthy charmingly named the "Bi-Autogo," the car was little more than a and the ruling class. Schilovsky already held several British patents motorcycle--a two-wheeled car with a pair of small "training wheels" and a U.S. patent for monorail vehicles balanced by a gyroscopic at the rear. The venture was eventually abandoned. Scripps Booth device. It was inevitable that he should turn his attention to turned his energies to the production of more conventional four- producing a rubber-tired two-wheel vehicle that could travel over wheeled automobiles. roads.

One rotating device, however, had the potential to make a two- Far from being regarded as a curious if impractical toy, such a car wheeled vehicle balance itself even when stationary: the gyroscope. was already exciting interest in various war ministries. Road Friedrich von Bohnenberger constructed the first of these in conditions in wartime could make the passage of four-wheeled, two- Germany in 1810. For years it remained little more than an tracked vehicles difficult, if not impossible. His 1912 U.S. patent interesting demonstration in physics classrooms. Steelmaker Henry application had listed Schilovsky's address simply as "Kostroma, Bessemer was the pioneer who first applied the gyroscope to a form Russia." He was, in fact, the governor of the entire province of of transportation. Bessemer had made a fortune from his ingenious Kostroma, an area of some 32,500 square miles northeast of Moscow on the Volga River. Previously, he had been vice-governor of Simbirsk province, east of Moscow.

The principle behind Schilovsky's Gyrocar was the same as that of the toy gyroscope so familiar to children. It took advantage of the tendency of a rapidly spinning massive rotor to maintain its orientation in space when the position of the outside framework changed. Common examples of gyroscopic motion and stability are found in spinning tops, the wheels of bicycles and motorcycles and even the spinning of the Earth in space. In Schilovsky's two-wheeled car, the slightest tilting motion to either side would tip one of two pendulums and call into play a heavy, rotating gyroscopic flywheel to immediately check the tipping and return the car to an upright position.

Wonderfully Simple Wolseley engineers admitted that Schilovsky's idea was wonderfully simple. Work on the "GY Car," as it was called in Wolseley Company reports, began almost immediately under the supervision of A.W. Dring, chief experimental engineer. His October 9, process for producing steel in which air was introduced into molten 1912, report show that springs to be installed on the car were being pig iron, burning out carbon and other impurities. His process not tested. On October 21, the modified four-cylinder Wolseley C5 only made him rich but also later earned him a knighthood. Prone to engine, with a bore of 90mm and stroke of 121mm, was tested. This seasickness, Bessemer installed a gyroscope mounted on bearings was basically the same gasoline engine installed in Wolseley cars of beneath the public cabin of his Channel steamer, the S.S. the period. It also turned a generator to power the electric motor that

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Royal Naval College and later advisor on gyroscopic equipment to to equipment gyroscopic on advisor later and College Naval Royal congratulated." highly and cheered

Sir James Henderson, former professor of applied mechanics at the the at mechanics applied of professor former Henderson, James Sir loudly being Excellency His Square, Portman to back started then

We car. the of control perfect had gyrostat the that demonstrate to

intimate friends. These runs were made at very low speeds in order order in speeds low very at made were runs These friends. intimate demonstration. London 1914 its in Gyrocar Schilovsky's

Regent's Park where rides were given to His Excellency's most most Excellency's His to given were rides where Park Regent's Leningrad. Professor Buys had been an enthusiastic passenger in in passenger enthusiastic an been had Buys Professor Leningrad.

Then His Excellency, the driver and myself took the car into into car the took myself and driver the Excellency, His Then its name had not yet been changed to to changed been yet not had name its -- Petrograd in confreres his to

the ball controls the car was balanced and ready for running again. again. running for ready and balanced was car the controls ball the Schilovsky would take back a message of good will and sympathy sympathy and will good of message a back take would Schilovsky

seeing the Russian scientist alive and well, and hoped that that hoped and well, and alive scientist Russian the seeing pressing by how demonstrating same, of working the explained and

showed the press men and His Excellency's friends the Gyrostat Gyrostat the friends Excellency's His and men press the showed president of the Royal Automobile Club, expressed his pleasure at at pleasure his expressed Club, Automobile Royal the of president

- vice later Boys, Vernon Charles Sir Physicist presentation. I whilst down, let sprags the and stopped was car the this "After

Report on Gyroscopic Theory, thanked Schilovsky for his his for Schilovsky thanked Theory, Gyroscopic on Report

notes: his in event the page volume entitled entitled volume page - 277 exhaustive an of author and Woolwich

torpedo and monorail enthusiast. Wolseley engineer Dring recorded recorded Dring engineer Wolseley enthusiast. monorail and torpedo former professor of mathematics at the Artillery College at at College Artillery the at mathematics of professor former

invited passengers was Louis Brennan, inventor of the Brennan Brennan the of inventor Brennan, Louis was passengers invited old old - year - 75 Greenhill, George Sir lecture, Schilovsky's Following

in London with reporters and cameramen present. One of the the of One present. cameramen and reporters with London in

By April the Gyrocar was deemed ready for a public demonstration demonstration public a for ready deemed was Gyrocar the April By system. electrical and cars passenger the design to in brought

Testing Completed Testing

economists and track designers. German monorail experts were were experts monorail German designers. track and economists

group of Russian experts: mathematicians, mechanical engineers, engineers, mechanical mathematicians, experts: Russian of group

advantages of an overhead monorail line. Schilovsky assembled a a assembled Schilovsky line. monorail overhead an of advantages trouble.

the side supports, or "sprags," whenever the gyroscope got into into got gyroscope the whenever "sprags," or supports, side the having only limited financial means, decided to explore the the explore to decided means, financial limited only having

again for additional work. An automatic device was added to lower lower to added was device automatic An work. additional for again government, faced with a huge and undeveloped country and and country undeveloped and huge a with faced government,

wheel. Failure of the gyroscope in January put the car in the shop shop the in car the put January in gyroscope the of Failure wheel. called Pushkin), a suburb some 15 miles distant. The Bolshevik Bolshevik The distant. miles 15 some suburb a Pushkin), called

modifications to the controls and the speeding up of the gyroscope gyroscope the of up speeding the and controls the to modifications monorail system to connect Petrograd and Tzarskoe Selo (later (later Selo Tzarskoe and Petrograd connect to system monorail

He revealed that 50 engineers and scientists were working on a a on working were scientists and engineers 50 that revealed He horizontal position. Additional testing early in 1914 resulted in minor minor in resulted 1914 in early testing Additional position. horizontal

test run, the front fork mount was changed to a more nearly nearly more a to changed was mount fork front the run, test

Dunlop. The finished car was ready in November of 1913. After a a After 1913. of November in ready was car finished The Dunlop.

attended.

and its tires (of a size identified as 915 x 100) were supplied by by supplied were 100) x 915 as identified size a (of tires its and

the Gyroscope." The "big guns" of British physical science science physical British of guns" "big The Gyroscope." the

The Schilovsky car's wire wheels were made by Rudge by made were wheels wire car's Schilovsky The Whitworth, Whitworth, -

presentation was entitled "A Demonstration of Some Applications of of Applications Some of Demonstration "A entitled was presentation

inch wheelbase of the 2007 Lincoln Town Car. Car. Town Lincoln 2007 the of wheelbase inch - 124 the than longer

"Chairman of the Gyroscopic Society of Petrograd." His His Petrograd." of Society Gyroscopic the of "Chairman

3/4 inches. This made it more than three feet feet three than more it made This inches. 3/4 - 158 of wheelbase

Society at the Imperial College of Science. Schilovsky was listed as as listed was Schilovsky Science. of College Imperial the at Society

Not only was Schilovsky's vehicle heavy, it was huge, with a a with huge, was it heavy, vehicle Schilovsky's was only Not

invited to lecture to the November 24th meeting of the Physical Physical the of meeting 24th November the to lecture to invited

Schilovsky survived and was back in London in 1922. He was was He 1922. in London in back was and survived Schilovsky

Despite the wrenching upheaval of the Bolshevik revolution, revolution, Bolshevik the of upheaval wrenching the Despite

Postwar Activities Postwar

completely from newspapers and from engineering literature. engineering from and newspapers from completely

references to either his Gyrocar or monorail disappeared disappeared monorail or Gyrocar his either to references

war years in the Wolseley plant. Schilovsky's name and and name Schilovsky's plant. Wolseley the in years war

Russia, but the First World War intervened. The car spent the the spent car The intervened. War World First the but Russia,

may have intended to pick up his car or to have it shipped to to shipped it have to or car his up pick to intended have may

was pleased with the Wolseley Company's work on the car. He He car. the on work Company's Wolseley the with pleased was

new design was expected to be a much lighter car. Schilovsky Schilovsky car. lighter much a be to expected was design new

instead of the pendulums used to control the gyroscope. The The gyroscope. the control to used pendulums the of instead

another Schilovsky car would be constructed with sliding gears gears sliding with constructed be would car Schilovsky another

presumptuously "The Times of Automobilism," reported that that reported Automobilism," of Times "The presumptuously

which called itself somewhat somewhat itself called which Journal, Motor - Auto The

automobiles.

that they had their hands full manufacturing conventional conventional manufacturing full hands their had they that pounds. 500 additional

airport for British carmakers Austin, Morris and Rover, who decided decided who Rover, and Morris Austin, carmakers British for airport an weighed fittings or trim without body the and pounds, 5,300 than

promoted. Brennan's model car was demonstrated at Farnborough Farnborough at demonstrated was car model Brennan's promoted. more at scales the tipped alone chassis the that fact the by shown

for use in warfare, a purpose for which the Shilovsky car had been been had car Shilovsky the which for purpose a warfare, in use for is motorcycle overgrown mere no was Gyrocar the That installed.

then in his 70s, touted the advantages of a two a of advantages the touted 70s, his in then tested been had equipment electrical the and specifications wheeled gyro car car gyro wheeled -

undeveloped countries having poor roads. In 1929, Brennan, by by Brennan, 1929, In roads. poor having countries undeveloped to completed was car GY the of chassis the 1913, of July

an important factor in in factor important an -- steer to path best the choose to By plant. the to visitor frequent a then by Schilovsky, of presence

reduced number but because it was easy for the driver of a Gyrocar Gyrocar a of driver the for easy was it because but number reduced the in tested were motor electric and generator the December

in the cost of tires would be achieved, not only because of their their of because only not achieved, be would tires of cost the in In November. early in deceleration and acceleration for tested was

displacements of ordinary motor cars." He also noted that a saving saving a that noted also He cars." motor ordinary of displacements -- gyroscope the of heart the flywheel, pound - 780 a -- gyrostat The

fully appreciate the luxury of travel in the absence of lateral lateral of absence the in travel of luxury the appreciate fully

remarked to the press "one has to ride in such a vehicle in order to to order in vehicle a such in ride to has "one press the to remarked gyrostat. the rotated

9 10 Mechanics, whom he had met at the Loughborough meeting. It may Stradivarius violin and a set of gold tableware. Yet, friends recalled have been a case of intellectual cross-pollination; later, Ross's that they never complained about their lot. 1931 Ph.D. thesis was entitled The Gyroscopic Stabilization of Land Vehicles. Over the years, Dr. Schilovsky's Gyrocar had been sitting in a corner of the Wolseley factory, the subject of occasional curiosity Published by the respected London firm of E. and F.N. Spon, about its origin and the fate of its creator. The two-wheeled car Schilovsky's book, The Gyroscope: Its Practical Construction and managed to survive the spectacular 1926 bankruptcy that put the Application, appeared in 1924. It was considered sufficiently Wolseley Company into the hands of William Morris's car company, authoritative to merit republication by Spon in 1938 with no perhaps best known for its MG sports car. changes to the text. In his book, Schilovsky described his Gyrocar and offered as frank an appraisal as any inventor ever gave of the shortcomings of a brainchild: "But as the eccentricity of the gyroscope was only sufficient for a smooth curve in the direction of spin of the gyroscope, no rounding of sharp curves was possible to the left." Schilovsky added that he had already drawn up the necessary patent specifications to rectify this difficulty. Money being in short supply, however, an improved Gyrocar was never built.

Aircraft Instruments Despite the "white elephant" outcome of his Gyrocar project, Schilovsky maintained an interest in gyroscopes. His book led to a meeting with Frederick Handley Page, famous British builder of giant aircraft, later knighted by King George in 1942. For Handley Page, Schilovsky designed the first of his Orthoscopes, the original turn and bank indicator for aircraft.

Turn and bank indicators are essentially two separate instruments. The turn indicator shows rotation about the vertical axis. It incorporates a small gyroscope that develops a torque when the Consigned to the Grave aircraft turns. This torque controls a pointer that shows the pilot the As for the Gyrocar, in 1930 Wolseley decided to dispose of the turning rate in degrees per unit of time. The bank indicator shows unwieldy Schilovsky 1912 vehicle. Instead of turning it over to a rotation about the longitudinal axis and is the much simpler scrap metal dealer, a huge hole was dug and the car was instrument of the two. It consists of a U-shaped glass tube filled unceremoniously dumped in and buried. This should have been the with a damping liquid in which a small steel ball rolls. When the end of the story. The factory freight yard was gradually extended, plane is horizontal, the ball is at the bottom. As the plane banks, with railroad tracks and puffing locomotives covering the grave of gravity keeps the ball at the lowest point as the tube rotates from the two-wheeled oddity. side to side.

G. H. Cooke, whose improvements included a simplification of the In 1938, in one of those curious flip-flops of corporate policy that wiring and the addition of a small light bulb behind two movable dot the history of technology, the decision was made to dig up the screens, one red, and the other green, later introduced Gyrocar. Rail traffic was halted and tracks were moved. The modifications into the Schilovsky Orthoscope. In the static position, monster carcass was located, uncovered and hauled up by a crane. these screens blocked passage of light. Banking the aircraft to the Chassis and running gear--in a remarkable state of preservation left exposed the red screen, while banking to the right exposed the despite their eight-year burial--were restored, and the car was green screen. accorded a place of honor in the company's museum.

Schilovsky later worked with Vickers-Armstrongs, Ltd., where he According to a Wolseley factory legend, Schilovsky, now an old developed navigational gyroscopes for torpedoes at the Royal man, visited the factory museum one day to gaze once more at his Navy's base at Devonport. He also assisted in the design and invention. All the familiar faces he had known at the plant were construction of the Sperry gyroscopic stabilizers installed in 1932 in gone. Even its output was different, for it was engaged in war the Italian Line's Conte di Savoia. The sleek and lovely vessel, the production, and the plant's buildings had been camouflaged to first gyro-stabilized vessel to cross the Atlantic, displaced 45,502 resemble a housing development. The old man stood looking at the gross tons, was 815 feet long and had a beam of 96 feet. As one of car for a long time, his tall figure stooped by age. Then he left, this the first large vessels to be equipped with gyrostabilizers, the roll of time never to return. this ship in heavy seas was claimed to be limited to 3 degrees. Passengers reported that they still got seasick. Her maiden voyage The Gyrocar miraculously survived the destruction of the war. For a to New York began on November 30, 1932. Regrettably, she had a time it was hidden when a German invasion was feared after the too-short life. After brief wartime service as a troop transport, she fall of France. Having been saved from repeated wartime scrap was sunk by Allied bombing planes in the Adriatic near Venice. drives that swallowed British fences, railings, lampposts and other After the burned-out hulk was raised in 1945, plans fell through for objects of iron or steel, the now-venerable relic emerged unscathed refurbishing the ship to carry Italian emigrants to South America. from the heavy German air raids that badly damaged the factory. She was broken up for scrap in 1950. Ironically, in 1948--in another unpredictable and totally indefensible Following the ship project, Schilovsky returned to designing turnabout in corporate thinking--someone in the Wolseley improved turn-and-bank indicators. His new instrument was small, organization gave the stupid order to destroy the Gyrocar. The lightweight and quick starting--the gyroscope was powered by the unusual vehicle, which had literally come back from the grave, was aircraft's slipstream--and had a constant speed. In 1937, he was broken up and sold as scrap metal. The reason offered to justify its working on a project to develop a directional gyrocompass for destruction was ludicrous: "It was hard to store. It always had to armored vehicles. The Vickers Group magazine Vickers lean against something." News published an amusing cartoon in the May 1937 issue. It showed Schilovsky in a black hat and fur-collared coat conducting a Fortunately, Schilovsky lived long enough to witness the ultimate test of one of his gyroscopic instruments. He left Vickers in 1940 technological triumph of the gyroscope. The German vengeance and moved to Surbiton, a London suburb, where he continued his weapons--V-1 and V-2 rockets that rained down on England in research in his own workshop. 1943 and 1944--were gyroscopically guided. Gyroscopes are also at the heart of the inertial guidance systems of today's spacecraft. In their declining years, Dr. and Mrs. Schilovsky lived in Holmer Dr. Peter Schilovsky died in 1955, still single-mindedly believing in Park in Hereford, with Lady Wood, a friend. He would jokingly tell gyroscopes and monorails, still hoping to convince the British friends, "In Russia I used to devote half my time to governing the Admiralty to adopt his gyroscopic ship stabilizer. It would be nice to state and half my time to science; now I devote all my time to think he passed away without ever learning of the ignominious fate science." The Schilovskys had lost almost everything in the of his Gyrocar. Bolshevik Revolution and its aftermath, managing to salvage only a 10

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” of the loudest voices complaining to the MoT was a certain Mr Herbert Austin. Herbert Mr certain a was MoT the to complaining voices loudest the of

for Morris in how not to try to cut costs. The factory stock of Robots was reportedly buried in the factory yard. Incidentall yard. factory the in buried reportedly was Robots of stock factory The costs. cut to try to not how in Morris for it seems that one one that seems it y,

the Ministry of Transport received so many complaints about them that they banned The Robot before the end of the year. A cos A year. the of end the before Robot The banned they that them about complaints many so received Transport of Ministry the lesson lesson tly

Confused? So were the majority of people when Morris introduced them in 1933. So much so, that that so, much So 1933. in them introduced Morris when people of majority the were So Confused?

on. straight going intended you

be that it showed on both sides to indicate that that indicate to sides both on showed it that be

to debate but the general consensus seems to to seems consensus general the but debate to

pass on that side. The amber seems to be open open be to seems amber The side. that on pass

on the right hand side indicating it was safe to to safe was it indicating side hand right the on

side would show, whilst the green would show show would green the whilst show, would side

that if you were turning left the red light on that that on light red the left turning were you if that

to the windscreen pillars. It seems the idea was was idea the seems It pillars. windscreen the to

red lenses which were fitted on stalks attached attached stalks on fitted were which lenses red

of traffic lights with flashing green, amber and and amber green, flashing with lights traffic of

indicator. The Robot was essentially a small set set small a essentially was Robot The indicator.

The result was the Wilcot Robot direction direction Robot Wilcot the was result The

indicator

Wilcot Robot Robot Wilcot

system. alternative

about £3.5 million today), in developing an an developing in today), million £3.5 about

pay the royalty that he invested £50.000 (worth (worth £50.000 invested he that royalty the pay

car, which was fine by Lucas but far from fine with William Morris, who was so reluctant to to reluctant so was who Morris, William with fine from far but Lucas by fine was which car,

manufacturer incorporating the trafficators in his cars had to pay Lucas a royalty of 2.5d per per 2.5d of royalty a Lucas pay to had cars his in trafficators the incorporating manufacturer

produce and market the Rhul and Neuman design. This licence meant that every every that meant licence This design. Neuman and Rhul the market and produce

known electrical equipment company, acquired the licence to to licence the acquired company, equipment electrical known - well the Lucas, Britain, In

railway arm is that it is halved down its length so as to fit flush with the vehicle the with flush fit to as so length its down halved is it that is arm railway exterior. s ’

arm used by the Royal Bavarian Railway beginning in 1890. The only difference from the the from difference only The 1890. in beginning Railway Bavarian Royal the by used arm

The shape of the trafficator arm is closely based upon the shape of the semaphore signal signal semaphore the of shape the upon based closely is arm trafficator the of shape The

until the introduction of flashing indicator lamps. Bosch produced several variations of it. of variations several produced Bosch lamps. indicator flashing of introduction the until

s bodywork), became the standard direction indicator up up indicator direction standard the became bodywork), s ’ car the in incorporated be to (soon

contained unit which could be attached to any car car any to attached be could which unit contained - self a originally design, This Germany. semaphores external Bosch

automatically switched light was patented in 1927 by Max Rhul and Ernst Neuman, in in Neuman, Ernst and Rhul Max by 1927 in patented was light switched automatically

France in 1923, and the first combining both solenoid operation and an internal internal an and operation solenoid both combining first the and 1923, in France

Boisson, who used a linear solenoid in 1923. The first solenoid operated ones came out of of out came ones operated solenoid first The 1923. in solenoid linear a used who Boisson,

This system was superseded by two French inventors, Gustave Deneef and Maurice Maurice and Deneef Gustave inventors, French two by superseded was system This

drive. motor

operation came in 1918 when the Naillik Motor Signal Company of Boston added electric electric added Boston of Company Signal Motor Naillik the when 1918 in came operation

arms, that turned on as they extended, but operation was still by a cable system. Electric Electric system. cable a by still was operation but extended, they as on turned that arms,

using a rubber bulb and tubing. In 1908, Alfredo Barrachini in Rome added electric lights inside the the inside lights electric added Rome in Barrachini Alfredo 1908, In tubing. and bulb rubber a using

semaphore type arms which were raised by means of levers, cables and pulleys, or pneumatically, pneumatically, or pulleys, and cables levers, of means by raised were which arms type semaphore

s had almost all been simple simple been all almost had s 1900’ early the in appeared which indicators direction early The

way. under truly and well was indicator direction

drivers before it was too late for them to react to it. So, the race to develop a good remotely operated operated remotely good a develop to race the So, it. to react to them for late too was it before drivers

window, which meant you had to think well ahead if your hand signal was going to be seen by other other by seen be to going was signal hand your if ahead well think to had you meant which window,

sides, but as cars developed into the familiar saloon form, giving hand signals meant first opening the the opening first meant signals hand giving form, saloon familiar the into developed cars as but sides,

t a problem when almost all cars were either open or merely had a roof, and open open and roof, a had merely or open either were cars all almost when problem a t ’ wasn This signals.

down or stop, your only means of showing your intentions to other road users was by the use of hand hand of use the by was users road other to intentions your showing of means only your stop, or down

“ ell, in the early days of motoring if you wanted to change direction, turn into a side road, slow slow road, side a into turn direction, change to wanted you if motoring of days early the in ell, - We

begin... you lunch, before

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before. one seen never have who rallies, and shows

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O Club, Oxford & Cowley Club. Cowley & Oxford Club, O M & 6/80 the of Editor Francis, Bob and 1985” before built Vehicles British of “Enthusiasts of Allison Brian both to thanks with

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14 pressure steam and for mobile steam engines, his “Pen-y-Darren locomotive won a wager in 1802 by carting 10 tons of iron 9.75 miles and in 1803 he successfully drove a steam carriage in London with wooden wheels and tiller steering. In “Wheels” from the LIFE SCIENCE LIBRARY Trevithick is described

as “a man of great powers of mind but who would often run wild from want of calculations.” It further said “In 1801 Trevithick completed his first steam powered road carriage which he tested over the Christmas week. On 28th December, with a cluster of friends, Trevithick took off in the machine, went up a hill then broke down. “The carriage was forced under some shelter” (?part of a house), reported one witness, “and the parties adjourned to the hotel and comforted their hearts with a roast goose and proper drinks when, forgetful of the engine, its water boiled away, the iron became red hot, and nothing that was combustible remained, either of the engine, or the house.” Trevithick ran foul of Boulton & Watt’s patents, Newcomen had to forge an alliance with Savery even though Savery’s “engine” had no piston—and many years later the Wright brothers sought legal process against Glen Curtis—improvements are not always appreciated. 16 LETTER TO THE EDITOR Edwards River, 5 kilometres away and took to the bush. Despite a massive manhunt he was not located until the 19th July, 1980 at a Dear John, property in the Kyalite District. He admitted his guilt, and appeared before Parramatta Supreme Court charged with the murder. He The May Hornet just to hand, thanks for another interesting edition. was sentenced to life imprisonment. Leonie eventually got her I enjoyed the “Life and Times” articles by you and by Richard 15/60 back. By that time, she had bought a more modern car for Graham. Good to understand a bit about “what makes the other transport and sold the 15/60 to my good friend Bill Stavely, who bloke tick,” so to speak. now enters the tale. Bill and I had met on a Wolseley Car Club First off, thanks to Graham Keys and John Mallia for the kind words (fuel) economy run some years before. Economy runs were fairly regarding the State Rally to be held in Hamilton (Friday 3rd popular with car clubs back then. As far as I can recall, this one September to Monday 6th September inclusive). Dennis Belcher started at a BP service station in Toorak Road and finished at has masterminded this event and has done all the planning for it – Narbethong for lunch. Bill’s car was a black 6/80 registered WJ even during his period of illness, he was still planning and 958. My 14/60s were in various states of repair at the time and my confirming details. A true measure of his dedication to the task at 18/85 had a blown gearbox, so I took my everyday 24/80 (JHF 698) hand! It is my pleasure now to assist him as his 2IC. A block on that run. Some time later, as an undergraduate, I was about to booking has been secured at the Bandicoot motel where rooms are leave Monash University for the day when a black 6/80 pulled up being held for us (26 rooms in all). After discussions with Dennis I behind me in the carpark – it was Bill. Turned out he was also an will visit the Grangeburn Motel, just down the road from the undergraduate there. A wonderful friendship formed which has Bandicoot, with the aim of securing a holding booking for an extra continued to this day, though Bill has lived in England for nearly 30 15 rooms in case entries exceed expectations and we need to cater years. Email is a great thing these days for contact and saves a lot for overflow. of letter writing. Angela was also an undergraduate; she and Bill formed a friendship which eventually resulted in marriage. I was kindly invited to lunch by Dennis and Rosemary Belcher last week while Dennis was home and before he was to go back to Back to the 15/60. Leonie moved on. Bill used the 15/60 as well as hospital for some further work. I am pleased to report that both he retaining his 6/80. One day, Bill and I were in Sandringham in the and Rosemary were in excellent spirits. Incidentally, Rosemary’s 15/60 and had to get back to his father’s place in Hawthorn. Just tomato and herb soup and lovely homemade sausage rolls were a after leaving Sandringham, the car expired. It had a “pusher” SU real treat! fuel pump mounted in the boot. I have no idea if this was standard or not on the 15/60 but that was the set up on Bill’s car. We opened After lunch, Dennis and I discussed further rally details and have the boot, gave it a thump, it began to tick again, and the engine divided a few tasks between us. I think the rally will be an excellent started. A bit further up the road, in the traffic, it expired again. As I mix of seeing a few sights around the area whilst incorporating time had the shorter legs, it then became my job to complete the journey to relax and socialize, and to look around the town as well. Some of riding in the boot - boot lid propped open, thumping the petrol pump the local sights planned are Nigretta Falls and Wannon Falls which every time the engine began to splutter. We got back to Hawthorn, are spectacular if they are flowing well, and visits to Campe’s Motor but I can attest to the fact that a 15/60 boot does not make for a Museum (well worth seeing) as is the Ansett Museum. Hamilton is comfortable journey. Imagine trying to perform such an act these where Reg Ansett started his business. The Art Gallery here is also days….. on the agenda. Incidentally, later on there was another Wolseley theft from Paxton Changing tack, I was interested to see the two tone grey 15/60 Street (do car thieves have a special penchant for Wolseleys?)– advertized in the classified section of the latest Hornet. The colour this time Bill’s 6/80 had gone. Like Leonie, he got up one morning, scheme of the car brought back memories long forgotten. a Sunday morning in this case, and his car wasn’t there. He In my undergraduate days in the 1970s, I met a girl at Monash by telephoned with the news. I joined him and we began to search the name of Angela. She shared a substantial two bedroom flat with locally just in case – we were in luck. The 6/80 had been another girl named Leonie, in Paxton Street, Malvern. Leonie abandoned not far away, in a lane next to Radio Parts in owned a 15/60 in the same colour scheme as the one advertised in Dandenong Road, Carnegie. The gear linkages on Bill’s car were The Hornet. Leonie’s 15/60 used to be parked in Paxton Street very worn, and a recent breakage in the column change outside the block of flats when not in use. One morning over the mechanism meant that gear selection positions could occur in first cup of coffee for the day, Leonie looked out the window to find random and unexpected places - requiring a lot of trial and error to that the 15/60 had disappeared. She reported the car stolen to the get any particular gear. The car very difficult to drive until it was police. Nothing much happened until a short while later when fixed. I couldn’t drive it at all like this, but Bill managed somehow for Leonie and Angela were watching the TV news. There was an a short while. As a result of this problem, we surmised that the excerpt about what became known as “the Kyalite murder” in NSW thieves probably thought “stuff this!” and abandoned the car in the – and there, clearly on the screen, was Leonie’s missing 15/60 – lane. which had been stolen by the murderer as it turned out! I have no photo of the 15/60 mentioned above, but perhaps you Here is an excerpt from the internet about the murder: might like to see this photo of our 6/80s at the time. Bill’s is WJ 958 and mine BEO 875 (originally registered WD 906). Taken in At about 11.30am on Friday, 13th July, 1979 Detective Lane Malvern, 1981. That’s Bill with the cars. accompanied David Bernard Chapman, an 18 year old car theft suspect, to a disused bus parked in a camp site at Kyalite, Kind Southern New South Wales. Chapman had been living there for a regards, short time, and told the Detective he had a receipt amongst his Warrick possessions which would exonerate him of the theft. Whilst Lane Hansted. searched the bus Chapman took a .22 calibre rifle and shot the Detective in the head. The policeman fell to the floor, and Chapman Member #67 then walked up and again shot him in the head. He then dragged the corpse to a nearby sullage pit, where he dumped it, before making his escape in the police car, in company with his 17 year old girlfriend Kerryn Anne Bonser. He later dumped the car in the 16

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17 18 Salsbury-Bleriot - the first successful motoring trials in Australia, such as the 1905 Sydney to Melbourne Dunlop Reliability Trial, were conducted in daylight hours. Imagine automobile headlamp By Gordon Berg the challenges facing Mrs Thomson in her 6hp Wolseley if it had included night sections! Henry Salsbury's father John Edward Recently I had a self generating acetylene headlamp restored for Salsbury (born in 1846) was the son of Charles Salsbury who had my 1904 Wolseley 6hp. I had obtained the lamp many years ago founded the Salsbury Lamp Company in 1806. It would remain a and it was branded 'Salsbury-Flario.' These lamps, and the slightly earlier 'Salsbury-Bleriot' lamps, were often used on the horizontal-engined Wolseleys as well as several other makes in the pre 1905 era. I had little knowledge about the lamps so decided to seek out more information.

John Edward Salsbury (Shire Albums) Louis Blériot (Wikipedia) é

family controlled Company for several generations of Salsburys. Henry collaborated with Louis Blériot of Paris (later of aviation fame) to develop an acetylene lamp and produced the 'Salsbury- Bleriot' lamp in 1899. These were assembled in London and distributed by Salsbury's depots throughout Europe. Later the lamps were branded 'Salsbury-Flario' but were essentially the same design. Soon other manufacturers such as Lucas rose to prominence. The construction of the lamp is illustrated in the accompanying photos. The acetylene generator with carbide and water

Salsbury-Flario lamp and manufacturer's name plate My first source, and indeed about the only detailed source of information I could find, was a small booklet, Shire Album #185 - 'Early Vehicle Lighting' written by P.W. Card in 1987. This mentions that Henry Salsbury of Long Acre, London was one of the most successful pioneers in the development of acetylene motor lamps. At first this seemed surprising as I thought horse drawn carriage compartments sits in a tall rectangular box which could be removed lamps developed in prior eras would surely have been readily from the lamp via the hinged lid for refilling. Acetylene gas was adaptable to automobiles. However thinking more about it, a piped from the generator to the rear of the lamp and then to the headlamp placed behind the horse(s) on the front of a horse drawn twin burners in the front compartment by a series of brass and carriage would have mainly illuminated the horse's 'derrière', rubber tubes. A chimney above the front burner and reflector sometimes not a pretty sight, and would probably do little in lighting compartment exhausted the burnt gas. A hinged bezel with lens, the way for the driver. Oil and candle powered lamps mounted at which was opened to light the lamp, completed the main the sides were used mainly to allow others to be aware of the construction. Contemporary and recent photos of cars shown with carriage at night. So the early nocturnal motorist was only aided by these lamps show some variations in construction and finish such moonlight and other unsatisfactory sources of light to negotiate as polished brass and various combinations of black paint and their way along mostly very poor roads. I can understand why early nickel plating. There also appears to be several sizes of the lamps 18

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fashion. in again were lamps plated nickel when

headlamps Flario - some very early veteran cars than later veterans until the mid teens teens mid the until veterans later than cars veteran early very some

Bleriot and Salsbury and Bleriot was more common on on common more was

- Salsbury with fitted plating. Nickel plating plating Nickel plating.

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obtained so was was so obtained

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me' of early veteran headlamps and and headlamps veteran early of me' è cr la de me è 'cr the was and construction

burner for the lamp. He was informed that the pair of lamps for sale sale for lamps of pair the that informed was He lamp. the for burner brass of is It kg.

He asked the seller if he could advise him what was the correct correct the was what him advise could he if seller the asked He 7 over weighs carbide

restoring my lamp Greg Smith found a pair for sale on Pre on sale for pair a found Smith Greg lamp my restoring or water without War car. car. War -

factor is that to purchase these lamps today is difficult. When When difficult. is today lamps these purchase to that is factor and tall 35cm about

performance. So I am glad I only had to find one lamp. The other other The lamp. one find to had only I glad am I So performance. is lamp the diameter,

weight and probably further reduce a 6hp Wolseley's modest modest Wolseley's 6hp a reduce further probably and weight in cm 18 approximately

lamps with water and carbide would have added nearlly 20 kg of of kg 20 nearlly added have would carbide and water with lamps is lens The locomotive.

racers and commercial vehicles one or two lamps were chosen. Two Two chosen. were lamps two or one vehicles commercial and racers small a on place

larger 2 cylinder Wolseleys, the even larger 4 cylinder Wolseley Wolseley cylinder 4 larger even the Wolseleys, cylinder 2 larger of out look wouldn't

single cylinder Wolseleys usually only one lamp was fitted. On the the On fitted. was lamp one only usually Wolseleys cylinder single probably and large

easily removed from the cars when not required. On the smaller smaller the On required. not when cars the from removed easily is lamp My available.

19 20 the following interesting comments by Andrew English about At the beginning of the last century, the automotive lighting industry changes in headlamp technology (www.automotivedesign.eu.com): suffered similar financial problems, and it was the heavy investment and technical developments by giants such as Lucas for its King of They used to call it following the puddle, as drivers slowly picked the Road range of lamps that lit the path to future. Could it be that their way along darkened country roads, behind a watery pool of this is history repeating itself? light cast, invariably, by Lucas 'Prince of Darkness' headlamps. He also quotes Rainer Neumann from the lighting supplier Visten: Trouble is, the current generation of LED headlamps are like works of art, not dissimilar to the very first 1899 Salsbury-Bleriot acetylene lamps. We are like artists, he says, designing each headlamp from scratch. At Bentley for example the individual investment is huge, with over 200 parts to assemble for each lamp....each lamp is like a Rolex version of the wrist watch.

The lamps were advertised in various catalogues and publications of the day and some examples are reproduced here. Some of their marketing claims show that, even then, firms were willing to stretch their claims well beyond the truth. Much like a lot of advertising today you might say - but at least in the case of the Salsbury lamps the claims could be easily recognised as unbelievable.

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21 22 WHERE DID IT ALL START? Jeff Schaefer 4th in 1986 at Merimbula, SW The first Wolseley automobile was built by In the early sixties Robert Sterndale 5th in 1988 at Walgett, NSW. Herbert Austin, Works Manager of the Burrows, a Cambridge solicitor, formed an 6th in 1990 at Leeton, NSW Wolseley Sheep Shearing Company. informal Vintage Wolseley Club with a few Austin based it on the French Leon Bollee friends and they started recording details of 7th in 1992 at Mildura, Vic and at Birdwood, Voiturette tricar. The second Austin known pre 1939 Wolseleys. SA (Good old SA) designed Wolseley appeared at the In September 1964 Terence M. Clements, 8th in 1994 at Maroochydore, Qld National Cycle Exhibition in December a manager in BMC wrote a letter to the “Old 1896. It resembled a three wheel invalid 9th in 1995 at Forbes, NSW. Motor Magazine” inviting interested persons chair with back to back seating. Frederick Centenary of “Wolseley” to join him in forming a Wolseley Owners York Wolseley had retired from the Club and compiling a Register of Veteran, 10th in 1997 at Nowra, NSW Company in 1895 and died on the 8th Edwardian, Vintage and Pre-war January 1899. Austin’s next design was a 11th in 1999 at Bright, Vic Wolseleys. Terry advised that as BMC had four wheeler still with a horizontal single rediscovered the Wolseley sales records 12th in 2001 at Toowoomba, Qld. cylinder engine but a steering wheel instead from 1895 to 1930 and BMC were keen to of a tiller. th find a safe and appropriate home for them. 13 in 2003 at Muswellbrook, NSW John Davenport Siddley became the th This resulted in a meeting on the 23rd 14 in 2005 at Lakes Entrance, Vic October1964 at 15th In 2007 in Gympie, Qld. Strafford Court th Hotel, London 16 in 2009 at Queanbeyan, ACT. attended by 9 17th in 2011 at Ballarat, Vic interested persons th where it was agreed 18 in 2013 at Ipswich, Qld. to form the “Vintage 19th in 2015 at Corowa, NSW. Wolseley Club”. th Officers were 20 in 2017 at Bendigo, Vic. elected, John Welch 21st in 2019 at Bermagui, NSW. as Chairman, Terry nd Clements as 22 in 2021 at Adelaide, SA (cancelled Secretary and due to Covid-19 Pandemic) Robert Burrows as Treasurer. The name was changed to Jeff Schaefer (Member #1464) become “The Wolseley Register “with the aim to record all surviving 1905 Wolseley I40 HP Horizontal 6 cylinder Railway Engine pre-war Wolseleys.

General Manager in 1905, and changed to vertical cylinder engines with a range from The date limit for eligible cars was formally small shaft driven twins up to 15.7litre extended to 1939; in 1970 it was extended racing cars. to 1948 but ONLY to cars with pre-war characteristics. In 1973 this was extended The first six cylinder engines were built in to 1956and finally in 1982 it was agreed to 1907. embrace all Wolseley badged vehicles as The Company produced a range of cars, the last cars had been built-in 1975. As trucks, aero and farm engines as well as Nuffield exported their vehicles around the the sheep shearing equipment but for a world so did Enthusiast clubs spring up, variety of reasons they were not making a promoting and preserving the breed? profit and in 1926 the Receivers declared In Australia we have the Wolseley Car the Company bankrupt. Club of Victoria, founded on 15th March 1975 by Commander Peter Richardson, the Wolseley Car Club of NSW founded in July William Morris purchased the motor part of 1978, the Wolseley Car Club of the company under his personal ownership Queensland and the Wolseley Car Club, NZ in 1927 and titled it “Wolseley Motors 1927”. William Richard Morris was created The British Wolseley Register organises an a Baronet of Nuffield in the County of Annual Rally. Oxford in 1929. Nuffield is the village, This idea was taken up by John & Barbara where WRM was born, in Oxfordshire Manns of the Victorian WCC and they England. organised first one in Australia which was William Morris sold Wolseley Motors 1927 held in 1980 at Wagga Wagga NSW. to his new Nuffield Organisation in 1935 The 2nd was held in 1982 at Tumut, NSW The Wolseley Hornet Special as displayed at where it joined the Morris, MG and Riley rd the British & European Car Show by the late marques 3 in 1984 at Canberra, ACT Richard Snedden back in Flemington days. 22

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1928. in

meet expectations production stopped stopped production expectations meet

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readily take to buying cars made by by made cars buying to take readily

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cars similar to the Morris Cowley and and Cowley Morris the to similar cars

the factory at Le Mans so as to make make to as so Mans Le at factory the

cessful in their second attempt to buy buy to attempt second their in cessful

In 1925, Morris Motors Ltd was suc- was Ltd Motors Morris 1925, In

Bollee Leon - Morris

cylinder six 3918cc a by 1922 in and

tion resumed with the 2616cc type H H type 2616cc the with resumed tion

guns, with a few cars. Post war produc- war Post cars. few a with guns,

tions making ammunition and machine machine and ammunition making tions

and during W.W.1 continued opera- continued W.W.1 during and

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Paris. in 1913 December

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and never fully recovered, this and a a and this recovered, fully never and

1911 he was injured in a flying accident accident flying a in injured was he 1911

close friend of Wilbur Wright but in in but Wright Wilbur of friend close

Leon was interested in aviation and a a and aviation in interested was Leon

models.

were building 600 cars a year of nine nine of year a cars 600 building were

der models were added. By 1911 they they 1911 By added. were models der

in 1903, built a factory at Le Mans and built two four cylinder models, of 4.6 and 8 litres and in 1907 six cylin- six 1907 in and litres 8 and 4.6 of models, cylinder four two built and Mans Le at factory a built 1903, in Automobiles Bollee Leon

suspension. independent had that car wheel four his introduced Leon 1899

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two finish for Bollee cars. cars. Bollee for finish two – one a saw Act Flag Red the of repeal the celebrate to 1896 November in, Run Brighton to London first The

sold. were hundred several and Diligeon & Hurtu by Leon for built were

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al at the Paris Exhibition. This attracted the attention of Thomas Alvin Edison who offered to hire him but he declined. declined. he but him hire to offered who Edison Alvin Thomas of attention the attracted This Exhibition. Paris the at al

ther with the manufacture of the bells, the Calculating Board, The Arithmographe and the Direct Multiplier which in 1889 won won 1889 in which Multiplier Direct the and Arithmographe The Board, Calculating the bells, the of manufacture the with ther old Med- old G a

a pedal bicycle and in 1887 he started work on calculating machines to assist his fa- his assist to machines calculating on work started he 1887 in and bicycle pedal a ” Natique Velocipede “ a built age of 14years at Leon

1715. since Founders Bell been had family Bollee The

mention. a get to seem not does mother his vehicles,

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Register.??

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1962 Wolseley 24/80 manual located in San Remo, Victoria. Engine and gearbox in very good condition. Over $10,000 spent on parts, including: new suspension including shockers, all brake components including master cylinder, radiator, starter motor, generator; new hoses and rubbers; Lucas headlights, chrome, wood restored, new front windscreen and front and back windscreen rubbers; new door, bonnet and boot rubbers; fully repaired blue vinyl seats and door cards, new carpets, new dash skin; all new sound proofing fitted; all rust cut out and sealed; underside, engine bay, door jams, boot interior re-painted; new exhaust and stainless steel muffler; new tyres. Many smaller parts replaced/ repaired. Exterior original grey paint in good condition. Owner: Geoffrey (and Jean) Denning current committee members. $12,750 0433677017 — Must sell due to relocation and storage space.

Wolseley 24/80 auto $10,000 for Club members but $11000 on Gumtree) Full history kept of services, parts (even light globes). Front & rear seats recovered in vinyl except rear squab, washer replaced with electric one but other wise totally original. On Club plates which I am obliged to return.

Rick Walker (Horsham) 0428824113

67057 original miles

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