Newsletter of THE PALMERSTON NORTH MODEL ENGINEERING CLUB INC Managers of the “MARRINER RESERVE RAILWAY” Please address all correspondence to :- 22b Haydon St, Palmerston North.
PRESIDENT SECRETARY TRACK CONVENOR EDITOR Chris Rogers Murray Bold Richard Lockett Doug Chambers October 2006 (06) 356-1759 (06) 355-7000 (06) 323-0948 (06) 354-9379 No 317 PNMEC Home Page www.pnmec.org.nz Email:- [email protected]
TRACK RUNNING T This is held on the FIRST and THIRD Sunday of each month, from 1 pm to 4 pm Summer and 1 pm to 3 pm during the Winter. All club members are welcome to attend and help out with loco coaling, watering and passenger marshalling - none of the tasks being at all onerous.
H Visiting club members are always welcome at the track, at the monthly meeting, or if just visiting and wishing to make contact with members, please phone one of the above office bearers.
E Sender:- PNMEC Place 22b Haydon St, stamp Palmerston North here G E N
E This Months Featured Model R A T O R - 2 - We will meet there @ 7:30pm. REPORT on the SEPTEMBER MEETING. NOTE As this is a private collection there is a charge of $5.00 per person. The cost also includes John Tweedie had organised a tour of a work- a cuppa etc. shop at, Massey University. The workshop makes scientific equipment for various research departments on the Campus. COMING EVENTS The workshop is known as the Institute of Fun- damental Sciences Workshop and two of their Mid Week Run at staff had come back for the evening to explain what they make and why. Marriner Reserve Railway th 24 October between 10.00 am and 2 pm th We also visited the lab for Protein 3D 28 November between 10.00 am and 2 pm structure determination where Gillian Please contact Doug Chambers beforehand. Norris showed us through and did her best to
explain what it was they did and how in words that model engineer could Track running at understand. A very interesting evening Marriner Reserve Railway looking at very different equipment to that 5th November 1 - 4 pm found in our own workshops. 19th November 1 - 4 pm Thanks very much John.
OCTOBER MEETING. Open Weekends
The club is to go to Colyton Clocks for a visit. Rotorua Model Engineers 30th Anniversary th th DIRECTIONS Weekend and Dinner December 9 -10 Please Note When leaving Palmerston on Railway Rd, head Price for the evening dinner will be $15.00 towards Bunnythorpe. Keep going till you get to Rotorua require definite numbers before 28th October the township, turn Right over the lines, then left towards Feilding. Havelock North Live Steamers Follow Road until you get to another th rd railway crossing, there will be a road going left 20 – 23 October over the lines, and another going to the right,
you take the right (Keep the railway on the left.) New Plymouth Model Engineers Keep going on that same road until you see the Open Weekend 21st – 23rd October Feilding airfield. Turn right Feilding side of the airfield. There is a sign saying: 5kms to Colyton. Tauranga Model Engineers Follow this road to the second crossroad. Open Weekend 11th – 12th November (Colyton Township) There is a truck yard on the left, turn left towards Feilding. Follow the road, (100metres) there is a church on the right in a Palmerston North Model Engineers Locomotion Weekend paddock. Take the next drive way on the right rd th after the church. There is a sign saying: 3– 4 March 2007 “Colyton clocks, all the time in the world”
The closing date for the next issue of The Generator is Friday 10th November
The Generator - 3 -