@ BEADED lIBELS N.Z. VETERAN AND VINTAGE MOTORING

SEPTEMBER, 1965 "HORSELESS CARRIAGE"

In 1893 th e first gasoline power ed motorcar in th e U nited States cruised down the main streets of Springfield, Ma ss., at a spee d of five miles an hour! This car was made by two brothers, Charles E. and J. Frank Duryea, In 1896 Henry Ford drove his first car out of the machine shop in Detroit. Later, his system of machine-made, interchangeable parts, and assembly line production, put motorcars within the price range of the man-in-the-street. By the beginning of the 20th century, 8,000 motorcars were registered in the United States. These were powered by steam, gasoline or electricity, and even th en they did not look much like the original "Horseless Carriage."

Some of the laws passed in th e ea rly days of the motorcar make liS chuckle today. For instance, one community ruled that if a horse refused to pass a motorcar the driver of the car mu st "take the machine apart ... and conceal the parts in the grass". In some places motorcars wer e banned en tirely , and angry farmers guarded their livestock with shotguns against these "contraptions of the devil." It is easy to see that early motorists were indeed brave pioneers, often running risks that would be hard to imagine today, for they al so had to contend with the discomfort of rough roads, open driving sea ts and temperamental engines. Times have changed and those first motoring enthusiasts would be the first to appreciate the advances made both in car and tyre design since the exciting, stimulating days of the "Horseless Carriage."

FIRESTONE Tyres, since the earliest days of motoring, have set the standard of reliability, economy and safety. Today's motorist, like his father and grandfather before him, looks to Firestone for EXTRA mileage and EXTRA reliability. - Beaded IV heels is the voice of the Vintage Car M ov ement in N ew Zealand and of th e Club s whose efforts are fostering and ever widening th e interest in th is movem ent and form rallying point s for that ever increasing blind of enthusiasts. T he fascination of age itself or revulsion from the flashy m ediocrity of our present day is drawing an increasing number of m otorists back to th e individua lity , solid worth, and funct ional elegance thut was demanded by a mor e discrim inating generation and it is to these that we dedicate- BEADED WHEELS

VOL. x, No . +3 SE PTEMBER, 1965 " BEAD EDWHEELS" DIRECT ORY TO T HE V INTAGE CAR C LUB'S O FFICERS Beaded Wheel s is Published Nationa l Executive : President, A. A. Anderson (C hrist- Quarte rly by the churc h ); C lub Capta in, A. K. Wright ( Wanganui) ; V INTAGE CAR CLUB OF N.Z. I N C. Vice-Club C a ptain and " Beade d Wheels" Editor, M ollie 20 HACKTHORNE ROAD Andcrson (C hristchu rch ) ; Com m ittee, N . C. Ad ams CHRIS T CHURCH, 2, NEW Z EALAND (Auckland ); J. Lou ghn an (C hriste hur ch); G. S. Slyficld Yearly Subs cri ption 10/- post free. (C hristchur ch) ; L. B. Southward ( W ellington) . A ll Co rr espondence to C lub Secr etary, E. A. Bai ley, Individ ual copies 2/6 ea ch . P.O . Box 2546, Christchurc h. Edit or : Mrs M. ]. ANDERSON. No rt hla nd Branch : C hairman, C. Corp; Secret ary, F. Assistant Editor: R. PORTER, Wa lker, 2 Purely Street , Kaik ohc. Andersons Line, Carter ton . Whangarei Bran ch : C ha irma n, J. Marks; Se cr eta ry , Mrs Co py m ust be typed on one side of paper G. Sparks, 9 R .D ., W hangarei. and sent to th e Editor, 20 Hackthorne Auckland Branch : Chairman, H . D en ton; Secretary, H. D. Road, Ch ristchu rch . Kidd, 1'.0. Box 3382, Auck land. Bay of Pl enty Branch : C hairman, ]' Hovcn; Se cretary, G. COp y FORD ECEMBER ISSUE Cappcr, Trito n Avenu e, Mount Maunganui. C LOSES NOVEMBE R 15th, 1965. Wa ika to Bran ch : Chairman, 1'. P. K. Rashl cigh ; Secr etary, L. H . F. D eat h, 1'.0. Box 924 , H amilton . I NT HIS ISSUE H awkc's Ba y Branch: Chairman, G. M . Howard; Secretary, P age L. J. Pri est, 305a Collinge Road, Hastings. Editorial 2 Welling to n Branch: Chairman, R . L. Southward; Secr et ary, Gen er al Notes 2 J. Elworthy , 6 Pernpscy Stre et , Si lverst rcam. Sizaire Naudin R ebuild 3 M an awatu Branch: C ha irman, D. Barker; Secretary , B. T . 12/ 50 Alvis 9 Deighton , 20 Ne wha ven Place, Palmerston North. V. & V.M / C ycle Notes 11 \ Van ganui Branch : Chairman, A. K . \Vright ; Secretary, 1'. R estoration of 1925 Bentley 15 F. Bowat er , 1'.0. Box 140, W an ganui. Camer a Review 16 and 17 Tara na ki Branch: C hairman, C. G. M . Pa yn e; Se cretary, Irishman C reek 19 D. R. M oorc, 582 Ca rring- to n Road, Ne w Plym outh. Ea rly N.Z. En gines 20 Marlboroug h Bra nch: C hairman, C . Patchcrt ; Secr et ary, Letters to Edi tor 22 J. O. Finni e, i 14 Muller Road , Blcnhcim. Bran ch Notes- Nelson Branch : C ha irm an, D. King; Secret ary, D . Pick er ­ T ar an aki 24 iug, 14 Scotl and Stree t, Ne lson. Waika to 24 Canterbury Branch : Chairman, H. B. Foster; Secretary, Otago 25 A. J. Airs, 65 T e Awa Kura T errace, C hristc hurc h, 8. Ne lson 26 Sou th Canterbury Branch: Chairman, B. A. Goodman ; No rthe rn Natt er 26 Secretary, C . G . Lyon, " Wellpa rk", Opihi, Pleasa nt Sou th Canterbury 26 Point, South Canterbury. Ba y of Pl enty 28 Mana wa tu 28 No rth O tago Branch : C hairman, W . G . Spite; Secretary, M arlborough 28 W. J. Mitch cll, Awam oa Road, Oamaru. Cante rbu ry 29 O tago Branch : Chairman , R. E. N . Oaklcy; Secretary , Southland 29 D. R. Go odman , 12 Kinvig Street, Andcrsou's Bay, C lass ified Adver tiseme nts 32 Du ncdin. . So uth land Branch: C ha irman, A. D . Cascy; Secretary, N .M cMillan, 146 Tanner Street, Invercargill.

COVER Adv er tising e nq uirie s t? be a dd ressed to th e Ad\' ~'I" li siJl ~ Manager, 20 Allan D ray's Alvis at th e Wanganui 10th Ha ckt horu e Road . Christchurch , 2, Published by Vintaac Car Club of N .Z . I ncorp orated a nd printed by Simpson & \Villiams L td", 1 169 St. Asaph Annive rsa ry Rally. (see article ). Sncet ,Christcbu rch . N..-w Zealand. Re,l;:' isll·!'l·d at thr- C, P.O. 'V l"lI i n ~ l o ll . Iur u-an smiss ion as a m ag axim-. rt c. . I'AGE T WO SEP1 n /ll ER. 1% ,;

the Club is being brought up to date at pre­ EDITORIAL sent and, some extensive alterations and im­ It was most heartenin g to sec such a provemen ts are being mad e in the register keen and representative attendan ce at the a nd Dating Committee Records. Not th e Executive M eeting held in conjunction with lease imp ort ant of which is a cross reference our A.G JvL in August. M uch good has been system. The latter we intend to have com­ done by the meetin g and concrete plans are pleted well before Novemb er 1965, but th e afoot for 3 really major steps in th e future of Club ca rds may take longer. Neve rtheless all your Club and its services. The first is a the improvements being effected now will move to esta blish an Insuran ce Scheme for ena ble our informati on to be brought up to Club Vehicles at most competitive and at­ date and will ena ble acc urate memb ership tractive rates and terms. lists in the future to be made with the mini­ The second calls for the establishment mum of delay and work. of a non-profit making Compan y to handle Generally the average member wants to the spa re parts problem on a national scale. know who else has a vehicle of similar make Whil st the third is the approval to pro­ and model to his own and this memb ership ceed with th e planning of a further Inter­ list should supply this need . national Rally to mark the Club's 25th The last membership list was published Birthday to be held in Februar y 1972, the in February, 1962, but hours of checking actua l birthday being August 6th, 1971. Register and Dating Committee Record s had Full er details will be given out as plans been done in 1964 before the work for th e for each of the above mature and in the Haast Rally pushed this essential work aside. meantime you can all start workin g on the If you are asked to supply any details of ca rs th at didn't make the Haast - you could a vehicle ,transfer, or any details for this make it in time for th e Birthday Party! membership list please do so imm ediately you are asked, and supply the information by GENERAL NOTES return mail. G I/r Quiz: Once again we must appeal to all mern­ Our qui z photograph enco uraged several ?ers to. fully s u p ~ o r t your magazine by keep­ read ers to writ e in to us, some of them being mg us m touch with your activities. We always correct in the assumption that the ca r was a require news of you and your Bran ch and " baby" Buick of 1912/1 3 man ufacture. Len most imp ort ant of all photographic record s Southwa rd, Ray O 'Dan iels and Neil McMil­ of your events. lan were correct in their an swers. ..T here are still (in spite of appeals per Whittle Belting: medium of the annual report ) classified Dick Messenger, still in Britain , has adv ertisements coming to hand, with out located a Source of supply at 11- per foot in remittance. Please calculate th e amo unt vour 5/8in. and 3/4in. widths. If anyone is re­ advertisement will cost, compare it with those quiring some Dick could fix it for them. CI­ ill any issue and forward vour monev with The A.N.Z. Bank Ltd., 6 Albermarle Street, the enclosed advertisement.' As from Decem­ London, W.I . ber issue advertisements will not be published M embership List: unless acco mpanied by the necessary remit­ It is the intention of the Club to produce tan ce. with all diligence and speed a new member­ Mr N. M cLaren has forw arded a col­ ship list. This list will contain some errors lection of photographs taken at the Haast and ommissions. Not th e least of which will Rally, some of these we hav e published in be du e to th e individual member who has this issue. Anyone interested can con tac t NII' failed to inform the Club Secreta rv of the M cLaren at 415 Trafalga r Street, Nelson . T ransfer of ownership of any Ve h icl~ . Mem­ ?ers sho uld be awar e that any list published The Club has left twenty-five copies of the ~ s out ~ f date as it is being published, so great Rally issue of the Veteran and Vintage IS the influx of new members . It may not be Magazine . Get your copy now. 2/6 plus possible to include the register number of 6d postage. any and every vehicle as the ca rd system of Secretary, p.a. Box 2546, Christchurch. -

SEPT EMBER, 1965 PAGE T HREE THE SIZAIRE NAUDIN REBUILD~' by R. S. Turnbull. In M ar ch 1957, I mad e my previous contribution to this magazine, an article on some details of a Sizaire et Naudin. Since the control lever for sliding the inlet ca m was then the parts wh ich I had , and man y. new in place. Although we revisited the farm at ones have been built up int o a rather int er­ intervals the king pins were never found, csting voiturette which I think almost justifies but mu ch lat er, only three years ago, th e oil the time spent, and this activity I propose to tank turned up, and this, a part from some describe. very min or items were all th e origin al parts Som e tim e in 1955 the V. C.C. newsletter found th ere. informed its read ers that a Sizaire Naudin ca r H owever, Les Eve ritt had, in h is unsuc­ had been discovered north of the Waimakariri cessful sea rch for the original engine, locat ed, w~r e river, and, being at th at perio? , a th at in M osgiel, 250 miles away, the man who had single cylinde r cars were not Impossible for rem oved the engine, and he still had the long distan ce motoring, I vague.l y regre.tted clutch cross shaft and combined clutch and that it was not I who had found It, especially br ake pedal. Some correspondence and busin­ as I had read something of their early com­ ess with the N .Z.R . and it was ours. petiti on success in Kent Karsl ake's int el:esting Despite numerous enquiries about Siz­ book. It was about a yea r lat er, pnor to aires to addresses as far apa rt as Auckland, Easter that I saw and was given th e 19: 6, Invercar gill and the Cha tham Islands, the remains, collected by Les Everitt, who had origina l engine remain s undiscovered.' but decided th at there was insufficient to make a the bush tclegra ph that operates withm the car, as the engine could not be found. . club indicat ed that there was a SoN engine These pieces fell int o the followmg in Para paraumu. Correspondence and a categories: visit showed there was ind eed an engine, "Missing Com pletely: Engine, clutch, complete with all accessories. It was larger Y2 of drive shaft, body, exha ust system.' stee r­ th an any similar single cylinder engin e I had ing box, pedal for clutch an d brake, oil tank, king pin , all water, oil and fuel pip es, steer­ ing arms, track rod, drag link, bonnet , brake .------. rods, rear mudguards. These but suita ble only for pattern s: NATIONAL Wooden chassis members, steel flitch plat es, front mudgu ard, dash board and some floor RALLY boards, mudgu ard brackets, water tank, stub axles. These and rebuildable: Front spring and Easter - 8th - 11 th April. 1966 cross-membe r, front and rear wh eels, rea r WellinCJton axle and torque tube, rad iat or, petrol tank, foot board supports, running board brackets, Organised by the Wellington rear springs, control levers and cross sha ft. Branch of the V.e.e. of N.Z . Inc . Further investigati on on th e farm of the Entry Forms will be in the hands of original owne r yielded the steering arms, BRANCH SECRETARIES by the end bonnet whi ch had been serv ing as a dog of September. Entries will close kennel, and, just as da rkness was fallin g and mid-November. we wer e abo ut to leave, th e steering column was found, protruding from under part of a Give thought now to supporting this Bren gun carrier. This was important as the event thus enjoying a weekend of steering box was of unusual design. Unfor­ vintage and veteran motoring. tunately the aluminium wheel was broken but .------. -

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for the Picton Rally, but negou ati ons were difficult and the ra lly ca me and went and I became involved in work on other ca rs, dur­ ing whi ch tim e the chassis was suspended from the workshop roof, so it was not until Eas ter 1960, th at the opportunity ca me to investigat e further the two known engines. This was the occasion of the Mo rr ins­ ville Rally so en-route to our starting point a t Taupo, my brother, wh o was shortly to de­ part for England, and has seen none of .the latter stages of the rebuild, and I, called on Mr Moult at Par aparaumu, who ag reed th at perha ps we could come to some arran gem ent over the S-N motor. U nfortuna tely we could not see it but knew of its good an d com­ plete cond ition. So we ca rr ied on, and, after th e rally and a rapid tour of mu ch of the No rth Island, visited Wan ganui. H ere we qui ckly realised th at this S-N eng ine was the cor rec t 120 x 120 model and as suc h, prefer­ able to the lat er 120 x 140 eng ine . I will digress to say th at min e is a 1907 sports model, having the cylindrical tank at the rear , a mor e steeply raked steering column and sho uld have a 120 x 120 motor. T his M. Sizaire particul ar versio n must have been rather un­ ( Pho!o by R. T urnbull.} com mo n as even Mr M aurice Sizaire doubted its authenticity until my brother found, seen and mv enthusiasm increased when the amo ngst the ph otos, etc., M r Sizaire still has, 2in . di am et ~r port s and genera lly robust con­ one of a sim ilar car. struc tion were no ted . Because, however, the Nearly th ree days of rather unsati sfac­ owne r had other parts and wanted min e to tory hagglin g resulted in findin g an eng ine ac­ complete a ca r, I returned em pty handed , and ceptable as an exc ha nge, to be used in a on measuring up my pieces, realised th at the larger boat , not the M aori ca noe, whi ch I 120 mm. x 140 mm. eng ine was genera lly regret not seeing and ph otographing as it still of a different design , and being taller than existed. Afte r loading it into the T ype 57 and the 1907 eng ine would ha ve proj ected abo ut a quick trip to ca tch the ferry, we had an 3 inches through the 1907 bonnet. eng ll1e. As I was still hop eful of gett ing an eng ine, I ca rried on with th e rebuild. Again about mid-1 957, I heard of a Sizaire Naudin eng ine in W an ganui whi ch K en Wright had locat ed, but despi te his efforts the owner was reluctant to sell, th ough it had no a uxi­ liari es, had a T Ford transmission ad ded for a reve rse when fitted to th e M aori ca noe whi ch it had prop elled on the W anganui river, and there was a very unsightly length of Y2 inch diam eter steel bent around the cra nkcase and over the cylinder to reinforce a welde d cylinder Oan ge. In my enthusiasm, I had visualised ob­ The car as received. - Fig. 1. taining this engin e and completing the ca r ( Pho to hy R . TlIl'll hllll. ) - SEPTEM IlER . 196j PAGE FIVE

On dismantling and exam ination at Siza ire Naudin eng ines were also used sue­ home it proved to be in very poor cond ition , cessfully in sm all racing boats at Monaco. and as well as th e carb urettor and ignition I ca n only assume that th e publicity re­ equipment, the mechanism for sliding the sulting made th e name kn own, even in N .Z. inlet cam to control th e eng ine torque was and ca used Mr R. O. Di xon to import the missing, as were th e eng ine mounting brack­ S-N whi ch I now own . ets which help to support th e steering box. T his he used to travel between his farm An article seen in th e Australian maga­ properties and with it also com peted in some zine " W heels" resulted in co rresponde nce of th e early motoring even ts organised by th e with J ack Smith of Mattraville, Sydney, a A.A. of Canterbury, notably acceleration and keen S-N owne r wh o had rebuilt a very in­ fuel consum ption tests at th e Addingt on com plete 1909 m od el. H e was able to sup plv Sh owgrounds in 1910 wh ere it won its class some 1909 type en gine brackets, in exc hange with 1 m inute 9 seconds for a standing half­ for some parts of a 1910, 4- cylinder model, mi le and 37Y2 m.p.g. Lat er Mr Dixon owne d discovered on Mt. Pl easant. T he eng ine a Humber and a M inerva, and it is unknown brackets wer e th e last S-N parts I was to as to wh at exte nt he subseq uently ran th e obtain, so with m any pieces still missing it S-N, but it was com plete a nd mobile up to was necessary to m ake wh at was required to th e tim e of his death 25 -30 yea rs ago. When , com plete th e car. how ever, th e shed space was required , th e H aving described th e obta in ing of th e ca r was moved out, whi ch allowed it to bits and pieces, I would explain th at th e find­ deter ior at e in a further 15 years to th e mis­ ing , th e rebuilding, com piling of local S-N cella neous pieces which I received . information, and co rres po nde nce with over­ Perhaps th e major factor wh ich induced seas S-N owners contin ued side bv side so that me to rebuild it, apa rt from its history and thi s a rticle is by no means a chrono log ica l ac ­ th e S-N name, was its ingeniou s and un con­ count, covering one sec tion at a time, to ventional constructio n. T his will be more avoid confusion (and also having to rem em­ obvious wh en I cove r the descr iption and re­ ber dates ) . pair of th e parts, but th e main features were N O'v to cover th e histori cal aspec t so LF.S., wood en chass is, " direc t dri ve" on all th at reade rs will understand wh y I continued gears,' single ped al contro l and a sin gle plate with this rather incomplete ca r. (see photo, clutch . Fig I ). After th e first en th usiastic dismantling In 1902 or 1903 M aurice Sizaire design­ of th e rear axle to see for myself its unusu al ed a car for interest-his true profession is det ails (see fig. 2 ) and incid entall y, proof th at th at of an architec t-and later in 1905 it even presen t day writers of rnot or eng inee ring was put into production, financed by th e Due history are not always co rrec t, the re follow ed d'Uzes under th e name Siza ire and N audin. a less en thusiasti c cleaning and de-rust ing of Their aim was to produce a sim ple, low cost th e steel parts. car, M . Sizaire quotes 425 parts, that was The first item to be rebuilt was th e easy to drive th ere bein g three levers (a ll front suspe nsion which consists ' of an H sec­ opera ted by th e right hand !) and one com ­ tion malleable iron cas ting ac ting as front bined clutch and brake pedal ope rated by cross member for the chassis and wh ich has th e right foot. It co uld travel at 60 k.p.h. at its outer ends, eyes in whic h the long king and had good road holding. pins slide vertically and turn. A sing le integral Before long the y appeared in competi­ central pedestal secures the transverse leaf tion , winning th eir class at th e Gaill on hill­ spring by its centre. The spring ends bear via climb and also th e Coupe des Voiturettes in plain thrust washers on the tops of th e kin g 1906 and 190 7 and th e Sicilian C up in 1907. pins which at th eir lower ends have tapered In th e 1906 Coupe des V oiturettes, Sizaires' transverse holes to receive th e stub axles. aver age speed was 59.6 kilometres per hour As th e kin g pins were missing co m pletely for 280 kilom etres with fastest lap of 62 kilo­ th ey were manufactured , by turning from metres per hour, i.e. nearly 39 m .p.h. Later two inch sq uare steel bar to dimensions ob­ there were othe r successes, one reference tained by scaling fram ph ot os of th e 190 7 stating that these filled three quarto shee ts. Co upe des V oiturettes ca r. PAGE SIX SEPTE MBER, 1965

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Rear Axle. - Fig. 2. (Photo by R . Turnbull.)

I would point out here th at altho ugh I heated with a large blow lamp and straight­ work with an engineering firm which manu­ ened. The worn eyes, which looked suspic­ fact ures a va riety of prod ucts from earth­ iously as though they had been drilled moving equipment to jet boats, it was only origina lly - there were no bushes - were with work which was impossible at home such bored out using the £50 lathe and th en as caseha rdening and grinding and the larger bronze bushes fitted. turning and milling jobs that they assisted Close inspection of the front cross mem ­ me. Home equipment consisted of a bench ber, the gea r and hand brake cross sha ft and vice, a lathe designed about the same tim e as the remnants of the rather rotten ash chassis the S-N to sell origina lly for £5 and costing longitudinals, indi cated their sha pe, but no £50 new in 1951 and the usual hand tools onc in Chr istchurch was interested in stea m and precision measuring instruments. bending ash of Sin. x 2in. section. H owever, The king pins were mad e of 2-inch one man , a manufacturer of trotting sulkies squa re mild steel though E.N. 33 would have gave me information although he would not been bett er becau se of greater toughness after work on any more ea rly ca rs having just caseha rdening. E.N. 33 was used for the stub finished, unprofitably, a pair of wheels for axles, the origina ls being badl y worn , and a local Humber owner. H e obviously had not these, like the king pins were finished by realised that it is optimistic to double the gr inding to 30 mm. diam eter. I feel th at mu ch estima ted time for rebuilding ea rly ca rs and of Sizaire's success was du e to caseha rdening realistic to qu adruple it. all imp ort ant bearing surfaces, and by simple With the instructions, a copper borrowed design , elimina ting all fragile and weak parts. from a neigh bour, and a strong hardwood New lead bronze bushes for the plain hu b former and some U bolts mad e of % dia­ bearings, two new hub ca ps and painting meter steel, I man aged to produ ce two very com pleted the front wheel assemblies. authentic chassis members. As it had been bent in an accident that It is not only interesting to ow n an ea rly had destroyed one of th e origina l wooden motor car and to dri ve it, but also to sec, chassis members, the front cross member was from th e parts the methods used to produce - S EPT E~fBE R . 1965 PAGE SEVEN

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PAGE EIGH1 them, and therefore I feel that to preserve this car takes sha pe, so it was not very long be­ aspect, parts should be mad e using the same fore I had replicas of th e rather decayed orig­ processes as origin ally wherever possible, or inal pieces of oak used to support and position if not known, by meth ods tha t would have th e bonn et and floor boards fitted, so th at been available at the tim e. T hus bent chassis th e wat er tank s could be put in place to com­ members were preferred to those mad e by the plete the forw ard part of the "bod ywork" . easier meth od of bandsawin g from larger Woodw ork , such as the origina l mortise and timber. termon join ts did not cause any probl ems as I find th at one can usually do these jobs by New steel reinforcing plat es on the inner hand than obtain the use of power tools. surface of the wooden members, man y 10 and 12 mm . coach bolts mad e to replace As th ere was still no engine I continued those th at rusted away, and a new wooden with th e rear part of the bodywork to the rear cross member ena bled me to assemb le extent of almost completing the base for the th e chassis fram e, and after temporary assem­ seat and th e rear fuel tank. Da ta on the bly of th e rear axle I saw the S-N on four spor ts model Sizaire as I latter foun d min e wh eels for the first tim e. to be is very sca rce and the only ph oto of such a car ava ilable at the tim e was that of Repairing the radiat or with its 90 odd the 1907 Sicilian cup winner. copper tubes with .011 in. thi ck walls, most of them flattened, was not easy, but eventua lly Because of other automotive diversions most of the tubes were salvaged, stra ightened the project was shelved from mid-1 958 till and rounded by pushing th rough a steel rod . mid -1962 by whi ch time I had an engine and Six replacements plus some rather difficult had also learned by correspondence with solde ring of th e copper tubes int o the cast Jack Smith and ot her S-N own ers, th e address iron head er tanks completed the job . of M au rice Sizaire and a most interesting and helpful correspondence with this old gentle­ It is sur prising how one's enthusiasm man, the origina l designer, developed . I increases as th e parts on whi ch man y hours ima gine th at few rebuilders of such early have been spent arc fitted together and the cars are as fortunat e as I in thi s respect.

r o r tr; DES \'0 T t.: R ETTES I 0 - ~ #' D! ~ • ,o\t 2' . 1ZAtlt ~ tH· VOI'Ill ,Ht''i ~ rZi\I R E N AU D I N. 7n. rue de LourmeJ. - PARIS -- SEPT EMBER. 1963 PAGE NINE 12/50 ALVIS by M. Poynton.

Now that th e Internation al H aast R all y joints and a lighter driv e shaft wh ich of co urse is well and truly behind us, it seems fitting ha s improved th e transmission operation and th at we take cert ain inter estin g ca rs which rem oved a lot of unpleasant vibration which com peted in th e R ally and ga uge from th eir is prevalent in th e vintage Alvis with its performance and owners' com me nts, what it enormous Pot T yp e universals and terribly would have been like to have driven th ese heavy drive sha ft. cars continuously ove r the interesti ng and The ca r was reassembled and m ade road varied conditions which prevail ed during th e worthy ju st in time to be exhibited at th e fortnight of March 6th - M arch 19th, 196 5 . "IZADIUM" Moto r Sho w at Palmcrston Now perhaps co m pare th e performan ce of North during th e Easter of 1962 wh ere it th e following gro up of cars with th e perf orm­ was th e subjec t of fav ou rable d iscussion by ance of your own ca r during that peri od. all th e past, present and possibl y future Alvis The ca r we have chose n for the first com­ owners and adm ire rs, bein g very hard to parison is th e 12/ 50 Alvis N o. 606 owned fault. and driven by Allan Dray of W ellingt on. Between 1962 and 1965, Alla n did a lot This particul ar Alvis is a 1928 type T.G. of co mpe tition motoring in th e Alvis and of and was on e of th e 1.7 litre mod els havin g a course became more a nd more amazed at th e bore and stro ke of 69 x 11 0 mm. and a verv performance and reliability of th ese deli ghtful comforta ble and handsome Cross and Ellis little cars. 4-door touring bod y. It might perhaps be a goo d time to Peter Williamson of Wanganui bough t digress a little at this ju ncture and give a thi s car from a local ga rage which had been brief history of the 12/ 50 Alvis. The 12/ 50 usin g it as a sho p hack for some yea rs and it saw th e light of day in 1923 and was develop­ appeared to have had very little attention ed from th e 68 x 103 mm. side val ve 12/40 during that time. Peter, becoming involved mod el a nd a part from bein g converted to with other vehicles such as a " H ype r" Lea push rod operation and given goo d breathing, Francis, etc ., sold th e Alvis to AlIan Dray and it was still basically th e old tri ed and proven it was th en th at th e beautiful restoration of 12/40 eng ine. The most sign ifica nt feature this car took place. of th e new eng ine, was th e fact that thi s All an decid ed afte r driving th e car down eng ine with a special crankshaft and balanced from Wanganui to W ellingt on th at th e No . 1 rods an d 40 mm. porting, won th e 1923 200 project on th e list wo uld be th e mot or. This mile race at Brooklands, C . M. Harvey driving was com pletely stripped and rebuilt, and th e th e spec ial bodied winning ca r. Alvis were only modifications from original, are th at th e very quick to realize th at th ey had a winner new pistons have a slightly high er co m pres­ in their possession and lost no time in market­ sion height and th at shell bearings have been ing th e 12/ 50 in " D ucksback" and " Touring fitted in place of normal white metal big ends. Bod y" form, and of co urse ca pitalising on The mot or was th en reassembled and th e publicit y gained from the Brooklands win. put back int o th e ca r and once ' it had been At th at tim e, th e 12/ 50 sold for abo u t £500 carefully run in , AIlan was more th an satisfied and was stat ed to do 80 m.p.h. in touring that he had obtained a ca r which was go ing trim. to be a fast and reliable touring ca r whi ch To return to our test ca r, Allan Dray could be restored righ t up to concours sta nd ­ took me for a sho rt run a few days ago and ard. The com plete chass is was th en stripped some int eresting obse rva tions were made. and everyth ing was given the full treatment The first one was th at altho ug h the car from front to rear and th e only maj or modi­ has now had some three veal'S and 14 000 fication that was made to th e chassis, was miles of motoring since its 'resto ra tion, itstill the incorporation of H a rd y-Spi cer uni versal feels delightfully fiirm and sho ws no sign of PAGE TEN SEPTEMBER. 1%5 becoming uninteresting or sloppy for a long front end stability considerably. Allan was time yet. The clutch is delightfully light and quite insistent that I give the brakes a good smooth and the gears run through quietly and work out and in doing this once or twic e, smoothly once you've had a little practise, found them working very nicely and efficient­ optimum speeds seem to be 30 m.p.h. for ly but true to form, needing plenty of pedal second gear and 45 m.p.h. for third gear. pressure. Unfortunately the weather condi­ Once in top gear the little car develops an tions were most unsuitable for open air tour­ easy stride and 50-55 m.p.h. is quite practical ing on the day this car was tested, but running under suitable conditions. One of the pleas­ with hood up only and no side curtains, the ant characteristics that the 12/50 has, is its efficiency of the weather equipment was very ability to amble along at nominal speed quite noticeable. For a number of reasons we did happily as you would expect say an Austin not attempt to push the Alvis too hard, but 12/4 and Morris Cowley to do, but once you found that G5 m.p.h. plus came up effortlessly have 2000 r.p.m. or more up, the whole and had conditions allowed for the hood to character of the car changes and the exhaust be folded down, it would have been quite note changes to a healthy bark and the whole interesting to see what speed could have been car becomes alive and I think this is one of attained bearing in mind that this car in full the features that makes the 12/50 Alvis such touring trim as tested, weighs 24 cwt. Allan an outstanding car in its own right. finds that on normal touring conditions the This car is extremely stable on normal car averages 42 m.p.h. on the road at 30 fast bends and although heavier in the steer­ miles per gallon. ing than some of the earlier models, probably In closing, it is quite obvious that Allan would not display the same tendency for Dray is completely sold on his 12/50, and front end break away owing to the fact that after having had the chance to drive this Alvis dispensed with the sub-frame for engine delightful car, it is now quite easy to under­ and gear box in 1925, with the introduction stand why Allan won his class in the Haast of the "T" series and thus improving th e Rally.

Alvis taken at Fairlie during the Haast. (Photo hy John Suuu-i-.} -

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VINTAGE & VETERAN MOTORCYCLE NOTES by Geoff HockIey.

Old-Timers Roundup:' vetera n section with his very d istinctive Zen­ ith-Gradua. Many old acquaintan ces were A bleak and wintry day fail ed to damp­ ren ewed , and all in all, it was a most enjo y­ en the spirits of several hundred spectators able affa ir for compe titors and spec ta tors who assembled to wat ch th e doings at a field alike, and we cong ra tula te th e Ashbu rton day and get-to gether for owne rs of vintage boys on th eir en terprise. We onl y hope th at and veteran motorcycles organized by the we're still on deck for their club's 60 d1 anni­ Ashburton Motorcycle Club on Sunday, June versary celebra tions in another ten yea rs' c o ~ ne x i o n 6, in with the club's 50-year'jubilee time! celebra tions, T he event attracted riders from Christchurch, Ashburton , Timaru and many Challenge Contests: points in between , and it' s many a da y sin c ~ In almost all forms of sport there hav e we saw so many old -timers, both human been challenge con tests resul tin g from argu ­ ments conce rn ing the merits of riv al drivers and mech anical. The rid ers disported them­ ~ selves with joyous abandon in the variou s rid ers, row ers, boxers, horses, machines gymkhana even ts whi ch occ upied th e after­ th e list includes nearly eve ry kind of com­ n?on, and in th e grand parade of mod ern, petition . M ot orcyclin g is no' exce ption, and vintage and veter an machines whi ch ende d in this sphe re perh aps th e most celebrated the day's fun, th e number of models in the duel on record was th e famou s series of match latter two ca tego ries must have been a record. races held at Brooklands in 191 1 be twee n Dou glases and H arl eys predominat ed , but Eng land' s Cha rlie Co llier ( M a tchless) and there was a most representative turnout of th e Am eri can cha m pion J ake de Rosier other makes from 1907 onwa rds includinu ( Indi an ) . ' Vc may refer to this mu ch-dis­ . . 'b Vindec, T rium ph, Overseas Indian Zenith cussed contest in some fu ture issue of "B.'V.". Rov er , Scott, B.S.A. and K yno ch ( ~ h is l ast~ In this country, th e mat ch race series between named, a 191 3 model, was of special int erest Ernie Hinds ( Indian motorcycle ) and ."'11 . B. to us, not onl y because of its rarity, but be­ Sco tt (Vaux hall car) held on Ne w Br ighton ca use we remembered this identical machi ne beach on. Decen:ber 2 1, 1914, wa s perh aps running around Ashburton wh en we were the most mt erestmg event of its type. But as station ed th ere in th e early 1920 's ). Some of th e result of a chance meeting at th e Ash­ burton gathe ring referred to above th ere th e local machinery appeared to have been . . ' exhume d for th e occasion, ancl exuded fain t came to mmd the details of another local farmyard aromas, but th ere seeme d to be lots "grudge fight" whi ch also took place on Br igh­ of healthy horsepow er still in existence under ton Beach soon after th e 1914-1 8 war, whi ch w ~ the mud and man ure. One ven erable sidecar interesting in th at th e participants wer e outfit, bow ed beneath th e weight of its yea rs, private owners un connected (thcorctically l) plonked stolidly around innumer able circ uits with th e motorcycle tr ad e, thou gh th e hecti c of the paddock almost com pletely obscure d bv prep arat ions whi ch went on behind the closed c ~ l'goes of an ything up to a couple of doz e~ kids. Nearly all th e Cant erbury "regulars" wer e in evide nce, including th ose T i m a~ u sta l­ warts, Greg Tully (O verseas), Alan Brehaut ( Do uglas) and l an Barnes (T rium ph). In ci­ dentally, lan, well-known for his almost lee­ endary feats on single-geared K ing Di cks anbci Triumphs, is leaving soo n to live in th e No rth Island. H e'll be sad ly missed in local Vintage and Veter an motorcycle circles. Gavin Pat er­ son (D ouglas) added yet ano the r vintage con­ cours award to his collectio n, whi le Stewie Rcgular Att ender. A familiar sight at r alli ~ s is John Ga rdiner's immaculate Rov er. M cL ean scored a well-d eserved win in 'the ( Photo hv G , l Iockl ev. ) --

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~1t. . '.i..~ " Show Piece. Gavin Paterson's winning Douglas at the S.l. Motorcycle Rally. (Photo hy G . Hocklcy. ) doors of a couple of Christchurch motorcycle fan atical adherents of one make to two expon­ esta blishments rather belied their ama teur ents of th e rival brand, the contest to be a sta tus. T his affair may be worth relat ing, race on New Brighton bea ch. The challenge and as we were cast in an importa nt role was accepted, and those conce rned promptly (our main job was to visit the nearby pie-cart hied themselves in secret to the age nts for at frequ ent int ervals for su pplies of coffee their machines, seeking some behind-th e­ and pies for the sustenance of the workshop scenes suppor t in th e way of workshop assist­ staff of th e firm at which we were employed an ce, tuning, special bits and pieces and as lowly apprenti ces) we were familiar with oth er aids to performance. W ith prestige at the events leading up to it. stake, the shops concerned decided to cooper­ Anything Yours Can Do Mine Can Do at e (in deep secrecy, each hoping to hand Better! the opposition a shock !) H owever, although We have previously referred ' in these operations were carried out after normal pages to the cut-throa t rival motorcycle fac­ working hou rs, the "grapevine" soon dissem­ tions which existed at this period- a sta te of inat ed the news amongst the motorcycle affairs whi ch wasn't confined solely to the frat ernity and the genera l public, quite a firms conce rne d, for if anything th ~ir custo­ large proporti on of the latter being int erested mers were even more fiercely partisan in motorcycle doings in those days. Co nse­ conce rning the merits of th e two marques in qu ently, by the time th e actual event got question ( Indian and H arl cy-D avidson, as under way, excitement had reached fever you've prob abl y guessed ). And nowhere did pit ch and Brighton beach was black with the arguments wax fiercer that among the spectators. But , as the novelists used to say, members of a certain Canterbury scholastic let us not anticipate. esta blishment patronised by the scions of the Fred's Fatal Flutter: provin ce's landed gentry. In those happy days We will now transport you to a certain th e motorcycle was socially accepted and most Christchurch motorcycle workshop (defunct, of the youn g gentlemen own ed machines, most alas, these many years ) at about 5.30 p.m. of whi ch were the brands mentioned above. on the Saturdav aft ern oon before the da v of It followed almost as a matter of course that the great event' (zero hour had been fixed as wran gles conce rn ing speed capabilities cul­ 10 a.m. on the Sunday ). Three mechanics, minated in a challenge being issued by two the foreman, and one youthful but cnthu- --

SEPT EMBER. ] % j PAGE THIRTEEN siastic apprentice (your scribe) stand back - heave !" The pushers duly heav ed ( the a nd gaze on the fruit of many hours of lab­ kick-starters had been sacr ificed on the alta r our - two gleaming red machines, shorn of spee d) but with out result, and after breaths of all superfluous accessories and with down­ had been regain ed , an other bou t of shov ing ward-drooping handlebars, short exhaust failed to coax the engine into life. "Give her pipes, Bowden extra-air controls in the in­ ano ther go !" pants Fred . "Third tim e lucky, duction manifolds - in fact, they've really ma ybe"! The engine had hardly comme nced had the works in the way of tuning ( 1918 turning over when it exploded into life with variety ). "\Vell", rem arks the forem an , "that a terrifi c roar. No rocket ever departed from just about finishes 'em, th ank God! H ere, Cape Kennedy with more velocity th an did funny-face, hop out and get some pies and a that machine as it took off up the alley. The jug of coffee, and look slippy" ! Dutifully we unf ortunate Fred tri ed to make a flying leap departed to the kerbside esta blishment down into the saddle, but made a som ewhat painful the street and returned with our ca rgo to find landing on the extreme tip of th e rear mud­ a heat ed argument in progr ess between the gua rd, before being forced to relinquish his forem an and one of his underlings. "Now precarious grasp of the handlebars and fallin g listen , Fred !" sna ps the foreman," you' re not flat on his face. And th e riderless mount ridin g either of th ese bikes round the bloek ­ darted as stra ight as an arrow to its inevitable that's final! A hell of a fix we'd be in if you doom , whi le the petrified wat chers stood happened to fall off and bend something" ! "Fall off, me foot!" retorts Frcd . "I'm ha v­ ing a flutter on one of 'em, anyway, before I knock off, so put that in your pipe and smoke it! " Novv Fred ( if he is still in the land of the living and sho uld cha nce to read this, we hop e he'll forgive us for this diggin g up of the past l j considered that he'd make a major contribution to th e hunt for horsepower, so it was onl y natural that he sho uld want to sa mple the results of his genius. Faced with the probl em of bumping up compression ratios with no h.c. pistons available, a nd bein g relu ctant to shave an ything off th e somewhat skinny cylinde r bases, the only method to fall ba ck on had been the hoary Seen at Ashburton. Greg Tully's 1915 Overseas dodge of making up eccentric gudgeon pin on which he made the recent Haast Rally tour. bushes, whi ch achi eved some slight improve­ (Pho to bv G . Hocklcv. ) ment. However, Frcd had then come up with the idea of turning up spec ial valv e caps Iot aghast. We ca n still hear that sickening crunch the side-valve engin es, of about double the as it hit the wall - the mark it left on the depth of th e origin al ca ps, whi ch certainly bri cks, incid entally, is still th ere, or was the boosted the c. r., th ough th e lengthened caps, last time we passed th e scene of the tragedy! protruding into the valve cha mbers like A throttle control which had stuck wide op en tombstones in a gr aveyard, could hardly have was lat er discovered to have been responsible been conducive to goo d "breathing". Reluct­ for th e run away. antly, the foreman finally capitulated (how he was to wish he hadn't ) and one of the Unhappy Ending: ma chines was wheeled out of the ba ck door. We·d like to conclude this tragic narra­ Now, at th e rear of the premises was (and still tive with a happy ending, and tell you how, is) an alley flank ed on either side by th e aft er a feverish all-night bout of frame grimy walls of various buildings and termin­ stra ightening, wheel building, truing up forks ating at the far end in a bri ck wall of for­ and fixing sundry other item s, the ma chine bidding aspect. "I'll get her going with a vindicated us by a glorious victory. But in th e run up here" , says Frcd . " Righto, you jokers interests of veracity, we arc for ced to close r

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on a dull note. We did restore the wreck to sions also are still around in fairl y large num­ "as new" by an all night effort, and it and its bers - it's always seemed to us rather stra nge sister machine arr ived at the scene of the con­ that th is make rarelv if ever is heard of in test in plenty of time for some pr actice lap s New Zealand Vintage and Veteran motor­ and final adjustments, and when the four cycle circles. There are, we believe, one or two contesta nts wheeled th eir machines up to th e exa mples of the old 965 c.c. 2-speed twins , with handle sta rter, such as were used by the sta rting line we felt reason abl y optimistic. P. & T. Department, still in existence - as a Alas ! th e best th at "our side" could do was matter of fact we recently received an inquiry to finish third and fourth, which ca used the regarding one of these - but a parti cularly opposition to assume insufferable smirks of attractive smaller R .E. model was the litt le sat isfac tion which didn't wear off for months! "3 h.p." twin of pre-W orld War I vintag e - ­ In cident ally, we recently had the pleasure of a bea utifully-m ad e job feat uring an LO.E. renewing acq ua inta nce with the winner - ­ engine of 425 c.c. and the famili ar R .E. 2­ th at well-known Ashburton spor tsma n anti speed gea r consisting of two primary chains presid ent of the N .Z. Trotting Conf erence, Mr running on two sets of sprockets connected by A. J. Nicoll, who turned up at th e recent clutches and operated by a long tank-side Ashburton M .C .C . field day for a look at th e lever. Wi th its characteristic green petrol tank, doings and finally couldn' t resist bor row ing a high gra de black enamel, and a very un com­ machin e to do a few circuits - though at a mon feature in the way of a cylind rical glass somewha t more sedate pace th an th at at oil tank fitted to the sca t tube behind the which he whizzed across the finish line in rear cylinder, the "3 h.p." R. E. was a most that mat ch race more than 45 yea rs ago. att rac tive little job . A schoo l cro ny of ours, possessed of affluent and indulgent par ents, Any Enfields, Anybody? owned one of these models an d we still retain Co nside ring the Royal Enfiel d was q uite impressions of its pleasant running and easy popular in Ne w Zealand motorcycle circles handling. The discovery of one of these would in the ea rly yea rs - the more modern ver- be a fine ind eed.

MASTERTON LINE-UP. Barrie Belk's winning 1929 "Ajay" in foreground - a superb specimen. (Photo hv G . Hocklcv. ) --

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THE RESTORATION OF A 1925 ets from 5/8 rod, electric welded in to sma li 3-LITRE BENTLEY oblong plat es and bolted to chassis, Grea t by Brian A. Goodman. fun getting the rod curved to suit th e curve Time passes on and frantic orders from on the gua rd. The petrol ta nk was repan­ the Editor prompts me to finish this story. nelled owing to the extensive bashing it had About the tim e that I wrote Part 2, the pres· received at some tim e. It was not checked for sure was really bein g put on. H aast was leaks ! ! Ignoran ce 'is bliss ! ! Now for the looming up and th at bottle of champagne driv eshaft. Darcy Nicholson procured for us looked Cl long way off. onc off an Austin Sheerlin e. This required The 9-inch Lucas headl amps were sent very littl e modification. It was duly fitted up up to Christchurc h for plating after all dent s by Darcy who at the sa me time did a multi­ etc. had been remov ed. tude of other small jobs. H andy having a Back now to thc body whi ch was read y V.C .C . member in business as it is amazing for covering. The rem ainder of the plywood how man y normal ga rages will not acce pt th is was put on and th en pain ted with a rot pre­ type of work . Next the bonnet which ca me ventativ e and th en coa ted with Epi glass. A from Davc Bowman . This ca me off a 4 Y~ visit to the coachbuilders provided us with No .SL 3065. A relation who is a pan el the vynide and wadding. What a pleasant beat er soon hammered this into shape for us. job this was. The wad din g was very care­ At long last the call from Christchurc h. You r fully put in pla ce as this mat erial rips very motor is read y. Barry prepared himself. O ne very easily. A visit from Don Oddie provided M orri s Cowley, One trailer, O ne friend to us with all th e know-how re th e vynide . For travel with him for com pa ny. 7.30 a.m. Sa tur­ instan ce: "Put on a sma ll section first and day morning and th e circus departs. 1.30 a.m. when you have made a mess of it you aren' t Sunday morning it retu rns. But with a differ­ wasting so mu ch". Chee rful bad our Oddie! ent trailer. The first one suffered a blow-ou t H owever, his hints re heating the mat erial, at Hinds. T his was left on the roadside and how to pull it were mu ch appreciated. The back to Geraldine they came for an other one. story was to lay the vynidc over the section to H owever, there it was, the power plant ! ! ! be covered, then hold a 2-ba r electric heat er In the meantime I had been busy. I had up towards it. Very careful not to let it get tak en the body fram e to my sister's hom e too hot or it will mel t. Grab the edge of the and we had completed the upholstery. This is vynid e with a pair of pliers and pull like done in red "stretch vynid e". A ben ch type bla zes. Then while one person keeps the pres­ front seat has been fitted with twin squabs. sure on the othe r ban gs in the tacks. T his hot T o us it looks very att rac tive. The motor work kept us going all one weekend. But wh en was dropped into place an d the hundreds of we were finished and th e joins covered with little jobs sta rted on. Fit ca rbys., fit fuel Y2-round moulding we were well pleased with pumps, genera tor, sta rter motors, petrol pip­ our weekend's work. Now we started think­ ing, wiring, mags., etc., etc ., etc. Suffi ce for ing of comfort, i.e. the wind screen. Aha! ! me to say th at it took more th an on e night. Morris Cow ley Roadster scree n ! H ow's th e Whilst we were working on these small jobs width? Ban g on ! H ow's the height? Spot on! Colin Westoby visited us. His expert eye soon How does it look ? Beauty. Just a bit of cut­ noti ced that the valve ca ps were sitting on ting and welding up , away to the chrome the underside of the valve rockers. Oh lovely. plat ers. Back she came; lovely job. Slap the However, with a bit of ca reful forethough t we glass in and on she goes. In actual fact it removed all th e caps and CoIin turned 60 can hardly be distinguished from an origin al thou. off them on a 60 degrees tap er. Eve n screen. H aast scru tinee rs visit. Very pleased now some of th em still touched so the rockers with progress. Pleased someone is. Nex t job were removed and a few rubs with the file mudgu ards. Geoff Owcns supplied us wit h cure d th at. Just one of the man y problems a pair of eycle typ es for th e front. These were enco untered when "building" a car of this made up for Geoff's ear when it was owned type. H owever, when all these problems had by the Sta nton Bros. The rear guards ca me been sorted out we turned to timing th e from Da rcy Nicholson. T hese were on his mags. More trouble, the RH side one is rota- Merccdcs in the old days. I mad e the brack- (continued page 18) Camera Review

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"Ouch what bit me . ..." ( P ho to by N . M cl.arcu.) Above.-You're joking surely - This must be Wanaka . . . " ( Pho to by 1'\. M c l. a re n . )

Left.-" Gentl emen, unaccustomed as I am to public speaking ... " (Pho to by :-:. McLarcn . )

"No. I'm not changing my registr ation number . ... " ( P ho to by N. Mc l.a rr-n. ) PAGE EIGHTEEN SE I'TE.\IBE R. 1965 ting the wrong way. Away it went to th e Bentley of our own in th e co m pa ny of these Auto Electricians and that 's that pro blem people gave us more pleasure th an one ca n over. Hullo, we are all set to "start 'er up". describe. In fact every New Zealand Bentley W at er in th e radiator, strange, no lea ks, oil owne r on the rall y had helped us in so me in the sum p, all 2 Y2 ga llons of it. Pet rol in the way to build the ca r either by materi al th ings tank, HOLY SlvIOKE !! ! our blissful o r words of wisd om. And not only Ben tley ignorance is shattere d. Petrol running o ut as owne rs. All those fri ends who had helped in fast as we put it in. Remove tank, effect re­ th e resto ra tion, Alan H olland, AlIan Avcris, pairs. All set. Switches on Fuel Pumps, Push Jim Sulliva n , Russel C ross a nd m any m any button . One battery not enough , 2 12-volt more who watch ed over progress with a batteri es soon fixed th at , Push button , instant wary eye and I a m sure breathed g reat sighs glo rious noise. R eal honest to God, Bentley of relief wh en we a rr ived a t each check point. Burble. Happy faces, Y2 -gallon produced. But to me th e most sa tisfying point in th e Little did we realise th at stra nge things were wh ole ra lly ca me at \V anaka . Russell M clvo r going to happen. Y2 -gallon finish ed. St art struck tr ouble in th e Aston-Martin. At long her up again. The first sta rt was only for a last I was in a positi on to offer assista nce to few seco n ds. This time we st arted che cking someone else. To Queen stown a nd back for things. Hullo no oil pressure. Prime oil sys­ some much need ed parts was only a tok en tem still no pressure. Fa ces are now ve ry lon g offer for a ll the help I have receiv ed in years a nd worried a nd language ve ry strong . R ~­ previous. T o sum up. When one o r tw o mov e sum p to check oil pump. OK. Start things suc h as proper Van D en Plas gua rds, looking a round down under a nd finds incor­ the fitting of sideseree ns etc., Bert the burbling rectl y fitt ed bearings. Ph on e ca lls to C h rist­ Bentley sho uld and I am sure will devel op chu rch . Arrangements m ade and Colin ge ts into a fine vin tage touring ca r. BUT don't stuck into m aking tempora ry repai rs. D et er­ ge t th e idea that it is a spo rts ca r. Ther e mined to mak e H aast we arc.R all y only eight a re a lot of standard Amer ican vintage sedans days away. Six days before rall y a nd we start that will give it a run for its money. th ~ mot or again .' Aha that's ' better. Barry In a sho rt while Gavin Ba in will be wea rs a large g rin as h e drives " Bert" out doing Cl. road test on the ca r so vou will be on to th e road. Pet rol tank holding no w. It is a ble to ga in ano the r d river 's id'eas on th e impossibl e to det ail th e last week . W.O.F. ear. Alreadv I have sta rted on mv next res­ passed , spare wheel bracket, H ood cover, tor ation , th ~ 19W Clement-Ba va rd but th at's mudguards painted. Then on Thursday night a no the r sto ry. ' we a re all set. "Bert" is ready, Mum has pack­ P .S.-Our presid ent, the one a nd only, ed th e luggage and a t last we a rc ready to Andrew Andcrson, still hasn 't come forward tak e part in the 1965 International Rallv. with th e cham pagne yet. Still it is only six 1.15 p.m. Friday in co m pany with H olland\ months ove rd ue and perhaps he is waiting O akland and Av eris' Overland we motored for it to mature. ( M a turitv will undoubtedlv to Christchurch. A perfect trip. Early to bed ens ure th e exce llence of the' bever age. - E d . )'. that night and next morning we sta rte d on our [ourn ey. With myself as driver and mv co usin t an Fi~h er and his movi e came ra as ' naviga­ tor, we enjoyed a fortnight's touring a ro und some of Ne w Zealand's most sce n ic spo ts. The ca r performed like a dream. Petrol pump points burnt out once, th e right hand m ud­ guard fcll off. ( M y good bra ckets ) !! a nd th e horn fell off. That was a ll th e trouble th e car gave. The rall y was a success as far as we were co ncerned . Apart from the wa y th e car performed we enjoyed the com pa ny of th at wonderful gro up of New Zeal and Bentley ow ners. T o be a ble at long last to motor a -

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IRISHMAN CREEK, 1965 not as a pt as it seemed. I have always by Gavin Bain thought th at ghosts were able to filter th rough The annual Irishman weekend once solid objects as if they were not there. Why again took place at Queen's Birthday week­ then was the Napi er, Poynton at the helm , end and proved to be as mu ch a success as seen motoring down a grassy slope dragging the ten previous run s. At 6.15 a. m. on a frosty behind it some twenty yards of wire fence winter's morning thc cars assembled at the and a substant ial pa rt of a farm ga te? Sure ly Branston Buildings on the outskirts of Christ­ a ghost could have just filtered through with church, and were dul y given th eir instructions no damage. and sent on their merry way. Am ongst th e On motored the cars following the usual first awa y was th e O.M. driven by Peter muddy tr acks, shingle roads and stopba nks Shaskey, and a veteran of several previous made even more int eresting than usual by runs. There was Pet er Keir in his M odel A the still thi ck fog. Eventually th e crews Seda n, another coupc version of this model , filtered int o Ce rald ine for a rather chilly but Alan Fox with his unusual Essex roa dster and nevertheless welcom e lun chstop. As th e cars the writer in th e 1924 8/1 8 Humber two-seat motored away from here Peter Shaskey was Sa loon with the small space beh ind the seats able to demonstrat e the ease of starting the absolutely cra mmed with all sorts of gear O .M. mu ch to th e sorro w of the wri ter who necessar y for a wild weekend in the wop­ had to get a push sta rt. Mag. trouble again ! wops. The section from Ge raldine led via a " mythi­ The cars headed south down the main cal" K akahu School sign, over the interestin g roa d to th e township of Rakaia where th e hill country round Clella nds and onto som e writ er came upon three or four ca rs ga thered more grass' tr acks un til the next checkpoint at th e side of the road trying to work out th e just out of Fairlie. This was situated at th e instr uctions. Eventually everyone ag reed on front gate of the new "country house" of a route and off we set through a very thick our past president Rob Sha nd. Strathco nna n mist th at obliterated all signposts and land­ is a most elega nt and att rac tive propert y and marks. This we are putting forward as our we look forward to seeing th e T.T. Sunbeam excuse for getting lost on th e first line of the motoring down the tree lined dri ve before too instructions but wc were not alone and by the long. H ow about it Rob ? The Fairlie chec k time the pub at Methven had opened, there was the final official chec k of the trial, al­ was quite a gathering of thirsty souls waiting though judging by th e number of cars parked at th e door. A couple of rounds, a warm by outside the H otel at T ekap o there mu st the big open fire and on the roa d once aga in, have been some official fun ction on there. heading up through th e Alford Forest, still Eventually everyone reached Irishman Creek on sealed roa ds, to the first checkpoint of th e and after a qui ck meal those lucky peopl e who day conveniently located outside th e hotel. had managed to sta ke a claim in the rathe r A rathe r longcr pause this tim e to say hello to limit ed shea rers' qu arters wandered over to some of th e other boys who had arrived by the woolshed, venue for th e traditional Irish­ an un told number of different routes, some man hooley. If anyone felt any pity for the ca rs evidently ending up at points 20 and poor souls who had to spend the night in 30 miles off course. Prominent am ongst the this shed this was soon forgotten as the party revellers were Mike Poynton , the Wellington got under way. The usual story, a dr op (?) Club Captain, and Selwyn 'S pud' Jackson of ale, mu ch talk of motorca rs, good com­ also from the windy city. These two boys pan y and plenty of singing. One must not had somehow twisted the Presidential arm forget the usual strange array of musical in­ and were piloting the 40 / 50 Na pier for th e struments th at are suddenly produced for the weekend. H ow thev did it is still not known evening and this year included a ukelele, a but the Napi er was always the last ca r to piano aeeordian, set of bagpipes and several leave on any section, the first to arrive, and comb and tissue experts. The writ er can' t yet had not passed any of th e othe r competi­ even say for certa in wh at time th e party tors on that section. This feat ea rne d the ended but the following morning operations great white monst er the nickn am e 'ghost car', were shifted some thirty miles away to the although at one stage it seemed this nam e was Braemar Sta tion where the rather lavish PAGE T WENTY SEP", D IRER. 19fij hospit ality lasted from lat e in the afternoo n shee p dip drums. This engine, 4-cylind er until lat e in the evening some two days later. opposed, was 4in. bore and 4Y2 in. stroke O ne has to be very careful wha t one says in (3700 cc.). It was a 4-stroke eng ine with these articles but a very jolly time was had by the 2-to- l wheels coming from one end of all. During the course of the next day , or the cra nkshaft, the other end of the sha ft two, or what ever it was, there were numerous being very long, with the prop ellor about little incidents. A Bentley owner was seen 3ft. 6ins. in front of the engine, and a separ­ giving a fine impression of a very war-like ate bearing mounted out at th e prop ellor. Red Indian, but nearl y fell off the ta ble top The cams oscillated a qu eer rocking level in the process. Sever al of the boys were arran gement near the centre of the engine . used to try out the newly sha rpened shee p From these rocking levers the exha ust valve shears and one cha racter actually wen t to bed push rods went dir ect int o th e bottom of the with the bagpipes clasp ed in a firm embrace . valv e chamber. T he inlet push rods went As is always th e case these wonderful week­ to the top end of the valve cha mber, and ends mu st even tu ally come to an end and opera ted there with a rocker like an ordin­ after a ra ther prolonged farewell radiators ary inlet valve. were pointed in the general di rection of hom e, "On the head of eac h cylinde r was a and ano the r Irishman weekend was over. surface carbure ttor. This was a small steel This year's event was won by Clive chamber bolted on to the head , filled with Dodds in his 23 / 60 Vauxhall. Seco nd place conce rtinaed gauze with two pipes leading went to Peter Shas key on O.M., while M odel to it. One fed fuel an d air and the other A Fords took third an d fou rth places. Just went to the cylinder to supply the charge. man aging to get on the honou rs list were our T his is the only cooling the cylinde r head had . North Island friend s Mike and Spud, an d Abou t 4in . of the centre of th e cylinder bar­ th e last words we heard from them as th e rel was a water jacket. T he connecting fast­ int er-island ferry moved away from the dock­ en ing to the cra nksha ft was such th at one side wer e "We'll be hack nex t year boys". cylinder carried a master rod with an ordin­ O h crikey ...... ' . ary split big end. On the cap of this big end was a lug an d the opposing piston ha d a rod with a fork end fittin g on to the lug. EARLY NEW ZEALAND ENGINES A small pip e came from the wat er jackets to In the early years of this century, Rich­ cool the exha ust valve cha mbers. Lubrication ard Pearse, a young farmer in the W aitohi was mad e fro m several points by sma ll drip Valley, not far from T emuka, South Canter­ chambe rs. There was no cran k case, steel bury, was experimenting with aeroplanes he rods connecting th e opposing cylinders to­ had designed and built himself. His first gethe r. flight was at th e end of March 1904, but the "The construction generally was crude. bamboo-and-calico ai rcraft proved to be hard Pea rse mad e all his own studs, bolts, etc.: to contro l and landed on top of a nearby man y of these had no head but sim ply tight­ hedge (with a tearing noise like a Bugatti?) . ened down at the end of the thread. All eq uipment and engines had to be bu ilt "Mr C. w oods, an engineer of Timaru, from scra tch, and details of his work arc who built th e first car mad e in New Zealand, given in a report by the lat e Mr George got to know Dick Pearse very well. Pearse Bolt, who went to grea t trouble to obta in visited him man y tim es with reference to the information an d the remains of the early construction of his aero eng ine. T his was in machinery. Three engines were made: 1901 and 1902. He remembered showing " It would appear th at Pearse built firstly Pearsc how to make his own spa rk plugs, a 2-cylindcr opposed engine, and shortly with the cen tra l electrode wrapped with afterwards a 4-cylind er. This woul d line up mica. He also helped him with the design with Warne Pca rse's sta tement of th e first of surface car burettors". aeroplane not flying, an d the second one qu ite Richard Pea rse also built an oth er experi­ able to take off. ment al aircra ft after the First World War, "T he propellor was iron fram ed and the incorporating several unusual features. O ne blades mad e from sheet metal taken from of th ese was the manner in which the engine, -

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,MANUFACTUREDBY - PRESCO PISTON RING. WELLI NGTON CO. ITD.

Doubles the Life PAGE TWENTY-TWO SEPTE M BER. 196,) in this case 60 h. p. in plac e of the earlier 25 fired both sides of the pistons. So when a h.p ., could be swiveled through 80 degrees 2-stroke, the cra nk case compression fed one to provide direct lift in the same way as :1 side of the power pistons and the pump cyliu.. helicopter: del'S fed the other. When the engine was a 4-stroke the pump cylinders became power "The engine, also buil t by Pearse, was cylinders too, firing one side of the pistons. most unusual. By spending a few hours The engine was fitted with a radi ator an d changing push rods, inlet pipes, etc., the was wat er-cooled . It did considerable exper­ engine could be made to run as a 2-stroke or imen tal running and Pearse seems to ha ve a 4-stroke. The engine was mounted invert­ left it as a 2-stroke whe n he finished with it, ed with a double crank case on top, housing so presum abl y it acted best in th at configur a­ a 2-throw crank sha ft ; bolted to the crank tion . case were two large cylinders . Wh en the " A system of drip feed provided the fucl engine was operated as a 2-stroke these were through surfac e carburettors. There was even pump cylinders. Attached to the pistons in a small fan blower to initi ally break up the these cylinders was a rigid rod through glands fuel ; ignition was by norm al spark plugs, to th e power cylind ers mounted underneath battery and buz zer coils. Lubrication of th e the pump cylinders and in line with them, and engine seems to have been carried out by to th ese rods the piston s of the power cylin­ numerous oil drip applian ces feeding va rious ders were at tached. These power cylinders parts of the engine" . Letters to the Editor North Shore M edical Centre I would be obliged if you woul d publish Pa cific Highway, my letter or conta ct the members who woul d St. Leon ards. be interested in th is project. I could th en send th em th e information form that I have Dea r ?\1 rs And erson , devised and when the total project is com­ It is for quite a few years now th at I plete, I would send them a copy of the re­ have been receiving " Beaded 'Wheels" in my sults. ca pacity as Editor of " Spit & Polish" of the 1 int end to mak e this approach in all the Vet eran Car Club of Aust ralia (N.S.W . ) r Sta tes here, in South Africa and also in Great have always enjoyed " Beaded Wheels" and I Britain. Perhaps the numbers over th ere may must confess that your produ ction makes me be somewha t sha ttering and this might dis­ rather envious. It mu st be quite wonderful turb me but I will wa it to see wh at sort of to have an ad equ at e circulation to permi t results my enquiry produces before glV1l1g such a fine journal. up the struggle. Thanking you. The other matter th at I was writing Yours since rely, about is conce rn ing my interest in Ed wa rdian Geoffrey Lchmann. Austin ca rs. Naturally, this is because I have one. H owever, I have decided to try to con­ ""Vainui" , tact other Austin ow ners for the purpose of T erranora, comparison, contrast and so on. M y ca r is a New South Wales. 10 h.p. 1911 model, and as such is smaller Dear Mrs Anderson, th an an y of the others I have so far seen or Som e tim e ago, I was asked by the Sec­ heard ab out. retary of The Sunbeam , Talbot and Darracq I know th at your club has some Austins Register, the headquarters of whi ch is in Eng­ of the Edwardian period . I would very mu ch land, to act in Australia and New Zeal and, for like to contact the owners. I am trying to it was felt owners of these cars probably did fill in an informati on form on each of th e not, in many instan ces know of the R egister cars and per haps ult imatel y we may bc able an d perh aps were not getting the knowledge to produce some reasonably informative docu­ and assista nce, in the work of restoration, ment concern ing this particular mak e. wh ich is available. SEPT El> lIlE R, 1965 PAGE TWENTY-THREE

The purpose of this letter is to ask you I have one 1909 M axwell, running nice­ if you would be good enough to mention in ly, but unrestored plus 32 old motorcycles " BEADE D \"'HEELS" th at anyone seeking from 1907 to 1942. information re the joining of the S.T.D. will I have a preference for the 4-cylinders get all possible informati on and assistan ce if and have all of th e Indian 4's from 1928 on they contact me. to early 1942. I have been asked to go to England next M v latest restoration is a M odel 401 Februa ry and will be happy to do any research Indian 'and built from August 1928 to M ay on S.T.D. cars th at anv member may desire 1929. - I have opened an account with a London Before th at Indian I buil t the Indian Ace Bank and should any New Zealand owner which actually was the Ace unchanged. desire to join th e Register I shall be able to arrange pay ment of their subscriptions in When Indian purchased the Ace Com­ England th rough my own acco unt. pany in Detroit in 1927 some 15 ca rloa ds of T he annua l subscription is 20/- stg. and parts were shipped to Sp ringfield, M assa­ as a convenience I will acce pt a New Zealand chusetts to the Indian factory where th ey money order, a cheq ue an d in one instan ce I were assembled int o Aces. have been sent a New Zealand One Pound In Augu st 1928 th e New Indian 4, note. I do not know if this is correc t going Model 401 was announced. through the post but it' s for a good cause. I This had the familar Indian leaf spring, am sending you this 20/- note and would ask tank , etc. th at you credit my acco unt for "BEADED Actu ally the whole front end was taken WHEELS" - you will appreciate th at if I from the beloved 101 Scout. Also th e rear get fifty Ne w Zealand new members I will be wheel was 101 Scout as well as the brake about 100 years ahea d with my subscriptions assembl y. Only the sproc ket was revised on to your Club for I will either hav e to send th e hub. you any New Zealand rem ittan ces I receive The lower frame had the single dr op - or hold them until I make my visit on the front tub e same as the Ace and the Ace 3, way back from England. main bearing engine was used, unchan ged Several New Zealand people are already except for very min or details not visible to members of the Register and I hope that now the eye. we have a Represent ativ e in Australia we will So we had a compac t little 4-cylind er be able to arrange a small section of special mot orcycle about the same size as the 101-45 interest to S.T.D. owners in both New Zea­ cubic inch Scout. land and Austra lia. I am enclosing this note This machin e was built from August in a copy of "S unbeam". 1, 1928 until June 1929, when th e 402 was Trusting that you may be able ro assist, announced. This had the five main bearing and with best wishes, crank shaft but externally the motor still Yours faithfully, looked like the old Ace. \V. G. Sanderson. The frame was cha nged, going to the familiar Indian double drop front tub e. I am enclosing an origina l picture of the 40 2 as well as a shot of m ~' 401 taken 358 1 Lakewood Dri ve, from the same angle. Note th e single fram e Drayton Plains, front tube on the 40 I and the double tube Mic hagan, D .S.A. on the 402. Hello agai n, As far as I know this is the only 401 left. After you published my picture of my I would be glad to hear from anyone that two unrestored 1913 Indians, I received man y has one. nice lett ers from New Zealanders full of inter­ We had a meetin g of The Indian 4 esting inform ation about our hobb y of col­ Cylind er Motorcycle Club at T oledo, Ohio, lecting old motorcycles and cars. Sun day, August 15th, and T was lucky PAGE TWENTY-FOUR SEPT EMBE R, 1965 enough to bring home a trophy for the oldest Indian 4. O ne of our members built a 6-cylinde r Indian from two lots of motors. He mad e a special crank shaft and spent hundreds of hours on it tu rning it from a solid bullet of steel. Encl osed is a picture of this ma chin e with me sta nding behind it. I would estimate th at we had abo ut 75 Indian 4's at this meeting plus of course, Henders ons and othe rs. You have my permission to print any Mr Hopp's 1929 Model 401 Lndian, or all of this lett er and pictures. ( Photo hy G . l Iopps.) - George E. Hopps.

WAIKATO NOTES By Les D eath endeavour to hav e a m uch more reasonable scheme of a pprova l of th ese cars adop ted, on th e lines of th at we arc a t present using in th e W aik at o. A q uiet three months for th e Waikato, whi ch is pe rhap s not surprising as it has been an un usua lly T he Waik at o C lub is support ing th e C rippled cold three month s with many mor e frosts th an the C hild ren's So ciety with a vintage ca r di spl ay a t writer rem embers in th is normall y mild cl imate. Warren M ot ors, Hamilton on th e weeken d August 14- 15 th , and on 25-26th Au gust w e are ta king part About a dozen new mem bers have join ed ou r in Demonstration evenings organised by th e W aikat o ranks during the per iod and it is int eresting to Bran ch of th e Royal So ciety, at the Hamilton note th at th e maj ority of these are yo ung me n, thu s T echnical College. Our contribution tak es th e proving tha t th e sport is not confined to greybcards. form of a di spl ay of models, photogra phs, and Rall y In June nin e cars and twenty-odd brave souls films. turned out for a N ight T rial of a couple of hours T he branch magazin e - th e " Ve nture" issued d ur ati on on a pa rticularly frosty Sa turday eve ning, monthly - is now availa ble to enthu siasts outside so th at th e fish-and-chip supper wh ich followed was Waik at ;J, memb ership for 10/- per yea r, and par­ very welcom e. Best performance (vintage class) was ticul ars can be obtained from the Secretary, 1'.0 . returned by Roy and Sue Rowc ( 1930 Fo rd A Box 924 , Ham ilton. tru ck ) a nd best mod ern was Ba rry C ha llenor. Now that Stan No lan has almost com plete d the restorati on of his 1913 16/ 20 Wolseley landaulette TARANAKI BRANCH NOTES By lan HoweII he ha s turne d over the ownersh ip of th e car to his dau ghters-in-l aw Elaine and U na No la n, so we'll T he A.C .M . was held on J ul y 16th , wi th a goo d be see ing anot her Ladies' team out on th e com ing att endance and th er e was an inte resti ng d iscu ssion sum me r events. on several subjec ts, which was a ni ce cha nge. On Sat urday, J uly 17th, fifty m emb er s and Offi cers cIect ed wer e- Chairman , C. Pa ync; fr iends had a hila rious T ra mp Supper at the Bceres­ Secretary, D. Moore; Treasurer, R. T hom pson; cour t Ha ll, H amilton. O ld clo thes, pat ch es, grizzly Captain, ]. Castle; Comm itt ee, R. K im ey, D. Bow­ bea rds and cand les ma de th is Winter Dan ce a lit tle m an , \V. Sha nnon. diff erent to usual , a nd, as tha t was a cold night The mon th of July m ust have bee n a hecti c too , th e hot sou p and savouries, th e odd spo t of goo d peri od for a cer ta in C an tab r ian w ho was transferring cheer a nd the very good ba nd reall y mad e the to a new position in th e Scenic C ity- name ly Ne w eve ning, Plym outh . I am, of course refer ri ng to Jack Brad­ The Waik at o delegat e to th e A.C .M . in C hri st­ ford and his wif e Ca ro l, who wer e faced with the church, repo rt ed back to the C lub a t th e August problem of transporting four mot or cars and one gene ral m eeting. The A.C. l\.f. had been a very busy veteran motor cycle approximately 500 mil es, a long weekend a nd his rep ort was th erefor e fairl y lengthy. with the ir fa m ily an d priva te possessions. The prop osed vintage spa res com pany proposal has Anybody passing the C hristchurch Railway caught th e atte ntion of memb ers and th e Presiden t's Sta tion du ring th at time woul d have been intrigu ed study of the scheme is awaited wi th int erest. to wat ch seven em ployees fro m a local Rem oval Co . The P.V .V. fiasco was not really un exp ected , strugg ling with a diminutive 1924 Austi n 7, which and no do ubt thi s br anch will be for mul ating a th ey wer e struggling to load a broad a high side d rem it on th e subjec t for next year's A.C.M ., in~ an ra ilway truck. They fina lly achieved th is by lift ing SE PT EMBER, 19G5 PAGE TWEN TY.FIVE it up on its rear wh eel s on ly a nd wh eeling it into The hi ghlight thi s M ay , for th e C lub Cap ta in, th e tru ck wh ere it was low ered onto a ll fou r wheel s was so me bo dy else offering to run a trial. The va r­ a nd fast ened scc u rc lv. ious m otorcycl ists o f th e branch offere d thei r se r­ M eanwhile in 'a nother part o f the " C ity o f vices a nd were accep ted with joy. T h e result was a th e Pla in s" a nothe r g ro u p of enthus ias ts were putting pi cni c trial which inv ol ved a run th rough the h ills th e finish ing tou ch es to th e resto ration o f a 1906 a round th e edge o f the Taieri Plains. The V e terans " Alld ays a n~ l O nions" before loading it on a co as te r travelled ove r fairly level co untry wh ile the Vi ntage bound fo r, among other pla ces, the Port of T a ra ­ ca rs by a ll reports a tt a ck ed eve ry hill in sigh t to nak i. T hi s all ha p pened o f co u rse a fte r th e 192 3 a rrive in the sa me pl ace. just wh o won is still Overl and had been sa fely sto re d in a hay barn on obscu re, but by a ll acco unts everyo ne enjoye d th em­ a fri endly farm er's pro perty just ou t of C h ristch u rc h , selves in typ ica l sunny Otago wea ther. At the sa me ti m e hom es were being found for fou r S ince th en the only eve nt of m ajor im porta nce vi nt age mot or-cycl es. has been th e A.G .M . which was held last m onth. H ere th e story ends, but for j a ck a nd C a ro l So m e twenty- five od d ( in numbers th at is ) members it is th e beg inning o f a new one, a nd th is Bra nch at tend ed a nd a la rge ran ge o f to p ics were di scussed . would like to say a big WELC OM E. The C ha irm an began pro ceedings by rep orting on O u r M a y N . & N . took pl a ce in Stra tfo rd in a qu esti onnai re which he had sen t to a ll m ember s th e form o f a film a nd slide evening with m embers to ascertai n wh ere th eir interests la y and wh at of th e public being invited to a tte nd . A selec tion of vehi cles th e bran ch has. One in teresting fa ct whi ch slide s, m a inl y from th e Internat ional Rally, were emerge d was th at a t least three members cla im to show n a lon g with a film m ad e by G eofT Pow er. be rest oring ' M od ern ' ca rs. Present d ay sta ndards of This was com p le te with sound tr a ck a nd wa s very product ion a re fr equently critic ised , but I hadn't well done. reali sed th ey were as bad as a ll that. T he results of ou r annual M aunga-Moana ra lly, As well as th e mo re mundane su bjec ts which reported in last Bea d ed Wheels, was a w in to C oli n normall y a rise, th ere was sp irited di scu ssion on a Dray, o f W elling ton , who drov e h is Oakla nd to a ran ge o f top ics o f specific int erest such as, tyres, seco nd successive vic to ry . Well don e, sec if you ca n ' Pa cific' sc ra p, insurance, co m peti tion ove r new do it next yea r. finds, a nd m etho d s of ru nn ing thi s branch m ore D avc Bowman is a versa til e type. At th e p re­ efficie ntly. sen t he ow ns a cla ssic exa m p le of a British touring ca r, a Bentley; in th e past he has ow ned a classic Pro bably th e most a m us ing rema rk o f the exa m p le of a cheap, m ass-p rod u ced, go- a ny where­ eve ning ca me uninten tionall y, from th e ou tgoi ng ca r, a Ford T . Now he ha s decid ed to b,: cos mo­ sec re ta ry, who, int en ding to refer to " M r Sharpe of pol ita n a nd to sho w he ha s no p rejudi ce for eithe r the H ouse C ommitt ee", co m m itted a rather un ­ country , ha s a q u ired a 1935 Brou gh Su perior stra igh t fortu na te spo one rism which yo u ca n work ou t for eigh t m otor ca r. Open four-seat er a lu m in ium bod y­ yourselves. work by A tch lcy o f Bir m ingh am. At th e tim e o f f oll owi ng the di scu ssion the annua l awa rd o f w riting th e woodwork is nea rly ren ewed , so it won 't trophies was ~m a d e . T o Le s Ny c went th e Overa ll be long bef ore th is P. V .V. is on the road. V. and V. T rophy, while Bru ce C ough la n won th e O ur Cap ta in, j a ck Castle, ha s had hi s ca r to Ha rvcy Wilson Trophy. The Speed Awa rd was won , th e g round a nd has bought a very nice 1953 Dro p­ so me wha t by default, by George T ofield , but a n­ head C ou pe 3-litre Alvis-som ething to be p ro ud o f. othe r A lvis ow ner Trcvor Timms won the C ha ir­ D es M oo rc is thinking big a t th e m om ent with man's T rophy, for th e best restoration uudcrway, a i-sea tcr Pack ard, 1929 stra ight eigh t, sitting in hi s in mu ch more deservin g m anner. buck yard. It is a bi t d ilapidat ed a t th e mom ent, with T he following was th e res ult o f th e elec tions. a few pi eces mi ssin g. I hope hi s new job as Secre ­ R. E. N . O akIcy, C ha irm an; K . Oake n fu ll, C lub ta ry won 't int erfere with re stora tion . C aptain; D . R . G oodrnan , Secret ary; G . j . Tofie ld , ' Vc sho u ld he seeing a vintage Sunbeam motor­ M . Wi nt er and G . j a ckson, Committee M embers. ing soo n, as th e owne r has reli nq u ished his post on S ince that time th ere have been no co m peti­ th e co m m itt ee. Thanks for th e good work over th e tive eve n ts but th e regul a r Friday N igh t Na tters last fou r yea rs Colin, in an one rous job . have co n tinued to a tt ra ct a fair number o f me mbers. A new feature of th ese is th e provi sion o f tea , co ffee, OTAGO NOTES etc., for a sma ll cha rge. Incid entally if a ny foreign mem bers ha ppen to com e to Dunedin they a rc very by G eorge Tofield welcom e to co me a long and join in , th e ad d ress is For some time now th ere seems to ha ve been 36 Park St reet. a breakdown in com mu nica tions betw een " Bea de d On th e subject o f the clubroorns, much has W heels" a nd D unedi n. I onl y hop e that thi s pi geon been ha p peni ng there la tel y. It now has a new roof m an ag es to ge t th rou gh. a nd lin ing. T he bar sta nds in sem i-co m p lete d sta te. A lthough it is a litt le la te to be men tio ning the Even now it look s magni ficen t: At present a small " H aast" , neverthel ess I feel m enti on should be m ade d ed icat ed band is ca ref ully co m p le ting the labour o f th e fine show ing o f our ow n branch in th e results. o f love wh ich is its constructi on . Pa rd on our sma ll Three silver a nd on c go ld awa rds ca me our wa y boa st if we say tha t it will be th e finest in New a nd we a rc very proud of th e ge n tle me n responsible. Z eal and. - PAGE T WENTY-SIX SEI' I E ~ IIl ; ' ; ' !., ,

J ust recently there has been an u psurge m in ­ Our cnd o f reg ist ra tion run was thwarted by sno w terest in , wh a t I sha ll p rob abl y be assaulted fOI th ou gh o nc ha rd y so ul turned out an d sa ys he ca lling, th e m ore hum bl e type o f Vintage ca r, name th orough ly enjoyed th e run a ll on h is ow n. ly the 12/ 4 Au st in. Two of our m embers hav- : O ur lon gest run has been to \Vestport wh en ce recently begun to restore exa m p les o f th e marqu» . we trav ell ed to su pport a ca rni val a rra nged by the T o da te, however, their effor ts see m m ainly to ha c loca l T own H all Com mi ttee. This was a th oro ughlv been co nce rned with lauding th e typ e's m erits wi : 11­ enjoyable event, th e route foll ow ing th e famed out end .. . . . I n one case at lea st th is is under­ Bu ller Gorge. T he weather was perfect a nd th e sta ndable as he has previousl y had little oppo rtu nity hospit al ity unboun d ed in true W est Coast sty le. o f m ak ing a cq uai nta nce with ca rs of honest qu ality, This was the firs t time a co llection of restored ol d du e to his p reoccupa tion w ith a Bentle y. ca rs had been see n in Wcst port an d o f course created O nc o f our mot orcycling frat ernity rr-ccn tly tremendo us in ter est. fini sh co nstru cting a ga rage for hi s new car. Then Andy llcattic's 191 IMartini is now restored to he found a V et eran Ch cvrolct . G uess where th e th e co mplete m ech anical stage a nd a start about to new ca r is, still! ~ ; : made on bod ywork. I feel that th e time has perhaps co me to sto p George T Op l:SS is ma 'cing p rog r ~ S) with h is writing a nd sta rt th ink ing, before I make too many Alldays a nd Onion; th e wh eel s a nd radia tor have ene m ies. been reb uild and work is now proceeding a pace on th: eng ine. Ron G a llctly's C h rys lcr 72 roadsicr is nearing com ple tion and nearly rea dy for pai ntin g,

Ra y Beach In s just I com p le te d h is ma ratho n SOUTH CANTERBURY NOTES task o f bui ldi ng a to urer bod y on a 20/25 Rolls by Russell Cross Roycc chassis, D ennis King has ac q ui red a 1926 C hrysler S ince last rep ort, branch ac tivity has been con­ I mpcria I 80 to urer whi ch sho uld rest ore very ni cely. fined to a run on Queen' s Birthday week end to Al cx andra a nd a film eve ning. On the run to A!ex th e cars travell ed down throug h Da nsey's pa ss a nd Nascby on the Saturday. O r. S unday it \I :l " a free da y a nd so me person s tr ....vr lled to Quccnstown or IiORTHERN NATTER by Bentrod. Roxburgh . On M onda y th e return trip was th rough The ga rage is a cold a nd d ra ugh ty pl a ce these the Lindus Pass. For fou r cars it was a long tow nights a nd it is wi th d istinct relief th at one se ttles hom e. The Good ma n An sa ld o stripped its ske w down in front of a roa ring log fire, ale po t at hand, gears on th e way to Alcx, ,,,: d as it was hou rs aft er to pen these notes. Do yo u remember all thos e everyo ne else they d id no t a rrive ,&I Alcx until mi.l­ w int er jobs we were go ing to do on the car during day Su nd ay. They were to we d i.omc by J iPl Sul li­ th e eve n ings? O h 1I'c1I , never mind," a t least th e ~L: rr i < va n in hi s Packard. The Oxford ol D anny tho ug ht was the re. Perhaps wh en th e wa rmer lon ger M oran had its m agn et o sto p sp a rking a t Al e" :'0 j ­ eveni ngs co me ro und w e will hav e a good go a t was deli vered home by th e motive pow er 01 Alan th ose valves a nd blowing pi stons, duff magn et os and H oll and's O akland. j ust before the Li ndus Pass th ings. Who ca res about w eed s in th e ga rden! th e Essex of J ohn Arend stopped wi th the big ends This brings m e to the lat est A uckl and C lub protesting th at it had been running wit h no oil Itullctin , a very plush six-page printed a ffai r, co m ­ pressure a nd so it wa s h itch ed to M rs Wi lson 's pl ete wit h ill ustrat ed jok e a nd a p hot ographi c R cnaul t. O n a rriva l a t Omarama there was Ia n representat ion of w ha t a p pears to be a 2-sea te r Adic' s Sunbeam with a to wrope attach ed - its Studeb ak er entitled " TAILPI ECE . .. .. bo tto ms bearings had a lso run a nd a " mo de rn" towed it up " , the re bein g a bod head do wn und er the bo n­ back to T cm uka. I t wa s a very, though expensive net ba lanced over the fron t wing. Is it a h e or a fo r so me, enjoyab le week end. she ? C a n' t te ll in the se d ays of sna ke legged slac ks. After a lull , restora tions sec m to hav e sta rted Act ua lly th is ed ition heral ds J ohn Hcarnc's inh eri­ aga in in the di strict and we hea r that a B.S .A ami tan ce of th c C lub Bull eti n Editorsh ip . W c have a Big "X" m ot o rcycles, a Hendcrson sideca r and a never had it so good a nd in recompen ce he m ay m aj o r eng ine overha u l a nd the m otors are out of keep th e job for lif e ! Ia n Adic's S unbeam a nd Mrs Wi l:o n's "A" roadster. Ah! a nd what else d o we sec in thi s Bu lletin? Ia n Barnes has left N .Z . a nd has se ttled down A C lub run on S unday morn ing, 2::! nd Au gu st , in the North Island ( I expe ct so me rem a rk about sta rting fro m Oneh un ga W harf o f a ll p laces. Now thi s ). W c m iss h im but we hop- to sec h im at Onchunga wa s o nce famed as the sta rting pl a ce fo r M ount Cook on La bou r W eekend. epic seasick m a kin g voyages to far di stant lands suc h as New Plym ou th , \Va nga nui, W ell ingt on a nd Lyt­ te!t on . I n the days when th e ca rs w e now drive so m errily to C hristch urc h a nd ba ck for a 1300 m ile NELSON NOTES tour o f th e So u th Isla nd , just co u ld n' t get beyond by D. King the first 30 m iles or so o f d eep mud a nd clay. Yes Winter ac tivity has been co n fined to co lour th ings ha ve cha nged, but not so our ca rs and for th e slide eve nings a nd a very interes ting talk on his firs t time of their long liv es they a re rea lly capable early mot oring rcru ini ccnscs by a local res ide n t. of go ing p laces, M ind yo u th ere m ust hav e been S EPTE~IIl ER, 1965 PAGE TWENTY-SEVEN som eon e forty years ago wh o was d aring enoug h to mo to rcar, which throu gh bein g unwanted a nd ex­ drive a ca r down th e N orth Island, ship it ove r th e pen sive to repair, have mostl y reached a d epl orable wat er and com ple te a tour of th e South Island. I sta te of d ecay. It is good to sec th at suc h grue­ wonder if we co uld per suade a nyone to tell such a some d clapidat ions a re not sufficient to d et er th e tal c as thi s for publication in Beaded Wheels. It real en thusias ts from co m ple ting masterpieces of would mak e rather in ter esting re ading. restoration. Surely w e need in o ur Club m en with such ene rgy and ca pa bilities as th ese? I a m ce rta in On a nothe r pa ge of ou r Bull etin we see Sun­ th at if th e count were to be tak en it would be diffi ­ d ay, O ctob er 24 th, Labour W eekend,T HE cu lt indeed to find as mu ch as two thirds of ou r HUNUA I00 RALLY. Alwa ys fun thi s one, even if numbers wh o can reall y claim cred it for th e full it does ra in. M embers o f o the r branches a rc par­ sca le restorati on of a nyth ing . Yet th er e a re a mong ticul arly welc om e, with or without th eir vintage us keen members, wh o having ta ckl ed a lrea dy sev­ cars. eral full restora tions, have a lso put onto th e road again in firs t class orde r a n inter esti ng ve h icle of Any on e ever heard of cyc le ca rs? Wc seem to th e post vin tage era. Arc we to drive suc h m em­ co llect th em up here and thi s time ou r pal e but ber s out o f our C lu b ? T ell th em to form their own proud H on . Secretary ha s go t h im self a vet er an C lu b ? O r sho uld we enco urage the m in th e sa me Swift. W e shall now be a ble to orga n ise an egg way as we have th ose wh o have had th e temerity and spoo n ra ce between th e Duo and th e Swift. to restore some half bak ed cycle ca r, or motor Also in our area th ere lurks a T wom blcy a nd a cycles or Vet eran trucks even. I t was p articul arly Smith Fl yer, th ough not under th e Club's a uspices . noti ceable th at th e C lu b was quick to mak e use A beautiful brass bound and knobbed Vet eran of the stre nuo us serv ices o f seve ra l post vintage St eel Bed stead was seen recently neatly tied behind owne rs a nd th eir veh icles for th e most a rd uo us jobs a sta te ly 12/4 Au stin T ourer, driven by a cha rm ing in marshalling the H aast R all y. The time has com e young lady, wh o having driven thi s vehicle a lone to tak e stock. It could well be th at amon gst th ose for th e past five yea rs or so has some ho w remained th at cry so stre nuous ly for a mere arbitrary d ate ou tside ou r C lub. Oh, wh er e have th e you ng m en as a curb on th e willing restorers lurk many wh o gone . . .. far, far away .... This is not th e first hav e never restored a ny th ing . time w e have encou ntered up on our roads a m obile brass bed. Ca n th ere be in exis tence such a thi ng as Au ckl and harbour wa s once a a perfect ven ue a Vet er an Bed stead C lub. Quick, be with it lads for those wh o forsook our overcrowde d roads a nd before it is too late! took to th e pleasu res of exp loring its beautiful R emember a ll th ose beautiful mot or cycles that inl ets and Pohutak aw a sha de d beach es. No w we were see n on th e H aast ? If a ll goes well we will soo n read tha t Bureau cr acy is to tak e over th e co ntrol ha ve the sa me number up th is end of th e Isles. of even thi s j oy. Boat s how ever sm all are to be H aving sad ly lost our goo d fri end Les C oleman, we licen sed and will have to di splay large a nd lurid ha ve an other willing and able man to ste p in to th e number s painted on th eir sides , so th at they ca n breach. Barry Williams will be looking after th eir be prosecuted suc cess fully by a n eve r in cr easin g aff airs from now on. Regular Saturda y Afternoon army of pin pri cking spies for d aring to enjoy M eet ings a re taking pla ce a t Bruc c Ander son 's th emselv es outsid e th eir own homes! . All because Garage . Need less to say th ese are a bsolute ly hil ar­ a ve ry mi nute minorit y hav e mi sbeh aved th emselves iou s oc cas ions, reflecting th e wonderful good humour and be cause a lso large, well orga nised a nd res­ of th e boys wh o so cheerfully plug on midst th e ponsible Yacht C lu bs hav e q uite rightly cla mo ured du st made by ou r old battle wagon s during rallies. for some ac tion against offenders ove r who m th ey hav e no co ntro l. No w th ere is to be co nt ro l, in a To th ose wh o hav e pondered on th e sca rc ity manner so repugn ant th at th e big C lu bs wi sh of vet er an ca rs a mongst N orth Islander s and Auck­ fer vently that th ey had never brou ght th e ma tte r landcrs in particular, th er e is of co urse a true a nd u p. trite answer. W e sim ply ha ven 't been so fortunat e as th ose of you in th e So u th I sland.T hey never kept th em so lon g up her e a nd frankly apa rt from Bew are th e Bureau crat s! Ther e exists among Fords and Dodges th ere soo n will be nothing much th em th ose with stro ng motives to ensnare, regulat e left o f int erest in th e Vintage lin e. M any of th e and contro l eve n us harmless V. & V. cha rac te rs. old Ame rica n ca rs arc a p t to ge t ove rloo ked for On what do th e spidcrous webs of au th ority thrive ? no other rea son than th at , in co m pa ny of th e The imagined g rieva nces o f loud minorities. Let old Au stin 12/ 4, d ozen s of th em a re still p roudly one of us in a n un gu arded momen t be th e ca use working hard for th eir living, ofte n still in the of a dangerous multiple accide n t or eve n serious ly hands of a n ea rly owner; which is more th ey d elay a lon g lin e of weekend hol id ay tr aff ic and th e have as yet nei ther co me to a sta nds till, nor, in friends o f the da ily press will supply our ep itaph. order to ca rr y on, required an expensive and Authority could mak e us its 'scra pe-goa t'. For th e th or ou gh overha ul. They arc far from being di s­ sa me reason s let us not seck concessions suc h as ca rde d . T hus do th ey ap pear not on ly to th e on­ ch eaper licensing o f vet eran ca rs, ete. Conc essio ns look er, but even to th e 'e n ligh te ne d' as bel on gin g to ca ll some time be won , but th ey a lmost a lways en ta il a fa I' lat er age. H en ce th e Nor th Island's stro ng su bm ission to su btle contro ls. Controls, re member, lean ing tow ards ce rta in typ es of Post Vintag e era on ce on never conic off ! PAGE TWENTY-EIGHT SEPT EMBER, 196:; MANAVVATU BRANCH NOTES but wh at the " R ua hi nc Ramble" will met amorphose int o a Romp, a Ri ot , or spa re us, a Rampage. - by Brian W)'che rley I t is a matter of satisfac tion to all th at a tte nd­ BAY OF PLENTY NOTES By J ack Hoven ance on C lub nights hover between thirty and fift y At our last A.G .M . a new co m m ittee was elect ­ members wh ich represents mor e tha n half our ed with the resul t, th at we now have a new C lub strength. T he bill of fare on th ese occasions has C a pta in, Dave Shand, and, a new Secretary, G cor ge ranged from th e pur e busin ess of an annual or Ca ppcr. spec ia l gene ra l me et ing to film s, talks or slides and A specia l vote of thanks mu st go to M rs and of co urse technical discu ssions or 'na tter'. For Alan Carncron, wh o in th e position of co mbi ned 'noggin' rea d 'lavish sprea ds' so cha rac te ristic of secretaries have don e so mu ch for ou r club, for 300 Ru ahine Street where our hostesses Mrs T owns­ a whil e we we re very a la rme d, wh en thi s keen hcnd and Mi ss La very rea lly turn it on a t suppe r co uple not only gavc up th eir office but also sold tim e. M embers of neighbouring bran ch es, tr y it th eir Mod el A but th ey haven 't lost int erest as some tim e, see ing is believing. Yes, th ese club th ey have faithfully turned up a t meetings a nd nights arc perhaps un iqu e in th at regu lar atte nd­ runs and it is ju st a matter of th em bein g too old crs ap pea r from M an gaw cka, Kimbolt on, Feilding, for th eir car usua lly it is th e other way around. Pahiatua, Levin , Fox ton , Bulls, Ashhurst and of On th e lBth of J uly, our new Club Ca ptain course the locals. had orga nised an afternoon run wh ich attract ed 18 entries and in spite of bag weather, it was very en­ T he Branch was well represented at the Sixt h In te rn at iona l Rall y, a seco nd class award being joyable, it was especially nice to sce two lad ies br ought home by Phil Andrews. O the r entrants ente r who, by th e way, arc said too be 150 years wit h impeccably prep ared vehicles were:- Brian old th at is betwe en them , and th ey certa inly put Rankine, Stutz Coupe, Bill Bcnn ett , Daimler landau­ some of our younge r members to shame who on lettc; Ron T ait , Studeba ker ; Bru ce Poolc, Ford A; account of th e weather stayed at home and a l­ J ohn Harvcy, Mod el T ; G avin Hi cks, M orris-C ow­ th ough th ey both go t lost like myself, th ey both Icy C hum my; Lcs Fitzger ald, H arley-Davidson and mad e a point of letting the cornmi ucc know th at side-car; Barry Bclk , solo A.J.S. ; Grah am Masc­ th ey had had th e tim c of th eir lives, th ey wer e mann,C rossley Cix tourer ; and a 30/ 98 Vauxhall . Mi ss Ain sworth and Mrs Smith in Overl and and All entra nts com pleted th e circuit whi ch was not C it roc n respecti vely. sur pris ing as most of us wer e ro und th e bend before Winner of th e run was Da ve Ycom an s in a sta rti ng. No ne the less it was an unforget abl e m ixture Hudson , th ird pl ace went to Alan Bcnson in his of co ntras ts and experiences from th e " Walpur­ Essex and seco nd plac e was awa rded to our presi­ gisnac ht" of Mt. Cook to the sublime tranquillit y dent ju st becau se he is th e presid ent. of Coronet Peak , Fiv e-St ar luxury a t Mi lford to a In Augu st we will atte nd th e A.M .P . show in horse-box at Inver cargill, ambrosi al oyste rs and Wh akat an e and th e O range Festival in T auran ga mem orab le sand wiches, que ues, Leopard , D imp, and on th e 29th wc will celebra te our club's anni­ "J ak" , " Liz", and th at Royal progression from ve rsa ry with a tim ed all day picn ic run to K at ikati . Invercargill to Christ church with flag-waving chee r­ Q uite a few ca rs hav e change d hands lat ely ing chi ld ren and nostalgic citizens. In fact we play­ bu t a ll within our club so ha ve not last an " but ga ined a Bentley and a Falc on Knight. ' ed th e wh ole ga m ut of ph ysical , emo tiona l and sp iritua l expe riences to help make th e history which In O ctober we hop e to meet th e H uwk c's Bay was th e Haast. From thi s Branch , a grea t big Bran ch in T aupo, thi s will be a t Lab our weekend THANK YOU to th e brave instiga to rs, th e long­ an d ac co m mo da tion see ms to be a probl em so wc suffering marsha lls,S HELL, PENNZOIL, FI RE­ expec t to sec quite a number of ten ts which, to the STONE, Sa m and his team and U ncle Tom Cob­ I-Iaast Pass boys will be -just like the goo d old days. bell' and all the Ca nte rbu ry Bran ch members wh o At our last mee ting a sub -committee was elec t­ bore the brunt of th e to il an d are sti ll mopping up . ed to look into the possi bili ties of hold ing a North Islan d Ra lly in The Bay of Plenty some time in For I ~) 65 th e " R uahinc Ramble" attracted a th e future and it is ind eed tim e that this club good entry from far and wid e and was favou red should con sid er som e way of repaying th e hospi­ with a fine day. I t was fitting that Andy Thornson tal ity which we have repea ted ly enjoyed at previ ous on H arl cy-Davidson should ca rry off th e prix maj or ra llies held by vari ou s branch es. d'honncu r as overa ll winner of th e T ownshenrl Well , th at is about it for thi s issue, we wish M em ori a l T rophy plus a trophy donat ed by himself you a ll many find s and happy restorati on s. for th e enco urageme n t of th e mot or-cycle bri gad e. In all this he was ably navi gat ed by his wif e Na ncy, MARLBOROUGH NOTES in side-cha ir, a goo d combi natio n a ll round - at­ by Rust y M acHin ery tentio n bachelor s .- Owing to th e lat e arrival of " Beade d Wh cels" Her e as elsewhe re m ind s arc bein g exe rc ised Marlborough notes were om itted in th e last issue. on the subject of co nco urs judging as to fairness and The I nterna tional Rally is over. Of th e 30 odd as a tim e consume r. In add ition

SEPTE~lIlER , 1965 PAGE TWENTY-NIl'\E cere thanks to the organizers, esp ecially Sam Sly­ members ar c planning to tak e th eir cars to the field, Andy and Mollie And erson, and all others North Island ea rly next year with th e intention of who helped to make the rally the success it was. showing the boys up th ere ju st how good cars can There was very little publicity in the local papers. motor. The cars will be left up North until aft er The annual general me eting was held at the th e National Rally in Wellington a t East er, and resid ence of Ron Osgood. Colin Pat che tt wa s here again a very strong continge nt is assured from elected C hairma n, John Finnie still holds his posi­ Canterbury. tion as Hon. Secretary, Don Kilputri ck is C lub Lo cal restorations arc numerous, members Captain. having been spurred on by our annual rally in A matter of interest brought up by one member Novembe r. Well on th e way is Eri c Walk er 's 1914 was the recent rise in insurance in registration Rover three-seat er whi ch promises to be a very fees. T oo many accident s on th e road and us vint­ motorable little car and while on the ·subject of age owne rs have to carry th e baby, aft er all we only Rovers, Davc Manhart is coming on very well with do a fraction of th e distance of othe r motori sts an d his early single banger but lacks a few sma ller parts. it is a very rare thing for a vintage or veteran to be An entire new chass is has been made and engin e, involved in an ac cident. front axle and gea rbox a rc already in positi on. Aft er the meeting was over Ron who is a col­ Dave almost has th e new gea rs for the Hurtu finish­ lector of all kind of junk dug up an old movie pro­ ed and it will be nice to sec this ca r out again. ject or , a news reel travelogue and come dy, all about Snow Donaldson is well on the way with his little 50 years old showing old cars of the p eri od . I did Swift cyclecar and has been spe nd ing evenings in not think the modern gen eration had any sense of front of th e fire with several rims and a great pil e humour, but I never heard so mu ch lau ght er for of spok es. Another Swift we hope to hear som e new s yea rs, we th oroughly enjo yed ourselves and had a of soon is th e vintage exam ple owned by pa st club goo d supper to finish up with. capta in Norm Kin g. With the duties of office now The garage and workshop rent ed by th e club taken from his sho ulde rs we expect all sorts of has had to be given up . Ther e wer e two or three wonderful things. Brian Brown is really working busy weekends shifting all the gea r. Dave McDon­ on his 23/60 Va uxha ll and Warner M an ger is a id came to the rescue and has sto red most of the pla ying aro und with blowers on th e Sunbeam . gear on his farm about three mil es from town . Evid ently he thinks he will be abl e to beat the Whil e a no the r member ha s offered us the use of his Bentleys with thi s added ! ! ! ! full y equip ped workshop. Speaking of Sunbeams ,ou r worthy President is Wc had two visitors from Ne lson recently, Ken actually working on th e 1914 T.T. car. ''\l e hear Ivory and C eorge T opliss, they took back th e that th e cra nkcase is being work ed on and plan s rem ain s of an old Alldays and Onion, one of the for th e chass is arc well under way. Enthusiasm has earliest cars here and som e Ford parts as wCJ\. reach ed a peak a fte r the finding in Southland of the Wc are all looking forward to the summer original front and rear axles, whil e up from Iri sh­ wh en we hope to have some mor e outings. I am man C ree k ca me th e petrol tank, sever al bod y not sure but I think we Illay see some good long panels and a few small parts. What a happy day run s and may he camping out at some of them. when thi s histori c vehicle once again takes th e That 's ab out all for now . Ch eeri o. road, perhap s in com pany with Rob Shand's 1922 ca r. Ah well , at lea st we ca n dream . . CANTERBURY NOTES by Gavin Bain SOUTHLAND BRANCH As is usual the Ca nterbury Branch does not By Barry Barnes wait long after the A.G.M. to run its first eve nt of Due to th e advent of wint er vintage ac tivity th e season. This year it was a splend id Sunday in th e south has been fairly scant lately. However , a fte rnoon trial organised by our new C lub Ca pta in, th e End of Registrati on run was well patronised and I van Taylor , Some 40 m iles wer e covered by en­ an enjoyable tim e wa s had by all. Ce rta in club trants in and around th e suburbs of C hristchureh members assisted in providing a welcom e to th e and it was most pleasing to see so many veteran members of the touring Springbok team who rod e and vintage vehicles out for th e day . Notable in vintage ca rs from th e Inver cargill airp ort to amongst th ese wer e th e Scott familv in th e 50- S their hotel. Fiat, the newly restored TFord s'edan of Colin Recently our branch held its A.C.M., and to Jack, th e brass radiator Ford of Lindsay Ayers, and fill the pl aces vacat ed by our form er C ha irma n, the King brothers with their two Riley 9's, one a Ray Eunson and Secretary Jack Barnes, Alex M onaco sa loon and the oth er an early and most Cas ey and Neil M cMillan were elected respectively. attracti ve tourer. The tri al was in th e form of a Doug Haigh was elected Club Captain. A step for­ 'kitser' and competitors had to find the shortest ward was th e election of a Run Controller for our rout e aro und the dozen or so city landmarks, col­ annual Riv ert on Rally at this meeting. In the past lecting en route numerous a rticles rangin g from a it has been the practice to leave thi s until lat er piece of gorse to a chicken feather . Just what the in th e year but it is felt with an appo intme nt the rea ctions of the poor chicken farmer at whose pro­ gro und work ca n be done early leavin g more tim e perty most ca rs stopped wer e, is not told . for the a tte ntion to detail that mak es all the diff er­ A very compreh ensive pro gramme of events ence. The C lub has been fortunat e to obta in the has been arranged for th e seaso n and a group of services of Ray Lindsay who has a ll th e expe rience PAGE T H IRT Y SEPTE ~lllE R, 1965 needed to pe rform thi s im portant task. T o all those FOR SA LE : 1925-26 Ajax M od el Nas h seda n. 21.6 membe rs who have th ought of a ttend ing R iver ton , h.p, Seven bearing, pressure fed cra nksha ft, side whe the r your prefer ences run to cars, or motorbikes, val ve. 4-whee l bra kes. Origin al pai nt , vacuum tank. veteran or vintage we wou ld like to see you. The 525 x 2 1 d isc wh eels. H andbook . Contact: R . Grow­ Rall y will be held on 12th February. cot t, 6a George Stree t, Ri chmond, Nelson. R es/ ora/ ion News: FOR SALE: 1926 Armstro ng Siddeley. T his ca r C ha rlie Emerson has recently acquired a 1928 was completely restor ed for thc 6t h I nte.rnation al C hrys ler 4-roa dster an d has commenced restorati on . Rall y. O rigi na l handbook. Two spa re engmes. R e­ Cha rlie's striking I mper ial 80 roadster is now motor­ ceipts for all wo rk done on restoration. M ust sell ing much better after attention to the va lve timing to ma ke room for restora tion of 11.9 Lagond a. and ot he r tun ing an d it is now running like a true Price £375 o.n.o . Co ntact: K. W. Oakenf ull, 229 Brockvi lle Road, Du nedi n. Ph one 34- 134. C hrysler shou l d~ Ano the r roa dste r well on th e way is Alan WANTED: Ignition switch for 1930 Mod el A Pay's 1926 Dod ge 4 whi ch is receivi ng a thorough Tudor sedan. Even unreason abl e prices conside red . restor ation . At th e tim e of wr iting it is com pletely Avery, 225 Ocean Bea ch Road , M ount Maunganui. di sassembled and work is progr essing on the front FOR SALE: 1933 Roll s R oyce 20-25 with Seda nca end chassis and mot or. De-ville coachwork by Hooper and Co ., London , Northern members will be plea sed to hear that and is in exce lle nt origina l cond ition with silver well -kn own member David M cl vor is ba ck home mascot, scrvo brakes, on e spo t lubricati on , good afte r several years in th e U. K. David is at present tyres. For further information contact K . E. Ivory, working on th e eng ine of Brother Ru ssells' 1930 87 Q uebec Road, Ne lson. Ph on e 738 1. Asto n M artin International. The work is being don e FOR SA LE : Mod el AFord, 1930 four-door Seda n. to David's usual meti cul ou s sta nda rds and has in­ Co m pletely resto red for H aast Rall y. R oyal Blu e clude d manufa cture of a complete new oil pump. and black lacquer paint work. £200 O.n.O. 1. B. The gea rbox has also been recon dit ioned. David Poolc, 11 Li mbr ick Street, Palmcrston No rth. hop es to sta rt work on th e Beard mor e shortly. WANT ED: 26 x 2Y2 RE. M otor cycle rim . 40 Neil M cMillan is reb uil d ing the bod ywork of spo ke holes. R . D.C ross, 25 King Stree t, Tima ru. his 1911 Vulca n. Every piece of wood in th e bod y FOR SA LE: 1928 R enault Vivasix Sa loon. 3 100 is being repl aced altho ugh most of th e metal panels c.c. 6-cy linde r, Se rvo brakes, rcason ablc orde r. 1\1rs will be used. Ne il is not taking the easy way out R . Wil son , 25 K ing Stree t, Timaru. for he is rebu ilding a full 5-sea ter bod y. WANT ED: Wh eel Dunlop 6-bolt hole, 2 1 inc h ] im M cTaggart of Balclu th a has recentl y ob­ wire for Sunbeam 16 h.p. Sa loo n .about 1928, also tained a Bull nosed M orris O xford in original con­ horn Kl axon for same ca r. Cash or will swa p for d ition which he is proceeding to resto re. mag. for sing le cylinde r Cadillac. D. V. Wh ite, 688 A new me mber Bill Shanks has obtained a 4 G reat No rt h Road , Grey Lynn, Auckland, W.2. cyli nder Essex tourer in reason able order although FOR SALE: 1920 M axw ell Tourer in sou nd con ­ modified in some respects, e.g. Do dge back end. dition. Upho lstery, hood and pa intwo rk as new. Bill has locat ed a parts ca r and hop es to comme nce restoration sho rt ly. £195. G. R. Beetham , 176 Otumoetai Road , T au­ ranga . Ph on e 69-577. U p in Go re, Bru ce G rierson is co llec ting parts for the restorati on of his 1913 O verla nd a big FOR SA LE: Co mp letely restored 1926 M od el T 4 cylinde r tourer. Frank R obson h ;J S recently loca­ Ford Tudor Seda n. Trophy Winner, Wan ganui ted ano the r 1912 Ford chassis com plete with engin e, Queen's Birt hda y weekend, 1963. First C lass Award radia tor, bulkhead, etc., whi ch will be of consider­ Winner, W an ganui Queen's Birthday weekend, 1965. able assistance with th e restoration of his 1912 T H as com pe ted in many tri als and ralli es including whi ch is coming along slowly. M otu cka 1964 and is always judged high in all eve nts. This car ha s cost approximately £350 to Doug M cLeod and broth er Alista ir have recent ­ bring to present cond ition and is com p lete with ly obtained a 1919 Centre door T sedan and ar e numerou s spa res. Only reason for selling, owne r contempla ting restoration. Alista irs' 1926 Ford resto ring ano ther ca r. No reasonable offer ref used . tourer is nearl y finished. E. A. Hol mw ood , 327 Bot ani cal Road , Palmerston No rth. Ph on e 82-246. WANT ED:Any informati on or parts especially Classified Advertisements motor , gearbox and axles for 8 h.p. sing le cylinde r Rover 1904- 10. H av e 4-cylinder Buick motor, with Special displa y advertisem ents of ca rs for sale cylinde rs cas t in pairs, as a swa p. Please contac t com plete with ph otos may be inserted at spec ia l D. Brucc, T at ch ells Road, Ward, M arlb orough, and very reasona ble rat es, for details of whi ch ser­ FOR SALE: 1924 Buick Four, T ourer, complete vice wr ite to the Edito r. bu t in pieces. Apply D . Bruce, Tatchells Road, T o be accep ted all adve rt isements m ust be typed Ward, M arl borough . an d be ac com panied by the necessary remittanc e WANTED: For 1928 Sin ger, cro wn wheel and and must be in th e hands of th e Editor not lat er pinion or complete diff. Co ntact: Rod ney Don, tha n the 15th day of th e month before p ubli cation Landsborough Road, No . 4 R .D., T irnaru or pho ne date. 82-06 1, Tirnaru , collec t. SEPTE MBER, 196j PAGE THIRTY-ONE , 'A faint susurrus of steam •• •

survived, but steam cars were with­ drawn from future competition. By 1912 Steam Ca rs were receiving scant popularity. Alth ough Stanley continued to build them until 1925, public preference turned to the vastly improved petrol ca rs .. . ending an era which, to this day, is still the subject of many heated debates. Whereas once the steam engine was the criterion of smooth, silent, swift acceleration, no w these, plus the added benefits of sustai ned power for hills and cr uising, can be yours in A 40 li.p, White Steam Car (1905-1907). These any petrol eng ine, with Supershell cam e in a variety of body typ es, botli open and clased. with Methyl Benzine. Supershell co ntains more than a pint per gallon of Shell' s dynamic power 'NO MORE WAS HEARD THAN TilE runner-up, a petrol car. In the same component, Methyl Benzine. Shell's whirr of the chain and a faint year, Fre d Marriolt, in a specially­ exclusive ignition control additive susurrus of steam. Even at full power streamlined Stanley Stea mer, record­ Cresyl Diphenyl Phosphate, and on a hill the noise did not rise above ed 121.57 rn.p.h. over the flying special rust preventive also combine a faint Ta -pocketa Ta-pocketa­ kilom etre and 127.66 m.p.h. over the to give tod ay's mot orist top power, and the smoothness was not to be flying mile at Ormond Beach. The smoo th running and engine pro­ surpassed by petrol cars for many following year , Marriott was tection. No other petrol offers so years.' estima ted to have reached 190 m.p .h. many adv antages. Get Supershell This was the 'Silence of Steam' - an when the car became airborne, over­ with Methyl Benzine for yo ur car, era which lasted almost 20 years, turned and disintegrated, Marriott today. and which many maintain could still exist today, if sufficient research and development had been carried on. American manufacturers first realised the potential of the Steam-car, and in 1898 the twin brothers F. O. and F. E. Stanley were producing a remarkable series of light steam-cars, which when handled with care, were capable of long-distance journeys. However, water consumption, almost a gallon a mile, and light construction were the two drawbacks early steam­ cars had to contend with, and by 1903 Stanley, and their well-kn own Chas sis of the White Steam Car showing the bo iler mounted directly under the f ront seat , and the engine in the convent ional position. Tire 'radiator' is in fact a tubular condenser which allo ws the rival, White , moved into the heavier condensed waler to be used again and again. class of car. Wh ite claimed a radius of seventy miles or more with out a wat er-stop for their model. With all steam cars, maximum speed could not be maintained for very METHYL BENZINE long, but in acceleratio n the stea m More than a pint in every gallon of car could, in those days, show a very clean pair of heels to the petrol model. In 1906, at the Shelsley Walsh SUPERSHELL Hillclimb (England), a White stea mer IT HA S T O BE COOD T O BE SH EL L inished 24t seconds ahead of the 253.5 PAGE THIRTY-TWO SEPT EMBER. 19ti.i fOR SA LE : Alvis T .C. 21 Saloon , 1954. Recent FOR SALE: 1930 Ch ev, 6 " tour er" . This ca r is engine ove rha ul by official age nts and rep aint. well shod, very good cond ition th rou gh out. Co ntac t: Ben tley forces sa le. £500. J. S. Thornson , Ovet i 35 High Stree t, Marten, or phon e 34 15, Martin . M an se, IR.D., Winton , Southland. WAl\'TED: Information or whereabouts of 1908 fOR SALE: 1926 Austin 12/ 4. Sound, and very Sin gle Cy linde r R over ca r gea rbox and differ ential origina l. Still in dai ly use. Apply: B. Brickn ell , complete or parts. Would conside r any othe r part s Driving C ree k, Co roma nde l. no matter how small of thi s mak e of approx. yea rs. FOR SALE to Vintage C lub M em ber: Triumph Also Wolseley-Siddeley cha in-d rive ca r. Ea rly 1905 ? Sup er i in goo d running orde r. 1929 2-sea ter. £50 Any informati on on th is ca r greatly apprec iated . or offer, plenty of parts. M r R eg R.Ellio tt , Oxford Co ntact or write: Ran Duckworth, 356 G lou cester Road , Ran gior a ( next to f orest ry ), Ran giora . Street , C hristchurc h. or Ph on e 74-812 . FOR SALE : 1925 C hrysler tourer Mod el 58 4-eyl. \VANTED : Rear brak e drum and ba ckin g plat e exce llent origina l cond ition, low mil eage, -l-wheel for 1928 6-cylinder Packa rd. Buy or swap. Neil hydraulics. D . King, c/- Aut om obi le Association, M cMillan , P.O . Box 408, Invcrcargill. Nelson. WANTED: Reading Standard 45 degr ees vce tw in fOR SALE: 1928 Dodge Sedan " Standard Six". ma z. En glish bu lb horn. Petro l tank for 1925 round In goo d go ing orde r, well shod , 20in. tyre s. Enquir­ tank B.S.A. Contact : B. W. Munro, 5 Rawhiti ies to J. H . Cl inton, Darfield R .D .,Canterbury. Street, Stokes Valley. WANTED TO BUY : H oodframe and bows to com­ WANTED: Literature on any model Hupmobilc plete 19 18 Studcbakcr, also clock for same. These such as Handbooks, Service Manuals , O ld Adv erts., items need not be of this particu la r mak e or year, Photos etc., R. F. Paul , Torara Va lley, Pleasant please con tact: J ack Hovcn, 39 Devonp or t Road , Point, Sout h Canterbury. Tauranga. WANTED: Buick sidelam ps (2) which sit on bu lk­ fOR SALE: Crown Wheel and Pin ion . Brand new , head of Rui ck 1927 mod els wanted most urgent ly. For Ch ev, 4 1925 -28, £10. Also new but sho p soiled Also need ed is a wind screen surround for a Buick fibr e timing gear for same model £ 3. Co nta ct: I. 54/27 X (Sport Roadstcr ) and an y othe r pa rts Mortimer, McLauch lan Street , Blcnhcim . whi ch a rc in good condition. Som e Iiu ick 1926 WANTED: Set of wh eels to tak e 32in. x 4Y2in., (short wheel base model ) parts ava ilabl e free or 23in. rim , S.S. tyr es. Deta chable rim , wood spo ke swa p to a ny othe r V .C.C. member, Paul Rod gers, type. as fitted to Ameri can ca rs, Stud ebak cr, Buick, 27 Hunterb rown St reet , Wairoa, Hawk c's Bay. ctc., '20's. Hub centre immaterial as new to be WANTED: Vauxh all 1931 VX six stud 19 inch fitted . Also set of wir e wh eels, 32in. x 4 y2in., 23in. wire wh eel. Write: A. 1'. Pr ice, Thompson Street , rim , S.S. tyres. Det ach able rim rin g type, as fitted Leamington, Ca mbridge. to Am eri can cars '20's. Hub cent re immat eri al as fOR SALE: The following new parts at £ 1 eac h. new to be fitted . Also Rotax or C AV sta rter motor. fibre T iming Pinions for M od el A, C hc v 4 27/28, W. R . j am es, 3i C hurc h St reet, T auran ga. Olds 24/25, Wh ipp et, Plymouth 4, C hryslcr 6 \"TANT ED U RG El" T LY: Radiator Sh ell and mot or 1930-31, C hrys lcr 4. King Pin s and Bushes: Rugby meter in goo d order to fit 1926 Mod el 70 W illy' s Durant, C hrys lcr 4, Erskine, Whippet 4 8/6, O ver­ Knight T ourer or Sed an . land 4 and 6 1926-31, Essex 25/ 2i, Buick Ma ster 6 WANTED: Lights, 4-cy linde r R.B. M agn eto, La Sal k . Timing C ha ins: Va rious length s centre C itroen Ge ne ra to r and fuel gauge for C itrocn. guide cha ins, Y2 in. pitch , fit gea rs 1in. wid e, fits Reply to R. H . Basset t, No. 3 R .D ., Feilding. Olds, Pontine, Ru gby, Studcbak er, etc.I cha in to OFFERS WANTED: 1919 Hudson T ou rer. 1927 fit C hrysl cr 65, 66 or 70. New Hub Caps : 2 sets Hudson Sedan. Alum inium bod y. Write: D. Lang, Hudson Super Six Aluminium . 6 sets Ruick nickel Bay Vie w, Napier . plated 3in. diameter across thr ead , Buick in bloc k 'WANTED : Motor for 1926 C hcvrolct V Superior. letters. Other odd new Bui ck caps, some a luminium Price and particula rs to: Wal ker, 17 Wal ton Street, som e plated . Swap for oth er hubcaps in reasonable Dunedin. conditio n, pa rt icula rly Stud cbakcr , any mo de l, or WO U LD LIKE TO CORRESPOND with all will swap any of above parts for those listed below. Veteran and Vintage " 1''' Model Ford ow ners in WANTED: for 1914 4-cvlind er Studebaker de li­ New Zea la nd . Please wr ite : Don Bark er 12 Mvall ver y van . I Dictz oil s i d~ lamp ( U nion driving Road, Wa rlatah, New South Wal es, A~str a lia . · lamp ) paint ed black with nickell ed rim -has Mac­ WANTED: Co rd Sedan or Co upe or any informa­ beth lens No. 2731. Ele ctric T ai l Lamp, M odel R tion lead ing to the recovery of sa me . Please write Schebl er Ca rburetter, 2 Hub Ca ps, Script for radia­ to K. M . Nayl or, 719 C harles Stree t, Ha stings. tor Bonnet C lips. 23in. detachable rim S.S. whe els. FOR SALE: 1930 " Silver Arrow" Matchless, 90 Bulb Horn, any other parts. For lef t hand drive per cent. restored. Offers to D. R. Goodman , 12 19 15 Studebaker roadstcr. front ax le (LHD or Kinvig Street , Anderson's Bay, Dunedin. RHO ) and springs wheels as above, Bonnet Radia ­ VIl\'TAGE 192i Ch evrolet Sed a n, ge ne ra l condi ­ tor Script, 4 Hubcap s, Bonn et dips, set of mud­ tion and tyre s, reason abl y goo d . C urrent reg istra­ gua rds. Mudguard mounting elec tric head lights, tion . As is, wh er e is. £ 35 01 ' offer. Appl y: Aitk en, sid e lamps, a tail lamp, windscreen, gea rbox, cliff Ph one 6070, Ashburton . unit and any othe r pa rts. Co nta ct: Barry Barncs, WANTED: For 1924 Morris O xford , Lucas bulb 206 muff Road , Inv er cargill. horn, clo ck for dashboard, goo d ca rburetto r, good WANTED: Distributor mounting and cap for rad iato r. Co ntact: J. M cTaggart, 32 Ncward Street, 1926 Ov erl and-Whippet. All costs met. Avery, 225 Balclurh a. . O cean Beach Ro ad , Mount Maunganui. -

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