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The Lambda World Register (www.lambdaworldregister.org) is managed by - Joachim Griese ([email protected]) - Bill Jamieson ([email protected]) and supported by regional coordinators for : - Australia: Bill Jamieson - Austria, Germany, Switzerland: Joachim Griese - Belgium: Leo Van Hoorick ([email protected]) - Ireland: Roland Frayne ([email protected]) - The Netherlands: Joost Koning ([email protected]) - The United Kingdom: Mike Benwell ([email protected]) - The United States: Neil Pering ([email protected]) The Newsletter will be published 4 times a year and is edited by Bill Jamieson and Joachim Griese Contents of Newsletter 4/2015 Editorial: Joachim Griese, Bill Jamieson…………………………….page 1 Peking – Paris in a Lambda from 1929 – final part: Leo Schildkamp……………………………………………………………...page 2 The 215 Grand Rally of the Lancia Club France: Joachim Griese……………………………………………………………………page 8 News of Fobello 2016: Jonathan Wood………………………...……page 9 The post-Fobello Tour 2016: Jonathan Reeve………………….…..page 10 The Song of the Lambda – part 2: Mike Benwell……………………page 13 Early Lambda engine design – a small mystery: Bill Jamieson…...page 15 Lambda 21886 – Museo Motorismo d’Epoca: Eleonora Di Stefano……………………………………………………………….page 18 Lambda spare parts……………………………………………………page 19 Cover: Lancias at the 2015 Grand Rally of the Lancia Club France (photo: Joachim Griese) Editorial The 2015 rally season in the Northern hemisphere is coming to a close, with the French Grand Rally being one of the last of the European events At the same time, Spring has arrived in the Southern hemisphere, and – as some of you know – one of the first rallies „down South“ is the Australian Lancis Register’s biennial Castlemaine Rally, which runs from October 16 to 18. We are happy to note that entries include Lancia owners from the United States, U.K. and Europe, most of whom will also participate in the following „Mountain to Surf „Tour in Victoria, from October 19 to 25. We will have a report for you on these two linked events in our next issue. Also in our next Newsletter, the first for 2016, we hope to bring you an article on the Lambda front suspension, with particular emphasis on that familiar main coil spring. This follows the acquisition by Joachim of the original Factory drawings of the four versions of this spring, and some equally interesting work by Bill Smith in Sydney, Australia , into the complexities of the spring design and related suspension problems Fobello 2016 is also approaching, and in this Newsletter Jonathan Wood writes a short note on the Fobello calendar and Jonathan Reeve gives you a first impression of the proposed post- Fobello Swiss Alps Tour. At the end of October we will send you an e-mail with more detailed information about both these events. In Italy, the two projects to make new Lambda cylinder blocks are proceeding according to plan, and there is a good chance that we will see the first new block running in a Lambda before the end of the year. Richard Vessey, younger son of the late John Vessey, has sent us a large quantity of material (drawings, photos, calculations and other documents ) from his father‘s collection, for the use of the LWR. It will take some time to analyse everything, but we appreciate very much the opportunity to include some of John Vessey’s accumulated knowledge in the Lambda World Register and we thank Richard very much for his generosity in giving us this material. As always, we invite you, our readers, to suggest articles or other material you would like to see in the Newsletter, or to send us details of Lambda parts you either require or have available for sale. Best wishes for you and your Lambda. Joachim Griese Bill Jamieson PS: Please accept our apologies for two corrections we need to make in LWR Newsletter 3/2015: - On page 10 we wrote that the book with excellent graphics of a large number of Lancia models is available at the internet company www.amazon.com. In fact it’s only available from the German, French. Italian and U.K. amazon outlets. These are, respectively, www.amazon.de, www.amazon.fr, www.amazon.it, and www.amazon.co.uk. - On page 18 there was a reference to downloading Lorenzo Morello’s book about Lancia innovation. In the meantime, Fiat Chrysler changed their website. If you wish to read or download the book, we suggest the following procedure: In the website www.fcagroup.com click on „Group“; in the Group page click on „History“; in the History page click on „Centro Storico Fiat“; at the end of the Centro Storico Fiat page you see Lorenzo Morello’s book, and you may download it. 1 The 2007 Peking – Paris in a 1929 Lambda1 Part 3 (Final) - Day 21 to Day 36 Leo Schildkamp [email protected] Day 21 – Saturday June 16 – Kazan to Nizhny Novgorod – 406 km (total 7668 km) The roads are getting busier with much more truck-traffic, so it is more difficult to pass. We stay at a big hotel near the Volga. We give the car some care: Adjusting the brakes, and filling up the cooling water. It appears that we are losing oil from the rear-axle. Another participant (nr.51) is so kind as to lentd me some 90 grade oil. There are no problems with the right rear wheel and the repair of yesterday is holding. Day 22 – Sunday June 17 – Nizhny Novgorod to Moscow – 440 km (total 8108 km) The car runs fine, and there are no problems. Luc drives the last 200 km. Almost in Moscow, we have a traffic jam of 20 km caused by a traffic light. In Moscow we take a wrong turn, but with the help of the GPS at last we arrive at the hotel Cosmos: an enormous building with 1700 rooms and a hall like a Parisian railway station, but with only 1 (one) receptionist. The car now gets an hour of daily pampering. The right rear-axle is loose again. We fasten the nut with a centre punch. The radiator surrounding has a crack again. We take a shower and go for dinner with some Dutch participants. The food is more or less OK; it is a buffet. The others go to town but I am tired and go to bed with a vodka night-cap. 2 Day 23 – Monday June 18 – Day of rest – Moscow We take the sub-way to the centre and visit the touristic places ; Red Square, the Jewel Collection, the Armoury and a department store. We eat in a Russian restaurant. Back in the hotel, we hear that still no one has got his laundry. Some English teams try to recruit participants to go to the cellar to get the laundry – dirty or clean! We don’t do that, but Luc puts pressure on to the receptionist that we want our laundry at 5 o’clock in the morning. Day 24 – Tuesday June 19 – Moscow to St. Petersburg – 700 km (total 8108 km) At 5 am there is a knock on the door with a shout “LAUNDRY” or something similar. Luc takes the laundry and tells the lady who asks for money, that we will pay at the reception. Somewhat later, again a heavy knocking and shouting “MONEY, MONEY’! We shout again that we will pay at the reception. And when it starts to get boring, I get out of bed to tell this lady how I feel. But the door already opens and there are three hotel-guards. They were as scared of me as I was of them, and so I have time to throw my full weight at the door, and with Luc’s help we almost manage to slam it closed. One of the guards has a foot in the door and a hand through the door sprays us with pepper-spray. As we push harder against the door he is perhaps afraid that his hand will be pinched, and he withdraws his hand, while he sprays his colleagues with pepper- spray too, so now we are all coughing and spluttering on both sides of the door. In order to stop the misery, Luc opens the door and throws 1500 Rubles at them, and the Russian party leaves. Again a long journey. The roads are good. I drive 2/3 of the distance. No time checks today. At 11 pm I am in my bed. Day 25 – Wednesday June 20 – Day of rest – St. Petersburg Today is a free day and it would be fine to see something of St. Petersburg, but I think it would be wise to take care of the car. Outside, I meet Alexander Deryugin who is working on one of the club’s 4 x 4 cars. He has a garage, and there we can weld the radiator surround. We fill up with water and oil and adjust and grease the fan. Sometimes you hear from other teams that people like to work on cars and don’t ask for money. It has never happened to me! Welding for an hour or so and using the garage I have to pay 2000 Rubles (about € 55), yet I am treated to tea and cake because one of the Russian mechanics celebrates his birthday. 3 Day 26 – Thursday June 21 – St. Petersburg to Tallina– 450 km (total 9258 km) Starting time 9:24 am, getting up at 6 am. We go to the Estonian border. A car in front of us suddenly slows down and I am forced to pass it to avoid a collision. Immediately thereafter, a policeman gives me a stop-signal.