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I I / VOL. XXVI , No. 133 Vintage Car Club of N.Z. (Inc.) Dec. 1981-January 1982 NATIONAL EXECUTIVE 27th YEAR OF PUBLICATION President: N. A. Dewhurst (Auckland) Club Captain: A. D . Storer (Banks Peninsula) Club Vice -Captain: Ken Macefield (Canterbury). IN THIS ISSUE Hon . Secr etary: Clynt Inns, Phone 34-770, Christchurch. Club Registrar: Don Bennetts. President's Message 2 Exe cutive: Me ssrs B. J. Barnes (Southland), W. M. Birch (Wellington), J. W. A. Newell (Banks Peninsula), N . C. The Riley Story 3 Skevington (Canterbury). Executive Report 8 North Shore Indajit Trial 9 CORRESPONDENCE Club correspondence, including members' CUANCFS Automobile body design 11 OF ADDRESS, must be sent to WeBsford Branch 12 Tire Vintage Car Club of N .Z . (Inc.) r .o. Box 2546 , The Harley 8 Valve 13 Christchurch, Intending members should write to this address. 1928 Hudson 16 All Beaded Wheels correspondence and subscribers Unwanted Model Ts 17 change of address to p.a. Box 13140. Sp'it Rim Tool 19 BEADED WHEELS EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Branch Notes 22 Chairman: Spencer Barnard. Letters to Editor 32 Com mittee: Geoff Hockley, Bruce Pidgeon, Bob Scott, Paul Giesler. Classified Ads 35 Material for publication is the responsibilitv of this committee and should be forwarded to p.a. Box 131 ~O , CLOSING DATE Christchurch, typed or neatly printed, double spaced on one side of paper only. Closing da te next issue - 10th Januar y, 19 82 Reports of restorations, events, road tests, his torical and technical articles welcome. No payment made to COVER PHOTO contributors. 192 5 Rilev Redwin g belon g s to L. R. Hardman , a n TIle opinions expressed in lellers or articles in Bead ed e ntra nt in th e 19 80 Int ernation al Rall y. See Riley Wheels are the authors' own views and do not necessarilv Story on page 3 . Ph ot o taken by Spencer Barnard at express the policy of the Vintage Car Club of N.Z. (lnc,') Lak e Oketi anga where it was raini ng (as usual). PRODUCTION Beaded Wheels is the voice of the Vintage Car movement Beaded Wheels is published bi-monthly by Purse Willis in Now Zealand and of the Clubs whose efforts are & Aiken Ltd, Christchurch for the Vintage Car Club fostering and ever widening the inte rest of this movement and form rallying points for that ever increasing band of of N.Z . Inc., at its editorial office. p.a. 130.\ 13140. enthusiasts. The fasc ination of age iuelf or revulsion from Christchurch. the flashy mediocrity of the present day is drawing an increasing number of motorists back to th e individuality . Mailed free to all members. Annual subscription $6.00. solid worth, and fun ctional elegance that was dem anded Individual copies and back numbers SI.OO. by a more discriminating generation and it is 'to the se that this magazin e is ded icated. ADVERTISING Regis1e red AI Post O ffice Heeooueeters Wellinc;Jton Rate schedule available on request to Advertising as a M.llIQ.llIJine. Manager, r.o. Box 13140. Christchurch. Phone 67-346. From the President T he rally season has well an d be driven fr om Ca pe Rein ga l a COR RE CT IO N tru ly arrived , eve n if summer Bluff by its ow ner who has only weather has not. For many mem rece ntly recovered fro m maj or In Bob Helm's story ' Res tora ber s the options are such that it heart surgery.He is a V.e.e. tion of Chug Buggy' in the last becomes difficult to choose which member as well as a Lion an d issue, the left para graph on pa ge events to atte nd, and this is par the pu rp ose of the dri ve is to 18 sho uld read : ticularl y so when bran ches are show what can be done by heart close togeth er. I have had the pat ient s and to dr aw atte ntion to T he only parts that could be pleasure of attend ing two ca lender the fund ra ising whi ch will be sa lvaged being the differential even ts, Auck land 's Hunua 100 conduc ted by the Lion s as the cage an d the spur PI NIONS. a nd We llington's Annual Rall y, jo urney progresses. TIlE INTERNALLY TOOTHED both o f which provided excellent Assistance will be sought fr om side gears had to be cut-The mot oring a nd social activities al our Cl ub and I co mme nd this word in cap itals were omitted. thou gh the numbers o f entrants pro ject to Bran ch es an d members were down. Perhaps thi s is a to sup po rt in any way they ca n. Also on page 19 in the cen tre result of the number of event s As the festive season column : ava ilable, and is certainly not approaches Pat and I wish you all T he pisto n and co nnec ting rod necessaril y a bad thing in itself. a very happy Christmas and hope together weigh 14+ po unds not 4 -): Yc u should all be well awa re that your holida y mot oring will as printed. by now o f the two Easter Rall ies be safe and enjoyable. next year. Bay of Plenty and NORMAN DEWHURST We regret these err ors. Southland arc host ing the North and South Island -Rallies respec t ively . Both of these bran ch es are well know n for their a bility and hospital ity and tho se who intend go ing sho uld alrea dy have mad e a 1982 USA TOUR commitment. Entry forms are ava ilab le (ask your branch sec featuring the re tary) and accommodation sho uld be boo ked qui ckly. MODEL A FORD CLUB OF D R IVE FOR LIFE AMERICA Convention Ea rly next year a totall y different event will be taking pla ce and I have no hesitat ion in Departs July, 1982 menti on ing it here. He art disease and stro kes account for 49 per A 23-day tour visiting Los Angeles (Briggs cent of the dea ths in New Zea land and few hom es wo uld Cunningham Auto Museum), Detroit (Ford not have been affected by it. Man y Museum), Bloomington (Model A Convention), of our own members have them Reno (Harrah's Collection of 1000 cars) and selv es been victims and some Honolulu. today owe their lives to the car e a nd a ttention that they have Approx. cost: $3,000 per person (share twin) received in card iac unit s. T he New Zealan d Lio ns Clubs FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, WRITE TO:- in associatio n wit h the Nation al Peter Butler, 219A Valley Road, Heart Foun da tio n are organising a fund rai sing effort ca lled Drive Mt. Maunganui, Fo r Life. The mainst ay of th is or BSB Travel, Box 5230, Mt. Maunganui. will be a 1914 Ford T which will PAGE T WO 'Old as the industry, Modern as the Hour' PART 2: THE LATER YEARS , INNOVATIONS , AND RACING After the collapse of the old World War I side-valve cars) and bar independent front suspension family Riley company and take produced a fine car worthy of the gave good road-holding with a over by the Nuffield organisation famous Blue Diamond. deep, rigid chassis, while the in September 1938, cars were The new Riley was one of the tra nsmission used a Morris 4 produced as usual for the last two first British cars to be introduced speed gearbox and back axle. shaky years until Wo rld War Il, after World War Il, and was The 4-door saloon body was when British manufacture of almost alone in not being just a given a fabric-covered roof and private vehicles ceased altogether. styling strongly reminiscent of the For the 1939 year Riley models 1937-8 Riley Continental Touring looked distinctly un inspired. but by John King Saloo n. An attractive drop-hea d things looked bette r when the co upe was later offered and a Kes trel was revived to meet two-seater roadster deve loped for popular demand, and con tinued slightly revamped prewar version. the American market, both on the into 1940. Two models were offered, using 2-} -litre chassis . Examp les of all Towards the end of hostilities the now-familiar 2t- and I-}-litre types ca n be seen in New Zealand, in Europe, a new Riley was 4-cylinder engines, and differed a lthough the proportion of 2-} developed. Harry Rush was externally only in the shorter litre saloons can give a misleading engaged in its design (he had also bonnet and dark blue radiator imp ression of production num been responsible for the post- badge of the smaller car. Torsion- bers. Far more Ii s were made, Arthur Dexter's Brooklands Riley outside the family firm premises in Auckland 1933. At the kerb are the latest models of 6 cylinder Kestrel and 9 H.P. Monaco. Photo from Dexter Collection via John Hearne. PAGE THREE but only the 2t -litres were import ed by the agents, with all examples of th e sma ller mod el being brought in pri vat ely. One of the fas tes t pr odu ction ca rs of the imme dia te postwar per iod . the Riley 2t -litre co uld reach just a bo ut 100 rnph in fa vou ra ble co nd itio ns and was used by seve ra l po lice forces .