ISSUE 597 REVIEWOCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2018 the First Established 4WD Club in Australia ‘Land-Rovering Since 1963’ ISSUE 597 OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2018 Contents Feature Articles
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The magazine of the Land Rover Owners’ Club of Victoria Inc ISSUE 597 REVIEWOCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2018 The first established 4WD Club in Australia ‘Land-Rovering since 1963’ ISSUE 597 OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2018 Contents Feature Articles EDITOR John Brooke (#560) PRODUCTION Published by the Land Rover Owners Club of Victoria Inc GRAPHIC DESIGNER Jaz Effect Design CONTACT Land Rover Owners Club of Victoria Inc. 05 08 PO Box 962 Mount Waverley Victoria 3149 Australia Registered Incorporated Club: AA13113A. Grampians Wildflower Club founded Friday 13 September 1963, incorporated 24 April 1987. 50 Years of the Half ABN: 44 654 006 691. Ton Land Rover Explorer Print post approved: PP100000962. 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The ‘Review’ is also available to all financial LROCV members as a full Regular Articles colour PDF download at www.lrocv.com.au 03 From the President - Graeme Walsh COPY DEADLINE FOR REVIEW #598 (DECEMBER/JANUARY) IS 1 JANUARY 2019 04 From the Editor - John Brooke Submit items for publication by email to [email protected]. Image files must be 44 Classifieds attached to emails, not embedded, or send in 50 Calendar of Events separate email(s). Image files must be JPEG, size greater than 1 MB. DO NOT SUBMIT IMAGE FILES VIA ON-LINE (CLOUD) SERVERS. Front Cover Find us on Dave Saunders’ Defender on a snowy Mt Skene – Mt Skene Snow Camp trip. Photo: Aaron Taylor (#1172) search #lrocv 2 www.lrocv.com.au From the President Graeme Walsh (#3) y now you may have heard that Whilst the previous President Fred de I have been appointed by the Gooyer (who did an excellent job) lived BCommittee as the new Club in Gippsland and travelled to Melbourne President. E-news and general gossip at least twice a week for Club business, around the Club would have informed I wouldn't be able to do that as my you of this. distance of travel is 660 km round trip. Although I thought I had retired after I am prepared for what the job entails some 30 or so years on Committee, and will work with the Committee to see it has really concerned me for some that the Club runs effectively. months that out of all our members And while the President’s role need no one since the AGM has shown any filling, the positions of Vice President interest in leading the Club. All Clubs and Secretary also require members and organisations, and especially one to handle these roles. The Editor and the size of the LROCV, need a figurehead Driver Training Coordinator are also and leader to represent and oversee the seeking members to take on these roles running of it. Because of this I decided as the members currently serving have that I had to nominate for the vacant expressed a desire to retire. role, for which the Committee has REMEMBER - it’s YOUR Club so you accepted my nomination. should show some interest in the As I now permanently live in Wodonga, running of it. where I also operate a small part-time I look forward to liaising with members. business, I only travel to Melbourne once a month staying there for several days at a time. Two of these days include the monthly club meeting and Committee nights. October - November 2018 REVIEW ISSUE 597 3 idea may not be as crazy as you think! How do we encourage volunteers to fill roles? Yes, there is work to do – we are a large Club and there is fair amount of money involved. Lots of stuff has to be looked after. By somebody devoting time to the job. Stuff doesn’t just happen. We need the continuity of people in roles, carrying ideas and projects forward, talking to 4WD Vic, other club office bearers, getting to know the business, From the formulating plans, not being a taxi with Editor a different driver every month. How do we get more people to John Brooke (#560) become trip leaders? The Club is all about trips. There’s heaps to see and do out there – it doesn’t always have to be a panel-bending exercise, or cost a bomb in camping gear and accessories. hile being back at the helm a Committee meeting and voiced your Here’s some ideas: Trace the route of to steer the Editor’s ship was concern? Have you written a letter to the old MacDonald’s Track stock route not part of the plan, without the Editor, so that the wider community through Gippsland, or take a backroads- W only trip out west staying off established the Review a vital communication with read it? Or did you join just to be a members would have been delayed or member of the LROCV, and sit back and highways (after all 100 kph hour after lost, never mind doing a dis-service to cruise? hour is boring) and have lunch at a our advertisers, so here I am again like OK, so let’s get a conversation going. country pub or bakery; set an easy (or it or not. How about Club meetings for a start. different) navigation trial. There are well- Which set me thinking – why do we Here’s a new idea: researched books detailing day trips out join a club? Why did you join this Club? (1) We hold 4 quarterly general business of Melbourne, a good start for novice Looking around at the monthly general meetings a year, at the same venue with trip leaders. meetings, and on many Club trips, I see a supper in the Bistro beforehand. We So, pour yourself your favourite drink – the same faces time after time. The same have a business meeting, the Treasurer go on, I dare you, and sit down and take 150 or so faces! So where are the other presents a budget/report and we vote a while to think about what you could 400-odd Members? on it, and welcome new members do as a committee or sub-committee Under the rules, we cannot operate who have applied during the previous member, or what contribution you without a Treasurer or a Secretary – quarter and devote some time to general could bring to make the Club different/ fortunately we have good people who matters of interest. exciting/ attractive/ active as a member. have volunteered to fill those roles. We (2) For the remaining seven meetings In the mean-time, the roles of Vice can however operate without any of the we hold a Sunday morning ‘informal’ President, Social Secretary and Editor other committee positions being filled, gathering (let’s call it a Natter, or are still up for grabs. And for anyone we’d just get a hell of a lot less done. something) where you bring along who enjoys social media, there’s work to Trips would still be run, but you probably your favourite Landy or other club do on the Facebook front too. wouldn’t be covered by the Club’s plate vehicle, open your bonnets, talk If the aforementioned doesn’t light public liability insurance. Prospective turkey, have a cuppa, be sociable, make your fire, nothing will. new members’ applications would be new Members and prospective new Getting off my soapbox, this issue handled in due course, enough to make members welcome by involving them in features an interesting article from them think, “Oh what the hell, let’s find the conversation, bring parts/ vehicles Eric Shingles about the Half Ton Land another club, this mob are slack”. And for sale/ swap. No boring business stuff Rover, trips reports from Lismore, Far communication may be by email, or – just fun! East Gippsland, Bush Matters, Coldfoot, Facebook, or SMS and a single page So write a letter to the Editor, stand Cruiserkhana, and a new Member’s view news sheet instead of the Review, or up at a Club meeting and present your on Intermediate Driver Training. nothing at all. proposal, or come to a Committee As this is our Christmas edition, may I What do members really want? If the meeting if you don’t want to discuss your wish you all a very Happy Christmas, travel Club is not providing what you think crazy idea in front of a larger audience. It safely and best wishes for the New Year. you want, have you told somebody? doesn’t just have to be a change in the Have you stood up at a meeting or at meeting format, anything will do. Your Take care on the tracks. 4 www.lrocv.com.au 50 years of the Half Ton Land Rover Eric Shingles (#86) Land Rover 110” Air-portable Gun Tractor Prototype Sometimes called the ‘Lightweight’ 4×4 truck had to be narrow enough to The main applications were actually to or ‘Air-portable’, the Half Ton was fit two-abreast into the Argosy transport be shipped by cargo aircraft or stacked a Land Rover specially lightened aircraft then in service, and weigh in at on train wagons, with helicopter about 1134 kg (2500 lbs) unladen weight transport a rare occurrence.