NEW ZEALAND’S FOREMOST HISTORICAL MOTORING MAGAZINE

No. 331 December 2014/January 2015 $6.95

E Hayes & Son Home of the World’s Fastest Indian motorcycle touring in 1914 Behind the Wheel 1912 Minerva 9 418979 000012

Every month when Beaded Wheels arrives, I look at whatever historic photos are at the start of the magazine. Last issue’s photos with a Timaru reference has stirred me to action. One of my uncles married a Miss Young of the Young Bros families. I have two photos in which I’d love to have the cars identified: My grandfather Michael Maze married my grandmother, Sarah Jessep, at her parents’ home at Hanging Rock in South Canterbury on 9 March 1910. They lived and farmed near Pleasant Point all their lives. Here they are on their wedding day. I have wondered, since I first saw this photo 40 years ago, what make and model the car is. I don’t think it belonged to my grandfather although he went on to own two interesting cars: a Vulcan, 1914 I think, bought for use as a taxi in Christchurch and later a mid 1920s Sunbeam saloon. My father told me the Vulcan was dumped in the Tengawai River near Pleasant Point while the Sunbeam was sold. I’d love to know what happened to it. I know my father was sorry to see it go. My grandfather bought a Dodge in the late 1930s and kept it until no longer able to drive but the Vulcan and Sunbeam were somewhat more exotic. So, can anyone identify the car? The second photo shows my father, sitting up beret-clad on the back seat some time I think in 1931/32 but I can’t be certain. He was a keen deerstalker in his 20s and is shown here with friends possibly, in the Fairlie/ PHOTOGRAPHS REQUIRED Mckenzie country area on a deerstalking trip. And the car is? Submissions of suitable prints and information (where available) are welcome. Supplied by Julian Maze, Timaru. Please send original photographs of historical interest with any available information to: Beaded Wheels, PO Box 13140, Christchurch 8141. Laserprints/photocopies are not suitable. 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The Historic Vehicle Authority of New Zealand ISSN 0113-7506 Vol LXIII No. 331 Editorial Committee Beaded Wheels Kevin Clarkson (Chairman), Judith Bain, Rosalie Brown, Bill Cockram, John Coomber, Issue 331 December 2014/January 2015 Mark Dawber, Marilyn McKinlay. Material for Publication Reports of restorations, events, road tests, historical and technical articles etc should be forwarded to PO Box 13140, Christchurch 8141, typed or neatly printed, double space on one FEATURES side of paper only. Email of text and photos is acceptable, digital photographs should be high 14 An Early New Zealand Motor Cycle Journey resolution eg 300dpi. No payment is made Waipori to Nelson and Back in 1914 to contributors. The opinions or statements expressed in letters or articles in Beaded Wheels 18 E Hayes & Sons are the author’s own views and do not necessarily The home of the world’s fastest Indian express the policy or views of The Vintage Car Club of NZ (Inc). 20 The Mascot Story – Part V Email [email protected] 24 A Very Short Love Affair Advertising Address Get behind the wheel of this Classified and Display Advertising to: 1912 Minerva, see page 28. 26 Behind the Wheel of a 1912 Minerva PO Box 13140, Christchurch 8141. Phone 64 3 332 3531, Fax 64 3 366 0273 30 The Formation of the Museum of Transport Rate schedule available on request. Back Issues 34 Rally Snippets Available on request to PO Box 13140, Auckland – PV-P80v Rally Christchurch 8141. 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Beaded Wheels – A very apt and well-known title 52 Swap Meets & Rallies however readers may wonder at the origin of the name. By way of explanation beaded edge wheels use beaded edge tyres that are kept in place by 57 Idle Torque reinforced rubber beads, which fit into the rolled edges of the wheel rim. This style of wheel was a 66 Passing Lane distinctive feature of early motoring being used on early bicycles, many pre-1924 cars and most motorcycles until 1927. The VCCNZ adopted the title Beaded Wheels for their quarterly club magazine in March 1955 which was the successor to the monthly Guff Sheet. Copyright Information The contents are copyright. Articles may be COVER reproduced complete or in part provided that Wellington Branch: Heritage Rally Veteran Class Winners, Brian acknowledgement is made to “Beaded Wheels, the magazine of The Vintage Car Club of New Ward & Alan Pratt in Brian’s 1915 Ford Model T. Photograph: Zealand (Inc)” as the source. 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Beaded Wheels 3 neatly with his role with the Federation of Motoring Clubs. We had discussions with Mark Gessler president’s of the United States who chairs the message Technical Committee and were very as we see it pleased to see that the new technical code for the FIVA identity card, which Mark successfully promoted, is almost identical to our code which Rod developed Seasons greetings to you all from the 15 years ago. They have come to the Bill Cockram’s Soapbox contribution other side of the world. As I write from same conclusions about the importance on Idle Torque last issue certainly sparked the United Kingdom we are heading into of permanently capturing historical and some responses and he is delighted that the grip of winter and we will probably technical information on all our vehicles his suggestion has produced strong debate. see a white Christmas at some stage this that Rod has promoted since 1999, and We thank all those who have responded year. Our Registrar Rod Brayshaw and I has been refining since. I felt immensely whether they support or oppose Bill’s idea attended the FIVA. General Assembly in proud of what we have achieved, and the for change or not. A representative sample Budapest in the first week of November. status of our membership after attending of those responses is in Mailbag. Those for We normally do not attend these meetings this meeting. change and those for no change are fairly because of the time and expense involved, There was a great deal of interest in evenly divided. One good idea put forward however I was already travelling to the our 2016 Festival of Historic Motoring was to have just photos with good captions UK and there were agenda items which and Thomas Kohler of Switzerland, who sent in by each branch. This may have were very important to us. The last time has just stood down from the Cultural some merit and we would be interested in we were represented was in the 1990s Commission has assured me that he your views on this also. when Frank Renwick attended a meeting, and his wife will attend our event as And to those who have raised the and since then other countries have they are passionate motorcyclists and further very valid issue of the committee’s exercised our proxy. I decided to invite he has organised a number of interna- need to sometimes re-write contributions Rod to attend, as his expertise and experi- tional motorcycle events in Europe. We or parts of articles, I would point out ence in developing our Vehicle ID card are making a special effort to encourage that even great writers have editors. The would be invaluable and I knew he was motorcyclists to attend this event. If any writer who is closest to the work, is often keen to discuss our proposed Authentic motorcyclists would consider lending least able to see the shortcomings. In an Reproduction Vehicle status with the machines to Thomas and Pascale, please ideal world it would be nice to go back to Technical Committee. Rod had previously contact us so we can put you in touch the author and have that person re-write attended a FIVA Technical Committee with them. This would be a great oppor- sections that fall short, are badly written meeting about 14 years ago when we first tunity for anyone who would like to take a or don’t make sense but in a magazine with introduced the VIC card. reciprocal tour in Europe. The Motorcycle a regular deadline, that luxury of time is We were given a very warm welcome by Commission is to hold an international seldom available. The best way to ensure the President and members of the General motorcycle week of activities throughout we do not tinker with your literary baby Assembly, and we attended meetings of the world in June 2015, and requested in our rush to meet the printer’s deadline, the technical, cultural, events, motor- that we urge our motorcycle members to is to make sure it is readable and error-free cycle and legislative committies before organise an activity as part of the week before you send it. Where an article is the General Assembly. This meeting of celebrations. I explained that it is our largely rewritten, we now put against the was the largest ever held with about 160 winter, but they said it could be just a title “Based on information supplied by…” members representing the ANF of about display, or an appropriate activity for or a similar wording. A reminder also that 60 countries. These are large and compli- the time of the year. The Brass Monkey there are guidelines for branch reporters cated meetings conducted in English and event comes to mind and I know that in the branch manual (copy held by the French which are the official languages of you are a hardy bunch of individuals, branch secretaries) and we also send these FIVA. The Management Committee has so think about joining your colleagues guidelines out to branch reporters every had concerns about some of the trends celebrating motorcycles around the world year. These set out clearly what is required, emerging overseas, particularly in the in June. A number of other members also what is not, and even some tips on how to European Union countries which tend expressed an interest in attending our do a good job of it. to be reflected here in proposed legisla- 2016 event. Patrick Rollett of France is My own view, previously stated but tion from time to time, and it is vitally the International President and we had a obviously not universally held, is that Idle important that we are well prepared to number of discussions with him. He is an Torque should tell others in the club of the protect our members’ rights to use their impressive President and fluent in English. important goings on in each branch. If it vehicles in the future. We are fortunate He reminded us that 2016 is the 50th does this well then the club is seen to be that we have managed to keep our vehicles anniversary of the founding of FIVA and more cohesive and more than the sum of and machines on our roads and many that New Zealand was a founder member. its parts. That is; not just 35 separate clubs countries envy the freedom we enjoy. A A year of international events is being around New Zealand all doing their own major survey was taken worldwide prior planned and this fits in well with our 70th thing but 35 branches of the same club all to this meeting, and I want to thank anniversary and the Dunedin interna- with similar interests and a positive feeling Tony Bartlett for the excellent paper he tional event. I want to thank Rod for his of belonging to a great New Zealand prepared for the FIVA conference on our support and time attending this important organisation. behalf. As a result of the work he has meeting. done, Tony has a very good understanding Seasons Greetings and safe motoring. Kevin Clarkson of the current FIVA issues and this fits John Coomber Chairman, Beaded Wheels National President

4 Beaded Wheels This list of events is compiled from the VCCNZ National Calendar of Events, and branch events as listed in each branch newsletter. Any deletions, additions, alterations need to be notified to Beaded Wheels by the Branch Secretary before 10th of the month prior to magazine publication VCC Events VCC National Events January 14 Auckland Annual Veteran Rally 1 Ashburton New Year’s Day Run and BBQ 14 Waimate Wallaby Rally 14-15 Canterbury Annual Rally 29-31 January 2015 National Veteran Rally 1 Banks Peninsula Little River Picnic 14-15 Gisborne Three Rivers Rally 20-22 February 2015 National Motorcycle Rally 1 Sth Cant New Year’s Day Parade 15 Nelson Alan Moss Memorial run 13–20 March 2015 SI Club Captain’s Tour 1 Wanganui Gumboot Rally Taihape 15 Rotorua Club Captain’s Run 27-30 March NI (Weekend Before) Easter Rally 1 Wellington New Years Day Picnic at Tunnel Gully 15 Taupo Progressive m/t, lunch 2 Canterbury Motorcycle New Year Run 15 Waikato Open Day at Clubrooms December 2 Marlborough Harris Bach Run 20-22 Hawke’s Bay Art Deco Event 2015 5-6 Southland 60th Anniversary Rally 4 Canterbury Picnic Run 20-22 Central Otago National Motorcycle Rally 6 Canterbury Christmas Night Run & Social 10 Far North Autospectacular 21 Ashburton Club Captain’s Night Run - BBQ to start 6 Gore Diggers Run 11 Nelson Club Run 21 Canterbury Back Country Run 6 Taupo Christmas Dinner 11 Sth Cant Ladies Run 21 Nelson Swap Meet 6-7 Northland summer Show 11 Waikato Blue Smoke and Pedals 21 Nth Otago All British Day 7 Ashburton Posh Picnic Veteran / Vintage 15 Wanganui Melbourne Cup Display Run and Christmas Tea Wanganui Racecourse 22 Sth Cant Chairman’s Rally 7 Auckland Annual Gymnic 17-18 Gore Overnighter 22 Northland Sand & Sea 7 Canterbury Children’s Christmas Picnic 17 Sth Cant Open Day 23 Gisborne Branch Run 7 Nth Otago Windsor Rally 17-19 Horowhenua Vintage Weekend Whanganui 28 Gore Festival Rally 7 Sth Otago Moped Run 18 Northland Dawn Breaker Breakfast 28 Southland Veteran Rally 7 Taupo Christmas Dinner 18 Otago Jackson Rally 28 Wellsford/Warkworth Annual Swapmeet 7 Wairarapa Run to Mauriceville Fair 18 Rotorua Car Show 31/1 Wellington Club Captain’s Safari 7 Wellington Sunday Run 18 Wanganui Burma Rally March 20 Wellington Fun Run 11 Wellsford/ 1 Canterbury Rear Wheel Brake Rally 24 Otago Dunedin Brighton Run Warkworth Club Christmas Dinner 1 Sth Cant Mystery Run 25-26 Gisborne Annual campout 13 Northland Christmas Function 1 Waikato Vintage Venture 26-28 Nth Otago 7th Founders Prince Henry 13 Waikato Christmas Social 6-13 Sth Canty 1965 Haast Rally Reunion and Tour 13-19 Ashburton Oakley trip - French Salute to ‘65 Tour Connection 29-31 January 2015 National Veteran Rally 6-8 Taupo Taupo Rally 31 Ashburton Annual Rally 14 Canterbury Veteran Picnic Run 7 Canterbury Commercial Rally 31 Southland Southland Rally 14 Central Otago Sunday Run 7 Canterbury Moped Run 14 Gisborne Club Captain’s Wing Ding February 7 Northland Club Birthday Party 14 Taupo Picnic Run 1 Canterbury London - Brighton Veteran Run 7 Sth Cant Mid Island Rally 14 Waikato Combined Motorcycle and 1 Northland Local Treasures 7 Southland Veteran Rally Car Run 1 Waikato Kathryn Mansfield Garden 7 Sth Otago Motorcycle Rally 14 Wanganui Picnic at Basin Reserve Party at Hamilton Gardens 7 Wellsford/ Mike Brown Memorial 14 Wairarapa Christmas Lunch 6-8 Banks Peninsula Skope Race Meeting Warkworth Trophy Run 14 Wellington Wellington Christmas Parade 6-8 Eastern Bay of Plenty East Coast Rally 8 Gore Frank Robson and Clearwater 14 Wellsford/Warkworth Club Run 6 Marlborough Heritage Day Capers Runs 16 Wellington Special General Meeting and 7 Canterbury Boot Fair 13-15 Sth Otago Weekender to Cromwell Christmas BBQ 7 Southland Southland Rally 13-20 National Event South Island Club Captain’s 26 Canterbury Boxing Day Run 8 Horowhenua 29th British Car Day Tour 26 Waikato Boxing Day at Pironiga Races 9 Taupo Barbeque 14/15 Waitemata Roycroft Run to Hampton Downs 13-15 Banks Peninsula Enzed Race Meeting Levels

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Beaded Wheels 5 Julie Cairns National Office Manager VCCNZ Inc facing Taranaki Street so it is plumb in National Office, PO Box 2546, mailbag the middle of what is now the Briscoes Christchurch 8140 ph 03 366 4461 fax 03 366 0273 The editorial committee reserve the right to pu­ blish, edit or refuse showroom. The Daimler, which was email [email protected] publication of any item ­submitted as comment. The views expressed imported as a bare chassis, was the last of www.vcc.org.nz herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily express the policy or views of the Vintage Car Club of New Zealand (Inc.) or the more than ten ambulances built for the national publishers. Letters may be edited for length and clarity. WFA by Crawley Ridley, starting with the office news first of six Hudsons in 1927. My late father, Noel Taylor, recalled the Daimler as being most unwieldy to drive in the confined Annual Subscriptions Wellington streets with its long wheelbase, In mid February, annual subscriptions commercial weight cross-ply tyres and for VCC membership will be forwarded lack of power assisted steering. Although to all financial members. To receive the powerful the Daimler was heavy and not discount of $11.50, payment must be popular with ambulance crews and went received by the National Office no later out of the WFA fleet early in the 1960s than 20 March 2015. All payments are due as lighter and more modern units became by 31 March 2015 to keep your member- more popular. ship financial. Wellington Free Ambulance It met with a singularly sad end. It fell We encourage members to pay be Roy Tilley’s piece in BW 330 about the into the hands of a chap in Wellington internet banking. This is a cheaper option Wellington Free Ambulance Daimler is who used it to tow his boat which he than posting a cheque, paying by credit a timely reminder of how soon common- regularly launched from the boat ramp card or obtaining a bank cheque. All place objects can be lost to living memory at Evans Bay. One day later in the ‘60s details are on your tax invoice. Please unless efforts are made to create a record. there was a mishap of some description note, you must put your membership The WFA Daimler ambulance was and boat, trailer and Daimler ran away number as the reference. a DE36 straight-eight of some 5.5 litres, backwards down the ramp and were the same chassis as used for the six 1953 submerged in the harbour. The Daimler Credit Card Payments to National Royal Tour cars, one of which can be was hauled out, deemed not worthy of Office seen in the Southward Museum. The left repairing and, I believe, scrapped. I have We accept Visa/Mastercard. Please note hand upper photo on page 16 shows the a dim memory of this episode getting a that all credit card payments incur a bank Daimler in the yard of Crawley Ridley & mention in the newspapers of the day. fee of 3%. Why not save yourself the 3% Co Ltd in Taranaki Street in Wellington Like Roy, I will be very interested to fee and pay directly into the the Club’s with the rear of a Newman Bros (NI) see if any further information about this bank account? Depending on your branch, Ltd service coach clearly visible. C/R unique vehicle comes to light. It is either free or has a minimal fee and it were situated right opposite Jessie Street Grant Taylor is easy for all parties involved. All details and in the photo the Daimler is shown are on your tax invoice. Please note, you Another Ambulance must put your membership number as the The article in last Beaded Wheels on reference. the Wellington ambulances reminded me of the rather odd one we had in Balclutha Discounts On Interislander and office, complete this and forward it to the in the early 1950s. It was a 1947 Mercury Bluebridge Ferries national office along with the payment. Eight most likely supplied by the local All financial members of the VCC Ford dealer to replace a mid 1930s Ford of NZ (Inc.) can obtain a discount with National Rallies - VCC ID Cards V8. Interisland and Blue Bridge. You must All vehicles entered in a VCC National Has this rather rare ambulance show your membership card. The codes Rally must hold a valid VCC ID Card. If survived? It looked like it had been a panel are: you are entering one of these events and van adapted for the job. Has anyone a INTERISLANDER – WH5465 require this document, please have your photo? BLUE BRIDGE – ANTIQUECAR applications submitted with your branch Regarding Neil Rooney’s photographs at least eight weeks prior to the event. in the front of the last issue I think the VCC ID Card Renewals You will also need the VIC number to large tourer looks to be a Flint, the big National Office will automatically send complete your entry form for the event, so brother to the Rugby from the Durant out a renewal form for any financial member further time may be required. The sooner company. The bottom picture appears to holding a VCC ID card three months in you can lodge the application, the better be of a Morris Minor circa 1928. These advance. Please note renewal forms must as sometimes there can be unforeseen had the overhead cam motor as was used be signed by your branch before they are delays. in the MG midget. forwarded to National Office. Mel R Tapp Christmas Hours Historic Race Licence I wish to take this opportunity to wish Bikes Identified All members who hold a VCC Historic you all a very merry Christmas and happy Page two Beaded Wheels 323, had a Race Licence are responsible for making and safe New Year. The Office will close request for information about two photo- sure that this has not expired. To renew on Wednesday 24 December 2014 and graphs from John Benn’s collection of your licence please obtain form “Section reopen on Monday 5 January. Triumph images. The one I recognised 23S” off the club’s website www.vcc.org.nz immediately was of Gilbert Bethune or your branch secretary or the national Brown and his passenger, F Haworth,

6 Beaded Wheels mailbag at Hanmer Springs on Saturday 26 Sadly, the original registration records where. It might have been in a newspaper November 1910 having completed a of Canterbury appear to be lost, (unless of the time, such as the Otago Daily Times record-breaking run from Christchurch to you have a copy which I can use?) or from one of the many collections of Hanmer. This is a distance of 95 miles, However, I pointed out that the machine images that are in New Zealand. I will which was completed in three hours 46 was never a Swiss made Motosacoche and keep searching! mins. This photograph must have been was more likely to be a Zenith model Reg Eyre passed round other publications because based on the 1905 Zenette. The image I Secretary, VMCC Flat Tank Section, UK it was shown in newspapers of the period sent them was from Harold Connolly’s and the New Zealand Motor and Cycle book Pioneer Motorcycles page four, which Information from readers Journal of 25 January 1911 on page 22. describes the engine as a 3hp Fafnir. We receive your excellent magazine More interesting is that this riding pair They refused to be impressed even here at the VSCC in the UK and have are shown again as part of a line-up of though I got the New Zealand Zenith an ex NZ man in the library. He’s Cosmo riders, assembled at Hanmer, on their first expert to support my case. I later found Davies who used to be associated with club run with the Pioneer Motor Club an advertisement in a copy of the Motor motorsport down there as a commen- in 1913, (it is worth pointing out that Cycle, which shows the machine to be tator and newswriter. Regarding the Neil both Gilbert Brown and his passenger a Zenith Bi-Car. Even today, the ATL Rooney piece inside the front cover of still look worn out.) I took a photocopy have the machine listed as having a the latest edition. The small saloon he of this image from a book, Our First Fifty Motosacoche engine. is not sure about is a Triumph Super Years: 1913-1963, page three. The same Seven. These cars were very successful photograph is shown in the New Zealand down under and were used extensively in Motor and Cycle Journal on page 29 from competition in Australia, breaking many 25 January 1911. My guess would be that long-distance records in the late twenties the author of the Pioneer Motor Club got and early thirties. I’m sure Phil Redmond, the year wrong to fit in with the dates of our New Zealand representative would the fifty years of the club. be interested in the article if he hasn’t There is also an image of Gilbert already seen it. Brown on a 1912 Triumph that appears Derry Aust on the title page in Matthew Wright’s VSCC & Pre-1940 Triumph Motor Club book, Motor Bikes Around New Zealand The reason I am being pedantic is (and on page 22). This has been severely that if these inaccuracies are allowed to Vehicle Identified clipped but the complete image can also remain, then future motorcycle historians Re the photographs supplied by be accessed at the Alexander Turnbull will believe the information to be true Neil Rooney, I believe the small car of Library Collection in Wellington, (or from and these mistakes will be perpetuated uncertain make photographed December their website – ref: 1/1 – 017330 – G). in later books. I have seen the wrong 1935 is a c1930 Triumph Super Seven. caption in three books to date. Another From the apparent two-tone body colour, example from the ATL is also in Matthew I suggest it may be one of the Fabric de Wright’s book and shows a young man Luxe versions. on his Harley-Davidson. On the petrol Peter Faber tank is painted the registration mark of W-72 showing it was first registered in Well done Bill Cockram Wellington. Fortunately, the registration The emperor very likely has no clothes, marks for Wellington still exist, and the idle torque can be seen as idle talk. looking up the number shows that this The changes he suggests are worth a look. was a Speedwell machine, possibly Howard Tiddy One of the problems of accessing imported from Australia, and registered to images from the ATL collection is that C. Bartlett of Lower Hutt in January 1906. Beyond the Budget? they rely for dating on the dates of the Coming back to the other image you Bill Cockram (soapbox BW328) gets photographer’s life and do not take kindly showed of a proud owner with his new close to the truth about the ageing VCC to an Englishman telling them that their Triumph, all I can say is that I have seen NZ membership but what is also clear to captions are wrong. For example, on page this image before but I cannot remember me is that VCC NZ – eligible vehicles 21 of Matthew Wright’s book is an image are for the most part, priced beyond the of a strange motorcycle somewhere in budget of nearly all the younger people I the Canterbury region with a registration know of. mark of C-251. Only those of us who have accumulated a bit of extra dosh in our later years can afford to buy and run such vehicles, unless we acquired them decades ago, when they were cheap as chips, and perhaps only 30 or 40 years old. Paul Elwell-Sutton

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branches to promote themselves to the Idle Torque Adds Flavour wider world. I read the latest Soap Box with some Perhaps members should be reminded, interest as Idle Torque is the second feature again, that Beaded Wheels is not only a I turn to when I read the magazine. (The club magazine but is sold on bookshelves first is the Letters page and the third is and is distributed to interested readers the For Sale section.) I think that Beaded throughout the globe. It must compete Wheels would be much the poorer if Idle with other car magazines. Torque was abandoned. Yes, it is occasion- Diane Ross ally repetitive and yes, it is sometimes less than gripping, but it does give a flavour Leave Beaded Wheels Alone of what all the branches have been doing. What else can a man say, Bill Cockram It is the only way many (most?) members is a stirrer. Beaded Wheels is a very good get any idea of the activities of other magazine just as it is, what you have to branches. Although most branch newslet- realise is that everybody is different and ters are sent to Head Office each month Aaah … it’s a mascot! different people read different things. Your for distribution to all the other branches, I’ve been reading Beaded Wheels on last soapbox raised some ire in the branch, not every member can get to their branch mascots and am not sure if this is of and perhaps if you don’t like what you do to read them. In addition, I understand interest. then have a change. I enjoy reading the that some branches send their newsletters It is Punch with a threaded hole whole magazine from front to back and by email and these are not available to between his legs, two screw holes in his new ideas can be picked up for use in our many members. feet and a cigar in his mouth with a hole own branch. Please keep Idle Torque and, if through it. His right hand has a hole The more we go on about member necessary, be firmer with the contributors through it which looks like it could hold shortages the fewer members we will get. who do not adhere to the editorial require- a small flag. It is chromed finished and Just get on with the job and make your ments! heavy for the size. club a happy and interesting place and David North I thought it was a window washer but new members will come along to enjoy now see it as a radiator thingy. My wife’s your happy club. Obviously a Woman father bought it into the country on a very Writing reports is not a job everybody I received our copy of Beaded Wheels old Jag. enjoys but it is done to keep the branch this morning, and just had to respond Trevor Farr to the fore and let all the members know to your little stirring (very mildly) page what we are doing. The weather or the regarding idle torque. Hear Hear Bill Cockram happy times do form part of the mood and I have been compiling the Wanganui Rather than be called apathetic I will cannot be left from a report whether you branch news for quite a few years now and make comment on your last Soapbox get sick of reading them or not. Rewriting I thought I would just add a few of my contribution. I agree with most of what reports is not the job of the committee, if observations. you say. For a long time I’ve considered it is not right just send it back before you Who actually reads all of Beaded Wheels the Idle Torque section the weak point muck it up. I got keen once and wrote far magazine? I’m convinced it’s a matter of of Beaded Wheels. I suggest it could go too much and was notified of my mistake, gender (or sex, if you like) who doesn’t? and not really be missed and I would save the report was not returned for me to Ladies and gentleman, it’s widely known myself the few minutes I spend scanning amend so I naturally thought that it would that it’s the women in our ranks who quickly through seeking an interesting be published, but be more careful next enjoy reading! The blokes do tend to skim, paragraph to read more carefully, mostly time. No I was wrong, somebody demol- forget the words; the picture is enough. without luck. That said from the report- ished my report and printed their version I know women now make up a large er’s point of view it’s not easy to find which wasn’t mine and put my name on it, portion of the club’s membership and just something interesting to write about what an insult. This is making work, the love to hear/read all the news of what’s every two months. Since your comments report should have been returned to me happening in all the other branches I have been approached by an anxious to be redone, which would have been easy around New Zealand. The news from contributor about what the content should and should have been easy to the person other branches is always a great favourite. cover. (Proof that branch secretaries are that demolished it. I had included a rally Most blokes I know head straight for not reading the manual or passing on the report in my report which could have been the for sale/wanted to buy section and relevant information to their reporters.) removed and placed separately as a rally the magazine is put aside for looking Moving on, I don’t believe asking the report. at later, although this doesn’t always branches for even a five yearly contribu- The Beaded Wheels committee probably happen. PEOPLE versus CARS, keep up tion would be practical. My suggestion needs to stand back and look at itself and the “stirring” Bill. I’ve enjoyed your little is that someone on the Beaded Wheels cut down on some of the things other column this morning. committee reads the branch newsletters people can do, and Bill’s idea for his Idle Fay Chamberlain (Obviously a woman!) from all the branches, as they most likely Torque won’t work and members won’t be do, and targets any relevant momentous kept up with what is happening. Bill you Pi___d Off happenings then go back to the branch should take a holiday as nobody else seems I was going to Auckland recently and and request an article. This I think would to have a problem, or find more to occupy while driving on the new piece of road give Beaded Wheels more control of what your time. which by-passes the bridge at the north is deemed to be interesting to the wider Graeme Duthie end of the older Mercer Straight I remem- readership and also giving a chance for

8 Beaded Wheels mailbag bered an early incident my father once aging younger members to a club meeting in that edition – the content of the deleted told me about. for the first time. Evolution has changed portion of my story was lost to readers Driving his Model T early one morning the time line of our grandparents life. who may feel inclined to support a local on his way home to Te Kauwhata in pre Child rearing and retirement have moved member rather than an overseas advertiser. 1930 days he came around the corner roughly ten years. The second paragraph referred to our north of the old bridge and he spied a man N. Coghlan new chairman, 23-year-old Gavin Bartlett. going about his private business over the We are always saying that we need to get side of the bank just before the bridge. Taking Up The Gauntlet new blood into the club, especially younger So engrossed was this man that he In Beaded Wheels issue 330 Bill blood, and here we have a young fellow neither saw nor heard dad in Lizzie. So a Cockram, a member of the Beaded Wheels who is prepared to do his bit and serve few yards off him Dad blew the horn and committee, no doubt in cahoots with Kevin on the committee, starting from the top. much to his surprise the man leaped into Clarkson, the chairman of the committee, Gavin currently owns a restored 1930 Ford the blackberries below. laid down the gauntlet and challenged A Town sedan into which he put many I asked Dad if he went back to check readers to pick it up. He bemoaned the hours as a teenager assisting the original if he was OK but he had not and as far as fact that the editorial committee is “a owner rebuild the car, and also a 1929 Ford dad knew he could have still been there in proof-reading and re-write committee”, A pickup which, while not restored in the the mid fifties. and that “editorial implies much planning true sense, is nevertheless a very reliable Barrie Grant and executive decisions”. For the benefit vehicle in which Gavin has travelled many of Bill and readers, I spent over 50 years at miles since it was put on the road. Both Leave it Alone our local newspaper, starting as a linotype vehicles have VIC cards. He has now I had expected some comment operator and moving through all the got his teeth into restoring a 1928 Model regarding rebranding Beaded Wheels. To technology upgrades to the stage where the AA truck, having amassed a collection of my knowledge there has been no published pages of the paper, once assembled using three chassis, each of which will supply response. I am nowhere near old enough columns of lead type, were assembled on components that will eventually make up to remember beaded edge tyre equipment a computer screen and sent direct to the two complete trucks. Again the chairman in common use so I would count myself as plate making machine ready to be placed deleted what I consider the important bits someone who had to ask what, why, and on the press, which in turn lessened the – that Gavin has made extensive inquiries how. Largely those who involve themselves number of jobs. During that time I served from those in a better position than him in old cars got the bug being around as linotype operator, compositor, reader, to find out what he actually had and what when they were in common use or more sub-editor, IT manager and also took part pitfalls he may come across during the recently through curiosity of machinery in planning and executive decisions with restoration, and he is much wiser for that no longer in common use. There is a management. In the “hot-type” days we assistance. learning curve in their repair and use for had to get 20-odd broadsheet pages to The chairman then deleted my final the later generation in which I include the press by lunchtime, six days a week. paragraph about the annual dinner of the myself. The era that each car belonged No computers, no cut and paste, no eight Gisborne branch celebrating 40 years since to had its challenges and technical levels weeks between editions. In short, I have its inception . . . surely that is a milestone that original owners worked with. Tyre been there, done that. I do wonder how that should be recorded for all to see! I was levers for those out of town were kept many of the editorial committee can claim chastised by local members for not putting close at hand and spare fuel carried about the same attributes. that information in my notes. the car was maintained at a level similar I admit to being one of the four contrib- In his “as we see it” column the BW to the mints in your late model Suzuki. utors to Idle Torque who exceeded the chairman noted that at the time of writing When I see the words Beaded Wheels 250 word limit with between 400 and 500 that column he had received contributions I picture a dusty road in the ‘20s with words – 482 in fact. The chairman pruned from 25 branches, 15 of those having to a car stopped with its owner wrestling it down to 235 words, and in doing so be shortened. He needs to be reminded that interestingly shaped rim to extract deleted what I consider the most important that there are 36 branches within the club, a punctured tube, how do I know this? details. and if every one of them contributed an Because I asked and listened to all those So let’s review my contribution: In the article of 250 words it would take up a lot who would paint a picture about how it first paragraph I noted that Brian Butler more space (9000 words) than that which was back then. Magic! had accumulated a number of bits for a was taken for the current column (6300 I support leaving the iconic name circa 1915 Waverley, he was now in a words among 27 contributors). He should just as it is; the full page photo on the position to commence building the vehicle be allocating the space for 9000 words and cover is the title anyway and leaves the up, so I made a plea for any information or if the total of the contributions falls short opportunist browser in no doubt as to its parts to assist Brian with his project. The of that number he should be able to use contents. chairman deleted the plea, possibly on the all contributions that are supplied. I also Evolutionarily yes there does seem to grounds that it constituted advertising for note that the 51 (!) photographs of branch be a decline in interest in things old and parts which would be better placed in the events in issue 330 when put together take machinery, however I would speculate that classifieds section. But hang on a minute! up a total of 12+ columns – that equals the as time moves on those who have an Advertising for members is free anyway, extra four pages in that issue. Don’t get me interest will filter through. We are out so I could have put that deleted bit in the wrong, pictures are a nice addition to the there. Personally I feel that it is pointless adverts. At the end of the day there would column, but 51? Cut down the words or cut to be a member and have little or no have been the same number of words, but down the pictures – I know which I would participation. Formal meeting structures spread over two different pages. It is inter- do if I was sub-editor. can be quite intimidating too which I esting to note, too, that an Australian Looking at the photo versus written think is much overlooked when encour- reader advertised for Waverley information word scenario a bit more closely, a small

Beaded Wheels 9 mailbag continued historical snippets of motoring interest from years gone by Graeme Rice

timelines 4.5cm 1 column-width photo takes up proves that the weekend must have been the equivalent space of about 70 words. successful and therefore may encourage 100 YEARS AGO The deeper (and wider) they are the other members from those branches to more words they use up. Extra large attend the event next time. December / January 1914/15 – According to the photos take up a scary amount of space! I agree with Bill on one point – Evening Post Great Britain made the best motor- A liberal approach to space alloca- that we should “expunge Idle Torque”… cycle sidecar combinations in the world, ideal tion to branches indicates that for instead let’s bring it back to Branch for modern warfare. Armed with a machine every photo a branch submits and has Notes which would give a fairer indica- gun the motorcycle crew could approach their published, the branch gets the equiv- tion of what is happening around the target invisibly, make a sweeping surprise alent of a bonus word allowance in branches, rather than some “idle talk” attack, do an immense amount of damage and accordance with the above approxima- from a branch reporter. Abridging all be on their way to safety at 50mph! Two-stroke tions, over and above the arbitrary (but the notes would make them too sterile 532cc Scotts and 770cc JAP engined Enfields nevertheless closely policed) 250 word – I have “friends” in every branch that were quoted as invaluable additions to Great limit. This is the current scenario. I have never met except through those Britain’s weaponry. A conservative approach, based on a notes, and that’s the way it should principle of maintaining fairness to all remain branches, would be that for every photo Members of all branches throughout 75 YEARS AGO a branch submits and has published, the country are actually really interested December / January 1939/40 – Captain George the branch should have the equiva- in the points of difference between Eyston’s triple record breaker, Thunderbolt, lent number of words docked off their the events that are taking place. In was displayed on the British Pavilion at New arbitrary 250 word limit in that issue the process of getting an interesting Zealand’s Centennial Exhibition. Thunderbolt of the magazine. Branches with a more and entertaining read from the notes had done battle with John Cobb’s Railton pictorial flair than other branches rather than a yawn, they are able to Special, the two drivers breaking the record five would then have photos with captions ‘feel the atmosphere’ of club events and times between November 1937 and August 1939. but little in the way of a written account gather fresh ideas and approaches to Powered by two 2360bhp 36.500cc supercharged, of events! branch events that perhaps could be Rolls-Royce V12 engines, the revised 357mph An unreasonable or ‘death-knell’ tried out on their own turf, and which Thunderbolt was more streamlined with an oval approach and one which, while possibly could potentially bring more zest and air intake and minus its massive rear fin, but at having crossed the minds of the penalty- increased camaraderie to VCC affairs 9.2 metres long with three axles it was still an happy editorial committee, may be yet and all that the club stands for and impressive sight. to be meted out to branches as they promotes – or tries to promote if not become more accustomed to being unfairly stifled in the process! punished, would be to adopt a policy A dull and uninspiring regimented 50 YEARS AGO akin to the old adage that ‘a picture is and almost ‘diary entry’ approach to December / January 1964/65 – Henry Meadows worth a thousand words’. The effect of recording the colourful events of the Ltd factory was bought by Sir William Lyons this would be that where a branch has a various branches is not what it’s about, to make space for his Jaguar-Cummins diesel photo of an event published the branch I believe. This amounts to pedantic engine project. Since 1919 Meadows engines has used up their 250 word allocation for editorial licence that has got out of powered everything from Bean cars to Scammell not only that issue of the magazine but hand. It is not in keeping with a club trucks and a Cruiser Mk V tank powered by for the next three issues as well! made up of keen members out to enjoy a horizontally opposed, flat twelve, overhead Bearing in mind this last approach, their historic vehicle hobby and who valve, 300 hp engine. Lea Francis, HRG, Frazer- the number of photos published by are keen to share their enjoyment in Nash used the 1½ litre, four-cylinder Type 4 ED some branches in the latest issue would an entertaining and sometimes light- engine, with Invicta and Lagonda using the 4.5 sadly indicate that we may not be hearted way. litre six-cylinder Type 6 engine. Jensen’s 1946 reading about events in those particular No doubt, if the currently adopted PW used a 4 litre Meadows straight 8. branches for a year or two now. That, of exuberant editorial stance persists, course, depends on whether or not fair even more of the branch reporters will treatment to all branches is a considera- lose heart, switch off their keyboards 30 YEARS AGO tion, or the ‘bonus for some, punishment and cease to contribute. That would December / January 1984/88 – Richard Prebble, for others’ policy continues to rule be sad to see, especially when a more Minister of Transport, had some doubts about supreme! reader-orientated approach could boost the wisdom of raising the 80kph speed limit up Bill Cockram asks how many people the intrigue of our magazine – of the to the pre-1973 oil shock limit of 100kph, but read the Idle Torque from start to finish. MEMBERS for the MEMBERS! said he might be persuaded by the evidence. The consensus at our recent club night For those who have got this far a The MoT recommended a 90kph open road was that most of those attending read it full unexpurgated copy of my original limit even though the Defensive Driving from start to finish, and I am sure there Idle Torque contribution, together with Council advocated moving back to a 100kph will be many readers throughout the a copy of the abbreviated version, can limit as 70% of motorists weren’t obeying the club will do likewise. And does it matter be found in the November issue of the 80kph limit demonstrating it was unacceptable. if two or three branches each report Gisborne branch magazine Carlton. on an inter-branch event? To me it Rodney Clague

10 Beaded Wheels Nicola Wilkinson Rally Director 2016

2016 rally update

Get Ready to Register Registrations for the Vero International Festival of Historic Motoring officially open on 2 February 2015. The two ways you can register: either online at www. historicmotoring.co.nz or by filling in the registration form enclosed in this issue of Beaded Wheels and mailing this and your payment to International Festival of Historic Motoring, PO Box 969, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand. We would really like Steam Punk HQ, Meeks Grain Elevator Building, Oamaru. to encourage you to register online as it is much easier for us to track and keep in of the rail network in New Zealand and not need to have a historic race licence contact with you. considered a ‘must do’ train trip in New to compete in the Pomeroy – just a set of Zealand. You will experience excellent cotton overalls and a helmet. For those Oamaru Train Trip views as you travel along Otago Harbour not competing in the Pomeroy – bring Included in the registration is the to climb the cliff tops to emerge from the along your picnic and enjoy the action. opportunity to purchase tickets for the bush and onto the picture perfect scenery Levels has great grass embankments and Oamaru Train Trip which will run on of the Pacific Ocean and the incredible viewing points all around the track. If Saturday 16 January 2016. This section view over the dazzling Blue Skin Bay. you want to register just for the Pomeroy of railway is considered to be a highlight There are opportunities for photos where please contact Susie via admin@historic- the train either slows down or stops for motoring.co.nz you to disembark. The end destination is the Oamaru Like us on Facebook Victorian Precinct. Oamaru is a town that Facebook – not everyone’s cup of tea we was built on nineteenth-century gold and know, but there is now an International grain booms, and is the birthplace of the Festival of Historic Motoring, Dunedin frozen meat industry. Settled around its 2016 page and this is the best way to stay in old port fringes is New Zealand’s most contact with us and get the most up-to-date intact Victorian architectural landscape. information on the Festival. So ‘like’ our the wheels Oamaru’s Victorian Precinct is a busy hub page and start spreading the word about this filled with shops, galleries, cafes, bars and fantastic event to everyone you know! are coming! restaurants, museums, a brewery, a steam train, plenty of fun activities and curious Request for vehicles: 15 – 24 JANUARY 2016 Steampunk-inspired attractions. We have received the following DUNEDIN This is a fantastic opportunity to requests from overseas entrants looking NEW ZEALAND experience this stunning countryside and for vehicles. what better way to see it than from the John De Groot comfort of a train. So, sit back, relax and Email: [email protected] let us do the driving for a change before Car(s) owned: 1959 Vauxhall PA Cresta, you start the touring stage of the Festival. 1953 Vauxhall Vagabond, 1971 & 1973 Ford F100, 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air. Pomeroy Member of Vauxhall Owners Club Of As well as the train trip you will Australia (Inc) Qld Branch. also be able to register to compete in Preference: 1950 – 1960 Classic car the Pomeroy. This will be held at Levels Victor Pace Raceway in Timaru on either Wednesday Email:[email protected] 13 or Thursday 14 January 2016. The Car(s) owned: Currently a 1974 Mercury actual date will be announced after the Marquis Brougham, 1970 Triumph Motorsport conference in May 2015. Mk2 PI Saloon, 1968 Scimitar GT V6 There is plenty of accommodation in the Coupe. Member of Classic and Historic Timaru district. For those who have not Automobile Club of Australia competed in a Pomeroy before, this is a My preference would be for a British or series of driving tests culminating with European car in good condition from the a 20 minute regularity trial. It is a lot of 1960s or 1970s era. www.historicmotoring.co.nz fun and becoming very popular. You do

Beaded Wheels 11 a column for those who like to stir the pot…just a little soapbox Contributed by Norm Dewhurst

A tale about a toll or is it a tunnel, a gateway or a hurdle?

The most recent extension (from Orewa to Puhoi) to the Auckland of the occasional trip we might make. and (b) a refund is not possible, only a Northern Motorway includes a tunnel I want to pay by cheque or bank credit credit against future trips. I reply saying and a toll system. This section is called (paper transaction) and who should I pay it may be many months before I use the The Northern Gateway. OK so far, you it to? Eventually I am given the details tollway again and I would like my money say, but wait; tolls are payable either by of where to pay the cheque. I, and the refunded now. They now ask me for my operating an account which must include operator, are well aware that if the toll bank details so that they can refund it, provision for automatic bank topping up is not paid within five days proceedings (funny that, they initially told me they (a minimum of $20 credit is required at all will be initiated, but I am assured that I couldn’t refund it). I ask them for their times), or, by paying online via internet for will be OK. I duly write a cheque for the bank details so that I can prepay future any trips taken. prescribed amount and post it. tolls direct, thus avoiding any penalties The only other option is to pay at one A week or so later my cheque is returned for not using their on line system. They of the two machines, situated at each end to me, accompanied by a letter saying that decline to give me their bank details. of this Northern Gateway. But there is a they cannot process it because it is insuf- Result; a stalemate, they have my money penalty payment added to the toll if one ficient to cover the toll and the penalty for which has now gone into limbo because pays in this manner. (This penalty was not paying by cheque. Further telephone calls the credit is only good for 12 months, (it initially imposed when the section was first to the 0800 number bring an apology for can be renewed provided one remembers to opened, but seems to have been added after not telling me about the penalty incurred do so every twelve months, and I forgot to continual breakdowns of the machines.) for a cheque (it was at the time a very new do so the second year) and I am obliged to Not only that, but the machines accept reqirement) but I would still have to pay it. pay $1.50 extra for the privilege of paying cash only, and not a card. So much for So, another letter with a new cheque for by cheque or by using their toll machines, the claimed move to electronic payment! I the penalty plus the original cheque. This assuming that they are functioning ! think I have got it right so far. appeared to be accepted. Whilst fully accepting that electronic Bear in mind that I can’t remember A couple more weeks and I get a bill channels are the way of the future, it seems actual dates. for the whole saga, including now an to me that we’ll probably need the old Day one. We are travelling north on infringement fee because my payment had ways as well for perhaps another twenty a long weekend and stop at the southern not reached them within the five days. or so years. The fact that manual toll booth to pay the toll. Both machines here Needless to say, it is an infringement not booths have been provided would appear are out of order, not an uncommon occur- to pay and infringements are handled to support this. I have suggested several rence, despite the fact that the southern by a different section from that which potential improvements to their system, booth is pretty vandal free, being in a handles normal payments. Several more including a 24/7 call centre service, (they public building, open 24/7. Not a problem, telephone calls, and letters, and eventually actually advise people to ring their 0800 we’ll pay on the way home. they concede that I am not trying to dodge number if the machines are malfunc- Day three. We stop to pay for two paying, and all is sorted. tioning, which is very helpful if it’s out of trips at the northern booth, but both their working hours), and a flat rate toll machines here are also out of order. We Some time later, our next trip. but with a discount for on line payment or cannot try the southern booth on the way A similar scenario; we are on our way to account holders rather than a penalty for home because there is no access over the a funeral and the south booth is, surprise, the occasional user, but to no avail. “Your Motorway. Not a problem, I take note of surprise, out of order. No time to mess suggestions will be taken into account at the 0800 number and ring them when we about, we carry on and stop on the way our next review”, which sounds like politic- get home. An answer phone, they only home at the north booth to pay. I punch speak for “Go away, we don’t want you”. operate the call centre between the hours in all the relevant details, ask for two trips, I now use SH16, or detour through of 8am to 5pm, and only on working days. and am charged for three. Again, with Orewa, and I note that there seem to be Day four or five. The first working day people lining up behind me to pay I think more people now doing the latter. Perhaps after the long weekend. I ring the 0800 to myself (amongst other things) that I’ll the casual users like me have given up on number and try to explain. Keep getting ask for a refund after we get home. their pay booths. told I can pay on line or open an account. I duly write and give full details and I keep trying to tell them that we can’t ask for a refund, but am told (a) I should Contributions are very welcome to soapbox. pay on line, and I don’t wish to lodge $20 not have asked for two trips as the system Email [email protected] permanently in their account for the sake automatically debits me for the first trip,

12 Beaded Wheels Words Grant Hitchings

the way we were

This year my grandson played in were responsible for the production of the articles in Beaded Wheels about their a National Hockey tournament in experiences on the Alpine Trial. They have Palmerston North and while there, in produced many articles on other interesting support, I visited the home of John subjects for this magazine too. John and Judy in Valhalla. and Judy Callesen to learn a little John Callesen about them and their old-car interests. John left high school in 1967 at age 17 seemed very large with equally large motors to begin work on the family farm and while and all in great condition save for the ones The International Austrian Alpine harvesting came across a 1927 Dodge coupe undergoing restoration. There was one that Trials were staged annually from 1910 to in a paddock complete with a bale of hay took my eye though – a diminutive Veteran 1914; the route starting in Vienna then in its boot. This aroused his interest in Clement Bayard with lots of polished going through Austria, Switzerland, Italy, old cars and after purchasing it he joined brass. This is Judy’s baby and has been her Croatia and Slovenia. These trials were the Manawatu branch of the Vintage Car favourite rally car. A two seater, Judy drove major events attracting entrants from Club in 1976. He still enjoys rallying the it at the opening ceremony for the 2012 Europe and beyond, all driving grand old Dodge. John has served as Branch Whanganui International Rally with the marques of vehicles of the era. In mid-June Chairman and is presently Vice Chairman. City’s Mayor as passenger. (I see the car was 2013 a re-enactment of the rally was held About 1972, John was introduced to featured in a 1991 issue of Beaded Wheels.) over the original course. a young lass named Judy at a party and In 1956-57 Sir Edmund Hillary made a Issue No. 325 of this magazine carried considering that at that time he owned successful dash to the South Pole utilising a very informative and interesting account an antique Dodge, a 1970 Datsun coupe three Massey Ferguson tractors fitted with of this 2013 event and a second and (which he still has) and being an ex All tracks. In 2007 at the Alpine Centre at concluding article appeared in Beaded Black he felt his prospects were pretty the Hermitage at Mt Cook the Hillary Wheels 326. good. Actually at this time the young lass Gallery was opened featuring a display Rolls-Royce vehicles were always to was developing an interest in old cars too of memorabilia from Sir Ed’s expedition. the fore and this special 2013 anniversary driving an early Model T Ford on the Denis Callesen, John’s brother was the rally featured the largest gathering of Rolls- family farm and was keen on purchasing a General Manager of the Hermitage and at Royce Silver Ghost cars ever seen. One of 1930 Ford Model A which had come up for the opening he mentioned to John that it these had participated in the 1912 event sale. Unfortunately the deal was scuppered would be nice to have one of the tractors which made it rather special. when the owner found she was only 19 and to complete the display. John found that An expatriate Kiwi, John Kennedy, he considered her too young to manage the the tractors had been salvaged and returned owns a 1922 Rolls-Royce and he arranged vehicle. but then had been altered and were now for it to be taken to the start of the 2013 Over the years John has constructed quite different to what they were for the anniversary rally when it was taken over a large shed for storing his old cars. It is Polar dash. John compiled a lot of historic and driven by John and Judy Callesen. complete with a library, and a workshop information and managed to purchase a They are both prominent in the Manawatu area fully equipped to recondition and Ferguson tractor and rebuilt it to be as close Branch of the Vintage Car Club and machine engines and make car parts. He to the originals as possible. they became one of the official photogra- manages the rebuilding of Veteran Car John completely dismantled the tractor pher vehicles for the trial. Later the pair engines for a group of enthusiasts in the and sandblast-cleaned the parts before USA which involves the re-assembly to avoid any chance of oil casting and machining of drops staining the floor under the tractor engine blocks. when on display. I have not seen it but I am Initially his main interest sure, after seeing examples of John’s work was in the Dodge-made that it will be impressive and will match vehicles but now he seems very closely the original Hillary tractors. pre-occupied with Cadillacs. I enjoyed my afternoon with John and He maintains a high standard Judy at their homestead – the only problem of work in his rebuilds and I found was with my neck after conversing is fastidious with detail. His all afternoon with a towering 6 foot plus ex late father was an excellent AB from my lesser 5'6" frame. wood worker and helped with And for the record my grandson’s restorations. hockey team won the National Hockey Unfortunately my tournament. knowledge of early cars is BW not great and the vehicles he had in the shed were mainly unfamiliar. However they all Judy Callesen in her 1912 Clement Bayard.

Beaded Wheels 13 An Early New Zealand Motor Cycle Journey: Waipori to Nelson and Back in 1914 Submitted by Ashley Blair

Eric Knight, left, and Frank Russell on their 3½ horsepower Humbers. 1912

ric Knight, my grandfather, was Co. of Dunedin in February 1906. The Wilson with the first motor bicycle to born on 15 January 1894 at Waipori. motor cycle was an Alldays 2½ hp made arrive in Waipori.” EIn the early part of the 20th century by the Birmingham company Alldays & My grandfather would have seen Waipori was a centre for gold sluicing and Onions Ltd, also known as the Alldays & Wilson’s motor cycle as well as the 7 hp dredging close to the Lammerlaw Ranges Onions Pneumatic Engineering Company, Peugeot motor cycle of Mr C J Fox inland from Dunedin. Nothing is visible Ltd. At this time there were a total of 75 which visited Waipori later in 1906. of the township now as it lies beneath motor cycles in Dunedin. Eric’s father, These machines sparked his interest in the waters of Lake Mahinerangi, part of F W Knight, photographed Wilson on the motor cycles and things mechanical. He the hydroelectricity scheme that powers Alldays with his Thornton-Pickard half- owned books such as Fowlers Mechanical Dunedin. plate camera. This photograph appeared Engineer’s Pocket Book, 1914, The Elements The first motor cycle to arrive in in the Otago Witness on Wednesday 21 of Mechanism and The Elements of Machine Waipori was owned by Willy Wilson who March, 1906 with the caption “Mr W. Design. purchased it from Cooke, Howlison and

Willie Wilson and his Alldays 2½ hp motor cycle at Waipori, March 1906 CJ Fox with his Peugeot 7hp motor cycle at Waipori, 1906

14 Beaded Wheels According to 100 Years of Motoring in greatest advantage was that “running now get. The idea is merely to heat New Zealand, the first decade of the 20th mounts,” that is running alongside the up the plug well in the oven, or over a century can be regarded as the golden age motor cycle till it fired and then leaping gas-jet, until it is rather too hot to hold of motorcycling in New Zealand. Motor onto the saddle, were a thing of the past. comfortably in the hand. Then screw cycles were much cheaper than cars, they There was “no constant hopping on it home in the cylinder, and get going. were relatively easy to run and they were and off the machine when negotiating A North Island friend of mine says he available to working class men as well as congested traffic.” Another advantage of has frequently lit a small fire of sticks to the better off. The New Zealand Motor a clutch was when “getting it out of the alongside the road to heat up the plug and Cycle Journal went even further when house, and wheeling it out of the garden of a sulky motorcycle, and the desired it said that, “It is the motorcyclist who onto the road.” Before clutches were fitted, effect has always been forthcoming. In enjoys the ultimate pleasures of the road. the motorcyclist had to hold up the valve the absence of an oven, gas-flame, or These swift and easy riding machines give lifter to overcome the compression of roadside fire, a rag soaked in petrol, the rider opportunities in country touring the engine while pushing the machine. or petrol poured into the plug cavity that could not be enjoyed in any other Another section of the book detailed the and lighted, might provide the necessary way.” merits of three gears instead of two. heat.” Cooke, Howlison and Co. began Barry Herd in his video Classic Vintage In early 1914, when he was nineteen, selling bicycles in Dunedin in 1895. By and Veteran Motorcycles - Volume 2 gives Eric and his friend rode their Humbers 1903 they were advertising their own some indication of the skills needed to from Waipori to Nelson and back, a Record Featherweight Motor Cycle, with ride a 1912 Humber. These motor cycles distance of over 1,200 miles and a journey an imported Clement engine, for £50. had four foot pedals. The two on the left that not many had made before them. I By the time Eric became interested in side of the machine were for operating the assume that the friend that he went with motor cycles they advertised themselves rear hub gears, one pedal for each gear. was Frank Russell who is in the 1912 as “The Largest and Best Motor Garage in One of the right hand pedals operated photograph*. Apart from wanting to do Otago.” This company, still in existence the rear brake and the other was the a road trip they may have been inspired today, were Humber agents and very active exhaust cut-out. When this was opened by items in the Otago Witness such as in promoting this brand of motor cycle. up the escaping gasses made a noise like the story of 13 January 1909 entitled At the 1912 Dunedin Winter Show they a machine gun. On the handlebars there Motor Run from Nelson to Dunedin which exhibited five “up-to-date” motor cycles was a lever for the front brakes, a lever recounted the wonders to be seen, as well including two Humbers. They also had for the throttle and a lever for lifting the as the difficulties encountered, on this Humbers on display at the summer shows. exhaust valve. Another lever on the side journey. This would have been a great Cooke, Howlison was quick to point out of the tank was used for adjusting the adventure for two young men from a the success of Humber motor cycles in ignition timing. Altogether they were very country area like Waipori. racing. One advertisement stated that, “busy” motorcycles to ride. Anthony Wilding, the New Zealand “Pitted against the World’s best, they come In the section entitled “Hints and Tips” born champion tennis player and avid out on top every time. Not only in other The New Zealand Motorists’ Road Guide motorcyclist, completed one of the first countries do they win, but in New Zealand (South Island) the following advice is given recorded motor cycle journeys between also. Here’s a local contest in which, for starting motor cycles in cold weather: Christchurch and Nelson in 1909. He owing to the large number of competitors, “The following tip is not particularly took two days to cover the 270 miles, “in their victories are most conspicuous: New new, but I have found it very effective the course of which he crossed several Brighton Beach 50 mile road race Humber for helping my motor-cycle to start river-beds and negotiated many bad roads.” first!” more easily in cold weather, and with On 7 January 1914 Eric and Frank Eric was influenced by this advertising the rather inferior grades of petrol we reached Timaru and Eric sent a postcard and he bought a brand new 3½ horse- power Humber motor cycle in 1912. A photograph given to me by my uncle Jack Knight, Eric’s son, shows Eric and an older man, identified as Frank Russell, on brand new Humbers. This photograph would have been taken by FW Knight when they arrived home from collecting their motor cycles in Dunedin. A hand written note by Eric’s father dated 16 September 1912 is the first record of Eric with his motor cycle. It says, “Eric went to Waitahuna in his motorcycle. Left at 11 am and was back at 4:30 pm.” I have my grandfather’s 1913 edition of Motorcycles and How to Manage Them which was ‘revised and rewritten throughout’ by the staff of The Motor Cycle. This has a detailed discussion on the advantages of having a clutch. The Hydro Grand Hotel Timaru. Postcard sent by Eric Knight on 7 January 1914

* I have been in touch with Frank Russel’s son Bill, aged 88. His father never mentioned anything about the ride to Nelson but Bill can remember the time, when he was very young, when the Humber fell on him in a shed. Beaded Wheels 15 Motor Cycles and How to Manage Them. 1913 Bridge Street, Nelson. Postcard Eric sent on 15 January 1914. Eric Knight’s copy. of the Hydro Grand Hotel to his mother way to Timaru without a puncture was from Nelson to Greymouth, and then to back in Waipori. The postcard reads: probably written with some relief consid- face the perils of the Otira Gorge to reach ering the horse shoe nails waiting to Christchurch. Timaru puncture their tyres. The Canterbury Automobile 7 Jan. 1914 The main problems that Eric and Frank Association’s motor cycle reliability trial Dear Mum, were up against on their ride were the state from Christchurch to Kaikoura and back We have got here so far. Timaru of the roads, the lack of proper maps and was reported in the New Zealand Motor is a very nice place. What do you directions and the unbridged rivers and and Cycle Journal of March 25, 1913 p108. think of this place for a hotel? We watercourses, especially between Waiau The route was described as “bristling with got all the way without a puncture. and Seddon. difficulties in the shape of treacherous and We stayed a day in Oamaru but I The New Zealand Motorists’ Road Guide shingly river beds with shifting fords, steep didn’t think much of it. (South Island), first published in 1914, gives hills and nasty curves that require experi- Eric. some idea of conditions at the time. In a ence and skill on the part of drivers.” description of the road from Ashburton “The extremely rough nature of the The Hydro Grand Hotel was billed to Christchurch it says that there “are a river beds can hardly be realised by those in an advertisement in The New Zealand good many unbridged water races between who have not been over the road. For Motorists’ Road Guide (South Island), as Rakaia and Dunsandel.” However, from miles the shifting shingle is the only “The largest and most modern private Riccarton to Christchurch the “road is road, winding tortuously through hill on hotel in the Dominion.” The hotel, built good the whole distance and in parts just both sides and the track shifts as soon in 1912, offered 80 luxuriously furnished about a perfect motoring road.” The speed as fresh water comes down. Every now rooms, electric lights, electric lifts and limit for this perfect motoring road was just and then a soft bottom is struck, and the “perfect sanitary arrangements.” Under 12 miles per hour. driving wheels slip and spin ominously. threat of demolition for many years, the North of Christchurch the road down The streams, with steep sides, had to Hotel has a Category two rating by the to the Conway River was described as “a be approached on the low gear and the New Zealand Historic Places Trust. very steep descent, the cutting being over cuttings and turns were a severe trial for In Edwardian times drivers of horse a mile long and slippery in wet weather.” any driver climbing uphill. The scenery, drawn vehicles and horse riders were quite The river had to be forded and was “rather however, is magnificent for most of the antagonistic towards drivers and riders of a bugbear to motorists, as the bottom is journey.” motor vehicles. Horses were liable to shy or often soft, and there is a good deal of The decision to bridge the Conway, as bolt at the very sight of a motor vehicle let water in bad weather.” In 1911 a motorcy- well the Kowhai and Hapuku rivers, was alone the sound of the motor. There was clist wrote, “Perhaps the most appalling only made by the Massey Government in the case of several coach passengers being obstacle in the run from Blenheim to 1914. injured when the lead horses took fright Christchurch is the Conway River, which Away from towns there was a distinct at a car which had stopped for them to is a moving stream. The track runs for lack of “finger posts,” as sign posts were pass. Magistrates tended to side with horse about six miles along the riverbed and the called then, and the best advice to owners whenever an accident resulted in water, when the writer passed through, had motorists and motorcyclists was to follow a court case. Horses did manage to get to be crossed three times. Angry streams the railway line wherever possible. Bacon’s revenge on motorised vehicles, including they were too.” This article went on to Cycling and Motoring Road Map, New motor cycles, by shedding shoe nails on advise in the strongest terms that motor- Zealand, South Island was one of the few the roads which were the cause of frequent cyclists traveling south should not even road maps available then but it is very punctures. The comment in my grandfa- attempt the ride between Blenheim and optimistic as some of the roads that it ther’s postcard that they had got all the Christchurch as it was far easier to go shows have not even been built to this day!

16 Beaded Wheels In 1967 while I was touring the South except for two days when we were Anon, (1920). The New Zealand Motorists’ Road Guide. Christchurch: Andrews Baty & Co Island on my Model 7 Norton, Eric talked coming from Waiau to Kaikoura Ltd. to me about his 1914 ride. I can only we had about six or seven miles of Bacon, G.W. Bacon’s Cycling and Motoring remember two things that he told me. river bed to get through. We are Road Map, New Zealand, South Island. G.W. One was that when it rained the mud was leaving for home this afternoon. Bacon & Co. London. so thick in places that every few miles Best love, Eric. Henderson, Mark (1983). A History of The they had to stop and scrape it away from Motorcycle Trade in Dunedin. Dunedin: Mark under the mudguards with sticks to allow From the dates on the postcards it Henderson. the wheels to move more freely. The would appear that Eric and his companion Herd, Barry. (2003). Classic Vintage and second thing was that they were taken took nine days to travel from Timaru to Veteran Motorcycles - Volume 2. Sidcup: Instant across a river on a punt. This would have Nelson. Vision Ltd. been around Kaikoura. If only I had asked Just over a year after this epic ride MacLean, P. and B. Joyce(1971). The Veteran him more questions at the time, or even Eric had an even greater ‘adventure’ at Years of New Zealand Motoring. Wellington: written down what he was telling me, we Gallipoli where he was wounded. He A.H. and A.W. Read. would know a lot more about his journey. later served in France. Eric’s youngest McCrystal, John. (2003). 100 Years of Motoring On 15 January 1914, his 20th birthday, daughter Ann gave me a photograph of in New Zealand. Auckland: Hodder Moa Becket. Eric sent his mother another postcard, this Eric on a flat tank motor cycle taken Myers, A Wallis. (1916) Captain Anthony time from Nelson with a photo of Bridge after he returned from the war. Ann told Wilding. Street. In the photo there are no cars and me the story of when Eric was riding Otago Witness no motor cycles, only pedestrians, cyclists round Waipori with Marguerite Campbell Sherrard, J.M (1998) Kaikoura: A History of the and horse dung on the streets. as a pillion passenger. While riding over District. Christchurch: Cadsonbury Publications. “snow tussock” Rita, as she was known, Staff of “The Motor Cycle.” (1913). Motorcycles Nelson was thrown off and it was some time and How to Manage Them. London: Iliffe & January 15th 1913* before Eric realised that he did not have Sons Ltd. Dear Mum his pillion passenger with him. This event The New Zealand Motor and Cycle Journal

This is where we are now and it did not seem to affect the relationship at BW has taken us all this time to get all because they were married in June 1921 here so I don’t know when I will and Marguerite became my grandmother. get home. We have had a good trip References *This should have been 1914.

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Beaded Wheels 17 E Hayes & Sons – Home of the World’s Fastest Indian Words Stuart Francis and Neville Hayes, photos Miles Heyton

E Hayes & Sons has become a mecca in to buy up his collection and keep it in others, dotted around the shop, you never for those attending the Burt Munro Southland. quite know what you will find around the Norman Hayes started the tradition next aisle. The collection also has some Challenge; tired rally-goers can sit on of putting vehicles, machinery and other interesting specials including the Austin 7 a sofa, have a complimentary tea or ephemera on display and his son, Neville based Crouch Special motorcycle and the coffee and watch the Roger Donaldson (current MD), has continued the tradition. Brise Chevrolet Corvair engined special, Norman initially put the 1911 New Hudson (looking like a prototype for the later six documentary about Burt. and unrestored 1918 Indian Power Plus on cylinder Honda Gold Wing). Neville has show in 1996 and other items were slowly a passion for ‘50s American muscle cars added. The Burt Munro Indian and the with a couple on display, including his he beginnings of E Hayes and rest of Burt’s items were originally kept in favourite, a 1957 Ford Thunderbird. Sitting Sons go back to 1895 when Ernest the basement of Norman’s house. However, in the front window is the first racing car THayes established an engineering he received so many requests to see the constructed by George Begg, the “Begg company in Oturehua (Central Otago) Indian that it went on permanent display 650”, built in 1964 and powered by a BSA to produce agricultural equipment he in the shop in 1998. A10 motorcycle engine. From the outset it designed. The Hayes Engineering Works For the first Burt Munro Challenge, performed well, embarrassing a number of still exists as a working museum and is a in 2006, a number of other motorcycles bigger cars. listed historical site. Irving Hayes, after and cars were added as temporary exhibits. The shop is also home to Burt’s less working for his father for some time, However, they were so popular they well known record breaking Velocette. decided in 1934 to open an engineering became a permanent display, with further Burt set a number of national records on supplies shop in Leven Street, Invercargill. bikes, cars and old machinery being added the Velocette. Employing the same single Irving’s son Norman joined the business in over the years as space allowed. The collec- minded approach he nearly doubled its 1942, starting at the bottom with a broom; tion now has 38 Veteran, Vintage and top speed to 138mph, possibly at one he eventually became Managing Director Classic motorbikes, nine cars including stage the world fastest Velocette. The in 1978. The shop moved to Dee Street Burt’s ‘54 Chevrolet from the film, and a only significant bit of Burt’s machinery in 1956 with adjacent properties being host of other memorabilia, including Burt missing from the collection is a single acquired over time, the shop now occupies Munro’s “Offerings to the God of Speed”. cylinder double overhead cam 350 conver- the whole Leet Street end of Dee Street. The majority of the motorcycles and cars sion for the Indian which he built in the Irving and Norman Hayes knew Burt belong to the Hayes Trust or Hayes family, 1940s, currently owned by a Munro family Munro very well, having helped him over with a few on loan from local collectors. member. the years with bits and pieces and access to With four Ariel Square Fours, a Victoria Norman Hayes had an inquisitive machinery; Norman also raced with him. Burgermeister, a 1922 Ricardo Triumph, a mind and a passion for making things. When Burt decided to sell up after a debili- 1922 Indian Scout, a Vincent Rapide and In 1980 he decided to make a stationary tating stroke in 1977, the Hayes stepped a Yamaha XS750 Flat Tracker, amongst engine out of wood where possible, using

18 Beaded Wheels A line up of 1970s and 1980s racers. The 100m tool wall. 1955 Ariel Square Four and 1954 Victoria Bergermeister.

The Munro Indian, the Munro Velocette and a Munro Indian replica from the film. Neville Hayes. unlikely pieces of metal or objects where ally tracked down the frame and bought sell, usually make it a one stop shop for all wood would not work, after being told it. Further detective work discovered the a customer’s needs. Sales staff have usually by a rather pedantic customer that all engine still existed in Dunedin and was worked there for a number of years and engines had to be precision engineered due to go to the dump the following week. are very knowledgeable about the products out of metal. The resulting engine looks Norman immediately drove to Dunedin they sell. Although there is a premium to like something “Heath Robinson” would and bought the engine. be paid for such a service, the old adage is: have been proud of, with a rough wooden The family also own a 1910 Buick that “If Hayes doesn’t have it nobody will!” framework, a machined piece of drain they have had for 99 years. Acquired in As the shop concentrates on the profes- pipe for a cylinder, initially an oak piston, 1915 it was converted to a works truck and sional market it does not directly compete wooden conrod, a water tap and jam jar at one stage it powered a saw bench. It was with the DIY superstores. However, they carburettor and a bedpan as the silencer. converted back to a car in 1955 and after do compete on DIY tools with the afford- The engine runs smoothly, slowly and some use was stored away. When the Buick able Hammer Hardware range alongside quietly: it has to be seen to be believed. had to be moved to the shop Norman the professional tools. The shop has also A major expansion of the shop in 2009 pumped up the tyres, cleaned the plugs, branched out into upmarket kitchen appli- to create the gift area also created space for poured in some petrol and started it, and ances, glassware and giftware. a significant expansion of the collection drove it down the main street to the shop. The obvious question is, “What does and a reorganisation of existing items. The The core business of the company is the vehicle collection do for the business”? latest additions to the collection have been providing engineering supplies to local For the core business it does nothing, but Neville’s other passion 1970s racing motor- industry and agriculture with a greater it has created its own profitable sideline cycles. Neville has no plans for further portion of sales to accounts. The big point selling memorabilia, books and films, expansions of the exhibits but a 1959 BSA of difference is the shop deliberately stocks which has now become Hayes’ first area to Gold Star DBD 500cc and a 1978 Yamaha all the equipment and tools needed to trade through the internet with significant TZ750 are both being restored for display. support these industries. Stocking every- international sales. When pushed about expansion Neville did thing from complete milling machines to The shop has become one of say if a works Yamaha YZ500 came along power tools and every conceivable hand Invercargill’s biggest tourist attractions he would make room for it. tool on a 100m long “tool wall”, to the with a steady stream of visitors wanting to Neville has his own private collection hard to get and/or obscure engineering see the Indian. It is not unusual to find a of motorcycles (and cars) a K75 BMW, items needed to support older equipment film crew setting up to interview Neville 1927 Indian 4 and a 1919 Daytona Racer. (like Imperial Stainless Steel Screws), or some visiting travel writer in front of The Daytona Racer is very rare and only spare parts for MIG welders, sight oilers, the Indian. So, next time you are in town two are known to exist, guaranteed by the rope, vermin control equipment, outdoor pop on down to the shop and visit one of

factory to achieve 100mph. A friend of clothing and specialist paints. the best free shows you will ever see. BW Norman’s, Jim Bissland, had heard rumours The sheer variety of products and of the bike for some time and he eventu- support services for the machinery they

Beaded Wheels 19 Kevin Casey

The Mascot Story Part VI

Kevin concludes his comprehensive review on objects “which spoil the bonnet line”

The plain-Jane Calormeter is dressed up by The Dragons, a 1925 mascot from Eddo Motor Accessories, Birmingham. Japanese mythology tells of two sea dragons, balancing one or two balls, who rule the tides – one dragon required for each tide. Ebb and flow seems apt for the cooling system.

Carl Breeden assisted T H Whiting 25/-, the Mascot De Luxe, complete with hen any new invention is a at Wilmot Manufacturing Co (Wilmot- accessory wings, for 35/6. winner imitators pop out of Breeden after 1928) to produce a rival The best night illumination was Wthe woodwork with remark- to the Motometer, aiming to secure the courtesy of approaching cars, a bit hit and able alacrity, Harrison Boyce’s Motometer significant business of Morris Motor miss on those uncrowded roads but at least being no exception to plagiarism. As we Co. Morris had been using the Boyce a pointer would be easier to see than a have seen, erstwhile rivals were vigor- Motometer, made in that company’s British thermometer in the peripheral headlight ously pursued through the courts but not factory, but for the 1926 season switched to glow. The Motor gave the Calometer a always successfully. So far I have identi- Calometer. It used a bi-metallic strip which good report and may have influenced fied some 35 brands of meter or light and moved a quadrant and pointer as the strip Austin and Clyno, who promptly adopted there surely will have been more. Many straightened under the influence of rising it. An unhappy Boyce successfully sued managed a “connection” to Motometer temperature, measured in the air space; a Wilmot-Breeden and Morris Motor Co for by incorporating part of the word, such system already patented by Boyce. Breeden patent infringement. The ensuing massive as Arro-Meter, Lilormeter, Heat-O-Meter, delivered a new gauge to William Morris £50,000 in damages and costs would have Aero-Meter and Radi-Meter or, at the who thoroughly tested it on a journey crippled most companies but Morris had other end, Moto-Eye, Moto-Fan, The through France. Satisfied with it and fed deep pockets. The Calometer was altered Motalarm, Moto Glow, Motolite and so up with paying royalties to Motometer Co, by the simple expedient of extending the on. The most successful imitator was the he placed an order for 25,000 gauges per thermometer into the water, avoiding Birmingham-made Calometer, its name annum. It became standard equipment on the Boyce air space patent. A new 1927 derived from calorimeter, an apparatus for all Oxfords and Cowleys from 1 September patent revealed the name, Calormeter, measuring quantities of heat (calor is Latin 1925, the Standard model retailing at changed from the original Wilmot for heat). all-British Calometer, probably to differ- entiate it from that now-tainted gauge but The knob lifts under steam pressure, also in a friendly gesture to Autovac who emitting a piercing blast. Made by manufactured the Galometer, an instru- Motalarm Corp., New York, in 1919. ment for measuring petrol consumption. The Calormeter was fitted as standard to almost all Morris models right through to 1935. Austin, Ford, Triumph, Wolseley, Jowett, MG, Lancaster and Standard also embraced it. Whether grovelling or pretentious, Wilmot-Breeden implied noble connections, reflected in their range (ascending price order): Prince, Sovereign, Regent, Viceroy and Emperor. They were roughly comparable in price to the British-made Motometers apart from the Universal Boyce model, at 33/6 ($7.50 in US) considerably dearer than the Viceroy and Emperor at 27/6. Price was always a factor in the Boyce Motometer sales success, barely changing

20 Beaded Wheels over 15 or so boom years. Types made for Scope (Radiator Meter Co.) were mechan- cars climbed to seven, from Midget to De ically similar to the Pyrometer and even Luxe, from $3.50 to $15 and, let’s face it, Motometer filed a patent for their own they all did exactly the same job in the version. I do not know if it was ever same way, although the Midget on your produced. Some of the opposition’s Duesenberg would invite comment. In products were odd, to say the least. Art 1921 a dealer could buy the Midget model Metal Works marketed their Moto-Fan at $1.88 ($1.75 for 10 or more) whereas in 1916 at $2.50. Its body looked like the by 1927 the cost was $2.45 or $2.28 for Boyce model but the entire centre housed 10 or more, the dealer receiving a free a small fan claimed to “exhaust steam attractive mahogany counter stand plus and pump cool air into your radiator.” It wall signs and booklets with this quantity probably only lived up to their description, order. Normal retail price for the midget “a handsome ornament.” The 1926 Auto was $3.50 but in 1927 the giant Sears, Con-Den-So-Meter (not a typo!) by Alert Roebuck & Co offered this model for Alarm Co. (Chicago) worked something $2.55 in their famous mail order catalogue. like a pressure cooker. On boiling, the top We encountered Bouledogue á la Chaîne in the Sears must have cut a good deal with would rise accompanied by a piercing blast Mack story. This rare version sports a concealed thermometer. Motometer as they did not offer any of the from the steam-activated whistle. One of opposition’s gauges. The price advantage their available styles was in the form of thicker than usual thermometer, its lower enjoyed by Motometer stockists can be an Art Deco butterfly with green painted clear part marked Normal, the upper illustrated by a 1924 advertisement for the highlights. The Motalarm was a steam purple section marked Danger; probably Pyrometer which claimed: “it contains no siren that resembled a small alarm clock useless at night. Semaphoric Indicator Co. liquids and consequently cannot freeze or while the Moto Signal (Faith MFG Co.), (Chicago) produced their Moore Motor damage by overheating. All parts exposed looking remarkably like a Motometer, also Semaphore, its mechanism consisting of to heat variation are metal. As the motor gave a “whistling kettle” warning. red and green discs activated by two levers begins to heat, red wings slowly contract The Motector, from ANCO (Anderson connected to a float. At operating temper- within the circle forming a red ball – the Company, Indiana), incorporated a green ature both discs are partially visible. Their danger signal”. Pyrometer’s nickel-plated sight-glass that filled with bubbling water later version boasted a smoothly contoured De Luxe cost $10 while the same instru- when overheating occurred, returning startling orange Bakelite body. Close ment with 14ct gold plate became the condensed water through its closed system. relatives to this gauge came from Fageros Perfection, priced at $15. Motometer also Auto Condenser Co. manufactured a and also Dunhameter Corp, theirs in solid advertised in this publication promoting similar system in 1923 and yet another, brass. A similar Boyce patent (1916) was their equivalent model at $6. Undercut the “Little Giant” Burke Condenser, was licensed to Simplex Manufacturing Co. – the opposition on a large scale; Ford would marketed by Automobile Devices for $5 not all of Boyce’s inventions were assigned understand. in 1917. Also at $5 was the interesting to Motometer. Pyrometer’s subtle disparaging of little device, dubbed the Wells Radiator Another approach was through a Motometer’s liquid thermometer is unsci- Condenser, shaped like a Veteran car lamp pop-up signal such as the meter marketed entific – the red alcohol will not freeze and incorporating a miniature honeycomb by De Luxe Motor Signal. Boyce had a but the average motorist would not know radiator. It was claimed to effectively crack at this method too! His 1924 patent that. Numerous enterprising companies condense vapours or steam, maintaining a application contained this about-face tried to muscle in on the Motometer Co. constant water level. statement: “The drawback of measuring concept of a radiator cap-mounted device Point of difference for the Heat-O- steam temperature is loss of top tank heat to warn of overheating. The Bermometer Meter was the colour change warning by due to air flow affecting the thermometer”. (Great Northern Sales Co.) and Metro its pink fluid. This 1915 $3 gauge used a His new device utilised a spring-loaded

ANCO claimed their Motector The Wells Radiator Condenser was distributed by (Scout model shown) to be Imperial Sales Co., Columbus, Ohio. “a faithful sentry…as well as an efficient condenser.”

Beaded Wheels 21 This instrument from William B. Jarvis (Grand Rapids, Michigan) worked in the same simple way as the Radometer, which predated the Jarvis by 4 years. There is no record of a lawsuit.”

The (1919) Radometer’s red indicator bobbled up and down when the water boiled.” warning flag that released at a certain ture. It was part of a rear view mirror, an for correct reading that the fluid registers temperature. Several companies, including idea pinched by GM who used it as an near the bottom of the scale at the point Motometer, marketed a gauge incorpo- accessory through the late ‘30s and ‘40s. marked cool motor. Parts are available rating a metering rod operated by float. The patent records Schlaich as inventor from Restoration Supply Company in In 1923 the W B Jarvis Co (Mich.) adver- with half the rights assigned to Boyce. America – view their website at www. tised their model, readily identifiable by Not much can go wrong with a restorationstuff.com. They stock complete its attractive octagonal shape. “Red spot Motometer. The die cast bodies tend to Motometers, repair kits, thermometers, 281 jumps – water is boiling” on the dial face crack up of course and the thermometer different emblems, wings and dog bones. seems self-explanatory. can break. The red liquid in its hermeti- They have a wonderful catalogue of items A number of manufacturers included cally sealed tube has a vacuum above and for restorers and from past experience I a vertical temperature scale concealed in it is common for the alcohol-based fluid recommend them to you for their courtesy, the back of a mascot, such as the light- to extend up the whole tube after the service and quality products. Another house by P Rossi & Co (Britain), its red gauge has been lying on its side for an source for gauges is Snyder’s Antique Auto lens on top operated by the brake light extended period, and this was so for most Parts, Model T & A specialists. Name circuit. Bouledogue à la Chaîne and the new gauges. An attached tag advised the plates are limited to Ford but they have the Ford greyhound are two more examples purchaser to hold the meter upright and other parts. View their catalogue at www. while, yes, Motometer would not be left in quick succession tap the bottom of the snydersantiqueauto.com. A third source out. Their December 1931 patent (by instrument on the spare tyre until the is www.myersearlydodge.com – click on Charles Jardine) depicted a stylised heron, liquid has gathered. At a later date the catalogue, then accessories. Repairing a very similar to Cadillac’s, a thermometer instruction was to “hold the instrument gauge is straightforward, the only difficulty nestled between its raised wings. This, and firmly, stem downward, and swing violently being extracting the thermometer from its another abstract arrow design, may have as if throwing a ball on the ground. Repeat metal housing. Gently prise up the rolled been their final radiator-mounted tempera- until fluid gathers.” Another, perhaps rim and dig out the sealant, reversing the ture warning devices. A different more effective, method is to insert process to assemble. type of invention in 1919 was the stem into boiling water I promised a twist in the tail and here a “mirrorscope” thermometer before the shaking and repeat it is. One hundred years after its birth to record outside tempera- as necessary. It is essential Motometer lives again and the world is set to hear about it on a truly massive scale. Either they bought it or revived it but as from April 2014, Moto-Meter™ now belongs to World Moto Inc., the global authority on the $500 billion motor- cycle taxi (moto taxi) industry. The new Moto-Meter™, developed in Thailand and patented in 61 countries, fits in the palm of a hand and rides up front, just as the Boyce model did. Mounted on a handlebar bracket it functions as a taximeter, black box, GPS and digital advertisement display - which brings in the money. The meter has a three – five year life span, monitoring location Our bull looks rather astonished by and rides while storing up to five years of his unusual headgear. Motometer produced a very similar gauge. trip data. In the densely populated cities of Asia and Africa, the only sensible means of ferrying people around is by motor-

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Beaded Wheels 23 A Very Short Love Affair Words Jill Batty

e went to the Napier Art The car had a reconditioned motor in upholstery, handles and knobs, steering Deco festival. We loved it. it and while the motor was running the wheel and carpet. The body needed panel WMy husband took the largest car needed to be picked up by trailer. It work and painting. Basically you name it memory stick for the camera and he took didn’t have seats or windows or brakes that and it needed doing. The previous owner thousands of photos. He photographed the worked let alone anything required by law had taken the car apart and documented cars parked in Hastings town centre; the like a warrant or registration! every step. He had not got far on the cars on Marine Parade; the cars parked After quite a bit of organising it was re-assembly and it had already taken him in the camping ground we were staying delivered. Then there were the other 15 or ten years! in, and of course, every car in the grand so trips to pick up the windows, 6 doors, 8 John went into the garage with a piece parade. wheels, and boxes and boxes of bits that of paper to write down a time frame and At the end we decided that we had could have been anything. Our garage was where he would start. Would he start enjoyed ourselves so much we would go not large enough. inside the car or outside, the body or the again but next time we would wear period A friend down the road owned a engine? He came back inside with nothing costume and, added my husband, we would Vintage car and John was invited to go written on the paper and he didn’t go back go in a period car! with him to the local Vintage Car Club to the car for about a month. At home he was fizzing with ideas and meeting. Everyone talked about their cars The second month he didn’t go to the he talked about buying a Vintage car to a and the process they had gone through to Vintage Car Club meeting. group of friends. One of the men said that restore them, the cost of the restoration The third month he decided to list the they had a Morris 8 and that John could and the number of years it had taken. car on TradeMe, with a start price of $1 have it if he wanted it. John had allowed himself nine months and it sold giving him a profit of $100. They went straight round to view it and to have the car suitable for taking to Once the garage was empty of parts a price was agreed. That night I was told Napier. He went out to the garage and and my car had very thankfully been that my car would have to live on the drive looked at it. It needed mechanical repairs. re-installed, he said to me, “maybe next and we were now the proud owners of a The chairs were no longer stuffed, (the time I will buy one already finished” and 1939 Morris 8 series E. horse hair had come separately in huge the subject hasn’t come up since. bags), and the interior needed lining and BW

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Magnificent Minerva Words Roger White, photos Roger White and Stan Garmonsway

Sixty-five automotive marques came Dutchman Sylvain de Jong moved but used the conventional poppet valve and went in Belgium between the to Antwerp in Belgium in 1897 and technology of the period. commenced making bicycles to take At around the same time in America, beginning of the 20th century and advantage of the boom in two-wheel travel Charles Yale Knight invented a completely the commencement of World War II. that was sweeping Europe. He named different approach to the problem of his product Minerva after the Roman engine breathing. Most engines of the All were victims of the industrialised Goddess Minerva, who was the patroness time had poppet valves for both inlet and might of other more mass production of craftsmen. Like many bike manufactures exhaust; the inlet often being opened orientated European countries and of it wasn’t long before he branched out to by suction and closed by compression, a provide engines for the infant motorcycle convenient but most inefficient process course America. market and then complete machines under for power and speed, the exhaust was the Minerva brand. The next logical step hammered open by a cam and closed he Belgium brands were noted for was to manufacture automobiles. by a spring. This process was noisy and outstanding craftsmanship and De Jong made his first car in 1905 somewhat unreliable. To make matters Thigh quality and the best of these but serious production did not get going worse it wasn’t long before inlet valves was Minerva, whose products quickly until 1907. The Minerva brand made an were also operated in the same way. gained an enviable reputation for quiet immediate impression by winning the Paris Knight, a self-taught engineer was powerful and reliable cars. These virtues to Bordeaux race in that year. Other racing familiar with the slide valve mechanisms meant that Minerva became a favourite success followed including taking the first of steam engines; he was convinced that a with the millionaires, aristocrats and three places at the Circuit des Ardennes. better valve system could be developed for royalty of the time. Over 80% of Minerva These early Minervas were superbly built petrol engines. production was exported.

26 Beaded Wheels After several abortive ideas, Knight working on an eccentric shaft timed to engines were known to consume more oil finally came up with the famous double the crankshaft. than the norm for the period. sliding sleeve principle and with the help The advantages of the Knight system The cost to produce the Knight engine of a wealthy backer set about developing it were quick, positive (desmodromic) valve coupled with the royalty demand of $100 to commercial reality. The first prototype action with no “impact components,” per engine seems to be the reason that the engine was produced in 1903. Two more no tappet adjustments or frequent valve American automotive industry initially years of experimental development grinding was required and no valve springs snubbed the concept, so Knight took his followed and then Knight was ready to sell to break which was a common occurrence engine to Europe to try and interest the his product to the industry. His Patent was in the early 1900s. The ability to have manufacturers there. accepted on 14 September 1905. To prove the ideal combustion chamber shape, not Two firms in particular where very the concept they exhibited a complete car compromised by valves, enabled the spark impressed by Knight and the advantages at the 1906 Chicago Auto Show. This was plug to be placed centrally. All compo- promised by the double sleeve engine; an impressive vehicle boasting 40 hp. nents were lubricated sliding motions Daimler in England and Minerva in The Knight principle involved two providing great reliability and silence of Belgium. cylindrical sleeves, one sliding within the operation. Both companies built high quality other. The outer sleeve operated against These advantages seemed overwhelm- vehicles in relatively low volume and the block, while the pistons slid within ingly positive by the standards of the time, were well equipped for the precision the inner. The sleeves were precision especially as Knight claimed 30% fewer engineering that the Knight engine ground cast iron with rectangular slots to parts than a conventional poppet valve demanded. Daimler in particular saw this provide inlet and exhaust porting. They engine. However the sleeve components engine as an opportunity to challenge the were operated by short connecting rods were more costly to produce and the premium status of the recently introduced Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost.

Beaded Wheels 27 De Jong of Minerva, also chasing the Road Test The wheels are beaded edge wires with upper crust market, similarly saw this Martin and Joan Ferner’s Minerva is RAF splined centre lock hubs and are engine as the way of the future. Minerva a 1912 model BB with a Knight patent fitted with 880 x 120 tyres. introduced the first sleeve valve model four cylinder double sleeve valve motor Lighting equipment is by Autoclipse in 1908. De Jong was so impressed that of 4.4 litres capacity producing 53 hp at and would have been fitted sometime after all subsequent Minervas were so powered 1800 rpm. The chassis was originally sold the initial sale of the vehicle. right to the eventual demise of car produc- in England by Day & Day Automobile The early history of this car is not tion in 1938. The concept readily adapted Agents of London and was fitted with known or when it came to New Zealand to small and large engines with Minervas torpedo style coachwork by Maythorn of but it was found derelict on a farm in ranging from 2 litre four cylinders to 6.6 Biggleswade. Porongahau. Martin had heard of the litre straight eights. Minerva cars were The engineering is impressive; extensive existence of a Minerva through a local very successful in pre WWI rallies and use of ball bearings throughout the gearbox club member. In fact the family had two trials which enhanced their considerable and steering swivels typifies the quality almost identical cars one of which their reputation for high performance and relia- approach. Five main bearings support the grandfather had bought new and was bility. crankshaft. Bosch dual ignition (coil and still in good condition and definitely not By 1912 Minerva was producing magneto) ensures reliability. for sale and the other “project” car that 3,000 cars per annum with a staff also The clutch is a leather faced cone and after protracted negotiations was finally approaching 3,000; although quality was the gearbox is four speed with right hand purchased in 1966 for £100. paramount, one car per year per employee gate change. The foot brake operates The car had been under a rough was hardly the stuff of productivity legend. on the rear of the gearbox while the leaky open sided lean-to with two plugs handbrake utilises rear axle drums. removed. The bonnet had been cast aside

28 Beaded Wheels and instruments removed. The body was chance to feel the performance of the the engine maintains the required pressure in a ruinous state with the inevitable Minerva for myself. How hard would it automatically. blackberries growing through it, but it was be to drive? How good is the sleeve valve The engine is quiet in comparison to a relatively complete, an exciting restoration engine? Is it as quiet as claimed? Would it typical poppet valve engine of the time and project; four or five years should do it! be smokey? considering that it does not have a counter- The car was dismantled soon after balanced crank, it is remarkably smooth. recovery but other projects, not to mention Road Test Martin explains that the crankshaft is family and business commitments, meant First impression is of a large imposing offset by 20 mm compared to the bore that progress was slow but steady. Edwardian car. The light blue body work centres; this means that the connecting Utilising the Wellington Polytech panel is enhanced by the dark blue wheels and rod is nearer vertical on the power stroke beating classes, Martin had by the mid upholstery, the brass work is magnificent. making a smoother engine and reducing 1970s completed the mudguards, cowl, Sitting high on the leather buttoned wear. This also allows increased baffling in valances, and bonnet and door panels. seats allows a superb view of the country- offside of the sump to reduce oil consump- The woodwork was renewed and the body side and enables one to look down with tion. substantially repaneled. great superiority on the little buzz box that So far so good – no smoke so far! In 1990 the project was restarted with is determined to pass. On the road I find the gearbox easy renewed determination. The chassis was The thick rim steering wheel is rather to use. I think Martin has warmed it completely stripped, checked and repainted. small compared to the size of the car but up for me! Get the revs right and you New springs were made and fitted. on the road the steering is light and direct are rewarded with a satisfying snick. We The engine was stripped with great – must be all those ball bearings coupled are soon up to fourth gear and cruising difficulty, extensive damage had to be with 65 psi in the beaded edge tyres. Makes serenely at 50kph the car holds the road repaired and new pistons and rings made. you wonder about our obsession these days well and the brakes are adequate provided All the main bearings were renewed. with power steering. no one jumps out in front. The cone clutch was refaced and The controls all seem handy, refresh- At about 70kph the Minerva is still sensibly a starter motor along the line of ingly there is only one lever on the steering very comfortable and Martin is happy to the 1912 CAV system was devised and wheel – a hand throttle, the advance lever cruise at 80 on the highway as long as fitted. The original worm drive rear axle is on the dash, neither was needed on this there is plenty of room ahead! With a was replaced with a slightly later Minerva drive. long stroke and all that reciprocating mass, crown wheel and pinion system. the engine exhibits good low speed torque The engine was first run in December enhancing the driving experience. Pulling The real proof of the Minerva’s 1992. The body was painted in 1994, uphol- away smoothly from 30kph in top gear is stery fitted in 1995 and the car was finally performance came when Martin no problem. completed in 1996 just in time for the and Joan accepted an invitation to All too soon my drive comes to an end. 50th Anniversary Rally in Christchurch. participate in the 90 year re-enactment Martin shuts down the engine with a clever Almost 30 years to the day since obtaining of the 1913 Austrian Alpine Tour. device to bleed air into the manifold. This the car – how’s that for perseverance! makes hot restarting easier. Martin and Joan have motored all over De Jong was right; the Knight sleeve New Zealand in this impressive Veteran valve engine was the way to go for a high and have found that it has lived up to its The handbrake and gear lever are on quality car of the period. reputation for reliable performance. the right hand side, making the small De Jong died in 1928 when Minerva was The real proof of the Minerva’s perfor- offside door useless, but I guess the owner at its peak with 4,400 employees, but the mance came when Martin and Joan sat in the back so wouldn’t be worried company continued to flourish for a time accepted an invitation to participate in the about that. The levers are beautifully with a line of small and larger sixes and 90 year Re-enactment of the 1913 Austrian coated in brass shim which looks great and in 1930 an impressive and luxurious 6.6 Alpine Tour. has certainly stood the test of 102 years. litre straight eight. But the writing was on The 2003 event followed the original The electrics are housed in a mahogany the wall in the tough economic conditions route as closely as possible and covered box in the centre of the cowl and include of the ’30s and in 1934 Minerva merged much of Austria, Northern Italy, Slovenia an ammeter, voltmeter and air pressure with another Belgium marque, Imperia, and Croatia. This involved travelling over gauge to indicate the fuel pressure in the but the decline continued and the last 2,000 kilometres and 13 alpine passes, in a tank. cars were produced in 1938. After WWII large, heavy, complex Veteran car with two The throttle pedal is in the centre of a revived group assembled Land Rovers for wheel brakes and all on the wrong side of the clutch and carden shaft brake pedals, the European military. the road! nicely spaced and easy to operate. Charles Knight was proven right as well, To cope with the 1 in 4 gradients on the Starting is made easy thanks to the as not only Daimler and Minerva adopted passes, Martin remade the crown wheel ingenious starter system that operates via a his principle, but so too did Panhard, and pinion to reduce the ratio from 3.1 to sprag clutch to the front of the crankshaft. Peugeot, Mercedes, Benz, BSA, Voisin 3.5. Even then he had to resort to low gear It is obvious that great thought has gone and Mors. After WWI, Knight was vindi- on many occasions and didn’t dare stop for into this system. It works well and does not cated in his home country when many photos! look out of place. American manufactures swallowed their I could hardly hope to experience the Before starting though it is important pride and produced Knight patent sleeve thrill of Martin and Joan’s Alpine experi- to get air pressure to the fuel tank. This is valve models in high volume, but…. did ence in our short run into the Mangaroa done by means of a hand pump. Once the any of them ever make any money? BW Valley, but I was excited to have the engine is running the pump on the side of

Beaded Wheels 29 MOTAT How it all began… Words Barry Birchall Roy Cope driving the 1910 International buggy, standing alongside giving instructions is Barry Robert. The car is owned by the War Memorial Museum but on permanent loan to MOTAT. Photo supplied by MOTAT.

In October 2014 the Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT) in Auckland is 50 years old. The museum probably started back in 1956 when steam locomotion and electric trams were being scrapped.

hen Graham Stewart married Dawn Sterling, Graham and this was transported back to Matakohe. The tram had earlier told Dawn’s cousin Mervyn Sterling he wanted to save come from Sydney. Portland Cement had a small steam engine Wone of Auckland’s last trams before they all got shipped called Bertha and this was acquired. The signage though the war off to the Coromandel to be used as holiday homes. Merv Sterling years was removed from the locomotive, as it had been manufac- said he would also purchase a tram and they could be stored on his tured in Germany. Dominion Breweries donated a steam roller. property at Matakohe. When Graham approached the Auckland Merv Sterling went to the South Island for a holiday and come Transport Board he told them he wanted the trams complete, with back with a cable car trailer from Dunedin that was built as a bogies, destination signs, trolley poles. He also said he required horse tram in 1883. In 1958 Graham and Ian Stewart and Merv sleepers, rail, poles and overhead equipment and they told the Sterling went to Wellington to look at some trams about to be Transport Board they could not pay for the equipment. They were scrapped. The Wellington Council had established the group had told by the Transport Board they could take what was required no money, and donated the three trams but they had to pay the but if the venture did fail the Transport Board wanted £2,000 for transport costs. The collection continued to grow; a great collec- the scrap. They asked the Railways if they could store some of the tion of horse drawn buggies, stationery engines, old tractors, a tiger equipment in a shed they were not using at Mt Albert. Some items moth engine, penny farthing cycle and a 16 ton diesel engine from picked were sold to farmers around Matakohe so they could pay Dunedin manufactured in 1903. Graham Stewart then shifted for the new shed at Matakohe. Every time there was a stock sale at down to Napier in 1959. They could see by now Matakohe was not Matakohe, Merv would approach the farmer who had sold stock at the best place for a National Transport Museum as it was off the the sale and ask for a donation to his Transport Museum. Graham main road and a long way from a big population centre. also successfully persuaded the Auckland Transport Board to save Merv Sterling then approached Teal and asked if they could one tram. Merv had a large tram barn built on his property to have the Solent Flying Boat. Sir Geoffrey Roberts was general house the two trams. He put aside six acres of land to establish the manager at the time and was also president of the Auckland Transport Museum and a group was formed called “The Old Time branch of the Royal Aeronautical Society. He suggested he talk Transport Preservation League” to assist. to the Auckland City Council and see if they could get the site The 1891 steam tram from Wanganui had been sold to a group at Western Springs for a museum, where there was an old beam in Australia but they could not pay the freight so Peter Mellor engine and space for a flying boat. Sir Geoffrey Roberts was the new group secretary and Graham Stewart bought the tram going to approach the council but many months passed and never

30 Beaded Wheels Motat – 257 being lowered on to temporary blocks, photo Graham Stewart Steam tram from Wanganui sitting in a paddock. Photo Graham Stewart. heard from him again. They must have also approached the Air buildings were built by volunteers with all of the materials paid for Force because about that time they also acquired the Sunderland by locals. The museum was first opened to the public 18 months Flying Boat. They were told they could have the flying boats but later and has been a huge success story for the north. had to find a suitable site to park them. They made contact with The news media had told the Auckland public a new transport the Whangarei Borough Council about a site on Port Road. This museum would be established on the site but nothing was backed onto the water so they knew they could move the flying happening. The team seemed to lack a leader when Merv Sterling boats onto the site. The Whangarei Borough Council after a vote went north, so the mayor approached John Hogan the owner of that was very close turned the group down. Technical Books to take an interest in the project. The chairman Merv Sterling then went to Auckland to meet George Bolt of Veteran and Vintage Car Club and brother of the mayor Horace of the Aeronautical Society and Frank Simpson, Chairman of Robinson was also asked to join the steering committee. Not the Historic Society, to see if they could establish a Museum in helping the situation was the fact that the Water Department had Auckland at Western Springs. They wanted to have the meeting not vacated the site. Horace Robinson then approached Barry in the Council Chambers and Robert and asked him to take an present the Mayor (D M Robinson) interest in the site as they did not with a draft plan, prepared by …They asked other groups with similar want the site to become a rubbish Frank Simpson, of what they tip. John Hogan could see they had proposed. They asked other groups interests to attend. John Irvine was present to raise money pretty quickly to with similar interests to attend. from the Auckland Vintage Car Club… make the museum work so he asked John Irvine was present from the Rodney Keir (Principle of ATI) to Auckland Vintage Car Club. The assist. They applied for a grant from meeting held on 5 July 1960 was a the Golden Kiwi for some money huge success. The council agreed to lease the land to the group. and were successful. Winstones said they would match it dollar for The War Memorial Museum was behind the project, as they had dollar. been offered items they knew should be saved, but did not have Many people were starting to donate items to the new museum the space. Nothing could happen on the site for a year as the in Auckland and this was creating problems as they did not have Ministry of Works had said they might need the land there for the any under cover storage and the area was not fenced. Some of new motorway. the first items to arrive this way were the large wooden telescopic In 1960 Merv Sterling must have made contact with NZ ladder donated by the Fire Brigade, the 1902 Saunderson & Gifkin Railways as they acquired the massive K class locomotive that was tractor from Huntly, and the 1901 hot bulb Hornsby portable parked on a siding at Frankton Junction. Maybe the Railways told engine that had come down from Matakohe. This was restored by Merv they would move the locomotive to Auckland and park it Vintage Car Club members in the small room next to the boiler outside Pacific Steel in Otahuhu, and if the venture fell over it was room and was the first restoration done on site. They had been parked in the right place. The K900 was 136 tonnes and was the told by the Water Department they could have the 1894 Tangye largest locomotive built in New Zealand for the railways. This was twin cylinder steam engine and pumps that were in the pumping the first K900 built. Merv had a great pictorial record of anything station on Lake Pupuke. They had asked a machinery mover to he acquired as he had a great friend in Tudor Collins. shift the equipment, but he walked away from the job, and it was Merv was not ready for the big city life so went north to give later shifted to site by members of the Vintage Car Club. Barry friend Wilf Wagener a hand with his museum at Houhora living Robert said to me recently he was getting far too many calls to out of a caravan on site for 18 months. Dick Sterling, Merv’s uncle that job and he had to ask Jim Lewis to take over for a while. who had assisted with the Old Time Transport Museum went to John Hogan and Rodney Keir had now raised enough money to Whangarei, where he played a key role in the establishment of employ a permanent staff member on the site. Barry Robert and a new Pioneer Museum on the hill beyond the Hospital. In 1961 Rodney Keir interviewed the three applicants and gave the job Merv decided to start a Kauri and Pioneer Museum at Matakohe to Harold Stone. Harold had just sold his service station so was with some of the team that had earlier assisted him with the pretty good with his hands. Harold Stone had to ask the Water Transport Museum on land that would be vacated by the Old Works Department to remove their gear from the site first. The Time Transport League. A committee was formed and he started council had agreed to make good the floor in the boiler house. one of the best Pioneer Museums in New Zealand. All the early Harold had sited two derelict WWII recreation buildings by the

Beaded Wheels 31 GS. 18. First tram to arrive at the museum 13 May, 1958, is pictured being Matakohe Bound – Elliot & Sons Ltd., Te Kopuru transporting Tram 253 – lowered by Richard Sterling and Ian Stewrat using the famous Jacks. Photo G. negotiating the hill at the northern end of Orewa. C. Stewart. zoo. The council had told him he could shift the two buildings Ian Stewart had been told of tram track in Wanganui. This was to MOTAT. One was to become clubrooms for the Vintage Car picked up and brought to Auckland. The Vintage Car Club had Club and the Model Railway Club after a lot of working bees. The also refurbished a McCormack Deering tractor and Union petrol second building was used to house the large collection of horse engine that had once been used to power a Northland sawmill. drawn vehicles that had arrived from Matakohe. A third building Winstones provided the front gates that are still there today and was removed from Kowhai School that had earlier seen service as assisted with fencing a barracks at the Trentham military camp. This was to become the Bob Mann and Wally Hudson from the Bush Tramway Club area where Vintage and Veteran cars would be displayed. They did were establishing a railway on the lower land. There were three employ two carpenters for a few months to tidy up the buildings. old houses on site. One house had been partly gutted by a fire. More exhibits were being donated; the 1868 Shand Mason This was refurbished to become the carpenter’s workshop and horse-drawn hand pump from the fire brigade at Wellsford, also used as an area to display Post and Telegraph equipment. The a penny-farthing bicycle donated by Skeates and White, two second house where K900 sits today, was moved across the lane. large drays with a fresh coat of paint from Winstones, and that This house was used to display photographic equipment, printing wonderful hearse from Tokomaru Bay. A great collection of equipment, gramophones, radios, and pianos. The Vintage Car stationery engines, buggies and old tractors had been donated. Club had acquired the remains of a 1915 Renault truck from George Bolt had been involved in the aviation industry all his Karaka and this was moved onto site. The Auckland Institute and life and had a collection of very early aero engines from the First Museum had supplied the 1910 International buggy and a landau World War period. These were donated to MOTAT along with the with leather hood from 1875. There was a surrey with fringe plane and a motorbike built by Richard Pearse. These items were on top used in the show Oklahoma, a 1926 Ford Model T was stored at the time in the boiler house. acquired (ex Jelacca), and a hansom cab and horse on loan from Bob McGarry had told Merv the French Government still the Hawera Borough Council. Before the site was opened to the had two Lancaster bombers in the air, based at the time in New public, volunteers made heaps of picket fencing to keep children Caledonia. Merv Sterling wrote to the French Government to see away from the exhibits. if he could acquire a Lancaster bomber as a memorial to the New On 5 March while Lord Montagu was in town they asked him Zealand serviceman lost in WWII. Merv was great letter writer to officially open the first Exhibition hall. Lord Montagu had and this helped him a lot. There was no reply to the letter for been in New Zealand to go on the 1965 Haast Vintage Car Rally. almost a year. Then a letter arrived that said a Lancaster would The Lancaster Bomber was moved onto site. They removed the come to Auckland, and would they like to inspect the plane, and wings at Whenuapai and reinstalled them at MOTAT. The area see if it was suitable for preservation. In January 1963 the plane between the pump house and the gate was sealed, two more staff landed at the Whenuapai airport and was handed over to the were employed and on 14 October 1964 the museum was opened new Museum of Transport. Merv persuaded the flight crew to to the public by mayor Sir Dove Myer Robinson. Most of the cars make one more flight in the plane. The plane went as far north on display had been borrowed from members of the Vintage Car as Kaitaia passing over many small towns, at Matakohe the plane Club. dropped to 300 feet. The only toilets on site were ones that came with the pump Harold Stone had two fencible cottages moved from Panmure. house and some people were not that happy about this situation. A Winfred McDonald, Joyce and Ian Lush refurbished the cottages lot of work was done on the site with pretty primitive equipment; with period furniture. In 1963 “The Old time Transport League” a small Bristol crawler tractor from the thirties that had come was wound up at Matakohe and all of their plant shifted to from Ron Roycroft at Glen Murray, a second-hand Thames Trader MOTAT. For 18 months the trams sat in the long grass amongst and a Leyland truck from 1927 that the tramway section had built the trees on short lengths of track. The trams in Wellington a hoist on the back. The truck had been donated by Westfield were also being pulled out at the time and now four trams, poles, Freezing works. When Harold Stone first arrived communication sleepers and a lot of rail arrived from Wellington. Ian Stewart and was always difficult as there was no phone on site. There was no his team had laid some track so trams would not be sitting on fork hoist or crane so some pretty heavy machinery was moved the ground. The tramway control box from lower Queen Street with a lifting pole, or ten ton jacks that came with trams and a lot was moved onto site and would become the first ticket office. of rollers.

32 Beaded Wheels OBITUARY

Lionel James Duncan Priest 24 May 1936 - 25 September 2014

Past National President Lionel Priest died in Hastings on 25 September 2014 after some 54 years of continuous membership of the Vintage Car Club. Although in latter years Lionel’s involvement was more in keeping up a keen interest and a watching brief over the activities of the Club, in the early years Lionel and his wife Judy were very involved in the Vintage Car Club and made a huge and significant contribution both locally and nation- Sunderland Flying boat when it was still in service with Teal. Photo Matakoe Museum. ally. Lionel joined the Hawke’s Bay Branch of the Vintage Car Club in 1960 with his first car, a 1930 Ford Model A Mervyn Sterling died suddenly in Whangarei in 1996 at the coupe. He also owned a 1928 Austin 7 glasshouse top hat, age of 76. In retirement he wrote two books, one on the Lancaster 1928 Plymouth Brougham, 1926 Master Six Buick tourer, Bomber and the second book on the Smith family in Matakohe. 1929 Ford Model A pickup, and a Hillman straight 8. He He received the QSM for work he had done saving our history. was also custodian for many years of the 1904 Rover owned Merv returned to MOTAT about 1974 and worked there for by the Hawke’s Bay Museum, and for some five years was the about six years before he moved back to Matakohe. Harold Stone custodian of the Hawke’s Bay Branch’s 1922 Rolls-Royce. left the museum in 1970 but returned later as a volunteer. He Lionel became interested in the wider picture of the Club produced a book on MOTAT called the The Museum Makers. and started to attend National Conferences. He quickly got Graham Stewart, now based in Wellington, went on to publish the reputation of being the “stirrer from Hawke’s Bay” and about six books on trams. Ian Stewart has maintained his associa- shortly after this he became Hawke’s Bay Branch Delegate tion with MOTAT as a volunteer. Barry Robert went on to attending National Executive meetings. do three more restorations in the steam hall at MOTAT. The Lionel’s organisational skills and attention to detail Vintage Car Club left MOTAT in 1971 and moved out to Penrose meant that he was a very good organiser and organised with the Renault. The Bush Railway left MOTAT and went down a myriad of national rallies and events on behalf of the to Glen Afton with their two steam engines. The Museum at Hawke’s Bay Branch. Houhora on the way to Ninety Mile Beach closed its doors about Lionel held several positions at Hawke’s Bay Branch level eight years ago and exhibits were sold at an auction in Auckland. over the years including secretary for a total of six years Today MOTAT employs about 85 staff and is on 40 acres on two and was chairman of the branch when he was elected to sites and run by the Auckland Council with volunteers on site the position of National President of the Vintage Car Club still doing the restoration work. It costs the Auckland ratepayers of New Zealand at the National Conference in Timaru in about $12 million each year, but it is wonderful facility for 1977. Lionel held this position for four years. He was also Auckland City and great memorial to Mervyn David Sterling, and re-elected onto the management committee between 1992 all the volunteers who worked both at Matakohe and in Auckland and 1995. on the projects. Lionel has also been the Vintage Car Club’s representa- I wish to thank Darcy Sterling, Barry Robert, Ian Stewart, Kae tive on the Federation of Motoring. Bond, John Walker and Graham Stewart who assisted me with In early 1980 Lionel was the public relations officer the article. BW for the 21st International Rally held in Rotorua. He was also involved with the first Pan Pacific Rally in 1986 in Christchurch. Both Lionel and Judy ran the souvenir concession at several international rallies and they quickly gained a reputation for the good quality of their souvenirs. Lionel’s organisational abilities also came to the fore in the very successful overseas tours he and Judy led which were Vintage car orientated. Lionel and Judy motored extensively throughout New Zealand in the early years with their children. Friendships and bonds were forged which continued on to the present day and which were evidenced by the high turnout of Vintage Car Club members from all around the country at Lionel’s funeral. To Judy and family we extend our sincere condolences. Diane Quarrie

Beaded Wheels 33 rally snippets

Auckland: Jack and Marilyn Nazer’s 1938 Buick and Colin and Pam Bell’s 1939 Chev Otago: Members and their vehicles at Karitane Photo Alan Benfell Master Deluxe coupe.

PV–P80v Rally went from Maraetai to Clevedon and into onto the coast road through Warrington to Auckland Branch the Brookby area before heading to the finish at Karitane. Here we parked up on Words and photos John Stokes finish at Ardmore airfield. During this the beach front for a photo opportunity. section, the youngest entrant/competitor Alon and Tracey Mayhew (South Island A full field of 36 entrants started on Charlotte Bovis learnt the advantages of Club Captain) came over from Wanaka in Auckland Branches recent PV – P80v Rally. carrying basic spares when the ignition their Vauxhall. Ron and Lynley Hammer Vehicle ages ranged from Allan Duffy’s failed on her 1977 Leyland Mini. The from South Canterbury (original Otago 1933 Morgan to John and Pat Campbell’s fault was diagnosed by David Allbon and members) came down to help celebrate. 1983 AMC Jeep CJ8. There was some bias repaired thanks to some wire supplied by Colin Winter and his family came with towards P60V vehicles with 15 entrants, Colin Bell. Several rule interpretations their BSA motorcycle (driven by Gary, while PV and PWV classes had ten near Stonedon Drive, Kenley Heights Colin passenger), and their later model entrants each. The Campbell’s Jeep being and Lauren Grove kept the competitive Wolseley (driven jointly by Judy and Clair) the sole P80V entered. One motorcycle, entrants on their toes. Bryan and I did the run in the Model T Leo Fowler’s well known 1942 Indian 741B Shirley and Charlotte Bovis won van. Most of the other vehicles on the run appeared, and two commercials, Terry and Overall in Charlotte’s Mini, with Gavin were mainly PV, PWV or P60 class. The Laurel Jenkins’ 1937 Dodge MC pickup Welch and Sophie Zhao second in the 1934 return trip to Dunedin took us through and John and Janice Gardner’s 1949 Ford Y roadster. Colin and Pam Bell came thick fog around Mount Cargill and was Ford Prefect ute accounted for commer- third in the 1939 Chev Coupe. challenging at times. cial vehicles. Out of branch support came Mark Wilkinson welcomed 76 members from North Island club captain Paul and Otago Branch 60th and friends to the 60th Anniversary Kathy Collins from North Shore branch Anniversary Celebrations Dinner. Alon Mayhew gave a short speech in their 1938 Chev sedan, Kevin Lord and and presented Mark with a certificate in Marlene McGinty, North Shore 1958 Ford recognition of our 60-year anniversary Zephyr MkII ute and Russell and Rosalie 19 July 2014 on behalf of the National Management Hutcheson from Waikato in a 1957 Austin Words and photos Marion McConachie Committee. Alon also presented 25 year A55. About 25 members gathered on a cool badges to Merv Thomson, Peter and Beth The rally started at the Penrose morning at the clubrooms to partici- Daniell, Alex Meikle and 35 year badge to clubrooms and travelled to Pakuranga, pate in the afternoon run. Bill Veitch Travis Michelle. Botany, Beachlands and the morning and Graeme Duthie put together an easy Bob Woodford spoke of the years when section finished at Omana Regional Park at motoring route, taking us north over the he was more active within the branch. Maraetai for lunch. The afternoon section old Main Road to Waitati and then back Mention was made of how a small group of

Auckland: Terry and Laurel Jenkins’ 1937 Dodge Auckland: Alan Duffy’s 1933 Morgan. Auckland: Peter Wood’s 1946 Chev Fleetmaster. MC ½ Ton.

34 Beaded Wheels Rotorua: Cars starting off on the Sulphur City rally. members arranged the four-day car shows Alan Dick was guest speaker. Although highway near Okere Falls, to return to the on a Saturday at Park Street clubrooms in never having been a member of our club clubrooms for lunch. After a short break the ‘60s and ‘70s. The Birthday Club was he has had a long association with the the vehicles were on the road again, this also mentioned. Many of the longstanding branch. Alan spoke of the things he has time to a reserve by Lake Tarawera where a members present could relate well to him done over his life time, in radio, editing of gymkhana took place. when he spoke of the evenings spent in motoring articles, magazines and travelling The 180 kilometres involved no straight Gordon Sharpe’s garage while vehicles the world to test drive new vehicles. Alan line navigation but the straight-ahead were prepared for the 1972 International kept us all entertained and has a lot of rule applied and local knowledge was not Rally in Nelson and the tour that took stories to tell. always an advantage. Silent checks missed them to Nelson. The accommodation could have had long-distance ramifications arrangements at Arthur’s Pass created a bit Sulphur City Rally had contestants not realised their mistakes, of a to do, with the men and ladies being Rotorua Branch but everyone completed the rally and all accommodated in separate bunk rooms. It husband and wife teams enjoyed partici- seems that this situation did not dampen Words and photos Ronald Mayes pating, with no divorce actions having their enthusiasm to make as much of the The annual Sulphur City Rally held been taken. situation as they could. on 30 August attracted 57 entries from as Results He also touched on the background of far afield as Taranaki, Gisborne and the Commercial: John and Janice Gardner Auckland the Invermay Hillclimbs, and street races Far North. The 28 P60V cars made up 1949 Ford Prefect Utility PV60: David and Jill Philps Rotorua and the members who were involved in the largest class, followed by ten PWV, 1966 Holden HR Premier the organisation of these events and the six each Vintage and Post-Vintage, four PWV: John and Ngaire Cheal Auckland eventual decline due to ever increasing Commercial and three P80. Vehicles 1954 Morris Oxford safety regulations and costs. ranged in size from the 1929 Austin 7 of PV: Graham Revell and Brian Williams Gisborne Like many of us he attributed his Bill and Adelai Skelton (Rotorua) and 1937 Chevrolet Master involvement with the Vintage Car Club 1938 Fiat Topolino (Greg and Jane Oliver, Vintage: Walter and Alison McFarland EBOP leading to the many friendships and oppor- Taranaki) to a 1931 Studebaker President 1926 Alvis 20/50 Gymkhana: Dennis and Pam Kenny Rotorua tunities over those years. (Neville and Carol Harper, Rotorua). 1960 MGA Twin-Cam Coupe Our 50 year members Bob Oakley and The route took participants through Overall Rotorua Winner: Graham Dalton shared the opportunity scenic countryside over back roads north Bill and Adelai Skelton 1929 Austin 7 to cut the celebration cake. The challenge of Lake Rotorua to near Te Puke, then Overall Winners: Graham Revell and Brian Williams was there as to who had their hand on top. via Paengaroa and more back roads north Gisborne 1937 Chevrolet Master

of Lake Rotoiti to emerge on to the main BW

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Beaded Wheels 35 “The thing about these sorts of trips on the old bike is that it tends to attract a bit if attention but to do it on old bikes rather than the modern touring bike I think puts quite a different angle and perspective on it. … it’s a lot slower, you are dealing with old machinery and that is part of the challenge just getting from start to finish. The modern bike you just press the button and away you go. ”

GST – the Great Southern Tour Wellington Branch Motorcycle Members Tour the South Island

By Ashley Blair

his nine day tour began on the The Staveley Store and Café (built followed us all the way from Queenstown morning of 21 March 2014 aboard in 1867) was the perfect morning tea and were very grateful for our modest pace Tthe 9 am sailing to Picton. This was stop with fellow motorcyclists, albeit on as it allowed them to see more of the followed by a non-stop run to Kaikoura moderns, enjoying the sunshine, the lake views. Five of the party elected to for a brief tea and fuel stop before heading foothills of the Alps in the background ride on while the remainder, including the on to Rangiora via Gore Bay. The Tour and a couple who had been out riding backup van, returned to Queenstown. On had begun with a less-than-promising start feeding their horses the remains of their from Glenorchy the road was rough with when the Velocette lost its oil tank cap ice creams. a number of fords but the ride through on the way to the ferry. The 1951 Golden The Geraldine Vintage Machinery and the beech forest with the towering peaks Flash was dropped on the ferry and the Car Museum was a fascinating site to visit. of the Mount Aspiring National Park Model 7 Norton lost a nut holding one Among the exhibits was a 1910 Bianchi, appearing in the clearings was a highlight of the mirrors in the rush to Kaikoura. a very original 1907 De Dion Bouton, a of the tour. At the start of the Dart Track Even worse, five bikes and the van got lost 1912 Willys Overland that had been exten- the appetite of the sandflies forced a very trying to find the Rangiora Holiday Park, sively rallied since it was restored after the quick chat with two trampers and hurried our first stop. Fortunately the trip went chassis was recovered from a farm bridge photos before we headed back. A last more to plan from then on. and the engine from a saw bench. Also on minute decision to detour to Kingston for Next morning during a fuel stop a display was the 1926 International Truck lunch and then ride on to the start of chance meeting with a former motor- converted into a gypsy caravan in the early the Routeburn Track meant that we did cyclist who raced Gold Stars at Cust ‘70s by John Britten, a Harley-Davidson not return to Queenstown till just on six highlighted the frustrations of touring and sidecar used as a hearse, and a Spartan o’clock but the five riders all rated this day, when the Tour moved off before we could Bi-Plane. supposedly a rest day, the highlight of the exchange contact details. Later in the That night a bus took us up Mt whole trip. morning Warrick’s Norton succumbed to John crawling the last 200 metres with The stunning view from the top of the an ignition fault and was installed in the headlights off for the Earth & Sky guided Crown Range, the highest sealed road in back-up van where, in spite of a spare part tour. This was alarming only for those New Zealand, made the frosty ride into couriered to Queenstown, it remained for who had previously been up in daylight Arrowtown earlier with full on sun-strike the rest of the Tour. and knew how steep the road really was. all worthwhile. Cardrona Hotel was We discovered that Gerry is a closet astro- another perfect motorcyclist’s morning tea GST Itinerary physicist who asked some very technical venue although the Vintage cars out in Day 1 Picton to Rangiora via Gore Bay questions which the rest of the group could the elements displayed there were cause Day 2 Rangiora to Lake Tekapo not understand and the guides could not for discussion among the motorists in the Day 3 Lake Tekapo to Queenstown answer. On the way back to the camp the party. The visit to the Wanaka Transport Day 4 “Rest Day” Queenstown to Glenorchy (and beyond) and back to Queenstown bus driver did his bit for conservation by and Toy museum was spoiled when two of Day 5 Queenstown to Haast Pass running over a ferret. the motorcycles were deliberately pushed Day 6 Haast Pass to Jackson Bay and Franz The ride up to Glenorchy was the over resulting in a broken mirror and a Joseph wettest of the Tour with riders in full dented tank. Good work by Wanaka police Day 7 Franz Joseph to Reefton wet weather gear and several of the party resulted in an apology and compensation Day 8 Reefton to Blenheim electing to ride in the van. Two English not long after we returned to Wellington. Day 9 Blenheim to Wellington tourists that we talked to during morning The only drama on the run down tea at Glenorchy said that they had to Jackson Bay for a late fish breakfast

36 Beaded Wheels Members of tour from left to right are: Ashley Blair, 1952 BSA B31; Trevor Barnes, 1977 Honda CB400F; Hal O’Rorke, 1959 BSA Golden Flash; Aaron Janes, (leader and organiser), 1956 BSA Golden Flash; Mike France, 2001 Toyota Hiace; John Neill, 1955 BSA Golden Flash; Ray Janes, 1951 BSA Golden Flash; Peter Simpson, 1955 Matchless G80S; Les Thorpe, 1954 Norton 7; Mel Walker; Gerry Appel, 1954 Velocette MSS.

Day 2 - Lake Tekapo.

was the bouncy ride caused by tree roots and yet another visit to the Omaka pushing up the tar seal. It was a perfect Aviation Heritage Centre. autumn morning and Peter, who had Twenty years ago the Wellington Branch been there more times than all the rest Motorcycle Section went on an expedition of us put together, said it was the calmest to the South Island called Two Wheels he had ever seen the bay. At Murchison South. That ride was much more ambitious we met up with large groups of riders on lasting almost twice as long and with twice moderns, all of them amazed not only that the number of riders. Four members of the we had attempted to ride so far on such 1994 ride Jerry Appel, Warrick Laing, Les old bikes but that most of the bikes ran Thorpe and Mel Walker were on the 2014 like clockwork. We had two contrasting GST ride and one, Jerry Appel, was on the museum visits on the last two days; one very same bike he had ridden on Two Day 4 - Gerry and the Velocette going through a ford to the wooden boat museum at St Arnaud Wheels South. BW on the way to the Routeburn Track.

Day 1 - Peter and Aaron checking the route Day 4 - Leaving Queenstown on the only wet day. Day 5 - Top of the Crown Range.

Day 3 - Lake Pukaki. Day 4 - Glenorchy. Day 6 - Jackson Bay on a calm day. Beaded Wheels 37 Diane Ross 38 Keenans Road RD 2, Ashburton [email protected] brass notes

On display at the National AGM of the Vintage Car Club was a most unusual vehicle. Further inspection enlightened me that it was a 6 cwt 1915 Wall three wheel parcel car. Manufactured by A W Wall Birmingham. Engine: Precision 1086 air cooled V twin 8 hp. Transmission: two speed ROC Epicycloid. 26 x 3 beaded edge tyres, two wheel brakes. A W Wall was the brother-in-law of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes novels who also financed the company. The Wall models were manufactured only between 1911 and 1915. This partic- The Wall three wheel parcel car owned by Snow Benge from Wellington. ular model (1914 – 1915) is thought to be the only model that has survived. It is a 6hp De Dion Bouton motor model N, a Now that Digby Young from Hawke’s owned by Snow Benge of Wellington and gearbox, a French radiator, lamps, steering Bay has sold his Cadillac he is starting was previously purchased from a deceased box and other items related to a French to think about restoring the 1909 Vulcan estate by his brother (Ivan) in 1961 as a car. The same man also had two other De 3.2 litre 4 cylinder tourer that he obtained collection of mechanical parts with no Dion motors at home. One had a bronze from Coulburn Wright’s estate back in the body. After lying in a shed for a further 20 crankcase so was identified as coming early ‘60s. Digby had done a lot of work on years it was restored by the present owner. from a small boat, the second is believed to it many years ago. Since then it has been Accompanying the bits was an old sales have come from an aircraft. Guess where in storage but next year it is going to come brochure that Snow was able to use to they ended up? Lex couldn’t find enough out. He would love to find a motor. He has get the dimensions to build the body. An parts to rebuild a De Dion car so pondered a letter he received in 1964 from a J Finn early photo of the vehicle pictured outside the problem, did a lot of reading and who told him of a motor somewhere south a store in Petone on a recent calender finally decided he would build a replica of Christchurch. A long shot I know but has enabled some of the smaller parts Helbe car. These light cars were assembled does anyone have any information? It is including acetylene lights, horn, generator at Boulogne-sur-Mer and manufactured four cylinder motor, two separate blocks, and speedo and drive to be gathered up, around 1905-1907 by Levecque and T head, the water pump is on the left side restored and fitted. Bodenreider using 4, 6 and 9hp De Dion with the carb and mag on the right. The The only one imported into Wellington single cylinder engines. Some components distributor is mounted on the right hand was owned by the Waiarapa Farmer’s Co. were made for them by Delage before they side on the front of the motor. Vulcan was in Wellington and used for light deliveries started manufacturing their own cars. Lex stamped on the front of the timing cover. around Wellington and later Petone. aims to rebuild a vehicle to as near as he can to original. The name Helbe is a Most South Islanders will have motored version of ‘LB’ coming from the initials at some time with Peter and Esmey of the maker’s names. He has made a diff, Fletcher who were seriously injured in a rear springs, and is at present making the motor accident a few years ago and driving brakes. He is interested in getting as much their T just became too difficult. The information on the marque as he can so if car was restored in 1980 in Auckland. anyone can help please get in touch. He The Fletchers have owned it for about 14 would especially like to get an early De years. Shortly after bringing it home the Dion chassis. motor had a complete rebuild and since then they enjoyed trouble free motoring. The Southward Museum is selling six Most events they entered resulted in them Helbe parts unrestored Veteran vehicles. I understand taking home awards and it was often the museum is having a make-over and concours such was the standard they set A recent shed raid in Timaru uncovered the trust is hoping to introduce a few more for themselves. Happily though they’ve an interesting project. While scouting up to date vehicles. To make room these found the perfect new owners, Jim and about at a South Canterbury Swap Meet Veterans will go. Kyra Wareing from Nelson who I’m sure some time ago Lex Westoby came across will uphold the standard that the Fletchers someone wanting to unburden himself of have set.

38 Beaded Wheels I am always happy to receive historic or restoration articles and updates on Veteran vehicles as it is only by readers’ input that this column can continue. Email your Veteran stories to me at [email protected]

that need repairs are found, in this case new gears had to be cut for the gearbox. That is finished now and a start is about to be made on the body and the motor is at the reconditioners.

John Cleland from the Central Hawke’s Bay Branch may be seen driving around in a left hand drive 1914 Ford model T. This vehicle was imported to New Zealand by a gentleman who spent six months of each year in the USA and the other six in New Zealand and wished to experience some old car motoring here. Now John has become the new owner of this very nice tourer.

Don’t forget to get your entry in for 1914 Ford T, owner J Cleland. the National Veteran Rally being held in Oamaru at the end of January. This will be preceded by the Dunedin Brighton Gary Beaumont from South Otago tells me that they had five Veteran cars Rally and a Prince Henry Tour making a has also become a Veteran owner. He entered for the annual King Country worthwhile package for those travelling has bought the 1913 Overland project Journey Through Time Rally. An excellent a distance to participate. I’ve had a little from Alistair Day. Gary will be scouring turnout for such a small branch. preview and there will be some interesting the country to find the missing bits to motoring, visits and displays for both complete his restoration. In Geraldine David Vernall is working men and women. The highlight could be steadily on his 1916 Chevrolet. The the opportunity to view some very early While visiting Taumaranui recently I running gear is nearly done. As usual Veteran motoring film footage from time was speaking to the local secretary who when stripped down unexpected things to time during the weekend.

Waverly Help Wanted of the mechanicals including the radiator Brian is keen to hear of the location Thirty years ago Brian Butler from the (although the owner had removed the of any Waverley parts, especially chassis, Gisborne Branch picked up several compo- name badge), headlights, motor, gearbox, differential and front axle, as well as any nents of a circa 1915 Waverley from a farm steering box, the dynamo, the switch box, manuals, brochures or other informa- at Whangara near Gisborne. This vehicle speedometer with the Waverley inscription tion that may assist in bringing the car had been imported by the farmer who had on it, one hub cap also inscripted, running back to its original configuration. He may sold wool clip to England and purchased board brackets, clutch and brake pedals be contacted on 06 867 2949 or via the the car using the funds. After several years and even parts of the wiring loom were Gisborne branch email [email protected]. of faithful service the decision was made stored away. There was no differential or nz. to dismantle it and use the chassis as the front axle (maybe they were used on the basis of a boat trailer. Fortunately most trailer) and of course no chassis.

The dynamo, speedo with Waverley inscription and The components being assembled on a non- Parts of the transmission laid out on the non- hubcap also with Waverley inscription. Waverley chassis. Waverley chassis.

Beaded Wheels 39 Frank Metcalfe

plainingly, although a new set of shocks owned two of them, an automatic and proved beneficial. To prove my conversion a manual. The auto was the true family I bought a Honda Accord thereafter and it machine. It was used as that and enjoyed carried on the good behaviour. as that; it was British Racing Green with A little bit of memorable humour from bone/ivory leather and it was marvellous. two wheels Papua New Guinea to finish the Mazda My ownership years were limited by the and other things story. I had worked alongside many local need to take up my overseas appointment men and women at the University with the in Papua New Guinea and I should have particular aim of training them in the skills found a way to put it in storage. But we that would enable them to assume the roles used it for three years. Was it the best? The Cars of My Life. Part 3. hitherto held by expatriate contractors Perhaps in some ways because of its class such as me. Upon my departure one of my and quality but as the everyday family This last section of ‘The Cars of My staff, a very intelligent, funny, somewhat machine I don’t think it was quite right. Life’ telling the stories of the family cars I unreliable but nevertheless likeable young A bit too inclined to attract the envious, a have owned, enjoyed, and disliked, focuses local dragged me out to his car, which bit too expensive for the family, not really on a few specifics. My first Japanese car, was probably about chicken coop standard. what you should be using for dirty feet, the the family car(s) that have given me the Along with a large group of giggling fellow school rugby team pick up and fish and most driving pleasure and, to end, the workers, he presented me with a farewell chips plus the dog. The manual by the way worst car I’ve ever driven. gift. He swung open the back of the wagon was used exclusively for Classic racing. Fast, Let’s start with the Japanese. Like many, with great delight and said “Wantok, displa fun, enormously thirsty and a voracious when Japanese vehicles started appearing he blong you now” (My friend this is yours appetite for tyres. on the road, I was sceptical and critical, now). I took one look and stepped back Next comes a BMW. It was an early but it didn’t take long for the new Japanese smartly for there looking most unhappy 1990s 535i Motorsport, five speed manual. invasion to make itself felt and soon I was and threatening lay a good sized young That was one hell of a machine. An taking notice and becoming familiar with crocodile. It was more or less trussed up import from South Africa; actually one names like Honda, Datsun and Toyota. but I wasn’t ready to pet it. I was though of an identical pair in ice blue that were In 1980 I took up a management post mightily impressed but did have to explain imported together and by some strange at a University in Papua-New Guinea; an that I didn’t think I could take it back to quirk of fate the other ended up in the adventurous experience. A car was needed New Zealand. The laughter was wonderful hands of a very good friend in Napier. It and choice was very limited; almost exclu- and I learned afterward that such a gift was wasn’t an M5 but as close as I could afford sively Japanese and I don’t think even the a mark of genuine respect. and it was an awesome drive. The power, most loyal of English expatriates would the sound of that brilliant motor, the road have thought of buying a British vehicle holding, the marvellous feeling of driving a You didn’t drive this disaster; in Papua New Guinea, except perhaps a great car, the build quality and the lovely Land Rover if you could find one that you prayed that you could guide interior. I did love that car but I was a had survived Toyota Land Cruiser seemed the gutless wonder from point A to family man, carting kids and paying the to be the survivor of choice. Fortunately point B. bills and it was the bills that killed it. It I found a Mazda 929 wagon that had drank like a thirsty fish and had a bad habit suffered only at the hands of an English of consuming oil; no idea where that liquid expatriate family and so was in relatively went but it cost money to keep it happy. good shape. Anything that had seen local I have given much thought to the next And twice I had to get gearbox issues ownership was generally best avoided and category, the family car that has afforded sorted when for some reason it decided that mostly ready as fill for pot holes or as a me the most driving pleasure. By family it didn’t need to change gear any more. chicken coop. The roads were shocking, car I mean basically a four door car aimed It probably gets the nod as the best grunt best negotiated on foot or a two wheel at the family market. I have left out the machine I’ve enjoyed but it doesn’t come machine that could skirt the craters, sports cars and coupes that I’ve talked out as the best overall family machine. animals, meandering tribes and the wildly about in earlier stories and I’ve left out my I’ve owned four BMWs and loved each one swerving machinery. And I can assure you aged Nissan Ute, a remarkable 20 year old for what it was but in every case the silly that the oft repeated advice that in such 300,000 kms work horse that I’ve owned little failures that makers like Toyota and countries ‘if while driving you hit anyone for eight years and it has cost me next Honda have been able to banish have left or anything put the foot down and get to nothing to keep fit and well. It is not me disappointed and annoyed. There really moving fast’ is absolutely credible. Your a family car and it doesn’t really afford is no excuse for repetitive gearbox problems survival depended upon it. To my absolute driving pleasure but it’s remarkable for so or recurring electronics failures or door surprise that Japanese wagon served unfail- many other reasons. So what cars made my handles that break. ingly for the three years of my work in personal shortlist? The most recent of the group was a 2002 PNG. It did not fail in any way, apart I won’t put my finger on an absolute Volkswagen Passat V6 4WD. It was really from frequent punctures and, thank- winner without identifying those that just an Audi Quattro with VW badges but fully, it never hit anything or anybody. Its linger in the memory and are worthy of because of the name its purchase price and running gear, suspension, brakes did their some comment. There is, though, a winner service charges were less than the Audi job remarkably well. The interior remained in my mind. equivalent. Never mind, it was a superb in good shape and the endless clouds of We start with my Mark II 3.8 Jaguar. driver’s car with auto or five speed tiptronic dust were excluded. I learned respect for For its time it was, and remains, a most transmission. That was my first encounter the Japanese car, so much so that I shipped desirable car. Even today one can’t walk with the tiptronic system and I love it. that vehicle back to New Zealand at the past a nice Mk II without admiring it The ability to flick the change selector end of my time and it carried on uncom- and enjoying its gorgeous lines. I have across the gate and take manual control of

40 Beaded Wheels that car was superb and it made a world of in each case the vehicle was a joy to drive, heaps of grunt and the driver could take difference working through hilly and windy to sit in, to travel in. Perhaps the current huge satisfaction from its handling and the roads where one could select the right gear occupant of the garage will banish the ability to charge through the manual box and enjoy the cars ability, not to mention silly faults record. But I do have my heart with the power being delivered without soft being able to make use of passing areas set on a new SUV, not a BMW, which has ‘no go’ points. Get that car to work and it without having the car endlessly deciding only recently become available and sounds was just superb. Every drive I had in that that it should be in top gear thus killing from all reports to be fabulous. A fellow car had me switching off with a big smile off the acceleration needed to complete named Ferdinand had much to do with the on my face and it served as a family car the pass. The VW was beautifully built, founding of the marque. without complaint or failure. I keep an eye very very comfortable front and rear and And now to my choice of the family car on the market for the five cylinder Audi 80; had a decent sized boot. So why isn’t it the that I have owned and which, on reflec- not many around but to me it was a winner. best and why is it no longer in my garage? tion, gave me the greatest driving pleasure. And finally the worst, and I can’t think If I was a city dweller and never ventured It was an Audi. A 1992 or 93 Audi 80. of anything that was anywhere near as bad. off a sealed highway then I think it would Not the common 4 cylinder model or the Papua New Guinea couldn’t kill the still be in the shed. But I am not, and in end of line 6 but the 2.2 litre 5 cylinder. Mazda 929 but it did kill a marriage so rural NZ to get to some of the places one The purchase of the Audi followed a good back in NZ in 1984 I was reassembling life wants or needs to get to some gravel road deal of model contemplation and the need and in due course built a friendship with driving, and some of it rather track like, to replace an early ’90s Holden Calais, a woman to whom cars were consumer is required. For that off the seal travel the nicknamed the Wallowing Whale with items, things you used for as long as they VW failed; it was too low and the risk of something that restored pleasure to driver survived then replaced. (There was a ruining bits underneath with a few decent and passenger. There were two contenders warning in this observation.) She had a stones was considerable. So we purchased for the Whale replacement, the Audi five Cortina, that was perfectly ordinary but a BMW SUV and thus equipped ourselves cylinder and the Peugeot 4WD saloon. I it reached its ‘use by’ date and for some with the vehicle that will munch up the fancied a 4WD car and apart from Subaru inexplicable reason she acquired a Morris highway quite happily and equally happily and the expensive Audi Quattro there was Marina. How such an awful machine could take to the rougher stuff. For example not much choice in the 4WD saloon market have been released onto the public roads I the Molesworth road from Blenheim to at that time. I drove the Peugeot and appre- cannot imagine. This creation was orange, Hanmer Springs is one of the great, if ciated it but the build quality, the trim, the it was ugly from every angle. The build not the greatest, New Zealand drives. The quality of materials, was all rubbish. It was quality was non-existent; it was a rattly, BMW will enjoy it, the VW would have a second hand machine but only just and I rust-prone sloppily constructed piece of been ruined. hated it for its rattling and squeaking and junk. The interior was awful decked out So does it follow that the relatively cheap look finish. On the other hand the in cheap nasty plastics and uncomfortable recently acquired BMW takes the honours? front wheel drive Audi, also second hand, to occupy. I can’t remember the engine The answer is ‘No’. Perhaps in a year or with that magical five cylinder motor was size, possibly 1600 or thereabouts, and it two the result might be different but for the a joy. The build quality was just fine, the was an automatic. You didn’t drive this moment the BMW has to prove itself. This interior finish was lovely without being disaster; you prayed that you could guide is my fourth BMW and while there has plush, the instruments looked good, and it the gutless wonder from point A to point been much about each, all different models, was comfortable. The design was conserva- B. I can’t find one good word to say about to love and enjoy each one of the previous tive but nicely balanced, compact to the the Marina and was endlessly thankful that three has let the marque down with silly eye but actually roomy. Best of all was that it was not mine. Cars like that ensured the unnecessary and overly expensive failures; five pot motor attached to a brilliant five end of British Leyland; nasty creations that failures for which there is no reasonable speed manual box. I drove the Peugeot for offered no competition to the new wave excuse in an expensive and well engineered a couple of days then switched to the Audi. of Japanese machines and dragged other vehicle and failures which are not heard of No contest. Forget the 4WD, the Audi won well respected names into the degenerating in a decent Japanese vehicle. Well you say, on every count and I bought it. I am not shambles of British car manufacturing.

‘why did you buy another one’? There is sure that my enthusiasm was shared by the BW no simple answer because in each case the many but to me that Audi was a beguiling silly failures were specific to the model and driver’s machine. The motor delivered

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Beaded Wheels 41 50 year awards 1915 Model T landaulet. He was accom- panied by wife Kathryn, Richard (eight) Alexandra (six). Over the years, Errol has built up a 50 Year Awards Veteran and Vintage collection of Ford Ts, Ford A, Ford V8 jailbar, Wolseley 16-20, Overland 69T, Renault AX, Hupmobile R, Willys-Knights, and PVs Mercedes, VWs, Hillman Imp, Riley Kestrel, Armstrong Barry Townshend Siddeley. Barry purchased a 1925 Harley- Christchurch he was thrilled to win the Errol also has a collection of farm Davidson in need of restoration two years Montagu of Bealieu Trophy riding his 1928 tractors and machinery and has restored prior to becoming a member. The first Harley-Davidson 10/12 big twin. a Massey Harris 101, (which had belonged event he went on was the Canterbury As the years have rolled by Bud and the to his father), a W4 and Cub and David Annual Rally held at Show Weekend 1963. Harley have clocked up many rally miles. Brown. Over the 50 years he has been a very He even won the Montagu of Bealieu active member of the Vintage Car Club Trophy a second time some 18 years Graham Murray particularly the motorcycle section. He after the first and still on the same bike. Graham worked as a builder with was the Convenor (working on the Main This time it was the 1991 12th National Pat Cutler (the driving force behind Committee) in 1982/1983 and has been the Motorcycle Rally. Canterbury Branch clubrooms and grounds Treasurer of the Motorcycle Section from No longer as active on the Harley as he at McLeans Island). Pat nominated him for 1985 till the present day. Any National once was, he can still be seen enjoying his membership in May 1964 and Graham Motorcycle rally held in Christchurch DeSoto and of course manning his site at bought a Model T. Graham motored the has seen him on the Committee helping the swapmeet. vehicle quite extensively and remembers organising routes and collating results. watching the start of the Haast Rally. One Besides the Harley, Barry has enjoyed Errol Smith of Graham’s customers wanted to buy the rallying on his 1972 Yamaha 650 and is Errol joined the VCC when the Model T and Graham exchanged it for now rallying in his 1974 Holden or 1929 clubrooms were in Colwyn Street. Errol steel to build his house. He then purchased and 1935 Studebakers. Awaiting restora- recalls the move from Colwyn Street to a Model A that he still has today. tion in the shed is a 1945 Ford V8 jailbar. McLeans Island and was involved with the Graham put in a lot of time working on fundraising. An old building was moved to the Cutler Park grounds in the early days, Brian Moir Cutler Park to become the clubrooms, now driving a tractor on Sunday mornings. His Brian was urged to join the Canterbury known as The Barn, and he helped with children would join him, enjoying playing Branch of the VCC in the early 1960s developments at weekends when he could. with other members’ children. by his long time friend the late Gordon He completed the 1972 International A loyal member, Graham (although Jeffs and has remained a member of that Rally in his 1928 Willys-Knight and in lately not able to be an active member due branch since. 1980 he completed the 1980 International to ill health) continues to take an interest He has restored a number of cars during Rally in Rotorua in the newly restored in the branch. his membership but is best known for his passion for, and expertise on, the Model T Ford. From prize winning restorations, winner of hill climb races to taking top honours in National rallies, Brian is a believer in ‘doing it right’ and enjoying it to the full. While retired from active rallying Brian Stockists of 1912-92 REPLACEMENT ENGLISH remains a leading expert and fount of AUTOMOTIVE AMERICAN CONTINENTAL knowledge on Model Ts. PARTS Supporting Brian throughout is his wife Lesley. Kingpin sets Engine gaskets Gearbox gears Bud Grose Bud Grose joined the Canterbury Suspension parts Steering joints Crownwheel & pinions Branch in 1964 while restoring a 1919 Spark plugs Electrical fittings Wiper motors (vac) Dodge roadster. The following year he Engine bearings Shock absorbers Wheel cylinders & kits competed in the 6th International Rally Master cylinders & kits Shackles (pins & bushes) Ring gears & pinions (the Haast rally) in the newly restored Rear axles Water pumps & kits Clutch plates Dodge. In 1967 he purchased the first of a Clutch covers Carburettors Fuel pumps & kits mode of Vintage transport that he is best Brake & clutch cables Pistons Steering box parts known for, a Harley-Davidson 350cc single Valves, springs, guides Speedo cables Ignition parts of 1928. He restored and rallied this bike Timing gears & chains Lenses Engine mounts extensively. MECHANICAL RESTORATIONS & VINTAGE SPARES (1980) On the 1973 3rd National Vintage RD 7 • Fordell • Wanganui • Phone/Fax 06 342 7713 and Veteran Motorcycle Rally held in

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Kiwi Vintage Car Collections Kiwi Muscle Car Collections Urewera Trucks and Truckers Steve Reid Steve Holmes Gavin M Abbot Bateman Publishing Bateman Publishing 135 pages, Soft cover, size A4, $45 + $5 p&P 288 pages, Hard cover, $44.99 191 pages, Hard cover, $39.99 Available from G M Abbot, 34 Elliot Street, Opotoki 3122 This collection of stories of Vintage cars, If you’re into V8s then this is the book 47 of them, makes great reading. Not only for you! It looks closely at 21 muscle car Gavin provides an extensive overview of because in many of the stories we can see collections in New Zealand with well the trucks and truckers of the Urewera from the restoration progress as it happened and researched script and plenty of sharp glossy the beginning of logging in the area up to the even sometimes a picture of the car before photos of the cars and the sheds they 1970s. This was an era where there was no restoration commenced, but because there are in. These are people with a passion OSH or other such limiting factors. The loads would be few in the Vintage Car Club that for muscle cars of the ‘70s and the desire the trucks carried are amazing and it seems would not personally know some of these to see them well housed and able to be the norm was to be grossly overloaded! Mainly vehicles, and by implication, their owners. enjoyed in good surroundings. There are a photographic record, there are nonethe- Each vehicle has a story about how the some stunning garages out there! The book less interesting notes and assisted by good owner came to own the machine and a includes an introduction that tells us how captions the pictures certainly tell a story. further page of information and history the muscle car era came about and how the Unfortunately many of the images are poor about the maker. There are plenty of colour various manufacturers reacted to it. possibly because of the quality of the originals glossy photos of each car to whet your Author Steve Holmes is a respected or because of poor reproduction. appetite. motorsport journalist, specialising in classic I learnt from this book about the This would make a great Christmas gift cars. He is also the author of other motoring powered, steering trailers invented to help to any of the owners whose storey is told books. manage the huge logs come out of the bush within or to the many other Vintagents out through very winding hilly roads. It is quite there. an invention although I presume no longer Steve Reid has been a classic car enthu- in use today. siast for many decades and has owned a This is a book for truck enthusiasts large number British and American cars. As and although narrow in its focus on the well as being a book author he also contrib- Ureweras is a valuable record of the trucks utes to Classic Car. used in the heyday of logging operations in the area. Gavin is a member of the VCCNZ, Eastern Bay of Plenty Branch.

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Balancing Balancing Balancing, HUBCAPS – any problems contact me CLASSIFIED RATES We can balance most Vintage and single cylinder I now produce either hubcap skins or complete Due to space limitation, classified advertisers engines, fans, driveshafts etc. Work is carried hubcaps. These are top quality replicas. Pressed should refrain from the use of dashes, spaces, out on a modern digital machine. M S Coombes not spun to the closest possible original logos, blank lines and formatting. All classified Ltd, 344 St Asaph Street, Christchurch, Ph 03 366 specifications. I can manufacture any model rates include GST. The 65 word limit includes 7463, Fax 03 366 7462, Email: mscoombesltd@ that uses the skin system plus many others contact details. Advertisers requiring ads longer clear.net.nz provided they do not exceed 10½" in diameter. than the standard 65 words, or who require For more information phone Dave Patten Replica typography or space, must apply display rates. The COACHWORK For all your coachwork, woodwork Manufacturing (2003) Ltd, Ph 027 247 7956, 160 advertising department reserves the right to edit or and timber rim steering wheels for your Veteran, New York Street, Martinborough. Email dave. return classifieds not meeting the criteria Vintage or Commercial vehicles contact Designs [email protected] Member of Vintage Car Club N Wood John Martin, 11 Bell Avenue, Cromwell. No charge for text or photo classified advertising. Phone/fax 03 445 0598, 021 109 1309 or email MAGNETO & COIL WINDING SERVICES Magneto Members must be financial and identify their [email protected] member repairs, coil rewinding, work guaranteed. 728 Branch. Waimutu Road, RD2 Marton 4788. Phone Warwick Non Member Got vibration problems?  06 327 3849, 027 281 8066, walandlynn@farmside. $21 for first 40 words or part thereof, thereafter The crankshaft pulley/balancer/damper may be co.nz We buy and sell magnetos of all types except the cause. Rubber perishes over time. John at 15 cents per word to a maximum of 65 words per aircraft. mem advertisement.* Harmonic Damper Rebuilds can rebuild your Text in a Boxed Ad pulley like new. He has a proven system to Abandoned project Fiat 130 3.2 litre V6 Toyota $24 non-members,* re-rubber and re-sleeve dampers. Most can be Supra gearbox in cut and shut 130 floor pan rolling Colour Photo Ad in Box rebuilt as good as new and save you money and chassis plus associated parts including another 3.2 $56 non-members, enclose a clear photo and an engine repairs. 027 666 3350 or 07 863 3350 v6 in parts. $11,200. Phone 03 541 9391. Me m SAE if return required.* [email protected] bucket seats Matching pair, structurally sound. Above rates apply for each advertisement. 1922 Durant A22 motor parts. One head light The backs only. Need recovering. Have pivoting Advertisements should be typed or clearly bucket and radiator surround. Phone Dave Manson arms, 530mm high x 450mm wide. $25 each or $45 printed. 03 443 7906. Mem pair. Phone 03 354 9264 mem E mail aDDRESS for advertising [email protected] 1933-34 Continental Beacon, good doors, Clearing out. 1917 Buick body panels, front, ENCL OSE PAYMENT guards, bonnet. Spare motors, gearboxes, diffs, center, back chassis. Early Chrysler aluminium Cheques Payable to Beaded Wheels. wheels, gauges. Body needs work as well as gearbox. Phone 021 0245 7984. Me m Post to: Advertising, P O Box 13140, Christchurch chassis. $800. Phone Dave Manson 03 443 7906. 8141, to arrive not later than 10th of month Ford 1300cc non cross flow engines (2). Enough preceding publication. * 1934 Riley 9 Monaco All exterior panels straight to build engine. One is a five main bearing block. with original paint, seats, door panels and carpets $100. Phone J Lawrie 09 425 9928 Email: gloria- DISPLAY RATES* in excellent original condition. Mechanically sound, [email protected] mem Casual 3 Issues some woodwork needed. Plus 1935 22T shortened Ford Model T 1 ton tr uck worm drive differential (per issue) chassis with all running gear; suit Sprite or Special. Full Page $900 $720 with axles, $1,250 plus shipping and handling. Plus New Mudwings suit special. Phone 09 478 Half Page $490 $390 Ronald Lever 87 Tui Road. Papatoetoe Auckland 7678. Offers mem Horizontal Quarter Page $270 $216 2025. Phone 09 278 3888. Evenings. Me m All display rates quoted exclude GST and are for finished 1936 morris 8, two door some rust, spare body Ford Model T flywheel transmission unit with digital artwork ­supplied. Artwork can be arranged at an and panels, guards and chassis etc. Open to offers. extra charge. magnets and epicyclic gearing, $1250 plus shipping Phone Andrew 03 488 3866 or 027 311 4437. Me m and handling. Ronald Lever 87 Tui Road. Papatoetoe Deadline for copy 10th of month preceding publication. 1937 MORRIS 10cwt PICK-UP which needs Auckland 2025. Phone 09 278 3888. Evenings. Me m Beaded Wheels will consider articles of a technical restoring. Some work done on engine, brakes and nature for inclusion in its editorial space. Beaded Wheels however regrets that it is not able to offer editorial space chassis. On 18” wire wheels and has good tyres, for advertisements nor for the promotion of products. also body and chassis, axle and diff for 1939. D riveshafts Driveshafts Driveshafts Marketplace advertising cancellations received in writing Pick-up all for $2000 ono. Phone Dave Marshall 022 We can alter or make driveshafts with fabric prior to advertising deadline will be refunded in full. 026 1584 or 03 236 7910 (evenings). Mem components to take modern universal joints and Where possible Beaded Wheels will refund 70% of the yokes, as well as performing dynamic balancing. advertisement cost for any cancellations received after the 1942 Morris commercial gun tractor. booking deadline. Body complete but only suitable for patterns. We also carry a large range of driveshaft *Payment by credit card will incur additional bank fee Mechanically complete with spares ie: motor, components for car, trucks, industrial and processing charge of 3% gearbox, transfer box. Good tyres and spares marine. M S Coombes Ltd, 344 St Asaph Street, Beaded Wheels makes every effort to ensure no misleading claims are $5,000 ono. Also five Dunlop tyres 5.50 x 52.5x18, Christchurch, Ph 03 366 7463, Fax 03 366 7462, made by advertisers, responsibility cannot be accepted by Beaded Wheels showing signs of light cracking in walls but still Email: [email protected] or the Vintage Car Club of New Zealand (Inc.) for the failure of any product or service to give satisfaction. Inclusion of a product or ­service should not be good for moving vehicle or museum vehicle $150 construed as endorsement of it by Beaded Wheels or by the Vintage Car for the lot. Phone 03 476 4642. Mem DISTRIBUTOR & fuel pump Club of New Zealand (Inc.). PARTS AND SERVICE No liability can be accepted for non-appearance of advertisements and the 1968 Morris 1100 mk2. Complete car does need text of all advertisements is subject to the approval of the editor who reserves work to get running again. Would be a good We rebuild distributors, vacuum advance units, the right to refuse any advertisements which are not compatible with the project. $1200 ono Phone 03 615 6383. Me m mechanical fuel pumps and supply parts new, aims, objectives, and standards of Beaded Wheels or the Vintage Car Club of New Zealand (Inc.) NOS, remanufactured and used. In accordance with the provisions of the Human Rights Commission Act 1977 Vacuum advancers restored. Beaded Wheels will not publish any advertisement which indicates or could Electronic ignition kits to eliminate points. reasonably be understood as indicating an intention to discriminate by reason CA RBUREttOR RECONDITIONING — including Quality Rebuilds, of sex, marital status, ­religious or ethical beliefs. Advertisers should take all care in drafting advertisements as they could be held liable, as well as Beaded classic and performance makes. 40 plus years 85 Polo Prince Dr, Manurewa, Auckland, 2576. Wheels and the Vintage Car Club of New Zealand (Inc.). trade experience. Free advice. Contact Graeme email: [email protected] Tulloch, Tulmac Carburettor Specialists on 027 612 www.qualityrebuilds.com 2312 or (Levin) 06 368 2202 Phone Peter 09 267 4700

44 Beaded Wheels Ford V8 coupes (3) for sale. LHD. Not running UPHOLSTERY VALVES exhaust quality stainless for Vintage but fairly complete. 1937 Original V8-60, $24,000. engines. Available in blank form or machined 1938 standard, original V8-60 $24,000. 1939 Veteran – Vintage – Classic Hoods, side curtains, complete re-trims etc. to size required. George Calder, 307 Hoon Hay Deluxe 85hp $18,500. V8-60 motors not for sale Rd, Christchurch. Phone 03 338 5372 or email separately. Phone 06 755 0818. christompkins@ Spring and foam units repaired or rebuilt. 40 years experience, reasonable rates. VCCNZ [email protected] xtra.co.nz mem Member. Bryan O’Brien Auto Trim. Unit 3. 8 Hupmobile motor R137342 approx. 1923, Cadbury Road, Napier.  honeycomb brass radiator, and parts, offers invited. Pho ne 06 842 2252 Tyres 670x16 very good retread 10 mm not used, Fax 06 842 2254 • Mobile 027 495 7676 heavy duty 6 ply, 640x13 tyre 6mm tread. 155R13 tyre and rim 4 stud 100 cpi. Dunlop Aqua Jet. PIST ONS PISTONS PISTONS ­PISTONS Phone Ivan 03 323 8769. mem FOR VETERAN, VINTAGE, CLASSIC & ODDBALL ENGINES. I have a bookcase with a lot of magazines to We can supply piston sets for most makes & sell these include: Beaded Wheels, 60 copies back models. All piston sets come complete with to 2001; V&V Vintage & Veteran Mag (English) rings & gudgeons. We have over 700 listings at 1964-1969, 35 copies; Bentley Drivers Club (English) competitive prices. 1990-2007, 20 copies; Aeroplane (English), back to VINTAGE TRUNKS made to order or stock sizes. M S Coombes Ltd 2001, 70 copies. Offers welcome. Phone Bob 09 Dust proof and waterproof. Phone Allan on 344 St Asaph St, Christchurch 575 8115, Auckland. Mem 06 844 3959 or 0274 469 331 Napier. M. EM Ph 03 366 7463, fax 03 366 7462 KING-PIN KITS, TIE ROD ENDS, Side car – English, complete with mounting Spring shackles, ignition parts, bulbs and brackets. Totally enclosed back lockers. Tidy sealed beams, spark-plugs and coils, engine condition. $3,500. Phone Rex 09 537 4392, bearings, engine mountings, head gasket/ Auckland. Mem sets, pistons and valves, timing chains and gears, flywheel ring gears, tyres, carburettors, Two x Ford 4 stud 13" x 6” Rostyles with centre magnetos, etc, for all makes and models, caps, straight and tidy. $80. Phone 03 541 9391.  Mem VINTAGE & CLASSIC QUARTZ halogen bulbs. especially: Austin, Chevrolet, Chrysler, Essex, Penrite Oils We carry a large range from Replace your existing bulbs without rewiring the Ford, Hillman, Morris, Standard, Vauxhall. Vintage to Modern engines. Gearbox, diff, headlamp assemblies. Up to 100% brighter than Ronald Lever, 87 Tui Rd, Papatoetoe, S.U dashpot and water pump grease. your existing Tungsten bulbs. Will fit most reflectors Auckland 2025. Phone 09 278 3888 evenings. M S Coombes Ltd, 344 St Asaph Street, fitted to Pre & Post war cars and motorbikes. Also Christchurch, Ph 03 366 7463, Fax 03 366 7462, available in single filament 55 watt P22 & BA Large quantity of Austin 12 /4 & 16/6 parts. Email: [email protected] 15 bases for use in spotlamps and mechanical Stripped motor. Ex. manifold, gearboxes, prop dip reflectors. Most bases and configurations Vintage Engine Shortblocks  shaft, diff, complete front axle and springs, rear available in 6v & 12v. Further info: Norm & Jan springs. Steering box, prop shaft - hubs and drums, We can in most cases rebuild your shortblock using Sisson, sole NZ Agent. Phone 03 389 0643 Model brake and clutch parts, starters and dynamos. modern shell bearings, new pistons and rebuilt oil Boat Supplies, 38 Ottawa Road, Christchurch 6. Electrical parts, screen parts plus six boxes of gear. pump. Please contact us for more information. Email [email protected] Phone John 09 445 6483, email jbryvelo@gmail. M S Coombes Ltd, 344 St Asaph Street, 1910 / 1912 E and J brass acetylene generator for com m em Christchurch, Ph 03 366 7463, Fax 03 366 7462, Email: [email protected] sale or swap, as fitted to the Model T Ford. Peter Morri s Minor Wellside ute. Dismantled. Some Croft phone 03 849 534 bovett.croft@paradise. work done, 1 complete motor plus a spare motor Vintage Car Repairs net.nz mem for parts, radiator, gearbox and panels included. Unit 1 11 Penn Place, Upper Riccarton, Great project. $500. Phone Glen 03 319 6981, 022 Christchurch (formerly 15a Empire Road, Belfast) 319 6981. Me m Phone 341 5100 Fax 341 5101 NEW WHITEWALL TYRES, 3 only, 6.70 x 15” Coker All Classic and Vintage Car restoration. Classic 3”wide whitewall, $250 each plus freight • Panel making • Wooden body repairs, usual retail $365. Phone Jack 03 352 6672, or • Bumpers and moulding repair cellphone 027 432 2041. Mem 37 years experience • Competitive hourly rate. Pah rts s ed itemS for sale. Talbot motor good for spares. Rover 90 motor, late ‘50s. Overland radiator VG, circa 1913-1915. Bullnose Morris motor good for spares. De Dion motor and gearbox circa 1925. Fiat 501 motor good for spares. Calthorpe motor good for spares. Marmon 6 cyl motor Over 40% of VCC members virtually complete. Nash La Fayette motor mid 1930s. Vauxhall 12hp motor complete. Contact insure their vehicles with Vero CIS. Canterbury Branch Parts Shed or Des Fowler phone 03 342 9974. m em Now’s a great time to join them. Penrite Engine Coolant  A colourless hybrid-organic non glycol based corrosion inhibitor designed specifically for use in Veteran, Edwardian, Vintage and Classic Car cooling systems. M S Coombes Ltd, 344 St Asaph See our back page ad for full details... Street, Christchurch, Ph 03 366 7463, Fax 03 366 Freephone 0800 658 411 select option 2 7462, Email: [email protected]

Beaded Wheels 45 Berand n w 1930 essex exhaust manifolds  1958-59 bsa rocket race bike Last raced three 1959u BSA S per Rocket In very good order. Has Price $1,085 Delivered anywhere in New Zealand to years ago. In excellent order. Phone Barry Davis 03 just had a new reconditioned engine. Phone Barry your door. Overseas enquiries welcome. Phone Barry 572 8631 or email [email protected] mem Davis 03 572 8631 or email [email protected] Davis 03 572 8631 or email [email protected] mem mem

clock for dashboard Has inscribed “Enfield, vauxhall 1923 30/98 oe 127 All original, 1918 buick ex44 roadster Concours winner Made in England”. Appears complete. Semi-oval in powerful, 4300cc engine. Top condition throughout. 2004. New rims and rubber. Reg and WOF, VIC. shape. 115mm wide x 85mm high. $30 as is. Does not NZ new. Pricey but the best. Phone Clynt Inns 03 327 Health forces sale, offers around $32,000. Must sell. go. Phone 03 354 9264 mem 7178 mem Phone 03 358 3099 m em

1936 chev Family owned since new, Restored 2004. 1929 buick tourer Originally a sedan, converted 1965 mk 3 zodiac Very well presented. Much 131,171 miles. For full details and spares phone 04 to tourer status. Fitted with five speed gear box and rallied car. If you have always wanted one you won’t 902 1699 m em high compression pistons. Very pleasant to drive. Best get better for condition and price. $25,000. Sold with offer over $17,500. Phone 03 443 7304 mem current rego and WOF. Phone Phil 027 533 3878 m em

1963 vauxhall victor Genuine 86,000 miles. 1963 hillman super minx mkii Total restoration ro ver p5 1965 3 litre. Three careful owners, Fine example. Has WOF and rego. $8,500 ono. Phone late 1990s. 17,700 miles. Fitted with MkII 1725cc red leather interior. In excellent order, recent engine 06 353 3180 or 0274 534 930 Palmerston North m em motor, all synchro gearbox for better driving. 1600cc overhaul. Shed full of new and used parts $8,500. motor/box available. Lots of spares. Current owner Phone 07 865 6442 mem for 33 years. $17,000. Phone Peter 06 877 5541, 027 441 8878 email [email protected]

46 Beaded Wheels PLYMOUTH SEDAN 1929 Motor not running 1947 Ford V8 Sedan Coupe or commonly called 1928 ALVIS 12/50 Doctors Coupe, regularly since $5,500 spent on overhaul. Current WOF Club Coupe, a five seater coupe. Full ground up attends car club events, very tidy car, upholstered and registered. No rust, good overall condition. restoration in 2007 by qualified tradesmen. Current dickey seat, in NZ all its life up to 2007, attended Expressions of interest, please contact Murray Smith, warrant and registration. Owner deceased. Phone 06 2006 international at Invercargill. New close ratio 03 389 8677 or 027 274 0086, [email protected] 278 7738. m em gears in gearbox. $65,000. Contact Derek Dixon mem [email protected] mem

1926 Chrysler Series 60 2 Door Coach. 1929 Plymouth Coupe, 1928 Fargo Light truck, 1939 Ford V8 Standard Fully restored to original Excellent condition with motor fully reconditioned by 1929 Plymouth Roadster. All in good order! All condition. Two owners last 25 years. Deceased estate. Chris Carrick in Wanganui which came to $10,000. have WOF and rego. Expressions of interest, please $35,000 ono. Phone June 09 415 8386. m em Diff also been fully reconditioned. Lovely old vehicle contact Murray Smith 03 389 8677 or 027 274 0086 that drives very well. $25,000 ono. Ph 03 525 9428 [email protected] mem email [email protected] for photos. mem

1938 MORRIS 8 TWO-SEATER. Reliable club car. parts for sale. Kingston coil box with two coils, 1929 DESOTO Model K sedan. In good original Sound body and mechanicals. On sexy wires but switch and key with lid and mounting bracket, $300. unrestored condition. Two family ownership. Full boring pressed steel wheels included. WOF and reg. Coil no name maybe single cylinder with switch and history available, genuine 65,000 miles. Currently Spare gearbox and other parts. Vinyl roof and side key $300. Trembler coil, condition unknown, make stored in Brisbane, Aus. $25,000 ono. Phone Colin curtains. $11,500. Would accept good VW beetle as unknown $150. Phone 03 355 4017. mem 021 2384 797 Paeroa mem part payment. Phone Kevin 06 377-1236, m em

1929 Hudson Town Sedan. In very good V8 60 Special. Hill climb circuit racer. VCC 1938 Lincoln Convertible, V12 One of 220 condition with wire wheels, trunk, single VIC. 1938 Ford V8 60hp 2200 cc 17 stud engine. built, maybe a dozen survivors, only one in New side-mounted spare. Great cruiser, with loads of Edelbrock hi-compression finned cyl heads, twin Zealand. Beautiful, well-balanced, classical lines. Very luxurious space. Original engine is mechanically carb manifold with V8 60‘ 81‘ carbs. Lincoln Zephyr tidy original vehicle with over-drive, radio and heater. sound and runs well. Distance travelled is 80,000 3 speed gbox with o/drive. Ford 10 axles, steering See story in Beaded Wheels, issue 227, Aug/Sept miles. Reg on hold, but new WOF and rego when box. ‘Terrill’ chassis. Aluminium panels, Ford Y grill. 1997, page 32. Phone Roy Rowe on 07 847 5648. mem sold. Price $20,000. Phone 03 308 1940. m em Lots of fun. $12,000. Phone Roy 07 847 5648 m em

Beaded Wheels 47 1967 Morris Minor Panel van Royal Mail 1936 Chev Coupe tidy original condition, reliable, 1972 Honda C50 Cub. Immaculate condition sign writing. 1300cc engine and ribbed gearbox. rego on hold, pleasure to drive, $24,000 firm. Can be Spare bike and assorted parts included. Great little Genuine van wheels, with radial tyres, tow bar. viewed in Fairlie Phone 03 685 8803 commuter or just keep for those scooter rallies. Viewing recommended. VCC Identity card. $9500. $1500 Phone 07 896 8379. m em Phone Peter: 09 426 7179 or 021 298 8795 m em

1971 MG BGT, Excellent condition, Newly trimmed 1937 International Van, strong Southland CHRYSLER 58-4 ROADSTER 1925 Good condition, and an outside paint due to 18 years of storage and history with the AC Millar family baking dynasty, very motorable, Early restoration, new hood and sunburn on the bonnet and roof. Now immaculate rebuilt Ray McCulloch Invercargill, competed in many bumpers in 2013. Reconditioned motor, excellent after a complete head job, genuine chrome rostyles. local rallies since restoration, ideal winery vehicle, upholstery, great rally car. Reg and wof. $26,000 No visible rust underneath. Inside has not been performs well. Numerous parts, manuals go with. contact Doreen 03 332 7429 or 027 644 4267 m em re-painted but is still smart. Sold with wof and rego. $16,995 ono. Phone Simon 021 828 397. $8,750 Phone 06 879 8910, cell 027 213 0670 mem

1971 Honda CB500/4  Older restoration which 1929 DESOTO 6 MODEL K. Excellent condition. 1940 Ford E83W rebuilt from the ground up, needs a tidy up. Currently unregistered. Fully set Mechanically sound. Current WOF Rego and VCC VIN. recently vin’d/regd. Motor overhauled, new glass, up touring bike suitable for VCC events. May Expressions of interest around $18,000. Phone 09 new wellside and rear guards, new fuel tank, steering need some minor engine work. Includes enough 437 3814 or email [email protected] mem box overhauled, brakes relined, re-upholstered. 12 spares to build another complete bike with correct volt system, electric wipers, new battery. $10,500 exhausts . $5,000 phone 07 896 8379 mem ono. Phone Ian 07 322 8084. m em

1925 Jewett 23/25, 2 door coach. 6 cylinder side 1920 Model R Hupmobile in excellent condition. Model A Ford Rebuilt Shock Absorbers, valve, 4.3 litre engine. 21,000 miles with known Authentically restored with meticulous attention to as original. With exchange $195 each or $230 history. A unique opportunity to own an absolutely detail. Lacquer finish paint. Reliable motoring car outright. Arms and all connecting parts available. original part of our motoring history. An excellent rallied extensively throughout NZ since 1971. Has Postal delivery extra. Phone Jack 03 352 6672 cruising Vintage. For $27,000 you could be enjoying won numerous concours, latest in 2007. A special car Christchurch or cell 0274 322 041. all the attention such an exceptional car attracts. for an enthusiastic VCC member. $45,000 Phone Joan Phone Bernie Horn 0274 347 780, 03 482 2214. m em Paul 03 686 0164, [email protected] mem

48 Beaded Wheels 1948 Studebaker Coupe 6 cylinder, 3 speed 1955 Triumph TR2, This body off restored 100mph 1914 CADILLAC 5 SEAT TOURER model 30 manual with overdrive on 2nd & 3rd. Two NZ owners beauty now for sale at offers over $38,000. Overdrive, restoration project. The last year of 4 cylinder engine. – Ex South Africa. Engine fully reconditioned approx. beautiful paint job, mid grey leather, red piping, Mechanically complete, body complete from front 1500 miles ago, Rego & WoF. Phone Winston 03 476 charcoal carpets even in boot, full wet weather gear, seat forward. We value this vehicle at $25k – $28k but 2323. mem restoration to original car but with electric cooling are open to offers that may include other interesting fan. Phone Peter 029 366 0082 mem vehicles. Email [email protected] mem

N elson Vcc 50th Anniversary Booklet.  rare SMITHS front winding car clock JAGUAR MKV DHC 3 Position Hood. Year 1951. 3½ Limited print run of the first 50 years of VCC events unusual mounting possibly for very early Morris litre. Fully restored and sorted. Drives well. Blue/grey in Nelson compiled by Dennis and Helen Le Cren. $200 ono. Phone Terry NVCC 09 437 3571. m em and dark blue. Upholstery blue/grey with dark blue Excellent booklet with colour photos. Price $15.00 inc. trim and dark blue carpets and hood. A genuine New postage. Phone 03 547 7469. ronandjan.johnson@ Zealand new. Rare vehicle. Registered and WOF. Price gmail.com. mem $110,000. Phone evenings 07 863 9497 or email: [email protected]. mem

1935 Austin Seven ‘Godiva’ special. Ruby 1929 Austin seven super sports. Replica. fa rgo 1928 Light Pickup Truck Rego on hold - chassis, ‘50s ex-firepump Coventry Climax 750cc Ross Haines built 1996 in Christchurch. Very little will WOF on sale. C Cab - one off this type of vehicle. SOHC engine as used in Le Mans-winning Lotus. use since. Visually almost indistinguishable from Phone Murray Smith 027 274 0086 or 03 389 8677 Morris Minor gearbox / back axle, Bowdenex brakes, the genuine Super Sports but goes and stops much [email protected] mem polished aluminium body. Sold with rego / wof. Pics better. Magneto engine, 4 speed box. Sold with rego/ on request, $18,000. Offers considered. Phone 03 wof. Pics/specs on request. Phone 03 5403 550 or 5403 550 or (pref.) email [email protected]. mem (pref.) email [email protected]. mem

Ex Deceased estate, 1978 Ford F100 Utility  CLASSIC CAR STEERING WHEEL COVER. Quality 1926 Dodge 4 Tourer AK8557 Very rolling body (engine and trans removed) tidy and reproduction 1940s /’60 s style vinyl covers with foam tidy condition Reg and WOF. Three previous generally good condition. C4 auto with optional backing. Made to measure with a choice of colours, mid-Canterbury owners, orig. registration, has recond Cleveland V8 long engine available and/ inc stitching cord, a bodkin and fitting instructions. number plates issued at Hinds Post Office. Very or disassembled. Cleveland V8 for reconditioning, Diameter of your steering wheel and rim (grip) reliable car comes with spares. Current owners expressions of interest/offers. Phone 03 439 5653 or required. $56 each inc freight. Phone 06 868 4846 or 46yrs. $24,000 ono. Contact Frank 03 358 8401 or email Stan at [email protected] mem 027 478 0872 m em 027 532 4981 Email fpmorrison@ xtra.co.nz mem

Beaded Wheels 49 WOODEN WHEELS made for your metal­ JAGUAR XJ6 2.8 1972 Totally original condition. Mercedes-Benz 350SL Convertible 1973. work. Steam-bent felloes, any shape spokes. 65,000 miles. Auto, power steering, runs like a V8 3500 Automatic. New metallic blue paint. New beaded rims available in some sizes. Phone dream. For sale because of health reasons only. Car No rust. 187,800 miles. All round condition is Vern Jensen 06 323 3868, 16 Osborne Terrace, in Auckland. $5,500 ono. Phone 027 616 2418 or 021 excellent. Rego on hold. Genuine reason for Feilding.  Mem. 128 1573 selling. $22,000. Phone 03 208 5450  mem

1946 Austin 8 warrant and rego expired May Luarge q antity of vintage, post vintage parts 1928 chrysler 75 roadster $84,000. Phone 2014. Rego on hold. Heaps of spares includes doors, in Katikati. Reasonable offers considered. Owner 09 836 4795, 027 497 3311, email khawke@ gearboxes, motors. Sound condition $3,500. Phone living in Australia and back in Feb 2015, Buyer vodafone.co.nz mem Roy London 09 431 7464, email for more photos and could negotiate with building owner re rent and info [email protected] m em or time span to remove. Phone +64 21 754 656 or +61 4 5945 1168 to view. Some items shown may have been sold.

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50 Beaded Wheels wanted to buy Buick 1910 tranSmission and any other parts wanted for completion of restoration.Phone 03 314 4422 work hrs.

1928-1929 Ford Model A co upe ownership papers wanted. Phone 0274 473 945. Me m 1930-31 Model A closed cab pickup. Prefer roadworthy and registered but will consider what’s available. Phone 07 888 5798 evenings. Me m 1937 CHEV SEDAN GEARBOX. Must be in good condition. Phone Trevor 03 308 3803, trevor.begg@ Wanted old unusual sparkplugs. I am WAVERLEY PARTS WANTED. I have many xtra.co.nz mem currently looking for Splitdorf hexagon sparkplugs of mechanical components for a 1915 model (see 1952 Trojan Mini Motor. Parts wanted to assist the following colours, red, blue, white, pink, and the picture and also Brass Notes) but need a genuine with restoration. In particular the support hoop and yellow hedstrom. Email me the price of the plugs that chassis, front axle and rear differential, as well as lifting mechanism, or any other parts for spares. you have for sale. Tailight lenses for 1928 ‘31 mopar any literature, brochures or any other information Phone Paul Furkert 06 379 5355 or email paul. products to swap for plugs. Phone Dennis Gooch 03 to assist with this restoration. Phone Brian 06 867-2949 or email [email protected] mem [email protected] mem 981 3277 email [email protected] m em Buick 1934-35 Delco Remy starter SER:50 No 727G or 727F fits 1931-35 SER:50 or 1930 Marquette. Any with parts for SER50. Phone 021 0245 7984. Mem Carburettor and air cleaner for 1500cc Mk II Cortina (non cross flow). Phone J Lawrie 09 425 9928 Email: [email protected] m em Floor panels for a Morris Minor wellside ute (for in the cab). Phone 03 319 6981, 022 319 698. Me m I need a one-piece windscreen frame for a SAAB 96 2-stroke, pr oduced from 1960 to 1967. B uick step plates (aluminium) and kick plates 1927 Dodge touring car; would consider the earlier Any information to help locate a car for sale would (brass) as shown. Boyce motormeters featuring two-piece type if the bottom part is usable. Also be much appreciated. Any condition considered, Buick. USA automobile mechanical books and charts looking for speedo cable and the steering box drop from a restoration project to a good runner. Please by Victor Page. Running board petrol can holder. arm (splined type). Please contact Kevin Casey; contact Philip Pearce 09 537 6874, 027 274 4084 or Storey brand front bumper, complete or parts, or phone 03 453 0818 or [email protected] email [email protected] m em fittings to front chassis members. Copies of UK Veteran Car Club bulletins. Phone Neil 03 434 9470 m em Shumack Judson or similar small supercharger or [email protected]  Mem Ignition Timer for 1 cyl. Veteran car, similar to suitable for up to 1500cc can trade as new Toyota DeDion wanted. Pair of self generating gas lamps MR2 supercharger. Phone 03 541 9391. mem Wiring loom for 1929 Marquette Sedan wanted. Phone Phone 03 476 4642. m em for early veteran. Some gas lamps available for Sunbeam S7 motorcycle engine parts. Cylinder swaps. Brian Rankine, 06 357 5706. Email btr@ head, manifolds, clutch and pressure plate or actrix.co.nz mem complete engine if possible. Phone 09 436 1182 or James Superswift with either a 2T, 3T, or 4T 027 438 5047 or email [email protected] Villiers twin engine. Complete or basket case for mem restoration. Please contact John on 04 567 9160, or Supercharger small light capacity to handle email [email protected]. Me m 1000-1500cc. Can swap as new Toyota MR2 unit or buy outright prefer early Shumack or Judson. Phone Jowett/Bradford Van parts needed to finish 03 541 9391. restoration. Rear quarter left and right rear bumpers and or metal brackets. Phone 03 488 2540. Mem Triumph SD gearbox and chain guard and footrests, Triumph 1907 or 08 barrel and forks and Magneto for in-line twin. Swift 1913 cycle petrol tank, Alldays gearbox or any parts for these Dargaville Badge as per photo. Grill Badge car parts. Stationary steam engine. International models. Phone Chris 09 533 8050, email taylorhq@ A40 Farina MkII or A60. Phone G Tier 09 439 8911. famous stationary engine parts. Phone/txt 027 xtra.co.nz mem Mem 6116 225 or email [email protected]. Mem Vauxhall Viva or Chevette Rostyle road wheel Mkau II J g ar/Daimler round boot tool box 13" x 5" wanted. Phone 03 541 9391. Me m with or without tool. Phone 06 758 4244, email elinorandbill@hotmail. mem Wanted for a 1936 Chevrolet Master Deluxe rear spring U bolts which are 175 long and 50 Model TT Ford front spring, steering drag link. inside, one handbrake cable and the gearbox main Phone Wayne 06 835 1210. Email robynchurch2@ bearing oil thrower, part number 590621. It is 3 3⁄16 yahoo.co.nz mem outside diameter and 119/32 inside diameter. Email Pontiac 1930 wire wheel wanted, phone 027 [email protected] m em 218 6397 or [email protected] mem Sidevalve Engine Wanted for 1930 to 1934 Quarter light window rubbers fo r 1949 Morris Minor or 1935 sidevalve engine for Morris Lo-lite Morris Minor and two 6 volt 7 inch sealed Eight, which I believe might fit. Also, a set of Rev Counter for Healey Sprite/MG beam headlamp units in good working order. Please wheels for 1930 to 1934 Morris Minor. Please midget. Phone J Bayley 07 888 6120 or G Tier 09 contact Bob phone 06 367 8216. m em phone Robert 027 444 1333. Mem 439 8911. Mem

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5th National Commercial Rally Manawatu Easter 2015 All inquiries to email [email protected] or Phone Dennis Milne on 06 329 3830 Scenicland Rally! YES, the Annual West Coaster is on again! Come and join us for a relaxing days motoring March 21, 2015 Starting & Finishing in the Hokitika Area Contact: Bob Richards Phone 03 755 7695 Email: [email protected]

2015 South Island Club Captain’s Tour

Friday 13 March Assemble in Tuesday 17 March blenheim Tekapo Wednesday 18 March blenheim Saturday 14 March Timaru Thursday 19 March Motueka  Sunday 15 March Amberley Friday 20 March Greymouth Monday 16 March Hanmer Springs   Entrants may join and leave at any point of the tour.  Accommodation list and entry forms are available from Alon  Mayhew 03 443 7030 Email [email protected]  As there is limited accommodation in some areas, prompt booking  is recommended.         Saturday 28 February 2015    S wap Meet starts 7am   Entry: Adults $5 Children (under 12) Free  Vintage Car Display – Car parts old & new - Motoring  books & manuals - Collectibles – Bric-a-brac –   Refreshments – Sausage sizzle  Venue: Wellsford/Warkworth Vintage Car Clubrooms Satellite Station Rd, off SH1, 3 km south of Warkworth

52 Beaded Wheels Nelson Branch VCC of NZ Otago Branch st Invites you to attend the 61 Dunedin-Brighton InauguralInaugural SwapSwap MeetMeet Veteran vehicles run 2121 FebruaryFebruary 20152015 Saturday 24 & Sunday 25 January 2015 Site sales contact; Ruth Mercer [email protected] Phone 03 541 8112 VCC Member Sites $10 Public Sites $15 • Site Size 6m x 5m Entry non-site holders $2

Vcc Nz Ashburton Branch Photo Lynette Duncan An interesting and varied day’s Veteran motoring and field events are planned for the Saturday followed by a dinner SWAPMEET in the evening. On Sunday morning there will be a run to

Glenfalloch Gardens for Devonshire Tea and prizegiving. Saturday 2 May 2015 Due to possible catering limitations dinner and prizegiving bookings Club Grounds 86 Maronan Road, Tinwald Ashburton will be taken on date of entry receipt No Dogs Allowed • Catering by Ashburton Lions Club Entries close 20 December 2014 Site Bookings to KATHRYN SHAW For further information and entry forms contact Tony Devereux 30 James St, Ashburton 7700 Gates Phone 03 4811 903 Email: [email protected] Open or Vintage Car Club of NZ Otago Branch Inc. PO Box 5352 Dunedin. Email [email protected] 7.30am Phone 03 307 8896 GORE SWAP MEET SWAP MEET AND BOOT SALE Run by the Gore Vintage Car Club. National Veteran Rally SUNDAY 12 APRIL 2015 29 -31 January 2015 at WAIMEA ST GORE. Oamaru 8am Start – Breakfast Available, Admittance Adults $5 Children Free, Sellers Stalls $8 (includes one entry free) (If you have items you wish to sell please come along and set up a stall) Enquiries to Evan 03 208 6479 027 650 8056 Or Barry 03 208 4877

Preceded by a Founders Prince Henry Tour Starting in Dunedin on Monday 26 January Finishing at Oamaru 28 January Email: [email protected] Convenor: John Chynoweth Ph 027 457 3332 Rally Secretary: Verna Chambers Ph 03 439 5795 Entry forms available soon

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Horowhenua Branch VCC NZ Inc. Horowhenua Branch VCC NZ Inc.

FAR NORTH VINTAGE CAR CLUB ANNUAPRESENTS L ANNUAL SWAPAUTOSPECTACULAR MEET SWAP MEET & COLLECTABLESSATURDAY 10TH JANUARYDAY 2015 & COLLECTABLES DAY

Eastern Rugby Football Grounds, East Street, Taipa Saturday 21st March 2015 Saturday 21st March 2015 CLASSIC AND VINTAGE CARS, HOT RODS,Gates MOTORCYCLES, open 7am TRUCKS, Gates open 7am SWAP MEET, STALLS, FOOD, ART n Crafts, FUN STUFF for Kids Levin Show GroundsFREE Events ENTRY FOR Park ALL SHOW Levin Show Grounds Events Park 14 TiroTiro RoadVEHICLES Levin AND THE DRIVER 14 TiroTiro Road Levin

Admission Admission BE IN TO WIN... Stall EnterHolders in the $10draw to- Publicwin two nights $5 - Children Free Stall Holders $10 - Public $5 - Children Free accommodation for two at the prestigious ReiaFood Taipa and Beach Drink Resort. on site all day Food and Drink on site all day You must be present on site to receive the prize-Non transferable Something for everyone Something for everyone Spares open at 10am Spares open at 10am

FREE ON SITE PARKING Public Entry $5 per adult. $2 per Child GATES OPENInquiries 8AM - 2PM | PRIZE to GIVING Pete 1PM Collins 90 MILE MOTORS Inquiries to Pete Collins STALL HOLDERS $10 per site Peoples Choice All06 enquiries 368 to: Dave5885 Hills or 0274 862 639 06 368 5885 or 0274 862 639 Phone: 09 406 1077 | Cel. 021 1106 538 | E-mail: [email protected] Competition [email protected] [email protected]

50th Maunga-Moana Rally New Plymouth

Horowhenua20th-22nd Branch March VCC NZ Inc.2015 Horowhenua Branch VCC NZ Inc. 5 A special celebration Rally to celebrate 50 years of ANNUATaranaki’s most popular and friendlyL Rally ANNUAL SWAPENTRIES MEET NOW OPEN SWAP MEET & COLLECTABLES DAY & COLLECTABLESBURMA RALLY DAY Wellington Anniversary Weekend st st Saturday 21 March 2015 SaturdaySaturday 17 21 – Monday March 19 January 2015 2015 Gates open 7am Gates open 7am ENTRIES CLOSE 9TH JAN 2015 Levin Show Grounds Events Park Levin ShowEnquires Grounds to Rally Secretary, Events Gil Park Button 14 TiroTiro RoadThe lateLevin Des Moore’s 1938 Buick Phaeton [email protected] TiroTiro Road | LevinPh: 021 326 956

Admission Admission Stall Holders $10 - Public $5 - Children Free Stall Holders $10 - Public $5 - Children Free

TaranakiFood and Branch Drink on site all day Food and Drink on site all day Something for everyone Something for everyone SparesEntry open Forms at 10am Avaliable Spares open at 10am Rally Secretary Rob Thomson [email protected] 7 Leatham AVE New Plymouth 4312 (06) 7584881 Rally Co-OrdinatorInquiries Colin to PeteJohnston Collins (06) 7546216 - 0211316699 Inquiries to Pete Collins

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Ashburton: 1942 Ford V8 Army Ashburton: Club Captain Trevor Ashburton: First car being checked out Auckland: Mike Loosemore’s Service car, owner C Begg. Begg with a presentation to hosts on the Spring Rally. 1929 Austin 16/6. Anthony and Julie Hampton on the opening run.

Auckland: Brian Barclay’s 1929 Whippet 96A Auckland: Mike Loosemore’s 1924 Bean. Auckland: Trevor Kenworthy’s 1946 Ford V8 coupe. pickup.

Ashburton Diane Ross Auckland John Stokes Wood has trial run the engine for his 1930 The new motoring year is under way Motorcycles: Don Green won our Kick Marquette. Bill and Dennise Mercer have with the Opening Run combined with Start Rally on his 1955 Norton Dominator, joined with a 1929 Hupmobile Century Six. South Canterbury Branch. This was the He also achieved first Vintage on his 1930 Danny Raack has joined with a Whippet first run organised by our new club captain Rudge Ulster at Taranaki’s Rubber Ducky 96A four cylinder roadster. Brian Barclay and it began appropriately with a minute’s event. Leo Fowler, 1942 Indian 741B, won has been working on his Whippet 96A silence in memory of those brutally killed too many prizes to mention at the Rubber coupe. and maimed in the Ashburton WINZ Ducky. Malcolm Brown won the Auckland PV PW: Tony and Angela Forster have shooting earlier in the week. Eighty cars Poker Run on his Harley-Davidson. bought a 1954 Citroen Light Fifteen. traveled to view a Massey Harris and Speaker at the monthly meeting was Peter P60V P80V: Rachelle Henley has joined Massey Ferguson Vintage tractor collec- Lodge who races a highly modified ES2 with a 1964 Singer Gazelle, and Ellie Pye tion near Methven and enjoy lunch in the Norton. Peter Alderdice is touring parts has bought a 1961 Mk2 Ford Zephyr. garden before returning to our clubrooms. of the USA/Canada along with Paul and General: We farewell Mike McGinley The 52 entrants of our Spring Rally were Jodi Tomlin and others on modern Harley- who has moved to Dargaville with his privileged to lunch in and explore a large Davidsons. Malcolm Wheeler is working Austin/Morris collection. Ken and Annette garden and woodland area complete with on a 1930 BSA single port OHV Sloper, Foot won the September Ladies Rally in lake and waterways as well as a very early while a very busy David Warren has a 1928 their 1958 Humber 80. They also won the original homestead, now derelict, not far Harley Model J and chair under way with PWV class at the Waikato PV rally. from Methven. a target completion of November this year. One of our keenest motorcyclists is Percy A 1941 Norton Model H has had the frame Bay of Plenty David Joblin Ralston. If he had any hair left he would be forks and gearbox completed and this resto- After a parade through Mount tearing it out lately as not only is his latest ration is targeted for March next year. A Maunganui 54 cars parked up as a display restoration project testing all his expertise 1914 Radco and a couple of PV Nortons are to mark Fathers Day. We were well but his weekend away to Dunvegan gave being done for other people. A new motor- received and many application forms were him another headache when his very trusty cycle member is Andy Miller who owns requested and new members signed up. Royal Enfield spluttered to a stop during 1971 and 1978 Laverdas. Graeme Crawley For the August end-of-month run Don and the rally and had to be bought home in the spoke at the October section meeting about Ngaire Wade organised a trip to Jeremy motorcycle ambulance. his trip to the international Ariel rally in Welch’s outstanding model barn near We are sad to be losing Roger and Italy. Thames. The purpose built barn holds Dorothy Jopling to Hawke’s Bay. They Veteran: Phil Henley has bought Ray 4000 to 5000 model Vintage tractors, and their little 1934 Austin are moving to Officer’s 1906 Cadillac. George Mihaljevich cranes, trucks and machinery. This Havelock North to be nearer to family. has the 1912 Hudson Gentleman’s roadster would have to be the largest collection in The Ashburton Domain and Gardens mobile again. Australasia. Following this we stopped at are celebrating their 150 year anniversary Vintage: Mike Loosemore has bought the Matatoki Cheese Barn, a local cheese in November and we will be helping out by a 1929 Colonial Austin 16/6 and he’s also factory where we sampled their wares. displaying vehicles. making progress on his 1924 Bean. Peter The September mid-week run took in

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Eastern Bay of Plenty: Motorbike at Historic Creations.

Bay of Plenty: 1925 Marmon Eastern Bay of Plenty: Keith and Margaret Watson best dressed couple. the late Ray Singleton’s Auto Barn their sites for next year. Members’ first day of Lake Dunstan and backed this up with in Te Puke, now called Kiwi Corral. this year included the public, resulting in diagrams and plans. He told us how the This has been turned into a backpack- an all time first day record. That success problems were overcome and suggested er’s base accommodating up to 360 ensures it is destined to stay that way. some may still be there, only time will tell. people, mainly kiwifruit workers. Former “parts only Swapmeet” diehards After 14 years of use and lots of trips in In October the mid week run viewed Mike now appreciate the uplift of interest in our the 1947 Chevrolet pickup I have sold it to Newton’s 1925 Marmon seven seater. A hobby as more families and young people Noel White, a local member who promised huge sedan, fully restored, interesting gain an insight into who we are and what to look after it and treat it well. If you see and unique and the only right-hand drive we do. Forty-three one-make clubs were in it around give him a wave. Noel also has a example one in the world. This top class support, competing for Best Club Display, lovely 1958 Chev Bel Air in his garage and marque was produced in America from 1903 plus over 200 member vehicles displayed. has been seen on our occasional Sunday to 1933, and this one is New Zealand new. Successful Annual Swapmeets are runs. Club Captain, Chris Cole, has produced important to us as they help to finance the some interesting figures for us. Our branch continued pleasure of our hobby in well Central Hawke’s Bay John Foot has 151 Vintage or Veteran vehicles. Of maintained facilities at Cutler Park The branch September run took us to these 33 are at least 90 years old and 21 are A special Awards Presentation Dinner Michael and Vicky Harding’s interesting over 100 years old. at Cutler Park last month acclaimed Lotus Oil operation and to inspect their New members welcomed are Tom long-term branch memberships. Thirteen very original 1926 Sunbeam. From there Stevenson, 1923 Rolls-Royce, 1937 Morgan, 25 year badges were presented, ten for 35 we toured to Taniwha daffodils, midway 1965 Daimler and 1967 E type Jaguar; years plus eight for 50 years continuous between Takapau and Waipukurau. The Stephen and Kirstie McGowan, 1936 membership. Special mention must go to September Branch meeting was held at Hudson 8, and Ken Haines. Tom Clements, a member now for 60 years. the Dannevirke Citizens and Services Club where we were joined by some Manawatu Canterbury Tony Becker Central Otago John Loudon Branch members and also a few Dannevirke The 2014 version of New Zealand’s This year was our 40th Blossom Festival area residents who are contemplating biggest Swapmeet and Display has passed Rally with 35 entries. About half the joining our branch. Several of our members into history. The rain stayed away with entrants went in the procession so the travelled across to Feilding to attend beautiful sunshine every day. What a crowd has a good look at lots of older the Manawatu Branch Swapmeet. New change from the last six (or was it ten) vehicles and gave us a good reception. members are Ian Bayliss with a 1937 Austin years, when our good efforts were disrupted Cheryl Taylor had even made a 40th Ruby Sedan and Gil Hall with 1928 Ford A by weather and earthquakes. Nowadays it birthday cake for the occasion. Members sport coupe and 1930 Ford A town sedan. is billed as “New Zealand’s Biggest Garage present from our first rally back in 1974 Our branch is growing steadily and at time Sale” due to the realities of a variety of were Dorris and Neil McVicar, Cheryl and of writing we have 67 members. We also goods now offered to compete with other Graham Taylor, Sheila and John Loudon. continue to have good member participa- weekend events. This attracts several Sunday after the rally was our annual Sale tion at events and monthly meeting nights. thousand enthusiastic bargain hunters who Day. On 2 October the Veteran and Vintage trawl the 650-plus sites throughout the Guest speaker recently on a club Tour passed through Waipukurau and the weekend. About 94% of available sites were night was Rodger Bisset. He spoke of the branch hosted them for morning tea. At taken up, several by first timers. Close to problems they had with the new roadway present the Austin Ruby of Ian Bayliss is 500 site-holders queued and paid to secure from Clyde to Cromwell along the shores getting an engine transplant and should

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Eastern Bay of Plenty: Lou Emeny and Margy Eastern Bay of Plenty: Steve and Eastern Bay of Plenty: Joy Far North: Diggers’ Day starters. Dee in ‘50s style . Joy Growden with Paeroa’s Mayor. Growden and Spider, best dressed lady and best dressed man.

Gore: Gore Branch cars at Fairfield on our P60 Run. Gore: Gore Branch cars at Lawrence, P60 Run morning tea stop. be going again soon. After a long delay Road, Onepu Springs toward Kawerau and Saturday, and they all went home on the shifting and setting up my new workshop back to Otakiri to Club Captain Steve and Sunday. here in Waipukurau I have started work Joy Growdon’s home for a picnic lunch again on my 1938 Reo 650 pickup. The indoors. Our planned run to Roydon Gore Jim McFadzien chassis is finished, front and rear axles Downs was postponed to a later date due Our opening run was on 14 September. rebuilt and the brakes completed. Over the to the rain. The instructions took us to Mataura, over next few months the branch will be very the river and then to Wyndham. Then busy with something on most weekends. Far North Dave Duirs on to the Seaward Downs and Menzies The Kemps’ Diggers’ Day took us on a Ferry, to Edendale where we congregated Eastern Bay Of Plenty Les Costar short tour around Awanui, Lake Ngatu, at the clubrooms of the Edendale Vintage On 12-14 September 11 cars took part through large avocado orchards and Machinery Club, home of Crank-up. Of the in a weekend away to the Paeroa Vintage eventually to the Gumdiggers Park. This 21 cars on the run, three were on their first and Antiques Weekend, organised by Steve is an authentic, preserved gumfield which Vintage trip. Don Ferguson’s Austin 105 and Joy Growden. We set off on Friday, is over a hundred years old and graphi- is in marvellous condition after some 50 through Rotorua and on to Fitzgerald cally shows the difficult challenge which years on the road. Noel Kelly has added to Glade, on through Te Poi and the back faced mainly Dalmatian immigrants. his fleet with a Fiat 1600 Coupe and Greg roads and foothills of the Kaimai Ranges to They worked in atrocious conditions to Elder has done it again with a 1924 Star, Te Aroha. We visited Historic Creations, extract the gum which was buried when a restoration that the factory could learn where Adrian Worsley produces art from the ancient kauri forest succumbed to some from. scrap metal. On Saturday morning, dressed unknown force which felled them, covered Our P60 run in October took the 18 in our finest period clothes, we drove to the them and preserved them. Many finds in cars across the Clutha River at Clydevale parade start. Paeroa’s Mayor chose Steve the area are over 50,000 years old and one and over the hills to Lawrence and the and Joy’s 1928 Plymouth to transport him massive log has been dated at 100,000 to Vintage Machinery clubrooms. Then to at the head of the parade. Once the cars 150,000 years, so the old cars were in good Clarksville Junction and on to a collection were parked there was a WWII Battle company. of cars at Saddle Hill. These were show cars re-enactment, followed by speeches. Our A big turn out on a miserable day had in a building that had 33,000 photos and club was thanked for our participation, and all hands giving the clubrooms its annual magazine covers all over the walls, ceiling many members were rewarded with prizes grooming followed by a pot luck dinner and and doors, as well as hundreds of other for best dressed lady to Joy Growden, best get together. objects of memorabilia. Another collec- dressed man brother-in-law Spider, best We have a gradually growing member- tion at Fairfield had three Austin 7 cars dressed couple Keith and Margaret Watson, ship of motorcycle owners so an effort is restored, a line up of pedal cars and petrol and the Mayor’s choice of best car Steve being made to cater for their interests. pumps, as well as hundreds of objects, and Joy Growdon. bottles tins and packets from yesteryear. In the afternoon there was a mini rally Gisborne Rodney Clague to Te Aroha and back, also won by our Nine vehicles were displayed at our local Hawke’s Bay Esther Smith members “Team Lou Emeny” in the 1959 A&P Show in October. Our annual Spring Run usually visits FC Holden. We headed for home Sunday The Eastern Bay of Plenty Branch somewhere with profuse areas of daffodils morning. visited us during the weekend of 7-9 on show. This year we visited Te Moto, the On our October run nine cars took part November. We had a noggin ‘n’ natter home of Tom Hartree. It was typical soggy in a local run through Matata, Braemar on the Friday, a run and a dinner on the spring weather.

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Hawke’s Bay: Model A belonging to Chris and Sue Hawke’s Bay: Molly the MG belonging to Maurice and Truman at Te Motu. Jo Smith at Te Motu.

Horowhenua: left to right Ford 1919 TT Peter Nightingale, Horowhenua: The Manawatu Horowhenua: Visit to the shed: John Allomes 1924 Chev Mark Morgan, 1924 Maxwell Wayne Millington. club tree planting team. explaining the mysteries of truck restoration to the team.

The annual Safari run is held on Labour Jeff Fox is building an interesting copy John Allomes and Dave Williams have Weekend which combines with the Hawke’s machine to speed up his ever increasing leapt into the business of organizing Sunday Bay Anniversary Day giving us a four day demand for Vintage wooden aircraft propel- runs and the odd rally and have come weekend. This year’s run, organised by Bob lers. Some of the four blade models that he up some interesting places to visit. On a and Trixie Ackerley, headed for the Hawera makes are real works of art. In addition to recent trip we admired progress on John’s region. this and his motorbikes he is restoring a lovely Vintage Dodge truck being readied The new clubrooms, with its great rare two door Model A phaeton imported for the commercial rally. We also hope setting and facilities, continue to provide a from South America. to see Derek Haycock’s almost completed fantastic base for the club. The clubrooms Our branch magazine is in the hands of Chevy truck on the road for this event. will again be the focus for activities Mark Gibson and the new look cover gives Laurie Cocker is organising the event but around the forthcoming Art Deco Rally it a great lift due to electronic incompatibilities send in February 2015. Registrations for the Our Library has been donated 75 extra enquiries to [email protected]. Other Rally are pouring in and many entrants books which were surplus to the Southward activities have been working bees at the are seeking a spot in the optional Grand museum. These are now sorted and are on clubrooms where the boys and girls got 250 Automobile Parade through the centre of the shelves. plants safely in the ground. The Vintage- Napier. Due to hard work by the organ- The branch has purchased a defibrillator only rally proceeded damply for 170 km ising committee with the support of branch for the clubrooms and is also planning an or so via a dripping lunch stop where we members the rally just gets better every extension to the club building. ate soggy sandwiches and damp biscuits. year. This year the Rally title is “It’s a An annual challenge with the Citroen It was a relief to return to the clubrooms Duesey” and is the first ever ACD Rally club was well attended and the VCC team and the oh-so-good heat pump that the (Auburn, Cord and Duesenberg) with more out-classed the Frenchmen in a tough battle motorcycle guys installed in the clubrooms. than 20 of these marques expected. We held on the site of the old Kimberly hospital The weather cleared up beautifully by about have also heard that Ramon Farmer who which has now been sold to a local property 5pm for the drive home. now owns the ex-Hawke’s Bay 1922 Rolls- developer. Royce Silver Ghost will be bringing this car Three local members had their one ton Marlborough Chris de Wagt to the Rally. Ramon has brought the car trucks on display joining the Truck Trek We welcome new members Philip back to its former glory. I’m sure those club that passed through Levin on the way to McEwan and Keith Davidson to the members who over the years spent time Cape Reinga. branch. Philip owns a 1972 Ford working on the vehicle will be pleased to Capri coupe and a 1954 Morris see it again. Manawatu Allan Hardacre Cowley wellside truck while Keith is After a burst of amazing fine weather currently looking for the ‘right’ vehicle. Horowhenua Peter Nightingale earlier it has become cold and wet, just Congratulations to Peter and A number of our members attended the perfect for the navigators in Vintage Margaret Holdaway on accepting the Manawatu swapmeet and report back that tourers, not. I noticed mine eyeing up a Patron appointment to the Brayshaw there were some real goodies to be had. For fellow VCC member because he had a Heritage Park Administrators. the Model T enthusiast a Ruxtall diff was saloon with a heater (obviously not a real The past months have been busy for both purchased and other useful rebuilding bits. VCC man). the cars and the motorcycle section with the usual runs and the annual Shiney Parts

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Marlborough: Laurence Brehaut. Marlborough: Peter Thwaite. Nelson: Gordon Dacombe celebrates on completing the grassy slope trial.

Nelson: Clubrooms working bee, new ceiling in place. North Shore: 2014 Spring Tour. North Shore: Spring Tour Port Waikato.

Auction which is organised by the motor- consisted of; standing ¼ mile on Redwoods The jewel in our branch crown, the Far cycle section and is usually good for a Road and hillclimb on Sandy Bay Hill. North Tour, is coming up on 1-2 November laugh, a bargain and a great afternoon tea. Both were well supported and a notable with entries up on previous years. The The cars have been to the fore with entry was Alan Blundell of Wellington organisers have a great route laid out with our Branch Biannual Rally last weekend with his immaculate 1936 SS Jaguar replica. some really good activities planned. with, around 70 vehicles in total, including The Rover Car Club’s annual Show and I would like to comment on Bill Veteran, classic, Vintage cars and motor- Shine day at Wakefield Steam Museum Cockram’s Soapbox. Bill is absolutely right; cycles. Members from Nelson, Canterbury, attracted a record attendance. The major we are an apathetic lot and that includes Otago, Greymouth and Wellington joined prize was won by VCC member Ken Silke me as I did not respond to Bill’s request of with local members and enjoyed a day’s with his recently restored Citroen. Ford some words. I agree that there is no point touring. Members met again the next Model As won the best club prize. in worrying about an ageing membership; morning for the swap meet on the green. Working bees at our new clubrooms are we should rather be making the club much The variety of goods on display was good well supported. The new roof and ceilings more attractive to the younger section of so I think the stall holders will have done are completed and a new tractor and mower our communities and therefore holding on well. have been purchased. to, as Bill says “a reliable core number”. But In September I drove for the first time Members enjoyed a club night talk and given the lack of enthusiasm displayed by in a Trial and thoroughly enjoyed myself. video from Rob Thompson on his recent most of the members for the events run by Thank you to the Nelson Branch for the trip to Goodwood Review in the UK and our club I do have to wonder if Bill is not wonderful day. The Marlborough members, his tour through Europe including Le right in that we are, as a club, terminal. myself, Lawrence Brehaut and Peter Mans. While this will not happen quickly I am Thwaites will be out there next year for Planning is well in hand for Nelson’s becoming more and more convinced that some more Nelson – Marlborough rivalry. first Swap Meet on 21 February 2015 at the it will happen. We have a great core of new clubrooms, with unlimited number of workers in our club, and others are happy Nelson Jim Wareing sites planned. to help when asked, but most do nothing. It’s been difficult to get someone to write Please note: due to Nelson Branch In my opinion it would be a great tragedy this column so thanks to Ron Johnston for Secretary’s ill health please direct all to see the Vintage Car Club go into further standing in. Then the day I offer to help, I branch queries to Nelson Chairman, Kevin decline. In our branch we have 170 odd read Bill Cockram’s Soapbox column and Mercer phone 03 541 8112. members so if each member helped out find that he is proposing to cut short this once a year it would be an improvement on promising career. Good thought provoking Northland Keith Thompson the current situation. stuff Bill. Action events have dominated We have had a very enjoyable visit the recent programme; The Dennis King from the Wellsford / Warkworth Branch at North Shore Mary Lloyd Trials Day was the final of the Mainland which three 35 year badges were presented. One of the annual highlights of North Series at the top of the South Island and We enjoyed a combined run to Shore Branch is the Spring Tour organised attracted a record 24 entrants. Overall Dargaville with the Classic and Sports Car by Paul and Kathy Collins. Seventy two of winner; Avon Hyde, Christchurch, Austin Club. We visited the Dargaville Museum us took off from Papakura and headed to Special. A two day sealed road Speed event and had lunch on the lawn. While numbers Raglan with first stop in Waiuku at Roy in conjunction with the Nelson Car Club were down it was a good day. Sharman’s place to view his interesting

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North Shore: 1923 Dennis Bus before restoration. North Shore: Spring Tour Bush Tramway Rotorua: October club night: David Philps’ 1966 Ngarauwahai Holden HR Premier under scrutiny.

Rotorua: September mid-weekers’ run: “I drove one Rotorua: September Sunday run, Anglie Brunton of these” Bill Skelton (in front of tractor) explains to South Canterbury: The Twin Bridges Run was a ignores the two moderns parked amongst the club Ralph Bennett. one-off run to celebrate the opening of new bridges cars and is keen to be motoring in the Morris Eight. across the Waitaki River. Shown is Les and Ros Wenlock’s recently purchased 1965 Riley 4/72.

P60 Rock Bruce Christie Norton collection of cars, traction engines and a short quiz before we went out on the road. Hard Luck Percy Ralston Royal Enfield automotive memorabilia together with a We finished back at the clubrooms where Mr Dunvegan Errol Brown Norton great commentary from Roy. Next stop placings were awarded. First PWV, Rob Fiddlers Trophy Murray Dalton Harley-Davidson was Tuakau at Terry Smith’s collection Labes, 1951 A40; first P60, Ron Hammer Overall Winner Brent Bishop BMW of Vintage Ford cars. Then it was on to 1976 Triumph; first P80, Graeme Duthie the lovely Port Waikato Reserve gardens. 1983 Toyota Chaser. Autospectacular was a one day event in We drove on to Limestone Downs in Sparkoholics visited Tuapeka Print October where we had a display which was Tainui country with their fascinating rock where we saw pens being printed, also well set out by the members. As this is a big formations. We arrived in time for an drink bottles, bags, and anything else that event there are club members in many stalls awesome Raglan harbour cruise and dinner you put an advertisement on. Also a visit with their cars. The branch also had a stall in the Raglan Club. to Miller Studios where all kinds of signs to sell parts from the parts shed. On Sunday we had an interesting hill are made. There are many more events coming up, climb up Te Toto barely making it to the The Dunvegan Motorcycle Rally was just check our magazine at your branch. top over the narrow, steep and corrugated again on the first weekend in October, and wet road. Well worth it though, the view again it was a challenge as the roads were Rotorua Ronald Mayes from the top was stunning. On the way blocked with snow so a detour was needed The report of our annual Sulphur City down we marvelled at the mountainous to get to the destination at Naseby. Prizes Rally held on 30 August can be found in Raglan surf and the surfers making the went to: Rally Snippets. most of it. The Bridal Falls were as spectac- Age/Mileage Robin Bennington Indian Local runs to places of interest to ular as ever. It was over all too quickly and Oldest Machine Robert Hutton Harley-Davidson members continue to be well supported we headed home with our final stop at the Riders Choice David Tofield Velocette Tramway Station in Ngaruawahia. Paul and Kathy did it again – fantastic trip. On the home front, our 1936 Chevy Fire Truck has been out and about celebrating the centenary of the Helensville Volunteer Fire Brigade. Chairman Peter Lloyd drove the Fire Truck accompanied by John Tombs. At last the 1923 Dennis Bus has its roof finished so time now for the interior to be furnished. Our brake-testing machine is also fully restored and in a safe position to South Canterbury: At the Twin Bridges test those iffy Vintage brakes. are cars owned by brothers Kevin and Neil Manchester. The 1966 Renault 8 is owned by Otago Graeme Duthie Kevin (a new member, who owns a fleet of Quite a lot happening down south. We 12 Renaults), and Neil (a long time member) South Canterbury: Clive Merry’s 1958 Mercedes Benz owns the 1956 MGA. had our PW/P60/P80 Rally which involved 219 and John Campbell’s 1930 Chevrolet.

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South Canterbury: J and A Mehrtens 1959 ‘Tiki’, South Canterbury: Ashburton VCC Members Dave South Canterbury: Tony and Gloria McGillen’s a ‘special’ based upon 1950 Ford components. This and Sue Cornelius and their ‘twin steering wheels’, in newly restored 1952 Austin A70 at Mt Cook vehicle travelled from Rangiora to participate in the their 1962 Chevrolet Bel Air, after completing field SCVCC Mt Cook Run. tests at the SCVCC Mt Cook Run in Twizel.

South Canterbury: The Young family’s 1930 Southland: V and PV Run, David Richardson Southland: V and PV Run, Doug Sellar in his 1936 Rugby truck, driven by Pauline Young, at Mt Cook driving the 1930 Nash. Chevrolet ute. Hermitage, alongside is Graham Rae’s 1925 Fiat, and the Irving family’s 1928 Ford Model A. and the next big event is what has now 1926 Buick, a restoration over 20 years in three Post Vintage vehicles lined up outside become an annual fixture, the informal car the making. the clubhouse on a bright crisp morning. A show on the Village Green at the Rotorua For Saturday’s run, entrants had the change this year was a motoring quiz and lakefront. This year some 200 vehicles were choice of two routes to reach Twizel; a poker run instead of field tests. Contestants on show. More are expected on Sunday 18 sealed route through Totara Valley and set off on the back roads to Wallacetown, January 2015, with some one-make clubs past Mt Michael and Lake Opuha, and then towards Drummond turning off to Isla having made the event a regular feature an unsealed route via Monavale, the Bank, where the timed section ended. The of their calendars. Once again the St John Mackenzie Pass and Braemar Road, and route carried on to Otautau, ran around Ambulance Association will benefit from alongside Lake Pukaki. the Longwood conservation area before donations from participants and visitors. Mt Cook Village was reached on the finishing up at Tuatapere at the old train Sunday, where a number of the pre 1930s station. Sth Canterbury Shannon Stevenson entries met the lenses of tourists’ cameras, The afternoon run visited the Blacks’ On Sunday 31 August our club held a when parked outside the Hermitage. Doll collection at Pourakino Valley and run to celebrate the completion of Kurow’s the Raymond Shearing Vintage Tractor long-awaited Twin Bridges across the Southland Stuart Francis collection at Waipaingo, then back to the Waitaki River. Over 40 vehicles attended, Preparations are well in hand for the clubhouse via Riverton. Jean and George and members were impressed with the celebration of the branch’s 60th anniver- Brown clearly put in a terrific effort to finished results, 132 years newer than the sary in December, with a gala dinner, organise this very successful event. old. presentation of two 50 year badges and an It was nice to see three generations of The 2014-2015 season Opening Run, anniversary rally. the Eunson and Richardson family out on in conjunction with Ashburton, was held The Vintage and Post Vintage Rally the run, Sue Eunson driving the 1924 Nash on Sunday 8 September, with 82 vehicles opened our rally season and 13 Vintage and and son-in-law David Richardson driving from both branches participating. The run took us from Hinds in the direction of Methven, to a cropping farm owned by the Hampton family. Members were amazed by the amount of Massey Ferguson farm machinery on site. The Annual Mt Cook Rally was held on Labour Weekend, for which 45 entries were received. The furthest travelled was Ian Hedgman from Karamea with his 1948 Riley RMB. The oldest vehicle entered was a 1924 Delage, owned by branch foundation member Geoffrey Mehrtens. Two entries were new restorations; Tony McGillen’s Taranaki: Rubber Duckie Rally winners Barry Southland: V and PV Run, Tom and Malcolm and Linda Wells, 1951 BSA Gold flash checked in McDonald in the 1936 Austin 7 special. 1952 Austin A70, and Ashley Milliken’s by Rob Thomson.

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Taranaki: From the Branch Archives the late Taranaki: From the Branch Archives John Bailey Waikato: Waikato Dirty Weekend Raglan Start. Dave Bowmans 3ltr and 6½ltr Bentleys at Tarata and his Franklin at Inglewood in the 2nd Maunga in the 2nd Maunga Moana Rally held in 1965. Moana Rally held in 1965.

Waikato: Waikato club night. Waikato: Stan Richardson readies the A35 for the Waikato: The 36 Chev appreciates the rest whilst dirt roads, Waikato Dirty Weekend. the driver grabs a photo. Waikato PV rally. the 1930 Nash, navigated by Melanie, with shiny parts auction and members enter- Waikato Ian Patton their new baby in the back. tained by a Motoring Quiz night organised At a recent Wednesday outing a group The time trial results were very close by Quiz Master Rob Thomson. The branch of members were hosted at NZ Steel’s with a number of entrants getting close to has recently had a Panasonic TV donated Glenbrook plant by our Waiuku member, their allotted time. Doug Sellar won it by for use in the clubrooms. This has enabled Chris Lawrence. getting within three seconds of his target the viewing of our DVD and video collec- A small bunch headed away on a Dirty time. The Overall Winner was Stuart tions to be seen in widescreen with a much Weekend – we travelled the dirt roads from Wederall, 1929 Ford Model A. clearer picture. our weekend base at Raglan through to Port Waikato for a whitebait fritter. Sadly Taranaki Colin Johnston Taupo Greg Nattrass the weather was against us on the Sunday Entry forms are now available for our Once again we were using our television so it was home early for the cleanup. 50th Maunga – Moana Celebration Rally. in the clubrooms during September, this Strong support for Brits at the Beach. We have an excellent programme arranged time the movie night was the ‘80s classic A lot of familiar cars amongst the 500 odd commencing on Friday 20 March through The Gods must be Crazy. An entertaining entries. We also had a formal presence at to 22 March 2015. We are expecting a large night for those who attended and as always The Te Aroha Cruise In. entry for this popular rally as we have had the popcorn was served at half time. Our Not such a good turnout for the second early indications from enquirers already. monthly run was the Club Captain’s run. leg of the recent Navigator/Drivers Trophy Sponsored prizes are being arranged and a This year we headed south to the Chateau event. A real challenge was set by Colin special draw taken on your rally number for Tongariro at the base of Mt Ruapehu. and Lorraine Patterson and the day was a Panasonic TV will be held at the jubilee In October our guest speaker Ian enjoyed by those who attended. dinner. Bowater entertained us. Ian has recently Our meetings have been well supported The branch has recently had all photo been appointed general manager of the and last month we were treated to an slides in the Library transferred to DVD by Ricoh Taupo Motor Sport Park. Ian was account of a terrorist attack on a cruise a professional company. This has enabled a very interesting speaker explaining the boat endured by a couple of long standing us to view them as projectors are now day to day running of the circuit, also members of our club. getting harder to find and it has preserved discussing the different events the circuit Our Post Vintage Rally was very well the pictures as slides are subject to deteri- attracts and what is actually involved with supported. The Rally was set by Russell and oration. We have just found ten slides a circuit of this calibre. Rosie Hutcheson and started and finished recently acquired from the late Des Moore The Chairman’s run saw the group at the Huntly War Memorial Hall. Years of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Maunga-Moana heading through to Whakamaru, then on ago Russell was the rural postman and we rallies and will be an added bonus for the back roads travelled to Arapuni via the Jim went to places most never knew existed. jubilee booklet. Barnett Reserve, Jones Landing, then on to There was a nice mix of town and country, Our annual Rubber Duckie Motorcycle Tirau in the Waikato to view The Castle straight-line and then enjoyable motoring. Rally was again held in September and Toy Museum, before returning via SH1. One past National President was heard approx 42 entries were received. Barry Planning for the 2015 Taupo Rally is complimenting Russell and Rosie: “Now and Linda Wells on their 1951 BSA well underway. Don’t forget to mark 13-15 that is what I call a real rally”. Golden Flash were the overall winners. March on your calendar. Entry forms are Coming up is the Cambridge Swap Meet The last two Noggin and Natter nights available now. where we have a new venue for this year. have seen the branch raise funds from a

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Waikato: Don Missen pilots the Rover, Waikato Waikato: Graham and Heather Boswell in PV rally. their ‘39 Chev out in the sticks.

Wanganui: The “down under” pit stop! Wanganui: Jim O’Neill (left) and Ian Wellington: Vehicles on the Leprechaun Rally. Chamberlain – you’ve gotta handle it white! Photograph: Bernard Wright.

We will be supporting a new event being Street bridge, (a very vital link between Wellington Ann O’Rorke promoted by the Hamilton City Council. Wanganui and Wanganui East). There’s We are sad to record the death of The Kathryn Mansfield Garden Party is many a story to be told among the old Ivan Cook. A quiet man, he worked scheduled for 1 February at Hamilton’s folks of the town and Bruce Ardell and extremely hard for the branch to improve award winning rose gardens. Come and team have organised a great day out on 2 the clubrooms and, although he had been join us – pre 1940 cars – dress up – music November. From 10am to 4pm the bridge unwell for a while, was able to attend the and entertainment – a grand day out! will be closed to traffic, walking only, recent opening of the new library, cutting stalls, entertainment and of course, cars of the ribbon with the branch librarian, David Wanganui Fay Chamberlain around 100 years old will be out and about Crooks. He had a bias towards English Vintage cars are becoming quite a giving rides. vehicles and had owned a classic MG, a common sight around Wanganui. So many Sunday Runs are being well supported. mid ‘30s chrome radiator Austin 10 and a of our branch members are taking active Gil Button organised a trip to a local truck ‘50s Austin A30. parts in the restoration / maintenance / and stop where members (whose cars were August’s Leprechaun Rally attracted running of various community projects. BIG enough, and drivers BRAVE enough keen adventurers with the route taking The 1914 tram, Waimarie Riverboat, the drove over the huge, lengthy truck pit. (see them through logging tracks in the upcoming Vintage weekend in January, to photo). hills behind the Hutt Valley. Here the name just a few. The Melbourne Cup Tour There’s a bit of restoration work Forest Manager and local historian, of New Zealand also included our members going on too. Mike Marshall’s 1911/12 Peter O’Flaherty, described future plans too. Veteran Austin has had a few trips to Ian including the re-introduction of native Clubnights continue to be well attended, Chamberlain’s shed, but the Restoration bush. After some vigorous bush driving, enjoyed, and good speakers have added to of the Year in early December will tell the the day was completed with a garage raid our learning as well. whole story. at Phil and Coral Kidd’s home and some Upcoming events include the 100 year regret that the little green Irishmen were celebrations for the opening of the Dublin elusive this year.

Wellington: Part of the Heritage Rally line up. Wellsford/Warkworth: 1929 Austin 7 belonging Wellsford/Warkworth: Assembling for the run to Photograph: Michael Curry. to Brian and Rosemary Sollis. Marsden Point Oil Refinery.

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In this column we acknowledge the recent passing of club members, information is supplied to Beaded Wheels by Branch Secretaries. Begg, Owen Canterbury Campbell, Donald Nelson Coulbeck, John Canterbury Dewhurst, A (Tony) Auckland Early, Ivan Canterbury Hayman, Peter Waimate Hoyland, Len Auckland Wellsford/Warkworth From left to right: Ivan Nobilo, John Philips and Harry Heaven are awarded 35 year badges. Jones, Cyril Hawke’s Bay Lamb, Paul Wairarapa Perry, Don Wellington Priest, Lionel Hawke’s Bay Rodgers, Bruce Far North McCarthy, Shaun Horowhenua McVicar, Gary Canterbury Mahy, Maurice North Otago Murcott, Bruce Waikato West Coast: Poles apart - 1930 Model A and West Coast: 1952 Hudson Wasp and 1950 Perry, Keith North Otago 1930 Chev. Bedford truck. Soper, Peter South Otago Wallace, Wilkie Waimate

In September some Wellington Members at our monthly dinner enjoyed Torque column in the last Beaded Wheels, members went on Tom’s Tour, an enjoyable an excellent talk by Paul Hicks on the I have come to the conclusion that I must social Vintage weekend organised by running of the Bugatti Tour and an update write about both. Aaron and Margaret Janes. This year the on the Type 46 Bugatti he is currently We have recently held a first event group travelled up to Feilding via Levin restoring. for the West Coast, a Ladies Rally. We and Palmerston North, patronising antique The Horseless Carriage Club came to welcomed old members, new members shops all the way. Everyone buys a ‘show lunch last month on their way home from and some potential new members along. and tell’ item for the Saturday night enter- a run up north. Twenty-six cars travelled approx 150kms, tainment. On Sunday the group visited the The Sunday run in September was visited several interesting points along the Rush Collection of cars before travelling to very well supported, with 20 club cars and way, gathered at Hemi and Pauline Te Woodville via the Saddle Road with snow one BSA bike. Highlight was the visit Rakau’s beautiful property for afternoon all around. to the Marsden Point Oil Refinery where tea, sat on the beach enjoying (to use Our Heritage Rally saw a good turnout we watched an interesting video on the a forbidden phrase) “a glorious day” and of Veteran and Vintage vehicles. A popular building and operation of the refinery. The ended with a meal at the Woodstock stop on the way was the Silverstream Northland Car Club then hosted us for a Tavern. We had a dead heat for the Railway Museum. The overall winner was combined car show. Our Chairman Leon winning place – Donna Lee with her two the 1st Vintage 1930 Ford Model A owned Salt took this opportunity to present 35 young children motoring in a 1967 Chev by Peter Keller, with his son, Daniel, who year badges to three outstanding members Impala and Ann Richards in a modern won the Junior Navigator prize. The Fords – Ivan Nobilo, John Phillips and Harry vehicle. Between north of Greymouth and had a good day as the first Veteran was Heaven. south of Hokitika, the public were given an a 1915 Model T (Brian Ward and Alan Gay and Harry Sutcliffe have upgraded interesting action display of the variety of Pratt) and the 1st Post Vintage was a 1935 from their little 1969 Wolseley MKII to a vehicles on this side of the South Island. Ford V8 (Kevin and Joanna Buck). larger 1958 Wolseley 6/90. Upgrade number two is from a 1929 Wellsford – Warkworth Austin 7 to a 1998 Jaguar XJR for Brian Anne Hamilton and Rosemary Sollis. Our two delegates attended the National Executive Meeting and AGM, West Coast June Campbell 231 and were delighted to report back that we What to write about – people or cars? had been awarded the running of the 2015 Our branch membership extends from National North Island Rally. Planning is Karamea to Fox Glacier and we have some well under way for various runs and enter- amazing people who travel miles in their tainment. old and modern vehicles to get together Brian Mason and Neil Creamer put for a natter and noggin with old and new together our run as part of the annual friends. The common interest – cars and Triple Combined Rally with the rally people. Some may only be able to come getting great support, including a along a couple of times a year, others may Chevrolet Fire Engine from the North miss a couple of times a year. After reading Shore Branch. about the issues surrounding the Idle

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