Somers Gains an Equestrian Trio
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Issue 52 April–June 2014 Somers gains an equestrian trio ROD NUSKE one (Lorna) Joergensen, daughter LMonica and Uli Eggers have changed the landscape on Sandy Point Road with quite a large indoor horse-arena and stables complex. Their decision to move into Somers has an interesting storyline. Lone started riding at the age of 12 in Copenhagen, Denmark and after completing secondary school started a three-year Bereter (Professional Education for Riders) course. Seeking stronger competition coaching and experience, Lone moved to Germany where she met Uli, a dressage and jumping coach at his father’s riding school near Hamburg. Once back in Denmark, Lone became part of the Danish dressage teams that competed in World and European Championships between 1997 and 2006. During this period she was also a Reaching from her stall to affectionately smooch Lone, ‘Fiorella’ provides an member of the Danish dressage team at amusing moment for visitor Emma Grace. the Sydney and Athens Olympic Games. In 2006, Boneo Park Equestrian Centre on the Peninsula needed a dressage having decided the other side of the Lone has been given the important coach and contacted Lone to visit Peninsula was not to their liking. After positions of state equestrian coach Australia to provide this service. tackling the four-year growth of grass for both Victoria and WA. She also Since then she has been a frequent they embarked on erecting a horse- conducts clinics in NSW, so will still visitor to Australia to give teaching arena complex. The northern side clinics in Victoria, WA and NSW and includes unglazed windows for almost in the meantime will have his hands also has a number of individual clients its full length. This is the performing fullspend looking a fair afteramount the ofproperty time flying. and theUli area and will stay unglazed to avoid horses stabled there. points has not overcome the stress of excess heat building up in summer. Their next-door neighbour, Trevor on the Peninsula. Gaining frequent flyer Monica will be riding competitively Morey, welcomed them to what he of living here permanently became an in jumping so both she and Lone will described as a virtual paradise, and as attractivelong flights proposition. from Europe, so the idea be making full training use of the arena they look out their lounge room window Looking for a property to buy, Lone under the watchful and experienced on a cool crisp sunny day, Uli and Lone and Uli were offered one in Somers, eye of Uli. both heartily agree. ʘ1 driver as easily as when I was about to register the car in 1979 I enquired the single-plate cork-embedded clutch Editorial committee: The MG ‘TA’ about purchasing personalised runningdifferential in oil, and again axle. from Also an fitted existing was number plates. Then any number of Morris car. I must add this clutch is Somers ALLAN LIM JOON Louise Craig – co-ordinator, copy editor, appropriate plates were available. I a delight to use, almost like using an proofreader could have got MG 1936, TA 1936 for Foreshore Rod Nuske – reporter & photographer erhaps in the past 20 years you may have seen an elderly, release the pedal, wait a second and automatic fluid drive – just smartly Tony Duboudin – reporter Pbright red MG sports car being driven by an even more away you go – impossible to stall. elderly male driver. example, but firstly the car had to be management Bronwen Gibbs – layout Hydraulic brakes were also The car is a 78-year-old MG ‘TA’ and the owner/driver Iregistered presented thewith car ordinary to the local plates; Eltham so introduced to MG cars on the TA. Deline Skinner – advertising accounts 87 years of age. ‘coparmed shop’ with and my wasroadworthy given plates certificate ‘AMY Between 1936 and June 1939, 3003 email: [email protected] Like many young single men in the late 1940s I had an 906’ which I screwed on and drove TAs were made, unchanged in design he following announcement Rosemary Birney – secretary MG ‘TC’, probably the most famous of MGs. home to be greeted by 12-year-old Twas issued by the Department Marg Tilleard – treasurer One day many years later, in 1967, happily married to Jasmine who said with delight: “Oh, Much-improved new engine and of Environment and Primary Leonie and with four children under nine, I said to Lee: “I dad, you got number plates for me!” and sold for ₤222. Industry (DEPI) following the April Correspondence: think I’ll buy another MG,” to which her immediate reply and so the plates remain on the car. chassis in 1939 and the car named committee meeting of the Somers Email: [email protected] was: “Well if you buy an MG I’m going to get another baby.” It wasn’t until Jasmine’s 21st birthday ‘TB’,gearbox but onlywere 379 fitted were to built the before same Foreshore Committee Inc. when Mail: PO Box 338, Somers, Vic. 3927 And so the bargain was made. that I told her I didn’t actually choose the outbreak of the Second World War. the local Committee was informed I soon found a 1936 MG ‘TA’, owned by a girl in Port those plates with her second name. In order to get a sports car quickly that it was being disbanded from Printing: Curry Printing, Rosebud Fairy. A phone call revealed she’d just traded it on a Morris About the car onto the market in 1945 the ‘TC’ was 30 April, 2014 and replaced with ©Copyright remains with the authors & editors Minor with a Holden dealer in Hamilton. Another phone call Dozens of books have been published born, again on the TA chassis with the Parks Victoria as the Committee of revealed that they’d wrecked the engine, while driving the covering the history of the MG car new TB engine, some minor springing Management: car to Hamilton from Port Fairy, by putting a connecting company and the dozens of different change but notably a body widened by rod through the engine block so, haggling over the phone, models produced but the racing cars four inches. This extra width is the sight unseen, I bought the car for $150. of the 1930s were probably the best- ‘giveaway’ to the difference between Somers Foreshore Our purpose Very generously they delivered the car to my place of remembered. the TA and TC. If you ever examine Committee of Management work at Airport West on the tray of a new-car transporter, my car you will see three rubber scuff On Tuesday April 8, staff from the Somers Paper Nautilus aims to connect all the groups which otherwise would have returned empty from Hamilton. Morris, knighted in 1929) decided strips on the running boards whereas Department of Environment and In June 1935 Lord Nuffield (William and individuals of Somers and to help reinforce a sense Inspection revealed I’d bought a wreck. The wooden building racing cars didn’t make the TC, because of the wider body, has Primary Industries (DEPI) met with of community and belonging by giving them an avenue of framework on which all of those pre-war cars were built money and was to cease. only two. the members of the Somers Foreshore expression through: had disintegrated, so to maintain rigidity the mudguards, However he was persuaded to Between 1945 and 1949, 10,000 Committee of Management. doors, running boards had been welded to the body and allow the design and sale of a new car TCs were made, many going to the • News relevant to Somers and the surrounding area as At the meeting DEPI Port Phillip that looked racy, would appeal to the USA. Then followed the other post- well as items of general interest. Regional Director, Travis Dowling, of square, the front beam axle was bent backwards, most general public and, most importantly, • Stories and examples of local creative endeavour. war ‘T’ series cars: the TD, 1949 to advised the members that the current ofexpertly the original smoothed accessories, over with wheels a filler; and the instruments chassis was were out use parts from existing family models. • Letters. committee would be dissolved and, missing or in poor repair. And so the ‘TA’ was born using the as an interim measure, replaced by The Paper Nautilus will not become involved in party 1953, 29,664 made; and the TF, 1953 Lee had better luck with the baby for she was well known Morris 10 series III engine, gearbox, Parks Victoria. politics nor take sides on any issue. However, we encourage to 1955, 9600 made. ʘ by the adoption agencies, having already got our four and Mr Dowling thanked the readers to feel free to express their opinions on matters that placed others with friends. committee members for all their concern them and the Somers community. So in February 1968 we collected our third daughter hard work and acknowledged the The volunteer editorial committee will have the final and named her Jasmine Amy. It is interesting now to note dedication and time they had given decision of the paper's content and reserves the right to that solicitors and legal adoption fees were less than the to their roles. edit or omit any item on legal grounds or because of space. cost of my car. So Lee got a bargain. He also encouraged the members Views expressed in the Nautilus are not necessarily It took me only two weekends to totally dismember the to work with Parks Victoria to ensure shared by the editorial committee but are those of the car but another 12 years to restore and make roadworthy, their local knowledge would continue authors.