New Zealand Rolls-Royce & Bentley Club Inc Issue 13-3, 2013 NZR-R&BC Issue 13-3 1 NEW ZEALAND ROLLS-ROYCE & BENTLEY CLUB (INC) Matters Arising From 13-2 Readers of 13-2 have noted some issues. In the caption on Page 3, who came to the party accompanied by an engine and is signed off The Bentley badge and Bentley name are registered trademarks of Bentley Gavin Bain and his bagpipes perform at Braemar Station, on the by LJKS ‘Phons et Origo’ which is neat if you like Latin puns. It Motors Limited. shores of Lake Pukaki, as pointed out by Ron Hasell. sits on my shelves next to the much later SAE book by Pirault & The Rolls-Royce badge and Rolls-Royce name are registered trademarks of Roy Tilley says that the caption to the bottom left photograph Flint on opposed piston engines. Back to recent times, a couple Rolls-Royce plc. on Page 13 “is of the Alvis Stalwart, which was amphibious, not of years ago that very exclusive organisation, the FV432 Owners NATIONAL EXECUTIVE armoured. It was powered by the old B80 straight 8 engine, long Club, visited Prescott and rumbled cheerfully about. CHAIRMAN Rob Carthew Membership before the days of the K60, but nonetheless impressive. If you “Which brings me back to the greatly missed John Weeks, a 85A Wharewaka Road, Taupo MEMBERSHIP of the New Zealand Rolls-Royce & Bentley Club Inc is open to anyone with an interest in these two distinguished look at the front of the Stalwart, you will see it has a very steep tremendous enthusiast for everything, brilliant VSCC navigator Phone 07 377 4117 marques, whether or not they are the owner of a Rolls-Royce or Bentley. Your Membership SUBSCRIPTION includes the Club approach angle, for coming out of rivers etc. I have heard of, but (quote, “I should be: it cost Her Majesty a bloody fortune to Email [email protected] Magazine (6 issues annually), the right to attend all Club events and activities, and to partake in Club management. FEES: Registration Fee $ 10.00 (once only) not seen, some of the more skilled drivers travelling at speed on a teach me”), Para colonel, lecturer at Shrivenham, much addicted IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIRMAN Membership Fee $115.00 (annual, reduced to $100 for prompt payment) sealed road, slamming on the brakes and, when the tail came right to black powder (he lent me a delightful 14-bore cap-lock) and Michael Midgley Family membership $ 5.00 (annual) off the ground, by judicious use of reverse gear in the pre-selector at one point responsible for a mixed bag of Mk1 FV432s with RD 1, Culverden, Nth Canterbury 7391 CONTACT Membership Registrar NZ Rolls-Royce & Bentley Club, Inc box, balancing the beast on its front two wheels with its tail up in the B80 and Mk2s with the K60. He claimed that you needed SECRETARY Naomi Neill Clive Edmonds, 156 Hill Road, RD2, Napier 4182 Phone: (06) 336 6644 Email: P.O. Box 616, Gisborne 4040 [email protected] or www.nzrrbc.co.nz , then APPLICATION FORM the air, which would have been most spectacular. You'll find lots both because the K60 could be a pig to start from cold, so you Phone 06 867 1676 of fascinating shots of the Stalwart on YouTube.” tow-started it with a B80. Unfortunately on the B80 version the Email [email protected] Chassis Records Sandy Skinner writes “Dear Tom, how nice, once again, to get starter motor was too close to various hot things so if you left it TREASURER Philip Eilenberg The Company’s Construction Records, which accompanied every Rolls-Royce and Bentley chassis (since 1931) through the Rolls-Royce material. I’m in the throes of going through a parked over a leisurely lunch you had to tow-start it with a K60. 3B 21 George Street, Parnell, Auckland its production at Derby or Crewe, are a valuable resource for subsequent owners. They detail the original order, any special draft to see if we can do something publishable on the Vulture, Presumably you checked with the enemy first to make sure they Phone: 09 374 5901 or Mobile 021 928 041 equipment, and the results of tests and inspections prior to dispatch. The records for all cars over 10 years old are held by the so my mind is running on Rolls-Royce oddballs. As you know, didn’t mind. He rang me once, ages after I left the army, and said, Email [email protected] RREC in the UK, and copies are available to members of that Club. The number of pages for early cars may be up to 20 or more. Records for a Silver Shadow can amount to even more pages and cost around $NZ150.To obtain a copy of your car’s speaking as the only private owner of a Cross Rotary engine I “Doing anything tomorrow evening? Not really? At the Mess, MEMBERSHIP REGISTRAR Clive Edmonds records, contact the Club’s Post WW2 Technical Liaison Officer, Roy Tilley, on 04 566 0850 [email protected] have a weakness for odd engines. I met the Oechelhaeuser twin Warminster 2100 hours” and put the phone down. Which is how 156 Hill Road, RD2, Napier 4182 piston approach in the Fifties on a most peculiar twin double- I found myself in a FV432, in the middle of a crowded tank park, Phone 06 836 6644 Advertising Email [email protected] diameter opposed piston compressor which some shameless Frog in the dark, with sod all to look at except an infra-red screen. So Classified advertisements pertaining to Rolls-Royce and Bentley are free to Financial Members who do not deal regularly in TECHNICAL LIAISON OFFICER had flogged to the Royal Engineers for trials. You had to wind it I cheerfully asked the sergeant where we were going and was told Rolls-Royce or Bentley cars or services. All classified advertisements must be submitted to the Editor, Tom King, Phone 03 Post WW2 Roy Tilley 3398 309, e-mail [email protected] 191 Sparks Road, Christchurch 8025. Commercial advertisements will be the subject up (I think) 42 times through a bicycle chain drive until it finally I was driving. Interesting, but not really an experiment I need to 204a Waiwhetu Road, Lower Hutt to a charge to the advertiser. Colour advertisements are charged at $220 per half page and $300 for full page, payable to the went bang and carried on running. Except that it didn’t. repeat. Apparently it was written off as not one of the better ideas Phone 04 566 0850 Fax 04 586 2937 NZRR&BC Inc. “Then I came across the Junkers Jumo and heard the since (1) you couldn’t really see where you were going (2) it relied Email [email protected] unsubstantiated story of Harry Grylls of Rolls-Royce borrowing on a pair of damn great IR headlamps which would have attracted TECHNICAL LIAISON OFFICER Mainland Comment the Science Museum Type 204 for rather a long time and then every heat-seeking missile in miles. Pre WW2 Eddie Riddle Having just become cold and wet during a foray to collect today’s postal offering, an over- producing the K60. He could have saved himself some trouble “Apparently the Ks are nice reliable lumps which isn’t true for 1 Wickliffe St, Mosgiel 9024 big brother L Series built by Leyland for the Chieftain. I am told Phone 03 489 5774 seas catalogue promising “Warm days are coming” brings certain topics into focus. The by going to Acton and borrowing the drawings, since Napier tried (and failed) to put it into production as the Culverin. I was told that you can track a Chieftain troop across country by the plumes Email [email protected] recent loss of Daylight Saving Time has been perhaps more of a jolt this year than usual, MAGAZINE EDITOR Tom King by an ex-Napier man that some of the problems with the rather of oily smoke from blown up L60s. Incidentally, the tank had a 191 Sparks Road, Christchurch 8025 for the long and dry summer has been replaced by what looks likely to be a long and splendid Deltic came about because they copied mistakes in the rather sweet little all-alloy 3 opposed cylinder H30 APU built by Phone 03 339-8309 or Mobile 0275 880 767 wet winter, without the intervention of much autumn. Your editor spends some time at early Jumo which Junkers put right later. Parenthetically, I’m sure Climax. It would seem that everybody liked it: I think I want one Email [email protected] Canterbury University, supervising tests and examinations, a good time to muse on the you know that Junkers-Flugmotoren made lots of different engines for a multi-fuel cycle-car.” WEB MASTER Bruce Gordon three-term University Year, which used to be split into Too Early, Too Cold, and Too Late. under the Jumo name, not just the opposed piston job which for The captions on Pages 15 and 16 refer to Mt Somers Station, Phone 09 834 0570 or Mobile 0221 074 6355 some reason the Brits seem to think is the only Jumo. which is wrong! Geoff Walls, in his account of the event, correctly Email [email protected] Semesters seem to have replaced terms; are they now only Too Early and Too Late? “Interest was kept going by Leonard Setright’s wonderful book calls the farm we visited on Martin Vincent’s Homestead Run, NATIONAL EVENTS CO-ORDINATOR At this time we think of our friends and Club members who are travelling towards a sum- Some Unusual Engines: my copy has the names of all the people Surrey Hills, but our caption writers goofed.