For Rolls-Royce and Enthusiasts PRÆCLARVM The National Journal of the Rolls-Royce Owners’ Club of No. 3-20 June 2020

Rolls-Royce Bespoke now offer an Aero Cowling for the Rolls-Royce Dawn

Quidvis recte factvm quamvis hvmile præclarvm Whatever is rightly done, however humble, is noble. Royce, 1924 PRÆCLARVM The National Journal of the Rolls-Royce Owners’ Club of Australia No. 3-20 June 2020 Issue 308 Regular Items Features Events Calendar 7815 From the Editor 7816 From the Federal Executive 7817 News from the Registers 7840 Market Place 7846 Articles and Features Branch to host 2021 Federal Rally; Mildura, Victoria – June 17 to 21, 7817 2021 Following the cancellation of the 2020 Federal Rally due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Victoria Branch will host a "Recovery Rally" in 2021. From the Sir Henry Royce Foundation: Russell Rolls, Chairman of Trustees, 7818 Alan Maden is photographed by his brother SHRF, gives the details of the activity at the Coolum Museum with a new Steve stands in front of their 1975 Silver Shadow Merlin engine and announces the winner of the 2019 Fred Engish Club Saloon (SRH22160) at the beginning of the Peking to Rally Organiser's film of the event, Photography Award. describing his long held passion to take part in 1975 Silver Shadow Saloon (SRH22160) Successfully Completes the 2019 7819 it. In this edition Alan takes us though the final Peking to Paris Rally (Part 5): Brothers, Steve and Alan Maden (Vic) fulfi lled a episode and their arrival in Paris. long-term desire and completed the 2019 Rally. Alan here tells the last Part of Read this exciting story on page 7819. the story and their arrival in Paris. The Red Dust Revival. Lake Perkolilli – North East of Kalgoorlie, Western 7822 Australia in September 2019. Des Lewis, an independent motoring Journalist in WA takes Præclarvm through the recent motor sport events at the oldest Car Racing Circuit In Australia, featuring Rolls-Royce and Bentley cars. Some Early Australian Silver Ghosts Missing in Action Where might you 7825 fi nd one? In a further discourse on early Silver Ghosts in Australia, Ian Irwin (ACT) off ers some thoughts on which are still missing and where they might be. The story of Bertha: the 1953 Silver Wraith, LWB 6 light saloon by Park Ward 7828 (BLW78). In a family tale of a car, Louise Matthews (Vic) tells of her parents Silver Wraith, its history, how it left the family and how it luckily returned. From the Sir Henry Royce Foundation Archives - A Selection of 7830 Photographs from the Fred Engish Collection: Gilbert Ralph (Vic), Hon. Archivist of the SHRF shows a selection of photos taken by Fred at the 1977 Brett Pollock (WA) took his 1935 Rolls-Royce Federal Rally held in Surfers Paradise, Qld. Country Tourer (Barker Limousine - GLG79) on Federal Reports for 2019/2020. Præclarvm presents the Annual Reports, a dusty adventure at the Red Dust Revival at 7832 Lake Perkolilli, North East of Kalgoorlie, Western Federal and from each Branch prepared for the 2020 Annual Federal Council Australia in September 2019. Meeting which is yet to be held due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Read of the revival racing on page 7822. Anatomy of a Cancelled Federal Rally during COVID-19: Jeanne Eve - 7837 President RROCA (NSW Branch) details the reasons the 2020 Federal Rally was not simply postponed for 12 months but was cancelled. The Priest and the Doctor: David Neely HLM, SHRF Historical Consultant 7838 (NSW) tells the story of the similarities of George Sevenoaks (Syd NSW) selling a Bentley MkVI to a priest and a Silver Dawn to a Doctor in 1955. Twenty Topics No 85 - Tricky Maintenance: David Davis (NSW) described 7840 some the tricks of Maintenance of the 20HP he has discovered.

Front Cover: Rolls-Royce Bespoke Collective now off er an new Aero Cowling for the Rolls-Royce Dawn. The Cowling, which easy to fi t and remove, encloses the rear seats with two cowls rising over the tonneau area to a just behind each front seat. The cowl’s form is precisely sculpted to funnel air over the cabin to enhance driver comfort. Each cowl has a pair of lockable leather-lined storage compartments for personal eff ects, while the cover is made of carbon fi bre and aluminium. (courtesy: Rolls-Royce Motor Cars). "Bertha" (the 1953 Silver Wraith, LWB 6 Club Website: www.rroc.org.au light saloon by Park Ward (BLW78)) and the Back Issues of Præclarvm: http://praeclarum.rroc.org.au/ Supermarine Spitfire MKVIII at Temora Aviation Museum, visit as part of the 2016 Views expressed in Præclarvm are those of the individual writers. Dawn Patrol in September 2016. Read Louise Matthews' story of the life of "Bertha" The deadline for the August 2020 issue is 15 July 2020. with her family on page 7828. 7814 Præclarvm 3-20 Præclarvm (ISSN 0159-4583) is published six times per year by the Federal Council of the Events Calendar Rolls-Royce Owners’ Club of Australia. Whilst Federal, Register & Overseas Events every care is taken to check information published, no responsibility can be accepted 18-21 Sep 2020 Dawn Patrol - In and Around Yass, NSW Robyn Henderson 0427-490-557 for errors. Views expressed by the Editor 25-28 Oct 2020 SMART Tour - Mudgee, NSW Bruce Duncan 0447-242-371 and contributors are their own and do not necessarily refl ect the policies of the 17-21 Jun '21 2021 Federal Rally, Mildura, Vic Stephen Peoples 0408-672-222 Club. 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Please therefore contact your Branch Federal Executive Secretary, details below to the left, to ascertain what events are now planned and when President: Bruce Duncan, normal Events will commence again. 5 Fadden Place, Wahroonga, NSW, 2076 0447-242-371 Email: [email protected] Role currently fi lled by Bruce Duncan as a casual vacancy position * Secretary: Stephen Peoples, PO Box 21, Kew, Vic, 3101 0408-672-222 Email: [email protected] Treasurer: Ian Oliver, PO Box 9254, Deakin, ACT, 2600 0447-242-371 Email: [email protected] Role currently fi lled by Ian Oliver as a casual vacancy position * * These 2 roles are held until the AGM scheduled for 12 August 2020. 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Præclarvm 3-20 7815 From the Editor

Passing of a Fellow Member: Those working have had to adapt to little or no Præclarvm thanks you both for sharing the With all the World's issues at this present 'work' travel, social distancing and being aware story with us. time Præclarvm is sad to advise its readers of their surroundings like never before. Those Another Motor Sports Event Report, as of the sudden passing, in mid-May, of our taking the stay-at-home path have: missed their one door shuts another opens: grandchildren and families, consciously spent Western Australia Branch President, Diane Just as your Editor started to assemble (Di) Magrath. minimal time shopping, been watching TV and otherwise engaging in some home handiwork this edition of Præclarvm he had a long and or maintenance to keep themselves occupied interesting call from Des Lewis from WA, an while the doctors and politicians agreed on independent journalist and photographer. the best plan to avoid the COVID-19 pandemic Des was wondering if the readers of getting out of hand. Præclarvm would be interested to read of Margie and I decided to take the time to the revival of the oldest motor race circuit address the painting of our downstairs rooms, a in Australia, Lake Perkolilli, 50 miles North need brought on by our house turning 100 next East of Kalgoorlie, WA. After discussion on year and we had not thought of a better present. motoring in general, Des described the event It has been a most satisfying and pleasurable and the cars (of interest to our Members) task that has taken years off the look of the that took part. Once received, the story and house, in fact neighbours say we now live in a photos were of a style and interest that do 50 year old home such is the improvement, please our Members and I commend the although not quite complete yet. Having said story for its historic and human contents. that, we were still very conscious of our elderly Thank you Des for sending it to Præclarvm. neighbours taking things more in a stoic way, A Request from an Australian Collector: as they shared their stories on the many phone Præclarvm has received a letter from a above: Di Magrath, President of the Western calls we received. They all were very impressive. car badge collector advising of a recent theft Australia Branch. Luckily, I have not heard of any Club Photo Courtesy of WA Branch website. in Surry Hills, in Sydney. He states that his Members contracting the COVID-19 virus, so Di felt unwell in the morning recently and collection of old Rolls-Royce and other rare hopefully all have passed through that battle was taken to hospital where she passed away car badges and Flying Ladies was recently very successfully, given the age profi le of our that night. A truly sad event. Diane had served stolen from storage in Surry Hills. He is asking Club. fi ve years in the President’s role and been very that if anyone is approached by someone Completion of the 2019 Peking to Paris Rally popular in doing so. off ering an unusual collection of such items, Story: that they contact him. He is off ering a Your Editor had many conversations with Di The Maden Brothers complete their reward. Please email Andre at: deveer123@ over the time of her Presidency and was always story this edition with the fi nal section from outlook.com, if you can help him. impressed by her genuine passion for her Helsinki, Finland to Paris. Covering 5 editions Branch and our Club in general. She was always Margie and I wish all members and their of Præclarvm this has been a mighty story of trying to engage with and enthuse the local families a continued safe time in this fi ght the mechanical excellence of their vehicle (they members about the Branch and Club events. against COVID-19, were the only vehicle in the fl eet to not require a Stay Well: Tim Dean (Vic) Præclarvm off ers its deepest sympathy to tow on the whole Rally) and the enthusiasm and GBK58, BSH20044 her husband Ron, sister Cheryl and family and resolve of the Driver and Navigator. friends. If you wish to A Vale will appear in Præclarvm in a later see more about the edition. Rally, the organisers Matters Arising from the Cancellation of the HERO (The Historic 2020 Federal Rally: Endurance Rally Members will now be aware that the 2020 Organisation) can Federal Rally fell foul of the reaction to the be searched on the pandemic still circulating around the World. internet, but of special A lot of water quickly fl owed under our Club's interest is a movie they bridge in the short time since then and several made about the total items have resulted. Rally, (from which a few stills were borrowed - In the last edition of Præclarvm we advised for the Maden's that the 2020 Rally was cancelled and that The Sir Henry Royce Foundation story) at: youtube. F J Engish Award for Victoria was undertaking one in Mildura from com/watch?v=_2ul 17-21 June 2021 as a replacement. Please -ja1CNk. This is an hour Club Photography for 2020 see page 7837 of this Præclarvm to read long video that gives a Entries are invited for the 2020 F J Engish Award for Club Jeanne Eve's (President NSW Branch) note to well detailed look at Photography. The winner receives a cash prize of $500. members about the events and decisions made the Rally, the Cars, the at that time. The competition is open to members of the RROCA and the Drivers, the Navigators photograph must be taken at a RROCA event in 2020 with one - A 2020 Federal Council AGM has been and the Support photograph per member. The criteria being a photograph that called for August 12th and the positions of Personnel. exemplifi es the “spirit” of Rolls-Royce and Bentley motor cars and of President and Treasurer will be voted upon, as Congratulations the “friendly atmosphere” of Club outings; taken into account will be well as usual Council AGM matters. Please see again to Alan and the “artistic composition”of the subject material. the report to Members on the opposite page. Steve on their Entries close on 28 February 2021. The Southern Autumn of 2020: successful completion The Winner will be announced at the 2021 Federal Rally in Mildura, Vic, in May 2021. As all Members can confess, this year has of what is called the been one of surprises and navel gazing for toughest regularity Please email entries to the all of us, whether you are employed or not. Rally in the World and Præclarvm Editor at [email protected] 7816 Præclarvm 3-20 From the Federal Executive

Greetings members, were disappointed the event could not proceed. Branches by our Federal Secretary. Nominations n behalf of the Federal Executive, we want An unprecedented happening! close on Wednesday, 17 June 2020. Oto give a quick update on where the Club Our Federal President, Joe Quattrocchi, The main objective to be achieved at this currently stands. resigned from this role at the beginning of his important AGM is the handling of the items Firstly, we hope everyone is keeping well optional third year. In line with our Deed, Joe had currently on the agenda and the new Federal during the very strange times being experienced been renominated for the role to take up his third Executive having a clear mandate to work by Australia and the rest of the world. The year as our Federal President but sadly found it towards the next Federal Rally which Victoria Prime Minister has now set out a road map for necessary to resign from this role for various Branch has kindly agreed to hold in Mildura our journey out of isolation. We will be guided personal reasons - another unprecedented from 17 to 21 June 2021. The Federal AGM will by the rules and their interpretation by our happening. be held on Friday, 18 June 2021. various State Premiers and Chief Ministers. We Usually the Club's Annual General Meeting Finally I think I can speak on behalf of all share a hope that we can soon gather in the would take place during the Federal Rally all members to express our thanks to Joe numbers we usually attract, and that we can however as the Rally was cancelled the meeting Quattrocchi for his magnificent efforts as your plan a recommencement of activities. I’m sure did not take place. The current Federal Council Federal President for the last two years. He everyone is looking forward to getting out for a will hold the Club's AGM on Wednesday, 12 visited all state branches during his term and drive and catching up with each other. August, via a professionally managed telephone was always made welcome wherever and For those with cars on the Historic Vehicle link across Australia. At this meeting the usual whenever he visited parts of the Australian Scheme / Club Permit Scheme, remember to items will be discussed including motions family of Rolls-Royce Branches. Joe remains a fill out your logbook if you take your car out requiring voting by Delegates. member of the ACT Branch where he has been and you MUST be a financial member of your At our AGM we will hold an election of office- a financial member for many years. We wish chosen Branch. bearers for the roles of Federal President and him well and look forward to catching up with him at future events. The dreaded COVID-19 has made 2020 an Federal Treasurer. These roles will be available for "annus horribilis" to use a quote the Queen any member to nominate for in terms of Clause 7 I am sure we all look forward to a resumption made back in 1992. Sadly our "Great Gatsby of our Federal Deed. If one of these roles interests of our Branch meetings and outings. Until then, Rally" was cancelled and a huge number of you please speak to your Branch Secretary keep safe and healthy. participants, including many overseas visitors, and complete the nomination form sent to all Bruce Duncan (NSW) B255LH, ASK26816

Victoria Branch to host 2021 Federal Rally Mildura, Victoria – June 17 to 21, 2021

ollowing the unprecedented and particularly the case for 2021 where it is The COVID-19 situation will be closely Funfortunate cancelling of the 2020 not expected that detailed planning will monitored, and detailed plans and Great Gatsby Rally, the Victoria Branch be able to commence prior to the end of associated member communications will has offered to host the 2021 Federal Rally, this year. As this edition of Præclarvm goes only be developed late this year. In the in Mildura. As all Branches will be looking to the printers, most of the venues are meantime, information on key dates, forward to regrouping with friends from either closed or are operating on skeleton activities and venues will be provided as all over Australia, after social distancing staff. However, it has been possible to put they become available. If, in December/ for what looks like being much of 2020, in place core infrastructure such as Rally January, there is any concern that the June the rally has been themed as The Recovery Headquarters and accommodation options. date could be problematic (due to the Rally. Also, as Mildura has been a favourite The thumbnail plans are as follows: ongoing impacts of the virus) we would location in the early years with the 1962, • A shortened format, commencing look at making the decision to move it later 1965 and 1968 rallies having been held with registration on Thursday 17th June in 2021. However, on current forecasts, a there – so, after more than 50 years, in • A kick-off on the Thursday evening mid-2021 rally should be feasible – albeit some ways it will also be “Back to the (with Federal Council meeting on the with some potential constraints. Future”! . Friday) and conclusion on Sunday evening The Victoria Branch looks forward to Rallies often take several years in (with a Monday morning departure) seeing a large contingent of members the planning. The shortened lead time • A financially modest rally, in celebrating the end of Social Isolation in for planning the 2021 Federal Rally will terms of accommodation and functions, Mildura. Please mark these dates in your necessarily place some constraints on the in line with an economy that is likely to diary, as there will be much to celebrate, scale of the event, however, it will not take be coming out of a severe recession; and and many friends with whom you will be away from the excitement. This will be an associated lower number of expected/ able to catch-up. budgeted attendees

left & right: In line with the Rally feeling like “Back to the Future”, have a look at the two photos associated with this article. In one, that hangs in the foyer of the Grand Hotel (which, at this stage, is the front runner for Rally Headquarters) there is a white Silver Shadow parked outside the hotel, and is believed to have been owned by the hotel when it was a current model. In the other is our Gareth Bryant’s (Federal Shadow Registrar) Silver Shadow parked in the same place, on its way to the Clare Valley Rally in 2018 Præclarvm 3-20 7817 From the Sir Henry Royce Foundation

SHRF – Activities: he Foundation’s activities at each of the Tlocations – Bill Allsep House (BAH), the Lionel Gell School of Instruction for Rolls- Royce and Bentley (LGSI), the Geebung Museum and the Coolum Showroom – have, by necessity, been suspended whilst Australia has been in a general “lock- down”. So, no volunteer work nor any public visits are been permitted. With the gradual lifting of the travel/ meeting restrictions activities will slowly and carefully recommence. The BAH volunteers have been able to open up the “Archive” and continue with the task of cataloging the recent large volume above: The F J Engish Winner for Club Photography 2019: John and Evelyn Hiscox Corniche of donated heritage documentation. At "Howzat" (1969 Rolls-Royce MPW 2-door saloon, CRH55064) negotiating country cattle Coolum, the Showroom will be able to conditions while on the road to Jimbour House during the 2019 Toowoomba Federal Rally in May receive visitors in line with the Queensland 2019. Photographed by Bob Adby (NSW). Government’s travel and social distancing The F J Engish Award for Club Photography guidelines. Donations of material for The 2019: Foundation’s “Archive”: Rolls-Royce Aircraft Engines: This annual Award, generously supported If you have spare material relating to The guiding ethos of The Foundation by long-standing Victoria Branch and NSW Australia’s automotive history or are is to pay tribute to the engineering Branch Member Fred Engish, encourages ‘down-sizing” please remember that achievements of Sir Henry Royce. In the Members to record Club outings or Club cars. The Foundation “Archive” is the logical activities of the RROCA we see these This year the award goes to NSW repository for this valuable documentation achievements through an automotive Member Bob Adby. Bob’s photo of the and artefacts. Contact The Foundation’s engineering perspective. We must John & Evelyn Hiscox 1969 MPW two door Honourary Archivist, Gilbert Ralph – remember that Sir Henry Royce is saloon (CRH55064) was taken during one of [email protected] - perhaps equally well known for his aircraft the outings at the 2019 Toowoomba Federal to discuss your donation. engineering achievements. Rally. The judges consider this photo The Sir Henry Royce Foundation The Foundation recognises this aircraft exemplifi es Club convoys touring in the Research Award: engineering expertise with our display of “long paddock” that sustains rural farmers Rolls-Royce aircraft engines. We have through hard times. Only in Australia would Full details of the Award for 2020 can be our own “Merlin” engine on display at the such a conjunction of automotive elegance found on page 7836. Coolum Showroom. The “Merlin” achieved and rural tradition be evident. Russell Rolls, fame in powering the “Hurricane”, We congratulate Bob for his photo. May Chairman of Trustees “Spitfire”, “Mustang” and “Lancaster”, it be an inspiration for example. The “Merlin” was the to all Members to pre-eminent liquid-cooled engine of record interesting or WWII. At BAH, we have a “Merlin” engine unusual moments on long-term loan from the Australian War in the Club’s history Memorial. and to enter the The “Merlin” has its antecedents in Award this year. The the Royce designed “R” engine that was 2021 Award will be developed for the air presented at next races in the late 1920’s. Whilst Royce did year’s Federal Rally at not live to see the commercial production Mildura – keep your of the “Merlin”, it is a tribute to his camera ready. Full engineering team that from an initial details of the Award 1,000 HP engine in the mid 1930’s it was for 2020 can be found developed into a 2,000 HP engine by the on page 7816. end of WWII. I would encourage all Members to visit the Coolum Showroom and BAH to have a close look at the Rolls-Royce “Merlin” and to come to an appreciation of the cutting- edge of technology during the 1940’s. The Foundation’s website – www.henryroycefoundation.com - has some interesting videos highlighting the aircraft engineering collection. right centre: The 1945 Rolls-Royce Merlin Aircraft engine on display at the Foundation's Coolum Showroom in Queensland. right: (t-b) A Hawker Hurricane, an Avro Lancaster and a Supermarine Spitfi re: 3 Aircraft, 9 Airmen, 6 Merlins Engines - all heroes of WWII. 7818 Præclarvm 3-20 1975 Silver Shadow Saloon (SRH22160) Successfully Completes the 2019 Peking to Paris Rally Final Part Alan Maden (Vic) Photos: Steve and Alan Maden (Vic) Day 28: Helsinki to Tallinn, ESTONIA oday we headed straight to a dirt race track T(full on forest stage) at Saukkolan, a local club house, we completed our two laps in good time and enjoyed tea and biscuits in the clubhouse. From there it was a drive into Tallinn to queue up for the ferry. As we were so early we had coff ee, chips and burgers at Waterside mobile café, then walked along the wharves. I spoke to a guy who had purchased an ex-naval vessel to rent out as a party boat. We drove onto the ferry around 2pm and ate an early dinner on board. It was a massive ferry and very luxurious. When we reached the Swissôtel in Tallinn, I retired early with a bad cold as I needed to get better by the of Glenmorangie Scotch for the crew in the afternoon there was an off -road test with a morning. Austin Healey (such was their limited space) for complex set of Tulip instructions; It was a car Day 29: Tallinn to Riga LATVIA over a month, so it was time to get it out and destroyer, so we took it carefully and a little drink it. slower than most. There were no more PCs from First thing today was 100 km drive to the fi rst this point, so we headed down the highway to race track where we put in a spirited eff ort. A Day 31: Mikolajki to Bydgoszcz, POLAND the Radisson Blu Hotel in Szczecin. As we arrived fuel stop was made on the way, but we are only Today we headed straight to the Mikolajki early today, we went to the bar and enjoyed a fi lling the main tank at this stage as fuel outlets City Square for an offi cial send-off from the couple of beers and some French fries, while were very regular and we did not need the extra Mayor. Then back to the same rally track as after dinner we went down to the car park, for weight of the full reserve tank, especially on the yesterday for a second run to see if you could our routine spanner check. race tracks. At the time control we were ahead improve your time. of time and had to wait 40 minutes for our time From here we headed off into Poland on Day 33: Szczecin to Wolfsburg, GERMANY out. minor roads and cobblestone streets through Early start today at 8:09 am it was farewell From there we drove 250 km or so to the next tiny villages most of the day. We made it to to Poland. A short run to the fi rst test on the race track which was just one high-speed lap. We our "secret" Passage Controls (PC) and Time Waly Chrobrego, which is a major waterfront did okay, not pushing too hard and not wanting Controls (TC), remaining on-time all day and attraction of in the city of Szczecin. The streets to damage the car. There was a museum at the putting in more than respectable performances were closed off and I had a photo taken of the track called Regus Motormuzets. at the KartDome late in the afternoon. Rolls-Royce up on a dias before the racing began. It held a fantastic display and in one corner By now Steve had become a master navigator It was a good quality highway to cross the there was a smashed up Rolls-Royce Silver and out-navigated the Swiss and French in border into Germany and then on to the second Shadow owned and driven by Leonid Ilich their Volvos and the British in their Mercedes. test at Gross Dolin driving Centre. This was Brehznev (the fi fth leader of the ). Whereas they previously watched as we went a very fast track and great club rooms with We had lost 2 hubcaps in and we the wrong way, it was more than satisfying to complimentary coff ee and water, or you could noticed there were a couple of spare ones in see others taking wrong turns as we motored buy Kranskis and soup. The third test on a live Brehznev's boot. Sadly, the museum was not correctly on to the days' destinations. airfi eld called Flugplatzgesellschaft. It was a interested in selling them as it would have added Day 32: Bydgoszcz to Szczecin, POLAND mix of run way and off -road sections where we had an unexpected sightseeing car run onto our signifi cantly to the provenance of our Silver Today we Time Controlled out and went to track during our test. Shadow to have Brezhnev’s hubcaps. the same track as last night for a rerun. Although Somewhere during the day, we did a border I felt that I was driving slower to preserve the above: The cars were set in a display pattern crossing into Latvia. We were in Europe now, so car, our time was quicker as we must have taken overnight in the Hotel Sveitsi in Helsinki. no more hard borders, just signposts letting you better lines this time. below: Car 112, the 1974 Leyland P76 of Gerry know that a border has been crossed. From there we followed the designated tulip Crown and Matt Bryson from Australia, here Day 30: Riga to Mikolajki, POLAND map routes, which had become increasingly stretches its legs around the race track in complex, through the TCs and PCs. Late in the Latvia. The P76 went on to become the overall The road south to Mikolajki crossed from winner of the event in Paris. (Event Film photo). Latvia, through Lithuania and into Poland all on the same day. We drove the fi rst 200 kilometres to a fast race track and clocked a respectable time. We then drove a seemingly endless 350 kilometre stretch to the next race track. Although the scenery is magnifi cent you can’t really enjoy it or take photos. The driving is relentless and you have to remind yourself that this is an endurance rally, not a sightseeing tour. The second racetrack was purposely designed to destroy your car, so we drove very slowly to preserve the machine and didn’t clock a good time. After shower and a quick break, we had dinner in the biggest restaurant, in the biggest holiday resort that I have ever seen. The sweep mechanics held their traditional car park party and we had been carrying a bottle Præclarvm 3-20 7819 Day 36: Ypres to Paris, It was the fi nal day and we eventually left the Ypres City court yard amongst the excitement and disarray with no information other than hearsay. We still had 284 kilometres to go and a lot of that was going to be in peak hour Parisian traffi c. The organisers sent us on an unnecessarily diffi cult route, causing most cars to run late through busy Parisian city traffi c and have their welcoming parties left baking in the sun. We arrived around 2 pm and waited for our 30 seconds of fame at the fi nish line for victorious style photos. Unfortunately, the Rolls-Royce ran out of battery 15 m from the fi nish line as the twin all the roads had queues going for many electric fans had slowly drained the battery. kilometres. The long 2 hour stretch in hot weather with the The fi rst 200 km on the autobahn allowed engine only at idling, prevented the alternator us to make reasonable time. Once we were on from keeping up with the fans extra current B roads, we averaged only 40 km/h. Finally, draw. You could not have dreamt up the script arriving at the Peugeot Driving Academy in in a fi ction novel, for fi nishing a 14,000 km rally Malmedy to do our two timed-laps. We then with the Navigator having to push the car over drove straight through Belgium, which has the fi nish line. fabulous architecture and historic buildings Even so, it was great to be awarded our Silver as well as beautiful small towns into Liege. medals by Thomas de Vargas de Machuca, Day 35: Liege to Ypres, BELGIUM chairman of the ERA rally organisers and to shake hands with the great nephew of Prince The course today was all back roads, Scipione Borghese (Prince Paolo Constantino single lane stuff with magnifi cent views of the Borghese) and have a photo taken with them villages and farm life in Belgian countryside. We ended the day in Wolfsburg at the at the fi nish line. VW Autostadt complex and museum. This is The day was long, arduous and tiring but we just chipped away at it until the end. Mostly Both my wife Kay and Steve’s wife Diane an amazing facility. A few short kilometres had fl own into Paris to greet us at the fi nish away was the Hotel Tryp, where I took a the day went well except for a moment and I lost concentration and nearly ran off the road line and we had four good friends, Peter and photo from the window of our room of the Toni Roberts and Nick and Carol Calvi who had nuclear power station a few hundred metres and later we engaged in a minor incident with the passing vehicle. also fl own into Paris to meet us too and join away. the celebrations. They all came to the black Fatigue was setting in and mistakes can Day 34: Wolfsburg to Liege, BELGIUM tie Gala dinner that night when we were shown easily be made. At the end of the day we a great video of the event and were reminded We left early from the hotel at 8:09 for entered another off -road test. After one that the Peking to Paris is the toughest what we expected to be a long day of 600 lap, I thought we had fi nished the test and endurance event on the World's motor sports km. The day turned out to be much longer asked Steve where the Marshall was to clock calendar. than expected due to the national holidays our time. He advised that we had only just commencing that day and the traffi c on started the test and that I should get a move There had been 3.7 million social media above top: Jean Vincent and Marcel Peumans' on. When we did fi nish the test, it was more posts, over 80,000 Facebook views, of which I Bentley Speed Six takes a tight corner with an complex tulip maps to the Ypres Square for was responsible for 2 photos; one photo taken enthusiastic fl urry, drifting on a narrow road in a huge gathering. We all left our cars in the at the Great Wall of , when we started, Germany. City Square on display overnight and caught and the other in Paris, when we fi nished. above: The Rally Cars were allowed to drive a shuttle to the Flanders Lodge Hotel, Ypres. Conclusion: through the famous Menin Gate in Ypres, here Later that evening we all attended a The Peking to Paris rally is truly an amazing Bruce Kong and Patrick Chuang's Mercedes 450 moving rendition of the Last Post at the adventure, comprising tests of endurance for SLC makes the passage. Menin Gate WWI memorial near the City the driver, navigator and machine, all of equal below: on many occasions the Rally cars were Square. The Belgians treasure this ceremony importance. assembled in City Squares to give the locals a chance to inspect them. Here they assembled remembering Allied troops, including In the end it came down to a management beside the 'In Flanders Field Museum' in Ypres. Australians, who fell for Ypres in WWI and exercise. Predominately it requires managing (all 3 photos courtesy of the Event Film). conduct it every day of the year. your health, emotions, fatigue, impulsive behaviour, risk assessments and your reactions and plans when you get into trouble. It is defi nitely not a sightseeing tour where you can expect time to sit and relax, taking in the scenery and enjoying lunch or afternoon tea in the numerous cafés along the way. If you want adventure and something that is really going to test your skills and take you out of your comfort zone, and even your every day reality, then this Rally is for you. You should put away a few pennies every week, as the entry fee is GBP50,000. You will require roughly the entry fee again for all the other expenses. The costs, along with a fairly lengthy

7820 Præclarvm 3-20 time commitment away from your normal life, means you have to really want to do it. Both Steve and I were very proud of our Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow. It gave its all and never let us down once, despite the unbelievably harsh conditions we put it through and the punishment it took. Our claim to fame, if you like, was that we were the only competitor who did not need the sweep mechanics. We made it from start to fi nish, entirely under its power, without The really remarkable part of the being towed. Even when we limped into story is that our Silver Shadow still had workshops late at night, the Rolls-Royce got its original motor, transmission, drive- there under its own steam and never failed train and suspension components in it. to turn up for muster; the engine running and The modifi cations we made were only on-time every day, which is how we achieved those that were requirements of the Rally. our Silver medals. The Rolls-Royce engineering took the We went from being a laughing stock at toughest of tests and passed them with the beginning, to fi nishing in 40th position fl ying colours. It was never an engineering overall and 22nd in our category. failure that beset us, only external issues, like the deep-river crossings, deep, sandy dry-river beds, or 14 kilometre stretches of thick mud or gigantic rocks in the Gobi desert. All of these things that a Silver Shadow was never designed for, were taken in its stride. What a machine!

above top: After crossing the fi nish line with Prince Paolo Costantino Borghese, to the left of the photo waving them in, Alan and Steven are delighted with completing the Rally very successfully. above: Kay and Alan Maden at the Gala Presentation Dinner held on the night of arriving in Paris, where Alan and Steven collected their Silver Cup for driving and navigating the most reliable car on the Rally. left top: In Paris the cars arrived in the Place Vendôme on Sunday, 7 July 2019. It was full of friends and family members, including many holding signs, welcoming the crews of the cars who had successfully completed the 14,383 km Rally. left centre: The Rolls- Royce's GPS tracker giving the full details of the Rally. Note the Maximum Speed of 153.4 km/h and Moving Average of 59.9 km/h. left: A map of the Rally route from to Paris. Præclarvm 3-20 7821 The Red Dust Revival Lake Perkolilli – North East of Kalgoorlie, Western Australia September 2019 Des Lewis (Story and Photos) ake Perkolilli is a remote and ancient Lclaypan situated more than 600 kilometres east of , and some 40 kilometres north-east of Kalgoorlie. Adjacent the once thriving ghost town of Kanowna, it sits on the western fringe of the Great Victoria Desert and is hot, dry and inhospitable. Despite this, it became the epi-centre of motor sport in WA early in the 20th century, before being relegated to history following the outbreak of World War II. It lays claim as the most remote race circuit in the world and one of the first in Australia, with motor racing dating back to 1914. In its heyday, thousands would make the arduous trip from Perth and elsewhere around the country to this dry lake-bed to watch cars and motorcycles be pushed to the limit. But it was hardly the place where Norman “Wizard” Smith, who was one of above: Brett Pollock (WA) took his 1935 you’d see a Rolls-Royce or Bentley. While the nation’s most successful race drivers Rolls-Royce Country Tourer (Barker Limousine the motorcycles competing on the lake and would travel across from the eastern - GLG79) and here is making speed on the were the finest high-performance sports states to compete and pursue endurance Russian plains. Popular with the spectators too, machines of the day, the cars were more and speed records on the lake-bed. Rivalry he found himself taking many spectators for a ride around the track once the competition utilitarian, mostly from the United Kingdom between manufacturers and drivers was and the USA. concluded at the end of each day. fierce, particularly with records such as the below left: Kevin Cochrane enjoying the Perkolilli hosted the state’s first Grand coveted Australasian 24-hour endurance competition in his 1926 Bentley 3-litre with Prix and was the site of many endurance record, which was regularly broken as one replica Vanden Plas bodywork (LM1335). and speed records as car makers sought brand or another sought this crown to a foothold in the bourgeoning market for boost sales. making the trek to the lake to enjoy racing cars. With its large oval circuit and perfectly But like the boom and bust of many their vintage cars on the claypan. While flat and hard surface, Perkolilli became towns in the region, Perkolilli’s prominence they kept it low key, word got out and known as the “Brooklands of the West”. as a race circuit declined as quickly as it pressure mounted for an event that would It was a place where legends were had risen. By the late 1930s, “Around the pay homage to Perkolilli’s history. born and reputations made, such as Houses” racing was becoming popular Fast forward to September 2019 and the Harry “Cannonball” Baker, who was the and Perkolilli’s popularity was waning. The “Red Dust Revival”, where some 60 veteran first to crack 100mph on the circuit riding outbreak of World War 2 sounded its death and vintage cars and 40 motorcycles his 1000cc Brough Superior motorcycle knell and it was almost forgotten overnight, gathered at Perkolilli to take part in a unique in 1927. He was also one of the state’s with its last official event held in 1939. re-creation of competition on the lake-bed early aviators and would fly his biplane That was until members of the Vintage as it was in its prime. A great deal of effort to Perkilolli and land in the middle of the Sports Car Club of WA stumbled on its was taken by the organisers to stay true to circuit for events. And then there was significance about a decade ago and started the spirit of Perkolilli and keep the event as original as possible, which extended right down to white overalls for marshals and drivers, avoidance of anything “hi-vis”, and other details that were true to early events. The Revival attracted participants from right across Australia as well as overseas. Stephen Alexander from the UK heard about the event and brought his immaculate 1936 Lagonda Rapier to take part in the Revival. Tragically, he only managed a few laps before the engine blew up. For the first time, Rolls-Royce and Bentley appeared on the entry list. Neither marque had ever competed at Perkolilli and Brett Pollock’s 1935 Rolls-Royce, Kevin Cochrane’s 1926 Bentley, and Kevin Coote’s 1947 Bentley generated a great deal of interest and made their mark on the event. All three cars were out on the track competing with the many other entrants 7822 Præclarvm 3-20 and were impressive in their reliability and "The car was originally purchased by a above: By following the dust trail back around Mrs Cluff in Scotland, with a body built by the bend to the edge of the photograph you the smooth and rapid pace with which they get some sense of the broad, fl at and hard circulated. In particular, the Rolls-Royce Barker Coach builders. Mrs Cluff ordered some surface of Lake Perkolilli, with cars circulating was probably the most unlikely of entries custom extras including larger double chrome much as they did prior to WW II. and surprised many with its lap times, all headlights. After she passed away, it went to below left: Kevin Coote competing at the the while showing great poise. someone in Glasgow and then found its way to wheel of his 1947 Bentley Mark VI Roadster I talked to each of the car’s owner/drivers Canada. I believe its owner at that time was the Halse Special. about their cars and how they found the Chairman of Canadian Steel. At one point I did get caught in a willy- experience. Sometime later it made its way to the South willy and could barely see the emblem on the car’s bonnet. I could tell when I was starting ------Island of New Zealand and was later purchased by a West Australian who toured New Zealand to run wide by the feel of small sand-fire Brett Pollock (WA) - 1935 Rolls-Royce in it and then transported it back to Perth. I plants on the edge of the track, so I knew 20/25 Country Tourer (Barker Limousine - bought it in 2015 and have used it regularly where to steer for the short time I was driving GLG79 - ed): since." blind. I then popped out into the clear, only What on earth possessed you to take a So how did the Rolls-Royce perform on to see the marshal’s stand up ahead, with Rolls-Royce to Perkolilli? the track? the marshals looking down in surprise. They "I thought it would be something quite "I’d never raced before so it took a couple hadn’t heard the car coming and it just different and a lot of fun. I took two cars to of laps to get the hang of it and by Day 2 of appeared from nowhere. Lake Perkolilli, the Rolls-Royce and a 1930 practice, my confidence had built, and I could go In fact, the car was so quiet it was dubbed Ford Model A Phaeton. They are both very flat out with comfort. The car was so stable and the “Whispering Ghost” and it turned out to different. I initially planned on sharing the when taking the corners, I could feel the back- be very popular with the spectators. Each drive in the Model A but ended up just driving end gently sliding out. It was pretty exhilarating, day when the track was open, I’d find myself the Rolls-Royce." and the car performed fantastically well, hitting being asked to take people for joyrides. It And the history of your car? 75 mph down the straights, lap after lap. was ideal with its extra seats in the back. It was the best weekend I’ve had in a long time and very special as I’d never raced before. The camaraderie was fantastic, as was camping and sleeping out in a swag. But the best thing was the adrenalin of racing old cars in that way." Kevin Cochrane - 1926 Bentley 3 litre (Red Label Speed Model with replica Vanden Plas open touring coachwork (LM1335) - ed). Can you tell me a about your car? "I used to look after the late Maurice Brockwell’s fleet and we became good mates. He had around 40 vehicles, including this Bentley, which he’d purchased from the late Robert Holmes-a-Court collection. It had been restored about 40 years ago in England and while it was originally a sedan, Præclarvm 3-20 7823 the current two door body was built in the still haven’t managed 1970s. It’s a fabric body built on the Wayman to get rid of all the red principle and has lasted well. dust of my car!" I’ve had an association with the car ------since around 1986. When Maurice passed As the dust settled, away in 2002, he very generously left it to it was clear the Revival me. had been a resounding It has travelled to Europe and New success, not just the Zealand for events, as well as across competition, but in Australia. It’s an incredibly reliable car and how it captured the has been back to Europe for events a couple essence of racing on of times, first with Maurice and in more the Lake around a recent times with me and my wife. century ago. This has Back in 2003, I took it to Ireland for led to a resurgence of the Gordon Bennett Rally. From there, interest in vintage car we travelled to the 24-hour Le-Mans and racing and restoration then holidayed around Europe in it. It has across Australia and also travelled across Australia and I’ve another event is even taken it to New Zealand for the Vero planned for 2022. Insurance Rally. And of course, It’s a car I can take anywhere with the the Rolls-Royce and confidence that it won’t let me down." Bentleys certainly So what was appealing with Perkolilli? added interest and "Well the excitement and history of Lake a touch of class Perkolilli was clearly part of the reason, but to the Red Dust it was largely for Maurice. He’d have wanted Revival, showcasing to do it". the reliability and Kevin Coote – 1947 Bentley Mk VI engineering of these Roadster (Halse Special - ed): amazing vehicles from a by-gone era. What can you tell me about the history of your car? above top: In its heyday, thousands would visit Perkolilli, camping out to watch events. The Red Dust Revival saw many do the same, including some who travelled in their vintage vehicles and "The car’s body was built by Halse brought swags and camping gear for the stay.. Engineering in Kingston, Sussex. It’s powered by a 260 cubic inch six, with a four- above: Stephen Alexander from the UK scored a drive in Hugh Fryer’s Austin 7 Chummy after his 1936 Lagonda Rapier blew its engine. He was surprised at how much fun the little Chummy was. speed gearbox and twin carbies, so it gets along pretty well. below: Graeme Cocks, a local motoring historian, driving his 1927 Chrysler series 72, a replica of the Silverwings. His research into this car, which set an Australiasian endurance/speed record on It was imported into Australia and the lake, led to the rediscovery of the signifi cance of Lake Perkolilli in Australian motoring history. restored by the late Paul Terry. He housed below bottom: Competitors line up for the start of a handicap race. it in his Motor Museum in Albany for many years. There is another one identical in Albany. After Paul passed away, one of his daughters took ownership and then a sailing mate of mine, Ian Manson, subsequently purchased it. After Ian’s death, I bought the car and have owned it since 1984." And what was it like being part of the Red Dust Revival? "I loved it. The whole event was just great, including camping in the outback, the atmosphere and the friendly competition. The car got along nicely and ran really well. I managed to clock the second fastest time around the track and drifting sideways at 90mph plus was pretty exciting, as were some of the moments when I was enveloped in red dust and found myself driving almost blind. You really had to pick your line and keep your wits about you. But most of all, what really impressed me was how family friendly and festive it was. Thousands of people were camped around the track throughout the four days, enjoying the cars, the competition and the atmosphere. It really was unique, and credit has to go to the organisers; they did a fantastic job. The only downside was that, even after a couple of good cleans and detailing, I

7824 Præclarvm 3-20 Some Early Australian Silver Ghosts Missing in Action Where might you fi nd one? Ian Irwin (ACT) verybody loves to see a Silver Ghost, and we all love those old photographs. Ian Irwin relates his experiences as he is approached Efrom time to time by optimists that seek the elusive pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. In a fresh new approach, Ian offers up images of some of our lost gems, and with tongue in cheek, some suggestions as to where to find one. am asked, not infrequently, if there are likely to be any more of the early contained a chassis bearing the base number 13, this I Australian Silver Ghosts surviving, and yet to be discovered. being deleted from December 1913 onwards. That’s a very interesting question, for the known survival rate of Silver Back to the Australian Scene. Ghosts, both here and around the world, is around ten per cent of the cars Factory records of the initial client of almost every manufactured. When I tell people this, the usual reaction is that there must Silver Ghost, with only the very rarest of exceptions, be more survivors. After all, we’re not talking mass-production cars, we’re have survived. When the writer’s fi rst volume of the talking cars of the highest quality. Cars that were the preferred motors of Rolls-Royce Silver Ghosts of Australia and New Zealand: the aristocracy including Kings, Queens, Princes and Princesses, Tsars, and Cameo Histories of the Pre-Armistice cars, was published Mahajahs, Emperors, Lords and Ladies, Knights and Dames, Generals and in 1999, this book documented 109 Ghosts that had Admirals, Governors and Governor-Generals, Nobel prize-winners, the come into Australian ownerships, either as an original exceptionally wealthy, barons of industry, commerce and agriculture. Records of surviving cars of all marques have been built-up and maintained by enthusiasts all over the world. And from what we know, there have been similar mass-wastages of other high end cars. In fact, a ten percent survival rate is amongst the high range of quality cars. When we glance at fi gures for the large numbers of cars manufactured by Napier, Mercedes, Daimler, Delage, Hispano-Suiza, Isotta-Fraschini, Vauxhall, Sunbeam, Wolseley and the like, and check the survivors, the survivor percentages of early Rolls-Royce Silver Ghosts more than favourably compare. John Fasal, Steve Hubbard, Bryan Goodman and Tom Clarke in the UK, Tom King and the late Ken White in New Zealand, Andre Blaize in France, Klaus-Josef Robfeldt and Halwart Schrader in Germany, the late John Webb De Campi in the USA, and this writer, in Australia, have made a study of the surviving Silver Ghosts around the world and in their own domains for many decades. In the writer’s case, the research on the Australian cars began well before a world listing of surviving Silver Ghosts was privately published in the early 1970s. Recently, and within the context of research for the forthcoming book on our car, Chassis 1404, I asked of John Fasal, just how many Edwardian Silver above: Sadly, no photograph is yet known to have survived of Ghosts are known to have survived. He sat up until nearly 2 am in the northern this chassis with its original Alford and Alder Roi-des-Belges winter of 2019-2020, and came back with the reply, 315. My own fi gure had coachwork fi tted. This view, however, provides us with an been 313. excellent opportunity to view Chassis 60589, a late 1907 Ghost When I asked, expecting he would know ‘off the top of his head’, the actual chassis, and one of the fi rst to be fi tted with the three-quarter number of Edwardian Silver Ghosts that were produced, he suggested I elliptic rear springs. Prior to this, cars were also fi tted with a work through his tomes of The Edwardian Rolls-Royce, and ascertain this for transverse rear spring. This car was supplied to C. Sibbald Currie of Camperdown, Victoria. It was the fi rst of the Silver Ghost cars myself. He had not ever calculated this number. to arrive in Australia. Unfortunately, despite being fi tted with There are many pitfalls in simply assuming every sequence of chassis updated coachwork in the 1920s, this car has not survived. numbers, be it from, say 1800 to 1899, represented accurately the creation of below: Chassis 60747, purchased by Arthur J. Staughton of 100 cars. This is a trap for young players. There were chassis laid that were not Victoria. It is seen here at Staughton’s property Keayang, Terang, sold, then dismantled and the parts put back into stock. There were chassis with its elegant Alford and Alder Roi-des-Belges coachwork, built for Olympia Motor Show, the Paris Salon, Geneva or other motor shows, it looks to be straight from the showroom, but not so. When that were returned, stored, and then rebuilt by being brought up to date, and fi rst on the road, 60747 was used by the Sales Department of reappear at a similar event, under another Chassis Number, a year or two later. Rolls-Royce Ltd, for trials at the Brooklands Speedway prior to the International Touring Car Race of 1908. The Keayang Estate Some cars suff ered irreparable damage in fi res in coachbuilders’ premises, comprised 7800 acres of prime grazing country in 1909. and while built, they were damaged beyond salvage, and destroyed. In Germany, a massive fi re in the Mercedes factory similarly destroyed many of that marque in c1907/8. And then there were the E-suffi x cars. There is no known documentation that satisfactorily explains the presence of cars in a sequence, with the suffi x E. Notably in Australia, there were for example, 1826E, 1853E, 1910E, 2320E etc. In more recent times 2038E and its custodian have ‘crossed the ditch’ from New Zealand to join with us. In the sequence aforementioned 1800 to 1899, there were 25 extra chassis laid and sold, carrying the E suffi x. So the 1800-1899 series alone, produced 125 cars. But the E suffi x remains a mystery. Then to add even more confusion, after the original buyer of Chassis 13MA refused to accept delivery, as the car’s chassis carried the number 13, Rolls-Royce Ltd took the car back into stock and renumbered it as Chassis 59NA. And from that day forward no sequence of chassis numbers has ever Præclarvm 3-20 7825 or later delivery. Since then, we have established that one or two more escaped the net, arriving late, and bypassing Company documentation. The accompanying six photos depict cars that went ‘missing in action’. Some additional photos too, have also come to light. We’ll begin to take another look over the shoulder, at some Silver Ghosts that may be presumed to have disappeared forever. Two 1907 Silver Ghosts of the 500 series, 60546 and 60589 came into Australian ownerships, but neither has survived. The engine of 60546, however, lives on as the heart that beats in Chassis 60547 in the USA. From the 1908 model 700 series Australia can boast to having been the home on no fewer than nine examples: Chassis Nos: 60733, 60739, 60747, 60749, 60754, 60757, 60760, 60764 and 60799. Of these, sadly only one has survived the ravages of time, albeit re-bodied, and sold back into UK ownership in 1917, after 9 years in Australia. It has been re-bodied again in the style of above: In the late afternoon sun, the shadow of the pipe-smoking snake Barker in recent years. Very little is known of the fate of most of catcher beside Chassis 60749 is cast onto the windscreen. This car was the others. The engine of 60747 survived, and was purchased by re-bodied in the early 1920s, and re-registered in late 1923. It is seen here with Walter Wilson in Northern Ireland, and fi tted in the reconstruction its original Barker Roi-des-Belges coachwork. The snake catcher is John Chitty of Chassis 60747. of Dandenong, Victoria, the second owner of the car, c1920. The original gas lamps had long been replaced by CAV electric headlamps and sidelamps. Chassis 60749, (pictured) was one of fi ve 700 series cars ordered around the same time by Kellows of . Of the nine 700 series 1908 models, only Chassis 60754 remains. Of the 1909 Rolls-Royce production, Australia became home to eight examples. These were Chassis 60922, 60999, 1109, 1122, 1126, 1142, 1166, and 1194. Happily, the survival rate is a shade higher for this group. Chassis 60922 is the oldest of the Australian- delivery Silver Ghosts to have been found intact, albeit much the worse for many years of neglect. It was rebuilt in Victoria, passing through several hands before being rebuilt with replica Landaulet coachwork. It was sold to the USA in 1968, After more than 40 years, it was sold again, this time to a UK enthusiast. It has undergone a fastidious rebuild, and is now fi tted with splendid period Roi-des- Belges coachwork. Most members of our club will be familiar with David McPhee’s restoration of Chassis 1122. This is now the oldest resident Australian Silver Ghost. Chassis 1194 is another survivor, and in UK ownership now for many years. 60922, 1122 and 1194 are the three known 1909 models to have escaped above: Another historic and signifi cant photograph. The car is the 1908 Silver Ghost, Chassis 60757, owned by Ernest de Little, of Caramut House, Hexham, Victoria. There appears to be some apprehension on the face of de Little as he rides upright, with hands clasped, perhaps for the fi rst time in this car, as it has not yet been fi tted with its registration plate (Vic) 944. The chauff eur is none other than Harry Hawker, the famed aviator who became chief test pilot for Thomas Sopwith at Sopwith Aviation. The de Little Caramut House estate exceeded 14,000 acres devoted principally to cattle. right: Chassis 60799, the last of the 1908 cars to come to Australia, is one of the most photographed of our Edwardian Ghosts. We see it here outside Belmont House, the home of Major Phillip and Clara Charley and their seven children, John, Vera, Phillip Jnr, Adrian, Woolford, Clara Jnr, and Noel. The Charleys also owned a 1907 Talbot, which no doubt was needed when the family of nine could no longer all travel in one car. This gloriously proportioned car with its classic English Roi -des-Belges coachwork of unknown manufacture, is yet another of the 700 series that has completely vanished. 7826 Præclarvm 3-20 loss and destruction, from the eight original cars. Another car, Chassis 1166 survived into the 1950s as a mobile car with a late 1920s American body fi tted. It was proudly owned by Malcolm Johns for some time, and attended the 1957 Veteran Car Club Blue Mountains Rally as an Offi cial Car. It may well still exist, but if so, it has been successfully hiding from view. We can all hope that this car may surface again at some time in the future. Australia’s share of 1910 models was more generous than that of any previous year. Fourteen cars manufactured in that year found their way into Australian hands. These were the Chassis 1219, 1230, 1237, 1254, 1291, 1327, 1332, 1334, 1363, 1379, 1388, 1404, 1425 and 1492. We are fortunate that of these, eight (underlined) remain, with six of them above: Chassis 1126 was one of two 1909 cars delivered to the Angas family of South Australia. In its (in bold type) in Australia to this day. original form, the chassis was fi tted with a single-seater by Grosvenor, from which today’s body on We shall adjourn at this point, and perhaps 1122 was modelled. Charles Angas shipped, 1126 to the UK, where modifi cations were eff ected at resume at some future date, to investigate the factory It was then fi tted with this glorious sporting coachwork, again by Grosvenor. Renamed ‘Silver Wings’ on the radiator either side of the badge, it returned to Australia, where it later suff ered the cars from the years 1911 to 1915, that damage, and was again returned to the factory for a second rebuild. But, with repairs were deemed came here, and their survival rates. Happily, I to exceed the cost of a new chassis, the project lapsed. For many years, the engine survived at the can advise the rates are generally higher than factory and later at the Hunt House, HQ of the RREC. Other disparate components of 1126 were for those we have considered here. accumulated around the engine when on display. The engine has since been exchanged for a later In review, we can safely say that of the unused engine of post-war manufacture, and it is intended to be used in the construction of a replica 33 examples of 1907 to 1910 Silver Ghosts of ’ 1908 H.J. Mulliner Balloon Car, Chassis 60785. that came into Australian ownerships, 12 are below: They say that ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder.’ This car had sat in a Melbourne suburban known to have survived, with another one backyard from the 1930s until acquired in 1963 by Fred Miller Robinson and Harry Markoff . It had known to have survived in a registered and not turned a wheel in over three decades. We can be sure that these lucky persons would have been roadworthy state, until at least 1957, and highly elated when they discovered that this pile of scrap sheet metal camoufl aged the remains of Australia’s earliest surviving Silver Ghost, Chassis 60922. It is tempting to liken this fi nd, to the 1922 which may still remain. But where? discovery of Tutankhamun’s Tomb, with all its riches and treasures. From another perspective, there are 21 below bottom: ‘In the middle of nowhere’ this Silver Ghost sat for some years for all to see. The trouble of this cohort of truly Edwardian cars that was nobody was there to take any notice. Luckily there were no vandals to cause it more damage either no longer exist, or are cunningly than was done by neglect and nature. This is the 1909 car, Chassis 1122, as it was fi rst glimpsed by hiding, waiting to be found. Would-be David McPhee on Tyrone Station, 600 miles from and 45 miles west of Charleville. Now fully hunters seeking out any of these, will not restored, it is the oldest Silver Ghost in Australia, and a national treasure. It was missing some vital fi nd them in the condition as portrayed in the under-bonnet accessories, but patience and good luck ensured it was returned to its original glory. accompanying representative photographs. They most likely will have been fi tted with later bodies, or if found, may have little or no remnant coachwork at all. I’ve often been asked where might be the best place(s) to search for one. Likely sites are under a groves of trees, in property dams and in creek beds, under woolsheds, down a well, under farm carts and trailers, in a factory attic, in back paddock barns, under blackberry bushes, in old timber mills, disused quarry sites and in other equally obscure locations. But if you do fi nd one, you can be fairly sure it won’t look pretty. All of the above locations have been known sources. Several of our early Ghosts are known to have gone to landfi ll. One is beneath a trotting track on the NSW south coast and another is believed have been buried in the grounds of a private school. The writer believes there is one stored under a house in metropolitan Melbourne. An early engine is reputed to be in a warehouse in inner Sydney. Another engine in half a chassis was found in a Brisbane theatre powering the lighting system. An engine was sighted north of the Nullabor rail line in the 1950s, with one-cylinder block missing. Legend also has it that one was pushed into a volcanic lake in central Victoria. The Silver Ghosts, Chassis 922 and 1122 were both substantially intact and certainly justifi ed the rebuilds that they experienced. They were still fi tted with their wheels and suspension, and were up off the ground. But not all early Silver Ghosts recovered have been so fortunate. Recovery of the writer’s 1910 car, Chassis 1404, which has been documented previously in Praeclarvm, is a case in point. This car, globally highly signifi cant in Rolls-Royce history, was broken up at Griffi th in the Riverina of NSW in 1940 following an accident. Most of the easily removable mechanicals were transported to Buderim in Queensland. The motor with all accessories intact was unloaded on Continued On Page 7829 Præclarvm 3-20 7827 The story of Bertha: the 1953 Silver Wraith, LWB 6 light saloon by Park Ward (BLW78) Louise Matthews (Vic) he 1953 Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith, lovingly Tknown as Bertha, came into my life in September 1966, when my Mum and Dad, John and Nancy Rolls purchased her when her speedo reading was 64,620 miles. Some of Bertha’s history before my Husband, Neil, and I purchased her in 1998: Bertha was delivered new into Australia through Motors Ltd, in 1954, to a Mr. V. Keane of Springfield in Adelaide. Interestingly, Mr V Keane, had a similar name to the dealer principal of Motors Ltd; Vin Kean. This had caused quite a bit of confusion in relation to tracing her history, however after the Sir Henry Royce Foundation retrieved the sale and service records from United Motors (Motors Ltd successors) last year, the ownership history became clear. The records from United Motors also revealed that Bertha was used by Motors Ltd to ferry around the Chairman of Rolls-Royce, Lord Hives, on his to drive Bertha on to the car carriage of the retirement farewell world tour when he visited Indian Pacific Train for our journey to the Adelaide on the 14th January 1956. West. We took the car off in Kalgoorlie and headed to Northam and then to Perth where Bertha was sold a couple of times; once the Rally was held. After the Rally we headed to the Wotherspoons who owned the Ford to Geraldton via the “inland” route returning Dealership in Beaufort, Vic. Their daughter to Perth via Moora and continued touring well remembers being picked up in Bertha from Perth to Busselton, Manjimup, Albany, from the Hospital where she was a nurse, Esperance, Norseman, Kalgoorlie and back much to the excitement of other staff. on the Indian Pacific to unload at Port Pirie. The next owner was Josh Perry who sold We drove easily home via Murray Bridge to Bertha to Mum and Dad in 1966. As my Dad our home in Dandenong, arriving on the 6th above upper: Louise and Neil's 1953 Rolls- and brother, Russell, were already Members October. Royce Silver Wraith Saloon (BLW78) sitting on the Nullarbor Plain on its way back from WA in of the RROCA Victoria Branch, we were Unlike our later trip to WA in Bertha in immediately able to attended rallies and 2009. 2009 we took: no mobile phones, no CB above: Nancy and John Rolls, Louise's Parents. outings in her, when Bertha proved to be an radios and certainly no satellite phones. We excellent touring car. Many years later, Neil had found out that did take upper and lower radiator hoses and Bruno Scarcella still had the car and each Her first major interstate trip was planned a fan belt – would we have known how to use for the 1969 Western Australia Rally with the year he would ring Bruno and ask if the car them? Maybe, maybe not! was for sale, unfortunately it never was, WA Branch hosting its first Federal Rally. I was working at Dandenong Hospital As Dad had been stationed in the Army in but Neil persisted in ringing. We had just during those years and I would occasionally about given up hope, when in 1998 we got Geraldton, we decided that we would attend take the car to work and drive my fellow staff the Rally in Bertha. Unfortunately Dad passed the call. We raided some of our piggy banks members around the block for fun, a great and I purchased the car back. Her speedo away in May 1969 but Mum and I decided that time was had by all. Mum used Bertha as we would still go ahead with the trip. read 21,343 miles (on its second time round), her everyday car for shopping, touring and meaning Bertha had only travelled 22,076 On the 13th September 1969 we headed croquet trips but eventually sold her in 1972 to miles in 26 years! off; Mum, a cousin of ours and myself in Bruno Scarcella the Bertha. The first night was in Tintinara, the left: Bertha being loaded on to a carcarrier once purchased in 1998, in a poor speedo reading then condition. next stop being Port Pirie where Mum had was 99,267 miles. below: The 3 cars that attended the fi rst WA Branch Federal Rally in 1969 and 2009, 40 years on: (l-r) Neil Williamson’s Bentley 1950 MKVI (B239GT) (WA); Peter Tamblyn’s 1912 Silver Ghost (1853E) (SA), and Louise and Neil Matthews’ 1953 Silver Wraith (BLW78) (Vic)

7828 Præclarvm 3-20 She was in a dreadful state when I first Rally in Albany WA, saw her, she was sitting in the back corner and return when we of a storage facility on Centre Road, drove back to Victoria Clayton, and she looked very sad! We got across the Nullarbor. her out of the storage, loaded her on to a Out of interest, we flat top and brought her home to Berwick. averaged 16.55 miles Mum was still alive at that time and was per gallon (17.06 l/100km) on that trip. delighted to see that Bertha was back in Recently, Bertha’s body was starting the family. to become a problem. Some small areas Neil worked on Bertha for months, the of aluminium corrosion were evident, the garage was built under the house and for leather work was in very poor condition a very long time, all I could smell upstairs and the veneers of the beautiful timber was naphthalene, paint thinners and turps! interior was starting to lift. So the time Our first outing after all Neil’s hard had come for Bertha, after nearly 70 years work was to attend the 1999 Federal Rally of service to have a much needed facelift. in . This included a trip out to In 2018 we took all the woodwork out Tidbinbilla Tracking Station which was and it is already under restoration. All of quite scary as Bertha was only running on the drive-train items that need renewing, 5 cylinders by then and we knew that she such as the brakes and exhaust system are above left: Bertha, at the 1999 Canberra was ready for an engine rebuild. This was also currently being undertaken. Federal Rally, visited Tidbinbilla Tracking then done at 23,615 miles. Once this is done, Bertha’s body will be Station. Bertha has undergone many hours of completely dismantled and a bare metal above top and centre:: Bertha's head before engine and drive-train work to get her repaint, re-trim and re-chrome will enable and after refurbishment after 123,615 miles back up to a road ready vehicle. We have another 70 years of pleasurable driving to and 47 years of broken and disparate usage in enjoyed many happy outings with our be completed. For the record the current 1999/2000. RROCA family, so much so that in 2009 speedo reading is 59,102 miles. above bottom: An example of the poor state of Neil, Russell and I decided again to put I will keep Præclarvm advised on Bertha's timber works and veneers that started Bertha on the Indian Pacific in Adelaide to progress! to be refurbished in 2018. travel to the WA Branch organised Federal Some Early Australian Silver Ghosts Missing in Action Where might you fi nd one? Ian Irwin (ACT) Continued ...... Continued From Page 7827 the journey northward, on a property at Bundarra, near Inverell, where it remained in its crudely fabricated steel cradle beneath a tree throughout the rest of WWII. It remained there in the open for 20 years, but still turned over, none the worse for its utter neglect. The chassis, axles and suspension were abandoned at Griffi th, with many other parts used for agricultural roles for 40 years until recovered by the writer in 1981. The full story of this car is the subject of a book now in an advanced stage of preparation. This car’s fate was all but sealed, when a series of fortuitous circumstances enabled it to be saved and rebuilt with its integrity regained. But the case of 1404 shows, as was the case with some other cars, that imminent fateful destruction was denied. Not all Ghosts found have been sitting up on their wheels begging to be salvaged. above: Chassis components of 1404 had completed 40 years of yeoman service when located at Griffi th NSW. Both front and rear axles were beneath But there must be another one out there somewhere! It’s just a this 19th century converted horse-drawn wagon. But no, they’re not the matter of time. Keep looking! original springs or shackles. They were found elsewhere. One was under cushions on an antique grandmother chair in a farm outbuilding. Præclarvm 3-20 7829 The Sir Henry Royce Foundation A Selection of Photographs from the Fred Engish Collection Gilbert M Ralph (Vic) HLM, Hon. The Queensland Branch of RROCA held its fi rst Federal Rally at Surfers Paradise in 1972 and chose the same venue for its second Rally in 1977. Fred Engish attended the latter and I have selected a few of his photographs to illustrate some of the interesting cars which attended the 1977 Rally information about the cars came from David Neely’s outstanding book ‘In the R is a must for all Rolls-Royce and Bentle I also wish to acknowledge assistance from above: There are few Springfi eld Silver Ghosts in Australia to match the elegance of this 1922 lwb model chassis 154BG Pall Mall tourer owned and restored by Edward (Ted) Hudson from Sydney. It looks like Ted at the wheel. At the Surfers Paradise Rally it carried off the Overall Trophy and the Age and Authenticity Trophy. In all it won eleven Federal Awards. In the NSW Branch Concours it won the Restoration of the Year Trophy in 1974 and the Overall Trophy in 1978. It also won several awards later when owned by David Heuzenroeder of Tanunda. David later sold it to an American collector.

above: This well presented 1959 Silver Cloud SMH253 was owned by Richard J Williams of NSW. The lady standing by the car is thought to be Helen Cooper. Dick Williams had joined the 1926 Phantom I chassis 45NC with a Martin & King saloon body which was later owned by David Ekberg but was last in the Club Register in 2 left: Fred Engish the author of all the photographs used in this series owned this 1951 Silver Wraith WOF49 with its stylish sweeping lines by Park Ward. The signpost highlights the vastness of Australia with Cooktown being 1,380 miles north and Adelaide 1,030 miles west. This car won the Silver Wraith-Silver Dawn Trophy at the Rally. Currently Charlie and Pam Frew of Pymble, NSW are pleased to have it in their garage.

above: Well known Sydney-sider George Sevenoaks is at the wheel of this lwb 1925-6 Phantom I 30LC. Originally it was imported for Dame Eadith Walker of Concord and was rebodied as a tall Moriarty saloon. In the 1930s it was owned by Malcom Fraser’s father at his property ‘Nareen’ in Western Victoria, then Dr Eric Marshman in Bowraville. In about 1959 it was fi tted with this Jackson, Jones & Collins California hardtop from 57LF and 111DC and sold to Max Rankin in Tasmania. George and Jean Sevenoaks acquired it in the 1970s and later sold it to Craig A Robson after which it was owned by Ronald McCann, Peter D Limon and others in NSW but it is no longer listed as being owned by a RROCA member

right: Here is a lineup of four cars that have something in common. The cars are from left, 1952 Bentley Continental BC12A, 1956 Silver Cloud I SZB71, 1954 Silver Dawn SKE44 and 1951 Silver Wraith WOF49. What do they have in common? They were all owned by Fred Engish at one time or another. Only WOF49 now remains on the Club Register. 7830 Præclarvm 3-20 Sir Henry Royce Foundation Archives A Selection of Photographs from the Fred Engish Collection Gilbert M Ralph (Vic) HLM, Hon. Archivist SHRF rst Federal Rally at Surfers Paradise in 1972 and chose the same venue for its second Rally in 1977. Fred Engish attended the latter and I have selected a few of his photographs to illustrate some of the interesting cars which attended the 1977 Rally. Much of the information about the cars came from David Neely’s outstanding book ‘In the Rear-View Mirror’ which olls-Royce and Bentley enthusiasts. I also wish to acknowledge assistance from Sue Dunstan and Tom Clarke.

above: This 1925 20hp GLK66 fi xed-head coupe by Smith & Waddington was owned by Peter and Chris Gargett of Indooroopilly, Brisbane, at the time of this Rally. It was imported for Mrs Myerson of Sydney and later bought by Sir Ben Fuller of Fuller Theatres. It had several owners in Victoria, NSW and Queensland before being purchased by Peter Gargett in 1961 for £225. Peter was a founder member of the Queensland Branch when it was established in July 1969. Peter and his wife Chris (seated) used this car for their honeymoon when they participated in the New Zealand International Veteran and Vintage Car Rally in 1965. It is still owned by the family but is currently in storage awaiting restoration.

This well presented 1959 Silver Cloud SMH253 was owned by Richard J Williams of NSW. The lady standing by the Williams had joined the Club in 1964 and in addition to the SCI he once owned a 1926 Phantom I chassis 45NC with a Martin & King saloon body which was later owned by David Ekberg but was last in Club Register in 2013.

above: Arnold Robert of , Queensland attended the 1977 Annual Rally in this 1926 20hp GZK21 with a sporty-looking body built by Tony Robinson in 1971. I have no knowledge of how and when it came to Australia. It was also owned at one time by Graham Singer, John Day, Alan Goble, Noel Robinson and Rob Gab. Currently Terry and Regi Lewis of Bagara, Bundaberg own it. Arnold also had a 1980 Silver Shadow II which won the Post-1965 Trophy at the Queensland Branch Concours in 1980. left: The tall man on the right is Victorian member Roath Gair the owner of this 1950 Silver Dawn SBA112. At one time or another it was also owned by NSW Branch members David Farebrother, Peter Limon and Andrew McFarland. Later Roath bought another Silver Dawn; SUJ98 a 1954 model which was also black. Despite his limited vision Roath kept it in remarkably good condition and won the Overall Award at the Victorian Concours in 1981 and the Silver Dawn Award on six occasions and the Class 6 Trophy at the Federal Rally at Wagga Wagga in 1993.

above: At the time of the Rally this 1946 MkVI Bentley B392BH with 2-door coachwork by Freestone & Webb was owned by Joy Brannelly who had joined the Club in 1974. It was imported in the 1960s by J M Gedye in NSW before being acquired by Joy Brannelly in the 1970s. Joy was an active member of the Queensland Branch and was a Concours judge, served as President for two terms from 1980 and jointly with Wallace Moorhouse won the Frank Cove trophy in 1982 for her contribution to organizing the Federal Rally in Brisbane that year. The car is now owned by Julian and Cheryl Walter in Perth. Præclarvm 3-20 7831 Federal Reports for 2019/2020 PLEASE NOTE THAT, due to the timing of the 2020 Federal Rally, eff orts in every aspect of maintaining the respective marques, our some of the following Reports were written before and some after database and all editorial and pictorial submissions to Præclarvm. the COVID-19 gathering restrictions and difficulties with the 2020 I'd also like to extend my gratitude to Kim Stapleton [NSW] & 2021 Federal Rallies were encountered. Federal Registrar of Judging along with Mick Rust [WA] and John Virgo [SA] for their ongoing work as the club's Judging Committee. Federal President Joe Quattrocchi (ACT & NSW) Under the new ICJAG criteria, they incorporated the latest trends As I move into my third year as RROCA President and review and mindset of the Rolls-Royce club community to further improve the past twelve months, it would be most appropriate to state that the consistency and distinction of judging at the Concours days. It our club has brought together some of the fi nest luxury motorcar was an extensive task that not only required their personal time but enthusiasts in Australia. also great discernment to excel at this level. We all saw the meticulous planning and dedication that went into Another critical aspect of the club are the workshops hosted the 62nd Annual RROCA Federal Rally by Jeanne Eve [NSW] and the by members, which equally contribute to the preservation and NSW Committee. We equally supported their decision to cancel the integrity of the Rolls-Royce and Bentley motorcars. I hope that event weeks before the Corona-virus [COVID-19] pandemic moved our newest members will embrace and carry through the acquired into a more deadly trajectory. knowledge to the next generation of club members. Thank you Since then, we have seen thousands of Australians along with to Charlie Frew [NSW] and Andrew Gibson [NSW] for staging and (at the time of writing) almost 650,000 global citizens become hosting the tech sessions. infected; the rising death toll, the crashing of global stock markets, Additionally, I would like to thank the state clubs and committees the loss of jobs, economies strained or at the brink, and the closure along with the individual members for their noteworthy contribution of cities and businesses in Australia and around the world. All this, to RROCA during the past year. This included the organisation of and the recent Australian bushfi re emergency, which left much gatherings and other events that helped strengthen the foundations of Australia's Eastern and Southern coastal regions, towns and of our club including the exceptional hospitality club members bushland in a state of total devastation. We are truly witnessing an enjoyed over the past year. extraordinary time in history. Lastly, I would like to express my appreciation to RROCA's I said in my previous year's report that it was our collective executive committee, Stephen Peoples, Federal Secretary [Vic] and passion for the Rolls-Royce and Bentley motorcars that brought Bruce Duncan, Federal Treasurer [NSW] for their commitment and everyone together. However, it goes beyond our common interests. exemplary work in all facets of the club's accounting and operations We have collectively preserved the heritage of the club through systems. the hosting of venues, dawn patrols, display days, rallies, and the Newsfront: dedicated daily operations by club presidents, federal appointees Once again, I would like to thank Chris Gillings [NSW] for his and club members. And there's no doubt we will continue to do untiring work with the website along with Brian Carson [Qld] for so in the true spirit of friendship when this dreadful pandemic has his notable Facebook posts. They're informative and very well- abated. received, and like Præclarvm play an essential role in the club's Marque Endurance: heritage, activities and achievements. In the same way, both the Rolls-Royce and Bentley motorcars A special thanks to Tim Dean [Vic], editor of Præclarvm, who will weather this present climate by keeping all eyes ahead on their never fails to put his life on hold during the production of the overall range of models by using the modules of performance, magazine. Tim not only features myriad articles and images of the innovation, custom-luxury and advanced technology. And it's a diff erent vintages we either love to own or drive, but also the great trusted principle that saw the marques enjoy what was perhaps the events we have enjoyed from season-to-season. most exceptional year on record. Vale: In 2019, Bentley celebrated its 100th birthday celebrations on I want to pay tribute to Kate Stock [Vic], who passed away on July 8 to great fanfare and launched its concept Bentley EXP 100 GT. August 6, 2019 and Alexander Price Brown [NSW], a 40-year Rolls-Royce went even further in 2019 by setting a new sales record member and great friend of mine. Alex died two weeks later on in the marque's 116-year history. Selling 5,152 luxury vehicles, the August 19, 2019. Though we won't have an opportunity to celebrate company marked a 25 per cent increase in 2018's previous sales their lives at this year's cancelled rally, Alex and Kate will be record for the brand. At the forefront was the Phantom, followed remembered for their great camaraderie and passion for their Rolls- by the Wraith, Dawn and Ghost, which ended production last year Royce and Bentley motorcars. with the release of its Black Badge edition model. Yet, it was the On a personal note, I want to extend my best wishes to every launch of the luxurious Cullinan in the 2018-2019 season that truly Club member and their families and friends during these diffi cult outperformed all expectations and saw the fastest growth in post- times, and I hope that everyone remains safe and in good health. launch sales in the company's history. As a united Club, I ask that we all stay in touch from week to week In Australia, we also kept the marque busy. Rolls-Royce sold so we can off er each other support in the spirit of true friendship. 55 luxury motorcars, an increase of 37.5 per cent increase on the I look forward to the month when we can all come together in number sold in 2018 with the Cullinan driving over a third of last our home states or at the Federal Rally. year's sales. According to Rolls-Royce CEO, Torsten Müller-Ötvös, the bespoke SUV further consolidated the brand with a new generation of Rolls-Royce owners, who like past buyers desired performance and exclusivity. My thanks to Andrew Jackson from Federal Secretary Stephen Peoples (Vic) Rolls-Royce Motorcars Queensland, who made it possible for the 51 The Federal Executive held a couple of discussions across the attendees [in 25 motorcars] at the Qld AGM to test-drive the new last twelve (12) months in lieu of face-to-face meetings. Cullinan. Again at our own expense we attended events organised by No doubt, the club will see many new members joining up in the diff erent Clubs primarily by Qld, NSW and Vic. years to follow. I appeal to all Club Secretaries to provide me with details on Agenda: their respective Club events in goodly time so that we can plan to Moving forward with the Federal Directory, the club introduced support as many events as is possible. new registrar, Gareth Bryant [Vic] for the Silver Shadow, Bentley T It is the view of Federal Executive that the Deed needs a Series and Derivatives, and Ralph Plarre [Vic] for all Rolls-Royce and thorough review with recommendations to be presented to Bentley models, post-2003. I know every member will support their Federal Council at the Federal Rally 2021. 7832 Præclarvm 3-20 Federal Treasurer Bruce Duncan (NSW) management and producing and selling Præclarvm and Chassis At the Federal Council meeting held at Toowoomba I was Plate (now known as “Federal Directory: Members and their cars pleased to off er my fi rst report as RROCA Federal Treasurer. Today 2020”) to branches and to make all costs transparent “Federal I am pleased to off er my second report covering our 2019 year of Directory: Members and their cars 2020” has again been charged operations. to branches. This allows us to keep Præclarvm at the current price Our fi nances have continued along a strong position and I despite the postage increase. now draw your attention to a few items occurring in the year to A new fi rm of printers has been engaged and targeted savings 31/12/2019 in this area have been refl ected in 2019 fi nancial position. Federal We have continued our practice of electronic banking and are Directory: Members and their cars 2020 was charged to branches pleased to report during 2019 we deposited only one cheque and for $1.00 less than the previous year. drew only one cheque. This cheque deposited was from a branch In June 2018 your Federal Executive agreed a “Terms of Trade” who had not fully grasped the intricacies of electronic banking aimed at not letting amounts owed to RROCA Federal be allowed and the cheque drawn by us was paid to the Commonwealth to drift, which makes it more diffi cult to collect what is owed to Bank to transfer an amount from our operating account to our us. We are maintaining tight control over owed debt. We contact term deposit. It seems they were unable to accept an electronic overdue accounts by telephone and email as well as sending payment (?) so we had to draw a cheque to pay our bankers. statements as necessary. For our payments in general as Treasurer, I record the item, Likewise, we pay our liabilities promptly, generally well within fi le the invoice and enter the payment to be made giving the fi rst the terms of payment authorisation. The details are passed electronically to either the Today completes my second year as Federal Treasurer and I Federal President or Federal Secretary and one of them adds the have found it easy to work with both our Federal President, Joe, second authorisation which means the payment is made. This and Federal Secretary, Stephen whom I thank specifi cally for their off ers us good security and a strong audit trail is maintained. support and good questions. Last year we established a link with the PayPal organisation to make it easier for overseas members and advertisers to pay our invoices. Whilst the service is available it has not been used during 2019 and as no fee is charged we have left it in place for the time being. In January 2017 $10,000 was “borrowed” from the Federal ACT Branch Martin Bennett, President term deposit of $40,000 to help prop up the day to day fi nancial The Australian Capital Territory Branch continues to fl ourish operations of the Federal body. In 2018 we were able to return and prosper in its own comparatively modest way, given our size $5000 to our Reserve Fund bringing the balance to $35,000. Our and catchment area. Although there are minor fl uctuations, our budgeted aim was to return a further $5000 during 2019 to return membership size remains reasonably constant. Up to a third of our the Reserve Fund to its original balance of $40,000. membership may be considered regularly active in terms of partic- As a result of success in clearing long-term debt and having ipation in meetings and events. shorter payment times I am pleased to report the planned return The cars represented in our Branch range from the second-old- of $5000 to this deposit in 2019 did happen however we also est car in the RROCA, through to current-series Bentleys and most returned an additional $10,000 in July 2019. This has brought our models in between. Reserve Funds to a total of $50,000. Sadly, during the last year two highly valued members - Gos In this era of extremely low deposit interest rates the best we Cory and Michael Zwar - passed away. could do was to commit to a 12-month term earning 2%. During the year it was decided that holding meetings every sec- Federal Executive pondered what should the Reserve Fund ond month rather than monthly would be suffi cient to comfort- amount be. There is little point in amassing funds for no real point. ably deal with all Club business. That has proved to be the case and Our aim has been to try to pass some benefi ts to state branches the change has worked very well. Runs and other events are held within the terms of tax and legal requirements. in every month except January, with events occasionally occur- We agreed to again look at our insurance requirements and ring twice in one month. Of particular interest is our now perma- as all branches know, the Federal Executive has restructured nent annual joint event by agreement with the New South Wales our insurance to continue to cover public risk and similar as well Branch, to commemorate the arrival in Australia of the fi rst Rolls- as including all branch assets such as libraries, trophies etc in Royce car to reach these shores, a 1906 'Heavy Twenty', chassis one policy showing 6 state branches as “interested parties”. This 40509. Other regular annual events include the 'Terribly British enables branches to cancel insurance and seek a refund of part of Day' and the Shannons’ 'Wheels' day, both of which are display the premium already paid. days open to the public and which attract strong representation All insurance has now been paid by the Federal RROCA body from our Branch, often backed up by much-appreciated support and no reimbursement has, or will be, sought from state branches. from NSW members. All branches have received copies of all policies. Our Branch newsletter, The Capital Letter, is now published Our accounting system, Xero, has been excellent, and we save quarterly, backed up by regular electronic notices to the member- accounting fees as the system is accurate and easy to use. Our ship of forthcoming meetings and events. bank accounts are linked, and we reconcile every day which keeps From a Federal standpoint we remain very strongly committed. us up to the mark with our fi nancial position. Our accountant can Prior to the most recent Federal Rally hosted by our Branch, in also keep on top of our fi nancial position but without authority to 2017, we became aware of a confi dent prediction that we lacked move any funds. the resources and ability to do so. That prediction proved hope- Our accountant has completed our end of year fi nancials on lessly incorrect and we remain able to off er a strong assurance that time and organised them after signing by the Federal Executive when we are next called upon to host a Rally we will again strongly to be audited by outside specifi cally engaged audit fi rm. This is in rise to the occasion. In other words, the traditional rotation of Fed- terms of accepted fi nancial and legal practice. eral Rally host Branches need not be varied on our account. Our fi nal position as at 31 December 2019 is we have achieved Finally, I would like to thank our Committee for their hard work an operating profi t of $5116.04. We are not owed any funds and and dedication. They are real treasures, all of them, and their ef- do not owe funds except GST of $267 which was paid in February forts are very much appreciated. Each and every one has made a 2020 when our BAS return was completed. strong and very real contribution to the best interests and wellbe- RROCA Federal can only gain income from active cost ing of our Branch.

Præclarvm 3-20 7833 Federal Reports for 2019/2020 (cont.)

New South Wales Branch Jeanne Eve, President Mid-year we changed the venue of our monthly General meetings back to the former but refurbished Canada Bay Club. This year has been more settled with a stable NSW Branch It makes for a pleasant 3+ hour evening with dinner, meeting Committee composition. Not only do the wise and experienced and refreshments and easy parking. Expensive room hire but heads remain but also four 'new' members bringing modern worth the money. The meetings are kept to about an hour and perceptions. This has lowered the average chronological age nearer are now recorded live via Zoom with the edited video posted to 60. I jest lightly but there has been much discussion devoted to onto the NSW website. Again it is encouraging to know rural and the Club's future with respect to aging members, Club cars, event sometimes overseas members can watch the live session and text types, data digitization and channels of communication. NSW in their comments. Indeed, our e-Bulletin editor lives in Mudgee, is beginning to review its Club membership data with respect to about 300 km from Sydney, and our Treasurer in the Southern security, storage, accessibility and useful future analysis. This will Highlands. Modern technology eliminates geographical distance. be pursued more vigorously in the second half of 2020. Our three editors for London and , e-Bulletin and Like many other States, we have heard frightening and sad Facebook are always busy with different angles of Club life or stories of drought and fires. And held events in rural towns to news. The Rally's website, www.2020rally.com.au has attracted help boost the local economy; namely the Gourmet Gadabouts many local and international viewers and positive comments as as either day or weekends or Long Runs into rural NSW. Our has the 2020 Rally Facebook page. The Club now has an Instagram joint NSW/ACT Club's commemoration of the first Rolls-Royce account but is still in its infancy. Event registration has become Heavy Twenty into Australia gradually attracts more members more streamlined with all monies directed to the Treasurer with and our historians discover new Australian related Rolls-Royce deposits via EFT or credit card. Cheques are now rare and history. And finally, the ever popular Overlander to the Federal undesirable. Monthly Minutes, Agendas, Secretary's, Treasurer's Rally presents new routes and interest in rural towns and places and Membership Registrar's Reports are circulated both in the e- of interest. Bulletin via the Club's group email plus in hard copy at meetings As 2019 celebrated the centenary of Bentley, there has been with the expectation of members reading and digesting the much discussion around this marque, especially with its early information pre-meeting. This allows for a shorter and concise history and association with Royce. A major decision was passed meeting with more time available for general discussion or new unanimously at our monthly NSW Club General Meeting that Business. 'Cricklewood W.O. Bentleys be included as eligible cars within our NSW cares for and maintains one of the SHRF Phantom V and eligible car list'. We know this is a contentious issue historically and holds an annual fundraising event. This famous car also attends have proposed a Motion to be tabled at the 2020 Council Meeting the All British Day and a couple of Club events. for all parties to consider and vote. None of the above could take place without a large committee As many of you know, hosting a Federal Rally is a 3-year project plus an enthusiastic and active membership. I particularly thank and the Great Gatsby Rally has provided both challenges and each one of the committee most sincerely. I truly wonder at opportunities. The world of sponsorship and advertisers has been everyone's passion and dedication of their many volunteered interesting to pursue as we receive no support from the Sydney hours. Over sixty years of Club success and management is gently Rolls-Royce dealership. In February 2020 the latter changed adapting to changing lifestyles across its membership and for hands from Trivett Bespoke to Autosports Group for Rolls-Royce seamless succession of its key players. and Bentley. Our final December general meeting was held in the Trivett Bespoke Rolls-Royce showroom with the unveiling of the Phantom VIII EWB. This was exciting and well received but the Brand Manager who organized the evening has now resigned and it is unlikely to be repeated. Once again, a variety of events were organized beyond our annual favourites; Annual Commemoration Run & Lunch of Queensland Branch Frank Carroll, President Royce's first car, Awards Presentation dinner, Concours judging Now halfway through my third year as president of the and Judges/apprentice Judge training. We reinstated the New Queensland Branch, I continue to enjoy active involvement with Members Welcome Evening and were happy to meet newly joined Queensland Branch Members with assistance from my wife Joan. members both from recently fire damaged rural towns to city After the 61st Rally, Joan published a great book (only 10 copies) dwellers. The annual display day returned to the old-fashioned recording the spectacular events there so we could give each of picnic on spacious lawns within a park setting, also attractive to the Rally Committee a personal reminder of their achievements - Members' dogs and grandchildren. Not grand but very relaxed and on reading that again, Joan and I decided to have another 'run' of convivial with plentiful parking and a coffee cart. As in previous 40 copies printed for sale to others. years, our Public display days included the Shannon's Sydney After we recovered from "the best Australian Rally ever", being Classic at its Eastern Creek display, Hunter Region All British Day the 61st Rally, held at Toowoomba last year, this Branch continued in Newcastle, All British Day in N Parramatta and the Terribly a busy program with "Carpark Capers" early each month (the 55th British Day in Queanbeyan. The Club's own Drive and Be Driven such event was held on 8th March 2020, being the last outing day as well as the Long Run & picnic are still popular. As are the before COVID-19 forced abandonment of events through till at three city based Dineamics lunches per annum, for the women in least end of May 2020) and a day-drive outing towards the end of the Club. Easy public transport access enables both regional and each month. city members to attend. Occasionally our NZ member flies in too. The Golden Oldies Run on 23rd June 2019 was followed by the We are aware of the diminishing knowledge base especially Annual Concours, again held at Ormiston House, on the shores of with our vintage and post war cars. This was highlighted after the Moreton Bay, with a strong attendance and enthusiastic support sudden death of well-known mechanic John Vawser in February from Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Brisbane, with Andrew Jackson and 2019. But it is encouraging to see at least three sons take over Jason Hodges displaying a new Rolls-Royce Dawn. Sadly, Bentley their father's vintage vehicles to restore and drive them. Two Brisbane and Bentley Gold Coast could not organise a display or technical workshops on Silver Shadows and Spirits and derivatives 'presence', for the first time in many years, despite active efforts have been run by Rolls-Royce trained retired mechanic, Andrew from me and others in the Branch to publish Bentley news in our Gibson in Charlie Frew's workshop with its hoist. Silver Spirits and monthly newsletter and 'court' the Bentley team. I and a few other Corniches are the current popular entry Club cars. branch members have visited the two Bentley showrooms and 7834 Præclarvm 3-20 attended events there through the year, but it seems their teams I have appreciated regular phone calls and emails from Federal have been distracted in promoting other marques among their President Joe Quattrocchi, who has led our very active Federal product range. Executive, including Stephen Peoples and Bruce Duncan, who On Saturday 24th August 2019, we celebrated 50 years as a are always wise and easy to communicate with, keen to help "Queensland Branch", with a gala black-tie dinner at the United our Club in every way! Kim Stapleton continues to be a great Service Club in Brisbane, entertaining a capacity crowd of 92 encouragement as Chief Judge, helping me as the Queensland people, a record attendance for a Branch dinner! A limited-edition Judge. book of memoirs and historic photos of this Branch was collated I appreciate being part of the RROCA as we look forward to by Sue Dunstan, assisted by Wallace Moorehouse, and published lifting of travel restrictions late May 2020 and great reunions for by me, now sold out. Beautifully engraved crystal dishes were our members. It was a great blow to all our members, to see the prepared and presented to six Foundation Members, with Leura Rally cancelled. Happier times are soon to return! certificates of appreciation. Our branch exhibited cars at All British Day on 22nd September 2019 in Brisbane and the 1967 Rolls-Royce Phantom V Limousine (owned by The Sir Henry Royce Foundation and housed at Coolum Showroom) was awarded "Best British Thoroughbred". South Australia Branch Michael Henningsen, A week later, we held a most enjoyable Branch AGM luncheon President at the SHRF Coolum Showroom, with a new record attendance of The South Australian Branch was well represented at the 49 members and guests on Sunday 29th September. Tony Carroll wonderful Federal Rally in Toowoomba with Stephen and Kay provided 'slow smoked beef' from his large mobile cooker, while my wife Joan provided all accompaniments and service, with Hoff man, Andrew and Vittoria Lee braving the drive in 'proper' cars happy helpers, being members who volunteered to serve and and Rory Poland and myself supported by Marie and David Furniss clean. With many arriving from the Gold Coast and Brisbane, we in their 'support Prado' enjoying the excellent camaraderie of the enjoyed morning coffee on arrival, guided tour of the Foundation Overlander. Thirteen SA members and partners together with two Showroom, followed by the AGM and then a display and drive/ guests attended the Rally so a healthy representation. be driven in the very latest Rolls-Royce Cullinan brought up for Back home the hard-working Committee ably supported by the event by Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, Brisbane! Almost everyone Secretary Peter Forbes and Treasurer David Furniss had in place an enjoyed driving or being driven in this magnificent motor car for interesting variety of functions to keep the Branch members not the two hours there. We then enjoyed the 'long lunch' and great only involved but tantalized! fellowship! A Luncheon at the Sporting Car Club of South Australia on the Freelance motoring writer lain Curry came by the AGM 26th May, although unfortunately not with a stellar number of gathering (at my request) to photograph the visiting Cullinan, participants was an excellent day and enabled attendees to inspect providing good media articles published around the country in the fabulous Eric Rainsford Library held at the Club and the SA following weeks. This has strengthened the Branch relationship with the new dealer, leading to invited members attending two Branch collection of Rolls-Royce and Bentley literature-the 'John later spectacular events at the Brisbane Rolls-Royce dealership Bull Library' the SA Branch literary collection is a fantastic resource and even more media publicity. for any individual in relation to our marque. After a well-attended lunch-drive to "Ocean View Estates" (in Sunday 7th July was a club run to the Lobethal Bierhaus in that the hills north of Brisbane) in October and a 'weekend away' at picturesque Adelaide Hills Township. A perfect clear Winter Day Kooralbyn Resort, west of Brisbane, 2019 concluded with a day of saw a healthy contingent of members wind their way through the fun at the Christmas Lunch and Awards Presentations held again picture-perfect Adelaide Hills to Lobethal. A hearty lunch combined this year on Brisbane's northside at the Brisbane International with some produce from the co-located microbrewery made for a Motel. memorable day. On Sunday 26th February 2020, we enjoyed one of the 'best Sunday 4th August was the Branch AGM at the Kooyonga Golf ever steak lunches' upon driving west ward from Brisbane to Club. We have held this event there for the last three years because the ever-popular Karoomba Winery! Sixty members and guests when you're on a good thing you stick to it! Thanks as always to John made the run, some travelling two hours each way and were Virgo the Chief Judge for his work with the awards, congratulations encouraged to 'spend up big' on fine wines to take home, assisting to all the recipients and an excellent Lunch made for a good day. rural families recover from long months of bushfires and drought! On this day, after good rain the previous month, the scenery was Mark Roberts stepped down from the Committee, thank you Mark spectacular with almost as many variations of green as we find in and Paul Howard joined the Committee. Thanks to David Furniss Ireland. for Chairing the AGM in my absence. Our well-planned Sunshine Coast weekend drive, with country Sunday 15th September saw a run to Anlaby Station, the historic pubs, lunches, dinner and touring carefully planned by my wife property of the Dutton family near Kapunda. It was a good run Joan, had to be cancelled, along with any other event till at least for the cars, it was well patronized and there were a few faces who 31st May, due to COVID-19 restrictions. We are already planning haven't been seen recently who attended so that was great! The joyful reunions for when these are wound back! tours of the garden and the homestead were extremely interesting Joan and I attended Motorclassica and Victoria Branch events and the work which has already been accomplished on what must in October 2020, continuing my efforts to strengthen inter-branch have been a somewhat run-down property is truly a credit to the relations. current owners. I record my enormous appreciation for the friendship and The historic River Murray town of Tailem Bend was the venue assistance I have enjoyed from all Queensland Branch members, for our next run on 13th October. Again, something diff erent, the especially those on the Management Committee and the run to the Hotel was direct via the South Eastern Freeway and the 'volunteers' who organise the many events through this past year, lunch was hearty Country fare (no sticky date pudding for dessert only some of which I have covered here. however!) The run home was via the ferry at , Langhorne Secretary, Glenn Cuffe, Treasurer, Will Thompson, Vice- President, Brian Carson and Newsletter Editors, Ian Warnett (till Creek, Strathalbyn and then Adelaide. Again, a well patronized and December 2019) and now Mitch Hennessey, along with Brett enjoyable day. Roberts (who organises the Carpark Capers) are worthy of special commendation for their efforts in this Branch. Præclarvm 3-20 7835 Federal Reports for 2019/2020 (cont.)

Victoria Branch Greg Wayman, President committee and other members. Attempts were made to cater for Over the past year we again saw a stable membership base, many interests, and it was encouraging that ideas for events came and we thank Stephen Peoples (who manages our membership from many members making the Club a club for everyone. portfolio) for his tireless efforts in liaising with potential new The 55th Anniversary of RROCA WA Branch will be celebrated members. We have seen a number of new members become in May. Our committee member Roy Whitchurch is keen to maintain the past history of the establishment of the club and has engaged very quickly, and we again thank Stephen along with all organised a luncheon on the 6th May at the Ocean Beach Hotel, our members for making them feel very welcome. The Victoria Cottesloe. There were approximately twenty people at the first Branch also continues to be well administered and maintains a meeting in 1965 at the same venue. stable financial base thanks to the careful stewardship of Brian After delays and postponements caused by heavy rain, the Williams - our Secretary and Jeff Knott - our Treasurer. Annual Concours was held at Stirling Square in historic Guildford The year was also characterised by significant member on the 25th August 2019.in glorious sunshine. Ron Magrath, Chief participation, with most events very well attended and an uplift in Judge, and Craig Morris, Assistant Judge, spent the morning numbers attending monthly general meetings. We have sustained judging ten cars. Congratulations to the winners of all classes, efforts to offer a diversity of events and speakers/activities at and particular note should be made of Maria and Brian Tilbury's monthly meetings. Some noteworthy events included: Phantom I tourer which was the outright Concours winner as well as also winning Class Two. Trophies were presented to the winners • Several very well attended "old fashioned" picnics, at the Annual Presentation Dinner at the Royal Fremantle Golf • A four-day weekend tour of Tasmania, involving Club on the 21st September 2019. The date of the 2020 Concours 12 cars and 25 people from Victoria and the participation of was moved to April 2020 hoping to beat the vagaries of the most Tasmanian members in various activities along the way. weather encountered last year, but it has now been deferred due In particular we would like to thank Mike Williams and Richard to the serious restrictions now in place to deal with the spread of Holtsbaum for their assistance in planning and helping to expedite Coronavirus. activities on the weekend, Whiteman Park Motor Museum was the venue for the AGM • Continued success of the Drive and be Driven day, on 28th July 2019. It provided a practical and convenient meeting room (reserved specifically for use by car clubs) and following the • A highly successful Concours display day at Springthorpe meeting, members were able to browse around the museum. The Common and featuring a picnic theme, main attraction was Daniel Ricciardo's Formula 1 Red Bull Renault • Several very successful midweek runs, which was on display there for several weeks. • A track day for motor sport enthusiasts, Our Federal Delegate, Mick Rust, is the co-ordinator of the • The Christmas Party which was very well attended. next RROCA Federal Rally. He is ably assisted by Stan Stroud and The Baker family hosted members to their farming property at fully supported by the committee. Kilmore, for what was one of the largest Christmas gatherings we Considerable planning has already been undertaken and we have seen. are prepared to host a successful rally in WA's beautiful and popular Margaret River region in the South-West. Last year saw the introduction of Distinguished Service I am extremely appreciative of the efforts of my conscientious Awards, for long standing members who have made an ongoing committee. There have been no changes in the roles within it contribution to the Victoria Branch. The two inaugural recipients for several years which has meant I have been able to work with were Terry Farrow and Ralph Plarre. We congratulate and thank consistency and predictability as we deal with the running of the Terry and Ralph for their dedication on numerous fronts. Branch. During the year we saw Angelo Baker hand over to Troy Sartori Whilst all aspects of all our lives have been curtailed by the as editor of our newsletter. Our thanks to Angelo for many years Coronavirus emergency, we must hope and pray that we are able of service in this role and to Troy for taking one of the most crucial to return to normality sooner rather than later and involvement in roles for the Branch. our clubs as motoring enthusiasts to be 'as before'. Finally, I would like to thank what has been a highly effective committee and associated appointees in contributing to the successful running of the Victoria Branch.

The Sir Henry Royce Foundation Research Award The Foundation “Archive” has a significant collection of historical material on both Rolls-Royce and Bentley in Australia in general and on RROCA and Western Australia Branch Diana Magrath, President individual Branch activities in particular. My 5 years as President of the Western Australian Rolls-Royce To encourage the publication of research based on this important archive Owners' Club have seen few changes in the demography and material, the Trustees have initiated The Sir Henry Royce Foundation Research Award. This Award, with a prize of $500, will be awarded annually atmosphere within the Club. There are currently 76 members to the person who, in the opinion of the Trustees, has made the best use and 100 cars. The sad passing of several older members has been of The Foundation “Archive” to research a topic of Rolls-Royce and Bentley compensated by an equal number of new members. It is important interest and who has published this research in “Præclarvm” or in wider here to acknowledge one death in particular - Diana Deacon who distribution, publicly available media. The key driver of this award is the use of The Foundation “Archive” was an early member of the Club, and as an early President she as the basis of the research and the publication of the results of this was honoured with the title of very first Woman President of any research. The Award is open to all, not just Members of the RROCA car club in Australia. She made a valuable contribution to the and closes on 28 February 2021 Rolls-Royce community in Perth for a number of years and will be Awarded annually, the Winner for 2020 will be long remembered. announced at the 2021 RROCA Annual Federal Rally The Club's social calendar was extended over the twelve months with a variety of runs and events organised by the

7836 Præclarvm 3-20 Anatomy of a Cancelled Federal Rally during COVID-19 Jeanne Eve - President RROCA (NSW Branch) am still being asked; ‘’why wasn’t the venue wrote to us that we had a $75,000 had fi nancially assisted both Queensland I2020 Great Gatsby Rally postponed until cancellation fee in our signed contract. and ACT clubs in the past. The letter from next year, rather than cancelled?’’ Let me We also faced a loss of venue deposits the Federal President on March 20 was explain the NSW Committee’s rationale. paid, reimbursement of participants’ fees neutral and centred on looking forward As anyone who’s organized a Federal Rally, plus negotiating refunds with Sponsors to a more normal existence with another it takes well over 2 years of planning and and Advertisers. As well as monies already statement that: ‘the federal executive feels cannot simply be restarted by pressing the spent and unrecoverable such as banners, it’s a state matter’. ‘On’ button. promotions, mementos, raffl e tickets etc. This was unsurprising as indeed each It was all because of the COVID-19 Initially NSW was staring at potential Club is a separate incorporated entity pandemic. Although bushfi res, fl ood and bankruptcy. answerable to its own State's Legislation. landslides almost succeeded. I love data All other States wanted NSW to They are also responsible for their own so here are some fi gures: consider postponement to 2021. On bank accounts, membership, meetings and Six weeks out and by March 15, 2020 March 17, a letter from the Federal events. And the latter includes contracts there were 339 rally participants registered President was circulated to all NSW for hosting the RROCA Federal Rally. from around Australia and overseas with members inviting NSW to host the When the Federal President’s letter was 156 Rolls-Royce and Bentleys (107:49) of same Rally at the same time in the same circulated to every NSW Club member which 37 were pre-WWII and we had 33 location next year as WA and Victoria had discussing the possibility of postponement Concours entrants. Also expected were an indicated their willingness to stand aside. to 2021, volunteers were invited to organize extra fi fty cars from the RROCA and BDC On March 18 we had an Extraordinary the Rally in 2021. Not one person off ered who were planning to just attend Sunday’s NSW committee meeting as our last face- and only a few for general assistance. The huge public display day at the Blue to-face before lock-down. 2020 Rally Committee was exhausted, Mountains Grammar School disappointed and were no longer (BMGS). available. Clearly a no-go in Hours of liaison had gone manpower. into working with the Leura The unscrambling of the 2020 Village Association, 1000s of Great Gatsby Rally has been people were expected at the Due to COVID-19 an enormous and dispiriting public display day at the BMGS Cancelled task with again hours of work with the raffl e being drawn from the Rally Registrar and supporting the charity, Beyond Blue. The Looking at all the facts we were not Treasurer. We have recovered most of police were informed, as were the local prepared to place the NSW Club in the the non-refundable venue refunds after councils. Six weeks out and nearly fi fty same position the following year with the careful negotiation. Today discussions are local businesses were just about to paste same possible fi nancial and social risks. As continuing with our major sponsor and up our special posters and sell the raffl e well the majority of Rally attendees fell in whether some refund is expected. A big tickets. A few Club members had run an the 60-70 age bracket, followed by a 70-80 thank you to our local club members who 'Under the Bonnet' day at BMGS with a group, the age groups, we were continually were advertisers and sponsors and arrived variety of Club cars and were encouraging being reminded, that were particularly at at an agreement suiting all parties. the school's pupils, especially those risk in they caught COVID-19. Every rally participant has now been studying in the STEM subjects. Many more Our concerns were: 100% refunded and snail mailed some hours of communication occurred with • There was no guarantee that Club Rally mementos. To answer some queries, other venues, who had already suff ered members would attend in 2021, Margaret and Barrie Gillings (founding business downturn during the bushfi res, • We would not attract such a high members #1 & 2,) donated metal copies to display the best of the local environs to number of participants again, of Rolls-Royce and Bentley Chassis Plates Rally participants. • Major sponsors would not be as for Sunday’s elegant Awards evening; of There is no need for me to repeat the attracted, ostrich feathers and pearls. programme, except to say the emphasis • A complete overhaul of the Rally Sparkling black and gold place mats and was on fun, education and history with a budget was required, gold coins were for the Saturday night of 1920s theme throughout and especially • No guarantee that the same illicit drinking, card playing, photo booth celebrating the vintage cars of the Club venues, sponsors and advertisers for our and tomfoolery plus the odd gangster prop and the beauty of the Blue Mountains. 5-day Rally would still be functioning, with a fabulous jazz band and dance fl oor, We attracted international affi liated • Only the Anzac Day weekend was with Peter Moran's Riviera 1920s Silver Club members from USA (29), Canada (2), available on the Fairmont’s calendar for Ghost parked under the lights of the grand UK (6), Japan (2) and NZ (1). For interest, March-May, 2021, ballroom. Australia was represented by NSW (151) • Venues would demand larger non- It was fun creating and arranging it all Victoria (80) Queensland (35) SA (19) WA refundable deposits. and the Rally committee was gratifi ed (10) ACT (2) and Tasmania (2). Plus the eye At that time, no-one knew the severity with the huge interest. The NSW Branch is of Sponsors and Advertisers to the tune of of social, fi nancial or health outcome of the large with members who have an array of over $30,000, which did not include motor pandemic eff ects. We still don’t. professional skills which were generously car companies. The Committee decided to seek legal donated. The venue and location were By March 15, three major Overlanders wisdom and also ask the Federal Executive suitable, the local community very had cancelled their road trips, on March what position NSW stood at with fi nancial receptive and the stars aligned after three 16, the Great Gatsby Rally was cancelled assistance. We knew that the Club years of preparation. But now the Great and by March 22, the Prime Minister insurance would not cover cancellation Gatsby Rally magic and the Rally itself declared social lock-down. Our major from pandemics. NSW also knew that it have gone. Præclarvm 3-20 7837 The Priest and the Doctor David Neely HLM, SHRF Historical Consultant (NSW)

t was 1955. Father Harry Brown and Dr IKen Starr were looking to buy a late model Bentley and a late model Rolls- Royce, respectively. In Sydney the place to look was in George Sevenoaks’ Rolls-Royce and Bentley showroom. It was at number 501 on the Pacific Highway at Crows Nest, on the right-hand side coming from the city. Opposite was George’s Monterey Service Station where George’s mechanic was in charge. If a phone call for George went through to the service station, the mechanic will look across the road, see that George was there, and announce, “George is in the lace department!” George Sevenoaks had two late model, one owner, cars for sale. A Bentley that was five years old and a four years-old Rolls-Royce. George would become a Foundation Member of the Rolls-Royce Owners’ Club of Australia in 1956 and an son Ken had a Rolls-Royce Silver Dawn, numerous stock and land deals became HLM in 1971. Our prospective buyers would SDB70, delivered on 28 June 1951. The legendary. He owned or leased one have asked George about the histories of wool industry was booming at the time hundred or more properties in all, mainly the cars and their owners. and Bentleys and Rolls-Royces, among a in central and western New South Wales. The Bentley in the showroom that was number of British makes, were popular Although he was a cattleman from the of interest to Father Brown was a 1950 with wool farmers like the Leahys. York mid-1930s, his wool clip was reputedly MkVI model, chassis number B230FV in Motors was importing them six at a time one of the largest in Australia. The stations black. The Sydney agents, York Motors, to meet the demand. Apprentices would he owned at various times included delivered the car on 3 March 1950 to be sent down to the wharves to unpack Cultowa, 212,000 acres on the Darling John Jeremiah Leahy (1875-1959). John the wooden crates and assemble them. A River naear Wilcannia, Oxley, 50,000 acres Leahy subsequently had two more total of 231 of these Bentleys came new to at the head of the Macquarie Marshes, Bentleys, a Mk VI, B367GT, delivered on Australia between 1947 and 1955. Burra, 20,000 acres at Tumbarumba, and 28 September 1950 and a Bentley R-type, John Leahy’s father was a butcher and in Queensland, Mount Sturgeon, 706 sq. B230UM, delivered on 11 March 1954. His from a modest family background Leahy miles near Hughenden, and Oban, 1100 sq. assembled a vast pastoral empire. His miles at Dajarra. Although he had country homes at Bathurst and Forbes, the family lived at ‘Welbeck’, Strathfield, until 1942, and then at Roseville Chase. His favourite property was ‘Manna Park’, near Condobolin, and that was the address when his Bentley, B230FV, was delivered. above: George Sevenoaks’ showroom at Crows Nest, Sydney, with a Rolls-Royce 20/25 h.p. behind a Silver Dawn. Rolls-Royce historians are dismayed that there is no hyphen in the signage! [‘Rolls-Royce and Bentley in the Sunburnt Country’ page 358] far left: Copy from George Sevenoaks’ receipt book. left: Copy of the receipt for the Bentley purchased by Father Brown. 7838 Præclarvm 3-20 George Sevenoaks sold the Bentley Mk four-bedroom brick home in VI to the Rev. Henry W. (Harry) Brown, the Sydney seaside suburb a Catholic priest from Blayney, on 25 of Manly was £3,750 and a February 1955. Harry Brown was born at four-bedroom brick and tile Lue, Rylstone, in the central tablelands bungalow in Chatswood on region of NSW, in 1911. He left school Sydney’s leafy north shore at 13 and assisted in the family’s general was £4,500. Did the priest store and post office in Lue. He was and the doctor get good determined, however, to go on the land. value in purchasing their He learned to shear, first with blades, and Bentley and Rolls-Royce? then machines. He taught himself wool Conventional wisdom is that classing from books borrowed from the no one needs a Bentley or a Public Library of NSW. He was adept at Rolls-Royce (unlike a house) carpentry and blacksmithing. He made so perhaps the price doesn’t and sold wool presses and had his father matter. negotiate the purchase of 185 acres of [Acknowle dgment: land. He commuted to the farm in his 1928 Special thanks to Peter ‘Baby Austin’. It was said that “he always Condon, Diocesan Archivist, had a car and loved a good one”. At the age Catholic Diocese of Bathurst, of 20 he decided to become a priest. With for information about Father little primary and no secondary education, Brown]. he had to study hard. He received £60 per right: Copy of the receipt for the year rent from his farm and this paid for his Silver Dawn purchased by seminary fees. He was ordained in 1938 at Dr Starr. St Mary’s, Mudgee. He served in Gilgandra, Rockley, Blayney from 1955 to 1959, when below centre and lower: This is he bought the Bentley, and Gulgong. He how the Bentleys came. Consider- able eff ort was needed to unload was the parish priest at Gulargambone and put the cars together. [‘Rolls- from 1964 to 1971. He died in 1971 and is Royce and Bentley in the Sunburnt buried in Mudgee. Country’ page 382]. Father Brown paid George Sevenoaks £3,000 for the Bentley. Perhaps the money came from his farm as he would not yet have inherited from his parents - his mother died in 1956 and his father in 1966. It appears that Father Brown kept the Bentley to the time of his death as NSW Branch Club member, Kenneth Baxter, is the next recorded owner of B230FV in the 1970s. The Rolls-Royce in the showroom that caught to Dr Starr’s attention was a 1951 Silver Dawn, chassis number SDB12. York Motors delivered the car on 16 March 1951 in Sydney to Sir Charles Lloyd-Jones (b. 1878) of the David Jones department store family. His grandfather, David Jones, established the firm in 1838. Lloyd-Jones served as Chairman of David Jones Limited from 1920 to his death in 1958. He was knighted in 1951. He studied art as a young man, an interest which led him to become an arts patron, including as a trustee of the Art Gallery of NSW. He was the first chair of the Australian Broadcasting Commission in 1932 and commodore of the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron from 1949 to 1955. Lloyd-Jones also had a 1954 Bentley R-type, B21YA. His Rolls-Royce was one of 114 new Rolls-Royce Silver Dawns that came to Australia from 1949 and 1955. The Rolls-Royce Silver Dawn was sold for £3,300 to Sir Kenneth William Starr (1908-1976) on 31 August 1955. Starr was a distinguished surgeon and had a stellar medical career. He was knighted in 1971 for services to medicine and the NSW Cancer Council. The prices for the Bentley at £3,000 and the Rolls-Royce at £3,300 were handsome amounts in 1955. So how did they compare with, for example, real estate at the time? A

Præclarvm 3-20 7839 News from the Registers

We do become used to the Twenty Topics No. 85 road information provided in modern cars, so sometimes feel Tricky Maintenance and Information: at a loss in our Twentys. here is always a maintenance issue that is Not only is the odometer Toverlooked. difficult to read, it is 7% slow The Handbook does not mention anywhere due to a change of wheels and how to lubricate the shutter mechanism; I gearing, so I invested in a GPS use a can of motor bike chain lube available Trip Meter which is powered by from motor bike shops, to oil the brake jaws, the plug in the switch box and carburettor linkages and the like. But, having is mounted on a suction cap never worried about the shutters in the past, I attached to the windscreen. It took the can to them as follows: operates on between 4 and 10 Each side of the blade swivels were squirted satellites and displays latitude individually, then the lever swivels on the off and longitude as well as the side of the blades inside the frame, then the direction of travel. It has two above: Tom Batchelor of Reno, wonderful wheel cleaning apparatus fulcrum at the bottom of the radiator, then the distance recorders so that with a stand to hold the wheel at waist height and a suitably connections and levers under the bonnet, then when on tour, section and total aged-seat in front to allow comfortable cleaning. the pulley on the firewall, then the control lever distances can be displayed as A Handbook's Clue to History: which is not easy to reach under the instrument well as speed, all in kilometres or miles. Touring Some years ago, I bought a December board. now with Google directions and this Trip Meter 1922 Twenty Handbook. The outside front has will be no excuse for getting lost or arriving late! I used a mirror and a torch and I gave the “E.F.Clark” written in pencil, the inside front steering wheel controls a squirt as well. I was Tom Batchelor of Reno, Nevada owns GRK27 page has ”RR Elmstead” written in red pencil amazed at the result. The shutters not only are which is one of the earliest 3 speed Twentys to and two of the following pages have been much easier to use but open considerably wider be sold in the USA. He has made up a wonderful rubber stamped in red “Rolls-Royce Limited”. as well. They and the steering wheel controls wheel cleaning apparatus comprising a stand I emailed Tom Clarke as to who was E.F.Clark. have a much silkier feel, just as they should. to hold the wheel at waist height with a seat in He replied that he was an Electrical Engineer at front from which to operate. Rolls-Royce and I note from John Fasal’s book One forgets that the shutters are at the that he is listed as an Electrical Engineer in forefront of all the action, in the rain, dust This Stands the Test of Time: Ernest Hives’ Experimental Department which and smog! Motor bike chain lube is very useful It has recently been reported that Academics was located at Derby. for those small items which do not have a at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas have lubricator, not only because it is in a pressure found that the drivers of flashy cars are the worst We know, then, who to blame for the can for getting at inaccessible spots, but on the road. They have “a sense of superiority, less than perfect Twenty electrical system, because it is very sticky and stays where it is narcissism and no empathy for other road users. especially the third brush dynamo, although directed. Their behaviour is jerkish”. As Twentys could Royce did stop development work on a vibration regulator in 1921 as an economy While up the front end of the car, I gave the never be said to be flashy, the conclusion must measure. I should mention that the Handbook radiator a polish and then sprayed it with WD40 be that we Twentyists are exemplary drivers! is as unused, so either the car it was attached to followed by a wipe-over, which protects it from The Family accuse me of driving everything like never needed attention or alternately the book the “dread black-spot” caused by city rain. the Twenty! has spent its life in a drawer! Recent Miles or Rather Lack of Them: Registrars The Virus has put a hold on expeditions in the Twenty, so to save tyre flat spots, I have put the Bryan Inder, Registrar, Unit 27, The Pines, mob: 0414-665-563 car up on stands, the first time, other than for Silver Ghost Register 51-53 The Crescent, [email protected] Manly, NSW, 2095 maintenance, in the 60 years I have owned it. Tyre flat spots are very annoying while driving John Rowney, Registrar, PO Box 296, tel: 07-5554-6508 and are hard to work out as the car doesn’t go Small Horsepower Register Broadbeach, QLD, 4218 [email protected] fast enough to heat the tyres to return them to round. I don’t bother to dust the crankshaft. Frank Carroll, Registrar, P.O. Box 6007, tel: 07-5446-6881 Derby Phantom Register Upper Mt Gravatt, QLD, 4122 [email protected] Geoff Harrison has reported that the longer spark plugs fitted to his car seem to have Mal Henderson, Registrar, PO Box 150, tel: 02-9542-8401 resulted in better torque in top gear. What Derby Bentley Register Caringbah, NSW, 1495 [email protected] remains to be observed is whether the longer plugs oil up and better fuel economy. John Harriman, Registrar, 5 Moor Street, tel: 03-9598-6702 Silver Wraith, Silver Dawn, Bentley Sandringham, VIC, 3191 [email protected] The Twenty is so logical. To adjust the clock MkVI and R-Type Register after daylight saving one just turns the knob to the clock hands. It has taken me a year to work Geoffrey May, Registrar, 38 Gordon Street, tel: 03-5985-4774 out that to change the time on my Golf, one has Silver Cloud, Bentley S Series, Rye, VIC, 3941 [email protected] to look under “settings” in one of 4 handbooks, Phantom V and VI Register in order to find out how to do it! Gareth Bryant, Registrar, 10 Heritage Court, mob: 0421-122-126 Rolls-Royce Magazines from before 1958: Silver Shadow, Bentley T Series Macleod VIC, 3085 [email protected] The current issue of RROC's The Flying and Derivatives Register Lady has a list of the Rolls-Royce Bulletins published by the Company up until 1958, Bruce Duncan, Registrar, 5 Fadden Place, tel: 02-9487-3095 Silver Spirit, Bentley Mulsanne and Wahroonga NSW, 2076 [email protected] which I have never seen before. They were Related Types (SMART) Register publicity magazines which covered tours and aero activities, including a “House“ article Ralph Plarre, Registrar, 14 Riverview Road, mob: 0419-352-948 often describing a part of England, as well All Rolls-Royce and Bentlley Essendon, VIC, 3040 [email protected] as segments written by owners about their models - Post 2003 Register escapades always in their Rolls-Royce. Many 78407840 Præclarvm 3-20 News from the Registers

great pictures were included of the cars in adjoining wall and was almost ripped off! Back Blond, aged 90, replied; “Actually, I really like unlikely places, all in black and white. for repairs! I can remember a memorable winter the 20. It is so light and delicate and runs so I have a significant number of the Bulletins trip in 1961 to the Wagga Federal Rally travelling quietly. Royce had a lot of good engineers at which I have collected over many years. The together with Tony and Peter in our Twentys but the end of the First World War”. list in The Flying Lady has many gaps, there competing all the way! 70A2 won the Vintage David Davis (NSW) 42G1 are records of publication, but, in several Concours. cases, no copies found. It starts with reference Last Præclarvm: Silver Ghost Register to commencement in 1911 or 1912 but issues The photo of a Rolls-Royce with a Vita don’t appear to be regular until the mid-1920s. Tan sign on the front on page 7803 in the last From 1927 until 1934 they appeared twice or Præclarvm was a land mark at Surfers Paradise. What Could Have Been: three times a year. From 1934 until 1938 they The owner sold tan lotion from it and finally It was really very pleasing to see that nine appeared 4 times a year with 3 published in abandoned it. Adrian Stephens of Runaway Bay Register members signed on with their Silver 1939. One issue was published in 1951, 2 in in Queensland bought it and has restored it as Ghosts to attend the 2020 Federal Rally in 1952, 2 in 1953, 3 in 1954, 1 in 1955, 2 in 1956, 2 an exhibit chassis. It is 44G8, an early Twenty. Leura, NSW. The NSW Branch of the Club in 1957 and the last in 1958. Originally fitted as a Sphinx Tourer, it was used by spent a lot of time and energy in arranging The Twenty does not feature prominently Motors Limited in Adelaide as a demonstrator. It a wonderful rally only to be overtaken by in any of the issues I have, probably because it is pleasing to know that the indignities that the the world-wide lock-down caused by the lived in the shadow of the 40/50. car suffered have been redressed. COVID-19 Pandemic. My earliest is June 1928. The frontispiece I was also interested to read in the last In this report I am submitting a ‘virtual pictures a Phantom tourer on the edge of a Præclarvm that GLK62, a Windovers open-drive reality’ presentation of what might have been, precipice in the Pyrenees, obviously a very limousine has been sold by the West Australian so as to honour the work put into the Rally uncomfortable situation! The 'House' article Museum which has owned it for many years. and attendance of nine Silver Ghosts. Photos entitled, ”Roads to the West” describes the I saw it there some time ago and it certainly are courtesy of Shay Gillings, a volunteer journey from London to Exeter, of great looked as if it needed a friend. I took pictures of committee member of the 2020 Great Gatsby interest 92 years later. There is a description its interior details for future reference. I drove it Rally. The story goes: of the new London Repair Depot, photos of when owned by Terry Bruce. It was like a new car Rally Headquarters, the Fairmont Hotel different Phantoms Is in Regent Street, Monte and certainly demonstrated to me how a Twenty in Leura NSW, on Wednesday, April 29 2020, Carlo, India, Spain and Cuba. There are further should be. It would have covered minimal miles saw the usual excitement of the arrival of articles on the School of Instruction, the visits of since then so will give much pleasure to its new all the beautiful and varied models of Rolls- the Prince of Wales and the King of Afghanistan owner, Kelvin Ferris. Royce and Bentley vehicles especially nine to the Derby Factory, new types of British Aero A friend recently gave me the programme for Rally Registered Silver Ghosts and the Engines, Rolls-Royce of course, concluding with the 1960 London to Brighton Veteran Car Run. reunion of Club friends, old and new. We were photos of a Phantom tourer in the Pyrenees, no Full of great articles including “To Brighton- On doubt the same one in the earlier picture on the the Boil” relates in some detail the conducting Silver Ghosts signed-up to Join the edge of the precipice. of a 1904 Turner-Miesse steam car. It has a 2020 Leura Rally (cont. overleaf): They are all full of interest, particularly the flash boiler and 3 cylinder engine of the single below: 1922 Chassis # 70 SG , May Bros. Tourer, photos of Rolls-Royces in such unlikely places. acting type with chain drive. It uses a gallon of G Blenkhorn (Vic) While Twentys are in short supply, there are water for every 10 to 18 miles and a gallon of below lower: 1922 Chassis # 12 HG, George 4 in the June 1929 issue, probably the first kerosene every 50 minutes whether travelling Williams Tourer, B Inder (NSW) publication of these now well- known photos, or not. Its cruising namely a Barker All weather in Denham speed is 20 mph. Hills Village, an Open Drive Limousine in Rotten have to be anticipated Row, Princess Louise leaving Seaforth House and a decision made in the tallest limousine possible and a 4 speed as to whether to take Twenty, similar to Lord Lonsdale’s yellow a run at it or proceed Open Drive Limousine in the Epsom enclosure with caution so as to together with 6 other 40/50s. The Bulletins are have sufficient steam an interesting reflection of the era of our cars. for the climb. Similar to Other News: tackling hills in a Twenty! The February edition of The Automobile Entry no.240 is the 10 has an advertisement for 70 A2 which is a three hp Rolls-Royce chassis speed Twenty restored by Tony Strachan and 20154 entered by Peter Harwin in the 1960s. They took off the Oliver Langton, its then remains of the original Smith and Waddington owner. The programme limousine which had been converted to a utility relates that; ”not more and fitted an Arthur Mulliner body from an than 20 twin cylinder Austin Heavy Twenty which made up a very (Rolls-Royce) cars were presentable car, christened “The Glass Coach” made, of which three because of its large windows. The car had a are known to survive”. turn of speed and was light to handle. Tony and Entry no.249 is a Peter sold it to the tennis player, Arthur Ash, so Sunbeam entered by it went to the USA. It found its way to England The Montague Motor in 1994. Museum, the driver J. Brabham. A few years ago, Tony caught up with its then owner and reported that it was in From News and good condition and drove well. Bert Ward Record; February 2020: reported that he picked up the car at Smith On being questioned and Waddington after the bodywork was as to the favourite of completed in 1923. On backing the car out his several Rolls-Royces of the shop, the driver’s door caught on the and Bentley, former racing driver Peter Præclarvm 3-20 7841 News from the Registers especially proud of the eff ort of Jane Price anticipated Silver Ghost Register Dinner. Here driving her 1924 Silver Ghost Chassis # 57AU our guests and enthusiasts enjoyed a lovely Derby Bentley Register with the Overland from Melbourne. At the dinner with much conviviality lead by Peter Club reception the members received their Crauford and Keith Wherry with true and not so ‘goodie bag’ with a surprised gift together true tall tales. Derby's Downunder. with a list of events and attendance vouchers, Silver Ghost custodians and distinguished ctions that have arisen as a result of these a list of fellow entrants, local area maps and others were up early on Friday morning for associated drives. Aunusual times, I haven’t been to see the Dawn Patrol, always a brisk start especially progress on the Gurney Nutting because its 1.5 The Thursday events included many in the mountains, where all enjoyed a hearty hours away. ‘Technical Sessions’ and ‘afternoon tea’ at breakfast, [free of cost for the drivers!] followed the delightful ‘Blandford’ cottage, the Leura by a day of long drives. That evening there was Noel McIntosh (not an RROCA member) mountain home of Greta Moran and our the welcome cocktail party ‘The Fairmont convenes a loose group called Derby’s Register Member Peter Moran. This evening Aff air’. Downunder. He has the contact details of nearly all (if not all) Derby owners in Australia was the Silver Ghost Register Members' Saturday morning entailed a Concours highlight of the year, this being the much and is a board member of the Derby Bentley breakfast at historic Hydro Majestic Hotel --- Society of the RROC Inc. in the US. how did our Club do it for $30.00 each as last Silver Ghosts signed-up to Join the Noel has hosted a number of Zoom 2019 Leura Rally: (cont.) time I visited they wanted $85.00 each for afternoon tea? This was followed by Concours meetings on Derbys and they have been very below: 1923 Chassis # 65 LK, Gazzard Tourer, A successful. Probably more successful than any Maden (Vic) judging. The weekend highlight was a themed evening of fun at the Rally Headquarters “The other meeting available to Australian owners. below centre: 1923 Chassis # 14 PK, P Moran The last meeting had up to 36 in attendance (NSW) Great Gatsby Party”. And what a night! The display day on Sunday at Blue Mountains and in cooperation with Richard Edgell the below lower: 1924 Chassis # 64 EU, Smith and Derby Bentley registrar of the RREC, the Waddington Tourer, M Matheson (NSW) Grammar School saw a nice day, cool but sunny with a great display of over 150 Rolls-Royce and attendees were from around the world. There below right top: 1923 Chassis # 38 EM, Park were people from Australia, NZ, Ireland, Ward Touring Saloon, P Crauford (SA) Bentley vehicles. At the evening ‘Putting on the Ritz’ Presentation Dinner we learnt the winner Scotland, Wales, England and somewhere in below right bottom: 1924 Chassis # 123 EM, Europe (I think). Dubois Tourer, R Vincent (NSW) of the concours is ……………….? Sadly, Monday was Noel started with a series of photos of the time for all the great restoration of his beautiful drop head rebuild/ events and excitement restoration. There were photos of the staged came to a close with the works and issues that arose and some of the ‘Toodle Pip -- Farewell ways he managed them. He is a very skilled Breakfast’ and we engineer, but kept it at an understandable all headed for home, level. He answered questions as he went looking forward to through the activity and provided photos to the next Federal Rally explain many of the issues. in a world free of the Following that participants in the meeting COVID-19 Pandemic. asked questions or supplied photos explaining Bryan Inder (NSW) diffi culties and solutions to the diffi culties. 12HG Some questions were answered by other participants. Even for me with my limited mechanical understanding it was a very interesting

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meeting. I need to move from my iPad to the division near the rear door column PC and learn how to provide photos to the and manually wind the blind down. Zoom meeting. The blind driving mechanism was Many of the attendees probably would an old device with a pulley on a not have attended a meeting under any motor driven continuous chain. A other circumstances. Physically getting them cord was looped around the pulley together with information on their cars readily which moved up and down on a available would be is virtually impossible. loop as the chain circulated by an Much valuable information was exchanged electric motor. See Figure 1. and sources of documents and parts provided. It was about fi ve years ago when It is incredibly simple to attend one of these I fi rst tackled the remediation of meetings as demonstrated by my being able the blind. Every time I fi xed it, the to attend. As stated, an opportunity that contraption would last for about two probably would never seen the light of day to ten cycles, then fail. About every other than in our present circumstances. eighteen months I would attempt to This could well continue once normal travel fi x it, and then get a few more cycles is resumed as it overcomes problems that out of it. This time, since the car even free travel is unable to easily overcome. currently can’t be driven, I thought I Any Australian Derby owners are of course would really put in a big eff ort in and welcome to attend. I can provide details and fi x it once and for all. contacts to allow it to occur. I pulled the timber and carpet Mal Henderson (NSW) covers off , and removed the drive B111EJ, B201HM chain mechanism. To be doubly sure of what I was doing, I opened up a post on our club’s Australian Rolls- Royce Forum, and got some really Small Horsepower Register good information. Tom Clarke sent me a few articles on the system which is called the Piper Blind, and Scotland Trip Postponed: he included a copy of the original Pamela and I were planning to join Peter patent granted in 1936 in the UK Jordan-Hill in his 1934 Rolls-Royce 20/25 to George Piper, John Gurney (GYD29) in June this year for a tour of Scotland Nutting and George Eden. The with the 20-Ghost Club. We were looking patent showed a couple of modes forward to the trip with GYD29’s rebuilt motor of operation of the mechanism, but running beautifully and the sunroof fully my system was somewhat diff erent leak-proof as mentioned in earlier jottings in to both these modes. Præclarvm. The trip has now been postponed On the RR Forum, Jim Walters until September 2021, and we all hope the from British Columbia, was very world disruptions due to the dreaded virus familiar with the Piper Blind and will be over by then, and we can all return to posted sound advice and provided enjoying the benefi ts of our Small HP Vehicles, a good electrical drawing of the ideal system. and this trip to Scotland in particular. Jim’s system which incorporates a relay, raises above top: Figure 1 - John's Sketch of the WXA68 – Blind terror: the blind with one push on the operating Blind mechanism on his 1934 20/25 GYD29. No, this isn’t a horror story in the switch, and retracts the blind with a second above: Figure 2 - Jim Walters' (USA) drawing bloodthirsty sense, just long-winded tale of my push (see Figure 2). My system, which has a of ideal electrical circuit to suit this Blind incompetence at work. modern relay in the circuit, looked like it could assembly. WXA68 is still awaiting her engine from the be similar to Jim’s drawing, albeit somewhat bottom: Figure 3 - The hidden double pulley rebuild in Sydney – it is almost ready but the more complicated. However, the wiring in with the cord in position (refer to Figure 1 for cylinder head is stuck in the workshop of a sub- WXA68 is virtually impossible to trace. how this is used in the Blind mechanism) contractor who unfortunately has signifi cant I had decided to leave implementing Jim’s family health issues to deal with, and the job suggestions until after I got WXA68 can’t be completed. back on the road. I didn’t want to Without the Wraith engine to install, I fi lled do anything with many exposed, in my time by sorting out all the idling issues unconnected live wires which could with my Corniche DRH32489 for the early part potentially short out. I replaced a of this year. I then returned to doing those broken microswitch at the base little jobs on the Wraith which otherwise of the chain and put the whole might not get done for a while. I have always system back together as it had been had problems with the holland blind in the originally when I bought the car. division of WXA68. This blind is in addition to (Why do something today that you the conventional glass division, with both these can put off until tomorrow?) devices being electrically operated from the How many jammed and driver’s dashboard and from the armrests of broken cords does it take before both rear passenger’s seats. a mechanical idiot realises that The holland blind played up when I fi rst something else is wrong? The bought the car, and became stuck in the up answer is about 2 days’ worth. After position. I didn’t drive the car since I couldn’t these two very unproductive days, use the main rear vision mirror. After about I realised that the cord running 3 weeks of procrastinating, I managed to between the roof and the head lining disassemble the left-hand section of the to the other side blind on the driver’s Præclarvm 3-20 7843 News from the Registers

left: Figure 4 - The Blind mechanism Hospital where they undertook multiple with micro-switch on left (in black). scans, tests and interviews, including all left lower: The blind drive motor (l) those for COVID-19 as at that stage it was and its control relay (r). early in the pandemic's run and they were by the cord to its anchoring point was learning. He remained there for a week, with perhaps somewhat dodgy and could the wound slowly shrinking. be causing the cord to get tangled up The result was that he is still in with the drive system. A signifi cant Queensland, recovering from a suggested part of the anchored end of the cord spider bite contemplating his future as he was hidden behind timber framework has now also bought a new home in Hervey and other obstacles. I then found Bay into which he will now retire and resume the original anchoring point (a wood his Registrar duties with renewed vigor. screw with washers) which was very Præclarvm wishes John a continued close to the chain pulley at the top of return to good health as well as enjoying this its circuit. This anchoring position was exciting new venture and hopes the Brisbane very diffi cult to reach, but I managed to spiders do not travel that far north! anchor the cord in this original position John also asked that all Club Members (with some diffi culty) and restrung the examine the details of the 2020 Dawn Patrol cord. The inaccessibility of this original XVIII below and make plans to attend to position was probably the reason it enjoy a happy band of Tourists enjoy the hadn’t been used for some years. comradery of this annual event. I then tried the system and got Please expect a Register Report from him smooth and regular movement up and in the next edition. - ed. down of the holland blind. Success at John Harriman (Vic) last! What a relief! SBA74 So now I have the blind working well and the timber and carpeting reinstalled. I won’t be able to discover Shadow & T Register side, was partly jammed on the twin pulley in how the button controls the raising and the headlining. This couldn’t be unjammed lowering of the blind until the wiring of the car by any means I tried, and eventually I had to is restored. If it is not a one-push-up, one-push- Register Trip to South East NSW. remove additional timberwork and take part down action, I will rewire the system using Jim ell after a very dark patch, it looks like of the headliner off , then remove the off ending Walters’ circuit and get the ultimate “Rolls- Wsome blue sky is breaking through the double pulley. All this had to be done without Royce” solution. clouds. dislodging the cord from the hidden pulley John Rowney (Qld) By the time this goes to print, we should have on the driver’s side of the roof. I eventually WXA68, B25KL, DRH32489. some substantial relaxing of recent restrictions unjammed the cord and got the cord properly that, with some care and responsibility, should located on the twin pulley. (See Figure 3). allow us to return to some normality in our lives. I then noticed that the blind wasn’t fully Silver Wraith, Silver Dawn and On a positive note, I have commenced rewinding eff ectively, so I removed the bracket Bentley Mark VI/R Type Register discussions with our friends organising the which held the fi xed part of the blind axle and Candello Show next year. gave it an extra turn to increase the tension in the roller. With this done, I could manually raise and lower the blind without problem – it was Your Dawn Register 2020 DAWN PATROL XVIII particularly smooth. Partial success!! Registrar has been in Contact with Your All things being equal, the tradition of the Dawn Patrol will I looped the cord around the chain Editor, to describe his continue in 2020, so please lock away the dates of mechanism pulley, assembled everything, latest going-ons. and promptly got the cord jammed in the gear Friday, 18th to Monday, 21st September 2020 John got himself The Dawn/Mark VI Register invites all Register vehicles and chain mechanism. This occurred a few involved in the Covid times but there were also a few unexpected lock-down by travelling and all Club Members and Friends additional events which occurred to help to Queensland just as it to its annual weekend together. brighten my day. started to visit friends. This year to be held in Yass, NSW Since the battery and all the electrics on the He was required to self Wraith were disconnected due to the engine isolate and was in the staying at the Swaggers Motor Inn. removal, I had been using my jump start process of doing so Register vehicles are welcome, but not required, battery to temporarily power the system. All when he relaxed one All Club vehicles are welcome, but not required, seemed to be good until I wound the driven night on the balcony Coming to enjoy yourself though is “essential”. gear wheel off its shaft since the motor was of his friend's house. going in the wrong direction. The driven wheel Like a lot of Victorians Rooms from $120/night to $150/night relies solely on rotation in one direction to keep who visit the tropical including continental breakfast. it on its threaded shaft. The polarity of a DC Queensland summer motor is important! he suff ered some from Swaggers Motor Inn I also managed to jump the chain off the mosquito bites; or so Phone: 02-6226-9900. gear wheel after I had forgotten to tighten he thought. swaggersmotorinn@gmail,com the chain tension adjuster on the free spinning The next morning he Essential that you indicate you’re booking from the RROCA then top gear wheel. The whole mechanism had to awoke to fi nd his ankle please advise Robyn of your booking. be disassembled since the chain was jammed very badly swollen and solidly between the gear and the backing plate. he was unable to walk. Contact Robyn Henderson, I plugged on. There were more attempts and An Ambulance was 0427-490-557 or [email protected] called and John was more jammed cords, then the Eureka moment All Club Members are Welcome! hit me! I thought that the tortuous path taken taken to a Brisbane 78447844 Præclarvm 3-20 News from the Registers

As you are aware, we unfortunately had Now that the company’s owned by BMW, we receiving orders from our customers and to cancel this year due to the devastating suspect that Silver Mist, as romantic as it sounds we are heeding the British government’s bushfi res that hit the area. in English, has been forever shelved. Pity...... call to resume production and support the It is at this stage confi rmed for January Happy Motoring! British economy. The last few weeks have 17th 2021. We will have to work with some Gareth Bryant (Vic) been spent intensively preparing our plant distancing restrictions, but overall I am very SRH24334 to ensure the health and safety of our staff in excited to say that we should be able to be a compliance with Public Health requirements. part of what will be a fantastic event. We are deeply grateful for the overwhelming Post 03 Register positivity and cooperation of our staff as they As with this years planned getaway, we will return to work.” be joining Geoff rey May’s Cloud Register. There is also a BUZZ of activity at I will advise more information as it comes to Hi there fellow ’03 enthusiasts and all. Goodwood as our beloved company is hand- hand. arg and I, like every member, and crafting honey made from the woodlands I am hoping to organise a day trip down the every person that I speak to, are around the factory! They say all the staff are Mornington Peninsula later in the year too….if M searching for appropriate words to even start sweet with this! and when we are allowed. to come to grips with what has happened in Talking about sweet, I chatted to our Rolls- In December last year, my son Lucas and the last 2 months. Royce Brand Ambassador, Chris Hope, the I stumbled across Charlie’s Car Museum But for a start can I say that my heart goes other day and he tells me there is an “air of at Arthurs Seat. A museum with over 80 out to the organizing committee for the Great optimism” and the sun is shining brightly at interesting cars on display, not to mention Gatsby Rally. To get so near to the event and the dealership and with the factory reopening, an array of automobile memorabilia and then have this disaster strike is tragic to say deliveries can slowly recommence. Cullinan paraphernalia. Maybe a trip to visit and the least. May I also thank the Rally committee is still selling strongly and with a new Ghost followed by a ‘Picnic with distance’? for posting the magnifi cent rally packs out to set to be revealed probably in early 2021 Did you know….. all the registrants. They are just wonderful and heralding continued growth and excitement In the Sixties, Rolls-Royce planned to are sure to be a collector’s item in the future. at Goodwood. introduce a new unit-body model called the There have been many descriptions and Current news from Bentley is that the Silver Mist. Those of you who speak German metaphors made about the last 2 months of factory at Crewe will re-open on May 11th will know what “mist” means in Deutschland: time, but the one that most vividly comes to with a raft of new models including the very manure, or animal droppings. mind, is that it has been, and still is, like being exclusive Bacalar. It is interesting to note Wisely, before production, the name was in the middle of some sort of weird apocalyptic that the Bacalar joins a very elite group of switched to Silver Shadow, which eventually movie. I am sure you will agree that, as two-bit “Barchetta” type cars from Ferrari, McLaren, became the best-selling Rolls-Royce of all time. performers in this movie, it would be good if and Aston Martin, which share the same traits we all had some idea of whereby these hugely expensive open top the script! cars do not have a roof at all! Did someone say blue skies motoring!! 2020 SMART RUN TO MUDGEE Mad also isn’t it, that Following an enjoyable and pleasant few days of driving on quiet the villain is invisible - Maybe some will be going into “car back roads in and around Orange , NSW last year we are looking Covid by name but covert themed” lounge rooms and exotic to again enjoy our cars and the company of like-minded by nature! “man-caves”. members in late October 2020 around the Mudgee, NSW area. Re matters Post ’03 – Good news from Dale Clency and the team Sunday October 25 to Wednesday 28, 2020 The closure of both the at the Melbourne Bentley Dealership is that Bentley factory at Crewe the new Continental GT V8 has arrived, as has Our intent is to organise and plan a few days and book various and the Rolls-Royce the much-anticipated new Flying Spur. Also interesting activities with a decision on 1 October if we can factory at Goodwood with the reopening of the factory will come continue or should cancel due to the continuance of the are now no surprise, the very last Mulsanne. insidious virus now raging across the world. but it’s also no surprise It will indeed be a sad day when the last Loosely this is the plan so far: that both factories have of this totally Crewe designed car with its - Meet for lunch on Sunday 25, October, quickly responded to the famous alloy overhead valve V8 comes off - Accommodation at Perry St Hotel, Mudgee, circumstances by rapidly the production line. It is amazing to think https://www.perrystreethotel.com.au adapting and producing that this fabulous engine has powered Rolls- - Evening visit to Mudgee Observatory, laser cut protective face Royce and Bentley motorcars from 1959 to - Explore Hill End and its local mining museum visors for healthcare 2020 with only a brief interruption in the late including a look underground, 1990’s. A world record total of 61 years! - Visit the Turon Technology Museum, workers. Both companies - Enjoy some of Mudgee’s quality restaurants for have been providing food The coming year will undoubtedly present interesting meals, and vital delivery services some great challenges to many, including the - Drive along sealed, quiet back roads, to needy recipients in automobile industry, and I would be surprised - Head for our respective homes on Chester and Cheshire as if it didn’t accelerate the rate of change in Wednesday 28 October. well! technology. Fortunately each of our beloved HURRY - FILLING FAST As regards to factory brands are owned by 2 of the strongest Perry St Hotel is a boutique hotel with excellent accommodation. reopening schedules: automotive giants in the world so we can rest Currently we have a hold on all 13 of the hotel’s rooms. Already The fi rst automobile easy with the thought that we will probably we have 8 room bookings so be quick - although if you ring to book manufacturer in UK to see even more wonderful products coming to and they are full, please ring me for recommended alternatives. resume production: market. If you would like to join us in the hope the world will be more Rolls-Royce Motor Cars In the meantime stay warm and safe - sensible by late October, please book your accommodation CEO, Torsten Mueller keep up the polishing and tinkering - we hope and let me know your plan to join us, and that your Oetvos is quoted as to see you all soon and it can not be soon accommodation has been booked. saying: "Production at enough. For more information or to confi rm your booking the home of Rolls-Royce Excuse me now - I’m off to the garage – please contact Bruce Duncan, [email protected] is recommencing on May so ..... as ever Go well! 4th. We’ve taken this Ralph Plarre (Vic) All members and cars welcome. decision because we are (BE748571, AD907238, BAB15561)

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