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\ \ For full details and Brochure on the many tyre sizes available send stamped S.A.E. Vintage Car Club of N.Z. (Inc.) VOL. XXV, No. 125 August-September 1980 NATIONAL EXECUTIVE 26th YEAR OF PUBLICATION President : L. J. D . Priest (H aw kes Bay) Club Captain: A. D. Storer (Bank s Peninsula) Club Vice-Captain: M. H. Ferner (Wgtn) H all. Secretar y: Cl ynt Inns (Ban ks Peninsula) IN THIS ISSUE Club Registrar: S. A . England, P.D. Box 4154, Christchurch. President's Message 2 Executive: Messrs B. J. Bames (Southland), W. M. Birch (Wellington, N. A. Dewhurst (Auckland), 1. W. A. Some pages from the past 3 New ell (Banks Peninsula). A Wife's point of view 5 The Real Thing 7 CORRESPONDENCE An Appreciation 9 Club correspondence, including members' CHANGES OF ADDRESS, must be sent to Book Review 12 Th e Vintage Car Club of N .Z . il nc.) P.D. Box 2546. Waiter Hassan (Part 2) 13 Cliristchurch , Intending members should write to this address. 16 Branch Notes All Beaded Wheels correspondence and subscribers Letters to Editor 27 change of address to P.O. Box 13140. Crossword No. 9 32 BEADED WHEELS EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Classified Ads 32 Chairman: Spencer Barnard. Com mittee: Gavin Bain , Geoff Hockley, Bruce Pid geon . Bob Scott, Paul Giesler. CLOSING DATE Material for publication is the responsibility of this Closing date for Oct./ Nov. issue Sep t. 8t h. committee and should be forwa rded to P.D. Box 13140, Christchurch, typed or neatly printed, double sp aced on one side of paper on ly. Reports of restorations. events, road tests, historical and COVER PHOT O technical articles welcome. No payment made 10 1928 Chr vste r 65 be l?ngs to Roger Scott, Canterbury contributors. Branch.W inne r of Best Restorati on of th e Year' The opinions expressed in letters or articles in Beaded Tr oph y 1980 . See s to ry on rest orat ion, page 5. Ph ot o: Der e k 5tewart. Wheels are the authors' own views and do not necessarily express the policy of the Vintage Car Club of N .Z . (Inc.) PRODUCTION Beaded Wheels is the voice of the Vintage Car movement Beaded Wheels is published bi-monthly by Purse Willis in New Zealand and of -the Clubs whose efforts are fostering and ever widening the interest at-this movement & A iken Ltd , Christchurch for the Vintage Car Club and form rallying points for that ever increasing band of of N .Z. Inc .. at its editorial office . P.D. Box 13140. enthusiasts . ,The fascinatio n o'-age itself or revulsion from Christchurch. the flashy mediocrity of the prese nt day is drawing an inc!easing number of motorists back to the individuality. Mailed free to all members. Annual subscription $5.40 . solid worth , and func tiona l elegance that was demanded by a more discriminating genera tion and it is to these that Individual copies and back numbers 90c. th is magazine is dedicated. ADVERTISING Reqistered at Pest Office Hee dquerters Wellington Rate schedule ava ilable on request to Advertising as a Magcnine . Manager, P.O. Box 13140. Christchureh. Phone 67-346 . From the President It has been said, that an Inter may have to be put more on the lity was much enjoyed and the national Rall y has the effect of social side of things, who knows, branch appears to have found its inciting members to better things, we may even enjoy it more. feet firmly for the future. especially when it comes to the restoration of 'vintage' auto Recent visits that I have been In recent weeks we have had mobilia. Around the country able to make have included the some further correspondence there is certainly a lot of evid Manawatu Brass Monkey Night from Wellington on the matter of ence to back this up . There are Trial and the Horowhenua the A.CC Levy, and how it re many new vehicles undergoing Monthly meeting. The Night lates to the reIicencing of motor enthusiastic and meticulous work, Trial was a gre at success with vehicles, particularly motorcycles. and further there is surprisingly between 45 and 50 crews, who While the reply is not what we enough a large number of were all catagorised as being had wished for , we still live in veterans amongst these. The work crazy. The organisat ion was great hopes and a full report is to be that I have been privileged to and the end result is something tabled at the Conference. To say view recently, proves the fact that we will not dwell on . Any the least, this matter has been that we can face the future with way, I saw some parts of the somewha t frustrating in the time some certainty about attendances Wairarapa that nobody else saw, it has taken. While the wheels of and not have the fear that some and the most notable thing is that such a department tend to grind fuel crisis or regulation may pre nobody missed us. (There has along slowly, we must accept that vent our continued activity. got to be a message there our case has been getting consid somewhere). eration. I am grateful to those of With the 'dollar' calling the you who have held patience tune, as it were, organisers of The Horowhenua members whilst awaiting this outcome and events must surely consider that treated me to a fairly good trust that your delegates give you rallies will have to be of shorter question and answer session and the full details to date. distances, if the present enthusi I trust several matters were given asm is to continue. The emphasis an acceptable reply. The hospita- LIONEL PRIEST DUNEDIN-BRIGHTON RUN ,Saturday, 24th January, 1981 YOUR VETERAN RUN OF THE YEAR (Starts Dunedin's Famous Festival Week) "A MUST" - WITH LOADS OF TRADITION Book your accommodation now with Friends or Motels For further details contact or write to:- Rally Organiser, Dunedin Brighton Run, 32 Melrose Street, Dunedin. Or Phone Geoff Mehrtens 876-814 Evenings PAGE TWO Some Pages from the Past Part 4 Here are some more interesting a complete machine, the girls working 111 the Ariel visits which our diarist man aged advantage being that a short factory was surprising. Was to work in during what seems to age of one or two odd parts told that the name "Red have been, reading between the doesn't hold up the complete Hunter" cost thousands of lines, shorter and shorter periods. line . I saw all stages of assem pounds to put over, and was The war was in no way decreas bly, frame building etc. " assured that it would never be ing in tempo-quite the opposite, "Miscellaneous Meanderings. dropped-not a chance! Man in fact -but he still managed to Saw a bench test layout with aged to scrounge a "Red utilize any free time in pursuit of two Square 4's sitting there, Hunter" badge. I finished a his all-prevading interest-the also a row of W.D . engines on most interesting visit by having British motorcycle and its manu test. The W.D. machine looks numerous noggins with Mr facturers. Thus I find an interest a great trials mount-super Goodman. My impression of ing entry in the "little black ground clearance and a very Ariels? Not a giant concern, book" (and it is depressing to "cabby" appearance. There's but it seems exceptionally well note that its contents are drawing run -and gives the impression to a close) which deals with his that they take an interest in the visit to the Ariel factory at Selley by Geoff Hockley machines after they leave the Oak. As I have previously re factory." marked, his reception was a most no work being done yet on a We next find our diarist in the cordial one, and though the twin, I was told, but telescopic town of Gloucester on a hurried Selley Oak concern was on a hydraulic forks are undergoing visit to the Cotton factory-a considerably smaller scale than tests. Saw various interesting comparatively small concern, but the huge B.S.A. factory which processes, including drilling all with an excellent reputation, for had been the scene of his last chaincase screw-holes in one the famous Cotton triangulated visit, it was not in the slightest operation, and surfacing faces frame had put this machine on the degree any the less interesting for oil-tight joints. I overheard map several years previously. (and was perhaps better suited to a remark to the effect that if a Let's find out how our friend en the limited time at his disposal. vertical twin is considered as joyed his visit and what impressed an addition to the Ariel line, it him in the course of his brief He was accompanied by the Ariel would be quite easy to cut the stay. The assembly department export manager, Mr Goodrnan, four in half! The number of was going full blast and provided of the well-known firm of Scho field Goodrnan, who took our diarist on a "conducted tour". Here are some of his impressions. "Ariel Amblings. They buy in a great many items used in the manufacture of Ariels frame lugs , all sorts of castings such as cylinder barrels, cylinder heads, gearboxes (Burrnan) and various forgings such as brake pedals, rear stand parts and other odds and ends, also mudguards and tanks. But such items as big end assemblies, timing gears, hubs, and several other parts are manufactured right here in the factory I made a set of \t : cams myself on the cam grind <, '\'-..

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