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Summer is calling Hawke’s Bay Branch Newsletter THE MAG october 2021 Official publication of the Hawke’s Bay branch of the vintage car club of New Zealand (inc.) www.hbvcc.org.nz
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October 2021
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HAWKE’S BAY
BRANCH CONTACTS//
Chairman: Ian Elmsly (Kay) Club Custodian & Room Hire:
p. 06 845 0577 Steve Donovan
c. 0274 790 682 p. 06 835 9956
ian.elmsly@xtra.co.nz c. 027 217 7730
Club Captain: Paul Anderson (Janine) stevedon@xtra co.nz
p. 06 844 2912 Cruise Ship Co-ordinator
c. 0274 463 908 & Wednesday Run:
p.anderson1@xtra.co.nz Helen Ball (Peter)
Secretary: Peter Ball (Helen) p. 06 8436979
p. 06 843 6979 jaxon.ball@gmail.com
hawkesbay@vcc.org.nz Mag Editor: Kay Elmsly
Treasurer: Paul Eager (Carol) p. 06 845 0577
p. 06 845 4779 c. 027 2866 480
c. 027231 4304 ian.elmsly@xtra.co.nz
paul-carol@xtra.co.nz Spares Manager: Brian Taylor (Margaret)
Past Chairman: Steve Donovan (Pam) p. 06 844 5982
p. 06 835 9956 c. 027 443 6009
c. 027 217 7730 Spares Assistant Manager:
stevedon@xtra co.nz John Durry (Jenny)
Committee: Malcolm Blair (Lesley) p. 06 843 5798
p. 06 843 7664 c. 022 676 9401
c. 021 576 360 Groundsman: Trevor Charman (Lyn)
malcolmblair52@gmail.com p. 06 844 5140
Doug Dickson (Jan) c. 027 292 6068
trevlyncharm@actrix.co.nz
c. 027 232 3073
jandougdickson@xtra.co.nz
Alastair Chalmers (Jean)
c. 020 4088 4523
alastairchalmers@hotmail.co.uk
Kevin Cains (Kaye)
p. 06 842 2496
c. 021 560 905
kevin.cains53@gmail.com
Librarian: Allan Twort (Helen)
p. 06 845 0438
ah_ha@xtra.co.nz HB Branch Life Members
Allan Harris life member
Trevor Charman life member
October 2021
Volume 100 // Number 10 // October 2021
CONTENTS
HB Branch Contacts 4
Chairman’s Report 6
Art Deco Events 7
Proposed Gannet Beach Tour Event 8
Up & Coming Events 9
Jokes of the Month 10
For Sale/Wanted 12
Photos From Yester Year 14
Back To Your Roots 17
Notice Board 21
Spare News 23
Calendar of Events 24
Branch Events 25
BRANCH DETAILS Club night 2nd Wednesday
POSTAL: PO Box 3406, Napier 4142 of month 7.30pm at Clubrooms
Clubrooms: 67 Sandy Road, Meeanee, Napier supper provided.
Phone: (06) 835 1483 Clubrooms, library & Spares
email: hawkesbay@vcc.org.nz DEPARTMENT OPEN Tuesday morning
www.hbvcc.org.nz 9-11am. Morning Tea available.
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CHAIRMAN’S REPORT// By Ian Elmsly Well this has been a month full of action With these things, it is timely to remind (yeah right!). Firstly I hope you have all everyone to scan in when entering the survived the Covid19 lockdown, partial clubroom (or sign the register), wash your lockdown and now the easing, and are hands and maintain social distancing (yes, looking forward with eager anticipation that’s right, no cuddling!). Face masks – in for the re-opening of the VCC. Yes I know order to reduce people getting a fright, face we have already had the Tuesday group masks are to be worn in the clubrooms! enjoying their coffee and chatter for the past (This is as per the MOH directive under two weeks, with their smaller numbers, but level 2). It is also appropriate (but likely not come October we will be back in full swing necessary) to remind members to get the (fingers crossed!). jab if you already haven’t. Things have still been bubbling on So that’s my bit for the month. Hopefully behind the scenes with those of us on the there will be more to report on next month committee getting set for the re-start, with and we look forward seeing everyone back the first run being the 10th Oct and the in action. Club Night 13th Oct. Safari as at time of print is still a goer as is the October Kitchen Night, so lock the dates into your calendar. October 2021
Hawkes Bay Vintage Car Club Art Deco Event 2022
Sponsored by Bay Ford Napier
A reminder to all Branch Members to consider registering for you premier Event of 2022.
The Art Deco Parade is filling fast so do not be disappointed and miss out.
The feature Cars are Early Ford and we are getting support from throughout New Zealand.
This group will be lead in the Parade by a Ford Fire Engine from Bay Ford Napier. There
will also be a Fire Engine from Clydesdale Museum Fire Brigade Inc based in Hamilton. This
is a 1921 Dennis Fire Engine Type N, formerly based in Napier. This truck fought fires
during the 1931 earthquake. It will be great to have it back in Napier and will be on
display over the weekend.
Due to the normal success of our Thursday night opening we have had to create a waiting
list due to only being able to feed 102 people in the Club Rooms. Meal is being organized
by Lesley and Malcom Blair with their usual band of helpers.
Paul Anderson is looking after all parking duties this year so do not wait for him to ring
you make his role easier by giving him a call and offer your help.
Look forward to seeing your registrations coming in to Paul Eager who is handling
administration duties this year. Thanks to support of Julie Trott who has done this role for
a number of years.
Regards. Steve Donovan. HBVCC Art Deco Event 2022 Coordinator.
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PROPOSED
EVENT//
Proposed Gannet Beach Adventures Tour.
Calling for expressions of interest.
Saturday the 5th February 2022.
Departing at 2 pm, returning at 6 pm.
Cost $46.00 adult, child 4-15 years $22.00
As a follow up to one of our guest speakers Colin Lindsay from
Gannet Beach Adventures, there appeared to be a certain number of
our members who had not visited the Gannets at Cape Kidnappers,
or would like to do the trip again.
To determine how many seats need to be booked could you please
express your interest and reply as soon as possible by contacting
Trevor or Lyn Charman.
Phone. 8445140, 027 2926068, or Email trevlyncharm@actrix.co.nz
October 2021
UP & COMING
EVENTS//
MID WEEK RUN SUNDAY RUN
Wednesday 6th October Sunday 10th October
ALWAYS 1st Wednesday of the Month. This date was brought forward due to safari
weekend also being held this month.
• Where: Meet at HB Vintage Club Rooms
A country run in the Crownthorpe area,
• Time: 10.30am
commencing at 1.30pm. Parking along road
• What to bring: Your lunch, chairs and table close to Roosters Brewery on Omahu Road.
(table cloth optional) plus a pencil/pen for the This is a run of approximately 60 kilometres
inevitable quiz that seems to be an essential that takes you through quite fully sealed
part of these mid-week runs. country roads that provide both straight and
twisty sections on which you can enjoy the
I’ve planned a straight-forward country run driving experience, enjoy the scenery and have
of around 24 miles (40 km), about 1 ¼ hours, a little fun if you wish. There may be places
finishing up at a club members’ interesting to stop for refreshments, but you will have
property where we will have lunch. to come along on the day to be given your
instructions and see what’s in store!!
Graham Smith, Run Disorganiser 027 2290158
KITCHEN NIGHT - FROM 6PM
CLUB NIGHT Friday 29th October
Wednesday 13th October
If you are attending please contact
Malcolm & Lesley Blair on 06 843 7664
Hope to see you all back at the Club Rooms or email malcolmblair52@gmail.com.
for our Club night. Our Club Captain Paul
has worked hard to get a very good speaker NO LATER THAN TUESDAY
for this meeting. Brent Rollinson, who is a 26TH OCTOBER.
classic racing car builder and driver, will be
coming along on the night. SAFARI WEEKEND
Come along and enjoy the evening, we will 22nd - 25th October
provide a cup of tea or coffee for you after
the meeting. For all those who have registered with
Trevor & Lyn.
SUNDAY CLUB RUN ON NOVEMBER 14TH
IS OUR ANNUAL HOMESTEAD RUN.
Save the date. We will be going to visit maungakuri station near
elsthorpe. More details in the next months mag.
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THATS A BIT OF A LAUGH// October 2021
THATS A BIT OF A LAUGH//
11FOR SALE// FOR SALE: CLOTHING TAPE Mend your furs in time for Art Deco Festival 2022. $4 per metre. Phone Carolyn on 06 844 3323 or email carolyn@asian-seed.co.nz. FOR SALE: ORANGE WATERPROOF PVC CAR COVER. Made locally for a 1929 chev roadstar. Ideal for protecting your beloved vintage car. The cover is clean and in great condition. Surplus to my requirements. Offers please. Phone Lee-anne Freeman on 027 611 9714. FOR SALE: 1942 Willys Jeep in going order, Feb WOF, $25,000. Phone Bill Reilly on 021 245 2456. WANTED// WANTED: ROYAL ENFIELD MOTORCYCLE BITS. Indian or English, anything up to a complete derelict considered. Particularly looking for gearbox and clutch. David 06 835 9492 or dirgeandsal@orcon.net.nz WANTED Partner to participate in Wednesday and/or Sunday car runs, either drive or navigate. Please call Geoff Santer 021 702 556. Ads for Wanted or For Sale that have been in the Club Mag for 4 months or more will be removed if the editor has not been notified that you wish to continue with advertising your item. October 2021
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13FROM YESTER YEARS GONE BY// » At Pukekohe Raceway - 1960’s » At Pukekohe Raceway - 1960’s » Truck crashes into Aotea Quay overpass, » Shell “B” Train Oil Tanker - 1987 Hutt Road, Wellington - 1957 » Fiat Bambina, and owner Geoff Brader, » Truck Carrying Steam Train - 1988 Tawa - 1973 October 2021
FROM YESTER YEARS
GONE BY//
» Porsche at Baypark - 1970-71 » New cars at Ross, Dysart & McLean’s stand
A & P Show - 1930s
» Fiat Bambina car on its roof, Tasman Street, » Vintage Truck
Mount Cook, Wellington - 1993
» » Vintage steam tractor. » Cambridge Service Limited
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56 Thames Street Napier
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October 2021BACK TO YOUR ROOTS//
By Graham Smith, Napier
The following article is one of a number I wrote several years ago for the
Humber/Hillman Car Club’s ‘Torque’ Magazine - Graham Smith Sep 2021
At last year’s AGM I was nominated for the That would have been sometime in 1953.
role of Technical Advisor but, although I Just to reflect on the times, new cars were
have ‘played around’ with Humbers and very difficult to come by. Not only was there
Hilmans for over 50 years I deferred to still a world wide shortage as car companies
Graeme Ekins greater technical knowledge got back into post-war civilian vehicle
and declined the nomination. However I production, but the gathering ‘affluence’
agreed to write an occasional article with of families in the 1950s was increasing
some, maybe obscure, link to Rootes Group demand. Added to this, there were strict
vehicles. Some may be regurgitations of import controls and the only quick way to
articles that I put together for the Hawke’s get a car was to have overseas funds. Sheep
Bay VCC magazine several years ago when farmers in particular were fortunate in this
Esther and I jointly edited their monthly respect as they were able to sell their wool
‘Mag’ so my apologies in advance if some in their own name on the London market
stories seem vaguely familiar to Hawke’s and so get the prized overseas funds. Those
Bay members. So, better late than never, without overseas funds had to put their
here goes! name down with dealers and wait their
Firstly a bit of background. I grew up in turn.
Birkenhead on Auckland’s North Shore. After about two years of fruitless lunchtime
In the early 1950s my parents Murray and visits to the various agents to see where he
Grace Smith (early members of the Humber stood on their ‘waiting lists’ dad walked
Car Club as it was then known) decided into McDonald Halligan Motors at 51
that they would like to purchase a motorcar. Albert Street Auckland to be told that a new
They had never owned a car before, nor had Mk IV Humber Super Snipe had become
their parents. In fact at that stage neither of available and he had the weekend to decide
my parents even had their driver’s licence. if he wanted it. The price was one thousand
With four children (I have two older sisters four hundred and ninety-nine pounds
and one younger sister) a reasonable sized ($2498) plus an extra five pounds twelve
six-seater car was required – ie one with a shillings for registration ($11.20). That was
bench front seat (no people movers then about two hundred pounds ($400) more
apart from the rather rare VW Microbus than the Hawk. Hire purchase was almost
of which dad had a sales pamphlet). Dad unheard of in those times and in any case
duly put his name down with the respective my parents, who like so many others who
Auckland agents for either a Standard had lived through the struggles of the Great
Vanguard, a Zephyr Six or a Humber Hawk. Depression and the wartime shortages,
October 2021(continued..)
were not of a mind to take on debt. Their keep much spay off the cars. On the rare
State Advances home loan was I think the occasions that dad misjudged the state of
only money they ever borrowed. Anyway, the harbour he would wash the car when
back to the Humber. All the piggy banks we got home to remove any salt spray.
were shaken out, a deposit of five hundred There were usually two or three vehicular
pounds ($1000) in cash was paid and on ferries on the Birkenhead run during the
2nd November 1955 the balance of the week, the Korea, the Sparrowhawk and
purchase price was paid and my parents the Mollyhawk, while other slightly larger
became the proud owners of a maroon vehicular ferries serviced Devonport. We
Mk IV Super Snipe Registration. 451-132 visited my Grandmother in Mount Eden
(white lettering on black plates). At age most Sundays. We would travel around
10 I travelled to the city with dad and his though Riverhead in the afternoon and
brother to take delivery of the car. Dad load the car up with pears and peaches and
had got his licence a few months before sometimes potatoes (dad had a large garden
but still had little driving experience so the of his own) but the trip home was either
drive home ‘Around the Top’. ie via Point by ferry or ‘Around the Top’ if there was a
Chev, Henderson, Riverhead and Albany chop on the harbour. There was however
to Birkenhead, was with my Uncle at the only one ferry running on a Sunday
wheel. Uncle Sel had a car, an old 1920s evening. I recall many a long Sunday night
Rugby, and had been in the 2nd NZEF waiting in the dark down by the old cement
in WWII driving tanks through North silos in Beaumont Street – up to an hour if
Africa and Italy - some might unkindly we had just missed getting on a ferry. The
suggest good experience for driving the Devonport ferries left from Mechanics Bay.
Snipe. The trip home was of course before For the next four and a half years I drove
either the harbour bridge or the upper the Super Snipe thousands of miles from
harbour bridges were built. There was the the middle of the back seat, where my
option of the vehicular ferries that ran principal role was keeping two older
between the city and either Birkenhead or warring sisters apart. Younger sister got
Devonport. These took about 30 vehicles to sit up front between my parents. That
at a time for the 20 minute trip. With was to all change on 31st July 1960 when
loading and unloading they did about one I turned 15 and had my first real drive of
return trip each hour on the Birkenhead the Humber. I got my licence in the car 6
run; somewhat less on the Devonport run. months later (Friday 13th January 1961
However if we went to Devonport we were to be exact) and have been driving it ever
still faced with the trip from Devonport since. In the early years most Sunday
to Birkenhead, a good half hour, so the mornings would be spent helping dad
Devonport option was only ever used once. work on the Humber. Apart from the
In any case dad always refused to go on the normal weekly wash there was the twice
ferries if there was any chop on the harbour a year polish with the old Simonize wax,
for the ferries would take waves over the rotation of the wheels every 1000 miles
bow and the large canvas screens that (my job when I was too small to lift the
the crew put up in such conditions didn’t tyres onto the studs was to run the tyres
18(continued..) along the footpath outside the garage and went the 15’ x 10’ double main pole tent remove all the stones from the tread with and all the other camping gear, and a 10’ 6’’ a screwdriver), periodic greasing of about plywood dingy on top. We usually went at 20 grease points on the from suspension the end of January to avoid the crowds and and driveshaft, oiling the rear spring leaves get the better weather. However we could with graphite oil (does anyone know if usually count on a bit of an easterly blow for this is still available? I’ve made enquiries a few days. On one memorable holiday we but drawn blank looks), points and plugs, had a real storm. The Humber was placed stripping and cleaning the carb, checking in front of the tent with extra guy ropes to the tyre pressures (I remember it took 10 the front and rear bumpers with old inner to 12 pumps on the Kismet tyre pump to tubes as shock absorbers, and a similar bring a tyre up one pound pressure so it was set up at the back with extra ropes to the hard work if they were all down a pound pine trees. We stayed up most of the night or two), not forgetting oil top-ups and hanging onto the corner poles, two of which changes and adjusting the tappets. I recall snapped. Ours was one of the few tents still one occasion when dad decided to change standing in the morning with most of the the head gasket. I’m not sure if he thought tenters taking refuge in the camp kitchen it had a leak or just wanted to do a de-coke. or doubling up with others in the few small Anyway, to lift the head off I actually got cabins. While camping we usually took a inside the engine bay and put a foot either day trip to Russell on the dusty, windy coast side of the engine to lift the back of the road, it being customary to blow the horn head while dad lifted the front. I wouldn’t on every blind corner (of which there were fit now! many) to warn oncoming traffic. I wonder Holidays were normally spent at Oakura when horns were last used like this. Bay motor camp north of Whangarei on The photo shows on the right shows the the coast road to Russell. Dad made a large 1955 Super Snipe, mum, my youngest sister plywood food box with a sloping roof that Margaret and my friend Neil on the coast filled up the entire boot. The box would road to Russell in the early 1960s. I was in sit in the kitchen for a week before our command of my new Kodak camera! holidays where Mum crammed it full of By the mid1960s I was working. Although most of the food needed for our two week dad was very generous with the Humber holiday. A plywood front was then screwed and I was allowed to borrow it many on so that nothing spilled out on the trip Saturday nights, the time had come to buy north, and then dad and I would struggle a car of my own. Both older sisters now had to lift it into the boot The only things we new Hillman Imps (1964 and 1965 models) usually bought at Oakura Bay were frozen and I had my heart set on a Singer Gazelle, meat, bread, an occasional icecream and the but that was not to be. More of my Rootes NZ Herald (in which I read of my School connections next time. Cert results and Winston Churchill’s death). Dad had a solid 6’ x 4’ trailer into which October 2021
PS 2021 This Super Snipe resides in our garage at Puketapu
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22SPARES NEWS// By John Durry Hi All Over the last month due to the lock down unfortunately the spares has been very quiet, but in the background things have been happening. A member of our spares group Nigel Brown has just completed the restoration of his MG (report to follow) and as he had nothing to do he asked a few members if anyone new of a project. Another member new of a 1919 Dodge in Napier and Nigel decided he would start this project. Members of the spares uplifted the Dodge parts from Tamatea to Havelock North. attached picture of car in parts. After about a month Nigel got a bit disillusioned with the task at hand and decided it wasn't really him, so put an advert in Beaded Wheels and a member from Te Puke came & had a look, showed an interest and a figure was settled on, the new owner also has a 1919 & a 1925 Dodge. Nigel has decided to donate the money to the VCCC spares, and there are a few items that were doubled up which we have for sale, make an offer, photo attached of these parts. The following is the story of Nigels MG restoration (right). Until next time CLUB SPARE PARTS CORNER For any enquiries phone Brian Taylor on 027 4436009 or contact the Club’s Spares Dept. on Tuesday mornings between 9am & 11am on 06 835 1483. October 2021
CALENDAR OF EVENTS//
OCTOBER NOVEMBER
06 MID WEEK RUN 03 MID WEEK RUN
COMMITTEE MEETING COMMITTEE MEETING
10 CLUB RUN 10 CLUB NIGHT
13 CLUB NIGHT 14 CLUB RUN
22 - 25 SAFARI 26 KITCHEN NIGHT
29 KITCHEN NIGHT
FUTURE EVENTS//
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