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Bulletin December 2014

www.vccsa.org.au

Bulletin of

the Veteran Car Club

of South Australia,

Inc. Vol. 9, No. 5 – December 2014

Chairman: Phil Keane 8277 2468 Public Officer: Dudley Pinnock 8379 2441

Treasurer: Tim Rettig 8338 2590 Rallymaster: Neil Francis 8373 4992 Committee: Peter Allen 8353 3438 Julian McNeil 8272 8759 Andrew Hayes 8271 9111

Website Coordinator: Frank Cord-Udy 0432 751 227 [email protected] Address for Correspondence: P.O.Box 193, Unley Business Centre, Unley 5061

Email: [email protected] Website: www.vccsa.org.au Bulletin editor: Tony Beaven 0407 716 162 [email protected]

Norton Summit Hill Climb

From the Chairman OK? Where has this year gone? Last month started with the presentation by Frank Cord-Udy on the establishment of our new, and more friendly, website. You are able to access the website now and see the new format. Please don’t try and log on in the Members area for the time being, as information in this section will be deleted. We will notify you after the membership information is downloaded, and you can then access the Members area. Also, you will then be provided with instructions on the full individual registration procedure. Terry Parker has offered to help those members who would like assistance with this stage of the membership data set up and alteration process. More about that later. For members who don’t have an email address, and only have Club communication via printed Bulletin, we will establish an email address for you at no cost, so that your membership details can be recorded on the new system, (you will have no need to use it for any other purpose if you so desire). Thank you for your presentation Frank. The hearty applause from the members on the night was a great show of thanks.

Member of the Association of Veteran Car Clubs of Australia (AVCCA)


The Norton Summit Hillclimb greeted us with another morning of fine weather. However, for the second year in a row, the four cylinder vehicles are the only ones showing up. When we ran this climb for the first time, I was apprehensive about the smaller vehicles being able to make the climb. On that first climb though, David Radloff rocked up in his one cylinder Rover and was able to take the hill easily, just not as quick as the others. A bit like the Siddeley Deasy! People are now realising that they should hit the hill before I get out there in the Siddeley Deasy. Three other cars had to travel at about an 18 minute pace because they couldn’t get past the Deasy! Congratulations to Fiona and Ilona for winning the day’s trophy in the Dodge Brothers by showing the most enjoyment in going up the hill. Another beautiful run and picnic lunch in the hills. Thank you Neil. If you have any suggestions or issues with this event, please pass on you concerns to someone on the committee. Or is it just a case of ‘been there, done that’ and let’s have something different? If it is, come in whatever car you prefer and enjoy the picnic at the Mount Lofty Botanical Gardens next year, joining us either before or after the climb. Happy Veteran motoring.

Phil Keane

Meetings The Club holds informal gatherings at 8pm on the first Wednesday of each month, except January, at the Colonel Light Gardens RSL, Dorset Ave. Park behind on what was the bowling green, enter from Windsor Ave. Assemble at 7.30 for a pre-meeting chat. The only formal club meeting is the Annual General Meeting, held on the first Wednesday in July each year. Wednesday 3

rd December. Pre Christmas ‘Noggin and Natter’ with background slide show.

January. No gathering. Wednesday 4

th February. Julian Mc Neal will

talk and show pictures of his recent visit to the Henry Malatre Museum in France. Wednesday 4

th March. Terry Parker will talk,

and show us the wonderful work that he does rebuilding De Dion engines. Wednesday 1

st April. All Fool Day, Julian

again, to tell us about his visit to the Argyll factory.

Upcoming events Sunday 7

th December Visit to the old railway tunnels at Panorama. We will be departing from Caffe

Buongiorno's car park (212 Belair Rd, Hawthorn) at 10am. The run takes us to the old railway tunnels where we will have a guided tour of the first tunnel then on to the second tunnel for our ‘BYO Christmas Lunch’. There will be $5pp. entry charge. Bring a torch to explore the second tunnel. For those wishing to have a coffee or breakfast at Buongiorno’s before the run you will need to arrive when the doors open at 9.00am.

Monday 26th

January Australia Day breakfast run. Meet at the Botanic Park on Plane Tree Drive at 7.00am for a 7.30am departure. The run will take us to a Cafe in Semaphore where you can have a full breakfast or just a coffee.

27th

– 29th

March VCCSA Weekend Rally at Hahndorf. Entry form and details in last months Bulletin and also on the new website. www.vccsa.org.au

For sale 1928-9 Chrysler 65 4 door Sedan, (3.2 litres 6 cylinder 65 hp at 3200 rpm) 3 speed gearbox, 4 wheel hydraulic brakes (rebuilt) Very original car has done 56,000 miles. Not quite veteran but drives well and is more comfortable in winter than your average veteran. Price $12,500 Contact [email protected] (Owner is overseas at present but Peter Allen can email more photos)


For sale 1926/27 vintage Austin heavy 12/4 disassembled rolling chassis for quick sale at Myrtle Bank, SA, to clear a deceased estate. Most mechanical and chassis parts, Sankey wheels, etc are there. Will need a complete engine rebuild. There is a bonnet and scuttle, but no other body parts. Please call (08) 8293 4147.

Auction 1920’s vintage cars and spare parts. 1959 Holden special sedan, VF Valiant sedan. Sheds of collectable automobilia and stationary engines. Will be auctioned on Sunday 11th January 2015 at 10 am. Check date on web site – it may change Catalogue and photos on or about 10th December at www.kearnsauctions.com.au Contact Roger Kearns, Kearns Auctions & Valuations ph 0418 821 250

Auto Jumble, Swapmeet

Victor Harbor, Sunday 1st February 2015. Hosted by Historic Motor Vehicles Club Victor Harbor, SA Encounter Bay Oval, Ring Road, Victor Harbor. Many Direction signs. Fully catered. 200 stalls with a variety of car and motorcycle parts, automobilia, garagenalia and collectables. ‘Show ‘n Shine’ entries welcome. Trophies for Best Vintage Car, Classic Car, Vintage or Classic Caravan, Best Vintage or Classic Motorcycle, Best Hotrod and Best Modified Car. $15 entry sellers and one passenger, $5 buyers and ‘Show ’n Shine’. Sellers 7am, buyers 7.30am. Enquiries contact Coordinator Stephen Ph 0419 848 512. Email: [email protected]

Wanted Veteran or vintage Corbin speedo head, 0-60, 0-80 or 0-100 mph, any condition, good price paid. Have other Corbin parts to trade. Also wanted veteran Jones speedo cable, drive gears, right angled drive, whatever you have. Phone Rob Elliott on 0415 697 162

Wanted Brass windscreen frame, supports, pillars, brackets, hinges or whatever that I might be able to use in the rebuild of my 1912 Renault. Any advice on who might have any such items for sale would also be sincerely appreciated. Darryl Grey 0428280546 Editor’s note. Darryl has promised to write about the progress of his restoration, with pictures, soon


Whatever will they think of next Car television is on the way. A valveless portable Receiver Working off a car battery. The battery-operated portable TV receiver, as well as the permanently installed set mounted on the back of the front seat of a car, is appreciably nearer as the result of intensive research, both in this country and America, with the once rare crystallate Germanium. The Radio Corporation of America, one of the largest radio concerns in the world, has produced a compact, light-weight television receiver that entirely dispenses with thermionic valves and takes so little current that an ordinary 6v or 12v car battery will operate it. Valveless radio receivers have also been produced. All the properties of the thermionic valve can be reproduced by the use of Germanium which is obtained synthetically in the United States from residues in the production of zinc and cadmium, and, since 1946, from British coal. A small piece is embedded in plastic material about half an inch in length. It is practically indestructible, requires very little current and costs about a third of the price of the type of radio valve which it supplants. The British General Electric Co. have been conducting research work with Germanium for some years and now market a number of types, with various characteristics, as substitutes for valves. Pye Ltd. of Cambridge, use three Germanium ‘transistors’, as they are called, and two Selenium rectifiers in their 1953 televisors. Using a small tube, which takes most of the current required to operate the set, a portable televisor, only about a foot square and six inches deep, has been produced by R.C.A. Similar sets may be seen at the Earls Court Radio Show next August and be useable in cars – for the benefit of the passengers. It was the portable radio set that first made wireless reception in a moving vehicle possible, soon followed by built-in installations.

The Motor 25th February 1953

Veterans of Deniliquin Some early photos sent to us by Victorian member, David Lang of Deniliquin.

Deniliquin racecourse 1913 Minerva of Ottway Faulkner NSW Rover single, for sale £500 in 1951

RR later restrored by Eric Rainsford Arrol Johnson Flanders

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