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REFLECTION—MARCH 2015

WAGGA WAGGA VETERAN & VINTAGE MOTOR CLUB INC—THE FAMILY CLUB

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REFLECTION

NEWSLETTER OF THE WAGGA WAGGA VETERAN

AND VINTAGE MOTOR CLUB INCORPORATED

ESTABLISHED 1967 INCORPORATED 1987

OFFICE BEARERS

MEETINGS

Monthly meetings are held at 7.30 pm on the first Friday of each month at the clubrooms, corner of Docker and Morgan Streets, Wagga Wagga. All members, guests and visitors are welcome.

CLUB EVENTS

Club events are held on various days during the year. Please check the "Coming Events" section of this newsletter for details. For vehicles on “Club Plates”, a copy of the club magazine with the ‘Events calendar’ showing the sanctioned events must be in the member’s vehicle when on these specific events.

STATEMENT OF OBJECTS

The Club's Statement of Objects is as follows:

For the association of persons interested in Veteran, Vintage, Classic and Post Classic motor vehicles.

To encourage the restoration, preservation, use and display of these vehicles and associated literature, films, photographs, tape recordings and video tapes.

To demonstrate the capabilities of these vehicles by engaging in competitions including economy trials, regularity runs, observation events, motorkhanas, concourse competitions and vehicle rallies.

To encourage goodwill, friendship, and communication between members of this Club and between members of this Club and all other persons, clubs and associations having like Objectives.

PRESIDENT Rob Le Lievre 6971 1829 [email protected]

VICE PRESIDENT Bob Maslin 6921 4147 [email protected]

SECRETARY Chris Billingham 6922 4674 [email protected]

TREASURER Brian Hanson 6922 3316 [email protected]

MAGAZINE EDITOR Stuart Le Lievre 6926 1132 [email protected]

SOCIAL EVENTS DIRECTOR Ian Holgate 6921 9772 [email protected]

REGISTRATION OFFICER Gerald Rainbird 6920 2379

RALLY DIRECTOR Adrian Clout 6925 6277 [email protected]

PROPERTY & LIBRARY OFFICER Ray Harrison 69312507

PUBLICITY OFFICER Julie Rockliff 69264947 [email protected]

CLUB GROUNDS OFFICER Wayne Clout 6925 3010 [email protected]

SUB-COMMITTEES

SOCIAL EVENTS CLUB GROUNDS REGISTRATION MAGAZINE JUNE RALLY

Ian Holgate Wayne Clout Gerald Rainbird Stuart Le Lievre Adrian Clout

Bob Maslin Ian Holgate Peter Billingham Pam Tarlinton

Wayne Clout Peter FitzPatrick Ian Holgate Rob Le Lievre

David Campbell Bob Maslin Wayne Clout Chris Billingham

Brian Hanson



MINUTES OF THE MONTHLY MEETING 6th March 2015

Held at the Clubrooms, cnr Docker & Morgan Sts Wagga Wagga. Meeting opened by President R Le Lievre at 7:38pm PRESENT: 26, APOLOGIES: 12, VISITORS: 0 MINUTES FROM THE PREVIOUS MEETING It was moved Chris Billingham seconded Ian Holgate that the minutes from the Monthly Meeting held on the 6th February and as read at the March meeting be accepted. Carried BUSINESS ARISING FROM PREVIOUS MINUTES Tassie Trip 2016 – Rob has been sourcing brochures, departure details not available until mid year. MINUTES FROM MARCH COMMITTEE MEETING Read. BUSINESS ARISING FROM MARCH COMMITTEE MINUTES Downside - Sale of further items in scrap yard, bush fire shed complete and roadworks from gate, past hall. We will need to remove junk yard. CHMC half yearly minutes – Government is moving towards a Peak body. Nominating a delegate within each club to liaise back to CHMC. Submission to government revision on current registration (full rego vehicles). Trophies for 2015 rally have been started. Council works on club rooms land – some damage has been done, this will be assessed and discussed with WWCC. Need to lock gate to deter public parking inside grounds. Accepted QBE renewal on insurances. Shannon’s donating $300 to rally and also sponsorship for Reflection. Bob Young asked to bring group from RSL sub-branch for a visit to club rooms. Minor electrical works to be carried out in clubrooms. Congratulations Ian H on the registration of the Gardner. CORRESPONDENCE IN John Dawe Wagga Orchid Society room hire Saturday night 9th May (30th Anniversary) Leeton Show & Shine 1st March Australian Motorist Party elections in March The Church Retreat – accommodation Thank you card – Bessie Jean Hann, Cheryl Hanson’s mum Change of address – Malcolm Nixon Griffith Classic Motor Cycle Club 30th Anniversary Anzac Rally Council of Heritage Motor Clubs – Special General Meeting 3rd April Evangeline Buckley – Motor Vehicle Hire

Michael Meyer – Motor Vehicle Hire The Young Cherry Country Model A Ford Tour 4th to 7th September 2015 Wagga Christian College – Static Car display 29th August Lyn Kelleher request for June rally entry form Cancer Council - Biggest Morning Tea Hunter Valley Steamfest Show n Shine Sunday 19th April Permit to Move - Merv Halbisch CORRESPONDENCE OUT Orange District Motor Club – trip to Orange Wagga Orchid Society room hire agreement. BUSINESS ARISING FROM CORRESPONDENCE Biggest Morning Tea – will hold as Supper on 1st May after General Meeting – please bring a plate and donation. PERMIT TO MOVE – Merv Halbisch 14th March in Chrysler Roadster – John O’Brien Festival – trailering to Narrandera. Seconded David Bredin – Carried. TREASURER’S REPORT Brian moved, 2nd Ian Holgate that the report as tabled be accepted .Carried GENERAL BUSINESS Keys for meter box etc have been moved to steel cabinet. Rally meeting 17th March, 7:30pm. Chev 4 rally – 1911-1928, 27th Sept to 2nd Oct. Feb Social Day – repaired carpet strip, watering system in triangle garden, eaves, and toilets. Next Social day will be at clubrooms 25th March. Ray T has got the Benz back on the road. Charles O will be singing with Justine Hogan at It Takes 2. Rally 2015 entry forms etc are on the Club’s web-site (June Rallies page, 2015 section). Gerald & Colleen’s Hup made it into the ‘Centrefold’ of Aust & NZ Hupmobile Register – congrats. Ray H will be carrying out some electrical works – neon switches in kitchen and downlights outside toilets. PAST EVENTS Members attended the following:- Kalimna Rally

Midweek Run

Breakfast at McDonalds then to The Rock

Gundagai Show

Le Lievre trip to Katoomba for Adam’s wedding.

COMING EVENTS Ian reported on coming events; check the events page for these. MEETING CLOSED at 9:00pm

Chris Billingham –Secretary



WEBSITE UPDATE. wwvvmcinc.wordpress.com (just Google wwvvmcinc) Entry forms for the 2015 June Rally are available from our web site. Just go to the June Rallies page, 2015 section.

MOWING ROSTER 28 March Peter FitzPatrick* Chris Mooney 11 April Adrian Clout* Ray Harrison 25 April Wayne Clout* Jeffery Ingram 9 May Rob Le Lievre* David Sides 23 May Ian Holgate* Tony Middleton

* Denotes key holder. The date indicated is the weekend you must mow. If you cannot make it, please contact the key holder to make other arrangements or change places with somebody from another weekend. Phil Hoey mows the main lawns and you only have to do around the gardens, the edges and clean the toilets. The full 2015 mowing roster is in the Member Section of the website.

MID-WEEK RUN, 18 FEBRUARY 2015

We had fourteen people turn up for the first midweek run for 2015. David & Lorna Bredin, Grant & Sue McRae, Jim & Judy McLarty, Brian & Nina Horsley, David Sides, Rob Le Lievre, Merv & Rhonda Halbisch, Pam & Ray Tarlinton. There were a total of 8 vehicles - 5 vintage; 2 Chryslers, 1 Chevrolet, 1 Morris, 1 Land Rover and 3 modern. We departed the clubrooms approx 1:50pm going via,- Bourke St, Holbrook, Lloyd, Plumpton, Gregadoo, Mitchell, and Inglewood Roads, Bakers Lane and Sturt Hwy to the Secret Garden Café (formally At The Farm). The run took us approximately half an hour. It was a good social afternoon. On account of the warm weather at the time it was decided to keep the run fairly simple and we will look more at points of interest later when the warm weather subsides a bit. Ray T

NEXT MIDWEEK RUN 18 MAR 15

JUNEE RHYTHM & RAIL Two older fellers having a nap after the walk for lunch (Ed takes no responsibility for this caption).

REMINDER April General Meeting shifted to Friday, 27 March due to clash with Good Friday.



THE GARDNER IS ON THE ROAD

3rd March 2015: Today has been a very

special day in the life of Ian and Chris Holgate and their boys for this is the day that the 1923 Gardner got its numbers. It has only taken 30 plus years to get to this special day. It is a day that only those people who have put a lot of their time into will understand how special this event is for the family. We have watched this restoration from the ground up with every nut and bolt being replaced. The amazing thing is that Ian, Geoffrey and Matthew have manufactured so many bits and pieces. There was very little of the car there at the beginning.

So another exciting chapter in this family begins with lots of car adventures to come.



LAUGHTER THE BEST MEDICINE Blind cowboy An old, blind cowboy wanders into an all-girl biker bar by mistake. He finds his way to a bar stool and orders a shot of Jack Daniels . After sitting there for a while, he yells to the bartender, 'Hey, you wanna hear a blonde joke?' The bar immediately falls absolutely silent. In a very deep, husky voice, the woman next to him says, 'Before you tell that joke, Cowboy, I think it is only fair, given that you are blind, that you should know five things: 1. The bartender is a blonde girl with a base-ball bat. 2. The bouncer is a blonde girl. 3. I'm a 6-foot tall, 100kg blonde woman with a black belt in karate. 4. The woman sitting next to me is blonde and a professional weight lifter. 5. The lady to your right is blonde and a professional wrestler. Now, think about it seriously, Cowboy. Do you still wanna tell that blonde joke?' The blind cowboy thinks for a second, shakes his head and mutters, 'No ... not if I'm gonna have to explain it five times. Contributed by Rocky

FOR SALE Land Rover, 1952 Model 4 speed (4x4), Long Wheel Base Complete Original Condition $600.00 ONO Jock Last Ph: 0499 849 727, Ph: 0418 289 282

Winston Churchill loved paraprosdokians, figures of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase isTsurprising or unexpected. 1. Where there's a will, I want to be in it. 2. The last thing I want to do is hurt you, but it's

still on my list. 3. Since light travels faster than sound, some

people appear bright until you hear them speak.

4. They begin the evening news with 'Good Evening,' then proceed to tell you why it isn't. 5. To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism.

To steal from many is research. 6. I thought I wanted a career. Turns out, I just

wanted pay cheques. 7. In filling out an application, where it says, 'In case of emergency, notify:' I put "DOCTOR." 8. I didn't say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you.

RESTRICTED ACCESS TO CLUB GROUNDS Due to increased activity in Morgan St, club grounds need to be locked to reduce public access. There are now 2 padlocks on chain at main gates. One padlock for club members keyed same as club rooms, second padlock for Wagga City Council access. Pedestrian access still available over foot bridge.



2015 Kalimna Rally Friday 27 Feb to 2 March David, Lorna, Kay, Alan, Ray, Pam, Annie, Laurie, Cheryl and Brian enjoyed another Kalimna Rally. This year it was based at Cobram at RACV resort. On Saturday we travelled to Katamitite, Numurka and Strathmerton. We visited the cactus garden where we saw many different species of Cacti. On Sunday we visited Tocumwal and Koonamoo. We enjoyed a very informative talk at the Aircraft Museum in Tocumwal and on the way back we called into the Big Strawberry at Koonamoo. Congratulations to Alan and Kay Cain on their win, the EH Holden was chosen by the manager of the RACV resort as the best vehicle in the rally. Thanks to the Wodonga Historic Car Club Inc for all their hard work in making the 2015 rally another fun and entertaining rally. Contributed by Brian Hanson

Alan & Kay’s EH David & Lorna hit the high notes.



Well I didn't know that!!!!! There is an old Hotel/Pub in Marble Arch, London, which used to have a gallows adjacent to it. Prisoners were taken to the gallows (after a fair trial of course) to be hanged. The horse-drawn dray, carting the prisoner, was accompanied by an armed guard, who would stop the dray outside the pub and ask the prisoner if he would like ''ONE LAST DRINK''. If he said YES, it was referred to as ONE FOR THE ROAD. If he declined, that prisoner was ON THE WAGON. So there you go ... More bleeding history. Here are some facts about the 1500s: Most people got married in June, because they took their yearly bath in May and they still smelled pretty good by June. However, since they were starting to smell, brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odour. Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married. Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the children. Last of all the babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it. Hence the saying, "Don't throw the baby out with the bath water!" Houses had thatched roofs, thick straw piled high, with no wood underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof. When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof. Hence the saying "It's raining cats and dogs." There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house. This posed a real problem in the bedroom, where bugs and other droppings could mess up your nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection. That's how canopy beds came into existence. The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt. Hence the saying, "dirt poor." The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on they added more thresh until, when you opened the door, it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entrance. Hence: a thresh hold. (Getting quite an education, aren't you?) In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the fire. Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight, then start over the next day. Sometimes stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while. Hence the rhyme: ''Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot, nine days old''. Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special. When visitors came over they would hang up their bacon, to show off. It was a sign of wealth that a man could, "Bring home the bacon." They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around talking and ''chew the fat''. Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning and death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous. Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or ''The Upper Crust''. Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky. The combination would sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial. They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up. Hence the custom of ''Holding a Wake''.

England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people, so they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a bone-house and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realised they had been burying people alive. So they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, thread it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the graveyard shift) to listen for the bell; thus someone could be, ''Saved by the Bell ''or was considered a ''Dead Ringer'' And that's the truth. Contributed by Rocky



U.S. OLD DELIVERY VEHICLES Ed’s comment: Re below, note driver through the “O”. Not enough traffic to worry about blind spots? Perhaps that’s why they built the 30”s? version above. Contributed by Ian Humphrys



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Sunday 15th M

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SOUTH W

EST SLOPES GET TOGETHER

To be held in Temora hosted by the Temora club at the Rural Museum. We have not attended this

event for a long time, so lets get our club back out there. Saturday will be the M

useum’s yearly

open day and Sunday will be the South W

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idday. Leave

CLUBROOMS AT 10:00 AM

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Tuesday 17th M

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RALLY M

EETING CLUBROOMS AT 7:30

Time is getting closer so we need helpers

Wednesday 18th M

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MID W

EEK RUN

Leave Clubrooms at 1:30pm and arvo tea somewhere

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March 2015

Bob M

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MODERN VEHICLE RUN FOR THE W

EEKEND

Weekend away to Canowindra, Manildra, Orange & M

olong. This event is going along ok. Bob said

at the last meeting we had 21 starters. Leaving from the Holgate’s at 1:00 pm

Sunday 22nd M

arch 2015

PEDAL POWER DAY AT CLUBROOMS

I have spoken to Keith. You are welcome to take your old vehicle along and leave it on display or

just leave it at the clubrooms while you look at the pedal car display.

Wednesday25th M

arch 2015

Rob

LeLiever

ROBS SOCIAL DAY NOW AT THE CLUBROOMS

Start at 9:00am. The plan is to do some of the smaller jobs at the clubrooms and have good cups

of coffee

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Friday 27th March 2015

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OVED BECAUSE OF GOOD FRIDAY

Start at 7:30 pm. Please bring a plate for supper.

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Sunday 12th April 2015

Ian Holgate

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RUN OVER TO BETTY & KEVIN DEACON’S THEN ON TO DAVID CAMPBELL’S AT

TARCUTTA

The plan is to leave clubrooms 9:00am. Bring m

orning tea to have on the road, maybe at the Pollie

Bridge then travel on to the Deacons place, check out the projects then lunch at the Deacons. You

bring your meat and the Deacons will supply the salad. BUT I NEED TO KNOW W

HO IS GOING.

Then travel to David Campbell’s place at Tarcutta and check out his projects and have arvo tea in

Tarcutta. Should be home by approx. 4:30 or so. Bring m

orning tea, meat for BBQ and arvo tea

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Wednesday 15th April 2015

MID W

EEK RUN

Leave Clubrooms at 1:30pm and arvo tea somewhere

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Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 1st 2

nd

3rd May 2015

ORANGE PRE 1931 RALLY

Leave Thursday morning and travel to Orange. Chris Ian Ho, Janelle W

ayne C, Merv &

Bob, Julie John R, Colleen Gerald R, Pam Ray T are starters. Should be a great weekend.

Leave from the Holgate’s at 9:00am on Thurs the 30th April

Sunday 10th M

ay 2015

Ian Holgate

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RESTORATION RUN

Please give m

e a call if we can come visit your shed John R, Malcom Nixon, Laurie

Taylor and Chris Mooney Geoffrey Holgate, and Riverina Jet Cut

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Sunday 31st M

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WORKING BEE AT CLUBROOMS THEN OUT TO DOWNSIDE TO GET READY FOR

THE RALLY

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Friday Saturday Sunday 5th 6

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JUNE RALLY

EVENTS FROM OTHER CLUBS AND SPECIAL INTEREST

Saturday 11th April 2015

HAULING THE HUME

Run for truckies in the club. Drive from Sydney to Yass. Mick B and Peter M are starters

SWAP M

EETINGS

Sunday 29th M

arch 2015

MORGAN COUNTRY CAR CLUB JINDERA SWAP

Sunday 5th April 2015

EASTER SUNDAY SWAP AT JUNEE

Gate open to swappers at 6:00am and lookers 7:00am

Ian and Chris’s Gardner had it’s

first run to Junee for the

Rhythm & Rail Festival.

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