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Index In this issue… 1926 Renault NN 6 CV Diff Overhaul Notice of Annual General Meeting Nomination Form Annual Reports PV, PWV, P60V & P80V Rally
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Regular Features Chairman’s Report Club Captain’s Report Veteran Notes Commercial Notes Library Notes Motorcycle Notes Vintage Notes Notes from your Secretary Coming Events Your Committee
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August Bulletin closing date Cover Designed by Melanie Ball
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The views expressed by the correspondents in this Bulletin are not necessarily those of the Editor or the Auckland Veteran & Vintage Car Club Inc. Any articles of interest, comments, letters to the Editor etc are welcome. All contributions are presented to and approved by the club committee prior to printing. Please forward any submissions to the Bulletin Editor.
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Chairman’s Report Lynda and I hope all of you are safe and well out there in Level one land. At last months Committee meeting, as we were in Level two we decided not to open up the Clubrooms and still have all club activities on hold. But then a number of days later we went into Level one, but then it was too late to change the Bulletin. So after consulting, the Committee decided to open up the Clubrooms to members and hirers again. Tracey let members know by the email tree. First in the Clubrooms were the Thursday morning Library group, followed by the Motorcycle meeting on the following Saturday. As we didn't have a guest speaker so it was pleasing to find 20 motorcycles in the rear car park and about 50 members in attendance. At this meeting I reminded members it was the Motorcycle Co-ordinator's election and when I asked for nominations for the position, the only one offered up was for me, so I gracefully accepted this and thanked the members for their support again. Next up was the Commercial and Charabanc groups, followed by Club Night, with the final Branch event for June being the Vintage Section meeting, as there wasn’t a Club Run for the month of June. For those who haven't been to the Clubrooms yet, I'm pleased to inform you the repairs to the “car damaged” wall have been completed and the building is looking good again. We have replaced the Clubrooms sound system with a modern up to date unit, which has all the bells and whistle's and is also connected to the monitor below the big screen as well. The Branch AGM will be held on Saturday 8 th August at 2:00 pm. I think this is the first time it’s been held in the daytime and hopefully will bring out those members who don’t like travelling out at night. Well that's all for this month, so keep those 2, 3 and 4 wheels turning safely.
Martin Spicer
Club Captain’s Report At least I can put a report together this month, albeit a short one. After our Committee Meeting last month and the Bulletin being printed and posted, we moved into Level 1 and so the Committee had to make a few decisions about when we could safely open the Clubrooms in June. The Library team on Thursday of the second to last week were the first to venture down to the Clubrooms and Martin and I went along to join them for a short while, just to make sure all was okay. You will see we have Covid-19 notices in the toilets and by the kitchen on Health and Safety aspects which we will still be observing, especially in the light of
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Club Captain’s Report Contd.. people being allowed back into the country who have Covid-19 and them sneaking out into society. Your safety is paramount. May I please ask everyone, until further notice, to: Sign the register when they come into the Clubrooms, this will be found on the table nearest the door. Sanitize your hands, again the sanitizer will be on that table. Handwash can be found in the men’s and ladies rooms. All main surfaces will be sanitised after each meeting, including door handles. The people who co-ordinate the Veteran, Vintage, Commercial & Motorcycle meetings and those on Bar Duty on Thursdays and Saturdays will ensure that all of the above is completed until further notice. The Motorcycle section was the first main meeting to be held on Saturday 20 th June and 55 people came along, together with seeing 20 motorcycles parked out the back. Thursday 25th was the first club night – well there were 7 of us, including 4 from the Committee. We had expected this as we had announced that nothing would happen in June. And, I think on the email tree notice that went out to state we were re-opening we missed out Thursday. Never mind. July we will have a guest speaker together with a noggin n natter beforehand. I am pleased to advise all the repairs have now been completed after the car drove into the side of the building earlier in the summer months. An excellent job has been done. We have some internal house-keeping that still needs some volunteers for. We have advertised this over the past several months. Mid Week Tourers Co Ordinator: Have any of you considered this? If you need to speak to someone as to what is involved, please give Norm Dewhurst a call. Norm and Pat have hung up this mid-week role after 20 years, so please give this some consideration. Bulletin Editor: Val Ball announced last year that she wished to retire from being the Bulletin Editor after 17 years of doing this. She is more than happy to help somebody into the role, showing them how to do it and the program that she uses etc. Again, many of you are retired or semi retired that could take this role over. Please give Val Ball a call if you are interested in this role or want some further information. This has now become urgent. VIC Officer: Michael O’Kane is looking for 1 or 2 people to take over his role as VIC officer. Many of you are very knowledgeable and would be ideal for taking this role on. It is not daunting, just a couple of hours a month. This is the last year Michael will be doing it, so please give it some consideration so that you can spend a little bit of time with Michael seeing what is involved, before he retires. Next months Club Run will be starting from Mauku at John Stokes’ home for a lovely ramble around the Franklin, Awhitu and Waiuku areas. It starts at 1:00pm and I will serve afternoon tea on your arrival back at Johns. Looking forward to seeing you out and about Lynda Spicer
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Veteran Notes 1990 Festival of Vintage Motoring—Article from Beaded Wheels—Continued
This car can go one better, the single cylinder 1909 Sizaire Naudin of Don White
Taumarunui to Hawera. Once again we had good motoring weather, over cast and not too hot. We travelled over Highway 43 to our morning tea stop near the grave of Morgan, the man who surveyed much of the country in these parts. Barry Robert and Doug Wood had a little tyre trouble with the Rover but it was not too serious. There was a bad lapse on the organiser’s part, at the Mokai Tunnel, no instructions to prime gas generators for the trip through the tunnel and no attempt to provide complimentary matches or lighters to drivers who normally have no need of these things was made. Most people drove through the tunnel desperately groping for light. When they did reach the end of the tunnel an AA sign saying ‘Check your Lights’ seemed singularly unhelpful. From there we began to leave the high country and work our way down to Whangamomona. The Birchall Cadillac was being driven hard as its performance had improved a great deal since leaving Auckland, however all good things must come to an end and 3 miles out of Whangamomona a loud report and a wild wobble, signalled a massive blowout. George Mihalijevich and Peter Muller in the 1913 Talbot. ‘The Weta’ stopped and rendered the necessary equipment, such as a working jack. We carried onto Whangamomona and had lunch in the hall. The local hotel did a roaring trade in Whangamomona Passports as well as amber fluid. From there the tour headed to Hawera. Judy Callesen seemed to handle the little Clement Bayard in fine style, although husband John had to crank it. Lynn Gentry’s very original 1915 Model T was going well, but the dead possum which had adorned the running board since Monday had disappeared. Bob Clark’s King Dick motorcycle was coming to grips with the conditions and although the trip from Taumarunui to Hawera would be one of the most testing sections of the tour, no one had serious trouble. We climbed a fairly steep hill then descended through rolling sheep country. Charlie Liddell had said the 1910 Hupmobile was running on three cylinders, but that did not stop Charlie from completing the section of the
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Veteran Notes Contd... tour. Passing through Stratford we stopped at a local museum which concentrates mainly on the history of South Taranaki. Unfortunately there had been a communication breakdown between the tour organisers and the museum as to who was paying for what, but I guess that’s life. The museum is quite worth a look, with a good tractor collection and some local historic buildings. After we had arranged our beds for the night, we had a good meal at the Hawera Aero Club. The view of Mt Egmont was completely unobstructed and fifteen or so tourists took the opportunity to enjoy a scenic plane flight. The following day was the easiest of the tour as we had a short run to Wanganui. The writer swapped places with Doug Wood and travelled with Barry Robert in the 1909 Rover. The little twin was a lot quieter than the big Caddy but obviously a lot slower. Pedr Davis, a well known Australian motoring writer, had been photographing cars for a book he is writing and Barry offered him a ride in the Rover while this writer sampled the latest thing in Holden Commodores. This let us have a look (reasonably accurate) at the Rover’s performance which appeared to be 39 or 40 mph flat-out on a level road to 12 mph slogging in second gear on a fair sized hill. Morning tea was held at the Patea Museum which houses a surprisingly complete and original 1904 Darracq, no doubt well known to local enthusiasts. Upon arrival in Wanganui the cars were put on display while the tourists went by paddle steamer ‘Otunui’ to Holly Lodge, a winery and museum five minutes by road from Wanganui and one hour by paddle steamer. The ‘Otunui’ is a genuine riverboat of shallow draught and narrow beam, however, she is now running a Ford Diesel and hydraulic pumps operate the paddles. The river ships were once part of a large fleet operated by Hatrick and Co. who incidentally were Overland Agents early in the piece. The evening meal was superb and as all tourists were booked at the same motel everyone was able to socialise without having to worry about driving home. Thursday would see another testing day as we were to travel up to Wanganui river road to Pipiriki and then to Ohakune for the night. We set off in cool sunny weather for the trip up the side of the river where regrettably we had our only retirement since the run started. Hugh Clapman’s 1914 Buick had succumbed to magneto trouble and Hugh had decided to leave it at home in Wanganui and continued the trip in an alternative car. To have come this far was a credit to Hugh as he had only completed the restoration the night before the tour started. John Stokes
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Commercial Notes Unfortunately, the month of June didn’t quite start off the way it would finish. Finally arriving in Level 1 of the COVID lockdown, we were all anticipating a resumption of Branch activities, but the decision was made to continue with the closure of the Clubrooms until the end of June. Then on Monday the 8 th of June, my beloved fell and broke her right arm in our backyard, and yes, she’s righthanded. So, when our Dargaville domiciled daughter insisted I take Patricia up to her home for a role reversal spell, I said yes straight away. Before our departure, I tried to contact the section members but find that I have lost contact details for several of you as a result of installing a new computer. My apologies. The decision to rescind the earlier one and open the Clubrooms on the 13 th, put me in an invidious position, who takes precedence, the Branch or my wife. Guess who won? One thing that did disappoint me though, was the chance to display my extremely rare military vehicle (3922 only, were made) alongside many others at a private collection at Whenuapai on Sunday the 21 st of June. These opportunities are becoming less frequent as the years slip by. I have consoled myself instead with a trio of books: “Victory in The Pacific”, “The L.R.D.G.” and “The Scourge of The Swastika”. All of these books should be read by today’s youth, I would make it compulsory! The Long-Range Desert Group series of books, written by New Zealander Brendan O’Carroll tells of the exploits of 47 men equipped with Willys Overland Jeeps and two -wheel drive Chevrolet 30cwt trucks. These trucks were chosen over the Ford CMP F30 4x4 trucks, because of their better fuel economy and their low gearing gave them almost the same traction as the 4x4 trucks. In March of 1942, 200 Chevrolet 1533X2 trucks were supplied to the L.R.D.G. The raids undertaken over the next 18 months in North Africa by this group, the forerunner to today’s SAS is the stuff legends are made out of. Keep M Rolling John Campbell
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Library Notes For the last 12 weeks or so under lockdown for Covid19, the Library has been shut. We have had no Thursday sessions and the Library, itself has been locked for the duration. There have been no books loaned, no books purchased or donated and no visitors. It has been a quiet time. Consequently, there is really nothing to report on activity in the Library. Once we came to Lockdown Level 2 the team were able to get together offsite and we had three worthwhile home-based sessions, one each to the homes of the Birchalls, the Woods and the Haywards. The Library air conditioner/de-humidifier had been left to do its job unattended for the duration. Of necessity, the books in the shelves immediately outside the Library itself (which are not de-humidified) were left with only the packs of silica-gel which under normal circumstances are dried and replaced on a weekly basis. It was with some relief then, that on the 11 th June we were able to re-open for the first time. On unlocking the Library we found that all was well. The dehumidifier had done its job and the contents of the Library were found safe and sound, just as they were left. We are expecting that during lockdown members will have been tidying their book collections and hopefully there could be some more books coming to the Library. If so, remember that we can pick up from your place if it suits. Whatever, we look forward to welcoming members back and oh yes, we have missed you. Chris Wood and the Library Team—Barry Robert, Owen Hayward, Colin Bott, Barry Birchall & John Stokes
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Motorcycle Notes It is great to be back after the lockdown. In the car park there was a very nice selection of 20 members motorcycles, all sparkling in the sunshine. Visitors were welcomed – a young Jasper Rose from Ellerslie, who came along on his 1970's Suzuki 125 twin, and Martyn Seay's friend Peter Cole, who took away a membership form as did BSA A65 owner Terry Doughty. Martin told everyone that the car damage to our building has been rectified. Next up it was that time of year again when we needed nominations for the Motorcycle Coordinators position. Martin asked the membership for nominations. A number of people called out Martin's name and as there were no other nominations, Martin agreed to carry on with the position. Martin thanked everyone for their support. Coming Up: The Branch AGM will be held on Saturday 8th August at 2:00 pm. This move to a daytime slot should hopefully bring out members who don't like travelling after dark. Saturday 18 July—Motorcycle Meeting, speaker will be David Morley with his Norris Farrow Macintosh Suzuki. Sunday 26 July—Club Run starting at 1:00 pm, from John Stokes home, 35 Titi Road Mauku. Martin advised he and Lynda won't be at the August Motorcycle Meeting, as they will be at Whanganui for the Clubs National AGM. Jack Clark and Don Green volunteered to run the meeting. Martin asked members to tell us what they have been up to since our last meeting. First up was Peter Alderdice who told us about his groups virtual shed nights on line, where they talked about bike projects, with the big benefit being able to have a drink and not be driving home after meeting. Peter also told us about his recent visit to the world famous Indian bike guru Ken Campbell, who let Peter take his brilliant one off V8 2.400 cc Indian bike for a spin down the road, after which Peter had a massive grin on his face. Peter also told us Ken has recently taken over the long time Auckland wheel building business of Tom Morris. Peter looked over a number of wheels that Ken has done and was impressed by the work. Brian King told us about his and Michael Watts ride down to the AMC Jampot bike rally in Nelson. They also went to Invercargill for the Burt Munro Challenge, where their AJS and Matchless bikes performed very well. George Oliver told of his restoration during lockdown, his Kawasaki. Jack Clark told his lockdown story about getting his Matchless G12 up and running after a long period off the road. Don Green told us about his trip to Australia where a friend in Sydney loaned him a 650 Triumph Bonneville and Don rode to Melbourne. He then got the ferry over to Tasmania and took part in their Bi-Annual bike rally. Don had a great time and after the event he had the long ride back to Sydney and he returned home to 2 weeks in isolation. Martyn Seay told about the continuing saga of his restoration of his 1927 Indian Chief. As the meeting ended George Oliver thanked Martin on behalf of the members for keeping them entertained over the lockdown with his interesting emails. Keep those 2, 3 and 4 wheels turning safely Martin Spicer & Jack Clark
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Vintage Notes June’s meeting, the first since lockdown, was slightly down on numbers (16) which was not really surprising considering the short notice. Graeme Crawley came by some interesting old drawings from a deceased estate. Those of a Sunbeam differential went to the Winterbottom’s, while Buckler drawings went to the Wairarapa. Terry Costello, locked down in Opito Bay, spent his time eradicating wilding pines, using the Model A for transport. David Lane, after owning his Studebaker for 60 years and clocking up a huge mileage, has reconditioned the motor for the 3 rd time. He also recommended visiting the Facebook page of the Vintage Car Club of NZ Group. Norm Dewhurst’s “new” Austin 7 managed to sheer the woodruff keys in both rear hubs at the same time. Someone should tell him that Austin 7s aren’t meant to lay rubber! Neil Lucas had a photo of a Model A that did not have a transverse front spring? Murray and Penny are hoping to do a South Island tour in the Bedford that coincides with the Canterbury swap meet. This month’s excellent feature article is by Neil Bieleski on the rebuilding of his Renault diff. Thank you Neil. Murray & Penny Firth
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1926 Renault NN 6 CV Diff Overhaul The failure of the crown wheel and pinion was the cause for me to undertake the original restoration of my car. I had searched for a number of years, even approaching Renault in France without any result, when by chance I came across an advertisement for “Depanoto� an old French car wrecker and supplier of replacement parts. Wonder of wonders they listed a new replacement crown wheel and pinion set suitable for my car, which I immediately purchased. In the strip down of the rear end assembly I had found the need to renew all the bearings in the differential assembly, the pinion was carried by two ball bearing races with a ball thrust carried in an intermediate housing. The crown wheel was carried by two ball bearing races and a ball thrust bearing. In searching for new bearings I found that the original pinion bearings were available but the thrust was no longer available, but the same sized bearing was available but with a different size radiused seat and the original thrust side bearing and the original thrust bearings were also unavailable. So I made the decision to replace the pinion thrust with an updated thrust. I was able to get the pinion thrust housing machined with a specially radiused tool. I also decided to replace the original crown wheel and pinion ball race bearings with taper roller bearings, which entailed machining both side housings to take the wider bearing and slots to allow for removal of the taper roller cones. While this machining was being done, I also decided to replace the outer felt oil seals with modern oil seals so the outer ends were also machined to enable this.
Pinion thrust seating, re-radiusing tool
With the housings machined it was then necessary to assemble and adjust the diff. The Renault differentials of this period were of an odd arrangement, the axle assembly consisted of two halves bolted together and then the pinion was carried in a torque tube drive with the gearbox being a part of the torque tube.
Rear axle assembly showing gear box and torque tube assembly
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1926 Renault NN 6 CV Diff Overhaul Contd... The adjustable pinion assembly is on a screw thread so the castellated thrust bearing house was marked with letter punches A-H so that the position could be kept track of. The pinion is only the gear section, with a tapered internal bore so that was lapped onto the drive shaft keyed and (belts & braces) Loctited on as well, then the nut was split pinned.
Pinion assembly showing A-H markings. (Note 2mm locking screw)
The two axle housings were bolted together complete with gasket and a measurement taken between the two cone abutments and a shim pack was made up, based on the following information from my Triumph Herald Workshop Manual for guidance. “Assemble the pinion with the bearings, spacer and driving flange and tighten the flange nut gradually to the correct torque of 70ft/lbs (9.7 m/kg.), while constantly rotating the drive flange to ensure that the bearings do not become overloaded during the process, if necessary remove the flange and insert more shim washers. When correctly tightened a preload torque of 12 -16 lbs/in should be required to rotate the assembly (16 lbs/in for new bearings). Note that .001� shim thickness makes a difference of approximately 4 lbs/in.� I used a cord wrapped around the crown wheel and pinion carrier and a spring balance to achieve the necessary reading. While the machining of the housings was contracted out to an engineering firm, I undertook several turning jobs on my lathe to facilitate the adjustment and re-assembly of the diff, a thrust plate to use when the side bearings cones needed removal. A drift was made to drive the bearings back on and two packs of shims were also produced, one set for the crown wheel adjustment and one for taking up free play on the outer axle bearings. It was found desirable to make 6 supporting brackets for the axle housing halves and the torque tube gearbox assembly to facilitate moving the various parts and keep them in alignment during the multiple assemblies and disassemblies, a drive socket to drive the drive shaft via the engaged gearbox. Checking the bearing preload.
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1926 Renault NN 6 CV Diff Overhaul Contd..
Showing bearing cone being removed with puller and special counter using two slots milled into housing.
After the initial setting trial was made, the torque tube was undone and disengaged from the back axle halves, they were then split and the marking observed. Adjustments were then made by removing the taper roller bearing inners adjusting the shim pack “(toe and heel move the wheel, face and flank move the crank)� and re-assembled, ten bolts on the axle halves and six bolts on the torque tube drive! Rotating through the gearbox meant that backlash needed to be achieved by moving the pinion into full contact, then withdrawing 1-2 spaces (which approximated 7.5- 10 thousands of an inch) of the castellated pinion thrust bearing holder, it had to be done this way, as the only other method of turning the pinion was via the gearbox and there was a loss of motion because of backlash. As this is very much a trial and evaluate method, it required about seven iterations before a satisfactory result could be obtained. A compromise had to be made of the best markings (for which I used a Red Lead and grease mixture) and once it was obtained it was assembled using the gasket and a silicone jointing compound, then made ready for re-installing in the chassis.
Coast Side Drive Side Markings similar to final setting.
On the road thankfully, there is no noticeable noises on either the drive or overdrive. Neil Bieleski.
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Notes from your Secretary THANK YOU, another financial year is over. I hope you’ve enjoyed those Club nights, rallies or social gatherings that you have supported us with by your attendance. A big thank you to Barbara and Dave Allbon for keeping our gardens spick and span, to the Library team for keeping our Library and archives in order, the Charabanc crew for your efforts to keep our very special Angelique roadworthy and in the public eye, to Barbara, Fay Kitson and Pat Campbell who are always ready to lend a hand in the kitchen when required, the spare parts team, Val Ball our editor and Michael O’Kane our VIC officer and Glenn Morris who keeps track of continuous membership awards. The Clubrooms have opened and Branch activities both home and around the country are slowly returning. For those on social media, I hope you have joined the Vintage Car Club private group, there are interesting photos going up all the time, as well as conversations on technical advice, or where to go to get particular work done. I have seen that the Far North Tour is going ahead in it’s usual spot of the first weekend in November and also Taranaki are holding their annual Maunga Moana over November 20 and 21. Remember new dates are now set for the Vero Festival in 2022, so time to rebook your accommodation. Our annual AGM will soon be upon us and this year you will see we are holding the AGM on a Saturday afternoon. This is a trial to see if this is a time more suitable for our membership. Please come along to support and encourage, offer constructive feedback and maybe offer your time in an area you are interested in. As I have said many times before, there are many opportunities available to give back to the Branch, many of them not requiring a seat at the Committee table. Many hands make light work, but more importantly new blood is required! There are some key roles that we are still looking for people to assist with: Bulletin Editor – Val is happy to sit alongside and show someone the ropes and assist for as long as possible, but as much as she loves it, Val has held this role for 17 years. VIC Officer – We are very fortunate to have Michael O’Kane and his wealth of knowledge and he has managed all our VIC applications to Christchurch for a long period. Michael now serves on the National Technical Committee and again we need to have people in the wings who can step into this role. If we have several people, even better, you can buddy up to support each other. Michael is here to give all the training required. Mid Week Tourer Co-ordinator, again the retiring incumbents have done the role for 20 plus years, there are several people happy to organise runs, we just need one person to round the troops up, liaise with the Bulletin Editor and Committee and just make sure monthly communications are going out. Tracey Winterbottom
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Coming Events July 18 22 23 25 26
Sat Wed Thurs Sat Sun
Motorcycle Meeting—Clubrooms Commercial Meeting Club Night—Noggin & Natter Vintage Section Meeting—Clubrooms Club Run—starts 35 Titi Rd, Mauku
2:30pm 8:00pm 8:00pm 2:30pm 1:00pm
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Sat Veteran Section Meeting—Clubrooms 2:30pm Tues Committee Meeting—Clubrooms 7:30pm Sat Branch AGM—Clubrooms 2:00pm Thurs Bulletin Mailing 7:30pm Sat Motorcycle Meeting—Clubrooms 2:30pm National Executive Meeting & AGM (Whanganui Branch) Sat Vintage Section Meeting—Clubrooms 2:30pm Wed Commercial Meeting & Charabanc Maintenance Night Clubrooms 8:00pm Thurs Club Night & New Members –Guest Speaker on Tyres 8:00pm Sun Club Run—starts BP Service Centre, Southern Motorway 10:00am Tour to Te Aroha
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Tues Sat Thurs Sat Sun
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Thurs Sat Sun
Sun Wed
Committee Meeting—Clubrooms Veteran Section Meeting—Clubrooms Bulletin via Website or email Motorcycle Meeting—Clubrooms PV, PWV, P60V & P80V—Annual Rally Rubber Duckie Motorcycle Rally (Taranaki Branch) PV, PWV, P60V & P80V Rally (Waikato Branch) Commercial Meeting & Charabanc Maintenance Night Clubrooms Club Night Vintage Section Meeting—Clubrooms Central North Island Swapmeet (Rotorua Branch)
7:30pm 2:30pm 2:30pm
8:00pm 8:00pm 2:30pm
Note: The clubrooms are open on the second and fourth Thursday evenings each month from 7:30pm till 10:00pm and every Saturday afternoon from 4:30pm till 6:30pm.
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Coming Events
Thursday 23 July 8:00 p.m. Noggin & Natter
Club Run Sunday 26 July Starts:
35 Titi Rd, Mauku
Time:
1:00 p.m.
‘Seek ye the White High Lights’
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Notice of Annual General Meeting
Auckland Veteran & Vintage Car Club Inc.
NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Saturday 8th August 2020 To be held in the Auckland Branch Clubrooms, 39 Fairfax Avenue, Penrose.
Meeting commences 2:00 p.m. Agenda:
Apologies Minutes 2019 AGM Annual Reports Financial Statement Election of Officers Prize Giving 25 & 35 Year Presentation Awards General Business
A light afternoon tea will be provided. Members are requested to show their membership cards to receive voting papers. All nominations for office should be duly proposed, seconded and accepted by Financial Members and delivered to the Secretary, or maybe made from the floor at the AGM, if required.
T Winterbottom Secretary AVVCC
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Nomination Form NOMINATION FORM for the 2020-21 COMMITTEE Positions available are: Chairman, Vice Chairman, Secretary, Treasurer, Club Captain and six Committee Members. Non Committee Positions are: Librarian, Beaded Wheels Scribe & Bulletin Editor
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Annual Reports Chairman: Well what a year this has been for us as a country and for the Branch. We started off well after the last AGM. In August we had the Daffodil Day run for Cancer with 30+ cars and we finished at the Edmund Hillary Retirement Village again, as they had asked us back - it was a good and worthwhile day out. Next was the PV Rally where Alan and Christine Allbon were1 st in fast class, with Gavin Welch and Sophie Zhao winners of slow class and also overall. Labour weekend saw the Annual Hunua 100 Rally, plotted by Russel & Jocelyn McAlpine. Another successful garden party on the Saturday afternoon, followed by dinner at the Clubrooms. The Rally itself was won overall by Glenn and Marion Morris driving their 1928 Ford Model A in the Fast Vintage class. The event finished with a prize-giving dinner at the Remuera Club. The Branch's Annual Motorcycle Rally was very successful with 55 entries and was plotted by Gavin Welch and Graeme Crawley. I have been competing annually in this event since 1990 and have won my class a few times on my trusty 1960 BSA, but this time I not only won my class, but was also overall winner. The Veteran Rally, plotted by John Stokes, was very well attended with 18 entries starting and finishing in Waiuku. The long route winner was Peter Alderdice on his 1917 Harley Davidson and the short route winner was Barry Birchall in his 1905 De Dion Bouton. Lunch was enjoyed by everyone at the Waiuku RSA. I manned our Branch stand at the Pukekohe Classic Motorcycle Festival in early February, gaining some new members from being there. March the 1st I manned our stand for the Brit and Euro Classic Car Show held at Lloyd Elsmore Park, Pakuranga. This is a free show open to the public who turned out in their thousands to see this brilliant showcase of vehicles. There were 75 car clubs taking part with 1100 vehicles on display, getting bigger every year and is well worth a visit. Again new membership came from this show. The Vintage Muster drew 26 entries including 2 motorcycles. The event plotted by Shaaran & Alan Price over West Auckland countryside, was won by Gavin Welch & Sophie Zhao. The Mid Week Tourers continue to have good turnouts and they visit some interesting places. One of the founder members of this group, Norm Dewhurst and wife Pat, have now stood down from plotting these runs after a very long time, 20 years. Thank you Norm and Pat for all your work for this group. Many of our members have attended other events outside of the Branch and we have had some successes. It is always good to take part in other branch events when we can, meeting up with those friends from other parts of New Zealand. Our Library gets larger thanks to donations and Librarian Chris Wood (who took over from Barry Robert) and his team buying books that will benefit the Branch. Thanks guys. Over the year the Motorcycle Section continued to have very good turnouts for their meetings, to hear some excellent guest speakers and they had reasonable attendances for the runs and rallies.
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Annual Reports Contd.. The monthly Club Runs have been fairly well attended and ventured to some places of interest. Over the year John Stokes’ Veteran Section has grown and has had interesting meetings. Murray Firth started a new section for Vintage enthusiasts a couple of months before lockdown. It is proving popular. Thanks Murray and Penny. John Campbell with the Commercial Section, although small, still enjoy their monthly meetings. The Charabanc has work on it all the time to ensure Angelique is kept in the very best of conditions. She is an 'old girl' that deserves the best of attention. Thanks to the devoted team who maintain her and to the drivers (and one learner driver) who take her to a few events during the course of the year. Our Club Nights have had some interesting speakers and thanks to Robin Elliott for organising these speakers. I have organised a lot of the Motorcycle Section speakers, but my thanks go to those members who have given me leads. It gets harder all the time trying to find interesting speakers for the Branch in general, but we're still doing it. Any suggestions are always gratefully received. We had planned on St Johns coming in April, but lockdown had other plans. That will happen a bit later in the year. I must thank the ladies who provide the suppers or afternoon teas at the end of meetings and runs – Shaaran Price, and her helpers, Fay Kitson, Barbara Allbon, Pat Campbell and Lynda Spicer. Over the year we gained a number of new members, but sadly a few of our older members passed on. We all enjoyed the Annual Gymnic in December at Dick Langridges farm, although numbers were down. However, lots of stories being shared, along with Dicks wonderful collection of vehicles, the chapel, our grandkids entertained and of course Santa arrived with presents for all the children in attendance. There was a very large turnout for the Restoration Awards, the largest seen for many years. Very encouraging. The year finished with a great Christmas Pot Luck Dinner, attended by about 65 people. What a wonderful array of food was provided and of course, as we had all been good girls and boys Santa and his Naughty Little Elf arrived with presents for everyone. Thanks Russel and Rodger, we look forward to seeing you again this year if we've all been good! At the start of the New Year we had the office lady from our neighbours business have an incident of not stopping when parking, jumping the little concrete wall and ending up firmly stuck in the side of our building. Thankfully she wasn't hurt, just very shocked and it took 2 days to get the vehicle out of the wall. The repair work had started and then we went into Lockdown at Level 4, for Covid-19. The building was all securely ring-fenced with security fencing and protected against any adverse weather that may ensue. The inside work had been completed. Thankfully as soon as Level 2 commenced the builders were back and an excellent repair job has been done - it was quite a big job. The builders did a great job of matching the existing concrete patterning and paint.
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Annual Reports Contd.. With the announcement of Level 4 Lockdown life changed for everyone and as a Committee we tried our best to make contact with those members who we knew were on their own. Thanks to Barry Birchall who looked after a couple of members near to him, Shaaran & Alan Price for looking after members. We encouraged other section co-ordinators John Stokes, John Campbell and Murray Firth, to reach out to their group via emails/phone calls to make sure everyone was okay and to keep the lines of communication open – having meetings via email, share stories etc. I sent out lots of interesting stories that both motorcycle and car section people share with me and some early stories from mine and Lynda's life. I was amazed that I was getting responses from people as far away as the UK, USA and Australia having seen the stories I had circulated. Technology is great! This year the Committee have been discussing what renovations etc. will need to be undertaken in the next 5 years or so and to this end you will start to see areas being renovated and modernised. Minor repairs have been made during the year to the front windows, placing additional handrails to the mezzanine floor – much easier to grip for older hands than the flat banisters were. Additional picture rails have been put up and Shaaran has spent many hours revamping the names and vehicle tags on all of the photos. Alan has re-upholstered and repaired a number of the chairs and repaired tables. A new display cabinet has also been purchased, which no doubt many of you have noticed. We have replaced the Defibrillator with a new unit and members of the Committee are trained in using this. Our latest expenditure has been on upgrading our sound and visual equipment. With technology ever changing we were finding that using the latest computers for visual presentations were becoming unsuccessful as the newer technology wasn't always effective with our overhead projector or sound system etc. We now have a new sound system that will cope with any new technology, a computer to be used for visitors who wish to give a presentation via a memory stick that we know will now project to the large screen and you will be able to hear the sound, together with a blue-ray system that will play any format of CD or DVD and still retaining our Video player which has been integrated into the new system. You will also see at the AGM that the monitor on the wall, will be running a display of photographs of our vehicles at events etc. Thanks to Jack Nazer who has taken over the spares from Dudley Kitson just this last month. Thanks to Dudley for all his efforts over the years, they have been very much appreciated. The National VCC Executive Meeting was cancelled as this was scheduled for 27th March, but the AGM in Whanganui is going ahead on the 15 th August. There will be a few changes at the Branch for the foreseeable future until Covid19 has been eradicated from NZ. You will be asked every time on entry to the premises to sign the register and to sanitise your hands. We shall destroy records on a rolling three month basis as required – this is our contact tracing tool should it be required at a future stage. Let's hope not! I have thoroughly enjoyed my third year as your Branch Chairman and although events were cut short it was great to re-start the Branch again as a whole, with a
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Annual Reports Contd.. celebratory Level 1 event on the 4 th July, with the Independence Day – Kiwi Style dinner Lynda organised and catered for. Finally I need to say thank you to certain people. Firstly I would like to thank my fellow Committee members: Shaaran & Alan Price, Don Green, Ian Hubbard, John Stokes, Tracey Winterbottom, Warwick Darrow, Robin Elliot and Lynda for their hard work during the year, ensuring that the Branch ran smoothly and that there was plenty of events that you could enjoy. Also a huge thank you to Val Ball, our Bulletin Editor, who makes sure we have our reports in on time, creates our adverts. for events and makes our monthly Bulletin look great. My thanks to all the plotters, marshals, helpers at all the runs and rallies held during the past 12 months and finally to you, the Branch membership, who make this Branch what it is. Remember, be kind to each other, come out and mingle with fellow members and enjoy the events put on for your pleasure, whether it be a meeting, a club run or a rally. Keep those 2,3 and 4 wheels turning safely Martin Spicer Club Captain: Is it really 12 months since I did my last report? What a year this turned out to be, events and meeting until February and then nothing until mid June, due to Covid-19. I have had another enjoyable year of getting out and about to various monthly runs, rallies and other functions and meeting some new people into the bargain. My thanks go out to those people who have plotted monthly runs for you to enjoy and I hope you enjoyed some of the finishing destinations. Some excellent Rallies have been plotted by past winners including the Vintage, PV PWV P60 P80, Bert Cuthbertson, Auckland Motorcycle Rally, Veteran, Eddie Sim and the Hunua 100. Some lovely quiet roads have been covered, beautiful scenery enjoyed and some serious rallying taking place. We have two showcase events during the year, being the Hunua 100 where the majority of entrants are cars and the Auckland Motorcycle Rally. The Hunua 100 in October was another success, starting the weekend off with a wonderful garden party on the Saturday and 46 people attending the Saturday night dinner held at the Clubrooms. An excellent rally plotted by Russel & Jocelyn McAlpine, culminating with the prize giving dinner for around the same numbers as the night before at the Remuera Club, finishing the night off with a DJ and many of us dancing the night away. Last year’s Annual Motorcycle Rally toured the hiways and biways of Franklin and the Hauraki Plains. The boys had lunch in Thames, went and visited the Pump House and back to the finish. Unfortunately, the dinner was a disaster as the caterer, despite numerous emails with the date going back and forth with them, got the dates muddled up –so no dinner, very embarrassing. Nevertheless, they had a good fun prizegiving and many thanks to Gavin Welch and Graeme Crawley who jointly plotted the event. I would like to thank all the plotters, marshals and helpers who have given their
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Annual Reports Contd.. time in providing some excellent runs and rallies for you to enjoy - whether you are a really competitive member or simply love getting into or onto your vehicle and going for an enjoyable drive, we have certainly provided something for everyone. There is a lot of work that goes on behind the scenes, such as Clubroom maintenance, garden upkeep, finance, licences, attending executive meetings and National AGM meetings, runs and rallies being plotted or overseen and all this is done on a voluntary basis. Many hours each month is spent by your hardworking Committee to ensure you have a brilliant Branch to come to and enjoy the events we put on. To that end I would like to thank my fellow Committee members for their untiring work: Tracey Winterbottom, Ian Hubbard, Don Green, John Stokes, Shaaran & Alan Price, Robin Elliott and Martin Spicer. Also, my thanks to Chris Wood and his Library team, Leo Fowler & Charlotte Bovis our Bar Managers, Pat Campbell, Fay Kitson and Barbara Allbon our wonderful club night helpers of supper, David and Barbara Allbon for keeping our gardens looking wonderful all year round and to Val Ball our Bulletin Editor. I would also like to pass on my personal thanks to Martin, who promotes our Branch at every opportunity, giving up weekends to attend exhibitions for motorcycles or cars where he can wave the banner for the Branch. Also, for the great speakers he brings into the Motorcycle section. My thanks also to Robin Elliott who has found some great speakers for the monthly meetings. As the years go by the job gets harder and harder but I am sure that more exciting speakers will be found for the next 12 months. We have seen life turn around during the past four months what with Lockdown at Level 4 to coming through to Level 1 now and life will continue to evolve due to the Covid-19 virus. Your health and safety is paramount in our ongoing plans. You will be asked for the foreseeable future to sign in when coming into the Clubrooms and sanitizing your hands. But there have been some good things come out of this pandemic in that it does give us all the opportunity to revisit those beautiful New Zealand spots for holidays that we haven’t visited for a while rather than planning those overseas trips. I have thoroughly enjoyed my 3rd year as Club Captain and look forward to the next 12 months of what this Branch has to offer. Look forward to seeing you out and about Lynda Spicer
Veteran Section: The Veteran Section operated well until lockdown with good attendances at meetings with interesting parts displayed and good conversation. The Annual Veteran Rally was well attended and included one motorcycle, which took out first place for the long route. By the time you read this, section meetings will have resumed. John Stokes
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Annual Reports Contd.. Motorcycle Section: Well this has been a very different sort of year for all of us. Over the last year we had excellent turnouts for our Motorcycle meetings. We started in July with the President of New Zealand Land Speed Association as guest speaker, John Seccombe. John showed a film and told us about NZ land speed record attempts. We then had Chris Minnee from Cambridge who brought along his homemade gas turbine jet bike - what a monster and what a noise it made. Next up was Rob Creemers and his son Ben, our youngest member, who brought along their racing Brough Superior which is the only one being raced in the world - what a great looking bike. Next we had Auckland criminal lawyer Nicholas Taylor, he was really interesting, talking about his classic cars and motorcycles, his building of a steam engine and once owning a WW2 P39 Airacobra fighter plane. He was deputy chairman at MOTAT. He has a large collection of vintage guns, some he brought along to show us. We then had member Alice Leney who brought along his 1000cc Vincent. He told us his and Melvin's (his bike) story and of their recent 24.000 km trip around Europe - a great story. Then we had Steve Raffills and all his family with their 1920's Harley Davidson board racer replica. This stunning motorcycle was number 4 Steve and his family have built - these bikes sell for $130000.00. During the year we had the Cecil Light Restoration Trophy event which was won by Paul Downie with his 1937 Army Norton. In November we had our Auckland Motorcycle Rally, which I have been competing in this event since 1990 and have won my class on my trusty Golden Flash a few times, but this year I not only won my class, but was also overall winner. The New Years Day run had a very good turnout of 70 bikes and 40 cars. In February I manned our Branch stand at the Pukekohe Classic Motorcycle Racing Festival and at the Brit and Euro Classic Car Show which had 75 clubs attending with 1100 entries, a great free show. We then went into Covid-19 lockdown. During this time I kept the members entertained with some stories from my early biking days and also other members tales. Sadly during this time we lost two of our older members, Norm Maddock and Ray Clarke, two real gentlemen. We recommenced club activities on the 13th June. The motorcycle meeting had 20 bikes in carpark and about 50 members in attendance. At this meeting I asked for nominations for the Motorcycle Co-ordinator position and the reply was 'Martin' so I accepted it again, thanks guys. Martin Spicer Entertainment: With such a mixed up year, I can only claim to have had two speakers, but they have both been well received, each with some feedback later. It is great that the sound system has been bought. Both of the speakers had material which could not be used. It is said that one has only one chance to make a good first impression and I am sure that this investment will prove to be worthwhile. I am not the best person to be doing this as I have no history of the Branch, and would be better as a supporter than in leadership, but it is a great Branch with
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Annual Reports Contd... wonderful experienced members involved. There are people whom I have met in 50 years in my own garage who I will visit to try and encourage them to speak in the future. I was born in Gisborne in 1940 and raised at Tokomaru Bay where my father was in a partnership in a busy garage, our home was attached to the workshop which became my playground. These were of course the war years and the source of many great stories which I hope to share in the Bulletin in the future. I have really felt privileged to spend the last year on the Committee with all the talent it possesses and have learnt much. Robin Elliott Commercial Section: If there is one thing this Coronavirus has done, it has brought families closer together, whether by circumstance or desire. The opportunity too of contact through the internet via Zoom or Skype, kept us close to each other. Another club I am involved with held Zoom meetings and this went well too. The forced immobilisation though of our club eligible vehicles was hard to reconcile. So long as this thing does not return with a vengeance, we will be out there again very soon. The Commercial Section enjoyed convivial meetings right up until February of this year, when it all hit the fan. Our numbers have not decreased this past year, but neither have they increased and this is sad. One fears for the future, as the aging process doesn’t go into “hold mode”. I have said this before, but will do so again because there are similarities. The New Zealand Military Vehicle Club has a burgeoning membership and from mainly young people, of both sexes. There are vehicles among their membership from the first World War to the present day, just so long as they are ex-Military. A number of our Commercial Vehicles have been passed on to the next generation and this is encouraging. There is hope yet for the future. John Campbell Social Convenor & New Member Liaison: It has been a pleasure to supply suppers at New Member and Club Nights. My thanks to the ladies who have helped serve the tea and coffee. I followed up with a phone call to the new members encouraging them to join in with the many activities our Branch has to offer. I was happy to accept Paul Collins (North Shore Chairman at the time) request to provide dinner for the group who were travelling on a tour he organised from Cape Reinga to Bluff. Entrants arrived at the Clubrooms in time to have a look at our Library and Spares before the meal. Many thanks to Val & Rodger Ball for helping me with this event. As Alan and I were overseas over Hunua weekend I was not here to organise the Saturday evening meal at the Clubrooms. Thanks go to Lynda Spicer for organising it for me and also the ladies who organised the Garden Party afternoon tea and all who helped with the bar and sausage sizzle. Before we left for our holi-
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Annual Reports Contd.. day, I undertook putting up a display in the barn of the National Veteran Rally our Branch hosted in 2007. It was a pleasure to work on this display for members and visitors to view. The Annual Christmas Pot Luck dinner drew a large crowd who enjoyed the evening. The Committee agreed to supply a ham on the bone, which I heated through during the afternoon, to supplement the great variety of dishes everyone supplied. Keyboard player, Violet Naylor, entertained us through the evening with music we were all familiar with. As lockdown for the Covid-19 approached, I undertook sanitizing all tables, benches, door handles, taps etc. and during lockdown I phoned many members who did not have family close by to organise their food shopping. It was a pleasure talking to these folk and I was pleased that they were dealing with the lockdown well. In fact, one gentleman informed me that neighbours in his cul de sac still met for Happy Hour each Friday afternoon obeying the social distancing rule by sitting on folding chairs by their mailboxes. Shaaran Price Maintenance: Small maintenance jobs continue to be carried out on the Clubrooms such as formica breakages at the end of the tables re-glued, cistern leakages fixed. Broken Clubroom chairs continue to require fixing on a regular basis. I installed handrails on the stairs to both the bar and down stairs levels. A new shelf was installed in the bar to accommodate new spirit measures that were purchased. A new shelf unit was purchased for Library books and has been put in the down stairs lobby across from the library. I made and installed locks for the doors. The drain in the back yard is regularly cleared. Shaaran & I have spot cleaned the carpet a couple of times during the year. Owing to damage to the wall on the freestanding fireplace side of the building, photos were taken down for the duration of the rebuild. They have now been rehung. Warwick Darrow had painted the front wall window frames just prior to the wall damage. We must thank Barbara & David Allbon for the wonderful job they do keeping the gardens at the Clubrooms neat and tidy. Other people behind the scenes are Leo Fowler who, along with Charlotte Bovis, are our Bar Managers. Leo takes care of the alcohol purchasing, while Shaaran buys the non-alcohol items in the bar. Charlotte does a bar duty once a month even though she is not on Committee. A big thank you to all these people. Alan Price
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Annual Reports Contd.. Vintage Section: It was with some trepidation that we scheduled our first Vintage Section meeting last November. However, some 25 members turned out, including several of the Branch’s senior members who wished to show their support. The next two meetings, despite clashing with Xmas and Auckland Anniversary weekend still had good support and we were building from there when Covid-19 struck. During the lockdown a number of our group wrote accounts of restoration projects and technical articles of interest and these were circulated on line, keeping a sense of continuity and reducing the feeling of isolation. Thank you to all of you. Each month we are featuring an article in “The Bulletin” by one of our members on the history and work they have done on their own vehicle. These are proving very good reading and I feel also that they play an important role in recording the history of our old vehicles. As I write this, we have been given the green light to hold our June meeting making us fortunate indeed compared to the rest of the world. At our meetings the conversations are interesting and often there are old photos and interesting articles of a mechanical nature passed around the table and the end of the meeting coincides with the opening of the Clubrooms for the normal Saturday afternoon gathering. I feel we are off to a good start. Murray &Penny Firth
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Your Committee Chairman/Motorcycle Rep/Delegate Martin Spicer (Lynda) Email: spicerclan2017@gmail.com Ph: (09) 233 6382 or 0221 025 954 Vice Chairman/Clubrooms Booking/Name Badges Don Green (Brenda) Email: greend@slingshot.co.nz Ph: 266 8836 or 021 073 2642 Secretary/Privacy Officer: Tracey Winterbottom Email: vintagesunbeam@hotmail.co.nz (Stephen) Ph: (09) 232 0246 or 021 732 209 Treasurer: Ian Hubbard (Lesley) Email: ian@fhp.co.nz Ph: 0274 426 748 Club Captain: Lynda Spicer (Martin) Committee Members: Warwick Darrow (Trisha) Robin Elliott Alan Price (Shaaran) Shaaran Price (Alan) John Stokes
Email: spicerclan2017@gmail.com Ph: (09) 233 6382 or 021 189 3120
Building Maintenance Email: waktrish@gmail.com Ph: 520 2882 or 021 203 4562 Entertainment Officer/Spares Email: robaleen@actrix.co.nz Ph: 0274 922 188 Building Maintenance Email: birdwoodprices@gmail.com Ph: 833 8575 Social Convenor/New Membership Liaison Officer Email: birdwoodprices@gmail.com Ph: 833 8575 Veteran Rep/Spares/Trophy Steward Email: jcstokes96a@xtra.co.nz Ph: (09) 236 4582 or 0272 772 108
Non-Committee Officers: Librarian Bulletin Editor Chris Wood (Diana) Val Ball (Rodger) Ph: 524 9478 Ph: 298 6476 Email: rvball@xtra.co.nz Beaded Wheels Reporter Commercial Rep John Stokes John Campbell (Pat) Continuous Membership Awards Steward Ph: 828 7850 or 0272 446 928 Glenn Morris (Marion) VIC Officer Ph: 273 4975 or 021 136 5926 Michael O’Kane Insurance: Ph: 813 4944 Vero Consumer Insurance Specialist 0800 505 905 or 356 4501 Agency Number: 0300126 Clubrooms Ph: 579 5625 Street Address: 39 Fairfax Ave, Penrose Postal Address: P O Box 12 138, Penrose, Auckland 1642 Open: 2nd & 4th Thursday 7:30-10:00pm, Every Saturday 4:30-6:30 pm Club Night: 4th Thursday of the month
Branch Email Address Library Email Address Branch Website
auckland@vcc.org.nz libraryavvcc@gmail.com www.avvcc.org.nz
Branch Honorary Life Members:
Barry Robert Norm Dewhurst QSM Alan Roberts
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