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The monthly journal of the North Shore Vintage and Classic Car Club July 2022
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Editorial
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Another club year has gone by and we continue to operate smoothly. Our membership numbers are growing and we seem to be keeping most members happy most of the time. Our two new committee members Terry Flude and Andrew Lunt have immediately stepped up to the plate, with Terry offering to take the vacant Vice-Chairman role and Andrew volunteering to take over coordinating Wednesday evening meetings with the aim of arranging some regular ’entertainment’ events. Early suggestions have been Movie Nights, Skills Videos, Historical Archive Videos, Car in the Yard (on summer evenings). If you have any ideas for interesting activities (no more than once a month) then please contact Andrew. Interest in our Spring Tour this year seems to be buoyant. I’ve booked my accommodation already and I am aware of at least another three members ‘Going Solo’ as well as very strong contingent of couples who are already committed. Paul Collins’ contact details are on page 12 so get in touch ASAP. As most of you know we have a comprehensive security system guarding the clubhouse and all our sheds. We’d just like to acknowledge and thank Murray Cole (of Cole Security Group Ltd, phone 0508 776 832) for attending to our security system recently without charge. Finally I’d just like to mention that Bruce Skinner (a key contributor to this magazine) has had a bit of a health setback. All the very best from the membership Bruce. Get well soon! Stuart Battersby battersby56nz@gmail.com
In this edition: Chairman’s Report: AGM and Committee changes. AGM awards and photos: Mike Garner wins the Captain’s Cup. National Veterans Rally: Barry Birchall explains the detail. Weirder and weirderer: Another quirky vehicle spotted by Bruce Skinner. For Sale: Two beauties from the estate of Rex Cottrell. June Club run: Coffee and Cars. What’s On: Calendar nearly back to normal. Top of the South 2022 Targa: Details and contacts. They’ve been together for 60 years! An achievement to be noticed! Focus on the Marque: Lanchester. Committee Notes: June 2022 Committee discussions. Contacts.
Cover Girl: Our Lanchester Eleven Focus on the Marque this month is Lanchester 2
Chairman’s Report: Tony Sparkes January 2022
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Another successful AGM has been held and an enlarged Committee has been elected. I welcome the new members and hope they will enjoy contributing to the running of their club. Mike Swanton has decided not to continue this year and we thank him for his contributions over the last couple of terms. We have a fair bit of rain recently and the ground has become quite waterlogged. So please do not drive on the grass as it causes ruts and makes mowing a bit more difficult. A few of us met with Auckland branch this morning and drove the short journey to Coffee and Cars at Mt Smart stadium. We ran into a couple of other NSVCC members there. The gathering had quite a different feel to the Smales Farm show. Much more modern and a lot of American stuff (showing my bias a bit there!). Maybe in the summer more vintage and classics will be there. On July 14th we have been invited to visit the Lifestyle Retirement village at Forest Hill. We will have a sausage sizzle at the club after restoration work and then drive down for 1.30pm. It would be good to get 10-15 cars. August’s run will be the Annual Daffodil Day run on the 21st. We will meet at the North Shore Airfield and proceed to Matakana for the display. Further details in Progress. Let’s hope we get good weather and a big turnout for this fundraiser.
Tony Sparkes Chairman
Tony Sparkes Chairman Phone: 027-499-5588 Email: 29tony66@gmail.com
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Annual Awards: Presented at the June 2022 AGM.
Each year the club presents awards to those individuals who have done well in our monthly rallies and events. We also use the occasion to recognise those member volunteers who have contributed to the well-being and development of the club. We are an amateur club run by our members and it is impossible to overstate the impact of our team of volunteers on our club and facilities. We are grateful and indebted to all our volunteers. What follows is a list of awards given at our June 2022 AGM.
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Richard Lloyd accepts the Rolling Pin from John Higham
Captain’s Cup MIKE GARNER (administration, website and morning teas). Most Enthusiastic Trophy PETER AITKEN (the tractor mower man). The Posh Picnic Trophy DAVID AND SALLY LANE / MALCOLM AND TERRY DEAN. Post 60’s Trophy RAY URBAHN – (DAIMLER, how many members in their 90’s buy a club eligible vehicle?). Rolling Pin Trophy – Most involvement by husband/wife/partner with club events or activities RICHARD AND MARY LLOYD.
Maurice Whitham receives the AJAX Award
Restoration Trophy – Best restoration of the year MIKE AND CHRISTINE SWANTON (1935 DX VAUXHALL STRATFORD SPORTS). Ajax Trophy – Best restoration of a vehicle where most or all of the work was done by the owner MAURICE WHITHAM (MODEL T FORD).
Captain’s Cup Winner Mike Garner receives more plaudits. 4
National Veteran Rally: Organiser Barry Birchall gives more details.
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Planning is now well under way for National Veteran Run based in Tuakau next February . We have found an excellent venue for rally headquarters at La Valla an old catholic school in great grounds on a no exit road just two miles out of Tuakau. There is a massive secure carpark where we can leave trailers and park mobile homes. Quite important these days for veteran owners. On the other side of the buildings their great gardens, big trees and lawns that go on for ever and they have told us we can park up to sixty veteran vehicles on the lawns amongst the trees for the three days. There is accommodation on site, communal kitchen, lounge, a function centre with bar and a picture theatre which we will have full use of during the rally. La Valla really hums as the day we called they were cooking two meals for forty schools in South Auckland and that happens five days a week , St Johns had two hundred people there for a conference and there were two schools there using the gymnasiums. It is very popular venue in South Auckland for weddings. There is even an airport on site. The accommodation is excellent, and their web site does not do the site justice. We will start and finish the runs from there each day after a cup of tea. The vehicles will park on the grass adjacent the new accommodation block and drive out through an avenue of trees. The runs each day will finish there with afternoon tea. The Dewhurst family first mentioned the venue and on our first visit they did not want us, but when I could not make anything else work in Tuakau, we went back there, and they agreed to host us and have been great to work with. The whole weekend will be based around the La Valla complex starting with breakfast there on Friday morning and finishing on Sunday night with the final dinner at La Valla. We could have a barbeque there one night and make use of the picture theatre. We might have a guest speaker one night. On Saturday afternoon there will be a concours and a gymkhana in the grounds for veteran owners on the run. There will be the choice of short and long runs each day and one day the runs will be competitive. There could be a period costume option. 5
National Veteran Rally: Cont.
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After I talked to someone in Hamilton one-night, veteran car owners started booking accommodation in Tuakau and they were coming from Gore, Christchurch, Hawkes Bay, Palmerston North, and Hamilton. We had to get something out in writing very quick and everybody here started to panic. The first thing we sent out in haste had a wrong date and that did not help. Within a few days all the accommodation had gone at La Valla, and we had bookings in Tuakau Hotel. I just hope the interest continues and we book out the twenty-eight rooms in that hotel at Tuakau. I would love to see fifty vehicles on a veteran run in Auckland again and I believe it is possible. In planning stages, we could see we had to avoid the Ellerslie Concours and Art Deco but knew if we had the event a few days after the Art Deco we might get a few entrants from the South Island that were coming up to the Art Deco event and I am sure this is what is happening. Eight months out we have fourteen groups in accommodation at Tuakau and that is a great start. John Stokes is organising the three runs and I know when we made the trip to Port Waikato, I thought that would be a great run in a very primitive veteran. With the Auckland clubrooms closed it has not helped us access material, like email addresses and phone numbers but Christchurch have stepped up to help. We are hoping to have a public car display in Waiuku. I am also hoping at La Valla on the Saturday afternoon we can encourage some to come out with their veteran vehicle who might not be able to participate in the event because the vehicle not registered or does not have a vic. There is a huge number of veterans in Auckland we never now see, and it would great to see a few of these vehicles come out one afternoon. You will require a vehicle identity card to enter the runs. If you need a vehicle identity card in Auckland talk to John Stokes. It would be good to see a few motor bikes start and heavy commercial vehicles. We are going to put out the first newsletter shortly and if you want to receive the newsletters, please make contact. Barry Birchall Phone No 09 818 8755 Email barrybirchall@xtra.co.nz 6
Weird and ‘weirderer’: Only in America.
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“Sir-Vival”, Is the name of a Hudson-based concept for the ultimate safety car. The car last moved under its own power sometime around 1964 or 1965 when it was shown at the New York World's Fair. Since then, it's been split apart, reassembled, shuffled all over eastern Massachusetts, and remained hidden in plain sight, but nobody's tried to get it running again. That'll change now that the car has been sold to Jeff Lane of the Lane Motor Museum. In 1958, Worcester-based Walter Jerome decided it was about time somebody built a car designed primarily for safety and not for looks or speed. Rapidly increasing numbers of highway deaths - especially in the post-war period led many to call for greater automotive safety as early as 1947, but the response from Detroit was tepid at best throughout the Fifties. Ford made a few gestures at improving automotive safety, including funding a study on safety cars at Cornell University, but it largely fell to independents and individuals to build cars with safety features designed into the vehicle.
Sir-Vival and designer Walter Jerome in a period publicity shot
Jerome decided to start with a step-down Hudson, which he bought from Bellingham, and split it into two sections to anticipate the possibility of collision from any angle. In an early attempt at creating a crumple zone, Jerome intended the front section, mounted via a hinge to the rear section, to absorb a collision rather than deflect one, noting that the rigidity of typical cars was what led to injuries and deaths in collisions. To each of the two sections, Jerome added steel bumpers that The car before any restoration in the museum acted, in his words, like a second frame, and rubber bumpers around the steel designed to redirect all but direct collisions. In fact, he built a full-size bumper car. He didn't stop there. The driver controlled the car from a turret-mounted central driver's seat surrounded by a "full circle" windshield for greater visibility. According to Jerome's literature, the windshield itself rotated past stationary windshield wipers as part of Jerome's quest for maximum driver visibility. 7
Weird and ‘weirderer’: Cont.
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The exterior is fitted with high-visibility marker and signal lamps; the parallelogram doors are designed not to pop open in a crash; and the interior features seat belts, padding, and even a rollbar. "It is all too obvious that Detroit has no plans to come up with anything really new," Jerome wrote. "Their 1964 cars are already on the drawing boards and spring from the same rigid frames. I hold that human life is important, far more important than Detroit's worry about the cost of retooling to produce an automobile which will save human lives. Adoption of the flexible Sir Vival design would make rigid vehicles obsolete and create a new market, almost immediately, for 65 million vehicles." Suffice to say that an individual manufacturer and designer did not have the financial or marketing power of Detroit and the project failed to make any commercial impact. What now survives in the Lane Motor Museum, remains an amazing testament to the foresight of Walter Jerome. He, at least, understood need to improve the safety of motor cars and Sir-Vival clearly demonstrates the threads of ideas that would eventually be turned into reality in the cars we drive today.
Peter Lloyd called by the club in a little 57 seater ‘runabout’.
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Two wonderful cars for sale from the estate of Rex Cottrell.
1927 Hupmobile Sedan
1940 LaSalle Sedan For both cars, all reasonable offers will be considered. Contact Andy on 021 131 5446 9
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Combined Branch Run to Coffee & Cars: The replacement event for the now defunct Caffeine and Classics This event was billed as a combined ‘tribranch’ (North Shore, Waitemata and Auckland) appearance at the new Coffee and Cars event at the Mt Smart Stadium. The plan was to convene at the Auckland Branch and then drive in convoy around the corner to Mt Smart. I had arranged to pick up Richard Ellis at 7.30am and we would meet up with everyone at the Auckland Branch. We arrived just after 8 and we were just the fourth vehicle there. Unfortunately by departure time there were only another 5 vehicles. So what I imagined as a rather grand convoy of 40-50 vehicles turned into a small echelon of just 9 vehicles, one of which was a trailered 1903 Oldsmobile. We had just two cars from our branch with my MGB and Lynn and Jim Hefkey’s Almark TG. Tony Sparkes arrived in his ‘modern’ as his Riley and Daimler are still under the weather and his MX5 had a flat battery!
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Stunning in yellow
Tidy or what??
On arrival at Mt Smart we parked up close to Terry Flude’s yellow truck. (Stunning!). It wasn’t too long before we met up with Jim Masson (Fiat 850), Terry Costello (Model A Ford) and Andrew Lunt (Datsun SSS). The wet weather clearly knocked early numbers, but it wasn’t long before all the parking spaces were full. The attendance estimates reckoned there were between 1000 and 1200 cars and Sumptuous black and yellow leather with chrome. trucks were on show. There were some terrific vehicles on display and on the next page you will see a few shots of some that caught my eye. As Tony mentions in his chairman’s report there were some subtle differences between the vehicles at Mt Smart, compared to those that we used to get at Smales Farm. Still it was great to see so many fantastic vehicles in one place. 10
Coffee and Cars: Cont.
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As mentioned previously here are a few shots of some of the cars that caught my eye.
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Upcoming Events: Events are a bit thin on the
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ground at present because of you know what. Please drop us a note if you know of an event that might be of interest to our members. Remember that North Shore Branch events are in RED, whilst other branch and private events are in our usual blue font.
July July 14: Visit to Forest Hill, Lifestyle Retirement Village. Sausage sizzle at the clubhouse prior to departure. We have been asked to arrive at 1.30pm. July 17: Mid-Winter Club Run to the Shaw Brothers Collection at Coatesville. Meet at the Clubrooms at 11.30am for coffee and cake. Leave at 12.15pm for a short run to arrive at “The Shaws” in Mahoenui Valley Rd , Coatesville by 1.00pm. Return home at your leisure. July 20: Auckland Branch: Midweek Tourers: Start from the BP Service Centre, Southern Motorway, Drury, 10am for a 10:30am departure. July 23-24: Clubhouse booked: Federation of Motoring Clubs AGM and Executive Meetings.
August August 21: Daffodil Day Event with Waitemata and Warkworth Branches. Meet at the North Shore Airfield by 9.30 for a staggered departure to avoid queues and delays northwards to Matakana.
September September 16-19: NSVCC SPRING TOUR to Cape Reinga via Kerikeri, Kaitaia and Dargaville. Contact Paul Collins at Collins.electronics@xtra.co.nz or phone 0272922204 for more details
October October 14, 15, 16: Top of the South Targa: See next page for details and contacts.
Regular Diary Committee Meetings: Last Monday of every month, 6.00pm. Tuesday Mornings: Restoration shed open. Coffee and tea around 10 - ish. Wednesday Evenings: Club night. Coffee, tea and banter. Thursday Mornings: All sheds open. Why not come along and explore the parts shed? Fantastic experience, even if you don’t need any bits! Coffee, tea, cakes and savouries at 10.30am. John Castle has kindly volunteered to coordinate a programme of club runs over the next year. Please contact John directly if you have any suggestions or ideas for suitable runs. Email: jmcastle@xtra.co.nz
The club fully supports the latest government guidelines on Covid and your personal protection. Members are asked to ensure their own safety and respect the choices of others as we continue to fight Covid.
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Top of the South Targa: Overview details and contacts
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A few notes and comments from event organiser Rod Corbett
The aim is to create a unique motoring spectacle of older cars being driven and displayed, along with encouraging new and younger VCC members to join us and travel over some of the most iconic sealed roads New Zealand has to offer. This is not a speed event, but rather an exercise in precise driving and time-keeping to maintain a set average speed through all closed stages, (with the safety of knowing that all participants have staggered start times, drive in the same direction, on the same road, with nothing coming towards them!). For those travelling from afar, we recommend that you get to Nelson by Thursday evening, 13th October, to be ready bright and early for Scrutineering etc which starts Friday morning 14th October at 8.30am. For those travelling from the North Island, I recommend that you check out ferry booking options for you and your car via the Cook Strait Crossings website asap. The best place to get more information on Targa NZ is to look at https://targa.nz
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Coffee and Cars: Following our visit to Coffee and Cars, Terry Costello kindly invited us look around his shed.
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Thanks to Terry for inviting us around to see his small but perfectly formed collection of Model As plus a couple of wonderful American classics.
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They’ve been together for 60 years: David Lane and his Studebaker, that is.
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Just a short note to recognise that David Lane has now clocked up no less than 60 years membership with The Vintage Car Club. Now your editor has only been in the club for just 4 years but it doesn‘t take long to spot the shakers and movers in an organisation. Waves of enthusiasm and energy emit from David with every interaction. Sixty years is a great achievement in itself, but even more remarkable is the fact that David has had the same car for all of those 60 years. That car is of course David‘s glorious Studebaker. We‘ve actually managed to find some photographs of the car way back from 1962 (just about the time David joined the club). David has been and continues to be one our most enthusiastic and hard working members. So congratulations to you David! Your contributions to the club are recognised by all. If you see David around over the next few weeks, please take time to shake his hand to congratulate and thank him for this achievement.
Above: Two shots of The Studebaker from 1962. On the right from the top. David in 1970, the Studebaker today and as a barefoot country gent in the 1980s.
From L > R we see David in his best suit and shoes changing a wheel. Always the innovator David downloads new firmware for the stores computer system and finally doing what he does best; relaxing with Sally 15
Lots going on at the club this month. Photos from Terry Costello.
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Framing up of the BSA is getting very close.
John Ellis, precision joinery.
Richard Ellis (in his Tom Cruise Top-Gun outfit), checks my work on the Bedford Guard repair.
Barry Dew gets down to the ‘Nuts and bolts’. Barry’s work now paying off with a huge range of sizes and threads available.
Owen helps Jeremy fit a replacement windscreen to Owen’s daily driver.
Paul Brinsden and Gavin Welch seem surprised when checking the engine of Paul’s ‘54 Armstrong Siddeley. 16
Lots going on at the club this month. Further
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photos
The ‘Treasures’ cabinet in the Spares Shed. Call in and check it out one day.
Two of the biggest front guards in the world. 1 x Mk4 Jaguar and another from a Mk5
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Clearly a captivating discussion. Do NOT park on the grass lest you receive the wrath of our mower man, Peter Aitken. 17
Focus on the Marque: Lanchester.
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Summary: The Lanchester Motor Company Limited was a car manufacturer located, until early 1931, at Armourer Mills, Montgomery Street, Sparkbrook, Birmingham, and afterwards at Sandy Lane, Coventry England. The marque has been unused since the last Lanchester was produced in 1955. The Lanchester Motor Company Limited is still registered as an active company and accounts are filed each year, although as of 2014 it is marked as "non-trading". The Lanchester company was purchased by the BSA Group at the end of 1930, after which its cars were made by Daimler on Daimler's Coventry sites. So, with Daimler, Lanchester became part of Jaguar Cars in 1960. In 1990 Ford Motor Company bought Jaguar Cars and it remained in their ownership, and from 2000 accompanied by Land Rover, until they sold both Jaguar and Land Rover to Tata Motors in 2008, who created Jaguar Land Rover as a subsidiary holding company for them. In 2013, Jaguar Cars was merged with Land Rover to form Jaguar Land Rover Limited, and the rights to the Lanchester car brand were transferred to the newly formed British multinational car manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover. The three brothers: This business was begun by the three Lanchester brothers, Frederick, one of the most influential automobile engineers of the 19th and 20th centuries, George and Frank who together incorporated The Lanchester Engine Company Limited in December 1899 retaining the financial support they had previously received from the two brothers, Charles Vernon Pugh and John Pugh of Rudge-Whitworth. Others who took directorships included the Whitfield brothers, J. S. Taylor and Hamilton Barnsley – a master builder who sold the business to BSA-Daimler in 1931.
1895/96 single cylinder Lanchester
1901 12HP Lanchester
Work on the first Lanchester car was started in 1895, significantly designed from first principles as a car, not a horseless carriage, and it ran on the 1914 40HP Lanchester public roads in February or March 1896. It had a single-cylinder 1306 cc engine with the piston having two connecting rods to separate 18
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Focus on the Marque: Cont.
crankshafts and flywheels rotating in opposite directions giving very smooth running. A twocylinder engine was fitted to the same chassis in 1897 and a second complete car was built alongside it. This led on to the first production cars in 1900, when six were made as demonstrators. These had two-cylinder, 4033 cc, horizontal air-cooled engines, retaining the twin crankshaft design. Steering was by side lever (or tiller) not wheel. The gearbox used epicyclic gearing. The first cars were sold to the public in 1901. In 1902 Lanchester became the first company to market disc brakes to the public. They were mechanical and on the front wheels only. The discs were very thin and made of a very soft metal like brass. Although probably leaving much to be desired, they completely fit the definition of a disc brake, and beat all others to market by many years. All bodies were made by external coachbuilders until 1903 when a body department was set up, until 1914 most cars had Lanchester built bodies. In 1904, despite a full order book, the business ran out of money and The Lanchester Engine Company Limited was put into voluntary liquidation. After a period of management by a receiver the business was re-organised re-capitalized and incorporated as The Lanchester Motor Company Limited later that year.
1932 Lanchester 30HP ‘Straight Eight’ . Notice the Midships Windscreen installed on this. Looks very similar to the screen currently hanging on the wall in our Spares Shed.
1934 Lanchester 10. The first new design following the sale to B.S.A. Clearly an ‘upmarket’ version of the BSA Ten.
The 1904 models had a 2470 cc, four-cylinder, water-cooled, overhead-valve engines featuring pressure lubrication, very unusual at the time, and were now mounted with the epicyclic gearbox between the front seats rather than centrally, resulting in a design with the driver sitting well forwards and without a bonnet. Six-cylinder models joined the line-up in 1906. The specification started to become more conventional with wheel steering as an option from 1908, becoming standard from the end of 1911, pedals and a gear lever replaced the original twolever system of gear changing. George Lanchester was now in charge, Frederick having resigned in 1913. The engine was moved further forward to a conventional position in the sporting Forty, with a side-valve, 5.5-litre six-cylinder engine, but very few were made before the outbreak of World War I. A distinctive feature of the engine's valves was their use of leaf springs, rather than coil springs. Frank Lanchester ran the London sales office. 19
Focus on the Marque: Cont.
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War: During World War I the company made artillery shells and some aircraft engines but some vehicle production continued with the Lanchester armoured cars built on the Lanchester 38 hp chassis for use by the Royal Naval Air Service on the Western Front.
Post-war: After the first World war the company adopted a single model policy and the Forty was reintroduced with a 6.2-litre overhead-cam engine in unit with a 3-speed gearbox still using epicyclic gears and a worm drive rear axle. It was very expensive, dearer than a Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost and to maintain production a smaller car, the Twenty One joined the range in 1924. This had a 3.1-litre, sixcylinder engine, now with removable cylinder head, mated to a four-speed conventional gearbox and four -wheel brakes. It grew to the 3.3-litre Twenty Three in 1926. The Forty was finally replaced by the Thirty with straight-eight 4.4-litre engine in 1928. A further series of armoured cars was made in 1927, using a six -wheeled version of the Forty chassis. For 1928 there was George's last design, a 4446 cc straight-8; only 126 were made before the economic depression effectively killed demand.
1937 Lanchester Eleven 4-door six-light saloon
Our Lanchester. Known to be a 1937 vehicle the extra window behind the “C” post clearly identifies this as a Lanchester Eleven as in the photo above.
Sale or liquidation: Within weeks, their bank called in the company's overdraft of £38,000 forcing immediate liquidation of the company's assets. Because their current premises were next door to BSA's Armourer Mills at Sparkbrook a sale to BSA made sense. Thomas Hamilton Barnsley (1867–1930), the principal shareholder, chairman and managing director negotiated a sale of all share capital to BSA group shortly before his death on Christmas Day 1930. BSA's purchase of the all of the shares was One more shot of our Lanchester currently waiting completed in January 1931 for £26,000, a fraction of patiently in the back of the Storage Shed. the value of the assets. Car production was transferred to Lanchester's new sister subsidiary, Daimler, at Motor Mills, Sandy Lane, Radford, Coventry. 20
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Focus on the Marque: Cont.
The Lanchester Eleven has 10.8 HP four-cylinder engine with overhead valves and is of 1444-cc (66 x 105 mm) cubic capacity. Transmission is of the Daimler Fluid Flywheel type with four forward speeds. The chassis is priced at £215 and factory-supplied bodies includes Saloons and Coupés from £298 up to £325. Daimler: George Lanchester was kept on as a senior designer and Frank became the Lanchester sales director. The first new offering, still designed by George Lanchester, was a version of the Daimler Light Twenty, the Lanchester Eighteen with hydraulic brakes and a Daimler fluid flywheel. The Ten of 1933 was an upmarket version of the BSA Ten. The pre-war Fourteen Roadrider of 1937, was almost identical to the Daimler New Fifteen. The then Duke of York, a repeat customer during the 1920s and 1930s, 1950 Lanchester 14 or “Leda” as it was sometimes called. preferred this less showy version of a Daimler car and took delivery of a pair of specially built Daimler straight-eight limousines with the Lanchester grille and badges. Post war, a ten-horsepower car was reintroduced with the 1287 cc LD10 which didn't have a Daimler equivalent and the four-cylinder 1950 Fourteen / Leda. The very last model, of which only prototypes were produced, was called the Sprite.
They do like their industrial art in Birmingham. This sculpture, the Lanchester Car Monument, in the Bloomsbury Heartlands area of Birmingham, designed by Tim Tolkien, marks the site where Lanchester built their first four-wheel petrol car in 1895.
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Housekeeping and ‘stuff’
Emergency contact numbers: Can everyone who attends club events on Tuesdays, Wednesdays or Thursdays please take a moment to ensure that the club (Mike Garner) has an emergency contact number for you in case of any accidents or incidents at the club. We have a telephone number for all of our members, but that may not necessarily be appropriate as an emergency contact number. Don’t park on the grass: No doubt there will be water restrictions in 6 months but currently the wet weather is playing havoc with our lawns. All verges are now extremely soft and taking a vehicle on the grass will cause deep rutting and problems. Switch it off and put it back where you found it: This only applies to folks working in the restoration areas, but please remember to switch off any power tools, gas bottles as soon as you have finished with them. Please return all hand-tools, hammers, pliers, spanners, scissors etc back in their correct place. As far as consumables are concerned (thinners, kerosene, sandpapers, masking tape) if you use the last items then please let somebody know so that we can keep our stocks replenished.
The Fire Truck. Still misbehaving and running lumpy
Chassis and powertrain of Richard Ellis’s Austin 7
There’s a few years of experience here! Jim Wooton and Bob Fairbairn sort it out.
Tony Sparkes and Terry Flude track down the gremlin in the Daimler’s steering column. 22
Notes from January Committee Meeting.
New Members:
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Ken Rush, Sam Robinson, Shaweez Gamieldien. Welcome all!
50 and 60 year badges: A special presentation is being planned for Ray Urbhan and David Lane for the presentation of their 50 year and 60 year membership badges respectively. Congratulations to both of you for these impressive milestones. Wednesday Nights: It has been suggested that some special events be held on Wednesday nights. Andrew Lunt offered to look at Wednesday night meetings with something special maybe once a month. Quiz nights, movies nights, and something for the interest of the wives and partners. Anyone with suggestions, Andrew will be very pleased to from you. Alterations for sign: The club sign in the lower field is to be altered advising the public on how to join the club. The sign is very close to the new bus lane . Drain in front new shed: Work is being undertaken to install a drain in front of the new shed. Memorial Wall: A discussion took place in relation to a Memorial Wall with a number of questions being raised such as whose name goes on etc, plus they become obsolete over a period of time. Following discussion the proposal was declined.
July Run: Any suggestions on run. Tony Sparkes to check a run to an Onehunga car collection. (Ed Club Run to Shaw Brothers collection now confirmed. See What’s On page)
April 2023 - 50 year anniversary celebrations: A. Van Zon to work with Richard Bampton on celebration events. Anyone with suggestions for the 50 year celebrations please contact the committee of the above members. Constitution: The term ‘Chartered Accountant’ needs to be altered as that term no longer exists. The alterations do not affect the overall meaning of the provision. Club Byelaws: There is a need to prepare byelaws particularly in relation to dealing with complaints. A sub-committee is being formed to look at the formation of byelaws. General Committee members: We have one too many General Committee Members. This can be resolved by one of the general members filling the role of Vice-Chairman. It was proposed that Terry Flude be appointed as Vice-Chairman and this was approved. Name badges: Free name badges will be available to new members and first time supplies. There will be a subsequent charge $15.00 to replace lost or damaged name badges. We need to formalise name badge requests process.
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About Us
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Club Address: 40 Masons Rd, Albany, 0632 Phone: 09-4792779: email: northshorevcc@gmail.com Website: www.vintagecarclub-northshore.co.nz Club Nights: Every Wednesday from 7.30pm. Restoration Shed: Every Tuesday & Thursday morning 9am - 12pm. Committee Meetings: Last Monday of the month, 7.30pm . Club Runs: Normally 12.30-1pm start, 3rd Sun. of month. Always check the ‘Upcoming events’. VERO Branch Reference Number: HO0300144 (Quoting this number when renewing your insurance gives a small commission back to the club).
Club Committee Chairman: Tony Sparkes 09-473-5872 or 027-499-5588 Vice-Chairman: Terry Flude: 021 958 678 Secretary: Maurice Whitham 09-627-0310 or 027-296-9293 Treasurer: Ross Moon 09-426-1508 or 022 426 1508
Club Delegate: Stuart Battersby 022-471-2759 GENERAL COMMITTEE Members: John Higham 09-478-7973 Peter Lloyd: 09-426-7179 or 021-298-8795 Richard Lloyd: 09-420-5048 or 027-483-2898 Andrew Lunt: 0274 996 803 Barry Thompson 09-959-0206 Arnold Van Zon: 09 473 5750 or 027 2765336 OTHER CLUB OFFICERS (Non Committee) Members’ Garage Manager: Kevin Lord 09 413 9157 Welfare Officer: Brian Bisset 09 554 1740 Librarian: Kevin Benseman 022 678 5629 Beaded Wheels Correspondent: Richard Bampton 09947 3042 Magazine Editor: Stuart Battersby: 022 471 2759 or email battersby56nz@gmail.com THE INFORMATION IN THIS MAGAZINE IS SUPPLIED AS A SERVICE TO MEMBERS. ARTICLES OF INTEREST ARE ALWAYS WELCOMED. THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED IN THIS MAGAZINE ARE THOSE OF THE AUTHORS AND THE CLUB ACCEPTS NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ACCURACY OF ANY ARTICLES OR STATEMENTS HEREIN. All rights reserved. No part of this magazine may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical without permission in writing from the copyright holder 24