“Dripfeed” NEWSLETTER OF THE BANKS PENINSULA BRANCH OF THE VINTAGE CAR CLUB OF New Zealand (INC) VOLUME 42, No 7 august, 2019 Editor: Michael Williams 10 Selwyn Parade Lyttelton Ph 328 8043, email mimiandmichael@yahoo.co.nz
Chairman: Secretary:
Club Officers: Craig Keenan 322 1006 Ron Hasell 942 1105
Branch Address: 27 Showgate Ave, ChCh 8042 E-mail: bankspeninsula@vcc.org.nz Noggin & Natter: 2nd Thursday of the Month • •
Noggin 7.30 pm at the Papanui RSA. Upham Room – enter either from 55 Bellvue Ave or the first entrance on the left on Harewood Road (Papanui / Main North Road) Thursday 8th of August We look forward to seeing you there. Supper is provided.
From the Editor: Craig Keenan is recovering slowly and steadily from his major operation, but is still many weeks away from driving, so he’s catching up on his reading, and welcomes visitors. In last month’s issue I said that Ron Hasell needed help with aspects of speed events. Ron has asked me to point out that he’s quite capable of the paperwork side of things, and what we actually need as a branch is a speed steward. Training is available, travel expenses are paid, and Craig and Ron are very happy to help new people. If we want speed events to continue, we really do need a new speed steward, so please give this matter some serious thought. Another blunder from last month’s issue concerns the Ferguson Rolls Royce that participated in the Night Trial. John and Christine have a few of these great behemoths, and they are hard enough to identify in daylight, let alone at night. The Night Trial car was not a Phantom, but a 1935 25/30 HP Gurney Nutting Limousine, and I received an hilarious email from Chris Ferguson pointing out the error of my ways. I feel that my education is now complete. There was some interesting follow up to the assertion in last month’s issue that John Newell had in fact driven an Austin 7 at 100mph. Mike Crehan, who was in the vicinity at the time and thus knows