“Dripfeed” NEWSLETTER OF THE BANKS PENINSULA BRANCH OF THE VINTAGE CAR CLUB OF New Zealand (INC) VOLUME 41, No 3 APRIL 2018 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 12th of April. We look forward to seeing you there. Supper is provided.
From the Editor: Last weekend we held the Pomeroy Trophy, for many the signature event of our branch. It was last run four years ago, and this year we were pleased with the number and variety of entries. The origins of the original Pom, as it is known, are somewhat obscured by the mists of time, but it started in the UK in 1947 or thereabouts. Back in N.Z., two young and enterprising branch members, Gavin Bain and Peter Croft, decided that it would be an ideal event for the new Banks Peninsula branch and thus wrote to the suitable chaps in Blighty to find out if the arcane secrets of the event could be transferred to the colonies. They were of course, successful, and the first New Zealand Pom was run at Ruapuna in 1978. I have before me the winner’s tankard, and the list of winners , and what they drove, makes fascinating reading. The most successful marque is Bentley, which is as it should be, with 6 wins followed by Fiat with 5 wins, M.G. and Citroen with 3 wins, Bugatti, Triumph and Daimler with 2 wins. Other winning marques include Rover, Jenson – Healey, Bond, Vauxhall, Riley, Ferrari, and Alvis. The most successful driver has been Bruce Pidgeon, with 5 wins in a Fiat or Bugatti, followed by Michael Haggitt with 4 wins in his Bentley. Gavin Bain won the first Pom in his Bentley, and won in the same car 27 years later. He also won in a Ferrari. Michael Williams has also had 3 wins, all in a Citroen. What a wonderfully diverse range of cars and drivers the Pom attracts and we hope to run it on a more regular basis in future.