VCC Ackld Bulletin Nov 2025

November 2025

Coming Events

All events are held at our clubrooms unless otherwise specified.

Note: The clubrooms are open on the second and fourth Thursday evenings of the month from 7:30pm until 10:00pm and EVERY Saturday afternoon from 4:30pm until 6:30pm. Our Spares Dept & Library are open during the clubrooms opening hours PLUS Thursday mornings from 9:00am ’til noon.

Chairman’s Report

October was a month full of activities, meetings, rallies and fun.

A small, enthusiastic group attended the Working Bee where, amongst many other jobs, water blasting, window cleaning, carpet cleaning, polishing trophies, transferring firewood from the old shed to the new wood box, and loading the trailer with rubbish was accomplished before sitting down to a lovely tableful of eats supplied by those who attended. There was much laughter and bantering which makes the job fun. Thank you to all who attended.

The thirty-six starters who lined up at the start of the Hunua Spring Tour enjoyed a great days motoring over lovely countryside. Sweetgum Cottage and Gardens was the venue for lunch at the end of the rally. This was a great choice. Thank you, Val and Rodger, for plotting this event and to Jodi Tomlin for supplying the sweet treats and tea and coffee. Congratulations to Mike O’Kane with navigator Ryan Winterbottom who were the overall winners.

John and Pat Campbell’s recently completed Jeepster took centre stage at the Garden Party the next day (see pic overleaf). This vehicle has taken many years to complete. John, Pat and their family are to be congratulated on the magnificent restoration job. The Spares Team had the Barn looking at its best with wonderfully displayed memorabilia. Thank you, boys.

Continuous Membership Badges were presented after afternoon tea. Neil Beckenham, VCC Registrar, awarded Gary Bright his 50 Year Badge and presented Andy Webster with her 35 Year Badge along with a 60 Year Badge for her husband, Peter, who was unable to attend. Dinner, prepared by Jodi Tomlin, concluded a day of fun and celebration.

If you have never played Scattergories, you need to come along to the next time we play this hilarious game. Only a few turned up to play this at the Noggin & Natter Night. The rest of you missed out on a hilarious evening. Thank you to Tracey for providing the game.

Thank you to Martin Spicer who organised the speakers from Fraser Cars to come to the October Club Afternoon. Martin is getting disheartened with the small turnout of members who turn up to Club Afternoons. Remember, we changed our usual Thursday Club Nights to Saturday Afternoon because people don’t like driving at night. Where are you?

During October, Rory King (Building Maintenance) , with helpers Bill Hulse (Head of Spares) and member Bruce Verrall, have upgraded and replaced the spouting brackets around the clubrooms. This has been a major job. Thanks to John Towers for the loan of scaffolding. Rory has also installed new drawers in the kitchen area. Thank you, boys. Many jobs well done.

You will be seeing a Notice of Meeting later in this Bulletin for a Special General Meeting to be held at 2.00pm on Saturday, 6th December, with regards the Auckland Branch’s rebuilt Constitution conforming to the new Act. We need you there, ready to vote, as we require this to be accepted and passed before submitting into the Incorporated Societies Register. We’d really like this all completed by Christmas.

I look forward to seeing you at the meeting on 6th December. Until then, happy, safe motoring and enjoyable restoration time.

Shaaran.

Club Captain’s Log

Another Spring Tour is in the bag, good attendance with support from Waikato and a single North Shore entrant. An enjoyable weekend was had by all participants. A big shout out to Rodger and Val for plotting a great rally, congratulations to all the placegetters and thank you all entrants and marshals. It was great to see all classes bar one represented, especially the 4 motorcycles who supported the event.

Early in the month Stephen and I, along with several other Auckland entrants attended the King Country Tour, another wonderful day's motoring on good gravel and not a modern in sight! We also got down to the Canterbury Swapmeet for the first time. A massive event, and although we did part with some cash, it is as much a social event as a shopping weekend, and patience is required to sift through the many, many stalls.

Diaries out! Sunday 7th December our Christmas Posh Picnic. Further details are on the email that brought you this Bulletin’s and will be highlighted each week in the Week Ahead. There will be prizes for the best Posh Picnic set up (entirely optional), we will also celebrate our 100 year old+ vehicles and those who wish to can enter the Restoration Awards, this is the day for that too. We will be picnicking at Blooming Gardens (not used before).

For those with time during the week, there is the Wenderholm Christmas Picnic run for the Mid-week Tourers, and if you haven’t entered, you could visit the North Shore clubrooms to see the Motorcyclists head out on our Annual Motorcycle Rally.

The Points Trophy - this trophy was not awarded for 2024/25 as the previous year it was difficult, under the current criteria, to find an eligible recipient. It’s effectively no longer fit for purpose as our monthly runs have no competitive element. However, I am pleased to say that the majority of those attending our calendar events are in support of competitive rallies and the number supporting this year's experts rally was a pleasant surprise. So... after a committee discussion; from this year, the Points Trophy will be awarded from results taken from 4 competitive rallies per year: the Hunua Spring Tour, the Autumn Tour, the Annual Experts Rally, and one more competitive monthly run. Points will be awarded to all competitors with a top down ranking for each of these events so consistency will be rewarded. The competitive monthly run for this will be held in February. The Hunua Spring Tour and Autumn Tour will continue to have optional Touring or Competitive sections.

For the last Thursday Games night we played Scattergories. This was another night of great hilarity. Charlotte and Jodi took out the win with the most unique answers. And who would have thought Oysters and Olives could be so humorous - Christine Stott?! And we can’t mention some of Bruce’ s answers you definitely had to be there!!

Watch the coming events in the New Year – we will continue with the games themes for another few Thursday night Noggin and Natters.

Charlotte is our reigning Games Queen – come along next time and see if you can take out the title.

See you out there soon.

Tracey

2025 Hunua Spring Tour

This year’s event saw an entry list of thirty-six, of which eleven chose to be noncompetitive, and included four from “Out of Town” Branches, traversing predominantly rural roads.

Starting at Ray Small Park, Papakura the route travelled via Karaka where Neil Lucas was the first timed check, to Kingseat, Seagrove and Waiau Pa where John Stokes and David Adams were the next timed check, Clarks Beach, back through Waiau Pa and on toward Patumahoe, although not going quite there, where the competitors entered their own time as a third timed check, which marked the end of the timed section. From here it was back to Karaka, Papakura and through the Hunua Gorge to finally finish at Sweetgum Garden & Cottage, just south of Hunua Village where entrants were able to view the lovely garden and cottage and mix and mingle having their self catered lunch and some treats provided by Jodi Tomlin.

Thank you to Neil Lucas, John Stokes and David Adams for being Marshals, Jodi Tomlin for being tea lady, and Glenn and Marion Morris for checking the event and being Start and Trail vehicle.

Finally, a very big thank you to the entrants on the day and we look forward to you all entering the 2026 Autumn Tour in April.

Throughout the route, entrants should have encountered nine “Silent Checks”, of which two had overriding instructions to be executed.

Placings:

1st Motorcycle

1st Slow Vintage

1st Fast Vintage

1st Post Vintage

1st Post Era

1st Overall

Rodger & Val Ball (Plotters)

Michael O’Kane & Ryan Winterbottom

1952 BSA Golden Flash

Neil & Christine Stott

1928 Ford Model A Tudor

Russel & Jocelyn McAlpine

1930 Ford Model A Phaeton

Gavin Welch & Rory King

1934 Ford Y

Colin & Pam Bell

1968 Chevrolet Camaro Convertible

Michael O’Kane & Ryan Winterbottom

2025 Hunua Spring Tour

Top Left & Right: Cars Assemble at Elliot Street, ready for a pleasant drive. Middle Left: A nice line-up at Sweetgum Cottage. Middle Right: Neil & Christine Stott arrive in their Model A. Bottom Left: The Coleman’s Singer Gazelle out front of the Cottage. The car is Lynda Hallinan’s favourite colour and co-ordinated perfectly with the cottage décor! Bottom Right: Lynda totally loved the ride in Paul Tomlin’s Harley-Davidson sidechair.

2025 Hunua Spring Tour Award Recipients

Below: Rodger & Val receive the Plotters Pot.

Above: Ryan Winterbottom, Michael’s sidecar passenger and Silent Check eagle eye receiving congratulations from Rodger later in the evening!

Other photos are the various placegetters present for the prizegiving.

Congratulations to you all!

Left: Michael O’Kane receives the Overall Winner Trophy.

Spring Garden Party & Membership Awards

With the Spring weather not being that great this year, we were very fortunate to have two days of mostly sunshine for our Hunua Spring Tour weekend.

It’s always great to see people gathering around the clubrooms and making the most of the back yard. The afternoon tea was clearly enjoyed by all, there was not much to be cleaned up afterwards.

John Campbell’s Jeepster certainly looked gorgeous in the door of the Barn. A restoration that John can be very proud of.

Later in the afternoon we moved inside for the Membership awards, the Hunua Spring Tour Prizegiving followed by a light meal for those that chose to stay.

Membership Awards went to Peter and Andrea (Andy) Webster and Gary Bright. It was great to have Neil Beckenham join us, to present the awards on behalf of the President of the VCC. Unfortunately, Peter Webster was not able to join us, but Andy was happy to receive her own award along with accepting Peter’s, on his behalf. This was passed onto Peter the next day.

ship award.

Library Notes

With the recent spectacular unveiling of a replica Bugatti Type 57S Atlantic at this year ’s Art Deco Festival in Napier by Tom Andrews, and the recent story in Beaded Wheels (No. 396) about how this was brought to reality by a small team headed by Hamilton Classics Museum manager Greg McDell, led one member of the library team to delve more deeply into the origin of this exotic French Marque, with an Italian sounding name. There have been quite a number of books written about Ettore Bugatti, including two with the same title “The Bugatti Story”. The Library has twelve books that are either accounts of his life, or feature Bugattis.

One that was donated by Chris Wood not long ago is The Bugatti Story by L’Ebe Bugatti published in 1966. She was his daughter and eldest child and by all accounts very close to him, almost like a soul mate according to some sources. She was born in 1903 and possibly had more insight into the extraordinary rise of her father and the business than anyone else. Ettore even chose to hide his own initials “ËB” in her first name. In the Foreword she reveals that she was encouraged by the family to pen the biography to provide a full account of his work and supposedly to correct errors that found their way into previous publications. She includes numerous diary entries from an uncompleted auto biography, and letters from business partners, customers, employees. These all add to form a picture of the determination and strong personality of Monsieur Bugatti, as well as an appreciation of the admiration everyone had of him and his vehicles. The inclusion of these letters and documents has received some criticism from journalists in the motor industry in the past, but they are a rare window into that gentile age that is well and truly past, and really makes fascinating reading.

Born in Milan into a family of immense artistic talent, he was constantly surrounded by painters, sculptors, architects and the home was frequented by musicians and

artists all having a great influence on him. His first great ambition was to be a great artist, but one day in 1895 he was introduced to a motor-tricycle manufactured by Prinetti and Stucchi. He was immediately captivated by the machine, and the invitation that followed by Signor Stucchi to visit the factory. Eventually in 1898 the seventeen-year-old left school to become an apprentice in a motor-tricycle workshop in Milan. He soon demonstrated his great self-confidence when he sought permission from Signor Stucchi to build a two-engine tricycle and enter the upcoming Paris-Bordeaux race without helpers and supporters. Whether this was actually two separate engines or a twin cylinder may have been lost in translation from French. Although he had to retire when he ran out of fuel because of a damaged tank, for most of the race he was averaging fifty miles an hour and running second, his efforts did not go un-noticed. He dreamed of a four-wheeled car that would be very fast and soon set about putting his ideas on paper. The story that unfolds is quite remarkable and the book is crammed with many photographs that add to the narrative.

If you are interested or just curious it’s definitely worth a look.

The Library Team

Veteran Section Notes

We had apologies from Bill Mercer, Roy Sharman and Wayne Welch. We were pleased to meet Felix Thomas-Davies, a young enthusiast from Manchester who is in New Zealand for three years for work purposes. Felix’s family owns a 1903 Autocar and a 1910 Bianchi as well as other vintage vehicles. The Autocar was made in the USA by the firm which made Autocar trucks, the brand lives on but has been through a number of owners, car production ceased about 1911. Autocar appears to have been pioneers of pressure engine lubrication, although Felix’s car has tiller steering. The Bianchi is a much more developed car, the Bianchi company was absorbed into Fiat in 1966, and production continued for some time after, Bianchi also made trucks. Felix has driven the Autocar in the London to Brighton runs and is a steward for the event.

Gavin Welch saw Ron Richards driving his brass Model T the other day, he also attended the North Shore Branches Spring Tour, where he saw veteran cars at the Lemmon museum and other collections near Napier one of which had the late Bert Tonks 1913 Daimler on display. He also had some questions about the new yearly warrants of fitness, there was a rumour that this only went back to 1919, but that' can't be true as the branch 1915 Renault charabanc got its first yearly warrant the other day.

Phil Henley is working on his 1906 single cylinder Cadillac in preparation for the Nelson Festival event next year. Denis Lowe had his 1903 curved dash Oldsmobile at the Race for Life at Hampton Downs, this is a charity event where disabled people can have some laps on the circuit in a variety of vehicles from fast to slow, David Lane had his Model T Ford speedster there too.

Denis displayed an "Overland Whippet" Boyce Moto-Meter, which I subsequently purchased, this was actually designed for 1926-'7 model Whippets but will look okay on my 1930 car. It's also a left hand drive moto-meter. Gavin enlightened us a little on this, I had no idea there were left and right hand drive versions. Russell Vincent has installed a windscreen on his 1905 Cadillac, while this is a departure from originality, it is probably common sense due to New Zealand’s high skin cancer and melanoma issues.

Although not specifically veteran, Neil Lucas spoke of the large number of steam cars brands that were apparently designed and possibly produced during the 1920's. I can only think of Stanley and Doble, how many of the other brands were actually produced I don't know. Barry Birchall brought along a Cadillac single cyl-

inder copper water jacket, which he had made many years ago, and Russell Vincent acquired. Barry’s battle with the starter on the 1912 four cylinder Cadillac is almost won, there is now a clutch return spring issue to sort out.

That's it for this month, John.

Clearing out your Bookcase?

The Library Team are always looking for Books, Magazines and Brochures to add to our collection.

Book Donations

ANY vehicles pre-1980, in ANY condition will be gratefully received.

Drop off your books any Thursday or Saturday.

Vintage Section Notes

Penny and I have just returned from taking part in the Manawatu Vintage Rally which, to the disappointment of the organisers, attracted only 11 entrants. However, we enjoyed a very well organised rally over two days – 100 miles each day – with a branch catered dinner in their impressive clubrooms on the Saturday night. We then spent the next five days coming home via all the little loose metal roads we could find in the Wairarapa and Hawkes Bay and then the Waikaremoana road. Rural NZ in spring is spectacular!

John Towers brought some photos of progress on his ’29 Chev truck and it is nearly finished and looking very pretty. Donor bits have come from far and wide. The motor had been sitting around for some years and would not turn over, but after soaking the bores for some time, and a little persuasion, it moved. No more was done apart from cleaning out the sump before John tried to start it. To his surprise, on the third try it fired up.

John Stokes has had the Whippet radiator cleaned out and is looking foward to some test runs. He has fitted a pair of new 500-19 tyres from BG Marketing in Manukau and was impressed with their service. Several others round the table endorsed his opinion. BG Marketing’s phone number is (09)2749181

Norm Dewhurst has his Triumph Dolomite (Dolly) back on the road with a reconditioned motor and new paint job and has wasted no time, using it to do the King Country Tour with Ryan which they thoroughly enjoyed. Someone told him it was a shame to take such a beautifully presented car on metal roads, but Norm’ s response was that the pleasure was in using it.

Tim Gray has been doing too many little jobs for other folk to spend time on his own projects.

Ross Bellamy went down to the Manawatu Swap Meet and came home with a few memorabilia items for his collection. He wasn’t very forthcoming about his acquisitions, but I am looking forward to seeing his collection sometime.

Neil Lucas has a 12 month WOF for the Dodge.

There is some movement from the Club’s head office to publish a membership list and although apparently fraught with privacy concerns, such a list would be appreciated by many of us.

Richard Green is shortly driving down to Christchurch to trailer home the Rolls

Vintage Section Notes

Royce which has been undergoing a lot of work after being badly damaged in the floods last year. The final assembly, upholstery etc will be done back home in Auckland. Richard has also been helping Barry Birchall with the starter on the 1912 Cadilac. It is activated by pushing down the clutch pedal – sounds simple, but it is not! They have had help from a Cadilac owner in Australia who videoed the mechanism operating on his own car, which has given them the information they needed.

Neil Bieleski’s grand-daughter, Jo, has plotted a midweek run finishing at John Morrisson’s collection. The midweek runs have fallen off a bit over winter, so we are really looking forward to this one.

Murray & Penny

Hunua Spring Tour Snaps

John and Dianne Poole’s immaculate 1954 Pontiac Star Chief Catalina (photo courtesy of Lynda Hallinan)

The gorgeous Sweetgum Cottage & Gardens were a real credit to Lynda Hallinan’ s sense of style and ability.

Bruce & Janet Pullan 1962 Humber Series 3 Super Snipe

Motorcycle Section Notes

Our club calendar for October was full, so our motorcycle meeting was held the Sunday of Labour Weekend. Lynda couldn’t be there as she was away on Pokeno Civil Defence duties, but she still prepared the food for afternoon tea, for me to bring in. I picked up member Malcolm Brown at Bombay on the way to Penrose.

Arriving at 1.45pm, Jeremy had already opened up the clubrooms, and our guest speaker Tony Hurt, a new member, had put his two Bultaco motorcycles in the clubrooms ready for the meeting. A 250cc Matador trials model and a 250cc Metralla road bike.

Members started arriving by car or motorcycles. As it was a warm sunny afternoon everyone congregated out in the backyard to chat before the meeting. At 2.30pm the meeting started with 32 sitting down, not a bad turnout really for a holiday weekend.

REPORTS

Peter Alderdice told us a bit about the recent Taranaki Rubber Duckie rally that a number of us took part in.

Mark Tomlin told us about the branch’s recent Hunua Spring Tour. The overall winner was Michael O’Kane who had Ryan Winterbottom as his navigator in the sidecar of his BSA Golden Flash outfit, and a very close 2nd (1 point) was Paul and Mark Tomlin in the 1925 HarleyDavidson sidecar outfit. See a full report on page 9.

I reported on the recent New Zealand Star Insure Motorcycle show at the Auckland Green Lane ASB show grounds. See full report later in this Bulletin.

I then told the group about our club afternoon meeting the day before, where we had Scott and Ida Tristram come along with one of their Fraser 7 sports cars. A full report is featured later in this Bulletin as well.

GENERAL BUSINESS

Waitemata branch member Mike Greig asked if any members would like to go to his home on the North Shore and help him get his assorted motorcycles going, with the intention of taking them for rides, two of them are Velocettes, one a solo and the other with a sidecar, if anyone is interested or might know of someone who would like to help him, give Mike a call on 09 445 6760.

GUEST SPEAKER

Tony Hurt is a recent new club member, Tony has been friends with Velocette rider and club member Warwick Darrow for many years, from their road riding days. Tony told us about his first bikes a 50cc Puch, 250cc Triumph Tigress, Norton 600, and a Greeves motor cross bike. He told us of the year he spent working as a plumber in Australia in different states, where he bought a Bultaco Metrella to ride around on. When he moved to another state he removed the wheels and put the bike on the rear seat of his Austin car for the move.

Then one day Tony went for a ride in the hills of Adelaide, and on the way home he fell off which damaged him and the Bultaco. He got $200 for the bike from a wrecker. Many years passed when Tony thought about getting another Bultaco, he eventually found two, one from

Motorcycle Section Notes

the USA, and the other from Spain. He found a very good mechanic in Ngaruawahia, Paul Doecke, who restored the two bikes. Tony has recently bought a new Triumph Speed 400 Scrambler.

Then, just when we thought Tony had finished his talk, he told us about his 1960-70’s sport of rowing. Tony and friend John White became very good, and were New Zealand champions. This led to them being part of the New Zealand National Rowing Team.

Tony took part in the Olympics of 1972 and 1976 plus the world champs firstly in 1971 and then in 1974. One of his highlights was being the stroke on the number one team in the eights, he told us stories of the rivalry with the East German team, and how they beat them, winning gold. The team also won silver and bronze medals over the years. Tony and the NZ eights team were at the fateful 1972 Munich Olympic games, where the tragedy of the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes and a German police officer took place, by the Palestinian Black September group. Tony said that where they were staying in the Olympic village was only 50 yards away from the Israeli camp, a very scary time for everyone in the village.

Tony then answered questions from the floor before we all thanked him for coming to tell us his very interesting story.

Martin Spicer

October’s Club Afternoon Review

Our guest speakers Scott and Ida Tristram arrived at the clubrooms in one of their customers cars, this was a Fraser Clubman.

The Fraser story begins 30 years ago at the Pukekohe race track south of Auckland, where founder Neil Fraser first encountered a replica Lotus 7. He was so impressed by what he saw that he promptly set about building his own replica. When Neil took his hand-built replica to the 1988 National Car Show, he received three orders on the spot. Thirty years later, that same dedication to hand-built, precision vehicles underpins everything they do at Fraser.

Scott worked for Neil for around 5 years as a fabricator, then when Neil said he was going to sell the company, Scott and Ida took the plunge and bought it in 2006. Since then they have brought together a team of extraordinary master craftspeople with a passion for perfection and a love for classic cars. From hand-machining to welding, sheet metal engineering to trim work, their team puts the same passion and perfectionism into every car that they work on. And having worked on everything from super yachts to racing motorbikes to hundreds of classic cars, any Fraser is in the hands of experts.

They have sold a large number of Frasers in Japan. A number of different models were made for the Japanese market, with the later model being a FC4, powered by a 660cc 3 cylinder turbo charged Suzuki engine.

For the local New Zealand market they have fitted a variety of engines, with Toyota and Honda being the most popular.

Their workshop is based in Beach Haven. Pattern pieces for Lotus 7 cars line the walls, inspiring their team as they prepare components for self-builds or assemble someone ’s new pride and joy.

Visitors are more than welcome – you just need to send them a message to set up a time. They’d be happy to show you around, and welcome you into the Fraser family.

Scott has invited us to have a club run to visit their workshop in the future.

Scott and Ida spoke for nearly 90 minutes, afterwards they answered questions from the floor.

I then thanked Scott & Ida for coming to tell us their story of Fraser Cars.

Shaaran and Jodi provided a great afternoon tea for us.

October’s Club Afternoon Review

After we’d had a cuppa we then went outside to view the beautiful Fraser Clubman. Ida removed the polished alloy bonnet to show the very tidy engine bay, then she started the engine. What a great sound!

Martin Spicer

From the Auckland Motor Car Registration Records

Supplied by Barry Birchall

Barry’s note: I extracted this from the early registration records held in the library at Vintage Car Club. It might be of interest as it shows you the cars, motor bikes and trucks that come into Auckland before the First World War. There were no records kept before 1906.

These are numbers of new cars first registered in Auckland. Amongst the list there are a couple of secondhand vehicles, as the owners, at the time could move plates from an old vehicle to a new vehicle and the new owner of the secondhand vehicle then had to apply for a new plate. So a few vehicles could appear twice. Occasionally a vehicle first registered in Auckland did go out of the district too.

1906

Darracq 10: Cadillac 10 : Oldsmobile 9 : Locomobile 8 : Alldays 5 : Dedion Bouton 3 : Star 3 : Rover 2 : Argyle : Daimler : Fiat : Gardner Serpollet : Hoffman : Humber : Speedwell : Runabout.

Total of 58 motor vehicles and 10 motorcycles registered in Auckland.

1907

Oldsmobile 6 : Cadillac 5 : Alldays 4 : Albion : Argyle : Clement : Darracq : De DionBouton : Humber : Ford : Minerva : Rambler : Rover : Runabout? : Steam?: Speedwell and Simms Welback

Total of 30 new motor vehicles and 5 new motorcycles registered.

1908

Cadillac 10: De Dion-Bouton 5: Darracq 3: Oldsmobile 2: Humber 2: Clement Talbot 2: Ford 2 : Alldays, Buick, Coronet, Delaunay Belleville, Oakland, Rover, Pilian, Panhard, Standard and Vulcan.

Total of 33 new motor vehicles and 10 new motorcycles registered.

1909

Darracq 7: Oldsmobile 5 : Cadillac 4 : Daimler 3 : Alldays 2 : Argyle 2 : Ford 2 : Humber 2 : Braiser, Briggs Auto, Deemster, De Dion-Bouton, Delage, FN, Gardiner Serpollet, Napier, Rover, Reo, Rolls Royce, Russell, Runabout?, Scout, Scat, Oriel and Orient.

Total of 44 new motor vehicles and 7 new motorcycles registered.

1910

Daimler 20 : Cadillac 12 : Humber 10 : Ford 4 : Darracq 6 : Overland 5 : Spa 5 : Oldsmobile 4 : Hupmobile 3 : Alldays 2: Dedion Bouton 2 : Napier 2 : Regent 2 : Reo 2 : Steam cars 2 : Wolseley 2 : Argyle : Anderson : Beaufort : Clarkson Motor

Auckland Motor Car Registration Records continued

Bus : Clement Talbot : Deemster : Gasoline : Gladiator : Holsman : Locomobile : Metallurgique : Metz : Minerva : Rover : Rambler : Steam truck : Standard : Scout : Swift : Phanomobil and Oakland.

Total of 104 new motor vehicles and 33 new motorcycles registered.

1911

Daimler 36 : Hupmobile 29 : Cadillac 21 : Overland 12 : Darracq 15 : Humber 8 : Ford 8 : De Dion-Bouton 6 : Minerva 5 : Belsize 4 : Paige Detroit 4 : Alldays & Onions 3 : Oldsmobile 3 : Sunbeam 3 : Vauxhall 3 : Warren 3 : Arrol Johnston 2 : EMF 2 : Jackson 2 : Napier 2 : Metz 2 : Moline 2 : Russell 2 : Rolls Royce 2 : Swift 2 : Oakland 2 : Wolseley Siddeley 2 : Argyle, Abbot Detroit, BSA, Coronet, Clement Bayard, DeLuca, Delage, Demeester, Enfield, Flanders, FN, Gladiator, Hotchkiss, International, Locomobile, Martini, Regent, Reo, Regal, Star, Scat, Schacht, Siddeley Deasy, Stewart, Standard, Speedwell, Vulcan, Winton and West.

Total of 212 new motor vehicles and 70 new motorcycles registered.

1912

Daimler 45 : Ford 30 : Cadillac 26 : Wolseley 22 : Hupmobile 17 : Sunbeam 16 : Overland 14 : Darracq 10 : EMF 10 : Warren 10 : RCH 9 : Humber 9 : Paige 9 : Krit 9 : Chalmers 8 : Maxwell 7 : Jackson 6 : Delage 6 : Buick 5 : Arrol Johnstone 4 : Belsize 4 : Moline 4 : Napier 4 : Talbot 4 : Rover 4 : Argyle 3 : Abbot Detroit 3 : Cutting 3 : Demeester 3 : Mitchell 3 : Vulcan 3: AC 2 : Crossley 2 : Hudson 2 : Lanchester 2 : Minerva 2 : Vauxhall 2 : Adler, Aries, American?, Automobile?, Briton, Calthorpe, Centaur, Clement Bayard, Crow, De Dion-Bouton, Delaunay Belleville, Enfield, Empire, Gladiator, Havers, Hurtu, International, Lacoste Bateman, Lacre, Nag, Neve, Nyberg, Mass, Motor bloc, Oldsmobile, Panhard, Riley, Simms Welbeck, Standard, Stower, Spa, Sizaire Naudin, Scat and Stewart.

Total of 351 new motor vehicles and 136 motorcycles registered.

1913

Ford 58 : Daimler 41 : Cadillac 38 : Hupmobile 21 : Buick 17 : Krit 15 : Overland 14 : Wolseley 13 : RCH 14 : Warren 9 : Sunbeam 9 : Darracq 8 : Kissel 8 : Straker Squire 7 : Arrol Johnstone 7 : Hudson 7 : Chalmers 6 : Humber 5 : Argyle 5 : Swift 5 : Austin 4 : Mercedes 4 : Mitchell 4 : Marathon 4 : Michigan 4 : Oldsmobile 4 : Vulcan 4 : AC 3 : Alldays 3 : Cutting 3 : De Dion-Bouton 3 : Dennis 3 : Flanders 3 : Lacre 3 : Moline 3 : Napier 3 : Paige 3 : Clement Talbot 2 : Dart 2 : Delage 2 : EMF 2 : Halliday 2 : Jackson 2 : Leyland 2 : Studebaker 2 : Scat 2 : Abbott Detroit, Adams, Ariel, Armstrong Whitworth, Auto buggy, Brasier, Belsize, Benz, Beauford, Buchet, Chase, Calthorpe, Clement Bayard, Cole, Cutting, Demeester, DFP, Empire, Fafner, FN, Harvest, Harding, La Ponette, Little, Nyberg, National, Metz, Maudsley, Oakland, Perry, Phanomobil, Riley, Russell, Sava, Scar, Siddeley Deasy, Standard, Thames, Thorncroft, Tractor, Wall, Winton, and Zendik

Total of 427 new motor vehicles and 251 motorcycles registered.

Auckland Motor Car Registration Records continued

1914

Ford 63 : Buick 32 : Cadillac 26 : Daimler 21: BSA 20 : Overland 17 : Hupmobile 16 : Standard 14 : Sunbeam 14 : Singer 12 : Wolseley 11 : Hudson 9 : Talbot 9 : RCH 9 : Chalmers 8 : Darracq 8 : Krit 8 : AC 7 : Auto Carrier 6 : Humber 6 : Marathon 6 : Rover 6 : Calcott 5 : EMF 5 : Alldays 4 : GWK 4 : Minerva 4 : Moline 4: Stelite 4 : Renault 4 : Warren 4 : Albion 3 : Austin 3 : Calthorpe 3 : Delauney Beleville 3 : Demeester 3 : Leyland 3 : Kissel 3 : Napier 3 : Oldsmobile 3 : Paige 3 : Studebaker 3 : Warrick 3 : Arrol Johnstone 2 : Chase 2 : Chevrolet 2 : Delage 2 : Dennis 2 : De Dion-Bouton 2 : Empire 2 : Fafner 2 : Hurtu 2 : International 2 : Jackson 2 : Jeffery 2 : New Pick 2 : Metz 2 : Mitchell 2 : Motorette 2 : Regal 2 : Scat 2 : Samson 2 : Straker Squire 2 : Vauxhall 2 : Velie 2 : Aries, Abbot, Adams Hewett, Alder, Argyle, Automobile? Bianchi, Benz, Belsize, Briton, Cutting, Fiat, FN, Grant, Great Western, King, Lanchester, Lacre, Le Ponette, Nyberg, Maxwell, Meteorite, Mercedes, Morris, Michigan, Moon, Motobloc, Oakland, Omnium Auto Carrier, Paige, Panhard, Perry, Peugeot, Sava, Stoneleigh, Speedwell, Thorncroft, Unic, Vulcan, Wall Parcel Van, Warrick, Willys and Winton.

Total of 505 new motor vehicles and 255 motorcycles registered.

If you want to sight a copy of the registration records, there is a copy in the library at the Vintage Car Club. The original files give us date of registration, owners name, residence and postal address, description and type of car, horsepower, whether the vehicle was for private use, trade or public conveyance and the registration number. Government, Council owned vehicles and fire engines were not registered. Devonport, Grey Lynn and Parnell Borough Councils were to keep their own records, but I could not see where this happened. In Tauranga they only started registering vehicles in 1912 and in Whangarei it did not happen until 1916.

Summay

There are four vehicles in the register I cannot identify. They are the Regent, the Stewart, and the Dart25|30hp and the Harvest30hp. Regent was building cars but went out business in 1904. Stewart did build a truck at the time, but they do look like cars in the records. Dart was making cycle cars and trucks in two different factories, but these vehicles do not look like cycle cars or trucks. If someone can assist it would be of interest. In 1914 I have listed AC and Auto carrier as two difference vehicles. They were both made in the same factory, the Auto carrier was sold in NZ as a small truck and the AC was sold in NZ as a car. Ford in 1914 still only had 8% of the total car sales in Auckland.

Thank you, Barry, that’s a huge effort.

And I had to go and google what a “Gardner Serpollet” looked like Jodi ☺ !

Notice of Special General Meeting of the

Auckland Veteran & Vintage Car Club Inc.

to be held at 39 Fairfax Avenue, Penrose, Auckland on Saturday, 6th December, 2025 at 2:00 pm

Agenda:

 To review and vote on our Proposed Constitution This document has been compiled to comply with the Incorporated Societies Act 2022. This is a compulsory process. Our new Constitution is required to be filed by April next year and will take effect on the 1st June 2026, our new Financial Year.

To view and/or download your copy of the Constitution document, please follow the link in the email that brought you this Bulletin, located directly below the Notice.

The Constitution document will continue to be available to download on each email that is delivered to you as well as on our website be tween now and the 6th December.

Please join us.

Any enquiries in this regard, please get in touch with Jodi Tomlin

By email: secretary@avvcc.org.nz or by phone: 021 678 258.

Thank you

Jodi Tomlin Secretary

Auckland Veteran & Vintage Car Club Inc.

2025 Star Insure NZ Motorcycle Show

Loaded ready on my trailer was the 1957 BSA Bantam D3 and the 1956 350 DKW that I was hoping to sell at the show. En route to the showgrounds I made a quick stop at our clubrooms to pick up the banners and signs to identify us at the show. Then I picked up Jack Clark and his 1960 Norton ES2 500. We arrived at the Green Lane ASB Showgrounds at 2.30pm. The place was buzzing with people setting up club, dealer and accessory stands. Jack and I set up our space, then arranged the 20 plus member motorcycles brought in for display.

At 4.30pm the 10 judges took to the floor tasked with finding the different class winners for the show. We stopped at 6.30pm for dinner upstairs. The judging then resumed and carried on until 10.30pm. Jack and I left and went back to his house, I was gratefully staying with them for Friday and Saturday nights.

Saturday morning was fine! We arrived at the show at 8.30am. I set up tables with books, laminated pictures and assorted motorcycle parts for sale. The public started arriving just after 9am. All through the day the halls were crowded. A number of spectators were complaining about the car parking price of $20. Luckily motorcycles were free. The parking areas were full of bikes and scooters with a few older classics amongst them. There were also a surprising number a lady riders, as well as pillions. There was a large motorcycle stunt team doing all sorts of tricks, and a Rock band playing on and off all day. One display, out on the grass, was a collection of working stationary engines, these gave the younger generations a look back in time, to see how water pumps and other things were powered.

At last year’s show all 5 halls were booked out, sadly this year we only had 2 halls. There were no Honda, Yamaha, Suzuki or Kawasaki manufacturers attending. We did have Ray & Greg Pratt with their Harley-Davidsons and Triumphs displayed. The Chinese CFMOTO company had a large display of various sized models, so did Royal Enfield, and BMW.

The APS NZ Classic Motorcycle Racing Register had a very large display of racing motorcycles. The Club displays present were us the AVVCC, BSA Owners, AMC Jam Pot Club, Norton, Italian Club, MV Agusta Owners, Vincent Owners, Suzuki and the Japanese Club. Motomail had a very large selection of motorcycle riding gear for sale.

There were a few bikes that stood out at the show:

• The UK built Creighton, with a twin rotary engine, built by Brian Creighton who was the man behind the Norton factory Rotary race bike team in the 1990’s. I’m told that this ultimate super bike of which only 25 were made cost its NZ owner a quarter of a million pounds.

• Peter Lodge had his famous Norton ES2 based racer there, this bike, with Irish rider Mike Brown, won this year’s IOM Manx Senior Classic race, with a fastest lap of 110 mph.

2025 Star Insure NZ Motorcycle Show

• AVVCC member Malcolm Anderson showed his great looking ex works 1948 350 Velocette KTT.

• The Vincent Owners Club had 9 bikes, the outstanding ones were – a Vincent Norton, a Black Shadow, an Egli Vincent, and a McIntosh Vincent.

Sunday morning, we arrived at 8.30am. It wasn't as busy as Saturday, but it was still a good day. We talked to loads of the people about our club, and about classic motorcycles. We met up with two groups of Waikato VCC members, one led by ex-Auckland member Peter Spiller, who had come with members in their cars. The others were led by their motorcycle rep Steve Walter, they had ridden their bikes up to the show from Cambridge.

Another great show and I’ m sure show organiser, Graham Viall, will have been happy with the attendance and the funds that will go to the Papakura Rotary Club’s various charities. If you want to see a video of the show just Google: NZ motorcycle show.

Spicer

The Stationary Engines on display at the NZ Motorcycle Show.

Further pics from Hunua Spring Tour (below and opposite)

Welcome to our New Members

A most sincere welcome is extended to the most recent new members. We hope to see you taking an active part in Branch activities whenever possible. Should you require any assistance or advice, please feel free to ask any Committee member?

Rosemeri Williams Aaron Stephen Papakura Avondale

1931 Chevrolet Roadster

1954 Chevrolet 210

1949 Lanchester LD 10

Simon Longuet-Higgins

Epsom

1934 Bentley 3.5 litre

1962 Bentley S2

Email:

Chairman

Your Committee & Officers

Shaaran Price (Alan) Email: chairman@avvcc.org.nz

Vice Chairman/Continuous Membership Awards Steward

Glenn Morris (Marion) Email: glenn-maze@xtra.co.nz

H: 09 833 8575

M: 0204 195 2476

M: 021 136 5926

Secretary / New Members & Privacy Offcr / Bulletin & Website Editor / Branch Delegate

Jodi Tomlin (Paul) Secretary Email: secretary@avvcc.org.nz

Editor Email: editor@avvcc.org.nz

Treasurer

Ian Hubbard (Lesley) Email: treasurer@avvcc.org.nz

Club Captain / Trophy Steward

Tracey Winterbottom Email: clubcaptain@avvcc.org.nz

M: 021 678 258

M: 0274 426 748

H: 09 232 0246 (Stephen)

Committee Members

Martin Spicer (Lynda) Motorcycle Section Rep/Entertainment

Email: motorcycle@avvcc.org.nz

Lynda Spicer (Martin) Social Convenor

Email: spicerclan2017@gmail.com

Jeremy Lambert (Michelle) Clubroom Bookings/ Health & Safety Officer

Email: bookings@avvcc.org.nz

Rory King (Louann) Building Maintenance

Email: roryking53@gmail.com

Neil Stott (Christine) Spares Liaison

Email: neilxstott@gmail.com

Non-Committee Positions

Library Team Leader

Richard Green (Lois)

Spares Team Leader

Bill Hulse (Sherrill)

M: 021 732 209

H: 09 233 6382

M: 022 102 5954

H: 09 233 6382

M: 021 189 3120

M: 027 576 7045

H: 09 579 6891

M: 021 530 302

M: 0274 949 059

VIC Officers

John Stokes Email: library@avvcc.org.nz

H: 09 489 2427

M: 021 818 334

Beaded Wheels Scribes

John Stokes

Jocelyn McAlpine

Peter Wood

Insurance

Email: spares@avvcc.org.nz

H: 09 579 0494

Veteran Section Rep

John Stokes

Email: jcstokes96a@xtra.co.nz

H: 09 236 4582 or

Alan Price

Neil Stott

Email: vic@avvcc.org.nz

Vintage Section Rep

Murray Firth (Penny)

E: pennyandmurray@xtra.co.nz

H: 09 818 6434 M: 0272 772 108

Vero Consumer Insurance Specialist F: 0800 505 905 or B: 09 356 4501 Agency Number: 0300126

Clubrooms Phone: 09 579 5625

Street & Postal Address: 39 Fairfax Avenue, Penrose, Auckland 1061

Club Afternoon: 4th Saturday of the month 2:30-4:30 pm

Clubrooms Open: 2nd & 4th Thursday 7:30-10:00 pm, Every Saturday 4:30-6:30 pm

Branch Honorary Life Members: Barry Robert

Norm Dewhurst QSM

Rodger Ball Russel McAlpine

John Stokes

Branch Website: www.avvcc.org.nz