December 2024 - January 2025
Coming Events
All events are held at our clubrooms unless otherwise specified.
DECEMBER
JANUARY
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
We are fortunate to have such enthusiastic members who keep our Branch running and interesting. Every Thursday morning the Spares Team work endlessly sorting spares and working on the displays of memorabilia in the Barn. These displays are looking very impressive. So please come along and have a look.
Likewise, the Library Team are continually sorting books that have been donated. Check your Bulletin to see what is new on our Library shelves.
The Motorcycle, Veteran and Vintage Sections continue to have good numbers turn up to their Saturday afternoon meetings. For some time, the Mid-Week Tourers have been advertising for new blood to co-ordinate the monthly outings. For these runs to continue, we still need a member/members who would like to take this on. Please contact myself or Tracey if you are interested.
Our Club Nights, even with very interesting guest speakers, don’t seem to appeal to many of you anymore. These nights take a lot of effort to organise. Martin Spicer has done a great job organising speakers but is embarrassed when only a few members turn up. With this in mind, the committee have decided to trial having Guest Speakers on a Saturday afternoon. At this stage the clubrooms will remain open in the evenings on the second and fourth Thursdays of the month and we will continue one evening being a Noggin & Natter and the other will be a Film Night or similar. The evenings are a lot of fun. Do make the effort to come along and join in. There are some interesting discussions that take place.
Last month Tracey Winterbottom organised a short run to Huntly House, the venue for our end of year picnic. We were in for a treat, as Huntly House is certainly a magnificent building. See Tracey’s Club Captain’s Log for a full report on this event.
Coming up this month we have our usual Christmas Pot Luck Dinner combined with a celebration of the Seventieth Birthday of our Branch on the 19th. A celebration cake has been made and is quietly maturing for the night. Come along and enjoy.
Alan and I wish you all a very happy Christmas and many miles of safe motoring over the holiday period.
Shaaran.
Club Captain’s Log
Thanks to all those members who came out to support the November Club Run/ End of Year Picnic. We had a great turn out and the finish venue of Huntly House provided a stunning back drop for the vehicles. There was a good representation of vehicles across all classes and I was really pleased to see the number of vehicles 100 years old and more, they got the prime parking right in front of the house.
It was great to see Mathew Metcalfe and the 1912 Hudson (ex George Mihajevich) out and being driven in earnest, thanks to Dennis and Roslyn Lowe who trailered out the 1903 Oldsmobile behind the Chrysler. Bill Quinn with his 1924 Oakland, David Jones and Lynda Brewer were driving their 1923 Essex Tourer, Peter Alderdice didn’t attempt to ride three bikes at once thankfully but did trailer three 100+ year old Harleys out.
Everyone “picnicked” – posh or otherwise together on the lawn, and it was difficult to separate the top 3 contenders for Poshest Picnic so Shaaran and Alan Price, Dianne and John Poole with daughter Virginia, and last but not least, Jodi and Paul Tomlin are all in for a bottle of bubbly.
Big shout out to Hayley Parsons our host, who opened her home to us and was very happy to share the history of the house.
The silly season is upon us so no run this month but we’ll see you all out on New Year’s Day for the usual jaunt over to the coast and a world famous fish and chip lunch at Kaiaua.
Stephen and I wish you all a happy festive season with friends and family. Tracey
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Editor’s Note
Season’s Greetings to you all! I would like to remind you about the Week Ahead and Bulletin Publication dates over the next couple of months.
This Bulletin covers December 2024 and January 2025, there is NO separate January Bulletin issued.
The Week Ahead emails will be emailed each Monday up to Monday, 16th December. They will then resume on Monday, 13th January 2025 unless there is an urgent update for everyone.
The February Bulletin will be issued a little early as I will be joining the group heading off to the National Motorcycle Rally, in Palmerston North at the end of January. The February Bulletin release date is set for Monday 27th January. Closing date for content is 18th January.
The Week Ahead for January 27th & February 3rd will be pre-scheduled calendars only, as I will be away enjoying things like Prizegiving dinners etc. in place of preparing emails. ☺
I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
THANK YOU
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Veteran Notes
Our meeting for November was down on numbers due to a clash with a Model T Ford run and the Far North Tour (where John Stokes was). We still had a lot of good conversation that started with car movements.
I had spoken to Mike Courtney earlier in the day and he confirmed he had brought back a 1909 Maxwell and 1918 Chevrolet from the recent auction at Gore. Both cars could have earlier come out the States. The Maxwell is a twin to the car recently purchased by Steve Keys.
Roy Sharman told us Graham McKenzie had just acquired Ivan Allen’s 1906 single cylinder Cadillac. Mathew Metcalfe has recently bought, from the USA, another 1912 Hudson which he intends to restore with a torpedo tourer body. Quite a collection of parts come with the car as the previous owner had been collecting parts for almost fifty years. Mathew is certainly the right guy to do the restoration.
Bob Taylor’s 1906 Reo, that was often motored in Auckland, recently went to Roger Stewart in Christchurch.
We talked about some of the restorations happening. In Christchurch, forty years ago, they built up six 1910 Hupmobiles on a production line around the engines. Three of those cars are today, in the Auckland area. In recent years another group, also in Christchurch, have done similar around the single cylinder Oldsmobile engine and produced five cars. Dennis Lowe told us they had used his car for patterns.
Another group in Christchurch were, for a while, doing something similar around a single cylinder De Dion-Bouton, I helped them with parts, drawings, and photos. That venture fell over when the team leader passed away, although since then one car has been completed.
I hear there is another group working on doing something similar in the South Island around the 1910 Stanley Steamer. One complete car has come in from the USA and a few more are being manufactured.
The London-Brighton was being held the day following our meeting, we had a conversation around that event. For the first time we see motor bikes and solid tired push bikes being entered. It should be on the web by the time this is printed.
Dennis Lowe produced a magazine that talked about a modification they had made to the Model T Ford engine to avoid a broken crank. Dennis, I am sure, was hoping David Oliver would be present as he recently had the misfortune to break a crank shaft. David was in Hamilton checking on the progress of the engine, but some said he had made the modification and installed another bearing.
Russell Vincent said he was going to add a windscreen to the 1905 Cadillac and Tim Edney said he had taken a single cylinder Darracq for a run and was pulled up by the boys in blue for holding up the traffic. He was escorted home with a flashing light, but nobody asked him whether he had a warrant of fitness or registration. I got the impression he might sell a Darracq if someone was looking for a very early car.
Barry told us he had ordered new tires for the 1909 twin cylinder Rover. Cedric said he was concerned about where the veteran and vintage car movement was going and there was a long silence. He said he had only just discovered that his adult grandchildren didn’t realise his VW’s engine was in the back of the vehicle. David Lane told us how the membership was increasing on the North Shore, and we have to do things a little different.
We talked about the 1909 Clement Bayard on display at MOTAT, I mentioned that the car had lost a horn and a side light since it had been put on display at MOTAT. Quite sad really as it had been a very good restoration and looks good on display.
After the meeting I talked with Graham McKenzie about the new Cadillac in his garage. He said Ivan Allen, on his death bed, had told his son he wanted Graham to get the car. That was a good way to sort it and ensure the car went to the right place. He had just fitted a starter motor to his second single cylinder Cadillac with a little help from Neil Cox. Doug Hamilton has done something similar on his 1904 Cadillac.
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Vintage Section Notes
Our meeting commenced with a rundown of the November Mid-week Tour hosted by myself and Penny and enjoyed by the drivers and passengers of over 20 cars, the oldest of which was Chris Woods magnificent 100 year old Austin 20 HP Sports Tourer.
On the day I was particularly pleased to be able to run the ‘Little Wonder’ hit and miss stationary engine dating from around the First World War era. It started on the first turn thanks to our club magneto whisperer – Richard Green.
At the meeting this month, Richard had his beautifully restored 1930 Morris Cowley. He is slowly and carefully re-assembling the Rolls-Royce and showed us the exploded diagrams for all the various componentry of the motor, which includes 100 lock washers which he is remaking. Graham Henderson machined the bearings and Richard is very pleased with the standard of his workmanship.
Also in the carpark was Shaun Bellamy’s immaculate Model A. Shaun has just had the wheel alignment adjusted by Drury Tyres. It was a fair way out and the difference on the road is very noticeable.
Tim Gray’s 1923 Model T C-Cab flew through its WOF, and Tim has been contacted by a scout with a view to using the truck in a film.
John Towers brought along an album showing the progress on his ’37 Chev build and it is really taking shape.
On the table for our perusal this month were a couple of 100 year old items. The first was an early revolution counter made by L S Starritt, an American manufacturer of high quality tools and instruments since 1880 and still going. The other piece on the table was a little black box with a dial and needle and inscribed ‘Nobel Explosive Co. Ltd. Glasgow’. Richard did some on-line research and it is a blasting galvanometer used for testing the detonator circuit before setting off the charge. Alfred Nobel, a Swedish chemist and engineer, invented Dynamite in 1867 and on his death in 1896 he left the bulk of his fortune in a trust to establish the Nobel Prizes.
That’s the Vintagents for 2024.
Murray & Penny
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A Timely Message from the Dewdrops
Seasons greetings to everyone, and a big THANK YOU to all those members who have supported the Mid-week Tourers’ outings over the last twenty-five years. That includes all those who have assisted by organising and/or hosting the runs.
This month our Branch is celebrating seventy years, and the mid-week runs have been a part of that seventy years for well over half that time, under the guidance of a number of leaders. We won’t attempt to name them all for fear of missing someone.
It’s fair to say also that participation has been spread over the entire span of this Club: Motorcycles, Cars, Commercials, Specials, and categories have included Veteran, Vintage, and all the “P” group. That could be unique in itself.
If one reads other Branch newsletters (they are there on the Web) it is apparent that mid-week runs are wide-spread and popular under various names. Canterbury would have been one of the first to foster this type of run, their “9 to 90’s” as they call it.
We note that recent monthly runs are trending towards a short run finishing with lunch at a place of interest. Last month, the run to Huntly House and subsequent picnic was well received.
All this is not to say that we think that all events need to be similar. Of course, all tastes must be considered and there will always be a demand for competitive rallying, speed events, coffee mornings, public displays, whatever your “thing” is, let’ s have it.
With the present mid-week team stepping down fresh ideas will come up, this can only be good. But rest assured, the runs may not have finished, maybe some changes will be seen?
Thanks again for your support, if you have enjoyed participating as much as we have enjoyed organising, that is the bonus.
Have a good Christmas, remembering those less fortunate here and in disaster areas worldwide, especially those war-torn countries.
God bless you, tatou aroha, kia kaha. Pat and Norm
Library Notes
This month we received a collection of 1950s ROAD TEST supplements published by ‘The Motor’, a donation from a collection of the late John Cotman by his wife Rosemary. ‘The Motor’ (later, shortened to just ‘Motor’), perhaps the most authoritative motoring publication, was a British weekly car magazine founded on 28 January 1903 and published by Temple Press. It was initially launched as ‘Motorcycling and Motoring’ in 1902 before the title was shortened. Although not the oldest it was considered more informative compared to its rival ‘The Autocar‘.
From the very earliest editions it regularly reported on comprehensive road tests on vehicles conducted weekly by their staff. Every year the magazine produced a separate supplement combining all the road tests for the year.
Our library contains a good collection of past copies of ‘The Motor’ including the Road test supplements. These supplements make very interesting reading as they contain quite detailed performance information and opinions about these cars when they were brand new and compared with their competitors of the day.
It’s worthwhile looking these up to see how your ‘pride and joy’ compares today with the performance when it was driven out the showroom all those years ago, and what relatively unbiased motor critics thought of it!
Earlier this year a new book was published to celebrate 100 years since the first MG car was made. Worldwide there is still some small controversy as to whether it was actually 1924 or early 1925 that the first ‘production car’ was erected. A copy of this new book The MG Century: 100 Years Safety Fast! written by marque expert David Knowles, will be available in our library next month and we will feature a review of it.
Happy Christmas reading...
The Library Team
Motorcycle Section Notes
Sunshine and very slow traffic was the nature of the drive to the meeting this month. Jeremy had opened up for us and just as we arrived so too did our guest speaker Forrest Cardon and his son Forrest ‘Junior’. Lynda got busy getting the afternoon tea ready. I took Forrest out to the backyard to view the great collection of member’s motorcycles parked up, 18 gleaming machines! Forrest wandered around chatting to the members and admiring their bikes.
There were 57 in attendance at the start with a couple more people arriving soon after. Some of our audience were ex racers themselves, Andy Gourlay and son Daniel, Dave Tomkins (Snr), Tim Manning, member Tim Hardy who is related to Forrest, plus a couple of ex-racers who had raced against Forrest many years ago, sorry, I didn't get their names.
A Martin joke was told to get the afternoon started. He then told us about member Dave Tomkins (Jnr)) who is having some serious medical problems at the moment, the members send Dave our best wishes for a speedy recovery. Also member Paul Tomlin had been in the wars, having damaged his right hand and forearm, but hopefully he will be riding his Harley outfit soon. Long time member Mick Harris, who was a regular rider at our events, on his very nice Norton International, is having a few medical problems, we wish him well too.
REPORTS
Peter Alderdice told us about the branches recent and very successful Hunua Spring Tour. Martin then presented the motorcycle class winner Trevor Hackett with his trophyTrevor rode his Vincent Rapide on the tour.
Martin reported on the October motorcycle run that visited Stew McCaw and his large Japanese bike collection and his aluminium vapour blasting business in East Tamaki. While there Stew showed us his latest project that was not Japanese, it was a British 1950’s DOT trials bike.
Jeremy Lambert told us that everything was all in hand for our Annual Motorcycle Rally with entries in the low 40’s.
Peter Alderdice told us that he now has just under 30 members in his group that are booked in for next January’s National Motorcycle Rally and tour.
COMING UP
Our Annual Motorcycle Rally will have been and gone by the time you read this. We will also have visited Malcolm Anderson’s brilliant workshop and man cave with his and Dad Bruce's bike collection see report elsewhere in this Bulletin.
Our December motorcycle run will start at Mangemangeroa Reserve, 108 Somerville Road, Howick at 10:30am on Sunday 8th December. It will be a great ride to an amazing collection.
OUR GUEST SPEAKER
This month Forrest Cardon, a very young looking 90 year-old, entertained us, first talking about all the volunteers who used to arrange and run race meetings, without them race meetings would have never taken place.
He then described his own racing career, starting about 1950, on a road going Velocette which he improved on as both he and time progressed. He rode mainly British bikes of the era, Velo, Triumph, BSA and Norton his favourite. He raced on all types of surfaces at meetings from grass, metal, dirt, sand and tarmac. However, the best ones of the day were the many “Airfield” circuits. In the early days most used old road bikes which didn't last long being ridden flat out. The best but expensive bikes were Norton, AJS, Matchless, BSA and Velocette racers.
Forrest liked beach racing on his 1000cc JAP special, but his best bike was a long stroke Manx Norton. Forrest was sponsored by motorcycle dealers – Bill White, John Dale and others. He raced a Matchless G45 twin for John Dale with some success.
In the 1950’s, in Europe, there was a period when, if you wanted to go faster, you fitted the bikes with full frontal fairings, nicknamed ‘Dustbins’. Martin told us, at this point, that when he was 17 he had fitted a large black DMD dustbin to his BSA Golden Flash when it was in cafe racer mode, but after a few weeks he removed it as the noise from the engine was very off putting inside the faring. Forrest said that the Bins gave you an extra 20 mph, but they were very dangerous in cross winds, eventually they were banned.
Forrest’s brother Barry rode bikes too, but not up to Forrest’s standard. Forrest told us a story about Barry and his wife, their cat, their speeding car and a traffic officer, it was a very funny story. Forrest was the winner of the South Island’s Cust GP in 1961 on his 500 Manx Norton. Forrest thought he would try his hand at sidecar racing, he built up a Matchless G9 outfit, brother Barry was to be the passenger, but after one race Barry said ‘never again’. Forrest attempted to break some NZ land speed records at Muriwai Beach on his Manx and a much smaller bike.
Forrest also raced an Italian Aermacchi that Ken McIntosh did the engine work on, Ken now owns Forrest’s Manx Norton.
Forrest then bought his only race car, it was the Ralph Watson built Lycoming special, that had an aircraft engine. Forrest raced this car at the last NZ GP held at Ardmore. The following year he raced it at the new Pukekohe race circuit in the NZ GP, there was a field of 26 starters, including John Surtees, Bruce McLaren, Graham Hill, Jack Brabham, and other top NZ guys. Only 5 finished the race, sadly Forrest was one of the retirements. Forrest really enjoyed driving this car, it was a very slow revving engine but had heaps of torque, but the brakes let it down. Forrest would drive the car from Auckland to all the race circuits. He sold the car to Kiwi Jim Boyd who also raced it.
Motorcycle Section Notes
continued
Forrest had a successful building company right up to his retirement. He has a lovely home that's filled with a lifetime of collecting antiques. He has in one lounge a Honda 1000 CBX 6, Benelli 750 6, Kawasaki 1300 6 and his Aermacchi 250 race bike.
Forrest’s brother Barry also raced bikes and was an excellent mechanic. Barry was also property owner of a few clubs that could be found on Auckland's K’ Road.
Forrest answered questions from the floor, fellow racer Dave Tomkins reminded Forrest of a number of humorous occasions from their racing days. Forrest talked to us about his very interesting life, with lots of humour for over an hour, most enjoyable.
Martin thanked Forrest for coming to chat to us, the members gave him a rousing applause for entertaining them. We all then enjoyed afternoon tea together.
Jack and Martin
Forrest and his Manx Norton after winning the Cust GP
Forrest and Lycoming special.
44th Annual Motorcycle Rally Review
The idea of our annual rally started back in April 1981, member Don Nicholson suggested that it was about time Auckland had an annual motorcycle rally. He offered to organise the first one. Barry Williams plotted it, Don Mardle organised a swap meet, Brian Norton donated a pewter tankard for the winner. There were 54 starters, that rode out to West and North Auckland, and then back to the club rooms. After the rally finished, Alan Roberts cooked a hearty BBQ for over 100 people at the club rooms, this was followed by the prize giving, branch member Keith Williams won on his 1942 Indian 741B.
On the Sunday morning a monster swap meet was held in Auckland City at the car park of Shroff & Sons in Hobson Street. This was believed to be the first ever motorcycle only swap meet in NZ. The car park was completely full of stall holders, thousands turned up to buy motorcycle parts or bikes, it started to spread out into the street which then attracted the local police, everyone involved agreed this event was a great success.
Fast forward to 2023 and I was the overall winner on my 1960 BSA Golden Flash, this meant that I would be plotting this year’s rally.
So the first thing is a starting place, I chose Ramarama Hall, conveniently alongside the Southern Motorway, then a lunch stop, Waerenga School that we used last year was the obvious choice, a place of interest, this year the Knight and Dickey Transport Museum in Waiuku, and then a finish point, back to Ramarama Hall.
As is the norm nowadays, I went onto Google maps to rough out a route. Then after printing it out Lynda and I drove around it. We soon realised it was too long, so with some culling done I went out to check it again. Our rally secretary Jeremy Lambert went out with me to check it out, it all looked good now.
Two days before the rally, with two other club members in tow, I rode our around the rally route to check all was still in order. Thankfully all was good.
The rally weekend started on Friday evening at the club rooms for a Pie, Mash and Dessert meal for 18, Lynda prepared this for us.
On Saturday morning I arrived at the hall at 8am and set up the kitchen for tea and coffee. Soon the car park was filled up with cars, vans, trailers and motorcycles. Jeremy handed out the rally packs.
At 9.30am I gave the briefing, and finished with a joke, of course. First bike away was member Martyn Seay on his immaculate Indian Scout and sidecar. Once the last rider had left, our back up driver Leo Fowler set off to follow them.
44th Annual Motorcycle Rally Review
I locked up the hall and made my way down to the Waerenga School, the school is 13 kms east of Te Kauwhata. The riders made their way there via Ararimu, through Mangatawhiri and Mangatangi, all the way out to the Firth of Thames township of Kaiaua where Jack Clark, Michael Watts and Peter Bell were on hand to clock the entrants at the time check. From there entrants rode along the Seabird Coast where there were thousands of Godwits, these migrating birds are part of a flock of over 75,000 that make to and fro journeys of 30,000 kms from NZ to Alaska each year. The most famous godwit, known as E7, has flown all the way from Alaska to New Zealand non-stop, most rest in China.
The riders then passed the Miranda Hot Pools and rode for about another 45 mins to the Waerenga School for lunch.
Waiting there was the Principal, teachers and mums who had prepared the lunch. There were also a number of the school children waiting to see our bikes.
Just like last year the lunch was fantastic, there was so much food on offer. After lunch our 4 sidecar riders gave the school children lots of rides around the playing field, and also some of the teachers had a ride, it was great to see the children's faces light up on the rides, none of them had seen sidecars before.
The riders then set of for the afternoon ride. They made their way West to pass through Te Kauwhata, then rode parallel to the Waikato express way, veered right away from Hampton Downs, then travelled on a 2 kilometre section of very good metal road, passed through Meremere village, then a very short ride on the Express way to the Mercer Service centre. From Mercer there was some great country riding following the Waikato River, crossing over the Tuakau Bridge, by-passing Tuakau, it was then onto more of the good Franklin country roads up to Waiuku.
I had arrived early to talk to John Dickey the owner of the Transport Museum. The riders started to arrive around 2pm, and just as they got off their bikes, there was a shower of rain. If you've never been to the museum do go, its packed to the rafters of the old New World super market, for the $10 entry you can view restored cars, motorcycles, WW2 army vehicles, lots of different makes of tractors, hundreds of vintage hand tools, hundreds of model cars and trains, a large collection of British Seagull engines, and there were 2 racing boats powered with Seagulls, one looked like a small space ship, the other was built by Team NZ Black Magic and looked like a very long and thin rocket, these were raced on the Waikato River. Also on display were restored Knight & Dickey trucks from their early days, along with lots more motoring memorabilia, it’s well worth a visit.
I then made my way back to the finish at the Ramarama Hall, where Malcolm Brown
44th Annual Motorcycle Rally Review
and partner Merit were already there, giving out tea & coffee and home made cakes to the finishers. We locked up the hall at 4pm.
I then went back to our farm in Pokeno to get changed. Then along with Simon & Sylvia Clearwater, who had parked their motor home in our paddock, set off to the clubrooms for the prize giving dinner. Lynda and daughter Bea had been there since 4pm, getting the tables setup and decorated. Member Debbie Ballantyne was also on hand to help them. With the help of David Broadhead and Warwick Darrow, we set out all the donated prizes.
We had 30 sitting down for dinner, Lynda had surpassed herself with this meal, I presented Lynda with flowers and chocolates as a thank you for all her work over the years putting on the rally dinners for our branch, this was her last one.
I thanked all the marshals Jack, Mike, Peter, and Leo for back up, Lynda, Bea, and Debbie catering. Thanked Peter Alderdice for doing such a great job in getting us such an amazing collection of rally prizes as he has also done for many years, and finally our rally secretary Jeremy who look’s after the entries and results.
Member Trevor Hackett, on behalf of everyone, thanked me for putting on a great rally.
The Results
Vintage
1st Peter Alderdice
Post Vintage 1st Cam Francis
Post War 1st David Mayhew
Post 60 1st Martin Salter
Post 80 1st Verdon Heath
Combination 1st Tony Kay
2nd Steven Walter
2nd Rory King
3rd Robert Young
2nd Don Green
3rd Peter Lovatt
2nd Robert Heath
3rd Jeremy Lambert
2nd Martin Seay
3rd Mike O’Kane
Overall Winner *** David Mayhew ***
First Lady Finisher Jo Ann Temaat
Furthest ridden Neil Barnard
First American Peter Alderdice (who won a 120yr Harley-Davidson anni versary jacket from Auckland Harley Davidson.)
First Norton Don Green (won a full size Manx Norton engine blue print.)
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First Velocette Paul Muir
First AJS Simon Clearwater
First BSA
Michael O'Kane
First Pillion Sylvia Clearwater
Youngest Rider Lee Walker-Holt
Oldest Rider David Mayhew
First Auckland Branch Winner (and plotter of next year’s rally): Rory King
Kentish Arms Trophy for the best bike Martyn Seay on his beautiful Indian Scout
STATISTICS
Entrants by Branch
Northland = 6
Horowhenua = 2
Warkworth = 1
Maker’s Marque
BMW = 6
Triumph = 3
Harley-Davidson = 3
Indian = 1
Ariel = 1
Panther = 1
Oldest Bikes
1924 Harley-Davidson
EBOP = 3
Rotorua = 1
Auckland = 24
Honda= 5
Matchless = 3
Velocette = 2
MZ = 1
Douglas = 1
Royal Enfield = 1
1926 AJS
1935 & 42 Harley-Davidson’ s
Waikato = 3
Manawatu = 1
Norton = 4
BSA = 3
Vincent = 2
Jawa =1
AJS = 1
Yamaha = 1
1927 Indian
1949 & 54 Vincent’ s,
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These people have donated prizes for many years and we are so appreciative! Please support these businesses whenever possible.
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Auckland Harley Davidson British Motorcycle Parts
This year member Ken McIntosh, of racing Manx Norton fame, gave us a full size Manx Norton engine factory blue print, for the first Norton finisher valued at approx. $100.
And Ray Pratt from Auckland Harley Davidson donated a “120 years of HarleyDavidson” anniversary jacket valued at $490.
We THANK you all very much!
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?
Ian Robertson Anna Francis Red Beach Narrow Neck
1978 Kawasaki KZ 400
1972 Honda CT 90
1967 Renault Caravelle
A few Motorcycle Rally Pics
Further photos will be added to the Gallery on our website in the next couple of days. Be sure to visit avvcc.org.nz.
If you would like to share photos with us, please email them to Jodi at avvcceditor@gmail.com.
Below: The sidecars lined up for rides at Waerenga School.
Left: Shaaran Price and Dave Mayhew our Overall Winner and Oldest Rider! Above: Steve Water’s 1925 AJS
Chairman
Your Committee & Officers
Shaaran Price (Alan) Email: birdwoodprices@gmail.com
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: auckland@vcc.org.nz
M: 021 678 258 Editor Email: avvcceditor@gmail.com
Treasurer
Ian Hubbard (Lesley) Email: iant120@outlook.com
Club Captain / Trophy Steward
Tracey Winterbottom Email: runnymede@hotmail.co.nz
M: 0274 426 748
H: 09 232 0246 (Stephen)
Committee Members
Martin Spicer (Lynda)
Motorcycle Section Rep/Entertainment
M: 021 732 209
H: 09 233 6382 Email: spicerclan2017@gmail.com
M: 022 102 5954
Lynda Spicer (Martin) Social Convenor
H: 09 233 6382 Email: spicerclan2017@gmail.com
Jeremy Lambert (Michelle) Clubroom Bookings/ Health & Safety Officer
M: 021 189 3120
M: 027 576 7045 Email: velo500@icloud.com
Rory King (Louann) Building Maintenance
Email: roryking53@gmail.com
Neil Stott (Christine) Spares Liaison
Non-Committee Positions
Library Team Leader
Richard Green (Lois)
H: 09 579 6891
M: 021 530 302
M: 0274 949 059 Email: neilxstott@gmail.com
Spares Team Leader
Bill Hulse (Sherrill)
Email: randlgreen@orcon.net.nz
H: 09 489 2427
M: 021 818 334
Beaded Wheels Scribes
John Stokes
Jocelyn McAlpine
Peter Wood
Insurance
Email: bill.sherrill@xtra.co.nz
H: 09 579 0494
Veteran Section Rep & VIC Officer
John Stokes
Email: jcstokes96a@xtra.co.nz
H: 09 236 4582 or
M: 0272 772 108
Mid-Week Tourers Rep
Jack Nazer (Marilyn)
Email: jack_nazer@yahoo.co.nz
H: 09 378 4580
Vintage Section Rep
Murray Firth (Penny)
E: pennyandmurray@xtra.co.nz
H: 09 818 6434
Vero Consumer Insurance Specialist F: 0800 505 905 or B: 09 356 4501 Agency Number: 0300126
Clubrooms
Phone: 09 579 5625
Street Address: 39 Fairfax Ave, Penrose
Postal Address: PO Box 12 138, Penrose, Auckland 1642
Club Night: 4th Thursday of the month
Open: 2nd & 4th Thursday 7:30-10:00pm, Every Saturday 4:30-6:30 pm
Branch Email Address: auckland@vcc.org.nz
Library Email Address: libraryavvcc@gmail.com
Branch Website: www.avvcc.org.nz
Branch Honorary Life Members: Barry Robert
Norm Dewhurst QSM
