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Northern Rivers
Vintage & Veteran Car Club Inc.
July 2018
1945 Ford Blitz owned by Bill Evans
Outside the Casino Drill Hall Military Museum
Web Site; www.shannons.com.au/club/carclubs/northern-rivers-vintage-veteran-car-club-inc-1 P.O. Box 122, Lismore, NSW 2480
FOUNDATION MEMBERS : Mr. Bob Trevan & Mr. Graham Fitzgerald
LIFE MEMBERS ; George Hobbs, Norman Clapham, Doug Campbell, Narelle Middleton, Marie Johnston, Robyn Hayward, Robert Lovell
PRESIDENT Chris Loadsman 0417630244 [email protected]
VICE PRESIDENT Ben Clift 0266832448
SECRETARY Jillian Keys 0266223265 [email protected]
TREASURER Eric Davison 026624 4537
COMMITTEE MEMBERS N Clapham , R Hawkins , A Johnston
2018 Office Bearers
ACTIVITIES DIRECTOR Peter Polglase 0266337057 [email protected]
PROPERTY OFFICER Narelle Middleton 0266281207
LIBRARIAN/HISTORIAN Bob Trevan 0266 216389
KLAXON EDITOR Ron & Nancy Hambly 0266 244667 [email protected]
REGISTRAR Lachlan Johnston 0410911294 A/Hours 6pm-9pm
REGALIA OFFICER Peter Henson 0266282415 [email protected]
WEB OFFICER John Hunt 0266612543 [email protected]
Narelle Loadsman 0417630244 [email protected]
MEMBERSHIP OFFICER Fay Bryant 0413280270 [email protected]
SAFETY INSPECTION OFFICER
Garry Johnston 0266 291270
EVENTS COMMITTEE V Keys, B Clift, L Johnston, N Clapham
PUBLIC OFFICER R Lovell 02 66219682
CATERING FOR ALL VEHICLES OLDER THAN 31ST DECEMBER 1980 OF ORIGINAL DESIGN
Visitors from other clubs passing through Lismore & Casino are always welcome at our club outings and meetings. Meetings of the club are the SECOND WEDNESDAY of each month
at the LISMORE WORKERS CLUB , Keen Street, Lismore at 7.30pm.
OPINIONS EXPRESSED IN THIS MAGAZINE ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF THE CLUB.
GUIDELINES FOR CONDITIONAL REGISTRATION (CLUB PLATES)
All NRVVCC members should familiarize themselves with the NSW RMS rules and club rules surrounding how to use your vehicles on Conditional registration, together with the requirement to carry certain documents in
the vehicle whenever it is being used. If you are on the log book trial, the RMS issued log book must be completed by the member before you use
the vehicle for anything other than NRVVCC club outings. Vehicles not on log book, the member should phone/email the secretary when a movement is needed for anything other than club outings.
Any member with vehicles(s) conditionally registered through the NRVVCC and who do not attend a minimum of three club events per calendar year (not including registration day & meetings) may be asked by
the committee to show cause as to why the club should sanction the renewal of their registration in the following year.
The Club cannot afford the risk of the system being abused and the subsequent loss of the benefits of these worthwhile concessions for other Club members.
M E M O R I A L D AY
COMING EVENTS
Day; SUNDAY
Date; 15th July 2019
Meet at; Lismore Heights Bowling Club
Time; 10am ( Must have Numbers at or by the July meeting )
Destination; Approx. 11am depart for Casino Showgrounds to attend the Heritage
Machinery Day
Catering; Morning tea provided NRVVCC social funds
Lunch; Buy your own lunch at the Mahinery day or BYO
Organisers; M. Lovell / Ben Clift
Ben 0402421565
Date; Wednesday 4th
July 2018
Destination; Thursday Plantation Gallans Rd. Ballina
Arrive; 10am, short talk re. products followed bylight lunch/ coffee
Guests Welcome, Period cars or modern
Contact; Peter Mobile – 0427340677 – Email – [email protected]
**Please Note**
Members need to get their entries in
A small plate of food is required on Friday afternoon
At Middleton’s place
MID WEEK MUSTER
Northern Rivers Vintage & Veteran Car Club Inc.
Meeting No. 635 – 13th June 2018 Held at Lismore Workers Club – 7.30pm
President C Loadsman opened the meeting and welcomed all in attendance.
MEMBERS PRESENT: J Keys, C & N Loadsman, N Clapham, B Clapham, B McPherson, A Keys, R Hawkins, G Campbell, B Clift, G Paff, P & B Henson, N Middleton, J & R Hayward, G Gill, E Davison, S Saunders, R Earnshaw APOLOGIES: V, J & B Keys, R & M Lovell, S, J, K & K Clapham, W Colley, R Guest, E Campbell, M Johnston, S Gill, J Gill VISITORS/NEW MEMBERS: Nil
MINUTES OF THE PREVIOUS MEETING: It was moved N Clapham second R Hayward they be accepted as correct. Carried. BUSINESS ARISING FROM THE MINUTES: Minutes be amended to state that L Zambelli resigned from Regalia Officer, not resigning from the Club. Carried INWARD CORRESPONDENCE: 1. Magazines from various clubs by mail and email 2. Flyer for Nambour Swap Meet – 28th July 2018 3. Invitation to Casino Show Society’s Heritage Horse Power weekend – 14 & 15 July 2018 at 9.00am 4. Email from Alex Daffy resigning from Club – they have relocated to QLD 5. Shannons Auction brochure OUTWARD CORRESPONDENCE: 1. Minutes to Ron & Nancy MOVEMENTS: G Lovell It was moved A Keys second R Hawkins that correspondence be accepted and dealt with accordingly. Carried.
TREASURERS REPORT: E Davison gave a detailed financial report to the end of May 2018. It was moved E Davison second B Clift that accounts be paid and the report be accepted as correct. Carried
ACTIVITIES REPORT: Past Events: P Henson gave a report on the mid week muster to the Koala Care Centre R Hayward gave a report on the Bangalow run. All good, except the rain at the end of the day R Hambly gave a report on the Alstonville Antiques & Collectibles Fair Coming Events: 17th June – 8.45am at Clyde Campbell Car Park through Caniaba to Casino (Northern Rivers Military Museum) - $5.00 per head (incl coffee or tea) BYO morning tea then to Coraki Pub for lunch ($15-$25 approx) 4th July – Mid week muster – Thursday Plantation in Ballina – numbers to Peter on [email protected] Memorial Day run – 15th July – possible run to Casino…details at next meeting and numbers needed RALLY: Entries required sooner rather than later
PROPERTY OFFICER: Nothing to report…all items in the Shed WEBMASTER: Nothing to report LIBRARIAN/HISTORIAN: Attendance down due to the cold weather
KLAXON NEWS EDITOR: R Hambly gave a report from the Editor’s desk. Stories and photos always welcome. CLUB REGISTRAR: Not present REGISTRATION OFFICER: Not present
CLUB REGALIA: P Henson (new Officer) present with all of the goodies. All goods to be offered for sale at
the Rally to try and reduce the stock amounts and then Club to re-think prices and stock GENERAL BUSINESS: C Loadsman read an email from Margaret Hession to A Johnston regarding the Gold Coast Club’s annual rally. She wanted to clear up a “misunderstanding” that their “Tour” was not a bus tour, but a car rally like each year. She also wanted to make it clear that members from other Clubs were definitely welcome to attend the dinner on the Saturday night, not just members from the Gold Coast Club B Trevan have an update on the progress of the Powerhouse Museum. Once the engines have been fully restored, the Club is welcome to take one of the first tours of the Museum.
MEETING CLOSED: 8.26pm Raffle won by: B Clapham
MAGAZINES Tweed Valley Restorers, New England Wheels, Crank Torque, Capri Courier
EVENTS
JULY AUGUST
11th – Club meeting 8th – Club meeting
15th – Memorial run Names required 18th – 19th – Annual rally
at meeting
Entries for the NRVVCC Rally close 31st July
Annual Weekend Rally
17th -18th - 19th August 2018
Proudly Sponsored by
Gibbo's Auto Spares
Outing to Casino Drill Hall & Military Museum
17th
June 2018
After leaving Brown’s Creetk car park we made our way through the Lismore CBD, past the
Airport then on to the Caniaba turnoff and through Caniaba to the Casino Drill Hall Military
Museum. The museum consisted of military exhibits from wars dating back to WWI and
through to the Vietnam war of the 1960’s.There were many photographs, models of war
planes,ships, bullets, shells and items of interest too numerous to mention. After morning
tea in the sunshine at the entrance to the hall we made our way through the countryside to
the Coraki Hotel for lunch.
Lunch at the hotel was very enjoyable and during lunch a Poet appeared and gave us many
renditions of poems writen by Banjo Patterson & Henry Lawson and his powerful renditions
made us pause in conversing and sit up and take notice. The day was very interesting
and enjoyable and our thanks go to Graeme and Sharin Gill for organising the day for us.
EDITOR
MEMBERS ATTENDING – B&B McPherson – Studebaker, B,J&M Clift, K&N Clapaham – 1957
Lloyd Hartnett G Paff – Modern, R&N Hambly – 1936 Plymouth, M&R Hawkins – 1929 Dodge, R&J
Hayward – 1929 Chrysler,B&P Henson 1948 Lagonda, C&N Loadsman = 1929 Chev’ Tourer, A Gill –
1929 Essex, J Gill – 1927 Essex, A Keys – 1916 Dodge, D –Goaff ? 1927 Dodge, G&S Gill – Jaguar, D&F
Middleton – Humber, M Rixon, B Evans 1945 Ford Blitz, G&L Cambell – 1929 DA Dodge, J&H Hunt –
Zephyr,D&R Clift – K&A Keys.
Vehicles on display during visit and
morning tea at the Drill Hall Military Museum - Casino
Koala Capers
The NRVVCC’s ‘Mid-Week Muster’ held 6-6-18 was attended by eleven and a half
Members!
How can that be you ask? Well, to be fair young Willow Middleton isn’t old enough to
drive yet, so we reckon Willow counts as ‘half’ a member. Seems fair enough, half
price for kids!
The Koala Care Centre, Rifle Range Rd, Lismore was the venue for our visit. Staffed
by volunteers but with one employee to manage the office and paperwork, the Centre
provides care and management for sick or injured Koala throughout our region. The
centre takes visitors each Wednesday morning. Ring Clare 66 21 4664.
Bev, a knowledgeable volunteer took us through a power point presentation and
answered many questions from the group.
Informed detail of ST diseases left us wondering about the future of this iconic native
animal.
It’s obvious that the centre could use financial help and help from volunteers. Bev
took us into the holding areas for recovering animals where we watched volunteer
Des introducing fresh cut Eucalyptus leaf to the recovering Koalas.
Eric Davison moved a vote of thanks on our behalf.
Members attending were Narelle and Chris Loadsman, Narelle Middleton, Jess and
Willow Middleton, Allan Keys and Dave Hancock, Steven George, Eric Davison,
Renate Gravert, Peter and Bev Henson.
Scones by Beverley, Anzacs by Narelle Loadsman, both yummy, thanks.
The hirsute Eric and a furry friend!
She wanted a car – he wanted a motorbike
Manpower Help for Horsepower In Ballina’s First Cars
Old cars that were driven around the streets of Ballina in the first days of the automobile
were recalled in an address by Mr. Charles Bewers to a meeting of the Ballina Rotary Club.
The first car, was owned by Dr. Donellan and was said to use more manpower than
horsepower due to the frequency of its breakdowns. Mr. Bewers recalled however that a
really stallwart performer was a De Dion Buton owned by an early schoolteacher, Mr.
Morgan. The car regularly made the then rugged journey to Alstonville, where Mr. Morgan’s
daughter was a teacher.
Mr. Charles Schaeffer said that he was teaching at Alstonville at that time and could
remember riding in Mr. Morgan’s car on many occasions. Mr. Bewers said that a Reo,
owned by Baggot Brothers, made a historic journey to Brisbane on the occasion of the visit
of the Duke of Windsor, then the Prince of Wales. Messrs. Bagot Brothers took Mr. and Mrs.
Roy Lang, but because of the hazards of the journey, Mrs. Lang was taken only only as far
as Murwillumbah in the car and proceeded to Brisbane by train.
They met Mrs. Lang at South Brisbane and were so pleased with the performance of the car
they returned via Toowoomba and the highlands.
“This old Reo” said Mr. Bewers, was later turned into a timbr truck at the mill and
remainded in service for many years.”
Memories of Mr. Charley Brewer of Ballina
My father had a Hotel at the top of Brewers Hill and cars climbing the hill in the early days
lost considerable water from the radiator. My job was to refill them, charging one penny. I
remember the first time I ever rode in a car. It was in 1906 and it was owned by Mr. Bill
Corbbet. I was a hero at school after my experience as the children those days would run a
mile to see a car and much further to ride in one. Many a time while driving a car I had to
use the upholstery trim from the doors as sleeves when repairing punctures and blowouts
which were quite common in early motoring.
In 1919 I drove a Ford T to Sydney and took four days to complete the journey. The first
night’s stop was at Coffs Harbour, the second night Taree, the third, Maitland and finally,
Sydney. In 1915 I drove a Benz bus between Lismore and Ballina, returning daily. It reqired
changing gear seventy times on the trip up.
Sourced by Bob Trevan
Lismore Show circa 1950’s
LOOKING BACK To 1917
Perth to Cairns in Baby Austin
Mr. T Crouch arrived in Lismore on Tuesday in his baby Austin car, on the way to Cairns
having travelled from Perth. For the past 18 months he has journeyed all over Western
Australia. Leaving Perth in January, his expenses to date amount to 11 pound, as he has
been living on wild game and fish en route, and on many occasions picked up a passenger
who was willing to put in a gallon of two of petrol for a lift. An engineer by trade, Mr.
Crouch, who was for some time engaged by the Sunshine Harvesting Co.in Western
Australia, found himself out of employment owing to the depression, decided on his novel
and cheap way of seeing Australia. Wherever possible he performs work for a day or two at
his trade; in fact, he will do any class of work to keep the “wolf form the door.” He has not
slept in a bed for over 18 months, and he is quite happy and healthy, and narrates some
rather interesting experiences of his travels.
From Bob Trevan
AFTERNOON DELIGHT
The only way to pull off a Sunday afternoon “quickie” with their 8 year old son in the
apartment was to send him out on the balcony with ice cream and lollies and tell him to
report on all the neighbourhood activities. He began his commentary as his parents put their
plan into operation.
“There’s a car being towed from the parking lot” he shouted.
A few moments passed “An ambulance just drove by”
A few moments later “Looks like the Andersons have company”, he called out, “Mat’s
riding a new bike.”
A few moments later “Looks like the Saunders are moving. Jason’s on his skateboard.”
A few more moment “The Coopers are having some nookie the same as you two!!
Startled, his mother & father shot up in bed! Dad cautiously called out, “how do you know
what they are doing?”
“Jimmy Cooper is standing on his balcony with ice cream and lollies the same as me.”
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MEMORIES of RALLY 2017
Established in 1960 NORTHERN RIVERS VINTAGE & Lismore/ Casino VETERAN CAR CLUB INC. P.O. Box 122 , Lismore, 2480 Email: [email protected]
2018 Sponsors
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Ph. Steve Clapham 0411768472
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