rover car club of otago tribune - freeserverstrccoo.freeservers.com/2020/april20.pdfe-mail...
TRANSCRIPT
Rover Car Club Of Otago Tribune
April 2020
THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF
Web Site: www.trccoo.freeservers.com
Club Contacts
2020.
Club President Alan Matchett
Mob 027 223 1601
E-mail [email protected]
Secretary / Treasurer Ray Pilley
Ph (03) 489 0033
E-mail [email protected]
Newsletter Editor Norman Sparrow
Mob 021 631 849 Ph (03) 487 6275
E-mail [email protected]
Committee Joe Smith (South Otago Rep)
Diana Kearns (Librarian)
Life Members Norman Sparrow, John Moore, Bernie Halford.
Honorary Members Lyn Brown Steph Halford Eleanore Clark
The Otago Rover Tribune is published by the Rover Car Club of Otago.
The views or opinions expressed by individuals are not necessarily those
of the Club or Editor.
Club Postal Address Post Box 2075
Dunedin 9044
Web: www.trccoo.freeservers.com
Ignition April 2020
Well what a trial the last several weeks have been and hopefully this is only a
once in a lifetime experience.
I am sure its been a life changing experience for many, and unfortunately
there is a level of unintended inequality as a result,. There are many who are
suffering financial strains through no fault of their own and others whose
circumstance are more fortunate.
I hope members their families and friends are coping and making the best at
this time. I also think as we move through the different levels of lockdown,
it’s important to support everyone and follow the lock down rules.
Not only to beat off the virus but also out of respect to those individuals,
families and business owners still suffering.
Throughout this period, I have been inspired by the amazing things people
have been doing to fill in their time at home. I wish I was as creative and im-
aginative as the thousands of people out there who have kept themselves and
their families busy and amused and shared their creativity with the rest of us.
The video clips on TV and You Tube have been simply amazing.
Not much happening on the car front to report from me but I hope for those
with the opportunity and access to all the bits and pieces they needed, were
able to start and finish some of those overdue tidy up jobs or annoying rattles
thumps or bangs you have been waiting to sort out.
Life in the immediate future for the ORCC will be a little different and we
hope to resume to some sort of normality as soon as permitted. As we are
still restricted to our bubbles and travel restrictions are still in place, face to
face meetings are still on hold and there’s still some uncertainty around our
Memorial Run and AGM . We will let you know.
In the mean-time take care and stay safe.
Alan
ROVER: the beginning …
The trade name Rover was first introduced in 1884 for a tricycle, but it was
the 1885 Rover Safety Bicycle that was to make Rover a household word. By
the end of production in 1924, the company had manufactured 426,530 bicy-
cles – of which today there exist only a handful, mainly in transport muse-
ums.
The bicycle industry evolved primarily in Coventry. It owed most of its devel-
opment to the Starley family. Self-taught inventor James Starley began his
industrial career with sewing machines, some of which today fetch high pric-
es as rare, fancy antiques. The Smith & Starley Queen of Hearts machine,
derived from the 1870s, was an ornate & intricate piece of engineering. But
James next turned his hand to bicycles, modelled initially on the French
Michaux velocipede, which was pedalled by the front wheel.
The low gearing available from this arrangement was a serious limitation.
The first attempt to tackle this problem led to Starley’s “penny farthing”, with
its giant front wheel.
Further difficulties then arose. In its first form, the Ariel of 1870, this bicycle
suffered from undue strain on its plain radial spokes.
In a stroke of genius, James in 1874 patented the solution: the tangent-
spoked wheel, which so correctly managed the torque in combination with
the suspension of the wheel rim that the design has remained unchanged to
this day.
However, James was unable to envisage a remedy to the difficulty of mount-
ing and balancing these cumbersome machines, other than by adapting the
design to the construction of tricycles.
An incidental advance here was the re-invention of the differential gear. The
“penny farthing” became a solely recreational vehicle for the rather athletic
male rider.
It was James’ nephew John Kemp Starley who made the final leap in engi-
neering innovation by combining known mechanical principles into one prac-
ticable machine. His essential and brilliant achievement in 1885 was the real-
isation that the drive should go through chain-and-sprocket gearing to the
rear wheel, which could then be made the same diameter as the front wheel.
The resultant Rover Safety Bicycle is recognised by historians as the key in-
vention in personal, self-powered mobility. The first Rover bicycles had solid
tyres, but John Dunlop’s pneumatic tyre was adopted in 1888.
With the change to curved front forks, and a strengthening of the frame by a
diagonal supporting tube (the seat bar) from saddle to bottom bracket, the
Rover settled into a form which has endured for 130 years and seems unlike-
ly to change much further.
Besides Rover, many other bicycle makers all over the world came to try their
hand at manufacturing motor cars; they included Hillman, Singer, Sunbeam,
Morris, Leyland, Darracq, Peugeot, Pierce-Arrow, and Olds. The internal
combustion engine was first installed in a velocipede by Gottlieb Daimler in
1885.
The Rover motorcycle appeared in 1902. Bicycle makers Wilbur and Orville
Wright produced no engineering advances on two wheels, but applied their
experience of lightweight frames and economy of structure successfully at
Kittyhawk in 1903.
It can certainly be concluded that the Starleys had made a very substantial
contribution to the birth of twentieth century technology.
The historical basis for this account, which has been adapted from Queensland Rov-
er Feb 1990, was an article in Scientific American (March, 1973) by S.S. Wilson, lec-
turer in engineering at the University of Oxford.
Peter Fama. Havelock North
Reducing WoF and Rego Costs for Heritage
Vehicles
Roy Hughes Submissions Secretary NZFOMC
Following on the last revisions of the motor registration and WOF
regimes it has been the policy of the FOMC to seek further reduc-
tions in the costs and inconveniences incurred by classic and herit-
age vehicle owners.
Because most collectable vehicles cover only limited mileages each
year we are pressing for 12 month rather than six month WOF in-
spections. We are also contending that as probably most vehicles
aged between 30 and 40 years are no longer daily drivers they
therefore should qualify for vintage registration. But in concurrence
with the policies of the Vintage Car Club the FOMC wants to ensure
any beneficial changes do not also result in new limits on our unre-
stricted rights to use older vehicles on public roads, or any other
more onerous requirements.
In the United Kingdom vehicles built or first registered more than 40
years ago are now exempt from the previously required MOT check,
the British equivalent of our Warrant of Fitness, as long as no
‘substantial changes’ have been made to the vehicle in the last 30
years, such as replacing the chassis, body, axles or engine. And there
is no vehicle tax or registration fee payable if a vehicle was built be-
fore 1980. But this tax exemption must be applied for and can be
described as putting a vehicle into the ‘historic tax class’.
However exempt vehicles must still be kept roadworthy and owners
can be fined up to £2,500 and allocated 3 penalty points for using a
vehicle in a dangerous condition.
In the Australian state of Victoria the club permit scheme allows
members of recognised vehicle clubs to make limited use of historic
vehicles on the road network.
The fee is only $153.90 for 90 days usage per year or $79.60 for 45
days usage, compared with up to $800 for normal registration. Ve-
hicles must not be driven for more than 90 days in each 12 month
permit period and are issued with specific club permit plates and
windscreen labels.
In general, the Club Permit Scheme applies to vehicles 25 years and
older. The CPS requires owners to be financial members of a club,
and a logbook entry must be made if the vehicle moves more than
100 metres from its garage address.
Any “abuse of the scheme” can result in far reaching implications
for the individual and their club such as fines for driving an unregis-
tered vehicle, loss of the individual’s Club Permit, or loss of their
club's authority to operate the Club Permit Scheme, or even cancel-
lation of the entire Club Permit Scheme for all enthusiasts.
In New South Wales, for an annual fee of $100, heritage vehicles
may be registered under a conditional scheme known as the Histor-
ic Vehicle Scheme (HVS) if they are 30 years of age or older and the
owner is a member of a recognised historic vehicle club.
To be eligible for the much lower registration fee, historic vehicles
must be as close to original condition as possible, with no altera-
tions except for safety features such as seatbelts and turn indica-
tors.
To register a vehicle in the Historic Vehicle Scheme, owners must
present a completed application for Conditional Registration, proof
of identity, proof of registration entitlement (e.g. an original receipt
for the vehicle, which clearly shows the buyer’s name, the seller’s
name, address and signature, the VIN or Chassis/frame or serial
number and the date of acquisition), and a Historic Vehicle Declara-
tion, signed by an official of a recognised and participating historic
vehicle club.
A vehicle safety check inspection report is also required.
Historic vehicles can be used for events organised by Recognised
Vehicle Clubs or community organisations, provided an official invi-
tation has been received and recorded by the club in the official
minutes, or 'Day Book'.
Historic vehicles can also be driven on a road for servicing or inspec-
tions within short distances from their place of garaging. If a longer
journey is needed, owners must notify their club and arrange for the
details to be recorded in the official minutes or 'Day Book'.
Vehicles registered under the Historic and Classic Vehicle Schemes
can be used on public roads for no more than 60 days each year,
outside of organised club events, with each day of general road use
recorded in their log books.
Similar regimes with variations are available to historic and classic
vehicle owners in other Australian states.
For New Zealand heritage vehicle owners the choice may be wheth-
er it is worth surrendering our largely unrestricted freedom to use
our collectable cars to obtain reductions in fees.
Cars for Sale
1930’s Rover 10: car is partially
dismantled, some parts recon-
ditioned. Photos Available.
Contact Murray Gate on021
246 3465, or 09 639 0869 or
[email protected]. Auckland
1956 Rover 90. Contact Carol Duncan on 09 620 8548 or [email protected]. Refer photo to right – note that the photo dates from the early 1990’s. More photos available. Auckland 1985 Rover 2000 Auto. Imported in 1987. Fitted with VDP interior and
badging. Rego on hold, car was on the road in the last year or so.
Price $400. Photos available from Rover Car Club of Wellington.
Contact Phil Jones 06 876 8832. Hawkes Bay
1998 Rover 800 KV6 2.5, 130km.Very good leather trim and body.
Has a broken head bolt, just happened during the fitting of two recon-
ditioned cylinder heads. Sell as unit or parts. Contact - Mike Williams,
[email protected]. New Plymouth.
Rover 827SLI Saloon S2, WOF failure gifted to the Waikato Club for
either spares or restoration. Metallic gold with good cream leather in-
terior. Donator would prefer car to be restored if possible (failed on
tyres & suspension). Otherwise, can be used for spares. Contact Da-
vid Raven. [email protected] Waikato.
Cars Wanted
1962-64 Rover P5 coupe, contact Croydon Parry email-- croydonpar-
[email protected]. Auckland
Rover SD1 2600 with manual gearbox in good or reasonable condi-
tion. Contact Mark at 03 388 3838 or 0226273417
Rover 75 (R40) wanted. Please contact Bob on 021 0633292 or email
[email protected]. Auckland.
Parts for Sale
1949-1953 Rover Starter 11th pinion sleeve, c/w return spring a brand NEW
original (in packet) Lucas 255182 Complete reverse rotation pinion sleeve
unit for the early Rovers. It doesn’t come with rubber sleeve. $40 plus $5
p&p. Contact Colin on 021 022 06227 or [email protected]
P4, P6 parts available, contact Steve phone 07 5779104 or man-
[email protected]. Bay of Plenty
P4, P5, P6 and Land Rover parts: the Nelson Marlborough Rover Club has a
considerable supply of new old stock parts. Mainly mechanical: brake calli-
pers, axle half shafts, gasket sets, gearboxes, P4 bumpers. Contact Gavin
Hill on [email protected]
P4, front and rear windscreens with chrome surrounds. Contact Norm Scott
[email protected]. Hawkes Bay.
P5B parts dismantling P5B Saloon, let me know what you want. Phone
Grant Astley on 09 2351235 or email [email protected].
P5B interior rear view mirror. Donald Trott [email protected] or 027 458 7411. Wanganui.
P5B rear springs. Contact Murray Anderson [email protected] or 04
526 8577. Wellington
P6: The Auckland Rover club has a full set of new/reconditioned P6 water
pumps available for $140 each plus freight and on an exchange basis.
These are: P6 2000 tc/sc short nose 32.25mm. P6 2000 tc/sc long nose
57.0mm. P6 2200 new. P6 3500 (V8). If you are interested in one of these,
please contact John Maskell at [email protected] or on 027 328 2735.
Auckland
2000TC engine and gear box $100 pick up. Contact Dave Roberton. Phone
06 8435151. Napier.
P6BS: complete power steering and some other bits and pieces if anyone is
interested. Contact Ivan Sisson Ph 0274 998386. Bay of Plenty
Replica Stickers – under bonnet labels printed to order on self adhesive vi-
nyl. Also aluminium types. Any marque, no set up fees. Contact Barry Clark
[email protected]. Canterbury
SD1 Parts, Gareth Clark, 021 171 8698 see www.sd1travelledspares.info.
Canterbury.
SD1 parts – new: heater inlet hose GRH828 (Maybe series 1), heater outlet
hose GZA1745 (maybe series 1) rocker cover stickers RO1181A (100 x 30
mil), seal, Inlet manifold gasket ERR7283P (end seals, fairly thick rubber).
Contact Paul Switzer [email protected]. Wellington
SD1 parts for sale or swap; 4 doors, 1 hatch, and 1 bonnet, all in excellent
condition, no rust; 1 steering rack, front struts and rotors, crownwheel and
pinion, all from 6 cyl SD1; 1 3500 V8 complete with auto gearbox, and 1 au-
to gearbox. Phone Terry on 06 3741771, or E Mail ter-
[email protected]. Hawkes Bay.
Rover SD1 sunroof seal clamps: SS new NZ made $100 set. Same as Rim-
mers part RO1103. Headlight brackets: SS new NZ made $65 pair Part Nos
DRC5787 /8 /9. Email Peter Verity: [email protected] phone/text
0210736907
Rover 216 or 216 1992 – 1998 model, brand new soft-top. Offers. Contact
Sandra 027 9189142. Wellington
Rover 400 rear screens. Believed to be last three left in the country. They fit 416, 418 420 R8 models from 1995 onwards. And are heated. Retail is usu-ally $400 each but being offered for $100 each ono. Once gone that’s the end of them. Contact Gareth Clark at [email protected] or 0211718698.
Haynes workshop manuals, Rover 2000, 2300 & 2600 SD1 models, Rover 820, 825 & 827 models, $20 plus post Contact Roy Hughes 03 332 7500 or [email protected] Christchurch
Rover 800 parts, wide range of second-hand hoses, steering, cool-
ing, lighting, suspension parts etc for range of 820, 825, and 827
models.
Contact Roy Hughes 03 332 7500 or [email protected]
Christchurch
Rover 800/75 new body panels, front fenders, doors, also complete
set of 600 doors. Rover 800 new left and right headlamp units, no
longer stocked elsewhere, $100 each plus freight.
Contact Roy Hughes 03 332 7500 or [email protected]
Christchurch
Parts Wanted
P4 110 1963 rear bumper.
Contact Rod Pratt [email protected] or 0274764734. Auck-
land
P5 3 litre: Set of front shock absorbers for a P5. Also a couple of
wheel nuts.
George Haffenden 078683221 or 0274804022 or
P5B Coupe interior.
Contact Peter Warren 027 2949 479. Wellington.
P6B rear bumper with overriders.
Contact Dave Langford [email protected] or
0274240106. Auckland
Rover V8 EFI SD1/Land Rover plastic rocker cover breather grille
part ERC3208.
Contact Nicholas Marshall [email protected] Wellington
Rover 75 passenger side sun visor. Pale cream/stone colour for
1999 model. Contact Nicholas Marshall [email protected] Wellington
Parts for Sale Continued
Rover Car Events 2020
May Thursday 7th. We may have a video conference meeting via Zoom.
Watch out for a possible invitation via email. Sunday 31st. Rover Car Club of Otago annual memorial Run.
June ALL BEING WELL!
Thursday 4th. Monthly meeting at the Village Green Café & Bar. 326 Main South Road, Sunnyvale,
Beside Sunnyvale Park, Dunedin. 6pm for meal followed by Meeting at 6-30.
July
Thursday 2nd. Monthly meeting at the Village Green Café & Bar. 326 Main South Road, Sunnyvale,
Beside Sunnyvale Park, Dunedin. 6pm for meal followed by Meeting at 6-30.
Rover Car Club of Otago AGM. Date & venue TBA
August Thursday 6th. Monthly meeting at the
Village Green Café & Bar. 326 Main South Road, Sunnyvale, Beside Sunnyvale Park, Dunedin.
6pm for meal followed by Meeting at 6-30.
Roverites stay safe in your BUBBLES.
This will keep you and us out of TROUBLES
No doubt the authorities will let us KNOW
When Rovers will be OK to GO!
All meetings followed by a noggin and natter.
