Bry, are you getting any sleep. Must send a email and catch up.
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Bry, are you getting any sleep. Must send a email and catch up.
As we landed on Mars this week I had to post this great pic from Rab Lewin. A bit off topic for this forum - please forgive
Calder Mackay were a furniture shop in Rattray St., Dunedin.
Calder Mackay were somehow related to the Farmers Trading Co in Auckland
And the tractor pilot looks like a Zambuck of old...you know, the ones who used to run onto a rugby field and treat any given injury with cold water...:D
If any one is interested there are 4 or 5 other great photo's available from this Parade
Bry3500, Can you post the other photo's, trying to identify where they were taken at.
I reckon they are taken opposite the corner of Kelvin and Spey St, Invercargill.
Only reason I made this educated (?) guess is that I looked up the adresses for some of the shops, and am more than likely wrong, just being an anorak!
The pioneer fathers of Invercargill were true Scots indeed. Most of the streets are named after Scottish rivers and most are only 3 or 4 letters long! Must have saved a packet on street sign making.
Stu Buchanan
What was the occasion for the parade?
Southland Centennial 1956, Ranfurly Shield 1959, I see a Mk 2 Zephyr and a heavily finned Yank Tank in the photos - must be quite late in '50s.
Stu
Anorak alert! The tractor in #372 is a Massey Fergusson 35, first produced in red and grey in 1958. Any single seater expert will know that!
Howard I'm with you on that. My tractor book that any single seater fan should have said it came out in USA in November 1957. Considering the Zephyr and Consul photos in the pictures (possibly 1957 models) I would say that 1958 seems a good choice.
Thats what NZ farmers and Prince Andrew had in common. "They both had buggered old Fergies lying around"
Ah but the Fergies to the South Pole were not 35s!
Fine old Beast First driving LESON age 10 go Fergies JAMIE
Be great to see some pics Rod, in the meantime how about an MF35 Allcomer!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDCgwX-Z4Ww
Year OLD Fart! the old man and his army mate who owned the farm were the said BEAST lerked laughed themselvs till thay cried ? if you want to drive it you have to find the starter hee hee thay forgot I was A good watcher joke on them and the fence I hit
Jamie A
Another Who?
On Bringa Trailer this morning there is a photo shoot from Bonneville, in the slide show is a red Mini with signage from Nelson. Who is over there giving it a shot?
Bryan Hartley and crew, 223 km/h so far.
Kiwi's can fly is another team chasing records in the GT Classes with Dave Jackson and a 5 litre Corvette and then a quick refettle sees Craig Gilbert running the car in the 6 litre class.
There was an article on Stuff.co.nz a couple of days ago, apparently they broke the 1000cc record for their vehicles class.
should be on minis and imps more on Speedhunters ,has four valve head off BMW 1200 motorcycle hoping to set record 130 - 140MPH
It's got me snookered how they get a light little vehicle like that to get enough traction to pull such a high speed, particularly front wheel drive. Even heavy stuff you can hear wheelspinning on the salt, and heavy is good when you build a salt car, the opposite of circuit racing. Great effort !
I also had an Uncle who was the Director of the DSIR and in charge of NZ Antartic Expedition. As well I used to have an old mate in Dunedin who was an all round engineer who looked after my BCM, the ex Palmer Lotus 20B and a Ferrari 330GT. His name was Dave Mills and he was a wizz with Jags and Italian motors as well as bodywork, fettling and anything mechanical including being a diving engineer and stints as an engineer in the 60's, I think, 'on the ice'. He had an XK120 which went pretty well.Attachment 10203.
Well he died suddenly age 65 quite a few years ago after looking after my cars for over 20yrs and I lost a good mate. At his funeral an old friend said for us all to take out a $5 note and look for the tractor - it was much bigger on the note then. Well the story was that Dave had time on his hands during the Antartic winter and he saw these tractors sitting on the ice ready for the melt when these old bits of machinery would sink to the bottom - so much for environmental awareness. Of course these were some of the left overs from the Hillary expedition to the Pole which I had a 2s and 6p (2/6) pocket money share in, having supported it as a 6 yr via my uncle - I still have the certificate today. Dave decided to 'requisition' one and put it in his workshop and spent the winter-over restoring it. The story of how the tractor got back to Christchurch is another one but it was the initial Fergie shown off in CHC at the early Centre and featured as the model for the engraving on the $5 note.
So it was a good story to finish on for a guy who had a full life and built me a racing engine 26 yrs ago that was still going without a rebuild until last year when a timing chain let go at HD's. Chris Read - Arrowtown.
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OK, so name the faces. Yes one is who you don't expect, one is a poster on here who holds the copyright.
Chris, sounds like they were down there at same time. My uncle left boxs of slides which my father (his brother) is converting to electronic photos. few photos of the group down there. Will see if dad can send some to me and i will PM you as you may reckonize some one.