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nearby marina. Morning tea was

followed by a short jaunt across

the old Como Railway Bridge and

return. It was then time to move

on to our next destination.

Swallow Rock Reserve at Greys

Point is a pretty place at the best

of times. However as we arrived today the skies opened up and

down came the rain. Our lunch

by the river was a rather wet and

cold affair but there was still

plenty of good conversation,

yarns and laughter to keep eve-

ryone in good spirits.

As the weather closed in, and the

rain continued to fall, it was time

for us to call it a day and head

for home.

It was lovely to share today with

members from the Austin Motor

Vehicle Club and we’ll try very

hard to organise better weather

next time!

20 May 2012. The National Mo-

toring Heritage Day is an initia-

tive of the Australian Historic Mo-toring Federation to demonstrate

the strength of the motoring en-

thusiasts’ movement in Austral-

ia. Today the Austin Motor Vehi-

cle Club joined us for a Mystery

Rivers Run that included visiting the Georges and Port Hacking

Rivers.

It was cold and overcast when

two Austin 1800’s and a 4-litre

Princess joined four Austin 7’s

and a modern at North Strath-

field. Although we were all en-

thusiastic to have a great day out

the weather Gods thought differ-

ently and put a damper on

things.

We soon started our scenic drive

to the Sutherland Shire where we

enjoyed a leisurely walk around

Como Pleasure Point and the

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Committee

The deadline for all contributions to Baby Torque is the 2nd last Friday of

each month. Contributions should be sent to The Editor, Baby Torque,

10 Lorraine Street, North Strathfield NSW 2137.

Magazine Deadline

Club Meetings

The Austin 7 Club NSW Inc meets on the 2nd Wednesday of each month

at 8:00pm in the NRMA Training Rooms, NRMA Building, George Street,

North Strathfield. Parking is available in the NRMA car park opposite the

building.

Executive Name Home Phone Mobile Phone

President Warren Gracie (02) 9569 2108 0417 417 826

Vice President Paul Pui (02) 9958 1791 0413 621 078

Secretary /

Public Officer Maureen Boatwright (02) 9822 8609 0413 017 263

Treasurer Helen Lewis (02) 9709 2344 0407 108 196

Non-Executive Name Home Phone Mobile Phone

Events Team Maureen Boatwright (02) 9822 8609 0413 017 263

Spare Parts Mervyn Boatwright (02) 9822 8609 0412 940 001

Club Examiners Warren Gracie

Mervyn Boatwright

(02) 9569 2108

(02) 9822 8609

0417 417 826

0412 940 001

Membership Faye Yarroll (02) 9706 8007 0412 830 041

Editor /

Webmaster Robert Yarroll (02) 9706 8007 -

As a courtesy, please do not contact Committee Members after 9:00pm.

Banking Details

Austin 7 Club NSW Inc

Spare Parts Austin 7 Club NSW Inc

Bank Laboratories Credit Union Bendigo Bank

BSB 802-841 633-000

Account 100008499 128875804

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It seems our Club’s website has worldwide appeal judging by the number of hits it receives. Much in-terest is also shown in the contents of our on-line Baby Torque, so much so that our Webmaster gets emails

for additional information about var-ious magazine articles.

Congratulations must go to Robert and Faye Yarroll for the continued

high quality of the website and the Baby Torque magazine. It entails a great deal of time to maintain the website and produce the magazine.

On another subject, we seem to get a good number of members to our monthly Club Meetings, whereas we only get the usual few for our Club Car Events; which is disappointing

Presidents Report to the event organisers.

Some years ago I sent a question-naire to all members seeking infor-mation as to the types of Club Events they would prefer and any other ideas which would assist or-ganisers. I received only three replies which was a great disappointment

and which did very little to help. Currently we get good attendance for

long events such as weekends away but attendance at one day or half day events can be disappointing.

I would ask all members to have a good think about this and talk to me or any Committee member about your thoughts and suggestions as to the types of events (whether weekday or weekend) you would like to partic-ipate in. I look forward to your input.

Happy Sevening … Warren Gracie

An observant on-line Baby Torque reader identified the Austin 7 driver (shown in the picture at right) soon after our magazine was posted on our website last month; well before any member had a chance to retrieve a printed copy from their letterbox! Ruairidh Dunford (Chairman/Director of the Scottish Austin Seven Club Limited) says, “the chap in the two seater is M.D. (name withheld by editor) from the Cornwall Austin Seven Club. He was fixing his windscreen wiper in a freak snow storm on the way to John O’Groats in Scotland to then drive back to Lands End in Cornwall.”

Thank you Ruairidh for your extremely prompt response. Although there is no prize at stake here ... it does show how quickly our on-line Baby Torque reaches Austin Seven enthusiasts all around the World!

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Coming Events

10 June 2012 … Breakfast Run - Camden (Queens Birthday Weekend)

Departing Liverpool Regional Museum, Cnr Hume Highway & Congressional Drive, Liverpool at 8:10am sharp. Breakfast is at Camden Valley Inn, 290 Remembrance Drive, Camden Park. Those interested can take part in a sce-nic drive after breakfast and still return home with plenty time to do the gar-den/lawns, etc. Bookings are essential, so please contact Maureen on 9822 8609 if you are interested in attending. Breakfast $8.50 - $17.00.

23-24 June 2012 ... Weekend away at Mount Victoria

Meet at the Victoria & Albert Guesthouse, 19 Station Street, Mount Victoria and be ready to depart by 12:30pm for an interesting afternoon. On Sunday

we will be joining the Vauxhall Owners Club for lunch at the Guesthouse and enjoying Kitty & the Bagman at the Mount Vic Flicks. Today you may wish to dress in the era of your car.

1 July 2012 … Breakfast Run - South - Austinmer

Departing NRMA car-park North Strathfield at 7:30am or Heathcote Railway

The Mystery Rivers Run saw four Austin 7’s, three cars from the AMVC and a modern from our Club. The run started from NRMA car-park at North Strath-field and the first stop was morning tea at Como’s Pleasure Point Reserve. The weather was good and the view of the Georges River was great. A nice surprise was the condition of the park which has recently been landscaped. Wow! Then we moved on to Swallow Rock Reserve at Grays Point on Port

Hacking River for lunch and as we were parking the skies opened and it be-gan to rain. Our group was lucky to share a shelter with a group of very nice young people. When it stopped raining it became bitterly cold so we didn’t stay as long as planned.

Next outing is a Breakfast Run to a new venue; Camden Valley Inn at Cam-den Park on Sunday 10 June 2012 (long weekend). Prices are reasonable starting from $8.50 through to a big breakfast for $16.00, so please contact Maureen ASAP as bookings are essential.

During April’s Moving Mannequin Magic a member from the Vauxhall Owners Club kindly donated a small Austin 7 spanner. This was presented to Paul Pui at May’s General Meeting when all the names of members who attended that day in A7’s or moderns had their names placed in a container and Mark Wellington drew out the winner.

Those attending the weekend away at Mount Victoria on 23-24 June 2012 will receive an email/letter with details of the weekend, meeting place and

costs.

Please take note that some dates may have changed in Coming Events.

Happy Austin 7 touring … and I’ll see you on the Breakfast Run

Maureen Boatwright

Events Report

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car-park at 8:15am. Please contact Maureen on 9822 8609 if you are inter-ested in attending and advise your starting place.

15 July 2012 … Don Avery Memorial Shield Run - Hawkesbury District

Departing NRMA car-park North Strathfield at 7:40am sharp. Please contact Maureen on 9822 8609 if you are interested in attending.

5 August 2012 … Breakfast Run - Hawkesbury River Marina Brooklyn

Departing NRMA car-park North Strathfield at 7:40am. Our Destination

is the Hawkesbury River Marina, Dangar Road (Lot 501 McKell Park),

Brooklyn. Please contact the Maureen on 9822 8609 if you are interested

in attending.

19 August 2012 … Shannons Eastern Creek Classic 2012

26 August 2012 … All British Display Day - Kings School Nth Parramatta

8-9 September 2012 … Presidents Weekend - To Be Advised

1 - 5 October 2012 …

90th Anniversary National Austin 7 Hub Rally - Tanunda, SA

Make sure you have booked your Barossa Valley accommodation as there is immense interest in this Rally. The renowned Bay to Birdwood Run is for ve-hicles manufactured before 1956 and will be held the day before the Rally starts (Sunday 30 September 2012). Please contact Maureen on 9822 8609 if you require an Entry Form or further information. Entries CLOSE 30 June 2012.

28 October 2012 …

Canada Bay Museum / Fairground Follies at St.Peters

Our Club will be joining the Vauxhall Owners Club today. This sounds like a great day out … many years ago we visited the Follies at another place and had a wonderful time. Please contact Maureen on 9822 8609 if you are inter-ested in attending.

11 November 2012 … Ladies Day

25 November 2012 … Centennial Park Display Day

9 December 2012 … Christmas Function / Presentation Day

29 March 2013 - 1 April 2013 … Austins Over Australia - Bendigo VIC

This event falls over Easter. Please contact Maureen on 9822 8609 if you re-quire an Expression of Interest form and/or Newsletter #1.

Coming Swap Meets

1 July 2012 … Blacktown Swap Meet - Fairfield City Showground

This event will be held at Fairfield City Showground, Smithfield Road, Prairie-wood. All enquiries to Steve 0413 745 311 or Sandra 0427 701 195.

15 July 2012 … Liverpool Super Swap Meet - Fairfield City Showground

This event will be held at Fairfield City Showground, Smithfield Road, Prairie-wood. All enquiries to Colin Murphy 4729 0482, Rick Boyce 9520 5497, Joan Wasson 9534 2770 or Lorna Osborn 9606 0583.

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When I first met Bob (about 45 years ago) he was already well involved in the Austin 7 Club activities; and one of his passions at that time was Observed Section Trials and to a lesser extent Motorkhanas. Bob and Ilona and the two young-est of his four children would all participate in the OST’s, and Bob built a few versions of his special which was always a little bit different to the other cars, and there were regular modifications ... usually of a quirky engineering nature.

At that time Bob was still in partnership in Booth and Blades, a patternmaking business based in Cheltenham, and he was always prepared to help produce a pattern for a casting to suit that special need. He also regularly produced prototype me-chanical equipment to the most exacting engineering stand-ards. It was always clear that Bob had many passions. All the product of an enquiring mind and a thirst for knowledge, particularly if the knowledge could be applied to a cute engineering solution that often had-n’t been seen before. This also gave him a wide understanding of all the various types of engines that had been applied to motor vehicles, aeroplanes, sewerage systems, mining and irrigation, from the largest to the smallest. Some of these ended up as miniatures, made up from scratch … such as the various hot air engines that he was always keen to demonstrate to illustrate that the internal combustion engine was not always “king”.

Another of these passions didn’t involve mechanical propulsion, but involved sailing. Bob for many years sailed on a regular basis ... but this seemed to be gradually subsumed by his preference to participate in adventures with his family or Ilona, and the Austin 7 Club. Bob’s abilities to find a solution, and his pattern making experience, would prove to be a boon to the Austin 7 Club’s Spares Department when it was created in the late 1960’s. Bob could always be relied upon to give reliable engineering guidance to facilitate the making of spares; and ensuring the quality met his exacting engineering standards.

Once Bob retired, many of his and Ilona’s touring adventures (often in the Austin 7) had clear destinations to visit the many engineering and historical artefacts scattered across Aus-tralia; and this passion for longer trips led to the involvement of other Club members. This also led to Bob and Ilona creating the regular annual “Pub Crawl”, which for the first six or seven years was based at a different country pub each night. Bob was always helping a Club member with advice or was often re-building an engine (or other mechanical part) for a Club member. Bob’s retirement merely accelerated his ability to make parts for Club spares and also gave him the time to create more Austin 7’s. These specials included the ute, incor-porating all those special mods that would make it ideal for touring for two people. The sports car (initially supercharged) incorporated many minor modifications to reduce weight, and then once these two were operating reliably, the next project was the single seater su-percharged racer. Then … of course ... there were the downhill racers built for the billycart races at Rob Roy. What would have been next?

Dear friend … you will be sadly missed and gladly remembered by many ... and we all will have constant reminders in the legacies of all the projects that you were involved with over many years.

Robert Humphreys Austin 7 Club Inc. Victoria

OBITUARY

Bob Booth 1928-2012

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26-27 May 2012. A group of very en-

thusiastic club members endured a

very wet and bitterly cold Saturday fol-

lowed by an absolutely beautiful Sun-

day at the 36th Historic Winton, Aus-

tralia’s largest and most popular all-historic motor race meeting. This week-

end featured non-stop racing for over

400 historic racing cars and motorbikes

from the 1920’s to the 1980’s. Im-

portant mile-stones this year included

the 90th Anniversary of the Austin Sev-

en along with celebrations for the Ca-

dillac, Lancia Lambda, Austin 12/4, “A”

model Ford and many more.

After a brisk early start on Sunday morning it was time to check out the

Special Car Park Display of Classic and Vintage Cars. There was also a

great exhibition of Aussie Utes, Military and Commercial Vehicles from

the early 1900’s along with many celebration cars. Enjoying the fun and

supporting our favourite A7 race driver Ian Motley were members Merv &

Paul Boatwright with friends Stuart & Laurie, Jim & Merilyn Dunn, Rich-

ard & Sandra Hubbard, Jim Johnson, Graeme & Bev Logan, Paul Ste-

vens & Simone Christopher, Robert & Faye Yarroll and Anthony Wood.

6 May 2012. Eric Steinhaus & Cissy ventured to Albion Park today to

attend Wing Over Illawarra 2012. Aircraft were arriving from early morn-

ing and many were open for public inspection throughout the day. There

was an active display of Car and Bike Club vehicles with commentaries

by knowledgeable enthusiasts. The featured car for 2012 was the MG T Type and the vintage farm machinery (mostly steam driven) was incredi-

ble. Groups like the Royal Flying Doctor Service, the Bendigo Bank Aerial

Patrol, the Scout Air Wing from Camden, the St Johns’ Ambulance Ser-

vice and the District 9750 Rotary Clubs all added to the fun. And … there

was plenty of food and drink available to keep everyone fed and watered!

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Some stories are almost too hot to handle; just like this one! This month

we feature George and Sue McGill and their green 1927 Austin Seven

Chummy.

George is no stranger to Austin 7’s and his very first car was an A7 Chum-

my. As a young man George was a great friend of (the late) Roger Wells and they raced together at Oran Park. Roger joined our Club some years later.

However, one day his little A7 came to an unfortunate end due to an acci-

dental fire in the garage of the McGill’s family home. Although the Austin

went up in smoke George rebuilt it and then sold it to two friends.

It was 1996 when George spotted an Austin 7 Chummy chassis offered for sale. Wow … a package deal not to be missed … hmm … new wheels, mis-

cellaneous rusted out panels, an identification plate and some unassem-

bled motor components. What more could a man want? George just could-

n’t resist the challenge of owning another Austin 7 Chummy … SOLD!!

George has now turned a full circle and the real fun is about to begin.

But not too fast! The chassis remained dormant in the backyard under an

old piece of corrugated iron for nearly five years in the hope that one day a

body might miraculously appear. Luckily George had previous Austin 7

knowledge and he knew how to re-manufacture a body aided with the

helpful advice of Kevin Harte and David Miller. After several swap meets

and a lot of patience and hard work, George fabricated the body and as-

Car of the Month ... George & Sue’s 1927 A7 Chummy

a charming little 1927 Austin Seven Chummy

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Information Sheet

If you would like to see your Austin 7 featured in this magazine please

complete and return the “Car of the Month - Information Sheet” available

from the Editor.

sembled the motor … all with an ever doubting Sue double-checking his

progress along the way!

George and Sue’s little Chummy was finally ready in 2007 for its first big

outing to Mudgee for the National Rally. They happily kept pace with every-

one except for when a magneto problem surfaced on the very first day.

This was just the beginning of many rallies and visiting places they would

never have seen otherwise. But it wasn’t always plain sailing … and they

did come to a very abrupt halt at the Orange District Rally with a broken

crankshaft … but fortunately the car wasn’t off the road for too long!

At the Goulburn/Crookwell weekend away in March this year George and

Sue were accompanied by their friends Ken and Annie. Their little Austin

performed admirably with four adults aboard and a generous helping of

southern tableland brisk air and sunshine.

It’s been a very quick five years since their first trip to Mudgee and George

and Sue are now looking forward to the 90th Anniversary National Austin

7 Hub Rally in South Australia during October 2012. Next stop … Tanun-

da … here we come!

Sue and George

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Next morning I was away at six-thirty, with four little Japanese waiters to see me off.

“Mees all alone now!” they remarked sympathetically and four polite little bows sped me on my way.

I certainly missed my com-panion, and yet there was a distinct sense of adven-ture in being on one’s own. It was a glorious morning, and the car pulled divinely. I had had her overhauled in Holly-wood and American me-chanics are simply brilliant – the “Baby” seemed as if she had just been born when they finished with her!

One passes through most beautiful country on the way to San Francisco, and there are wonderful garag-es all along the route – nice white buildings with smart attendants clad in spotless white overalls. I stopped at the “Rite-Klean Auto Laundry,” and asked them if they would wash

the car.

“Sure!” they grinned. “We’ll put it in with the dishes!” San Francisco, a town filled with people of all nationalities, came into sight after a trouble-free run, and I felt quite sad as I drove the “Baby” down to the docks, for it meant that I had to leave Ameri-ca, where I had enjoyed so much.

The next stage of my jour-ney was by steamer to Wellington, New Zealand, stopping at Tahiti en route.

The voyage was like most other voyages in the trop-ics. We were all very hot and very idle, with just enough energy to drink lemon-squash and watch the flying-fish.

Tahiti proved a welcome break, and I drove around the island and found it as glamorous and romantic as a South Sea Island should be, with narrow roads running through forests of bananas and coconut trees fringed with gorgeous tropical flowers.

In the main street I bought a hula-hula dress, a be-coming hat trimmed with

sea-shells, as worn by the Polynesians, and a bottle of champagne, for which I paid one dollar! An Ameri-can from the ship was with me, and we had a bathe in a little bay, and then sat under a coconut tree and tried the champagne, which was quite good.

In Wellington I received a great welcome, as indeed, I did throughout New Zea-land. Outside every town a number of “Baby” Aus-tins formed a guard of honour and escorted me in. On one occasion there were thirty-eight of them, and we made an imposing procession! It was then learnt that I was fond of dogs, and after that all the dogs were brought along in their owners’ cars to meet me as well – span-iels, terriers, West High-landers and the rest ready to “shake hands” and wag their tails. I loved them all, and we had a great time together.

I often wonder if the New Zealand people realised how tremendously I appre-ciated all their kindness. Sometimes I am afraid they didn’t, for often I was nervous and didn’t ex-press my gratitude as

Round the World in a “Baby” Car by Gladys de Haviland

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eloquently as I should like to have done.

I am not used to making speeches, and when at luncheons and dinners, all kind of nice things were said about the “Baby” and myself by the mayors of the towns, members of Parliament, and others, my courage used to fail me and I was only capa-ble of a “brief reply.”

When I got to my room at night, however, I used to write down all the chief points of their speeches in my diary, with the inten-tion of making them known when I reached England, for I felt sure their kindness would be helpful in strengthening the bonds that link New Zealand and Britain.

Apart from boundless hos-pitality, I received lovely presents of Maori carv-ings, cigarette cases, chocolates, baskets of peaches, and flowers. The “Baby” was also presented with badges by the A.A. and R.A.C, until at last she was so bedecked that she began to look over-dressed!

An experience I shall not forget was my visit to the Waitomo Cave. One goes a tremendous distance underground, and glow-worms shine like a myriad of twinkling stars in the

roof of the mighty cavern. An underground river adds to the eeriness of the place, and when we em-barked on a boat which was moored to a jetty, and went for a cruise on this subterranean stream, we were told to keep quiet or else the glow-worms would put out their lights!

Two other caves I visited were those of Ruakuri and Aranui, in both of which the stalagmite and stalac-tite formations were very beautiful.

I left the caves about mid-day en route for Rotorua, passing through Oc-torokanga, Te Awamuta, and over the Mamaku Hills to Cambridge.

On the way I met a huge flock of sheep – the man in charge told me there were three thousand of them! Both in New Zea-land and Australia one is apt to revise one’s former estimate of what consti-tutes a flock after seeing the vast numbers assem-bled.

Suddenly Lake Rotorua loomed up through the bush – a fascinating sight. The district attracts tour-ists from all over the world and at Whakarewarewa a charming Maori woman guide, Bella Papakura – who acted as a guide for the Prince of Wales – showed me the sights. All

around steam rises from the scrub, and the air is full of the sound of boiling water and hissing gey-sers. Ponds of boiling mud also fascinated me.

After Rotorua, I motored on to “Fairy Springs,” where thousands of trout were swimming about, so tame that they took bread out of my hand.

Next I visited the Arapuni Hydro-Electric scheme, the biggest engineering undertaking in New Zea-land. The mighty Waikato River, rushing along be-tween narrow banks, has been penned in by a huge concrete dam, and the Waikato’s millions of tons of water are to be used to generate electric power for almost the whole of the North Island of New Zea-land.

At Hamilton the “Baby” received another wonder-ful welcome from a large number of enthusiastic motorists, and I was enter-tained to lunch and eulo-gistic speeches made by the mayor and others, while at Auckland, the largest City of New Zea-land my reception was almost overwhelming.

... to be continued ...

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These minutes of the Austin 7 Club NSW Inc are to be confirmed at the next General Meeting

Minutes of the May 2012 General Meeting

Held on 9 May 2012 at NRMA Training Cen-tre, George Street, North Strathfield. The meeting was opened at 8:05pm by Warren Gracie who welcomed all members to the meeting.

Minutes taker: Maureen Boatwright

Attendees: 20

Apologies: Helen Lewis, Carolyn Thomp-son, Joanne Wellington, Robert Yarroll, Brian & Deidre Haywood, Phil Pratt and Judith Riches

Vistor: NIL

Moved: Mark Wellington Seconded: Denis Quartly

Minutes of previous meeting read and accepted:

Moved: Faye Yarroll Seconded: Mark Wellington

Business arising from minutes: NIL

Correspondence: Inwards: Magazines from Baby Torque W.A. April/May, Broken Spoke-Veteran & Vintage Car Club of Goulburn, Austin 7 Journals S.A., Lightshaft, Bent Wire, Depender and Willeys Whippet Over-land Knight Restorers. Invitations from Or-ange Blossom Festival and 36th Historic Winton (with 4 complimentary tickets). Let-ter from Wally Gates wishing to place story about his car and enclosed a cheque for $20.00, Business Card Sponsorship from NRMA. Outwards: A thank you letter to Gill Skidmore from Crookwell.

Moved: Mark Wellington Seconded: Ken Rolley

Treasurers Report: Warren Gracie read the Financial Report in the absence of Helen Lewis.

Moved: Merv Boatwright Seconded: Eric Steinhaus

Spare Parts Report: Mervyn Boatwright read the Spare Parts Report.

Moved: Cliff Edwards Seconded: Mark Wellington

Editor: Faye Yarroll reported in the absence of Robert Yarroll. New members names listed in magazine, Sandra & Richard Hub-bard car of the month, Spare Parts selling A7 stickers (see advertisement in magazine).

Membership Officer: Faye Yarroll reported 79 members but no new members this month.

Welfare: Update on Robert Yarroll’s pro-gress and Warren Gracie has had stitches removed and is ok.

Public Officer/Secretary: Club mailbox cleared late Tuesday 8 May 2012 looking for Proxy Forms that have to be with the Secre-tary by that date.

Run Log: 3 Historic Car Movements be-tween 14/04 and 15/04. C. Stockley (Secondary Club run), Mark Wellington checking out run & times for this Club and George McGill (Secondary Club run).

Events Team: Great day at Moving Manne-quins. Next run is Heritage Day-Mystery run & we will be joined by a few members from AMVC. Information on 90th Anniversary Austin 7 Rally in S.A. and Bay to Birdwood entry forms should be sent to this Club or can be downloaded in mid May.

Moved: Eric Steinhaus Seconded: Faye Yarroll

General Business: Bob Riches spoke about the life of Bob Booth who was from the Aus-tin 7 Club Victoria, he was a patterns man & made many spare parts for the Club. Bob passed away in April, 2012 and will be sadly missed.

Meeting closed at 8:35pm

Door Prize - Won by Warren Gracie Raffle - Won by Kevin Harte

Minutes of the Special General Meeting

Held on 9 May 2012 at NRMA Training Cen-tre, George Street, North Strathfield. The meeting was opened at 8:37pm by Warren Gracie who welcomed all members to the meeting.

Minutes taker: Maureen Boatwright

Attendees: 20

Proposed Amendment to “Rule 44 – RTA Regulations - change name RTA to RMS”

Proposed Addition of “Rule 45 – Club Rules” 1)The Association and its members will ob-

serve all Club Rules as appear in the Asso-ciation’s Constitution and Members Mate

2)This rule is in addition to Rule 44.

Vote: 28 In Favour (9 proxies) and 0 Against

Constitution amendment to Rule 44 and addition of Rule 45 have been accepted by the Club. These changes will go to Fair Trading to be accepted.

Meeting closed at 8:55pm

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Recent Happy Snaps

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All Spare Parts correspondence should be addressed to:

Mr Mervyn Boatwright,

P.O. Box 366,

Casula Mall. NSW 2170

Telephone: (02) 9822 8609

Email: [email protected]

Spare Parts will NOT be brought to meetings unless requested be-forehand due to the vast number of parts in stock nowadays. Please contact Merv by the Thursday evening prior to the meeting

with details of the parts you need.

All Members choosing to pay by cheque for parts should read the instructions at the bottom of their invoice. Please make all cheques

for Spare Parts payable to Austin 7 Club NSW Inc Spare Parts.

My name is Wally Gates (Maclean

NSW). I constructed “Albert Aus-tin” in the early 1980’s and have

often wondered what became of

him. To this end I have entered

him on my Bucket List to find out

about his history. I would really

appreciate any information of his

where-abouts. Please phone me on

(02) 6645 4173. Wally Gates

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If bad weather conditions are looming please contact Maureen Boatwright

(H) 02 9822 8609 (M) 0413 017 263 or Warren Gracie (H) 02 9569 2108

(M) 0417 417 826 on Saturday evenings or from 6:30am on the Sunday

of the run.

And please remember to always carry the following documents in your Austin 7:

Comprehensive Insurance Policy

RMS Certificate of Approved Operations

Baby Torque Magazine

Bad Weather

13 June 2012 Ken Rolley

11 July 2012 Bob & Judith Riches

8 August 2012 Denis & Helen Quartly

12 September 2012 Warren Gracie

10 October 2012 To Be Advised

14 November 2012 Faye & Robert Yarroll

Point Score Trophy

DISCLAIMER: The Austin 7 Club NSW Inc (the Club), its Officers and the Committee cannot be

held liable for any errors and/or omissions in items that are published in good faith in this Baby Torque magazine. It should be noted that the publication of an advertisement or expression of

views in articles and reports in this magazine does not necessarily imply endorsement by the Club.

Don’t forget the Austin 7 Club NSW “Point Score” pro-

gram. Our aim is to see as many people as possible at-

tending events and meetings (including monthly general meetings). Participation in an event or outing from the

starting point to the finish will score you 2 points, while

attending a general meeting will score you 1 point. These

points are awarded whether you attend in your Austin 7

or modern car. The person with the highest points tally

will receive a trophy at our Christmas Luncheon /

Presentation Day. So come along and get involved.

Supper Roster

!

The Austin 7 Club NSW Inc has

been active for 29 years and

aims to bring together people

with the common interest of re-

storing, preserving and driving

Austin Sevens. We are an infor-

mal family club that regularly

takes our "Babies" to the road

for some fun social touring.

Spare parts are available to

Club Members through the Club

Spares Division and our tech-

nical people will give advice,

where possible, in regard to the

restoration of these cars.

Postal Address:

P.O. Box 6009 North Ryde NSW 2113

Email:

[email protected]

Website:

www.austin7clubnsw.org.au

Austin 7 Club NSW Inc

ments of your vehicle. If you

wish to attend invitational

events outside Club runs, you

MUST contact a

Committee Member

to log the trip, oth-

erwise your regis-

tration and insur-

ance is NOT valid.

You should carry a

copy of the Clubs’

Certificate of Insur-

ance (Public Liabil-

ity) in your Austin

7 at all times together with

the most recent copy of this

Baby Torque magazine.

Any Member using a vehicle on

RMS Historic Conditional Regis-

tration Scheme (HCRS) and at-

tending a Secondary

Club Run or any event

listed under Invita-

tions Accepted or Oth-

er Events of Interest

MUST contact a Com-

mittee Member to ad-

vise your vehicles

movements PRIOR to

attending the event.

The committee of the

nominated primary club on your

conditional registration must be

aware, and approve of, all move-

"Dedicated to the preservation and

enjoyment of all types of

Austin Sevens"

RMS Conditional Registration

Member of The Council of Motor Clubs, Inc