Club & Motoring News

Thanks to the generosity of the Mens’ Sheds, visitors and the Ladies Coffee Group, on Wednesday 24 May we raised $555.80 and $176.25 respectively in donations. The total of $732.05 has been matched by the Club and a grand total of $1464.10 was donated to the Cancer Council. This figure is approximately $200 more in donations than 2022. Well done everyone!

Chris Lodewyke
Events Co-Ordinator

RALLYWEST SEPT 2024 / 2025

Volunteers urgently required to fill the following Event Team positions:

• Ø  RALLY DIRECTOR  - manage,  support and guide the Events Team, to ensure planning and implementation of a successful event;
• Ø  ASST. DIRECTOR – various general duties assisting the Rally Director, and administration of Rally Registration;
• Ø  SECRETARY – general secretarial duties to the Director & Asst. Director & where required, administration of Rally Registration;
• Ø  SPONSORSHIP OFFICER – direct communication with various organisations sourcing donations of monies and/or merchandise;
• Ø  TREASURER – general accounting duties;
• Ø  CATERING CO-ORDINATOR – Organisation of catering for Morning Tea & Lunch, & reservations/planning for Presentation Dinner;
• Ø  CLERK OF COURSE x 2 positions - incl various duties eg location scout for route, route planning, venue bookings for morning tea, lunch etc, preparation of route sheets, organisation of check points;
• Ø  VEHICLE CO-ORDINATOR – incl general marshalling and assisting Clerk of Course as and when required;
• Ø  PHOTOGRAPHER/PUBLICITY OFFICER – day-to-day photographic duties capturing daily events for publication on various media platforms such as Facebook,  the Club’s website and Club’s publications such as Early Auto magazine;
• Ø  MERCHANDISING /PRINTING OFFICER – sourcing of merchandise and printing of various documents, publications, flyers, etc.

NOTE: It is the Club’s intention to hold this event in Sept. 2024 (Date and Venue TBA). However, circumstances may require us to reschedule the event to Sept. 2025.  Should the Club be unsuccessful in recruiting a Rally Director, regrettably RallyWest will be postponed.

If you think you can help the Club and are interested in any of the positions listed above,  please Register using this link, veterancarclubofwesternaustralia.wildapricot.org/event-5154228 OR contact Chris Lodewyke, Club Events Co-Ordinator on 0401 432 063 / 9291 0963  or email  christinelodewyke@gmail.com    

Hand Tool Preservation Society

THE MID WINTER TOOL SALE 9am to 2pm. Saturday 30/7/2022.

Its on again, come and visit our new home, the Midland Railway workshops Powerhouse. Located with in the workshops precinct.

Enter Main gate road off yelverton Drive Midland. The powerhouse is located on the cnr of Blacksmith lane/Maingate road.

Come and view the powerhouse displays, Working steam engine, working blacksmith demos, tool and machine displays, grab a bargain from the tool sale tables, chat with the member groups and enjoy morning tea or light lunch provided by the CWA.

There will be more than a dozen tables overflowing with allsorts of collectible, user and just plain desirable tools to suit all tades and passions.

Index of Early WA Motor Vehicle Registrations
Compiled by The Carnamah Historical Society

The Carnamah Historical Society are delighted to share that our hugely popular Index of Early Western Australian Motor Vehicle Registrations has been substantially expanded with the addition of a further four years of registrations! Some of the gaps have been filled and the index now stretches from 1928 back to 1915.

The updated index contains 96,429 entries and covers motor vehicles registered in WA for the years 1915, 1916, 1917-18, 1919, 1922-23, 1923-24, 1924-25, 1925-26, 1926-27 and 1927-28. It covers cars and trucks for each year and also motorcycles for earlier years.

www.carnamah.com.au/car-registrations

Dennis Lingane sent through the Obituary he wrote for The West – thought it may be of interest to members.

It was great to see so many members this morning proudly displaying their cars. There were around 80 cars (veteran, vintage & post-vintage), a wonderful display from every era.

This is one of our "new" Club events that we thought members might prefer, rather than all day events. The coffee service was provided by Mr Bean's Daily Grind - thanks to Tom for your great coffee.

Larraine our Member Registrar, worked hard all morning to ensure that Krispy Kremes were dished out to our members. We hope that our new members found time to catch up with her.

Thank you to all of the helpers this morning who assisted me, to ensure that everything went smoothly. Well done to you all, you do our Club proud ! Our lovely "raffle ticket ladies" Gail & Maria did a splendid job too !

Winner of the 1st prize of a hamper is Peter & Edwina Carter, 2nd prize of wine went to our lovely Maxine Robins (VCCC Events Manager of the recent Curtin FM 100.1 Car Show). We hope you enjoy the goodies.

It is still possible to opt out of receiving the early auto magazine by post and save yourself $20 pa, by following the instructions found by clicking on the link below. You may still change your preference up to the 30th June. After that date, no further changes will be possible until next year's (2023/24) renewal period. 

As you have been advised, the Department of Transport requirements around concessional registration will require us to be quite strict on membership renewal dates going forward. Some members have advised that they are away during July and are concerned they may overlook their renewal. 

Whilst the membership renewal invoices will only be generated and sent on 1 July, if you wish to pay early you may now do so, using a Credit Card and Stripe, on line, by following these instructions .

Having trouble updating your details in the Club website ??

Do you want to opt-out of receiving the posted Early Auto magazine and save $20 p.a. and don't know how ??

How do you add or remove your vehicles in the club  vehicle register ??

I will be available in the Library at the Wattle Grove Club Rooms on Wednesday mornings 10 am – 11 am during June and July to assist members and future members with any queries regarding membership.

Larraine Deacon
Membership Registrar

A very big Thank you to all members who came and helped at the Busy Bee at the clubrooms on Saturday 30th,   we had a great turnout and we achieved a lot.

I hope that a good time was had by all.

Thank you to those who helped with morning tea and lunch.

Thank you, a job well done.

Lyle Metcalf

Photos from Perth to Armadale Veteran Run April 2022

are now in the Members Event Photo Page