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HezaHenry

Thanks everyone - mystery solved! They look good on an Erskine! And they will look good on Heza Henry (if I can find one more wheel!) They should be quite easy to fit onto T wooden wheel hubs.

HezaHenry

I think the mystery is solved. The wire wheels look like they are from a 1927 Erskine - now I need one more to make a reasonable set! Thanks everyone. Shame the ones in Tasmania were sold...

HezaHenry

Thanks Alan, yes, I mentioned this in the first post and they can be clearly seen poking through the hub. A combination of two techniques. The hubs are quite solidly made.

HezaHenry

Perhaps they are not American at all - maybe European?

HezaHenry

Yes, I like them, too. Dodge are usually five stud, Chevy six. These are very heavy in the centres.

HezaHenry

Hopefully someone from the Model T "brains trust" can shed some light on these wire wheels which were attached to a 1927 T rear axle in some parts I collected this week. At first they looked like Model A wheels but they are clearly not. They are six lug bolt on wheels with welded spokes onto split r...

HezaHenry

Some photographs from the day. Always great fun!

HezaHenry

Every few years in Western Australia we head for a place called Lake Perkolilli. An event is run called the Red Dust Revival. Many speedsters show up from all over Australia. At the end of the day at the last event, we ran an Autopolo contest with the Ts. As always, it was great fun. A chap, Des Lew...

HezaHenry

Hi Leo Thanks for your suggestions. Yes, we have the book you suggested. It is a great read. Chassis flexing is an interesting question. The conventional wisdom is that the chassis was designed to flex and it should be allowed to do so. The way the car was designed points to three pivoting points fo...

HezaHenry

Yes, he also had the truss across the back axle. It looks like he made his own protector underneath the sump rather than purchasing one, too.

HezaHenry

I have found a reference to Michael Terry's drive across trackless Northern Australia in a modified Model T. He and his mate were the first people to drive from Queensland to Western Australia (the Pacific to the Indian Oceans) across the top of Australia. Here is the design of the strengthening tru...

HezaHenry

Yes, that is the same car. Note the Singaporean number plate. You can see that it wasn't in good fettle when I brought it back to Australia in 2012. The wooden wheels were rotten, too. Here is a picture of the car when it was restored originally back in 1981 by J Saward and Francis Ransley. It was a...

HezaHenry

Hi Peter Michael Terry's book is one of the inspirations for our trip. I will post the modifications he made to his car when I get some time. I think people will be interested. We are currently working out making some radiators using the large top tank "colonial radiators" we have. I think new radia...

HezaHenry

Sorry, I missed adding the picture. Here is Michael Terry, the first man to drive across the top of the Australian continent from east to west. He has disc wheels.

HezaHenry

Hi Peter I am not sure where I read about the strengthened wooden wheels. Michael Terry who was the first person to drive a car from Queensland to Western Australia over the top strengthened used disc wheels. Here is a picture of his Model T. There were a lot of modifications made to this car to go ...

HezaHenry

Thanks for your enthusiasm. Yes, we don't have mountains in Western Australia. But we will have annoying steep ridges we will have to climb after we cross the Fitzroy River and drive cross-country through the northern part of the Mueller Ranges, north of Margaret River (not the one with the wine!). ...

HezaHenry

It began as a casual chat a few months ago. We live in Western Australia. We we were kids we were told a great story about a stockman who was trampled in the most isolated part of the outback in the Kimberley region of WA at a place called Halls Creek, in 1917. He was taken into town, which had a po...

HezaHenry

Hi Peter
Yes, it looks like the same madman made both cars judging by the superb rollover protection!
We had fun with our speedsters and no protection whatsoever.
Graeme

HezaHenry

Hi Peter I wonder whether that photograph you bought was a publicity shot for the Autopolo matches played in 1930 at the Melbourne Exhibition Speedway? As far as I can find out, the last Autopolo games played in Australia for Ts were in March 1930 when a team representing Canada beat a team from the...

HezaHenry

Left and right hand drive cars in the same Autopolo match - now that would be chaos! Yep! You call them destruction derbies. We call them demolition derbies! The last word in that form of craziness for us was with caravans being towed behind the cars. Why not get a couple of teams together and creat...

HezaHenry

Hi Susanne and Steve Great to see an original old Autopolo car has survived! The old Autopolo footage shows the "malleteer" or "jockey" scrambling all over the car to hit the ball. I also think that the crashes and rolls were all part of entertaining the crowd, a bit like demolition derbies at the s...

HezaHenry

Here's a picture of the mallets. We made them with laminated bamboo shafts and glue-lam heads cut down from ceiling beams. The ball is a regular fit-ball which we filled with about 500ml of water so that it would have some weight. We went through three balls during the game as they don't like being ...

HezaHenry

Lots of people thought we were crazy last year when we began talking about playing a game of Autopolo with our Ford Model T speedsters but we proved them all wrong recently when we gave it a red hot go. Our venue was the Brooklands Airfield near York in Western Australia. The arena was a 300 yard lo...

HezaHenry

The first race in the World was the Paris-Bordeaux-Paris Trial on 25 February 1895.
Graeme

HezaHenry

There is a long video of the Lake Perkolilli Red Dust Revival 2019 in Australia now available to view on Vimeo at https://vimeo.com/455334061 if anyone who saw the short one last year would like to see a longer version. Lots of Model Ts were there. Hard to believe it was a year ago.
Graeme

HezaHenry

Blockley Tyres are the tyres of choice for pre-war motor racing in Europe and Australia. Julian Majzub began making tyres himself because he couldn't buy anything of the quality he needed for racing. His tyres have been around for years and have won events like the Peking to Paris and endless races ...

HezaHenry

For anyone interested in this event in Australia, there is a very nice short film of the Lake Perkolilli Red Dust Revival 2019 now on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0f5kWt7a3E
Heza Henry

HezaHenry

Thanks Les,
I'll check it out.
Graeme

HezaHenry

I suppose if I can fix this one up, I can then make a mould and make a few. How do I find out about "smooth on"?
Graeme Cocks

HezaHenry

Hi Wayne
Thanks for the info. I might give it a go and see how it turns out.

HezaHenry

Hi Wayne
Good to know there are other Livingston caps out there. I may fix this one up. How did you cast the engraved top to get all the words so fine?
All the best
Graeme

HezaHenry

Hi All I've had this slightly mangled radiator cap for years. It says Livingston Radiator & Mfg Co New York and it is has a patent date of May 22, 1904. It is brass with what looks like brown bakelite moulded over the top of it. Has anyone seen on of these? Does anyone have a good one? Did the point...

HezaHenry

Hi Mark Yes, everyone had air filters on their cars. I used foam filters from a go-kart shop with a cable tie to keep them on. The sticky oil you put on the filter attracted a lot of dust so you had to make sure they were kept clean every day. I think the people who used paper filters had less troub...

HezaHenry

Hi Allan
The skiff bodied speedster is now owned by Bruce Brown and it has a nice turn of speed. Here's another T which was at the Red Dust Revival at Lake Perkolilli. It has a Rajo head and Livingston radiator.
Regds
Graeme

HezaHenry

And some more ... from Perkolilli.

HezaHenry

Some more pictures from Lake Perkolilli.

HezaHenry

And some more pictures from the Lake Perkolilli Red Dust Revival.

HezaHenry

Hi Alan
You missed a great four days. Lots of Ts amongst the 62 cars competing. The Model Ts were fantastic. Here are some pics from Lake Perkolilli. I'll put them on a couple of posts.
Graeme

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