[SEL] Ronaldson-Tippett Centenary

[peter ogborne]

Congratulations to the Rally organisers...sounds like you all had a great
time. I had been looking forward to Naracoorte. I was prepared for it but i
am afraid the cost of fuel is now going to have a big influence on my
decision wether to go or not.
What is giving me the shits is that diesel is now more expensive than
petrol..........what goes on?
----- Original Message -----
From: "jim bethell" <bethell1 at iinet.net.au>
To: "The SEL email discussion list" <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 4:29 PM
Subject: Re: [SEL] Ronaldson-Tippett Centenary


> Good to catch up with some fellow list members at the Rally. Took my 6.5hp
> Austral no. 875 down and ran for all the time we had water, we got ours at
> 1.30 pm sat. Hope Naracoorte don't forget to put on plenty of water carts,
> we tend to pay the local fire brigade to attend the Junction Rally and
they
> gladly help with two fast fill trucks. Did two tyres on the way home,(two
> out of six aint that bad I suppose on a triaxle trailer).
> Jim Bethell
> Mildura "Gateway to the outback"
> bethell1 at iinet.net..au
> http://community.webshots.com/user/jimsiron
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Patrick M Livingstone" <pml1 at bigpond.net.au>
> To: "Stationary Engine ATIS List" <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>;
> "Stationary Engine Mailing List" <stationary-engine at oldengine.org>
> Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 9:13 PM
> Subject: [SEL] Ronaldson-Tippett Centenary
>
>
> > Well I am finally home after covering some 2400km since last Thursday.
The
> > Ronaldson-Tippett Centenary Rally was a great success with an estimated
> 600
> > engines of which I would guess about 200 were Austral Oil Engines. (For
> our
> > non-Aussie list members that means 200 side-shaft engines!). I arrived
on
> > Friday and set my Austral up next to Brock's as we were the only
> > representatives of the Sydney and Canberra Clubs. From where my engine
> stood
> > I could see the remaining structure of the factory where my engine was
> built
> > and clearly on the wall could be read "Ronaldson Bros". (The "& Tippett
> part
> > of the building is gone).
> > Friday night we headed out to Lyndsay's shed and had a look at his
engines
> > and then visited another local collectors shed to look at his engines. I
> > think we finally got to bed about 1am.
> > Saturday was a cold miserable day and it was not helped by the only real
> > glitch in the rally organising. Quite a number of engines (mine and
> Brock's
> > included) did not get any water until well after lunchtime. The club
> > officials were quite unapologetic about this lapse of organization.
> > Once we had water the fun part was keeping the oil engines running as a
> cool
> > breeze and drizzly rain does not make for good weather to keep them
> running.
> > The Saturday night dinner was good and was held amongst an amazing
> > collection of R-T memorabilia. There were factory ledgers, photos,
casting
> > patterns, parts books, catalogues, etc. Every time you looked around you
> > found something else amazing too look at.
> > The weather was a lot better on Sunday and I ended up with sore feet
from
> > walking around trying too see all the engines. There were some very nice
> > rare examples including the early vertical and horizontal engines, all
> > manner of Australs, Type D, G, N, Diesels, and even a twin cylinder Type
> N!
> > The 3pm shutdown came along amazingly fast and now the fun part was
> getting
> > 600 engines out of the place when, of course, everyone wanted to leave
at
> > once. Where they failed with the water they succeeded with organising
the
> > departure. Two cranes were working there way down the compounds as well
as
> > club members directing the vehicles loading the engines onto trailers.
We
> > even loaded my engine with the crane which turned a 15 minute job into a
> 30
> > second one.
> > It was a great weekend and I got to catch up with a lot of old (and new)
> > engine friends. I took over 500 photos which I have to sort through but
> > these three are pretty special.
> > http://www.oldengine.org/members/pml/rtc04/0410240539.JPG
> > http://www.oldengine.org/members/pml/rtc04/0410240540.JPG
> > http://www.oldengine.org/members/pml/rtc04/0410240541.JPG
> >
> > They show my Austral in front of the factory where it was built for the
> > first time since it was built in 1917 :)
> >
> > Patrick M Livingstone
> > Leichhardt NSW
> > http://www.oldengine.org/members/pml/Index.html
> > http://www.users.bigpond.com/pml/
> >
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