Thanks for the trip down memory lane - I grew up not far from the large tower in Wanganui. Going to school meant careening down that huge hill on my bike everyday, but no way could I ride UP! So going home always involved riding through that tunnel and taking my bike up in the lift!
Wife and I were the first to get married on the Paddle Steamer Waimare almost 20 years ago - they presented us with a lump of coal as a wedding present!
Amazing that it was pulled from its muddy grave just down near the bridge , id look at it every time we'd be in town from the early 70s onwards ,think it had been stiing there since the 50s
@@gruntabro1 It was slipped for an overhaul up by the Dublin Street bridge not so long ago; really interesting how they did it. They had to reinforce the mudflats with a raft and rail system.
Lived in Palmy North for six years when we moved from Blighty to New Zild when I was 7 years old. Compared to Sale, it was like heaven, seeing as it was mid-November and both sunny and warm! Palmy North a is big farming centre, hence all the big buildings - my step-dad was a diesel mechanic and in the school holidays, we'd often go with him to a farm quite some distance from the city that needed a bulldozer, tractor or something repairing.
Whilst the AU Fairmont doesn’t quite have the communicative steering of a Porsche 911, I’m yet to see a Porsche with a boot load of luggage towing a caravan either. 😊
A Porsche Cayenne will accept a boot load of luggage and tow a caravan, but then again, a Cayenne is more or less a Volkswagen Touareg with a Porsche engine.
I was last in Greymouth 24 years ago, and the low cloud and torrential rain made it feel a very miserable place. Not forgotten much of my to NZ all those years ago, but decided I will go there again in 2021 to see the changes for myself, inspired partly by you travelvlogs. Thanks.
Marvelous scenery on this part of the road trip. Engaging commentary and a delightful insight into the workings of a vintage paddle steamer. The sound of the paddles slapping through the water was mesmerising. Un-like the screams and shouts of children in the tunnel but, I would have done the same thing myself. The views from the tower? breathtaking. Great to see you back on the road.
I drive that hill to get to work. Many dawdlers, then when the overtaking lanes begin they often find 30-40kmh they never had before and then resume dawdle mode when the dual carriage way ends,(a very infuriating Kiwi behavior around the country). I had a run to work the other day from Carterton to Trentham with not a car in my way the whole time #blissful. The hill is quite enjoyable when you get a clear run.
The Rimutaka Hill Road. That takes me back many many years. I'm pleased that you got to see the Fell Engine Museum. Part of the old railway (minus rails) still exists as a walkway. I remember doing that when I was at Primary School. Good to see Betty getting a workout over the hill.
Whanganui! My home town. You missed the classic car carboodle that was on in Whangas a couple of Saturdays ago. You would have been in Australia by then.
Well, there again I got carsick going over the rimutakas! 😳. I lived in featherston too! (where the train was), and was brought up in Marton (midway between palmerston north and wanganui),so have travelled these roads many many times! Talk about nostalgia!! ❤️
Oh bliss! Lived in Welly, Palmy and Wanganui oh so many years ago. But going back in April for a visit and may just do this route, thank you for bringing back so many memories.
10:42 - Had to chuckle at your assertion! The 'pretty much nothing between' Australia and New Zealand is pretty wet, wild and full of sometimes carnivorous wildlife. But you're right; the Tasman Sea is pretty vast. Thanks Ian.
Hi Ian, great video,some nice views on here,the museum was awesome to see with the working loco and the workings inside,the steam boat must have been brilliant to see how it all drive.
That adding machine you showed, I think are also known as a comptometer. Remember when I started work back in 1981, there were still a couple of comptometer operators where I worked.
Thanks again Ian for more interesting adventures. Betty was simply eating up those mountain roads! :-) As a train nut as well as a car nut I particularly enjoyed the Fell Musuem and loco and the paddle steamer. Very pleased to hear you had nice long break too. :-)
Smashing, as always. Although that high up view gets my anxiety kicking up! So wonderful to see how that paddle steamer operates, as well as that steam train engine. Brilliant!
The Burroughs Comptometer Company made those calculators that could handle sums in the millions, mainly used by Banks and financial houses, their Head office was in East Grinstead. They later became Unisys, the first wholly UK owned computer company, in the days when a mainframe computer occupied a whole floor of an office building and needed extensive cooling to operate safely, later merged with Hewlett Packard to form HP computers.
I can't tell you how much your videos have convinced me that a trip to NZ is a must. Sadly health issues and the distance make it impractical but I can always dream.
Spent a few years living in Masterton and Palmy some great car memories and good friends down that way. Nice winding roads to boot. The steamer looks interesting! Thanks for the travel guide 🙂
Going over the Rimutakas on a motorbike is fun, years ago I used to take my GS Citroen to Masterton for servicing now that is a great road for the Citroen, i once put my then wife and kids on the train at masterton and decided to try and beat the train to Lower Hutt the train beat me by quite a margin
i live in masterton, and my uncle lives in featherston, a little bit nice, oh and at 10:32 on the right side of that road is where i live! cant believe you were near my place.
I was born in Palmy and also lived in Wanganui in my teens. You might not know that the Toyota Levin models were named after the town of Levin where from the 1950's to 1975 race meetings where held including the Tasman series. Toyota had their first international salon car win there and have since called their sporty corolla models Levin, pronounced Lee vin. Here's a link about the circuit. horowhenua.kete.net.nz/item/cf660c0f-82ae-4e56-bf2d-d6ce234dd978
I believe there was another NZ influenced Toyota name plate, sold only here in New Zealand, the Toyota Amon - named after Chris Amon, who tuned that model of Corolla for the local market. Though I’m not sure if they had their own fancy chrome badging.
Levin racecourse...the grandstand and all now proudly home of the Levin ( accent 2nd syllable) Menzshed,but there are still stables and the horse track is used for training etc.
You should be sponsored by the NZ tourist board! You are making me really want to visit NZ even though the thought of spending that long on a plane fills me with absolute dread!
I thought that when I went to brisbane but if you go on the airbus a380 on a not to busy month you get on late head towards the back and usually find a complete empyy row like I did and put the arms up and slept for nearly 10 hours
Glad you enjoyed Wellington good sir, the Rimutukas is a beast of a road and requires full concentration! Haha glad you mentioned the Nissan Tiida I have the hatch and it's better looking than the sedan which is probably what you were in. It's a very reliable car and cheap and has served me well for the last 8 years. Hope you are enjoying Aussie sir keep up the great work
Brilliant video Ian. As good as the Vale of Rheidol one last year! Nice to see one of the Fell engines has survived, and that Paddle was two cylinder brilliance (who needs a 2cv with that Lady in your life?)..... Thanks for posting.
Thanks Hubnut - good to see my home town - Palmerston North - through your eyes.. the Manawatu Gorge was destroyed by a land slip about 8 years ago - it was always having landslides and often not useable. The Saddle road that you took has been extensively improved over the past decade to cope with the traffic demand and we still think it not up to scratch. Perhaps one reason why you saw cars off the road may be due we do not test new drivers on the open road - to get a car drivers licence in NZ you do your practicle driving test only in the town boundary without any open / motorway driving as part of the driving test. As such most new drivers are only taught what they need to past the test and can then drive on any road - depending on which stage they are at the new drivers should not drive without an full licence adult as a passenger or at night - still without any requirement to experience the open road etc. pleased you got a ride on the paddle steamer - I tried with a group to do it decades ago and we went from Palmerston North to Whanganui only to find it wasn’t running due to the river being in flood with lots of floating logs - you have enthused me to try again. Hope Australia is treating you well and you still have time to smell the roses etc.
The Gorge and Saddle road is supposed to be replaced by a 4 lane expressway that runs through the wind turbine land isn't it? I think its still at the surveying/resource consent stage at the moment. Plus the government has a bit of a track record of pulling funding from roading projects. th-cam.com/video/6fcTyVPeczM/w-d-xo.html
If no one else said its a comptometer and watching girls (usually) operating them was quite fascinating. Fingers were spread to cover the figure to be multipied and then punched so many times for each figure of the multiplier.
That's exactly how it worked - addition, subtraction, multiplication and division could all be done on what was basically an adding machine. My mother was a freelance 'comp' operator with her own machine - it was normal for the client to hire a machine as they weren't cheap, but as she had her own she could charge for the machine. IIRC it had to be serviced once a year.
A the beginning, it looks like a wider version of the A44 to Aberystwyth in a lot of places! Should seem familiar! (Oh, and my wife's cousin lives in Wanganui!)
Gooch valve gear? How fascinating. "Bit of a hot rod thing going on around here " (15:00); is that what made those very impressive skid marks veering all over the road?
That tunnel, and a freaking elevator in the middle of it... i felt parts of me pucker that i don't usually. I'm slightly clostra these days and would not be completely happy doing that. i could do it, but i would be highly anxious and borderline panicy.
Ha ha , The pronunciation of Wanganui has indeed been a battle for over 100 years. Every year,me and my mates from the Papakura Hot rod Club would make the trek to Palmy for the annual Swap meet where Hot Rodders from all over NZ would get together for a few days of merriment. Just getting there was a load of laughs as most us of drove cars where the emphasis was on high speed ,not reliability .Often loaded up with piles of crap to try and get rid of ,we often ended bringing more back than we took down. Some of the mates and myself are heading for our 7th decade but it seems like yesterday when we were leaving skid marks on the road as a mark...
When Europeans arrived in NZ, Māori had no written language, so the Europeans went about writing the language from the way words sounded. They already figured that 'Wh' made a 'Ff' so when the Whanganui tribe didn't pronounce a Ff sound at the beginning of the word, the Europeans wrote it the was it sounded, they decided Wanganui. Whanganui Iwi/tribes don't pronounce Ff. Now, both spelling variations are correct.
The whole of the Wairarapa has seen rapid growth in property values in the last 2-3 years...our average 1970s house in Masterton went up by about 80% in 4 years.... Greytown is seen as a bit "trendy' and now $$$ to buy or build in..... but the horrendous housing costs in Wellington mean people now are prepared to move 60--80 km north and trade that for a relaxing ( to me) trip on 1975 refurbished UK Mk2 carriages on the "Featherston Flyer" and work in town. Better climate, too.
Driving over the Rimutakas is much better going uphill either way, ...less wear on the front tyres I'm sure and gravity + engine revs does the braking... been over it more often than I wanted to in the 48 months we have just finished living in Masterton... you wandered along some back route I didn't recognise driving out of Greytown ... and then you completely skipped Masterton!! which we left only last Nov after 48 months there. ... that car you spotted lying down the hill when you were driving the Saddle Road from Woodville,,it's been there 2 years that I know of....
I'd love to both afford the cost of a 2 week vacation in NZ as well as have a job where taking that amount time off would be an option. I'd love to go to USA as well especially driving canyon runs in CA or camp trips in a Hilux or GMC "classic Hollywood" van. Maybe even a 8+ wheeler driver included camper holiday through Saskatchewan / Nova Scotia Canada. Baby steps... oiter town/rural NZ from footage seems like driving through Mordor if not pars of Scotland w/o the hills.
Theophilus Thistler I’m from Southern California, there are a lot of similarities between NZ and California’s landscapes, and climate. The geography of America and Canada, is awesome, and our countries are huge. If you do get to North America, be prepared to do lots of driving. Stay away from Los Angeles and San Francisco, two giant cesspools. Orange County where I live, lots of surfing 🏄♀️ and nice beaches to chill at. San Diego is country is also a nice place.
New Zealand is actually surprisingly urbanised. When you get out into those country towns they really only serve the local rural community, they are small and far between.
Coming from Wales, you are very wise not to get involved in pronounciation of placenames, let the locals sort it out for themselves. Amazing that the bush fires in Oz can have such far reaching effect. It's part of the reason for W.coast NZ weather being a bit wild, hot air rises in Oz, condensating above the nearest landmass = rain. Also why NZ is so green and pleasant.
The "adding machine" was called a COMPTOMETER. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comptometer). Very widely used in the old days......many large businesses would have had a bank of ladies sat banging away at them adding up rows of figures ...lol
Want a bit of fun drive a 2 Speed poweglide .a stock car will pull !00 mph in low some more less .Very popular in drag scene/I think first in early 50-s.Adam
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NZ has sooo much character. What a place to be. Thank you for giving us the chance to see this fascinating country.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane - I grew up not far from the large tower in Wanganui. Going to school meant careening down that huge hill on my bike everyday, but no way could I ride UP! So going home always involved riding through that tunnel and taking my bike up in the lift!
Wife and I were the first to get married on the Paddle Steamer Waimare almost 20 years ago - they presented us with a lump of coal as a wedding present!
You must have been quackers !
Still got the coal ? - save it for your cremation. It might make it cheaper.
Amazing that it was pulled from its muddy grave just down near the bridge , id look at it every time we'd be in town from the early 70s onwards ,think it had been stiing there since the 50s
@@gruntabro1 It was slipped for an overhaul up by the Dublin Street bridge not so long ago; really interesting how they did it. They had to reinforce the mudflats with a raft and rail system.
That poor bloke, he's just having a quiet pee and some bugger videos him!
you cant pee anywhere these days can you??
Excuse me, I’m trying to bleed my lizard, do you mind? 😬😉
Don't you just hate it when you end up on TH-cam peeing in a bush.
These is a toilet ten feet from the lazy sod
The countryside is just stunning in pretty much every shot.
Lived in Palmy North for six years when we moved from Blighty to New Zild when I was 7 years old. Compared to Sale, it was like heaven, seeing as it was mid-November and both sunny and warm!
Palmy North a is big farming centre, hence all the big buildings - my step-dad was a diesel mechanic and in the school holidays, we'd often go with him to a farm quite some distance from the city that needed a bulldozer, tractor or something repairing.
Whilst the AU Fairmont doesn’t quite have the communicative steering of a Porsche 911, I’m yet to see a Porsche with a boot load of luggage towing a caravan either.
😊
A Porsche Cayenne will accept a boot load of luggage and tow a caravan, but then again, a Cayenne is more or less a Volkswagen Touareg with a Porsche engine.
Robert Brink That’s true on both points, although I can’t recall a Toureg being available in 2001, but I could be wrong.
@@jamesmcgowen1769 true for a 2001 perspective, as the Cayenne came in 2003, but you said you were yet to see, and lo behold there is one. ;)
Robert Brink well you’ve got me there my friend, but thinking of the 911 more than anything
@@jamesmcgowen1769 true, true, there is nothing sporty about a Cayenne, that is a hideous school run vehicle for whom a Range Rover isn't posh enough.
That was an interesting journey. New Zealand is not short of superb roads and scenery.
the engineering that went into that little Loco..amazing !
Heres a very shortened clip of them in operation.
th-cam.com/video/S2VkAO9G_LY/w-d-xo.html
I was last in Greymouth 24 years ago, and the low cloud and torrential rain made it feel a very miserable place.
Not forgotten much of my to NZ all those years ago, but decided I will go there again in 2021 to see the changes for myself, inspired partly by you travelvlogs. Thanks.
Yeah, that's the coast alright!;-) I always figured I would eventually go home but NZ doesn't feel like home any more.
Love all your videos nice to see you travel and have fun whith some cars on the way 😁
Marvelous scenery on this part of the road trip. Engaging commentary and a delightful insight into the workings of a vintage paddle steamer. The sound of the paddles slapping through the water was mesmerising. Un-like the screams and shouts of children in the tunnel but, I would have done the same thing myself. The views from the tower? breathtaking. Great to see you back on the road.
I drive that hill to get to work. Many dawdlers, then when the overtaking lanes begin they often find 30-40kmh they never had before and then resume dawdle mode when the dual carriage way ends,(a very infuriating Kiwi behavior around the country). I had a run to work the other day from Carterton to Trentham with not a car in my way the whole time #blissful. The hill is quite enjoyable when you get a clear run.
That's a very common behaviour here in Cornwall too.
Yep. That is always very frustrating.
I love these videos, great scenery, a variety of steam power and Betty powering around the mountains! Super viewing Mr HubNut!
Nice trip Ian, good to share with you. Many thanks.
Loved the video I lived in Whanganui when I was a kid next to the river and I had my tonsils out at the Hospital when I was 9 years old.
The Rimutaka Hill Road. That takes me back many many years. I'm pleased that you got to see the Fell Engine Museum. Part of the old railway (minus rails) still exists as a walkway. I remember doing that when I was at Primary School.
Good to see Betty getting a workout over the hill.
Whanganui! My home town. You missed the classic car carboodle that was on in Whangas a couple of Saturdays ago. You would have been in Australia by then.
Always in the wrong place at the wrong time!
Well, there again I got carsick going over the rimutakas! 😳. I lived in featherston too! (where the train was), and was brought up in Marton (midway between palmerston north and wanganui),so have travelled these roads many many times! Talk about nostalgia!! ❤️
Oh bliss! Lived in Welly, Palmy and Wanganui oh so many years ago. But going back in April for a visit and may just do this route, thank you for bringing back so many memories.
Nice to see some more NZ . Beautiful country. Look forward to discovering Australia ✌️
Great video, nice to see you back on the road sharing your experiences with us all.
The bilge pump on the paddle steamer was made in Sunny Birmingham UK by Tangye Brothers
Indeed
10:42 - Had to chuckle at your assertion! The 'pretty much nothing between' Australia and New Zealand is pretty wet, wild and full of sometimes carnivorous wildlife. But you're right; the Tasman Sea is pretty vast. Thanks Ian.
I love your video and presenting style. It's always interesting, informative and humorous. Cracking stuff.
Hi Ian, great video,some nice views on here,the museum was awesome to see with the working loco and the workings inside,the steam boat must have been brilliant to see how it all drive.
That adding machine you showed, I think are also known as a comptometer. Remember when I started work back in 1981, there were still a couple of comptometer operators where I worked.
Thanks again Ian for more interesting adventures. Betty was simply eating up those mountain roads! :-) As a train nut as well as a car nut I particularly enjoyed the Fell Musuem and loco and the paddle steamer. Very pleased to hear you had nice long break too. :-)
Its a stunning road to drive on what a view. Amazing steam engine as well. Lovely ferry trip.
Lovely.
Bloke with the shovel on the paddle steamer drew the short straw that morning 😉
Smashing, as always. Although that high up view gets my anxiety kicking up!
So wonderful to see how that paddle steamer operates, as well as that steam train engine. Brilliant!
The Burroughs Comptometer Company made those calculators that could handle sums in the millions, mainly used by Banks and financial houses, their Head office was in East Grinstead. They later became Unisys, the first wholly UK owned computer company, in the days when a mainframe computer occupied a whole floor of an office building and needed extensive cooling to operate safely, later merged with Hewlett Packard to form HP computers.
My mother was a freelance comp operator.
I can't tell you how much your videos have convinced me that a trip to NZ is a must. Sadly health issues and the distance make it impractical but I can always dream.
Spent a few years living in Masterton and Palmy some great car memories and good friends down that way. Nice winding roads to boot. The steamer looks interesting! Thanks for the travel guide 🙂
You were just around the corner from where I work in Wanganui, I wish I’d known so I could have come over to say hello.
Going over the Rimutakas on a motorbike is fun, years ago I used to take my GS Citroen to Masterton for servicing now that is a great road for the Citroen, i once put my then wife and kids on the train at masterton and decided to try and beat the train to Lower Hutt the train beat me by quite a margin
Ace video! Really enjoyed that, thank you so much Ian!
Stunning country.
I went over the Rimutakas about a month ago in a Nissan Vanette. Foot to the floor the whole way and I must have maxed out at about 70 kph.
So by the time you're back in Wales we can expect your first videos from Australia? 😜 Hope you're doing well, take care.
hehehehe, guess I'm not the only one. be safe. have fun.
@@nazdagg2027 This Internet thing isn't very fast, is it.
The Fell railway line was replaced by a tunnel in 1955. The locomotive in the museum is the only one to survive.
i live in masterton, and my uncle lives in featherston, a little bit nice, oh and at 10:32 on the right side of that road is where i live! cant believe you were near my place.
Never knew about that fell steam locomotive what a interesting design.
On New Year's day the haze from the fires was quite bad here in Christchurch. Hope all is going well in Aussie.
Interesting steam train engineering with a center rail. And nature remains beautiful in NZ, thanks Ian.
On You Tube seek "Rimutaka Fell Engines"
I was born in Palmy and also lived in Wanganui in my teens. You might not know that the Toyota Levin models were named after the town of Levin where from the 1950's to 1975 race meetings where held including the Tasman series. Toyota had their first international salon car win there and have since called their sporty corolla models Levin, pronounced Lee vin.
Here's a link about the circuit.
horowhenua.kete.net.nz/item/cf660c0f-82ae-4e56-bf2d-d6ce234dd978
I believe there was another NZ influenced Toyota name plate, sold only here in New Zealand, the Toyota Amon - named after Chris Amon, who tuned that model of Corolla for the local market. Though I’m not sure if they had their own fancy chrome badging.
Ah, I did wonder if there was a link. Thank you.
@@rexjaru There was an Amon XV20 Camry as well (only ever seen them with the V6.)
Levin racecourse...the grandstand and all now proudly home of the Levin ( accent 2nd syllable) Menzshed,but there are still stables and the horse track is used for training etc.
Much the same is said of the River Yarra in Melbourne, sometimes referred to as "the upside-down river" - because the mud is on the top...
Yeah we quite often get smoked out by forest fires in BC and that’s about the same distance as Aus to NZ
EXTREMELY exciting tyre marks at 15:00 ...
Not my skidmarks...
The shell rock tower was built as a memorial for WW1 ,the safety cage over the top is a recent addition previously you could just lean over the side !
You should be sponsored by the NZ tourist board! You are making me really want to visit NZ even though the thought of spending that long on a plane fills me with absolute dread!
I thought that when I went to brisbane but if you go on the airbus a380 on a not to busy month you get on late head towards the back and usually find a complete empyy row like I did and put the arms up and slept for nearly 10 hours
I went past that car down in the gully on the Saddle Road a couple of weeks ago.
Too difficult & expensive to move is probably why it's still there.
Woodville mountains are called the Ruahines.
Great little loco that. cheers Ian.
Got'a love a Kiwi's idea of "a lot of traffic" ;)
Life without the M25.....
Nice views of the countryside. Well recorded and narrated.
RICH&2 carnivorous kitties LA.CALIF USA
Superb content as usual!
Glad you enjoyed Wellington good sir, the Rimutukas is a beast of a road and requires full concentration! Haha glad you mentioned the Nissan Tiida I have the hatch and it's better looking than the sedan which is probably what you were in. It's a very reliable car and cheap and has served me well for the last 8 years. Hope you are enjoying Aussie sir keep up the great work
New Zealand looks like a great place
11:03 “Frightening” (then takes a frightening high speed line across a railroad 😂) Well timed!
Brilliant video Ian. As good as the Vale of Rheidol one last year! Nice to see one of the Fell engines has survived, and that Paddle was two cylinder brilliance (who needs a 2cv with that Lady in your life?)..... Thanks for posting.
The brake blocks that gripped the centre rail had to replaced after each trip down the incline.
Well done for taking care of yourself man.
Lovely Jubbly, I wondered where Mr HubNut had disappeared to. Despite some sound issues, the colours and picture are excellent Mr HubNut.
14:40.....amusing to see HubNut & PuttHut !......easily pleased me....
Thanks Hubnut - good to see my home town - Palmerston North - through your eyes.. the Manawatu Gorge was destroyed by a land slip about 8 years ago - it was always having landslides and often not useable. The Saddle road that you took has been extensively improved over the past decade to cope with the traffic demand and we still think it not up to scratch. Perhaps one reason why you saw cars off the road may be due we do not test new drivers on the open road - to get a car drivers licence in NZ you do your practicle driving test only in the town boundary without any open / motorway driving as part of the driving test. As such most new drivers are only taught what they need to past the test and can then drive on any road - depending on which stage they are at the new drivers should not drive without an full licence adult as a passenger or at night - still without any requirement to experience the open road etc. pleased you got a ride on the paddle steamer - I tried with a group to do it decades ago and we went from Palmerston North to Whanganui only to find it wasn’t running due to the river being in flood with lots of floating logs - you have enthused me to try again. Hope Australia is treating you well and you still have time to smell the roses etc.
The Gorge and Saddle road is supposed to be replaced by a 4 lane expressway that runs through the wind turbine land isn't it? I think its still at the surveying/resource consent stage at the moment. Plus the government has a bit of a track record of pulling funding from roading projects.
th-cam.com/video/6fcTyVPeczM/w-d-xo.html
Wow, the gorge has been closed for 8 years!? I ran Woodville to Palmy to work back in the 70's & the gorge always a pot-luck thing.
Remarkable to chose a lift over a funicular as a method of going up the hill! Not the obvious choice by any means.
Nice to see you back on form 😁👍
Odds and sods and a few steam engines - what could be better? 😁
Have you seen the Kingswear Castle at Dartmouth? She's very similar to that, still coal fired, you can peer down and watch the fireman at work
If no one else said its a comptometer and watching girls (usually) operating them was quite fascinating. Fingers were spread to cover the figure to be multipied and then punched so many times for each figure of the multiplier.
That's exactly how it worked - addition, subtraction, multiplication and division could all be done on what was basically an adding machine.
My mother was a freelance 'comp' operator with her own machine - it was normal for the client to hire a machine as they weren't cheap, but as she had her own she could charge for the machine. IIRC it had to be serviced once a year.
Excellent content HubNut stay safe in Aus, just seen the news about the fires whipping up again. 😥
Thanks. There was certainly some impressive smoke about yesterday.
I love this mr hub nut .
I love Betty..she purrs and growls when needed!
Another fine relaxing piece of film..seen any FSO's out there??
No FSOs, but a few Ladas.
A the beginning, it looks like a wider version of the A44 to Aberystwyth in a lot of places! Should seem familiar! (Oh, and my wife's cousin lives in Wanganui!)
Gooch valve gear? How fascinating. "Bit of a hot rod thing going on around here " (15:00); is that what made those very impressive skid marks veering all over the road?
That tunnel, and a freaking elevator in the middle of it... i felt parts of me pucker that i don't usually. I'm slightly clostra these days and would not be completely happy doing that. i could do it, but i would be highly anxious and borderline panicy.
Ha ha , The pronunciation of Wanganui has indeed been a battle for over 100 years. Every year,me and my mates from the Papakura Hot rod Club would make the trek to Palmy for the annual Swap meet where Hot Rodders from all over NZ would get together for a few days of merriment. Just getting there was a load of laughs as most us of drove cars where the emphasis was on high speed ,not reliability .Often loaded up with piles of crap to try and get rid of ,we often ended bringing more back than we took down. Some of the mates and myself are heading for our 7th decade but it seems like yesterday when we were leaving skid marks on the road as a mark...
It's weird seeing my home towns ashhurst and palmy on youtube
When Europeans arrived in NZ, Māori had no written language, so the Europeans went about writing the language from the way words sounded. They already figured that 'Wh' made a 'Ff' so when the Whanganui tribe didn't pronounce a Ff sound at the beginning of the word, the Europeans wrote it the was it sounded, they decided Wanganui. Whanganui Iwi/tribes don't pronounce Ff. Now, both spelling variations are correct.
I stayed in Palmerston North back in 2006 not a bad base for the North island
some very odd skid marks threw palmaston great vis as always
Not my skidmarks.
Car insurance is optional in NZ and powerfull / modified cars are cheap. Young guys are having fun burning rubber and crashing into stuff.
Greytown has an excellent chocolate shop, expensive but very nice chocolate
The whole of the Wairarapa has seen rapid growth in property values in the last 2-3 years...our average 1970s house in Masterton went up by about 80% in 4 years.... Greytown is seen as a bit "trendy' and now $$$ to buy or build in..... but the horrendous housing costs in Wellington mean people now are prepared to move 60--80 km north and trade that for a relaxing ( to me) trip on 1975 refurbished UK Mk2 carriages on the "Featherston Flyer" and work in town. Better climate, too.
I'm not in the habit of accusing ladies of "having grunt" but Ms Betty Fairmont does indeed seem to qualify for that!
19:24 bet you felt a bit at home there - bottom right - Tangye, B'ham ! Think they were in Rocky Lane, Nechells. to be more precise !
Driving over the Rimutakas is much better going uphill either way, ...less wear on the front tyres I'm sure and gravity + engine revs does the braking... been over it more often than I wanted to in the 48 months we have just finished living in Masterton... you wandered along some back route I didn't recognise driving out of Greytown ... and then you completely skipped Masterton!! which we left only last Nov after 48 months there. ... that car you spotted lying down the hill when you were driving the Saddle Road from Woodville,,it's been there 2 years that I know of....
I had a mazda GT 2.5 v6 very under rated car the engine was very smooth it drank like a fish well it did when driven by me.
You took the scenic route to Wanganui for sure mate. Taking state hwy 1 to Palmy would've cut out a couple of hours.
Yeah, but hills and steam engine
Fair enough, guess I'm just looking through eyes that I've driven countless times over both routes.
Considerable G force generated by...
HubNut hooning 😁😁😁😁
Note where that bilge pump was made.............Tangye Brothers of Birmingham, well actually Smethwick to be precise.
Yes, I've seen quite a few Tangye engines here.
I'd love to both afford the cost of a 2 week vacation in NZ as well as have a job where taking that amount time off would be an option.
I'd love to go to USA as well especially driving canyon runs in CA or camp trips in a Hilux or GMC "classic Hollywood" van. Maybe even a 8+ wheeler driver included camper holiday through Saskatchewan / Nova Scotia Canada.
Baby steps... oiter town/rural NZ from footage seems like driving through Mordor if not pars of Scotland w/o the hills.
Theophilus Thistler I’m from Southern California, there are a lot of similarities between NZ and California’s landscapes, and climate. The geography of America and Canada, is awesome, and our countries are huge. If you do get to North America, be prepared to do lots of driving. Stay away from Los Angeles and San Francisco, two giant cesspools. Orange County where I live, lots of surfing 🏄♀️ and nice beaches to chill at. San Diego is country is also a nice place.
New Zealand is actually surprisingly urbanised. When you get out into those country towns they really only serve the local rural community, they are small and far between.
Coming from Wales, you are very wise not to get involved in pronounciation of placenames, let the locals sort it out for themselves. Amazing that the bush fires in Oz can have such far reaching effect. It's part of the reason for W.coast NZ weather being a bit wild, hot air rises in Oz, condensating above the nearest landmass = rain. Also why NZ is so green and pleasant.
They are reaching New Zealand due to the jet stream. Just shows you how these fires have a far reaching effect globally.
Betty’s motor sounds really healthy.
Great stuff Ian!
paddle steamer looked boss , and just thinking will you miss betty ? she was and probably still is a boss workhorse
I do. She was ace.
That road needs the Italian job intro playing
Very cool 😍
The "adding machine" was called a COMPTOMETER. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comptometer). Very widely used in the old days......many large businesses would have had a bank of ladies sat banging away at them adding up rows of figures ...lol
Mucking about in boats aye, nice.
Want a bit of fun drive a 2 Speed poweglide .a stock car will pull !00 mph in low some more less .Very popular in drag scene/I think first in early 50-s.Adam