MHWA members
Membership is open to
people involved with collecting and publishing historical motoring information in
Western Australia. Publishing may take the form of written word in magazines
or books, by film or video or on recognized websites. Our members cover a
vast array of areas of expertise, and some are considered to be
national and world experts in certain fields.
The committee
(as elected January 2013)
President & Webmaster; Paul Blank - (08) 9271 0101 -
paulb@classicrally.com.au
Paul
has a BA in Industrial Design. He is a writer for various car magazines
around the world, predominantly on classic cars. He began and runs Automotive Events
Management, which conducts events primarily for classic cars; rallies,
exhibitions, tours, motor sport, etc in Australia and Europe. He is a
Commonwealth Approved Valuer for Vintage and Classic Cars (CGS). Previous
work has included in the specialist automotive conversion and accessory
retailing industry and as a consultant for classic car auctions held around
Australia and in New Zealand.
He is heavily involved in the car club movement: a past President Mercedes-Benz Car Club,
Chairman of the Microcar Club, President for the BMW Club and Vice President
of the Studebaker Car Club, Vice President of the Special Interest Vehicle
Association, was Vice President and Secretary of the Citroen Owners
Association and is immediate past President of Ferrari Club Australia (WA
Branch). He is the sole honorary life member of Fiat Lancia Car Club,
has been a committee member of that club, as well as the Vintage Sports Car
Club. He served as President of the Combined Car Clubs Association (now
CMC), Chairman of the Classic Car Show committee and was the founder of
several clubs. He is a past member of the Association of Citroen
Enthusiasts, Triumph Car Club, Porsche Club and Register of Unusual
Microcars, and is a member of the Italian Made Social Motoring Club and French & Fantastic
Automobile Club. He has been magazine Editor for several clubs. A collector of cars,
automotive brochures, models and other automobilia, Paul competes in motor sport events in his supercharged Mazda MX5.
Paul has been appointed Australian
representative for Amicale Facel Vega and Secretary of the CMC Technical
Committee.
Secretary; Graeme Cocks - 0438 980 859 -
gacocks@iinet.net.au
Graeme Cocks was until
recently the CEO of the
Fremantle Motor
Museum, WA, and now looks after the Briggs Family Collection of cars. He is owner of a replica of Arthur Colliver’s ‘Silver Wings’
Chrysler 75 racer which broke speed and endurance records at Lake Perkolilli
in the 1920s. Graeme has been involved in the old car movement for many
years and owns a variety of interesting cars, spanning an Austin A35,
through sporting T-Model Ford to a Morris Minor 1000.
He is a member
of several car clubs.
Graeme is originally a journalist and has
use these skills in preparation of publications including commemorative
booklets for the recent anniversary of the Albany Round the Houses racing
and Patriotic Grand Prix event held in Applecross as part of a series of
booklets covering Round the Houses race meetings in Western Australian towns.
He has recently completed a book focusing on the first ever Bentley to
race at Le Mans amongst his many projects. Before taking on the CEO role at the
Fremantle Motor Museum, Graeme was involved with the historic Duyfken ship project.
Graeme was
the second President of Motoring Historians WA.
Treasurer; Terry McGrath - (08) 9279 7003 -
mcgrath1@bigpond.net.au
Terry researches Australian motor racing and SS and Jaguar cars,
specializing in publishing authoritative books on SS and Jaguar cars. He has built up a
very extensive reference library, especially containing photographs of the
two subjects of his interest. Terry has published definitive works The
Jaguar XK in Australia, The Jaguar XK120 in the Southern Hemisphere and SS
Cars in Australiasia, comprehensively detailing the histories of all such cars and has
other publications in the pipeline.
Terry has long been an active member of the Jaguar Car Club and was on the
founding Board of the Motor Museum of WA. He has a small
collection of classic cars, predominantly Jaguars, including some rare
models. The illustration shows Terry after a haircut.
Committee member; John
Napier-Winch - (08) 9404 8863 -
johnnapierwinch@yahoo.com.au
John followed speedway and
motor racing with his father and cousin Bob Adams since he was a child. His
first employment was with United Motors, followed by an engineering company
before taking employment in a service station as a mechanic's assistant.
Later he owned a service station/roadhouse. Over the years he has had
mentors including Tony Tapper, Eric Nicoll, Hector Hawke and John Emery.
John purchased a number of
racing cars over the years - a TQ in 1971 and the John Bertina FJ Holden
sports in 1970, which is currently under restoration along with the Wally
Higgs Peugeot racing car. As manager of Motor Racing Consultants in the
early '70s he sponsored Ray Hunter's super modified speedway cars, built and
modified many race, rally, drag and street cars, some with Bob Busellato of
Ding Bob Trikes. From 1982-1995 he was advisor to H.E.H Prince Jah, who
maintained a car collection in Perth.
Today he is involved in
film to digital transfer of many historical motor racing films covering the
years 1927 to 1962 taken by John Finney.
Committee member;
A John Parker - (08) 9271 4272 -
ajohnp@bigpond.com
A John Parker is automotive historian,
researcher and author. He has a long history of researching and writing
material on vintage cars, his work in Restored Cars magazine being
well known. He has restored old cars and for many years owned an unrestored Austin A40
he'd originally had in
his teenage days, plus he has a sad but very rare
1936 Buick Sloper sitting on a farm waiting!
Has been engaged in intense research and the
writing up of the history of the Perth motor trade for several years. Recent
publications include Torquing of Marques, a book which lists every
make of car which is known to have been in Western Australia, and
Cars, Characters &
Crankhandles,
detailing Perth's new car dealers over the years - both the results of
exhaustive research. Several other books are under way. John is a member of
the Veteran Car Club.
His enthusiasm has played a key role in the formation of MHWA.
John was the inaugural
President of Motoring Historians WA.
Committee member; John McLean -
johnmclean41@yahoo.com.au
jandgmclean@optusnet.com.au -
John is a
Past President Council of Motoring Clubs of WA Inc. Chairman for CMC
Technical Committee, committee member of Veteran Car Club WA Inc., worked
with Shannons for several years and is the curator
of the Motor Museum of WA at Whiteman Park.
Originally from New Zealand, John has over 40
years involvement in the motor trade and 20 years of restoring and repairing
veteran, vintage and classic cars. He has built class-winning historic
rally cars for events such as Targa Tasmania. Previously a curator for Heytesbury Classic Car Collection and is a keen collector of automobilia.
Members
- Craig Atkins -
catkins@cyllene.uwa.edu.au
A
recognized authority on the Morgan brand, Craig has written and published a
detailed and thoroughly researched history of Morgan cars
in Australia.
Craig is an active participant in Vintage Sports Car Club activities in his Morgans.
His collection includes a historic racing Morgan.
- Paul Blank -
paulb@classicrally.com.au
See above
- David Bird - aldislamp@gmail.com
- A keen videographer and car enthusiast, David has released several
videos of Western Australian classic cars - including productions about
British cars and another
covering French Italian and German marques. He is a member of the Special
Interest Vehicle Association of which he was Vice President, and is the
President of the Dowerin Car Club, the town in which David lives.
- Bob Campbell - campbell@westnet.net.au
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general
motoring historian and writer, past editor of the RAC of WA’s ‘Road Patrol'
magazine.
- Tony Burnett
–
tonybur@iinet.net.au or 9299 6712 -
Tony retired
some 20 years ago from a 40+ years’ career with Castrol Oil, in Australia
and the UK, rising to senior roles in the company. In the late-1990s Tony
became the self-appointed Castrol Historian for Australia. It inspired him
to research a book on Castrol in Australia 1919 to 1999. He self-published
it in 2000 as a limited-edition, ISBN 0 646 3974 5 1.
Tony’s interests extend to Australian automobilia/garagenalia,
not as a collector of its hardware but of its history. His archive extends
not just to Castrol, but to every other oil company that ever operated in
Australia. Tony is a researcher, historian and writer for the near-400
member Automobilia Collectors Club of Australia Inc (www.accaclub.org.au),
of which he is a past President. Currently Tony is the enthusiastic State
Rep for the 89 members of ACCA in WA.
- Brian Butterworth - butterworth@e-wire.net.au
Retired State Manager of Mazda; Coordinator of WA Motor Industry
Foundation.
- John Byfield - John's interests include the
historical aspects of
motor
racing and motor body building as it relates to trucks and heavy transport.
His collection includes several Jaguars.
- Graeme Cocks - gacocks@iinet.net.au
See above
- Alan Cole - aecole@wn.com.au
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is a farmer at Kellerberrin, WA, who has rallied cars for many
years, having restored two Hudson cars (1923 & 1952) which he carelessly
allowed to burn in a garage fire. He is now looking to restore other cars
suitable for rallying and in the past enjoyed many miles of rallying
including the 1988 Castrol Bi-Centennial Rally to Canberra. He has an
interest in history in general including heavy vehicles, machinery and
dealerships, which sold and serviced these units throughout the State. Alan
was also chairman of a committee producing the publication “A Man His Dog
and a Dead Kangaroo” authored by Terry Spence, a history of Kellerberrin,
Doodlakine and Baandee.
- Maurice Davin - mfdavin@bigpond.com
- Maurice
has interests in automotive history, rear-engined cars and commercials,
microcars, light tractors and small motorcycles. He was President
and a founding member of the
Special Interest Vehicle Association Inc. (SIVA) and a member of Society of
Automotive Historians Inc. Currently restoring a 1967 Hino Contessa, his
collection also includes rare examples of NSU, Autobianchi, Trojan and other
Hinos.
Maurice has owned a fascinating array of unusual vehicles. Maurice is on the
CMC Technical Committee. He collects sales literature, scale models, books, etc. He has written
some automotive newsletter and magazine articles
and is considered an authority on unusual vehicles.
- Ken Devine - kdev5542@bigpond.net.au
- Ken has
motor racing interests and a very large historic photographic collection including early
racing in Western Australia.
He has long owned classic cars, is a member of
the Austin Club and a volunteer at the Motor Museum of WA.
- Terry McGrath -
mcgrath1@bigpond.net.au
See above
- Gary Mentiplay - Gary.Mentiplay@justice.wa.gov.au
Gary
specialises in knowledge
and restoration of BMC/BLMC and Leyland vehicles, with particular interest in the Leyland P76, owning a rare prototype version.
- John Napier-Winch - lordwinch@hotmail.com
See above
- Ian Newman -
soundcam@iinet.net.au -
Ian
is a videographer, producer and sculptor.
When he was nine, a chance meeting with
Derek Meddings, special effects director for Thunderbirds (and
later the James Bond films), inspired in him a lifelong
interest in model making and SFX (Special Effects). Some years later, he was
selected for the inaugural CADSA (Centre for Advanced Screen
Animation) course at FTIWA. After graduating, he accepted a scholarship to
the Certificate IV of Video Production, emerging as a producer and
proprietor of his own film and video production business. Ian's documentary
Song & Dance Girls won a best film award at the Mandurah Short Film
Festival in 2003. To date he has produced over 30 short films,
documentaries, training DVDs and music videos. He is also involved is
automotive productions. He recently acquired copyright on a large collection
of old 8mm and 16mm films of WA and runs a facility transferring those
formats to digital media. A keen collector of model cars and automobilia, he
also owns a collection of rare Japanese vehicles
including a Subaru 360
Young SS among others.
He is a founding member of the Special Interest Vehicle Association of
Western Australia, of which he was the Registrar for many years, a past
member of the Historical Film and Video Preservation Society and
a former member of The Australian Museum of Motion Picture Technology.
- A John Parker - ajohnp@starwon.com.au
See above
- John Pickles - picklejohn@bigpond.com
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especially interested in the Simca marque, having started the Australian
club some years ago. John also has large collection of motoring magazines.
- Martin Shaw - yak@git.com.au
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published the Rover marque’s Perth history in 2004 as part of
the Rover firm’s centenary celebrations. He is restoring and driving examples of their cars from as early as 1934. Martin is also interested in anything motoring with originality, rarity and
history - and would love see all ‘old cars’ back on the road (even the
Austin Kimberleys hiding in his back yard!). Martin is a keen member of the
Rover Owners Club.
- Terry Walker
- twalker1944@iprimus.com.au
-
active in
Western Australian motor sport until moving to Canberra in 1974. Author of ‘Around
the Houses: the history of motor racing in WA’ (1980) and of ‘Fast
Tracks’, a detailed Atlas of all Australian motor racing circuits
1904-1995 (1996). Since returning in 1994, Terry has re-issued ‘Around
the Houses’ on CD with some 800 historic photographs and begun a sequel,
‘Around the Raceway’ to bring the story up to date. Terry is a member
of the Rolls-Royce Owners Club. Terry's interesting website is
www.terrywalkersplace.com
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