New Zealand 100 Years of Hudson

ernie28
ernie28 Expert Adviser
edited November -1 in HUDSON
Recently we held our celebrations for 100 years of Hudson in NZ. It was a fabulous weekend.

Here is the link if anyone is interested. Go to the photo area and there are several sections of photos including an album with members photos from the weekend.



http://het.org.nz/het/index.php



Regards



Alistair

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  • SuperDave
    SuperDave Senior Contributor
    Alistair,

    Thank you for the show! Wow so many old HET products in one place.. For us less in formed.. What years were Hudson products sold in NZ and were any asembled there or imported? Seems like a small stepdown count, just the opposite of "up here"..

    Thanks again..

    Dave W. Fl
  • ernie28
    ernie28 Expert Adviser
    Dave



    Geoff Clark or others will have more detail than I can give but to the best of my knowledge most cars by far came in pre war with very few in the 40s and 50s.

    Glad you enjoyed the photos.



    Alistair
  • Aaron D. IL
    Aaron D. IL Senior Contributor
    Looks like good times! I personally like seeing more pre-war than post war cars.
  • 4Hud
    4Hud Expert Adviser
    Great photos, thanks for sharing. The New Zealand folks know how to have serious fun with the old cars.
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User]
    One of the few places I really want to go is New Zealand. Now that I know there are so many HET fans I will have something to see when I finally get there :))



    Great pictures, I have not looked at all of them yet because there are just so many!



    Todd
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User]
    A real good place to visit, plan to spend time there, you cant see it in a week. The only place we found air conditioning was in our vehicle, which had the steering wheel on the wrong side. But no bugs, leave the windows open at nite(mild weather/season), drove up on the volcano, paved road. Be sure to visit the Anartic museum and try the cold chamber, the museum in Christchurch, Geoff Clark, and so much more. NO trash on the roads. Bob
  • RL Chilton
    RL Chilton Administrator, Member
    I guess I'm a techno-retard. I don't see but about 5 pictures on the site. What are you supposed to click on?
  • Browniepetersen
    Browniepetersen Senior Contributor
    I was told that there was a 38 Railton at the show. I did not see any photo's of the car in the photo's. did you get any? I also understand that our National President was there? Any photo's of Mike?
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User]
    RL Chilton wrote:
    I guess I'm a techno-retard. I don't see but about 5 pictures on the site. What are you supposed to click on?



    Mr Chilton,



    once you go to the photo area just click on the HET Centennial picture which leads to three groups of photos. Click on the picture of your choice and presto you have many pictures to look at.



    Or click here http://het.org.nz/het/gallery2/gallery2embedded.php?g2_itemId=1564



    or here http://het.org.nz/het/gallery2/gallery2embedded.php?g2_itemId=411



    or here http://het.org.nz/het/gallery2/gallery2embedded.php?g2_itemId=802



    Todd
  • ernie28
    ernie28 Expert Adviser
    Russell

    On the site click on the word "Photos" just under the main heading and you will then see the Gallery page with the different albums - Brough, Essex, Hudson, Rialton, Hudson etc. There is also one for the centenary. Click on which of these you want to go and look at. There are many photos within these albums. The Centenary album has three sub albums containing members photos taken over the weekend.

    Mike, In my album there are some shots of Mike & Kathy at the Saturday night function and in the Railton album you will find two members cars, a '37 Drophead Couipe and a '34 Sports Berkley Tourer.



    If you still have difficulty navigating the site please advise.

    Good luck



    Alistair
  • Geoff
    Geoff Senior Contributor
    A word of explanation. New Zealand became involved in WW2 in 1939, hence this was the last year new cars were sold until late 1946. Hudsons were popular before then, but afterwards no cars were imported, apart from 153 Jets which were shipped with the r.h.d. gear to be installed here. If you wanted a Step-Down, you had to go to Dominion Motors, with an import licence, and a note that you had overseas funds to pay for it, and they would order one for you, at great expense compared to a locally assembled Ford, Vauxhall, Chevrolet, or Standard Vanguard . Hence the few post-war cars you see in the photos. Until the late 60's new cars could only be obtained on order, not off the showroom floor, and British and Australian cars were favoured because of currency regulations. Hence a huge nimber of pre-war cars were kept in service beacuse of the shortage. So we have a dispoportionalte number of pre-war and vintage models in the Club here. There used to large numbers of Terraplanes around, but the stock car craze saw most of them written off, because they were such great performers.
  • RL Chilton
    RL Chilton Administrator, Member
    Geoff C., N.Z. wrote:
    A word of explanation. New Zealand became involved in WW2 in 1939, hence this was the last year new cars were sold until late 1946. Hudsons were popular before then, but afterwards no cars were imported, apart from 153 Jets which were shipped with the r.h.d. gear to be installed here. If you wanted a Step-Down, you had to go to Dominion Motors, with an import licence, and a note that you had overseas funds to pay for it, and they would order one for you, at great expense compared to a locally assembled Ford, Vauxhall, Chevrolet, or Standard Vanguard . Hence the few post-war cars you see in the photos. Until the late 60's new cars could only be obtained on order, not off the showroom floor, and British and Australian cars were favoured because of currency regulations. Hence a huge nimber of pre-war cars were kept in service beacuse of the shortage. So we have a dispoportionalte number of pre-war and vintage models in the Club here. There used to large numbers of Terraplanes around, but the stock car craze saw most of them written off, because they were such great performers.

    Interesting info, Geoff. Anyone ever guesstimated how many step-downs are in NZ (or post-war models total, not counting the 153 Jets?).

    Really is an anomaly, as I figure of the 10,000 or so HET products left, approximately 65% or 6500 automobiles are of the step-down variety. Very informal assumption on my part, but based on figures generated from this year's Nat'l. in Detroit, my numbers have more basis than they did previously.
  • RL Chilton
    RL Chilton Administrator, Member
    Alistair-

    Thank you for the instruction, most helpful. Enjoyed all of the pics. There was a '29(?) Maroon and Black 7-passenger, LWB model I think was probably my favorite. I imagine Geoff has had his hands on a large percentage of the HET cars in NZ. :)
  • ernie28
    ernie28 Expert Adviser
    This evening I have uploaded another album to the Centennary Gallery. These were taken by a professional photographer and many show some on-road shots and good pics of NZ scenery.



    Enjoy



    Alistair
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