Vehicle Profiles

This 1914 Oakland was acquired from a member of the Oakland Car Club Register and was restored over the span of 16 ½ years...

The six-cylinder chassis reached Adelaide in July 1910 and was fitted with a local roadster body made by Vivian Lewis. One of the original owners was Otto Breuninger of Dulwich SA...

Fuel gravity fed from driver's seat to updraft Zenith ABC from ~1910.
Dual-ignition, trembler & magneto...

This is the oldest restored Daimler commercial vehicle in Australia, and likely the only working Daimler bus from this era in the world.....

It always attracts plenty of interest from the public, as do all veterans. A quote from David Dunbar Buick, 'When better cars are built Buick will build them' ....

Purchased sight unseen (after some research) on 26/9/2015 from the late Father Tom Sheeran’s Car auction in Toowoomba...

It’s little, nimble and climbs hills. Relatively light but strong. While driving or climbing I like to open the exhaust cut which sounds good....

Originally purchased by Mr Muir of Ryde Sydney with American bodywork. Sold ten years later to Mr Walker a plumber who used it for daily calls till the mid 1920’s...

Anecdotally was sold new to a Mr Carroll who was a pawnbroker and rent collector in Redfern. Passed to a relative where it lay derelict for many years until fully restored in 1970's...

Good 2 cylinder performer, reliable motoring. very firm ride. Strongly built car and a lot of this model still in the Veteran movement...

This car is historically significant due to its originality and being one of the earliest cars produced by Minerva Motors of Antwerp, Belgium (who later had a reputation for building luxury cars owned by Royalty and Film stars).

The Martini was built in 1911 as a running chassis by the Societe des Automobiles Martini in St. Blaise near Neuchatel in one of the two French speaking cantons of Switzerland.

Good performer as the car is light but 2 speed transmission a drawback, although it is possible to change up quickly which helps on hills...

The history of the car from its arrival in Australia to 1917 is unknown, except Sydney Carriage Builders, Angus & Sons of Castlereagh Street were the agents for the car and responsible for the body manufacture. It has previously been registered as 1908, & 1910.

We imported the Rambler in 2018 it was part of the Rothschild Collection in New Jersey it was left to the grandchildren and daughter on the passing of Michael Rothschild...

A few Aussies have berated me saying “You should have it in a museum!” - to which I reply “My Brush is alive and well and enjoys being driven and meeting people on the road"...

Was imported to Australia by Phizackerley’s in Sydney. Arrived in Australia in January 1916...

This car left Belgium on 30th June 1911 bound for Sydney. It was sold to a station near Yass ,"Eubindal" presumably via Dalgety and Co. Later this car moved to another station "Cunningham Plains' ....

All owners were in the USA, starting with Roscoe Smith who bought the car new for his work stringing power lines to outlying areas. His business grew to become listed on the NY stock exchange and he started a museum....

Little is known of the cars history. It was allegedly stored for 50 years in an upstairs apartment in New Jersey in the United States of America...

The original owner was a barrister, J.C.Knight in Tasmania. The car was probably laid up during the first world war. The car was retrieved from a shed and partially repainted to the original canary yellow...

The bike was purchased new in St Arnold, Victoria. Cylinder was removed for repair and lost at the machine shop around the end of the war....

The AKD was used by a Mortician to do his rounds and then partially restored until I bought it....

The car became available after over fifty years of sitting not running in the garage of Llorelle Colley, (the daughter of Hunter Thomas who restored the car) which was only three kilometres from our home....

The Model T Ford was purchased new in 1914 by Thomas Alfred Webb, a farmer near Bathurst. The car was driven by the Family for many years and was converted to a utility and used on the farm....

Purchased new by George Howard who used the car in the Berridale area of N.S.W. Put off the road in 1916 until better tyres were produced – too many punctures. Later sold to George Smith of Albury....

It was originally owned by a single family in Maryborough, Queensland from new through to the late 50's...

Car was purchased new from Evers Brisbane. Imported by Phizackerley’s. Original owner gave the vehicle to his daughter as a wedding present in 1918. Left on property tip....

Named "BLUEBELL" because she is blue and made in Scotland. Albion made the same model form 1904 to 1912. Sold as chassis, owners built bodies for passengers or commercial use...

The car was imported by Phizackerley’s and sold to the Law Union & Rock Insurance Company. Later discovered in a quite dilapidated condition before being salvaged and rescued....

This 1914 Wolseley was restored from two Wolseleys. They left the factory at Adderley Park, Birmingham, England on 30 July 1914 and the other on 14 October 1914....

Only known history of the car before I acquired the car is that it was used as a mail delivery car. I dragged it home on a trailer in 1970 and set to work restoring the car...

Built from 2 cars – one purchased from local car club member, the other found on a property in QLD by a property clearing contractor....

Left Belgium on 24th January 1912, sent to London for a "Cann of London" touring body to be fitted. Sent to NSW and sold via Dalgety and Co to "Bookham Station" near Yass....

In the 1940s my family had a dairy farm at Berowra, approximately 40 kms north of Sydney. Abandoned in the bush on a nearby farm (now Wideview Primary School grounds) was an old lorry....

Purchased in semi restored state from Cessnock local. Vehicle had been restored and used but left in a garage for 40 years....

The car was imported by Mark Foy on the vessel ‘L’Afrique’, arriving in Sydney on the 11/11/11. The car was gifted to one of his mistresses in the 1920's but returned to Mark a few years later after her untimely death....

The car was imported by Phizackerley's who were the Talbot agents in Sydney. The car was purchased by William Boden, who lived in Maclean, and was inherited by his daughter Elsie Boden who never married....

The vehicle was original sold to Watkins & Doncaster who were a authorised Talbot agent in London. It is unknown how or when the vehicle came to Australia....

Purchased and restored by Cedric Holland from Penang, where it was the first taxi on the island. First outing was the 1988 Bi-Centenary Rally....