New Zealand - badass

**Katman** · 7th June 2014, 13:04

Originally Posted by jellywrestler

you're talking shit, they never put the windows in the crankcase till 1906, think you'll find the one in wiki is an 06 as they also started mounting the oil pump on the right side of the tank for the first time in 06, can't see the left side to see whether it has windows in the cases.
it's either 06 or 07 as in 08 they changed the front forks side plate from the upside down L shape to more like a T shape.

Trainspotter.

**jellywrestler** · 7th June 2014, 13:05

Originally Posted by unstuck

My bad, although it is CHCH.

http://theoldmotor.com/?tag=herreshoff-car

read it closely and it says 'shows the interior of a workshop which MAY have been in Christchurch'

**jellywrestler** · 7th June 2014, 13:06

Originally Posted by Katman

Trainspotter.

yip and if it was a Katana I bet you'd be first to latch onto it. hey i called in the other day with a Kat 650 sticker but you wern't around, next time

**FJRider** · 7th June 2014, 13:43

Originally Posted by jellywrestler

you're talking shit, they never put the windows in the crankcase till 1906, think you'll find the one in wiki is an 06 as they also started mounting the oil pump on the right side of the tank for the first time in 06, can't see the left side to see whether it has windows in the cases.
it's either 06 or 07 as in 08 they changed the front forks side plate from the upside down L shape to more like a T shape.

I stand corrected. They also mention in this link ... the fin-less heads on the 1905 model ..

Judging by this link ... it was the 1906 model

http://users.senet.com.au/~mitchell/...ml/earlyfn.htm

**unstuck** · 7th June 2014, 13:44

Originally Posted by FJRider

Actually it's at 162 Oxford Terrace in Christchurch. Circa 1912.

http://theoldmotor.com/ ... Scroll dow for the images.

Copycat.

**Ocean1** · 7th June 2014, 16:18

Originally Posted by Kickaha

Toss a modern day OSH guy in there and he'd have a heart attack

Best thing that could happen to the cunt.

A lot of the old engineers I knew as a kid had fingers missing, mostly because of those flat belts. Didn't slow them down much that I noticed.

Molasses. In the workshop of a friend of my fathers I remember getting fed molasses on toast for lunch, cooked over the pot-belly in the middle of the shop. The molasses came from a gallon tin under a bench, it was used to dress those leather belts.

And to feed the local nippers.

**awa355** · 7th June 2014, 16:37

I like the wooden floor. Last garage I saw that in is the Rawene garage.

**pete376403** · 8th June 2014, 16:36

Originally Posted by Akzle

machine oil, warm metal, damp tobacco and "l'espirit" exhaust fumez. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

When I did my apprenticeship over 40 years ago the foreman smoked Erinmore Flake in a pipe. I can still smell it like it was yesterday.
And diesel exhaust rather than l'espirit but still good.

**pritch** · 8th June 2014, 17:14

Originally Posted by Katman

Trainspotter.

Yeah. I was thinking anorak but the sentiment is the same. Impressive though.

**Akzle** · 8th June 2014, 18:06

Originally Posted by pete376403

When I did my apprenticeship over 40 years ago the foreman smoked Erinmore Flake in a pipe. I can still smell it like it was yesterday.
And diesel exhaust rather than l'espirit but still good.

borkum riff.
I actually have half a pouch somewhere. Fuckall places selling choice tobacco now.