On Saturday 23/03/2019 members of the Newcastle Branch gathered at Cams Wharf, on the eastern side of Lake Macquarie for a chance to see the three F.N's restored by Doug Marshall together for the first time. Doug's first FN project was the restoration of the Type 1600 he acquired in 1988. He has since gone on to restore both a Type 2400 and more recently a Type 1950. Between restorations Doug and his wife Dianne have travelled many tens of thousands of miles (and probably e

No sleeping in. The sun was up so it was up and off to Brooklyn for breakfast at the Estuary Restaurant. Quickly, the sky cleared to blue and we took the motorway from Hornsby. There was not much traffic and no sign of any one participating in Clean Up Australia Day. An unusual selection of jetsam lined the motorway amongst the bits of blown tyres, domestic garbage and take away food detritus – how do you lose a chair and not notice! Phil O’Loan and David McCredie had arrived