Club Newsletters: Club members are urged to send in articles, photographs, letters, and anything else that may be of interest to the club. Photos can be sent in to be scanned and then will be returned.
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The club issues a magazine 11 times per year to members with the December and January issues combined into a summer holiday edition. The contents are wide ranging and while the focus is on vintage machinery there is an eclectic collection of in-depth articles, commentary, jokes, and even recipes. We publish reports, lists of events, buy and sell advertisements, letters to the editor, and a range of other items. The magazine is always richly illustrated with photographs – and not only about vintage machinery!
Back copies of the magazine are able to be purchased for $2.00 each. We also maintain a set of bound copies of past issues of the magazine in our club library as an archival reference (not for loan), and some public libraries receive copies. Check the New Zealand Libraries’ Catalogue for holdings.
Members can submit items for inclusion to the editor:
Ced Croft
35 Ngarimu Street
Avonside
Christchurch 8061
0274 340514
magazine@nzvintageclub.co.nz
Club Publications: This is a suggested reading list on the topic of vintage machinery in New Zealand. Click on the title to see if it is in your local public library:
This is a suggested reading list on the topic of vintage machinery in New Zealand. Click on the title to see if it is in your local public library:
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Stationary engines made in New Zealand, Richard Robinson (1993) ISBN 0959790829
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Heritage of industry: discovering New Zealand’s industrial history, Nigel Smith (2001) ISBN 0790008041
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Tractors across New Zealand: a history of working the land, John Wilson (2004) ISBN 1877327328
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A century of farm tractors, 1904-2004, Richard Robinson (2004) ISBN 095979087X
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Tractor Nation: Working the land in New Zealand, John Wilson (2013) ISBN
9781775534532
The Bibliography of vintage machinery in New Zealand document has a more comprehensive coverage of publications.
Other books that may be of interest include:
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Antique tractor bible, Spencer Yost (1998) ISBN 0760303355 (an American publication but broadly applicable to New Zealand)
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The Tractor in the Haystack: Great Stories of Tractor Archaeology, Scott Garvey (2008) ISBN 9780760332955
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Beautiful tractors: portraits of iconic models, Rick Mannen (2013). London: Frances Lincoln. ISBN 9780711233546
