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By: Neville S. Webb .
Prologue
It is appropriate that I apologise in advance for the surfeit of the photographs press cutting and data related to my own vehicles included in this "History"
Readers may understand that we all tend to collect and treasure any printed references to our own memorable happenings — as I did in the happy years of my association with the Broken Hill Division of the Vintage Sports Car Club of Australia from 1952 to 1960. Fortunately many photos and some data included in this collection has been provided by previous members of the Club, a lot of photographs being enlargements of small Box Brownie type, taken long before coloured prints and digital cameras were available. In this respect my thanks are due to Bob Jervies, Don Mudie, Ian Virgo and Don Evans together with some ex members no longer with us, notably John Cann, Arthur Johnston and Graham Lawler who, before his recent tragic passing, provided most of the coloured photographs. Graham was also in the process of completing a DVD featuring the Club's social activities and the personalities involved in them. Hopefully his efforts will see fruition by the completion of his historic DVD.
Don Mudie not only produced a video tape of many of the competitive events but organized a reunion in June 1988 of ex members of the VSCC of A Broken Hill. The reunion coincided with the Annual Presentation Dinner of the Veteran & Vintage Car Club of Broken Hill to which the ex members were invited. Whilst addressing the dinner guests on their behalf, I promised to donate to the VVCC my own collection of photographs, programmes, circulars and magazines so that some permanent record of the old club could be preserved. The sort-out of the material together with that donated to the "history" has finally been completed and forms the basis of this small volume, a copy of which will pass to the WCC.
Don Mudie as a member of that Club and also of the Historical Society will become carer of the original material which hopefully may be preserved by the Society.
Neville Webb 2009
