Post by denysjones on Dec 5, 2018 14:06:09 GMT 12
David,
You are quite right there about the two locations.
The first was as you recall after a dip in the road where, I believe from the fuzzy grey zones, the railway ran above the road and the farm was on the left at the top of the rise south of the dip.
It is on that farm that I place the two photos here.
When Clarke retried he bought a property closer to Oamaru and took the Hudson with him "to restore in his retirement" and that is the second one you recall. It was on a straight stretch of road on the seaward side and across the road from it was either a store or a garage.
The interesting follow-on from the two photo is that the second one shows the aircraft sitting on the trailer Clarke had made using it's wheels (the near wheel has a piece of wood leaning against it and the other can be made out in the shadow). The first photo has it sitting on it's belly so I would assume at this stage Clarke was using the trailer on the farm, although I can't recall seeing it at any time.
He transported the a/c to the retirement farm on said trailer and it was sat in the paddock between the house and the road. Then at one time a storm came through and rolled it onto it's side and that's how it was when I last saw it there.
I'm pretty sure that by the time Clarke died and I went to the grand farm clearance auction the a/c had left the site.
I tried trawling around Google's various offerings to try and locate the two farms but it appears to me that the SH1 has been re-aligned, which wouldn't be all bad, and so I couldn't get a fix to place them. It's years since I've been down that way.
cheers
Denys
You are quite right there about the two locations.
The first was as you recall after a dip in the road where, I believe from the fuzzy grey zones, the railway ran above the road and the farm was on the left at the top of the rise south of the dip.
It is on that farm that I place the two photos here.
When Clarke retried he bought a property closer to Oamaru and took the Hudson with him "to restore in his retirement" and that is the second one you recall. It was on a straight stretch of road on the seaward side and across the road from it was either a store or a garage.
The interesting follow-on from the two photo is that the second one shows the aircraft sitting on the trailer Clarke had made using it's wheels (the near wheel has a piece of wood leaning against it and the other can be made out in the shadow). The first photo has it sitting on it's belly so I would assume at this stage Clarke was using the trailer on the farm, although I can't recall seeing it at any time.
He transported the a/c to the retirement farm on said trailer and it was sat in the paddock between the house and the road. Then at one time a storm came through and rolled it onto it's side and that's how it was when I last saw it there.
I'm pretty sure that by the time Clarke died and I went to the grand farm clearance auction the a/c had left the site.
I tried trawling around Google's various offerings to try and locate the two farms but it appears to me that the SH1 has been re-aligned, which wouldn't be all bad, and so I couldn't get a fix to place them. It's years since I've been down that way.
cheers
Denys