The sun shone brightly in a lovely blue sky with just a few puffy white clouds, a perfect Melbourne Spring day. Yes, this was Monday September 19, the day after our Concours Display Day at Xavier College.

We often discuss the merits of modern cars but looking back 100 years the advent of the 20Hp marked a significant era in the Rolls-Royce motorcar history.

Spring has come, hard to believe with recent weather! It is time to polish the PMC check it over and start enjoying the events that the committee has organised for you.

September brings us to our AGM and I am pleased to report that the Victorian Branch of the Rolls-Royce Owners’ Club of Australia reaches this annual milestone as a vibrant organisation. Club membership has continued to grow over the past 12 months adding 8 new members, bringing our total membership to 285.

We have released our new website and trust you all have had an opportunity to review the site. If you find that is still loads with the old site please clear your cache or follow the prompts provided when you try to enter Members Login.

I am sure by now that you will have noted the August club newsletter is in an abbreviated broadsheet format. We have signalled this change for some time now and as of this month we have implemented the transition to bi-monthly newsletters.

I do love all those wonderful stories about Rolls- Royce. Did you know the reason that so many Rolls- Royce doctor’s coupes were popular in the early days is that a Rolls-Royce was considered to be the only car that a doctor could arrive at and depart from a patient’s house without the possibility of disturbing the patient!

Winter this year has delivered cool, windy and rainy days where everyone I talk to says it has been a miserable time. This has delivered the ideal opportunity to spend time in the garage with your PMC, maintenance, detailing inside and outside some may have been more adventurous and performed some major restoration projects.

It’s June already and the first half of the year seems to have just flown by. I don’t think that I am the only one who feels that time seems to be speeding up.

Another month has flown by with a change in Government a trip to the country to sample wines and we learnt about Gasoline through its inception for motor vehicles and how it has transitioned to the modern motor vehicles.

It’s March already and by the time the President’s Report is published in the newsletter we will be heading back from the 64th Federal Rally hosted by the ACT Branch in Canberra.

As we move forward into March and many prepare for the Federal Rally, we reflect on re-entry to normality.