Ruwolt / Vickers Ruwolt

Ruwolt / Vickers Ruwolt was Charles Ruwolt's heavy engineering firm from Richmond, Victoria.

 Restored Cars #120

Molly

Peter Molly Engines of Sydney, New South Wales was offering V8 racing engines.

Olympia

According to Gilltraps, Olympia was possibly an Australia built car, Olympia was associated with Tarrants of Melbourne, Victoria during the 1920's.

Ekins Supercharger

Ekins Supercharger was an invention of Barry Ekins to boost performance of buggies.

Street and Sand Buggies #1

Austin Healey

Austin Healey made a sprite (Mark 1, 2 & 2A) in Australia in 1959 which were assembled by BMC.

June 19650 Sports Car World page 1-2

BMC Experience

August 1976 Thoroughbred & Classic Cars

Nissan Datshun

 Nissan Datshun heralded the arrival of imported Japanese cars into Australian in the 1930's.

11 June 1934 The Advertiser

6 October 1934 The Advertiser

Saluki

Saluki by Sam Lyle of Gisborne, New Zealand built this car in the 1980's.

January 1984 Sports Car World

Sangston

Daniel H Sangston built a hovercraft, which was used in 1 mile run across a paddock to ferry bags of official mail (classed as air mail!).

A souvenir envelope was issued as part of the Melbourne International Philatelic Exhibition to commemorate the first Australian Hovercraft Mail on 8 October 1963.

Airstralis Hovercraft 

Sarich - Orbital Engine

Ralph Sarich was an engineer based in Western Australia who created the orbital engine, a revolution in 1972.

September 1987 Modern Motor, page 1-2

September 1987 Modern Motor, page 3

June 1992 Wheels page 1-2

September 1996 Wheels page 1

September 1996 Wheels page 2

Orbital 1996 photo

Brown (body builder)

Stan Brown of Kensington in Sydney, New South Wales was a specialist body builder from the 1950's.

March 1958 Sports Car World

Bullet

The Bullet is an upgraded version of a Mazda MX-5 built in Queensland from 1996.

Also see The Bullet Roadster - carsales.com

Unique Cars page 1

Unique Cars page 2

Unique Cars page 3

Unique Cars page 4

Lightburn / Zeta

Lightburn in Adelaide, South Australia was a manufacturer of washing machines, wheel-barrows, cement mixers, hydraulic jacks; go-karts; personal carriers and the Zeta car. 

The Zeta sedan was advertised as a "second" car - it had a lightweight (fiberglass body), front wheel drive car that could feature as a family sedan, a station wagon and a delivery vehicle as all the seats (or combination of) could be easily removed and the Zeta had a flat floor space, the doors opened 180 degrees.  There was also the Zeta Ute and Zeta Sports.

Zeta by Lightburn
Size: 98mm x 33mm

(Zeta) Lightburn
From the radiator grill; "Zeta" was above on the car body
Size: 153mm x 27mm

Rideabout

Lightburn Deluxe Rideabout

Personal Carrier - pamphlet front

Personal Carrier - pamphlet back

Ampol Trial - pamphlet outside

Ampol Trial - pamphlet inside

Zeta - registration 559-814 at Whiteman Park, Perth, Western Australia

Zeta - registration S112-BEO Zeta - registration ZETA-64

Zeta Runabout - manual cover

Zeta Service folder; Service Checks & Owner Manual

sticker

Zeta booklet page 1

Zeta booklet page 3 (page2 blank)

Zeta booklet page 4

Zeta booklet page 5

Zeta booklet page 6

Zeta booklet page 7

Zeta booklet page 8

Zeta booklet page 9

Zeta booklet page 10

Zeta booklet page 11

Zeta booklet page 12

Zeta booklet page 13

Zeta booklet page 14

Zeta booklet page 15

Zeta booklet page 16

Zeta booklet page 17

Zeta booklet page 18

Zeta booklet page 19

Zeta booklet page 20

Zeta Sedan - pamphlet front

Zeta Ute - pamphlet back

Zeta Ute

Zeta Ute

Zeta Sports pamphlet front

Zeta Sports pamphlet back

Zeta Sports - registration VKM-465

Zeta Sports - registraion VKM-465

September 1989 Sports & Classic Car Australia page 1

September 1989 Sports & Classic Car Australia page 2-3